I learned a few things since coming home. I learned that my brother Taylor HATES when I harmonize with music in my car. I also learned that my other brother Hunter missed me <33 Friday night me, hunter, and marquel went and picked up dinner, hot tubbed, and played some lego Pirates of the Caribbean on the nintendo. After our fun night Hunt told my mom he didn't realize how much he missed me until that night. I guess I'm just the best sister ever. haha Being home with family is so amazing. I love them all so much. Father's Day was full of family fun! I hung out with my extended family at my cousin's baby's blessing and then in the afternoon Nat, James, Madison, Bee, and Ness all came out! I just love my family :) We played some awesome games of elimination basketball and just laughed and enjoyed the day! I love it. Then of course we went to Oakridge the other day and it was fantastic weather. I love just soaking up the summer sun! Here are some pictures...
Taylor and I modeled things for Costco...
We kept saying, "we're selling the product!" haha
Hunt and Marquel love me :)
I helped Hunt build a bug catcher thing... I have SUCH the
sense of fashion.
Lastly, I miss you kids already and I'll see you during fall semester I hope! :)
Last night I had gotten all ready for bed. I laid down and waited for sleep to come. My thoughts came along instead. I starting thinking about a situation and how things could have turned our differently and how I regret always letting my feelings run away with me. Different lyrics kept popping into my head to describe certain feelings. Such as the wonderful John Allred's: "we could have been golden, could have been something, could have been everything that we wanted. But we were too fragile, we could be broken and we could be bought" (yes I obviously sang this in my head while typing...duh). While I was thus being very dramatic and starting to feel sorry for myself, I looked at my fingers and instantly smiled. I had forgotten that I had painted my nails glow in the dark :). They looked awesome! I continued to make shapes in the night with my fingers of light and entertained myself for quite a while. Then I remembered where I got this wonderful gift of happiness. Girls Camp. I thought about how awesome my last year of girls camp was even though I was so nervous going into it, thinking that all the girls in the stake would hate an "outsider" (I went to a different high school than the rest of my stake). I remember all of the awesome friends I made and how I loved being a YCL. It gave me an excuse to try and be the center of attention all the time. haha After I was done thinking about girls camp, I thought about camping in general and how awesome it is. Then I drifted into sleep.
The end.
My stream of consciousness just took over last night and I thought I'd share :) Don't judge. Today has been a hard day. I didn't do too well on my final, I've been thinking a lot (never a good endeavor), and I've been all around a little bit grumpy. Besides when I wasn't studying and watched sytycd :) I love that show SO much it's ridiculous. Favorite so far? That girl named Ryan. She's amazing. But no group will ever measure up to season 6 with Jeanine <3 <3. Love her! And here she is in an AWESOME hip hop number from her season.
This is a video of Dia Frampton. She's on the TV show "The Voice" right now and she is amazing! And what makes her even better? She's from Utah of course :)
One more week until summmmmer!! Yes, it feels as if summer is here with sun and such, but in a week from today... anatomy will be over and done with. Alas! I can't even wait. Don't get me wrong though, even here at school we have been enjoying the summery goodness. We have accomplished this in three simple ways. Way one: da razerbladz or RZRBLDZ. That's right. I bought a razor scooter. I hadn't had one of these for years and years! Growing up we would rock the scooters daily and it feels so good to bring back the childhood here at college. The RZRBLDZ are our gang. Who is this group I refer to? Only some pretty freaking amazing people here in the apartment! Annalise Strange and Holly Henrich. We rock at life. So much. We go about terrorizing campus and demanding lunch money from the little efy children. Then we pull the most amazing stunts you've ever seen on scooters! Like backflips, jumping flights of stairs, jumping over people...all in a days work. haha no, but we do have fun! :)
The second way we accomplish summer while staying in school: basking in the sun. We bask between classes at church, we bask in the day, we bask while we sleep practically. But I love it. Sunday when we were thus basking on the grass Holly brought out her guitar and we just lived the life. I love just chilling with the roomies, listening to music and enjoying each others company. It's just the best thing in the world. (PS hate you Holly. You're an amazing musician. Vocals, lyrics, music. You're incredible. Kinda hate you.)
The last way we enjoy summerness is through food. We probably go out to get food every night. And no, not around normal dinner time but around midnight or later. We eat out way too much, but it's fantastic!
I'm super excited to get home, get working at my dad's office hopefully, and to see some great friends. But then again it's sad to say goodbye. I love being here at BYU. I love hanging out with my roommates and being random. I love meeting new people on campus each day. I love our scooter gang. I love starting movies around midnight. I love learning about new music every day. I love going to random carnivals on campus instead of going to lab. I love learning in class (sounds strange, but I REALLY do. I love learning about anatomy and about the doctrine and covenants. It's amazing!). I love complaining about efy kids. I love random dance parties. I just really love my life. It'll be strange going home. Coming to BYU I worried that it'd be too spiritually focused and too smart for me and I would hate it. Now I look back and think, how in the world could I hate the opportunity to become a better person? How could I hate being able to meet so many people with my same values? How could I ever hate being challenged in classes? BYU makes me a better person each day I come here. I am so amazingly thankful for that :)
The following pictures are from the random carnival I spoke of:
This is a picture of Camie when I went and visited her. She works at Chuck-A-Rama :) You'd trust that look with your money right?
This is a picture of a good movie.
This is a picture of my future house...
This is a picture of the other members of my gang. Unfortunately I wasn't there for this sun-basking day.
This is a picture of some strange girl
Sorry for all the random pictures. Clearly I'm a little bored. Have a great week :)
