since this summer decided to speed by so fast, and Eric and I have done too many things to write, I thought a nice picture show would help describe how amazing this summer has been with the most amazing boy!
This 2011 summer was full of:
spontaneous adventures
road trips
family vacations
band practice and performances
romantic and creative dates
friends
work :(
sunshine
emotion
notes
understanding
flowers
tons of laughter
inside jokes
and most of all.. love!
These pictures are only a few compared to the hundreds I have taken this summer. I can only put up so many.. but when it comes down to deciding its so hard to pick my favorite ones, because i love them all! i love the memories they bring back and the moments that were captured!
I am the worst at being frugal with picture taking.. I ALWAYS have to have my camera and I ALWAYS have to be taking pictures or video of moments that are way too fun and memorable to only experience once.
so here are the "few" pictures i picked out to share:
Summer Dates:
Eric is the best at finding original and creative date ideas..
and this one was out of this world... literally! haha
During this group date called "iworlds" there is an incredibly realistic space station that you enter. At the beginning, you are assigned ranks and have a ten minute tutorial of your 'job' on the ship.
you are then assigned a mission.
Eric was Captain of the ship, and I was assigned Weapons control. Haylie Michels was Ambassador, Steve and Kelsea were security and Eric Michels was Alien Translator..
there were many other positions that other earthlings filled.
In this game you go through a simulator and try to complete your mission..which was to rescue people on a distant planet, and survive! but the only way you can accomplish this is if everyone is doing their job and working together. I highly recommend this for a group date! We laughed so hard the entire time! I felt like a true Star Trek Warrior
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R o c k C l i m b i n g
Definitely our new favorite thing!
it looks easy..
but it was challenging! I was so sore the next day
Star gazing
One of my most favorite and relaxing things to do is look at the stars.. and not just a couple dots of light in the city sky... i love a glittery sky completely full of them! Eric knows this and planned a special date for me.
He surprised me and drove all the way to snowbird.. I was so confused at first, I thought all that mountain had to offer was winter snowboarding.. but i was so wrong! we took a tram up to the tippy top of the mountain, the stars were amazing!! I never knew our sky was full of so many of them! There were telescopes up there for us to look through and see the stars up close! the astronomers were so funny to listen to and you could tell they were so passionate about their job. One telescope was zoomed into the moon so close, you could see every detail on it!
this was one of the most memorable and
cutest moments with my favorite boy!
all i have to say is.. well done, eric. well done ;)
this is about what the moon and stars looked like :)
one of the telescopes! it was freezing up on that mountain!!
after our starry night date, eric took me back home for midnight crepes,
if you havent had a crepe from 'Roll Up' in Provo yet.. get one! sooo yum!
Cooking Lessons
We decided to invent our own lunch and it turned out pretty good :)
This meal and Indiana Jones.. perfection!
Draper Days
Elder Eric Michels, called to serve in the Kyiv, Ukraine mission on December 21, 2011
...words cant describe how much you will be missed...
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Beckstrom Family Reunion
Two weeks after Eric came home from Seattle, Washington we went on our Beckstrom Family Reunion to Bear Lake. It was the best beginning of our summer together! I cant believe how fast its all gone by, but I'm so happy that every second of it was spent with the one person I wanted to spend it with!
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"The Hideout"
Eric Michels, Eric Espinel, Steve Michels, Seth Dunshee
these boys are each individually so talented!
put them together and you have an amazing band!
Their music is so catchy and fun, and they all mold so perfectly together!
i LOVE going to watch them practice and perform and small shindigs
they are performing at Alta High School Saturday August 13th at night
come watch and support them! you wont be disappointed!
http://www.reverbnation.com/ericandstevemichels
^ look them up! ^
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THE CHALLENGE!!!
'The Challenge' is a game we made up years ago,
and it has forever since been our favorite game!
In 'the challenge' each person writes down a challenge for the loser to do and we draw one out of a hat. Then everyone lines up and take turns throwing a quarter into a small cup..
the last person to make it in, has to do the challenge!
it gets really intense and some challenges SUCK to do!
one night, Eric Espinel and Steve Michels both lost for the first time in the same night!
Truely a moment in Challlenge history!
Steve Michels
Eric Espinel
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goodbye summer... Hello FALL!
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