i hear wedding bells...IN WASHINGTON!!!

sorry for the super long wait. i have tons of stories to tell from my trips to las vegas and provo a few weeks ago but not pictures as my camera is going on a personal strike {or thats how it appears}. SO! I'll just share more interesting news.

while i was spending my summer in lake powell i met a girl there named mandee. she originated from tumwater washington and she became very close to me. and last sunday she asked me if i would consider making my way up to washington to be her brides maid. she's to be married april 18th and im the only brides maid she will have. im so excited. i agreesd immediatly. ive wanted a real excuse to travel to washington for some time now and here it is! plenty of notice for me to save money for the trip out there too. im so happy for mandee too as she deserves this kind of happiness. here are some quick camera phone pics she took of her dress {the perfect one, she says, and it was the first one she tried on AND on sale. haha too lucky}

trips coming up!

hi, tristen again. i know what youre thinking..."three times in one week?! doesnt she have a life?" well yes i do. thank you for asking. im actually planning a trip right now. 11/19 {wed} afternoon im taking a shuttle from cedar to st george and then to las vegas. having fun there with my friend, faith and the family {of course}. thursday night we'll be going to see twilight {hence the amazing pic above}. and btw--its a possibility that we might go to the official premier--faiths mom has some mad connections! ahha im keeping my fingers crossed but ill let ya'll know what happens.

then im leaving friday morning to go back up to cedar and from there im hichin' a FREE ride with a girl named carolyn to provo where i will go on a date with a boy and go to the shark speed show!!! yay! im so stoked...im gonna be a picture taking fiend! haha and you all can rest assured im gonna be documenting everything and sharing it on this blog. thanks for reading. later!!

<3 tristy-la

more 10/31 pics

these are more pictures of the face painting that went on in my class halloween party.

what do you think? crazy right?

october snow in cedar city

these pictures were taken on 10/11/08 it didnt stick but it was fun to see the snow coming already. im lucky i have a "snow" setting on my camera, otherwise we would'nt have been able to see the flakes.

halloween wounds

this halloween was super fun. a co-worker of mine, rendall, worked in the theater for years so he's very proficient in face painting and theater make-up application. these are the pictures of my "gore". only one problem. the card piece wasnt staying curved and so it kept coming off my head....but i really wanted it on. so i talked rendall into putting a gob of rubber cement behind the card to get it to stick....against his better judgment. it worked, too. but it gave me a burn.
it burned for a bout an hour and a half and on my pain scale it was at about a 6.8 or a 7 out of 10. but i was determined not to give in to the pain. so i had this weird burn mark for a day or two. it peeled off on tuesday night, just like a scab or dead skin form a sun burn. weird. ive got barely a mark of a scar but its there. and i think its an interesting, if stupid, story. haha

amazing news

im so excited to share this news with everyone.....now this is pretty tentative since nothings written in stone yet....but im going to be attending suu for the spring semester. thats right. im gonna be a student. ive filled out my application form {but it costs $40 to apply so i have to wait till 11/5 to turn it in}, i take the ACTs on 12/9 {but it cost $25 to reserve a seat and test so i have to wait till 11/5 to call and schedule it}, and im currently in the process of filling out my fafsa application online. all i have to do is register for classes and get that financial aid, pay for everything and turn it all in and im done. i am DONE waiting.

in addition to THAT good news is this. for a long time ive wanted to bake....and get paid for it. as of mid november i will be employed at great harvest. my schedule will be 2/3 days a week 3am-9am. from there i will go to work at the high school from 11am-3pm. and i also have a connection at the suu post. i'll most likely start out just shadowing people but i hope to have a more permanent job there as well.

do you know what this means, people? im gonna be able to do 4 of my favorite things! bake, teach, write.....and get paid. hahaha!

i love you all! thanks for reading me! <3tristen

provo conference trip

While we were heading up to provo friday afternoon my good friend ray literally FELL asleep....all over me. haha my friend codie and i bore it with grace. i spoke the hump since ray is at least 6'2 and so is codie. in comparison i did not need the extra leg room. haha
thayne was kind enough to let me sleep on his bed in his new/old house he shares with some of his band mates. they are quite popular over there. just minutes before this pic of him playing on the piano was taken we had been at a party. he walked in and within seconds a kid was yelling, "shark speed!" later the kid , craig, learned thaynes name and wouldnt stop calling him until he shook his hand and talked to him for a few minutes. craig said, "youre the lead singer of shark speed right? youre my favorite local band right now. its awesome to see you around." the look on taynes face as he walked away was so funny! a mixture of "omg how embarrassing" and "im really not as cool as people think i am" and " how cool is it to run into a fan at a random house party?" haha our little thaynerB is really hitting the charts in provo.
it rained the whole time i was there. seriously. saturday {ALL DAY!} and before the sunday session of confrerence and give or take an hour or two, the rest of the day/night after the afternoon session of conference was over. and theres the snow on the top of the mountain to prove it.
on our way to the morning session on sunday thaynes friend tyler pulls out a pair of nonperscription glasses identical to thaynes. he wore them all day. so funny
im so glad i was able to get out to see aunt ronda, uncle dennis, denny and his family! after walking in i hugged ben and i swear it lasted a full minute! he's so strong and he squeezed the begeezes out of me! it was AWESOME! i will always remember that hug.
on the way back home sunday night ray was awake this time. we even switched places and ray drove instead of my friend tyler, and of course...i got to sit in the passanger seat. it was awesome to sit up front with ray and sing hymns together. i love my friends.

