my place under the sun: Summer in a nutshell

aww summer! one of my top four favorite seasons :) this year i loved every minute of it! i am going to try and summarize it from the time i graduated high school up until the day i started college!
here we go...

I graduated from Logan High School on June 3... that night there was a graduation party at the Sports Academe, and of course i went! it was so fun... they had a hypnotist hehehe! After the graduation party Chelsie, Christina and i were starving so we made a late night run to WalMart! what a fun experience that was :)
Every summer, and sometimes if i have time during the school year, i volunteer at the Cache Humane Society! i absolutely LOVE animals, especially dogs! My dad is allergic to both dogs and cats so i go there to get my fill of animals!

One June 5Th we had a HUGE adoption day! i was asked to go and help with the set up and

keeping the dogs looking nice and taking them on a run if they were getting a little too excited. I took Dianne and Kristin, my sisters, with me. We had so much fun! If it were up the three of us... we would have many, many dogs living with us!
My summer also consisted of, my favorite, long bike rides. I love my bike and i love being outside! i beg my sisters, my frie

nds, and anyone in the neighborhood to come with me on bike rides. Now about the picture, my sisters think this is the funniest thing! Dianne and Kristin say that i take too many pictures, i however do not agree! On this bike ride i had to beg them, on my knees, to come with me. They agreed and off we went. It was a great bike ride and i wanted to capture that moment in time so i told them "smile im takin a picture" and this is what i got... o well!

O Montana... what a beautiful place you are! For my senior road trip Chelsie, Whitney, Laura, Janessa and i drove 7 hours to Whitney's Grandparent's cabin in the mountains! it was so much fun, and so pretty! We enjoyed every minute together :) Some of the "highlights" of the trip were we got a flat

tire, it rained every night (we found that out after the first night we were there. we were outside cooking hotdogs over the fire and it started pouring! we had nice soggy buns), Laura twisted her ankle (who knows on what!), we got lost, Nessa ran a read light, we went shopping and pushed Laura in a wheel chair, we ate at Fuddruckers, Nessa got pulled over (she was the driver), and Whitney puked on the car ride home :) it was definitely a week to remember.

Right after getting home from Montana it was off to LTC (Laural Training Camp). This is an amazing place where the "just graduated seniors" and the "soon to be seniors" have the opportunity to go up the canyon, to camp Lomia, for a week. Your first year you are a participant, you are there for the experience and to be taught. The second year,

after you graduated, you are a leader. You start planning in Fall for that special week. You receive a calling, teach the lessons, and are an example to the younger girls. It is a special place where wonderful things happen. This year i was called as the Activity Specialist! Maddy, my partner, and i were in charge of all the energy release games, and get to know you activities.

We also had the opportunity to teach the younger girls. We were assigned "Wilderness, 40 days and 40 nights" a "Path of Jesus" lesson. In our opinion it was by far the hardest lesson to teach, but we bonded and learned from that experience. It was the perfect calling for me! I wasput into the Good Works group. I was so blessed to have such wonderful people in my group, including the younger girls. We were pretty-much the amazing people up there :) I became friends with so many marvelous girls up there.

Shortly after retu

rning from LTC it was blood donating time! i donated some blood, which i got the worst bruise from! The nurse putting the needle in my arm was a newy and missed my vain! So she had to dig around from it! My whole arm was a beautiful shade of purple for a while. That same night i was invited to my very first tramp sleepover! And boy was it ever fun! Missy, Whitney and i were the party group.

While Chelsie and Courtney slept we talked and talked and laughed and talked some more! Whitney eventually fell asleep... but not Missy and i! we pulled an ALL NIGHTER! not on purpose mind you... we just kept talking and talking, we talked for approximately 14 hours straight! I didn't really know Missy that well at the beginning of the night, but i sure did know her at the end :)
The next night i got to spend with Meg! We were at the same birthday party, we didn't really know each other, i mean we lived near one another but we never hung out or really talked before! But by the end of that night we had started an amazing friendship! We just know how to have fun and when we get together it's always a party!
The next night was the fireworks! This is my favorite holiday! My whole family comes to Logan, we have a bbq and then we all walk over to the stadium to watch the fireworks! After the fireworks we walk back to my house. you would think that everyone would be tired from walking so far and having it be late at night... but that is not the case :) it is a crazy house! but that is the way i like it, always fun always enjoying ourselves!

The day after the fireworks was the eve of my birthday, and it was GREAT! It started off with a puddin' fight! yes that is right... we attacked each other with pudding! it was SO much fun! After going home and cleaning up it was time to go to the cruise-in. This was my first year going to it, and i hope it is the last! it was SO boring and HOT... but the company was good. After the cruise-in we went to Meg house, ate pizza, played Chinese Checkers, ate icecream, composed some music, went on a late night walk and celebrated my birthday and hour early!
By this time i was running on nothing! From going to the opening night of Eclipse, to

the tramp sleep over, to the fireworks, and then my birthday eve... i have not slept in a while! But that is the way summer is suppose to be :)
My birthday came around and i got a SPANKIN NEW BIKE! and i love it! my old one was getting a little small!
Well as you can probably tell, my summer is doing things back to back... to back! two days after my birthday it was off to girls camp! This was my 7TH and last year at girls camp:'( Girls camp is such a special place, it is where i first gained my testimony and a large part of that was because of the YCL

s that were teaching me and being good examples to me. I want to be there for the younger girls, to help them gain their testimony and to witness the growing and learning and miracles that happen there! This year, as it was my last year, i was able to choose which level of girls i wanted to be a YCL (Youth Camp Leader) over. There was no question about it, i wanted to be a 4TH year. As part of certification the 4TH year girls are required to go on an over ni

ght back packing hike! I LOVE hiking and being outdoors, and i love girls camp so what a perfect combination! This year the Stake theme was "Oh the Places You'll Go". My ward choose the theme Whoville. Our ward theme, based off of Whoville, was "Who Are You?" It was such an amazing camp... i would write pages and pages about girls camp... but this post is already getting long enough!
At this point in the summer it started to calm down. i had finished all of the church activities and was ready to party with my friends the rest of the summer! And i DID party! i won't give you details, i am getting sick of writing. But if you know me you know that i had FUN! i went on many new adventures and tried some new things and made some new friends!
This summer has been a BLAST! i loved it... i love summer!
And that was my summer in a nutshell! (Here are some more pics from my wonderful summer!)