Simply Me

i know it's 12:30 a.m. and i could be doing a lot of things that need to be done right now like packing for girls' camp or sleeping, but i really wanted to blog right now! and i probably won't be able to blog for the next while! i'm going to girls' camp on saturday. i have mixed feelings about this. every year i end up having a blast, but i just hate camping. and dirt. and bugs. but, it's a new adventure this year. i'm going to be a ycl for some 3rd levels. i'm super excited, but i don't really like the idea of being away from my own ward. they're like my family... so i'll be a little ward sick. overall, though, i know i'm going to have a great time!

two days after i get back from girls' camp, i hit the road for utah. i seriously love utah (only during the summers, though!) i love staying at the condo with my family (although the circumstances this year will not allow it), and walking to the creamery on ninth east on a daily basis. i'm not kidding when i say they have the best ice cream. and i'm not even an ice cream fan! i love roaming the byu bookstore and i've always loved the bean museum. gosh, i've had some great memories in utah. like the summer carie broke her jaw (okay, not really a great memory, but a memory nonetheless), or the summer haley and i spent a week with the snows and then a week with the esteses for byu gymnastics camp. and one of my most favorite memories of all is aspen grove! i love, love, love aspen grove! we've gone with the brown family two times, and now this year we are going with the whole clark family (minus the snows)! i'm stoked! i haven't had a bad experience yet. *knock on wood* i'm really excited to just have a week to relax and catch up with my cousins. after aspen grove, we're having the meldrum reunion that my grandma's in charge of. i'm excited because those are always fun. then, i'm hoping to meet up with a friend going to byu, and then i have a date lined up! crazy, crazy, crazy!

later this summer, i have stuco camp, toro links meetings, stuco meetings, and hopefully a trip to nyc with my mom and haley. the boys are going on the 100th anniversary boy scout jamboree for about three weeks. my mom talked about my dad possibly meeting up with them while us girls go to nyc. i really, really hope it all works out!

well, pretty much i love summer so far. i feel like i've been kinda lazy, but i really want to do some crafty projects, so we'll see how that goes. i already made some really cute headbands for me and the girls i'm ycl-ing for. one of my favorite things to do during the summertime, is stay up late (hence, the late-night posting). haley and i have that in common, which usually results in late-night "heart-t0-hearts". just the other night, we stayed up til past two a.m. talking in my bed. we just lay down and talk about the randomest things. this last one was particularly interesting. tia was sitting outside our room, and told us the next morning she could hear us yelling and fighting with eachother, and then suddenly start busting up laughing! we tend to do that a lot. fight then laugh. but i guess there are worse alternatives!

well seeing that tia's demanding her lap top, and it is now close to one, i'm signing out.

good night!