Homecoming

So Homecoming was about two weeks ago. I went with my friend, Jake. We went Geocaching for our day date, and then went to dinner at Tipanyaki, and the dance. My young women's leader, Stacy, does hair and did mine as a gift. I had a lot of fun. The only problem was that my shoe, that I had bought the day before, broke before Jake even came to pick me up. It ended up okay, but I'm planning to get my money back. Here's some pictures from the day.

I'm Free!!!!

So it's been a few weeks since my last post, but that's because life has been crazy! I started my senior year about a month ago and it took me about three weeks to figure out that there was no way I was going to get good grades, get any sleep, have a social life, and go to work all at the same time. And then it hit me: I would be working every minor holiday and every weekend, including most Friday nights and even when I wasn't working those days, they would be spent catching up on homework. I couldn't do that for the rest of the year... so I quit. I figure I have the rest of my life to stress out, and right now I just want to enjoy my senior year and go to the games and hang out with friends. I'm also planning to spend the time applying for scholarships and earn money that way.

This is my second day of freedom. So far it's been good. I'm about to start on an English paper that I will actually be able to spend time on, and then maybe look at some scholarship options. Although I'll miss my job and the people I worked with, I'm excited to be a kid for one more year :)

New Beginnings

It's funny how fluid beginnings and endings can be. Literally the moment summer ended today was the moment the school year started. Many new beginnings are not as fluid though, but may have a gap between the end of a good thing and the beginning of another. Sometimes, endings come just as something you would have thought unrelated begins, and may not be unrelated at all. I'm probably not making any sense, but my main thinking is this: There is no end without some kind of new beginning, whether it is a beginning that you create yourself or is placed there by divine intervention. Life is fluid. Nothing just ends. Something new is always waiting to begin.

Summer Time

So I decided to start a blog. Everyone else was doing it so I thought, why not? I'll join the crowd. I'm not quite sure what to say on my first post. Sitting around and talking about myself in paragraph form is kind of strange for me. I guess I'll just catch you all up on my summer.

In July a bunch of my family came to Utah for Emily's baptism/Grandma's birthday/Jared's homecoming/4th of July. It was fun to see a bunch of my family.

Grandma before the eternal birthday song

Grandma with all her grandkids

Before the baptism

After

She looked like an angel!