The Most Important Thing In My Life....

is God.

Honestly, I think that's what I learned most from my time up in Juneau. Holding on to Him and the gospel He has set up for us on this earth got me through some really hard times and helped me make some really tough decisions.

I know that He watches out for me, and each one of us. I also know that He has His hand in my life and everyone elses; it's there if you look for it. He's guided me in each major decision I've made.

He has been my strength and my joy. I know that through Him, and only through Him, can I find true and everlasting happiness.

That is why my greatest desire has become to know God and see His face; in this life or the next.

More Haircuts!!

My friend Jeremy stated one day that he needed a haircut, but he didn’t want to pay for it. I quickly volunteered my services. To my surprise, he agreed to let me cut his hair. Honestly, I was a bit shocked, because I’ve never cut anyone’s hair in my life and was kinda kidding when I volunteered. The next day came around and the haircut did indeed happen.

Muahahaha! He was nervous! … I would have been too if I let me cut my hair.

This is me wondering how to work the buzzers, and Jeremy contemplating the meaning of life.

Here we go! Can’t turn back now!

Touchin up the rough spots

Working into the evening to perfect my first haircut.

Unfortunately we didn’t get a picture of the final product, but Jeremy did say I did a good job. The only thing I didn’t do was the sideburns, nope, didn’t want to mess those up at all. Haha, I would like to thank my mother for letting me watch her cut my brother’s hair when I was young. Bet you didn’t think I’d pick that up did you? Haha but Jeremy did compliment my handy work. I told him not to lie to me, and he promised he wasn’t. So I guess I did a good job. Maybe I’ll become a hairstylist….nope, not my thing. Maybe I’ll just cut my kids’ hair when that time comes.

Walking To Da Church

So I usually bike about 6 miles to the church for institute, but one day I decided I wanted to walk and take pictures. So I did.

Totem pole by one of the state buildings.

It’s the white picket fence!!

I’m not really sure what this is, but it looks like a giant water slide to me! Definitely on my list of things to do!

These flowers are everywhere. And they are so pretty!

I like to call this one “Stairs to Somewhere.” Haha interpret that one yourself.

I just loved all the levels of color in this person’s front yard.

I love big trees!

Brief Walkey-Walkey

I went on a hike with my roommates up Perseverance Trail, it was a good hike, and not too steep either. More like a brisk walk. Kenz kept saying she was a terrible hiker and wanted to go back for about the first ½ mile, but once Kiley and I got her started, she loved it. I must say, it was a pretty hike. The path was used by miners when they came to Juneau, so it wasn’t a hard path at all.

This was the mine entrance at the base of the hike. The air coming from it was very cold. Kinda creepy really.

The coolest waterfall I’ve seen yet. It was so blue and pretty!

Same waterfall from the back. Still pretty!

Our little porcupine friend we found on our way up. How he stayed on that branch, we still can’t quite figure out.

Check out the hole in the tree! I could fit in that!

Hey there Kenz!

Where’d she go?

This picture was fun to get. I had to climb down under the bridge to get it. :)

Hiking in a Summer Forest Land

So I went on this hike with my manager (at the time) up the east side of the Mendenhall Glacier. Originally we were going to hike up Thunder Mountain, but we took a wrong turn at one of the many forks in the road and ended up here.

Once we had started the hike, my manager told me that he had gotten himself into many bad situations while hiking and had videos of his extreme hiking trips on YouTube. Great! I was hiking with a maniac! Haha, it turned out ok though. We were safe and it was way cool!

The ground cover was everywhere! I’ve never seen anything like that in Utah… could be because this is rainforest and Utah is desert. It was like a fuzzy green carpet that covered the entire ground!

The rivers and streams here are everywhere! And they are gorgeous! I wish my camera was better so I could capture the beauty of this.

See the chunks of ice in the water? Yeah, that’s right off the glacier! Crazy!

Here’s a closer view of glacial ice chunks.

The forest. Rainforest that is. So much green!

Mendenhall Glacier. Awesome! And probably very cold. I really wanted to go kayak up to it when I saw this.

This is the fall we found when we went a bit off the beaten path. It was pretty.

From farther down.

This looks like something I’d be more familiar with.

Base of Nugget Falls, with the Glacier in the background.

I just like this picture! :) We went on this board walk looking for bears. Unfortunately we didn’t find any. But it was a fun walk.