Twenty... how much?

On July 21st I turned 25. I mean, 21. (Okay... really 25, but I'm claiming 21 now. We'll just have to see how many years I stay 21...)

To me, my birthday is just kind of another day because I always just sort of have millions of things going on. This year, I didn't really have plans to do anything out of the ordinary, but my dang cute friends had other plans. :)

First off- Cory invited me to his family's house on Sunday to have a birthday dinner. My family obviously doesn't live anywhere close enough to do something like that, so his family took care of it. :) It was sooo much fun! His family is super rad, and we did all sorts of things... like getting things stuck on the roof, and playing with his cute nieces. Oh, way good food, too.

When we got back to Logan (11:45-ish) it was late, so I was figuring we'd just call it a night. Wrong. At midnight (the morning of my actual birthday) his roommate, Cameron, showed up and Whit, Cory, and Cam told me that it was time to go play. They wouldn't tell me what we were doing, but... freak it ended up rocking!

First we went to the underground tunnels at Utah State. We thought they'd be hard to get into, but oh, no... so dang easy! It was super creepy, but I loved it. It was dark and there were freaky noises and it was about 230 degrees. We took chalk down and signed our names. :)

Second- we went on a hike up Logan Canyon. It's a hike called The Green Door and it is so super fun. There is this huge tunnel in the middle of the hike, and we found the cutest little bat inside it. We scared him half to death, though. Poor thing.

The last thing we did was golfing. Now, you may not have previously known that I was a golfer. The reason you probably didn't know is because... I'm not. When I say that I'm not, I mean that... I'm not. We went to first Dam and hit balls into the water. Honestly, how hard can it be to hit a golf ball?! You swing the club... that's all. But no. I swing the club and absolutely nothing happens. Why? Nobody can really say. It was dang fun, but boy, oh boy was I bad at it.

Later that day Whit and I went out to lunch and then she took me to see The Dark Knight. Then... it was back to Pickleville. Of course. :)

Such a dang fun day! Yay for being 21.

Summer

So basically you should all probably be aware that I love summer.  I really do.  The thing is... this summer has been insane!  I'm working up in Bear Lake at a theatre called Pickleville Playhouse.  I'm in two shows up there (basically meaning that we perform 6 nights a week).  It keeps me crazy busy.  I'll talk more about that in another post when I'm actually in the mood to write about it.  :)  I also just got another job yesterday.  I work as an independent contractor for a company called ChaCha.  Yep.  That's my life.

The main reason for this post is to tell you that I MOWED A LAWN.  Yes, ladies and gentlemen: I mowed a lawn.  See, the funny thing is that I had never done that before!  My older sister, Lindsay, got that job when we were kids, and by the time it was about my turn, we moved into a condo development where they mowed the lawn for us.  Then... we moved into our new house, and my little brother, Brian, was at a prime lawn-mowing age.  Then I moved to college.  That, in a nut shell, is my lawn mowing history.  Then about a week and a half ago, I got to mow the lawn at the house I'm staying in for the summer.  It only took me about twice as long as Whitney takes.  :)  The lines on the lawn looked pretty dang funny, but boy oh boy was that grass short.  I guess I'm just a natural.

GRADU-FREAKING-ATION!!

Yes, ladies and gentlemen.... it actually happened.  I graduated from Utah State University!  And, after only 7 short years, too.  :)  I majored in Theatre Education and minored in Psychology Teaching and Music.

I didn't actually walk in my graduation ceremony, though.  #1- My family lives all over the world.  It would have felt a little weird cheering for myself... plus they frown on graduates taking their own pictures... something about it not looking professional.  #2- My roommate, Whitney, and I spent the ENTIRE day cleaning out our apartment and moving.  We thought we could get it done pretty quickly, but we were sadly wrong.  It was slow-going and painful.  :)  Fun day.

The only up side about the whole day was that Whitney was stinkin' cute.  She had planned all sorts of things to make my graduation day memorable.  She's so freakin' awesome.   We didn't get to do most of the things she planned since we were moving, but still... the thought was there.

After we finally finished moving Whit took me to dinner and when we got home, her mom had set up a table full of... well... a table full of every green food that she could think of because my favorite color is lime green.  Whit also decorated my car.  I loved it!  After snacking on the green foods we watched Gilmore Girls and did pedicures.  :)

The next day, after church, I threw on my cap and gown and Whit and I ran up to campus to take a few pictures.  And yes... under my gown I AM wearing my pajamas.  Would you expect anything else?

Peace out, Utah State!

Me

Okay, okay.  I swore I'd never be a blogger, and yet... here I am.

Why?  Who knows.  I think the more important question for the

moment is:  HOW??  I can't figure this dang thing out!  

This blog page may be very ugly for a very long time.  :)

Who I am.

My family: My parents are serving as mission presidents in Bankok, Thailand, and have lived there for two years.  I've visited them a few times, and I really love it there!  My older sister, Lindsay, her husband, Brian, and her two cute kids, McKenzie and Carson live in North Carolina.  My little brother, Brian, is serving a mission in Germany.  My little sister, Amber, lives in Thailand with my parents.  And me?  I live in Utah.  

I had more pictures of my family to post, but it won't do it for some reason.  ??  I'll try again later.

I'm graduating from Utah State University in 30 days, 4 hours, and 54 minutes.  I'm majoring in Theatre Education and minoring in Psychology Teaching and Music.  

Right now I'm living with my friend, Whitney, and we're having a freaking blast.  She keeps me sane.

I guess that's about all I have to post for now.  Someday perhaps I'll learn how to do this thing and then maybe I'll put something interesting up.  :)