Donation's Your Way

Donations Your Way

My husband Dustin has just finished creating this awesome website where people can donate electronics to help various charitable organizations such as Red Cross, National Breast Cancer Foundation, Books for Africa, and anything else you could think of. Or you can receive money for your electronics.

For more details check out his website

Donationsyourway.org

If you have stuff to donate that would be fantastic, or you can just like us of facebook. Feedback is also extremely helpful, so let us know what you think after you check out the website. It's a great way to help without having to donate lots of money.

CRAZY days in band/guard!

CRAZY days in Band/Guard!

This last Saturday was super crazy, crazy, crazy! We had the homecoming parade and football game. Basically our day started around 8 when I dropped Dustin off at the stadium to tune his drum and get ready. Then I parked down by the Richards Building on campus and my coach Ashlee came to pick me up so we could go get equipment and park close to where we were meeting. When we got to the stadium I realized my shirt was in the car, but yes I was wearing another one, haha. So after grabbing the 17 flags and running out of the stadium to the car with them (not an easy task) we hurried back to my car so I could get my uniform shirt. We drove up to the top of campus and as I was getting out I asked Ashlee who was holding the banner, haha ops we forgot that. So we rushed back grabbed that and put it together, arriving back to where we were meeting about 5 minutes before we stepped off, the parade step-off was at 10.The parade was a ton of fun and there were some comments that were so funny/cute. Like one girl, about 3 who was like, "mommy mommy, I want to be one of those when i grow up", aw so adorable. The funniest was probably an about 8 year old boy who said, "wow, they are really hot", haha it was really hard to keep from laughing at that. Dustin did a fantastic job carying his super heavy drum for the full hour it took to march the parade! WOW kudos to him!!!! and I got shinsplints rollstepping that long, haha not used to that. It was fun to see some old roommates and friends watching the parade.Also my freshman sister Kimber helped design and rode on the float for RHA, which she is a part of. Their float got the Grand Marshall Award (meaning best float overall)! pretty impressive. Their theme was about being lost and found and they had a giant mirror and question mark on the float as well as a humongous manila envelope that read CASE SOLVED across it and their theme running around the base with footprints.
For Dustin and I the craziness is not quite up. We have our Rocky Mountain Competition tomorrow night. There will be tons of bands from all over Utah competing starting at 4pm and we will perform around 8:30 as the Host Band, right before the awards ceremony. It's going to be phenomenal if anyone wants to come, tickets are pretty cheep I believe.

Old Man River

Old Man River

One of our shows this year for Marching Band is Old Man River, so we, the BYU color guard, decided to get into character and went canoeing down the Provo river in a 20 person canoe! It was a blast!!!! Dustin and one of the other girl's on guard's husband came along. Dustin almost pushed me in a number of times, partially because I kept standing up, haha. And Ashlee actually caught me off guard and gave me a good shove off the dock when we got out. HAHA (well that's what the pic looks like anyway--it will be up soon).
This is when I maneuvered myself to the front of the canoe and stood up and leaned over the front like the statue on the front of big boats, haha, then I turned around for a pic.

AW SO CUTE!!

I finally got a chance to put up some pictures from our trip to Hawaii! :D Enjoy!

OUR CAR
We ended up renting a mustang convertable, it was really cool! Dustin loved driving it, and the lady gave us a fantastic deal on our upgrade! Thanks Aurora :)

PEARL HARBOR
Our first stop was Pearl Harbor, that was such a cool experience, we got to tour one of the original submarines and go out to the USS Arizona memorial. I am so grateful to all the men and women who fought for our freedom in WWII, including my Grandpa Hayden.
USS Arizona Memorial.

DOLE PLANTATION

We also went to the original Dole Pineapple Plantation, that was pretty cool, they had pineapples from all over the pacific islands, some were tiny and some even red.

i asked for a water cup, this is what i got, haha

DIAMONDHEAD

We also hiked up diamond head crater, that was pretty sweet because for part of it you're inside the edge of the mountain.

The view from the top was Beautiful!

This was my favorite ice cream they had, it was called haupia (coconut) but was super creamy with no chunks and just the flavor, the bottom one was chocolate macadamia nut, DELICIOUS!

The Polynesian Cultural Center
This was one of my very favorite things we did on our trip! It was so cool to be there and see all the cultures, we tried this pasty stuff called poi that they make bread and things out of, it was interesting.Poi
And of course Dustin had some tropical icecream :D hahaHe also threw a spear, it was sort of a game to see who could through it closest to the target
what a man! ;D I LOVE HIM!
At the Lu'au dinner we had they called all of the people there for their honeymoon/wedding anniversary to come up and they played the hawaiian wedding song for us as we all slow danced, it was really cool, there were a couple of couples there for their 50th anaversary!
Dustin even made fire by rubbing two sticks together, well he tried any way, it was really hard, I think only the big polynesian guy acutally got it to work.

THE BEACH

We spent some time out on the beach of course, haha. One of the days Dustin did some body boarding, it was fun to watch him, we also sat out and watched the sunset sometimes at night on the beach, that was so cool!

What a wonderful honeymoon with such a wonderful husband!!!!! :D

Reception in Kennewick

Our reception in Kennewick was really fun. It was so great to see lots of old friends and loved ones.

So somehow my dad's pants didn't make it down to the church. Someone went to get them but for a while he was wearing this. I have to say it's true Arbon fashion, haha :D Love you Dad!
Ok so Elayna said she wasn't going to try and catch the bouquet but she'd stand with her hands out and if it fell into them...well haha it pretty much did, but Tia caught it out of them, hum...what does that mean Elayna? haha Love You!
A special thanks to Kim Colman who made my bridesmaid dresses, what a fantastic job she did!
Also I am so grateful for Kirsten Week who helped with the food the entire time, thank you so much.

And a special thank you to N. Henning Photography for taking all of our photographs.

No Gas in the Car

So Dustin and I went to Tacanos the week of the wedding with our parents. Dustin and I were coming from Lehi and meeting our parents there. Too bad we weren't paying attention to the amount of gas in the car and for the record the gas light doesn't work. Because we ended up on the side of the freeway with NO GAS! Luckily my parents were about ten minutes behind us so they brought us some.

and we made it to tacanos!!

The Best Day of Our Life!

Dustin and I were married on the 29th of April, 2010 in the Salt Lake City Temple!!!!!! What an amazing experience. It was so great to be there with so many loved ones, the spirit was so strong and wonderful.

Here are a few pictures taken the day before the wedding.






Some photos outside the temple on the 29th...
...and yeah it was snowing!
Good thing we took pictures the day before.
Oh it was cold!
It was so fun to be with so much family.


Ok only two more...we're ready to get out of here!

The Luncheon was a blast!
We ate cafe rio!
and had a pinata

My new niece Stacey handled that! haha she took it's head off in one whack


The best part was when my wonderful brand new husband sang and played for me Better Together by Jack Johnson! It was amazing!


The Reception




We had coldstone!!! :D haha just for Dustin.






Cutting the cake got interesting ;P






A toast to a new marriage

haha ops, I'm a lefty
Don't worry we got it right :)

Thanks to all those who helped to make that day such a special one :)