I'm One Of Them!!!!

HAHA Now I can officially say that I am one of those people who reads the book before going to see the movie. I don't know why but the movie/book "The Last Song" caught my attention. I decided to purchase it and read it before the movie comes out. I started it this past sunday the 14th and finished it last night-- a week is pretty fast for Natalie to read a book. But it was a REALLY good book- it is written by Nicholas Sparks for those of you who don't know. I could really relate to the end of it from personal experience. ANyways, i can't say too much, you will have to read it or see the movie which comes out NEXT WEEK!!! Here is the trailor--

Whats Wrong With Me???

Ok, I wanna know what is wrong with me. On Saturday I went jogging at the oval, yesterday I went jogging around the neighborhood, today I swam a little bit.... what is going on with me? This is not a typical Natalie. THis is Natalie trying to be healthy... What the Heck!!

20 Years Old and No Longer a Teenager

Today is my birthday... and I am no longer a Teenage. This is mostly for your entertainment. LOTS of pictures I have found of me throgh the years..... mostly school pictures... Starting with the cutest one of all... this adorable blue eyed baby. This next one is of me in Kindergarten

1rst Grade

2nd Grade3rd Grade

4th Grade--Style Gets interesting

5th Grade-- Style not so hot

6th Grade-- I remember this was right after recess

7th grade-- The braces happen

8th Grade-- BIG HAIR

9th Grade- I was so ready to be done with Jr High

10th Grade- Oh dear this is my WORST one, it was taken right after swim practice!!!

11th Grade-- Right after a dryland workout as you can see the flushed face
FINALLY-- Senior Year 2008.

I am quite proud of this picture

and lastly a more recent picture of me... from summer 2009. HOpe you enjoyed looking through all these pictures and I didn't bore you too bad.

Sorry

To anyone who read my last post. I am sorry about it not being very nice. I just needed to vent on some thoughts that were on my mind.

Oh the BYU Staff at State Swim Meet

Ok, before I get into my story, I just wanted to compare logos for a moment. UTAH vs BYU logo. Lauren and I get a a kick out of this Y logo. Its all crooked and scrapbooky looking. What do you think? Then compare it to the Utes logo.... it to me looks SOOO much more intimidating than that scrapbooky looking Y. I'm just sayin.


Ok ok, story time now. So every year at the state swim meet at BYU I always seem to have some sort of encounter with the weird staff there. This year was golden. Lauren and I go marchin into the place wearing our UTAH stuff. We go to the table and see the sign with the prices. It says students (K-12) get a dollar off the regular price. I being the poor college student ask a question... well the conversation goes like this....
ME: Do college kids count as students
BYU Person: No, only grades K-12
ME: But we are poor
BYU Person: sorry its grades K-12
ME: Its the shirt isn't it? (Pointing to my shirt)
BYU Person: Thats part of the reason
Lauren: Don't be prejudice against us
(Didn't catch what the BYU people said)\
Me walking away with lauren: Yeah and dont they teach us to love one another???

From there we just journeyed into the pool area... I think we left that little staff group speech less. But what can I say, Max Hall hates me anyways

Good Times

So this week we have kidnapped Grandma Stapley for the week. She is excited to get out of summit for a while. She has quite the week planned and she is so excited. Today she went out briefly with her sister. Tomorrow she is having an all day outing with her sisters-- shopping and lunch. Wednesday she is way excited for. Now my Grandma Stapley is a huge Jazz fan. She knows her Jazz players. She and my dad are going to the Jazz game Wednesday night verses the Lakers. Thursday there is nothing planned, and friday she is going to come with us to the state swim meet.
Now I just have to say, a while ago when my family went down to summit to help grandma clean some things up, my dad found some OLD pictures, Like old enough we had to have a carosel to shine up on the wall to look at the pics. Well it was soooo fun to sit with grandma and watch them. We did it for hours tonight and it was so fun to see my grandma to get excited.
Anyways random story

Miracle Of Life Cat is BACK

She is BACK! The miracle of life cat!! And she has a new friend--