roof .plus. sunset .plus. pre-rainstorm-breeze

alright. as some of you know, i really wanted to watch a sunset as part of my birthday celebrating/being with my great friends this past week while i was in utah. didn't happen. unfortunately, you can't really depend on provo for good sunsets. there have been some really good ones i can remember... but, sadly, they come few and far in between. WELL. tonight, here in arizona, my first sunset back from my trip. a perfect, beautiful sunset. naturally, i had to climb up on the roof to enjoy it completely. living in the suburbs is not conducive to correct sunset watching. and i have no mountains i can easily drive up to here. so roof it is! kate was a little nervous for my safety so she joined me! which was a pleasure. except when she tried stopping me from going 'a little bit further.'  did i listen? of course not. it was really great. i love being up so high. and especially on a roof. it's just so peaceful. and gives me a different perspective, being up so high and looking down on everything that you see every day.

...and i felt a little bit like i was in mary poppins, with all of the chimney sweeps. 

then to top it all off, bryan took the ladder as a some sort of joke, i suppose... so kate and i decided to cross over the patio-cover thing  over to the other side and jump down onto the trampoline (let me explain: skinny support beams going across every four feet or so with a durable, weatherproof mesh-like fabric over it). it was quite treacherous but we made it without breaking through. i went first.... haha it took me .... a while. i said one- two- three- GO! many many times and kept chickening out. i firmly believe if i had had more supporters on my side, cheering and applauding for me, i could have done it the first time. but i had mom, who kept saying she didn't know if i would make it safely and kept telling me not to bounce off the other side of the trampoline into the rocks. and bryan, who couldn't figure out the flash on my camera so we ended up with this...

 
kate clapped and i did eventually jump. sadly it was a little anticlimactic. but i would definitely do it again. then kate surprised both of us by jumping soon after me. but i agree with her that it's because her feet were tired of standing on those dry pine needles