I SUCK

I have this struggle with blogging for a consistent amount of time.. i had this brilliant idea, that might not be so brilliant in the end, that I will start trying to catch my blog up during my Creative Arts Class :)  It is not like my professor will notice is it only a class of like 1,500 students!! Well where do I start?

Obviously I graduated from Bear River, and now that I am gone I will be honest, I miss it dearly.  Singing those weird scout songs in Student Council, going to lunch everyday with my best friends, being a teachers aid for Coach Park, browsing the Internet (googling peoples names to see what would come up) in Schenk's Class because he didn't even know what was going on. And now that is is November and basketball is starting, I miss being with my sisters every day for class and spending all day after school with them whether it was at practice or at our games. Then there is softball, I miss it.  I mean who wouldn't want to be playing when you have had a successful run earning 4 state championships! Since I have not been involved with any athletics since school started I have came to a possible conclusion.  I RELIEVED STRESS when I was playing sports, whether is was boxing out and rebounding in basketball, or getting the perfect hit that sails over the left-center fence.

Well the week after graduation I spent a week in Northern California with Emily and Marisa. It was a LONG drive!! It was a good get away though, and I saw some beautiful things! 

 Went to the Sacramento Temple

Spent some time in Down Town Sacramento and Old Sacramento (mainly looking in all these little shops, it reminds me of West Yellowstone)

 I found out that Sacramento was the Capitol.. I honestly never knew that

We Found Mormon Island....

 And Mormon Street :)

 We may have slept under like 3 nights, went to bed freezing and woke up in the dead heat!

 We spent a day at Lake Tahoe, and Marisa fed the birds fruit snacks even though the sign said not to feed them:)

 We went to George Town Falls (natural water slides)  with Hayley and Claire.. I should post a video

We went boating at Folsom Lake thanks to the Hunsaker's 

 

And Bueller Came

 And their grocery store had a Jamba inside!!

 We went to San Francisco for the day and parked at the ball park and rode the city transportation.. which involved Emily getting on the train and the doors closing before any one else got on.. it is a good thing Em's friends Sara and Raymond were with us.

 The game was good, They won, it was super hot and i got a nice tan line:) who else can say they went to a game of the team that won the world series this year!

 Then we made our way to the Golden Gate Bridge. All i can remember at this point was i was super dehydrated and needed water, but there was no water other than the bay!

 We ended our last full day with going to the Oakland Temple. It was such a relief, the visors center had water:) ok not only that reason. We had been in a busy city all day and when we were driving in Oakland it was even kinda depressing, when we turned the corner just inside the gate, this was the view! It was amazing, and the sister missionaries in the visitors center were very sweet! The temple was beautiful! everything was so GREEN! another cool thing was at this temple, we got to walk on top of it, and the view of the bay was gorgeous, made me think of how blessed I was!

The Sunset from on top of the temple, it was GREAT!

That basically wraps up the trip. Although there were many funny moments that i will never forget.  I met some really nice people and saw some enormous houses holy shoes!! The drive home was long! we didn't get home until about 3 AM and I drove about the last 6 hours.. it was eventful. I only took the cruise control off once, shows how busy there roads were, to stop and get fuel in Elko.. and then the car wouldn't start when we went to leave.. Marisa and I were able to stay awake by singing the WHOLE TIME!!! we were so good:) I got into bed about 3:30 and had to wake up at 5 to pack for girls camp, and i was out of there by about 6. It was a short night, literally:)

Girls camp was interesting... But great at the same time. I am glad my soul sister was there! And my park valley friends and my leaders.  

After 3 weeks of non stop being busy I came home and started my first job at Central Milling. 

My summer slowed down quite a bit..  Until the July!!

Then things started happening again

July 4th there was a little boy who came to my family! I BECAME AN AUNT to say the least! Wytten Jay Williams, he is such a fun little boy to have around, (one of the main reasons i come home so much)  

 He has grown up SO much and he now has personality which is pretty fun:)

What could have been a better birthday present?? We basically get to share birthdays! I turned 18 nothing too exciting.

Then I had an amazing weekend! 