some lake powell pics

our first beach trip in lake powell. we had so much fun swimming for hours in the murky water, made orange by the sand being stirred up. its a beautiful affect, though.

myfavorite picture of the whole trip!
first time boating! way fun!
and way fast!


and then after katie left...."t'n't", they nicknamed us.

going to colorado
going to a party
uglies at work
beach day!

messing around at work....there were MANY slow days.

the columbians we worked with for a while. carlos and jullian.theyre very kissy. i would have none of it.it took 20 minutes to get this pic. they wouldnt stop puckering their lips!

GO SUU!

saturday i went to my first football game!!! it was so intense! i know i have to read up on it to truly understand it but i already love it. trudi says the family has severely neglected me by not teaching me how the game is played when i was younger. and i have to agree with her. i get most of it; its the finer points that elude me. the point system, the terminology. but im optimistic for my knowledge in the future. yeah!!! go suu!

this is my favorite picture ever!!! it was taken just as they were starting to run across the field. awesome.

my friend tyler and i right after the game. he painted my face and i did his...im gonna hold face painting courses for him to take...or something. haha

tyler was literally laying on the counter top so i could wash the black spray out of his hair. he sure enjoyed my shampooing abilities. haha


over all...even though we lost im really happy i went. and i plan to attend every home game possible....with better face paint. haha

Wow. Long time, no post!

Wow. I guess I shouldn't have so many blogger idents. It's been hard keeping them straight. But I've got all the appropriate passwords and gate keeper codes now, and an offer from a technological genius to help me learn how to post pics, and then I'll let you know what I've been up to during my three month hiatus. So for now, I'll just say thanks for not giving up on the cedar house, and I promise to do better.

picture happy, i know

here's a bunch of pics from the past two vegas trips. enjoy!

katie, taneil and i went swimming at todd's and we were able to take avery with us.

taneil's god-daughter, azura during sacrament meeting

miles during nap time....he was practically cocooned oin the blanket. it was so funny

trudi, mom, dad, katie, and i put a bunch of grandma's

food storage into the jimmy. it was so full!!

close up shot of the three of us and the st. george temple....lovely.

a far-away shot of katie and i at the st. george temple.

katie being silly in the car on our way to vegas.

katie still being silly in the car....im trying to be a

serious photographer here...and she starts tickling...hmmm. haha

taneil, showing her aggression at my insistance that

she wake up on sunday afternoon and "PLAY WITH ME!!" haha


thanks for watching folks! love you!!!

TRAVIS WROTE BACK!!!

i may be making too much out of this but...i cant help it!

as many of you know i got in trouble with travis for mentioning that i don't know travis therefore i have to love him on faith as my brother. well after he chewed me out and i apologized semi-publicly i wrote him online and explained all my statements more fully. after christmas i decided to do something about our non-existent relationship. even if he never called to talk to me or anything i made a resolution to help him get to know me by writing weekly emails with pictures and stories from my childhood.

i've kept it up pretty well, only missing 3 weeks in a row ONCE. haha and this last week {as eventful as it was} was more than worthy of a super long e-mail. it was the longest one i think i've sent to him so far and it didn't include any pictures at all.

well.... i opened my gmail account yesterday and had to literally rub my eyes. i couldn't believe it. he wrote me back! after all this time of thinking i had the wrong email address cuz i got no reply. after so many emails....wow! i told katie and she was only slightly less surprised than i was...... and then i started crying. i was so grateful. and i was so glad i hadn't lost hope. i listened to the spirit urging for, "one more email...one more email," instead of listening to my own slowly breaking heart as it told me every time i clicked that send button, "why are you sending another one? its not like he'll reply to this one, either."

and it wasn't until today that i noticed the pictures he sent with the email. thank the lord for obsession. haha so here they all are, for everyones viewing pleasure.

much love, tristen fagg {the baby}