Yes..I'm postdating this. I really did write it on the 29th---just didn't upload it :D
Get ready for a doozy!
Well, we’re just driving through Idaho on our way to
Seattle via Bend, OR, so I guess I have some time to do a blog post!
Monday June 18
We did something monumentous for FHE, I’m sure, but I
can’t remember which monumentous thing it was.
(Word is saying that monumentous is not a word….is this true?!) Oh! I
remembered! We did a service project and
cleaned up the trails around the River Bottoms in SoJo. ‘Twas fun.
Tuesday June 19
Today I got the day off to get together with Megs, Whit
K, and Lizzle! Meg’s hubby Scott and her
baby Savanna came too, which was really fun. We had a picnic together and then
went on a non-hike to a waterfall. It
was super fun! After that, Megs and I
went to the Y to walk around and reminisce.
I ended up giving blood—it was exactly 8 weeks from the last time—and
then we went to Sugar and Spice for some ice cream. We took a stroll through the BYU Bookstore
and then I dropped her off to her hubby at Costco.
(Megs has pics...so when I get them I'll share them!)
That night was a Relief Society Tea Party. I wanted to wear a specific dress, but it
didn’t fit like I would like, so I opted for a princess dress. I figured that little girls dress as
princesses at tea parties so it would work—not so much. Some people didn’t even wear dresses and there
I was dressed as Rapunzel. Good thing I
like dressing up :D They did a great job
on the event, but as soon as it came to idle chitchat, Tawni and I got
antsy—the mission’ll do that to ya! We
decided to RedBox a movie. Like Crazy
sounded good, so we tried it. It was
awful. Rather disappointing, but at
least with someone I love!! :D
Wednesday June 20
The day before Code-man got home. I was supposed to have orchestra rehearsal
for Cinderella, but it got canceled, so I stayed home and cleaned. It felt so good and was really nice to not
have to be somewhere!
Thursday June 21
CODY GOT HOME!!!
After work I ran over to the Salt Lake temple to do a session. Chazzer picked me up afterward and we booked
it to the airport. Code’s flight landed
early and we thought we were going to miss his epic descent on the
escalator. The missionaries decided to
dawdle, so we had plenty of time. It was
so good to see him! He wasn’t hungry,
but we were all famished. He conceded
that he could go for a frosty, so we headed off to Wendy’s! We were all enjoying our time when we
realized we were going to miss his releasing and we sped home. Then we stayed up late enjoying one another’s
company.
Friday June 22
Chazzer turned 19 today.
We went out to Texas Roadhouse for his birthday and I met up with Sister
Johnson, an old companion, while there.
After that, it was off to the Jorgensen’s for Harry Potter movie
night. We watched the 7pt1 and ended
around 12 or 1. They sent us off to
watch the second DVD at our place. We
stuck it in Clearplay, but I couldn’t get to the menu to adjust the settings,
so the violence was edited on high. In
Harry Potter, that means that every time they say Avada Kedavra, they cut out
the death…slightly anticlimactic.
Saturday June 23
The Summit!! At
12:30 we showed up to the institute for our cruise. 1pm was John Bytheway. He gave an excellent talk on marinating
ourselves like chicken. After a little
break, we had a great talk by Sheri Dew prefaced by a beautiful song by Jessie
Clark Funk. Next was EFY games. Finally, it was time for the luau
dinner. It was DELICIOUS!! After dinner we had another speaker—Alisa
Goodwin Snell aka Utah’s dating coach.
She’s pretty entertaining! Then
we had the dance. Cody and Kyle stayed,
which they weren’t planning on doing, and we had a lot of fun!
Sunday June 24
I got to go to Elder Garner’s homecoming! It was fun to see Pres and Sis Summerhays as
well as E Allsop and E Garner. Love my
Lancaster boys! He did a great job. That night, we had a fireside in the
tabernacle that was great. The speaker’s
daughter sang—she was fabulous. As was
David Osmond. Over to the park for some
ice cream and then home for the night.
Monday June 25
Finally on this week!
For HE (That’s going to take some getting used to) we played water
balloon volleyball. There weren’t enough
towels at first, so Tawni, Kyle, and I played Rummikub with Sis
Ripplinger. We went and played and my
brother tried to play matchmaker by making me go meet some new guy and be his
partner. He was nice, though, so all’s
well that ends well, right? We went home
a little early because Megs and fam stopped by the house. I love them!
That was the night!
Tuesday June 26
Tuesday night we headed down to Manti for the pageant
with Hillary, Tawni, and my bros. We
stopped at a pizza place that wasn’t as good as it should’ve been and made it
to the temple grounds JUST in time for it to start. It was great!
We got home late :D
Wednesday June 27
After work I had an eye exam-I’ll be getting reading
glasses! Then I was supposed to have
orchestra practice, but it got cancelled again.
Instead, we ended up hiking donut falls!
SO fun! We literally climbed up
the waterfall! We went with the Quinns,
Leon, my bros, Alex (their new roommate), Holly, Kelly, and Max. It was SO much fun! Then we had movie night at our house—Mirror,
Mirror. LOVE that movie! My bros and Alex stayed from the hiking group
and we added Crysi, Tawni, Kami, and Steven (one of Cody’s comps). It was a blast. After the movie we stayed up singing and
swapping stories.
Thursday June 28
I had dentist
appointment after work and then headed to the institute to help someone with
the organ. We were locked out, but I had
an interview there pretty soon after, so I just chilled and read a book
outside. After the interview was flash
mob practice! I’m SO excited to be in my
first flash mob—total bucket list experience.
I met a girl who is the little sister of a woman In my ward, so that was
neat, too. At home, Kyle had prepared some
AWESOME shrimp, so it was dinner, an episode of Love in the Wild, and then
BEDTIME!
Friday June 29
I was super busy this week and hadn’t had a chance to go
to the temple, so I hopped over to the Jordan River temple to do some initiatories. Then it was home for my home teachers at
5:45. They couldn’t make it, but not to
worry—visiting teachers came at 6pm.
Must be the end of the month, eh?
Stand by for more on that! Our
ward had an Amazing Race date night and Kyle and I were helping with one of the
stations, so we headed to the church at 7pm.
At 8:45 my comp picked me up because we had our own visiting teaching to
do! I LOVE that I visit teach two of my
best friends—Jenni and Tawni. Awesome
:D I got to chat it up with them and
then head home to look at some grad schools online while I waited for laundry
to get done. I went to bed around 1, got
up at 5ish to move some laundry, and then up at 6:30 to get ready to head
out! Now we’re on the road :D
Stay tuned for more awesomeness!
