Who's ridden the light rail?

Thank you Miss Katie Hawkes for the baseball game yesterday! Girls nights are always a blast...especially when you take an adventure on the light rail. We all met up at ASU, and rode the light rail to 7th St and Washington...right in front of Chase Field. It was SO nice...and quite exciting. It was almost as if we were boarding a Disneyland ride. We didn't have to worry about traffic, accidents, parking, or walking around downtown Phoenix without strong men at night. :)

We got to the game, found our seats, and much to our dismay, had the most hilarious men sitting next to us. Specifically Merriachi men. They were SOOO loud and yelled like donkey's. They even broke out into song and dance multiple times. I couldn't stop laughing. One time, Bonnie even made it on the jumbotron dancing with these four old men...some of which had no teeth!! We must have been a loud section, because they "featured" us on the jumbotron TWICE during the game! It's so odd to see yourself up there...especially because the reaction time is so delayed so you're watching yourself do something you've already done. Weird! But quite exciting. Unfortunately I wasn't quick enough with my camera to get a picture of us up there (honestly I was too intrigued with the delay in motion) but here's a couple pictures of us girls!
It was so so fun to spend some time with these girls! Katie Lee got a job in Utah next fall and Katie Hawkes will be in Provo all summer. We will miss you!

Conference Weekend

I absolutely love love love conference. This conference was no exception. Every since I went up for conference in the fall of 2007 for my first time, i've had a greater appreciation and love for our Prophet and apostles that the Lord has sent to lead us. They really are inspired men who speak to God. We didn't make it up to Utah this time...but hopefully in the fall. :)

While the men were at their Priesthood meeting Saturday night, I was able to round up a few of my girlfriends that were still in town to go out to dinner to GECKO GRILL! I love this place. However, it took almost an hour and a half to get in! ...they told me 20 min originally. Needless to say, I got quite impatient and ended up sitting on the concrete out front after going to talk to the hostess a couple of times. I've been working on becoming more patient, but I still have my breaking points...and this was one of them. The hostess opened the door to call another party and while I was still sitting on the ground I said, "Just call Ashley, we've been here for over an hour!" ...i'm sure that was good for their business. LOL But we got in a few minutes after that. It was worth the wait.Above: The five of us- me, Brooke, Desi, Shantell, and Sunny

Below: Remember School of Rock?...When the students wanted to get into Battle of the Bands so they acted like terminally ill kids from a hospital? It worked for them so why couldn't it work for us?? :)

This was the Friday of conference weekend. Trevor was able to score us sweet seats at a Spring training game! Thanks Pres. Palmer! I have never sat that close before...the players were lifesize and you could even see their faces. We were originally supposed to go with Trev's brother and his girlfriend but they were unable to go so my parents benefitted from the deal. Yay for a double!