I am now 21!

Last Thursday was my birthday!!

It was a great day! I woke up and made some french toast; then my sister and I watched, sh, High School Musical 3. I love that show. hehe. Then my family came home and had me open my gifts. I got a magic bullet blender, Bolt!, a really cute contact case, a dress, headphones, and some other things that I can't quite remember at the moment. It was so nice. I am so blessed. Then our family had to rush off to Provo for my sister's graduation. It was very long, but I am so happy for my sister! She is amazing and I can't believe she is done with high school, or that I'm 21 really. After graduation, we went to Texas Roadhouse which is outright delicious (I like the word "outright," I just decided) . Then we saw Up. I thought it was so cute. It made me cry both out of cuteness and sad stuff. cute, cute cute. Afterwards, we went home and ate my delicious chocolate pie from Costco. yum. My sister and I talked until late and I think I bought some songs. Lucky for me, the birthday celebration did not end there.
Friday, I invited some friends over for a barbecue. I'm so grateful to my family. They are the best; when I was at work all day, they prepared for my party. It was wonderful. I haven't been very social since moving home and I loved seeing my friends. We ate and played games. Then we went to the park and played. There were some majorly cool things and it was fun. I love my friends. :)
Saturday, Tasha, Drew, Ben, and I went to the zoo. It was fun. I loved seeing all the animals. I love seeing all the amazing things that God has created. I loved being with my friends again, and I am so happy that Ben got to come because he's amazing. I went from seeing him everyday in March and April to going a month without seeing him. It was sad, so I was happy to spend time with him.
I thought that would be the end of my celebrating, but I was wrong. On Monday, thanks to my wonderful boss and friend Tasha, I was able to go to Lagoon with Ben and Drew and their friend Ruben (sp??). It was so fun! We went on all the great rides (well, except tilt-a-whirl, but that's ok) and got wet and everything. Ben and I did this catapult ride that cost extra money. He paid and was so nice. The ride was AMAZING. It felt great and gave us cool views for just a couple of seconds. Lagoon was great. I am so glad I went.
These past few days my emotions have followed the path of the rollercoasters that I rode. But, I have had so much fun, and I have so much to be grateful for. I love my life and my friends and my family! I am incredibly blessed and excited for what life holds!

*hopefully, I will be able to put up pictures soon to go along with my adventures

End of Semester Reminiscing

This semester has been crazy! In both good and bad ways. School-wise, it wasn't my favorite. My classes were somewhat boring and very hard. I missed Elsie, a lot! I also had some sad times. In other ways though, it was so great. Here are some of my favorite things about this semester.

• my camping trip
• the fact that I became such good friends with apt. 46 and went over there almost every day
• my roommates- Lauren, Jessica, Chelsea, Bari, and Becky
• the fact that I became good friends with some of the girls in our ward. I love them!
• making new friends and friends in general
  
• learning about my love for flowers and seeing flowers!
• the tulip festival
• conference
• birthdays!
• going on dates
  
• country dancing
• rolling down the hill!!!!
• building a snowman and fort
• playing Harry Potter Clue!!
• secrets and operations
• theme songs for people
• Disney movies
• my friend, Tyler, mentioned me in his talk at church, saying that i was always happy. haha
• picnics and bbqs
• learning cool things from Lauren
• gifts!
• donating blood for the first time with a bunch of friends
• finger painting
  

So, more will be coming, along with pictures. But yeah, this semester was way cool. I am pretty sad it's over. I will really be missing some people when it's over. Luckily, most of them I will see in a few months. Unfortunately, one of my really good friends, Ben, is graduating and leaving for who knows how long. It's sad. But, I feel like life is great and everything will work out in life, so I guess it's all ok!

I love camping and friends!

Last weekend I went camping down at Zion's. It was amazing! We left on Friday and it was a kind of long drive through a snowstorm, which was crazy! The boys were very good drivers. I was impressed. We couldn't find our campground for a while, which was kind of funny. We met up with the other people: Amanda, Micah, and Sarah. I didn't know them, but it was so fun getting to know them. They were great. When we finally found our campsite, we set up and made a fire and made smores and stuff like that. I blew up an air mattress. Eventually, we went to bed. I could not sleep. It was way too cold. I was just shivering all night, but that's ok. I survived. In the morning. The boys made breakfast for us. Then we headed off to actual Zion's just down the road. It was fun and adventurous. We went hiking at Angel's Landing. I was so tired, due to lack of sleep, and lack of practice in hiking, but it was amazing! It was so fun and so beautiful. I love hiking! We were hiking for 5 hours. We headed home after that. We made a stop at Denny's in Cedar City. It was so much fun spending time with Chelsea, Ben, and Drew! I love them! They are such fun friends! Basically, it was one of the best weekends that I've ever had. I'm so glad I went and I'm so glad that my friends invited me. Camping is really fun; I love hiking and doing outdoors things. I hope I can go camping again soon. I love it.
And, I think this story of last weekend was written really strangely by me. I'm sorry. The End.