the happenings of summer

I feel like I'm having such a good summer. It's filled with doing tons of things, being independent, working and school and living on my own-- I'm lovin' it! I want to remember all the memories so I'll record them here...

I went to the Manti Pageant with some people from my ward. It's a couple hours away so we drove down and had fun chatting and such. Dan Hinckley is in my ward! (an old family friend) He was in my car so that was fun. It was "The Mormon Miracle Pageant" which basically was the story of Joseph Smith intermingled with the stories in the Book of Mormon, what the book is about and the important stories from it. You sit in this huge audience and the actors are on the hill of the Manti temple. The dialogue and music are prerecorded I believe, so you watch the action unfold as these little people run across the hill. It's really awesome how they choreograph it and such! It was so beautiful. They did a really good job and I enjoyed it a ton more than I thought I would, honestly. If you ever have a chance to see the Hill Cumorah pageant or any other one, do it! I highly recommend it!



Fourth of July weekend came next! I had no idea it was such a huge deal in Provo! I started off by seeing the hot air balloons launch off way way way early in the morning... I missed the huge launch but I got to see a ton. It was cool! Then that night, people lined up all along University Ave, camped out since 3pm, and it was just a nonstop party. It's so they get a good spot to see the parade, but I think it's just a party excuse too. My friend Andy was throwin a party and it was siiiick. Huge screen with wii games/movies outside, food, dance party inside-- it was so fun! After we hit that up we walked around, found some floats parked in the BYU parking lot and took some pics but left so the cops wouldn't get mad. Then it started lightning and raining super hard which was way fun and looked so cool. Then Becky and I hit up the hospital for some late night treats.

On Saturday, the 4th, we went to SWEET TOMATOES for lunch/dinner which was BOMB. Then we went to the Sugarhouse park in SLC for the fireworks!! I got some sweet pics and it was an awesome fireworks show. Then on Sunday we got to feed the ducks after church and chill. It was probably the best fourth of july holiday I've ever had.
























Next up...

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was my first midnight showing ever and so much fun! Jamie had bought over 30 tickets so we waited in line with all our friends and it was so fun! I loved the movie, I thought it was the best one so far. I loved the dialogue and the funny teen love moments and how their acting has totally improved. Good work team! See if you can guess who everyone was dressed up as...













and finally....

CALIFORNIA!!!!!!!!!

Jamie stuck her name in the Wilk ride board and we got a ride to Riverside for the weekend! I had to take a midterm early (but I rocked it :D) and skip work and class but it was so worth it!! We visited April and had so much fun! The singles wards are hoppin' over there! On Friday night we went to a huge multi-stake regional dance, which was way fun, then afterwards we were like let's go to the beach! So we drove over to Santa Monica and hung out on the pier, where we met up with some other kids from the dance and this black guy was freestylin' about LDS singles kids and it was just so fun!! On Saturday we hung out at the beach allllll day! Boogie boardin', chillin, BBQ, bonfire with s'mores.. oh man! We met SO many awesome people-- they are so friendly and I felt so comfortable so quickly. It was an awesome weekend. :)


Until next time, kids!