Senior Pictures!

This one is in my top five.






top five




My absolute favorite!


Top five, and the one I am using for the yearbook.


I think my face looks a little scary in this picture, but it's the one that people keep telling me they really like....do I look better scary?



Top five.

Weekend At Oma and Opa's

So my blog isn't going super good. I never use it. Once again, I'm going to try and get better at it (let's see how this attempt works out).

During the summer Alex and I went to visit his Oma and Opa. While we were there we went on a couple hikes where all the pictures come from.


These first two pictures are right before we started out hike at Staircase. We didn't get very far because we kept going off the path to all these cool places. There was a lot to explore.



The first time we went off the path was to look at this gigantic tree that had fallen over. We got to climb inside. Alex was having fun at the tree and we stayed here for a while.


Inside the tree.



Alex wanted me to take a picture of what he was crawling into before he explored.



Chipmunk Alex!


Not only did Alex climb inside the tree, but he climbed all over the outside too.



Another distraction. The river was super pretty, there were a lot of birds flying around too.


Also tree huger Alex.


Stop number three was to this gigantic rock that (if it was warmer) could jump off into crystal clear water.


Also at stop three, if you followedthe gigantic rock down the was this log and you could walk to this other gigantic rock.


I thought the dead tree and the water was cool.



Stop number four! We couldn't go out any farther than this without risking falling in the water, but the mini water falls were cool.


Going back to the trail from stop four.


Stop five! I thought this tree was amazing and so i decided to climb it.


Alex found a frog!


Isn't this just the coolest trail to walk on?


Stop six. Alex wanted to be a jungle man.

With all of our stops and our time limit, we only got about a mile (if even) out. the whole trail was three miles. Even though we didn't finish the whole thing it was fun, and super awesome scenery. Next year we are going to make a longer time limit in order to make sure we get the whole trail in!


After our Staircase hike Opa and Oma took us to see the Dam and to some other local spots. It was fun.

The next day


I've never really shot anything in my life and so this was a super fun experience for me. The first gun Alex let me shot was the 22. It had a small kick back and I loved this gun! I mostly shot this one because it didn't scare me.


The other gun we shot this day was a 45 pistol. I only shot it twice (video below) and I didn't like it. the kick back was way bigger than the 22 and it scared me because I thought I was going to hurt either myself or Alex.



That night we went up to Mount Walker where there is a 360 degree view (from two different view points). On the other view point you can actually see Seattle, but I don't have a picture of it because right after I took the picture below my camera accidentally slipped out of my pocket and the lens broke.


The next morning, Alex and I went on a drive up the mountains. He took the shotgun with us in case we saw any grouse. He didn't. However the drive was super pretty (wish i could have gotten pictures) and even though there was nothing to shot at, Alex let me take a shot with the shotgun. Scary! I knew the kick back was going to be worse than the 45, but after seeing Alex shoot (who is completely use to it and it didn't even move him) I let myself believe it wasn't going to be bad at all....bud mistake! Even though it's awesome I can brag about shooting a shotgun, it scared me super bad and next time I"m going to have to muster up the courage because of how much it scared me the first time.

A History of My family

So for my final in art, our assignment was to build a shrine. That was all the instruction the class was given. So after much thought, I decided to do a shrine to my family history. I grabbed a bunch of old pictures and objects we had around the house and built my project.


This is what the final product ended up looking like.

I used various pictures, and i have no idea who most of them are. But they are all family.

Zola Cline

Zola Cline is one of the people (they are sitting on a car, sorry i know it's blurry)







The colored picture is Grandma Smout with my dad and John Paul.











The women holding the baby in the back left...the baby is my great grandma Macklin.


Grandma Smout



The colored picture is my dad


...i think this is also Zola Cline...not positive



The picture of the two little kids holding hands was taken around 1899, but i don't know who they are. Same with the other picture.

Other than pictures, I also put in various objects.


The hat belonged to my Grandpa Taylor
These glasses belonged to Genevieve Lipsey I believe. I know they were here first pair in 1925.



The books, skateboard, and letter-mens jacket all belonged to my Grandpa Taylor.


The school was my great-grandma Macklins, and the dishes were a wedding gift to....i can't remember...but i do know they were some of the only dishes to survive the cyclone in....19..something. Can't remember the exact date. 1918 maybe? The heart braclet belonged to Zola Cline. Don't know for the camera.


The Elsie book belonged to Emma Macklin, and I don't know who owned the bible.

I don't know about the latern, but the baseball glove was my Grandpa Taylor's and my Grandma Taylor gave me the typewriter a few years ago.

I didn't take close of pictures of these, but I added my parents graduation tassels, and one of my Grandpa Taylor's horse blankets.

I had a lot of fun with this project, and I still don't know everything about my history, obviously, but it's always fun to look at old things and know somebody used it at one point or look at an old picture and know that moment happened a long time ago.

My class loved it, all they were all asking questions (some i couldn't answer). My teacher told me he could see it in a museum. That made me feel good cause that meant I did good on the project.