...Moab...

She's gone! my quickest best friend just got on a plane and left! Who stole her back? Moab! Moab did... She is a river guide there and she's left to go live her life of adventure! I already miss Jess... its kind of weird... I hope she has an amazing summer getting tan (but not as tan as I will) and hopefully I will be able to make it out there in August so I can go down her rapids with her! Jess I will now live my river adventures vicariously through you....

...MBP...

Its no secret if you are one of my friends that I read this blog religiously... I think its hilarious and have even gotten a few friends on the MBP train... Recently I've wondered if I should blog about them or not because its one of my obsessions that I can't decided if its good or bad, so I've just shied away.... well lucky for me, I checked their blog and they posted about how if I blog about them I can win a giveaway for this HOT but modest dress..... SOOOOOO everyone, go to this link and leave a comment about how I totally deserve to win this dress! I would appreciate it so much, plus you'll get the sheer satisfaction of how hilarious these guys are... read it! it will become one you your guilty pleasures!

http://mormonbachelorpad.blogspot.com/2010/04/first-giveaway.html

...Aunt Jamie...

A while ago I did a post on my Aunt Jodi, and now its time for Aunt Jamie... I remember way back in the day where Aunt Jamie would pick me up from elementary school when she got out of high school because it was right across the street... I specifically can remember this one time where she toted around this HUGE box full of fundraiser items all around Leesburg High school once when she picked me up... We would rock out in her car on the way home and she was always around when I was little... As I have grown up she is someone that I have truly grown to love and look up to... I try to model who I want to be after most of her qualities... here are some:

She is incredibly giving...

She is an amazing mother...

She is a best friend to many...

She always is smiling...

She is very patient...

She finds the upside to everything...

She loves to have fun...

She is understanding...

She is beautiful...

She is Christ-like...

I look at how she is with her family and that is exactly what I want... I want to love my husband like she loves hers and I want to enjoy every moment I have with my kids--to just love being their mom... My Aunt always gives the best spiritual advice and does it in a way that isn't a turn off... This easter she even gave up the money she won from finding her golden egg... I love her and she is becoming one of my greatest friends and role models...

... Egg-cellent...

This Easter was pretty weird because it was also General Conference so we went over to Grandma and Grandpa's house to watch it... it also meant that we didn't wear Easter dresses! WEIRD! It was fun getting to watch Conference with my family all together and in between sessions we had our annual Easter egg hunt and had a fabulous Easter dinner... This year Aunt Jamie did this cool thing with easter eggs that taught the true meaning of Easter and reminded us of the Sacrifice Christ made for us... I really need to get that from her so I can do it later... Despite the fact that Aunt Jodi and her girls, Kaitlyn and Taylor, and Uncle Chad's family weren't there, we still got the annual Grandkid Easter picture!

Here are the pictures from the last 7 YEARS!

I got a picture with my daddy again this year... just a little bit different from last year!

And I think Hayden and I have an Easter tradition here...

after thousands of pictures, here are the family pictures of the Hornsby family...

and here are some of all of the kids during the Easter festivities...

General Conference was amazing! I'm so glad I am at the point in my life where I actually get stoked for Conference and then get sad once its over... I feel so blessed that my Heavenly Father has given us Apostles and Prophets to counsel us and tell us the things that Heavenly Father needs and expects! I really enjoyed this last conference... I got a lot out of it, but mostly I got that I need to start doing my family history... I'm probably going to have to get my grandmother's help with that one and maybe my good friend Jay (his new calling in Tally is to teach the Genealogy class! haha) I also got a lot of stuff about teaching children and youth... who knows, maybe I'll use all of my notes that I took later on when I'm in charge of teaching either the youth through a calling or just my future family... I LOVE Conference though and I am super excited for October to get here just so I can hear it again! I love my family and I'm so glad that we all got to share Easter and Conference together!

...Flowing Water...

The more and more I read and then reread some of my blog I begin to realize how completely random, retarded, and ridiculous I am... but I love it... Thats me, random, retarded, and ridiculous! Why do we make those things out to be bad?! I think its those qualities that I have that make me fun... I love life, I really do and if it weren't for me embracing my three r's then I doubt I would love it as much!

Not really sure where I was going with that, but I felt like I needed to say it... maybe just as a reminder to myself when I reread this post later on in life...
Back to what I really wanted to blog about today... that is flowing water... Today I got to go shopping with Jess and I got to get to know quality things about her... we share a lot of loves and like and dislikes... one thing that we do share is that fact that waves and flowing water relax us... I've always said that I was in love with water and that I should totally have been a mermaid, but really I just love water... I love drinking it, sitting it in, swimming in it, sitting near it, and just listening to it... I really wish I could somehow get my sustenance for life from it... What do I do when I get stresses? I shower... Weird, I know, I just do! If I could live anywhere, it would be in a tent on a beach... One of my favorite things from being a kid was running through sprinklers.... I drink water more than anything else... plus I need a rain noise maker most nights to get a good sleep...
Jess gets to have these awesome adventures on the Colorado river in the summer... she's a rafting guide (tight huh?!) and she told me this amazing story about how when she was going through this super tough time the place she wanted to be was by the river... the waves and floating water relaxed her... I hate that I don't live close enough to the beach so that I can make it happen too when I need it, but between me and all those that happen to read this, every time I go through something tough, I immediately think of the waves.... and flowing water... its awesome when you can find a friend that shares that with you...
PS... did anyone think it was awesome how I used the word sustenance? I am... I even checked the meaning to make sure I used it right and I totally did! heck yes!

...Remedy...

I am totally stealing this from Jess (my new Best Gal Pal), but here are my remedies for a salty day... just had one and I'm thankful for Jess because she was a huge remedy!

Finding a new band to listen to

Falling asleep in the bathtub

Acting retarded with my big bro

Taking genius pictures

Floating in a river

Sleeping under the stars

Spooning on a beach

Reading a travel book

Hit my knees and talk to my Father

Dream big dreams

and a hug from my dad :)

...Call Me Annie...

From now on everyone can refer to me as Annie, Tex, or Billy The Kid because I am officially a gunslinger! Yep, you heard right, I am a hardcore and dangerous with a gun! Last week a guy in my ward took me shooting in the Ocala National Forest and I had shot guns before, but not as wide of a variety as I shot this time... I got to shoot a pistol, a hunting rifle, a revolver (my favorite I truly felt like a gunslinger using that one) and an AK47... hardcore! I think I did pretty well and you can ask anyone that talked to me within the few days following, I believe if I had to, I could kill a man (not that I ever EVER want to or want to be put in that situation, but I could none-the-less)... Here is a picture of my and the man I shot... he died.... thus, I could kill a man... Mostly I was pleased with this gun trip because it redeemed me from when I went duck hunting with the Rhinehart boys and hit myself in the face with the gun... I AM Annie, Tex, AND Billy the Kid *whew* (that was me blowing the smoke off my gun, by the way).