I wanted to get all of the BLGR's together before we all went to college, but time said it had to be like that weekend. A-Train was deploying and Paige was leaving for Ecuador that next week.  I was thinking it would be a great way to spend my birthday.. and i wasn't wrong.  Not every one was able to come.. actually only Paige and A-Train.  I also got my new car! I was driving to salt lake because we were going to dinner together and my family and I drove to Megan's and we got my new car, they took it home and i ventured to salt lake. (It was my first SLC driving experience) Well i thought i was doing such a great job driving until i realized i had my blinker on in the non-turning lane. but it worked out.  i got to the address Paige gave me and had no problem. but then there was a problem. the address was The Pie Take-Out and we were trying to get to The Pie.  So i called Paige and we met at the stadium. we thought we would ride the train, but it is a good thing we didn't because we wouldn't have gotten where we wanted to get. who i am kidding we still didn't get where we wanted to by driving.  Needless to say we were lost for an hour and a half and in the process we laughed hysterically, paid $5 to be parked for about 3 minutes, and ended up at the Pie Hole only to realized we were not at the right place.  We finally got to the Pie and i felt bad because A-Train had been waiting for awhile....  

Dinner was very good and so was the company, They are some of my favorite people!! 

Then Paige and i left and drove around lost again trying to find something, i don't even remember what it was. WE went and got pages car and then headed to her house.  The next day we waited to see if she had to work, but she didn't have to  so we went out on an adventure in the Draper Area! 

(In a convertible) 

We first went to IKEA, then to a model home, then to day break and all that jazz. She then took me up to the Draper Temple, I had never been up by it before and it was as beautiful up close as it was from the highway. (Don't Mind our attractive hair.. thanks to the wind)

We saw some HUGE houses I guess this one was in the home show and it is Ushers Agent's House 

We went to another place that she liked to go also:)

We then went back to her house and made a creation with pages sticker collection  ;)

And watched Neature Walk. Best. Video. Ever. 

That was the end of my Salt Lake adventure i guess you could say and I left for home. When i got home the Smart and Bingham family was at my house for a UFC fight party.  

I Think THAT week was the highlight of my summer. 

1. I got a nephew

2. I am now an adult

3. The Whole Weekend!

(just those 2 days in Salt Lake took up 26 pages in my journal)

The next adventure was Island Park with the Fam. It was great! we floated to river A LOT. we went to breakfast at Meadow Creek Bill's, went fishing, and spent like 10 hours in Yellowstone Park! (we were so close to Powell and all my family there)

 The thing i had to do when i got to Buffalo camp ground was finding an Aspen tree so i could send this to Paige :)

So Here are some Park Pictures

 This was the sunrise.. We really left that early

 SUPRISE.. we saw buffalo

 and we told these people that we saw mountain goats.. SIKEE

Kooper and I were car riding buddies and we were board. 

 And we were yodeled.

We spent some time with the smiths and Bailey and Payton became good friends and those two and Sea Bass begged me to float the river with the 1 more time. 

 Here are a couple more from the trip.

including the Love Birds:) Tawn and J Dawg

It was such a good time away from everything.. the only down side was coming home to this..

a flooded room.

Things slowed down a little until the end of the month and that was because of the FA reunion i think our year was basically the whole reunion. (James and Zak got in trouble because they were speeding and didn't stop at the gate to check in, big no on military ground :))

 Then the BLGRs minus Paige, A-Train, and Daniel plus the Honoraries snuck off to our meeting spot.

 We Perched..

 Hugged..

 And were Awkward

We Just LOVE Each other.

Afterwards, Weston, his friends, Erik and I went to Café Rio and on my way home I made a stop at a Salt Lake 7-Eleven to buy people water because i love Jef Holm.

I can not think of any other events that were very exciting until the fair. It was my last year showing in the junior livestock show, which is sad. I hung up the FFA jacket :( I Love the fair and I never want to miss it.  I honestly spend all of my time on the fair grounds when the fair is going on. It was extra fun this year because I did not have to do any cleaning shifts, or leave for a volleyballll game.. I even made it to every single rodeo. 

 Wytten rocking the Sheriff Glasses

 Opening night of Bull, Broncs, and Barrels

 This was my first pick lamb, who didn't get worked with very much so therefore didn't place very good.. But I did make some GOOD money on him.

 I am the 4x Reigning Fitting Champion

The Box Elder Country Junior Livestock Auction is incredible. If you haven't been, you need to go and see the support that our community gives!

Here it is, the last picture of me as an FFA member. I honestly regret not being more involved in FFA. But now onto the next chapter of my life.. Box Elder County Fair

I WILL BE BACK

Well I guess is the end of my summer report. 

BYEEE