The Two of us are always Adventuring

My best friend and I are currently on an adventure. 

On Saturday, we woke up early and traveled to St. George, Utah. It wasn't too long of a drive and we were able to get some ice cream from Arctic Circle for lunch. We then headed to Cedar City where we visited my friend's grandma. She was the sweetest lady, and has the coolest clothes that we tried on. Even though we were dying from heat exhaustion.

We then drove up to Lauren's family cabin and hiked around the area to a small pond. This hike was lots of fun and the scenery was beautiful, besides the gross bugs.

On our drive home, we saw a Shakespearean festival going on. Basically a bunch of hippies get together and sell stuff they've made, eat lots of food, listen to good music, and ride a mechanical bull. Lauren and I both got similar Fourth of July bracelets. The fair was so cute and random. 

After all of our adventures, we went back to St. George where we ate dinner at The Pizza Factory(it has bomb breadsticks) with Lauren's mom's best friend from high school. Her husband was hilarious, and the family was really sweet.

We ended the night with a trip to visit the St. George temple before going swimming and watching Mama. Oh, and having boys creepily stare at us as we picked out breakfast from the grocery store.

On Sunday, we woke up early to drive to Draper, Utah where Lauren's brother lives. We visited with him for a few minutes and then walked around Temple Square. It was so peaceful. 

The rest of the day was spent playing sudoku, going grocery shopping, and walking around a nearby duck pond. 

So far I love Utah and the adventures have only begun.

Scream and Shout! School is Out!

I finished my Junior Year. Phew! It was a close one, that's for sure. To start off Summer, I sang at graduation again this year and then I watched as 87% of my friends graduated from high school. That means they are leaving me alone with 4 other kiddos to trek through senior year. I'll have another wonderful post about our graduation adventure, but not right now. 

Anyways, since school has been out, I have been stuck working 8 hour shifts everyday. It's seriously really really sad, depressing, and tiring. While I love kids, I cannot handle another day surrounded by them. And don't even get me started on the lovely Toddler Time.

My wonderful Coworkers love to take photos of me:

Lauren and Gray

Lauren and McShane

Being Summer though, it means one of my best friends comes in town for 2 months! He is my best friend Travis' cousin who lives in Arizona. He is meant to live in San Clemente though and that's a fact. Together the 3 of us dominate every party we go to/work at because we are that fun. 

Admit it, you think he's hot

Yeah, we are the life of every party

The Summer of Goodbyes

This summer is destined to be the summer I say Farewell to a lot of my wonderful friends. Most of my friends are off to college or to serve missions for their church. One Sunday before they leave on their mission they give their "Farewell Talk" where they give a goodbye speech about how they cannot wait to serve The Lord for 2 years. I love these Sundays.

This past Sunday, one of my closest friends from OCMCO gave his Farewell Talk. He and I became pretty close on our trip to Texas(more on that later), but he lives in Rancho Cucamonga. Which meant I got to go on a day trip to see my best friend give his talk! My other really good friend, Randall, was my travel buddy as we woke up at 6am to travel the distance.

I love adventures. And this seemed like the perfect adventure to take right in the middle of my finals week.

We arrived safely and went to his church. We sat with our other friends Blake, Skylor, Alyssa, and Jared. I love these people. It truly is the hardest thing to live so far away from the people you love.

Anyways, Kayvon gave the best Farewell Talk I have ever heard(seriously no surprise) and he sang a beautiful duet with his sister. It's so sad to see my friends go, but I know they are serving The Lord and they will be so blessed for that.

Late nights, Dim Lights

This past weekend was a three day weekend. The last day we had off school until summer is here(today marks exactly 2 weeks until school is out). Being this excited about a break, you better believe I made it the best weekend ever.

It started on Friday when I drove up to Long Beach to spend the weekend at my grandparent's house. Not long after I arrived, I went over to my friend's house where we worked on his new clothing company and picked up his new pins and stickers. Then we picked up another friend and we headed to the Observatory in Santa Ana. 

There we met up with 9 other friends, and shoved our way to the front of the pit to be really freaking close to the band. We saw The Neighbourhood and it was AMAZING!!!

After the amazing concert, we hit up in-n-out before calling it a night.

The next night was a different story. It started with my first energy drink, and I was already super hyper before that!!

We decided to go to a concert for Dresses, JMSN, and Sir Sly. We were right up in front of the stage again and all 5 of us had the best time ever. We even got T-shirts and pins.

This is where the story changes. Twists. And winds up as a crazy adventure.

Kayvon's car was towed. It took 30 minutes to figure out what we were going to do about it, and once we did we still had to get his mom to come to Costa Mesa from Rancho Cucamonga. Luckily I drove in my car, and we didn't take our jeep because everyone wouldn't fit in the car. 

We hopped in the car, went to sonic to quench our thirst, and then drove to the tow yard. After an hour and a half of talking, laughing, peeing our pants, and acting like retards- Kayvon got his car back and headed home to Rancho!

I'm going to be honest here. I felt bad for Kayvon. But I've always wanted to go to a tow yard at 2 in the morning to pick up a car. I never wanted to pay the $350 fine though, so I'm so very grateful it happened to my friend. Although I still feel so bad for him. He gave me a life experience I will never forget. That's the full truth. Nothing but the truth.

Higher Expectations

Last night was the premiere of Great Gatsby. 

Of course, being an incredible fan of the book, I was at the theatre ready to see the movie with 15 close friends. We were excited. We are a group of book nerds who all love to read(well most of us).

When we first found out they were redoing the Great Gatsby movie, we were sort of upset. The original movie is so good! Good enough that we knew it would be hard to redo, and we were right. Lets just say we came with higher expectations than we wanted to have. We didn't want to be as disappointed as we were, but sadly we all took at least one little nap. 

I don't have any photos from the night, but we definitely had an amazing night.

Don't get me wrong though, GO SEE IT!!  

Those (almost) Summer Days

My Disneyland pass expires on Saturday. It's really upsetting because it's way too expensive for me to renew. Even though I have a job, my money goes straight to gas. Oh, and the time I would go to Disneyland I have to work now. 

To "celebrate" the end of my pass, my friend Travis and I took his little nephew Curran to Disneyland for his 3rd birthday. He's adorable. Seriously the cutest(besides Jude). 

We spent the time doing all of the things we had never done. It mostly included trying the Pineapple Dole whip ice cream that always has a huge line, and the corn dogs from Corndog Castle. We love food. 

Hide and Go Seek

As I sit here behind a filing cabinet, in a dark office, where I've been walked past 4 times- I'm contemplating how many times we, as humans, want to just hide from the world.

 We want to go away and not be seen so that we have time to ourselves. As I've grown older, I've developed this habit of walking away, going to a quiet place, and figuring out what I want in life. But boy, let me tell you how wonderful life is even when you are surrounded by people who love you. 

Lets just admire these baby feet