Wait....what?!?!?!

      Oh hey school starts on Monday....wait....WHAT???

     Really though....didn't I just barely hand in my last paper like yesterday??? At least that's how it feels to me....in some respects I feel like I am still waiting for my summer to begin and now it's ending? Now that just isn't fair. But if I really think about it Summer 2011 has been very good to me. I have gone on many a crazy awesome adventure with my wonderful, crazy, awesome friends. This summer was definitely one of the best summers to date.
    It's a sign of a good summer when it feels like it has gone by altogether too quickly. There are so many things that I still want to do but I guess I have to save those awesome things for next summer; or there is always holiday breaks right? haha. On the other hand though I have done so many awesome things this summer that made amazing memories so I am totally and completely satisfied with the adventure that was Summer 2011. If I really truly sit down and think about this past summer I come away smiling and that is what I aim for and what I call a good summer. I was able to play with my best friends basically everyday as well as have the opportunity to meet and make new friends who I love. Granted all this fun was interrupted with work but that wasn't even that big of a deal because I do love my job and my coworkers so very much that it isn't too much of a chore to work.
     I am totally going to take this opportunity to share some of my most favorite pictures from this summer though...because they bring a smile to my face...and if you don't like then...well...go start your own blog then haha.

Gage's birthday at classic skating! So much fun!

Thor adventure at midnight

One of the many, many reasons we are best friends

The photo that began the photobomb chain of Summer 2011

Special car adventures. Also photobomb.

Our very first MC face!

Just creepin in an empty theatre before Green Lantern

Stuff on screen went "Boom"

Proof that we can take a cute picture every once in awhile

We love weddings! But really one of the best adventures of the whole entire summer!

First late night Molca run, with our special fweind ;) We love AJ lots

Hating on the Biebs

Justin Bieber with a girlfriend? Nope....Definite marketing fail

Adventures with my girls!

Favorite :)

Another MC face....basically it's one of our favorite poses ever!

Look out....here comes the smolder

Yeah we are this cute in real life too...don't be too jealous of us

P.H.O.T.O.B.O.M.B.

Fat Boys for our best friend. Brilliant idea if you ask us

Boot picture! You have to wear your boots when you go to Cowboys and Aliens...it's a must!

          I just want to thank my wonderful and amazing friends for helping to make this one of the best summers ever. I am sad to see it end but I am super excited for the next stage of our lives to begin. If this summer is any indication at all, if we stick together it'll be an adventure. Love you all!! And away we go!

So Blessed

Best friends!

     The other day I was talking to a good friend of mine about life and how different it would have been had I chosen to go to Utah State University last fall. I could not believe how different my life would be. There would be so many people that have made a huge impact on me this past year that I might not have met. There are others that I have grown close to that I probably would have never even begun friendships with. So many adventures that I would have missed out on and so many experiences I wouldn't have had. I'm sure that I would have had awesome and crazy adventures as an Aggie but it was still completely weird thinking about how many people and adventures and experiences would be missing from my life had I chosen to go away to school.

Carli. Love her. Nuff said.

Best friend since Kindergarten.

     This chat also helped me to realize just how extraordinarily blessed I am. It's almost as if I have an embarrassment of riches in the blessings department. I was thinking about everything that happened in this last year and the person that I am now compared to the person that I was a year ago and I am just so grateful for all of it. This past year at school I really think that I have discovered who I am, and yes I do realize how cheesy that sounds but its the truth, and what I truly want from life. I feel as if I have a clear path in front of me and I know what I want to do with my life {for the most part at least, I am still open for changes no matter how drastic they may be}. I'll be honest with all of you, last year at this time I felt lost, completely and hopelessly lost. I didn't know what school to go to, what I wanted to study, whether or not I wanted to minor in anything and whether or not I even wanted to go to school in the fall. But luckily I finally made the decisions that brought me to where I am today, and I am so grateful that I did. I have an extraordinary passion for my chosen major {just ask any of my close friends and they'll tell you that I ooze psych major sometimes.... I just can't help it!} I have loved almost all of my classes so far and I have made awesome friends! I feel great about my choice of school and I'm so glad that I chose to go to school last Fall in the first place.

Halloween at the
Grub

     I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason, whether that reason is obvious or not. I believe that certain people come into our lives at specific times for very specific reasons. And that is so totally true, at least in my life it is. I have been seriously blessed with an amazing group of friends and seriously awesome co-workers. I absolutely love the place that I am in my life and I love the people that came into and stayed in my life. There have been a lot who have walked in and walked right back out, and while they all taught me valuable things and helped to make me who I am right now, the fact remains that they are no longer in my life and there are some that I really miss. Those that have stayed in my life have taught me valuable things and continue to teach me daily, and I am so grateful to them.

My Theatre people. Oh how I miss them

Love her!

Love and miss this!

     Everyday I am amazed at the goodness of my friends. I wish they could know all the good that they do. Most of the time it is just by their example that their goodness shows through. Just in the way that they treat their peers, their families, and even strangers. You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat a complete stranger, usually someone that can do absolutely nothing for them, and I am so proud to say that most of my close friends treat these people very well. I am amazed at their abilities to make friends quickly with people that were previously strangers to them and to create a very comfortable environment around them, I hope to one day be able to do this myself. There is so much that they teach me just by their examples. I am very lucky to have the people in my life that I do. They remind me every day that there is good in this world, that there are still wonderful people around and that one person can make a huge difference in the world. I thank God every day for these amazing people that He has sent to be my friends and I hope that I am half the friend to them that they are to me. They mean the world to me and I am unbelievably grateful to them. Like I've said about a billion times already in this post I am so unbelievably blessed.

