it's a good day to have a good day.: May 2012

since i've been home...

i got home friday, only to drive back to utah to take hunter to prommy wommy.

so presh.

he cleans up nice and he was sure to inform me that "no, it isn't easy to look that good."

his date was darling and it was a fabulous night.

then we came home and the real party started.

neighborhood children equal the best thing to ever happen to me.

they arrive at my house approximately five minutes after i get home from work, and they stay until bedtime.

and trust me, they're real entertaining.

we have jedi fights.

and nail time.

and of course night games.

[played at six because the kids have a bed time.]

raegan's face makes me smile everytime.

and then we can't forget the date night with my homegirl alg.

she's my most favorite date.

she's quite cute too. :)

aaandd kk is done with school this thursday.

things are about to get crazy! :)

year one, check.

i'm done with my freshman year of college.

my how the time flies!

it was such a great year, i loved [mostly] every single second of it.

it's crazy to think about how my life was one year ago and see just how much it has changed.

i've changed personally.

i've made so many new "best friends."

i can successfully not burn mac and cheese, i'm even going to be brave and say that i can now cook.

i do my own laundry.

i can keep a clean room.

and i can be independent.

well i'm still kinda working on that last one.

ever since i've been home i keep asking my mom for permission to do anything, just a habit.

yesterday she just started laughing and told me that i was 19, i don't need her permission anymore.

that's been a test for the both of us.

she got angry with me the other day and anybody that knows how my mom punishes knows that she told me to give her my phone...

haha jokes on her, i pay for my own phone now. :)

college has been one of the best experiences of my life.

it's helped me find out who i am, it's helped me grow.

alaska made me appreciate my family because they were always there and i missed them so bad.

college made me truly love my family, i could go home whenever i wanted and so i didn't get too homesick. but i still just always wanted to text/skype.

it taught me who my real friends were, the crazy ones i had in high school, and the ones i was able to meet at college.

it taught me responsibility and dedication.

but now it's over, and i'm pumped to have one of the best summer's of my life!

i'm stoked for:

skydiving.

human slingshot.

dallin comes home :) :)

lazy days on the river with my besties.

lagoon.

seattle trip.

neighborhood night games.

ky's wedding.

living the simple life.

if there's anything i've learned it's be happy. live in the moment. surround yourself with people that love you and treat you right. there is something good in everyday. smile, and most of all laugh.

props to carter for taking the picture above.

remember?

remember that time when i was good at blogging?

yea, me either.

once again i'm playing that game of catch up.

bleh.

here goes nothing.

first off, i'm never making a bet again.

carter and i always make bets. the only problem is that i will always win and then the little cheater will make up some dumb rule or just pansy out. so i decided to get real serious about it. the next bet we made, i made a contract. it stated all of the rules, everything.

the contract was even dated and had to be signed.

i was money...i thought.

i lost. i went one for three.

there went my checkings account.

good thing that boy is cute! :)

i always attended hair's mission farewell.

i'm going to miss that kid.

we celebrated him leaving by playing wiffle ball for four hours straight.

[we had a seven game world series.]

carter, hair, and i lost in the seventh game.

trust me, it was a real heart breaker!

good luck in mexico elder hair!

sometimes i like to send melanie some little gems via text.

at the beginning of the year mark and teague had a real peach of a roommate. the kid thought he was a wizard and he told them how he refuses to take his pills for schizophrenia.

mel is terrified of the kid, she will literally hide from him if she sees him on campus.

one day as i was walking home i saw him and i just begged him to take a photo with me...remember that i've only met him once, for about thirty seconds.

poor kid has absolutely no idea who i am.

luckily we got a picture and i texted it to mel.

oh we got a great laugh out of that one.

ole' shipley's a gem.

also that night mel and i were at home when these people came and were playing bigger or better.

all i could find to give them was a crusty bejeweled purple belt.

in return they gave us a pez machine with four packets of pez.

we clearly got the better deal.

and we were pumped.

i also went paintballing weekly.

i was always sporting new bruises.

and no, you never get used to the feeling of being pelted by a paintball.

i also had a little scare last week.

i was watching carter play in his hockey game. it was a great game, they were beating the undefeated team 3-1. there was four minutes left when all of a sudden carter and another kid collided. carter hit the ice and was knocked out for two minutes. for two minutes he just laid there absolutely motionless. by the time i got down there the ambulance was coming and he still hadn't woken up.

he did wake up and he was hauled off in the ambulance to the er.