My Rock Band!! lol :)

and of course we had to get a picture with the "fans"

this is them starting to yell to everyone on their little stand

lol we tried to teach them how to do the i love you sign but it didn't work to well.

ok so when we went to the Gateway all the boys found these shirts and these white sun glasses.... so everyone of them got one!! and when they all put them on they said they should become a famous rock band and get all the girls. lol so they all stood on a rock and scram "we are famous rockers!!!! love us!!! bow to us!!" lol

this kid cracked me up everyday. This is gieovonne and he was honestly in love with every girl that he met. lol lol lol he is definitely one of a kind. :)

i love this picture

Clizio and i became really good friends over their visit. you have no idea how hard it was to see all of these wonderful people leave.

Americans are evil.... lol ha ha

Ok one of the days we took them to a dude ranch and they all were amazed and sooo excited that they got to meet and watch real cowboys! :) but then these cowboys made the mistake by showing the Italians how to brand a cow!! now all the American students don't care because we know its going to live and we see it all the time.... the Italian students have never seen ANYTHING like this!! when they realized what those guys were doing to the cow EVERY girl including the two Italian professors were BAWLING!!!! and all the guys were just about ready to throw up becasue of the smell. lol and of course the evil americans didn't feel a thing for that cow.
So one of the cowboy guys noticed the tears and ran to his truck and got this little puppy to make them happy. lol they all got happier when they saw this cute little guy.

and then when they realized that we were not crying they just got mad!! lol

lol we went to see the dinos and they were soooo confused!!! but we had great fun.

more italy

Guiseppe is the one that won't smile. lol and then Jeovonne' is the one is the blue hood. Andrea La Fico Guzzo (Yes that is JUST is first name and no he WOULD NOT go by a nickname lol ) is the one with the purple stripe on his arm in front. the girl in front is andre' (she is so sweet) and the goofy guy in the back is Clizio!! and he was awesome. (why is my post blue?!?!)

Ten Days of Italy!!

lol these are my boys! Guiseppe is the one with out a shirt, Guieseppe (the one that stayed with me) is in the white shirt, Jeovonne' is the one in the red and Kenzy is the one in the gray. lol kenzy lives here and he had guiseppe and jeovonne stay with him. this was the best week of my life. i wouldn't trade it for anything. for those of you who don't know my school got to host 31 Italian students for ten days. we acted as thier translators and siblings. the whole group became one big family really fast. and all we did was go on field trips and then come home and party. that was literally the everyday schedule. go to school at 7:30 and then get home at about midnight if you were lucky. lol but the loss of sleep just everything funny.

none of these guys had ever got on a tube so kenzy and i took them out and taught them. this is Jeovonne' and all he could say was "fast! go fast! more fast please!"

teachers: DEEP subject for me

to me a teacher should be a person that is there to help you when you don't understand something. if you were really trying to understand something and just didn't get it you would think if you asked nicely you would get help. don't get me wrong because there are ALOT of teachers out there that are simply amazing and you leave their class every day feeling like your on top of the world because you have that support that makes you know that you are going to be able to make it. but heaven forbid the teacher of the hardest class i have just says, "you should know this by now, brinlee, your a jr. in high school. come on you know how to do it i promise. just read the chapter again." ok honestly i HATE reading text books. there is no point at all in reading text books. they are just a waste of paper. i can't read text books to save my life. that is why i listen in class and try my best... there is my problem..but im just sayin

a thought for the heart :)

"Ten tiny fingers, that always want to play,
That never stop exploring that wonder of today,
Ten tiny fingers, that from the very start,
Will reach out for tomorrow yet always hold your heart."

"These little hands can wave hello
Or put smudges on the wall.
They can fold in prayer,
Throw a kiss or
Reach up when I say, "so tall."
They will clasp your hand for an Autumn stroll.
Or shape a dinosaur from clay.
But most of all, they will stay with you

When I'm grown and far away."

Favorite place on earth

this is the best place on earth to me. it makes life seem to slow down, everything gets put aside and the problems of a teenage girl's high school life seems to disappear. i especially love to see the grandpa Lanny up there. he has a special love for that place. you can see it in how he will stand on the porch and just look out on to the mountain. he will stare out there forever. i also love the stories he tells me as he is there, he seems really happy and relaxed while up there. he has put his whole heart in to that cabin. i love him with all my heart. i have learn SO much up there with him. i hope one day i can take my family up there and share the same feeling and experiences as i have.

Labor day weekend at the cabin

craw-dad fishing

Edgar is quit the fisherman! those things were the creepiest things in the world!!

this picture of jace and cielo cracks me up

her hair looked the best out of everyone's that day lol

sweet cielo

and then grandma nelle' got everyone lookin for "SEA SHELLS" (they were really snail shells)

graci and cielo loved to make the rocks go "cur-plunk"
but at the same time cielo was getting a little to brave with the water.

while we were at the pond graci and grandma nelle' found a little lady bug and graci was laughing and sayin, "aawww! hes so cute!!

Cielo just cracks me up. they set up a little picnic and then cielo just sat their for ever and ate all her pretend food. lol it was so cute.

my dream is to alway be able to photograph the monents in life.

Cedar is so sweet to her cousins!

i absolutely love when little kids get bored and just brake out in to song and dance.

trevor is so good with the cousins and a just love him to death. and i love the real smile. this picture is one of my favorites.

ivy is such a cutie!

this is malik. (all these pictures are from when we were waiting at the salt lake temple for ryan and chelsea's wedding) i love all the colors that are at the temple.

jorie is such a cute little girl.

ok taking pictures is my favorite thing to do. i like to capture the good monents in life. :)

brinlee's princesses

everytime i go babysit graci and cielo they always say "bin we be pinsisess!" and before you know it there is every dress up out and we are soon pinsisess. i love the days i get to do that.

spa night gone wrong

one night at girls camp we gave each other facials and i guess we got the cheep stuff cause it didn't just dry but when we tried to get it off it turned to slime and wouldn't come off. our leader freaked out and thought she was killing us lol lol lol lol lol lol good times good times. but about 45 minutes later we finally got it off.

me and my sista from a different mista!

this is a scary picture but thats why i love it. kinsi used to be in my ward and then the ward got split and now i only see her at camp. she has called me her little sister forever and i honest love being sista's with her. :)

Girls Camp

girls camp was way fun. all the girls are just great. this is the fearless 5th years! whao!!

what happens in vernal when we get bored?...PAINT FIGHT!!

goodness goodness goodness..... i just have to say i have great friends. now this is kinsey and i after our "paint fight" and no it was not just us two. there was four other guys that got in the fight with us but for some odd reason the two girls were the ONLY ONES WITH PAINT ON THEM IN THE END!! which is just harsh ya know? the guys were not supposed to gang up on us. lol but we had amazing fun. and this picture doesn't do my hair justice because when we STARTED my hair was down.... and when we ended there was so much paint in my hair it looked like i had no hair at all! by the way i just love my purple nose.

hahahahaha nick and trevor got a little slap happy.