Princess Stairs with Anne!

Yep....

I love you all so very much, and don't want you to ever forget that you are incredible individuals that deserve all the best in the world! Don't ever be afraid to be amazing because that's what you already are naturally.

No Day But Today!!

     Alright....I should have blogged about this awhile ago...but I got distracted, life happened and all that jazz. Anywhoosers last Thursday I got the amazing opportunity to go see Rent live at Pioneer Theatre Company located up on the University of Utah's campus; and it was INCREDIBLE!! Rent has been my absolute favorite show for a long time now and it was so awesome seeing it live! I have seen this show sooooo many times that I have actually lost count; but each time I see it I pull something else out of it and this last time was no different.

 

(the amazing cast in one of their pictures from the playbill)

     This particular cast did such a fantastic job! Their chemistry was realistic and their relationships beautiful. In particular, however, I was absolutely riveted by Fabio Monteiro who played Roger. Now I don't say this lightly, Roger is my favorite character and I am extremely critical of anyone playing that role (sometimes unfairly and unrealistically so...) but Fabio Monteiro was, in a word that I have already overused in this post, incredible. Every time he took the stage I could not take my eyes off of him. He brought such a unique and powerful energy to the role that I immediately re-fell in love with the character, in "Your Eyes" and "One Song Glory" his beautiful voice and brilliant character created a memorable experience. The rest of the cast was equally as brilliant and their show tugged on my heartstrings, made me laugh, cry and cheer.
     Rent is such an incredible show and I truly believe that it changed my life. This production, like all the others I have has the pleasure of seeing, stayed true to the message at the heart of Rent: live life to its fullest and don't let your past hold you back.

   NO DAY BUT TODAY!

Girls Night Out!

WARNING: This may shock all you boys out there: 

sometimes us girls need nights away from the male species.

And that is why the creation of the girls night out came about. (As well as its counter the boys night out for many of the same reasons).

Anywhoosers last night was one of these Girls Night Out's with my best friend Ms. Seawillow Knight, and it was a total WIN!

We went Olive Garden {yummy} 

where the food was delicious and so was our server, Griffin :)

{just because it is a Girls Night Out doesn't mean that it was a No Boys Allowed}

It was such a great evening filled with great food, cute waiters and awesome company!

 Just a little taste of what we ate too much of! It was all so good from the salad and bread sticks to the Ziti and White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake. Yummmmm!!

And what's a Girls Night Out without a little shopping??

Don't underestimate the power of a little retail therapy.... 

I really needed that night out and I'm so glad that I went with Seawillow. She's such a crazy awesome girl and I love her lots!

An Epic Way to Start Summer 2011!

     Exactly what was such an epic beginning to a hopefully epic summer? Going to see Thor at like midnight last Friday. It was totally epic. And I totally loved it. Lots of things went boom and Chris Hemsworth is utterly and devastatingly attractive. But aside from that it was a really fun movie and I totally recommend it to anyone and everyone.
     The people I went with made the movie even more fun I gotta say. Especially since it was midnight and Lexi and I had just gotten off of work so we were a little crazed from our respective jobs; but that really just made it all the more entertaining.

                Love this movie! Awesome fights, lots of things explode, funny moments and a really attractive hero. What more could a movie need?

 I love this picture...it's the product of downtime, in a theater, with a camera, before the movie started. I think it shows all three of our personalities pretty well.....we are all just a bunch of lovable goofballs after all :) and I love us for it!

 We are pretty special together....we didn't even plan our coordination in this picture. We've just been best friends since freshman year of high school. One of my most favorite pictures of the night that is for sure!

 Lexi photobombed me....but it's why I love her....I can't explain to you what I am doing with my face...because I am not entirely sure myself...give me a break it was 2 in the morning!

Love it...not really even sure why....I just do

 There are many reasons this girl and I are best friends....this is just one of the many. We can be complete dorks and look ridiculous in pictures together <3 her

I figure I should probably throw in a cute picture of us...to prove that we can take a cute picture :)

     Overall Friday night was so epically fun and I can't imagine a better way to kick off Summer 2011. Excellent movie, excellent company and so many laughs. Love you all!!! Here's to many more summer adventures like this one!

So Close and Yet Soooo Far Away!!

The end of the semester is two days away...that's literally four class periods....two tests and two papers away from being home free!

In two days my freshman year in college will be behind me.

Where has this year gone?!?! It seriously has gone by so quickly, it's like I blinked and my whole freshman year was over. So many crazy important things have happened to me over the course of this year and I am so not the person I was when I started at the U. I like to think that I am a better person than I was and I hope to continue to grow as I continue as a college kid.

Even more exciting about the semester ending? Summer is beginning!!!!

There are so many things that I want to do this summer and so many things that I hope are spontaneous and adventurous. I am really just excited for sunshine and flip flops and shorts and freedom!! I've got a feeling that this summer will be one of the best yet.

Top Ten Things I Am Most Excited For: Summer 2011

1. Sleeping in!!!
2. Movie nights with my best friends
3. Camp fires, roasting some s'mores {among other things} and enjoying the great outdoors
4. Going to St. George to visit my Grandma
5. Road tripping it to Moab {I've never been!!}
6. Having heart to hearts and deep chats under the summer sky, again with my best friends
7. Spontaneous adventures
8. Creating and finishing a summer reading list {suggestions are always welcome :) }
9. Taking endless crazy pictures
10. Overall being 19 and crazy

I seriously cannot wait for Summer 2011! I have the power to make it amazing and I will harnass that power! Here we go Summer 2011, bring on the adventures!!!!