Running Out of Time.

This is it. I only have two years left till I move out, weird right? I want to make sure that I'm soaking in all I can because I'm only going to be a teenager and go through high school once. I want to be the girl who makes the most of everything, the one who works her hardest, and the one who people are going to remember as their friend. A genuine friend who they've laughed with, played with, and maybe even cried with. I want to look back in twenty years and not regret the decisions I'm making today.
High school is so rough. This first week of school has had me swamped. Maybe I'm being a little too ambitious with the classes I'm taking, but I just want to get the most out of what my school offers. Besides school, I've been busy planning a Community Leadership Workshop (CLEW) for freshman in my area, and boy it is a lot harder than I thought in ways I didn't think it would be. I know within a few weeks, I'll have everything under control again, but some days I just look at my planner (yes I know, what kind of dork has a planner) and think wow. I've got to be out of my mind (which is also probable). Don't get me wrong, I love it. I love being with my friends and learning how everything in our world works together to make is go round... literally. I think my favorite class this year may end up being Journalism, but we will see, many look promising.
Knowing this would be my second to last summer home, I tried to milk the experience for all its worth by doing crazy, random things with my friends. Below is a list of a few of our grand adventures:

• Creating a play dough village in the middle of the night
• breakfast on the side walk after pulling my first all-nighter
• daily trips to the snow shack
• planning a CSI movie and getting a snow cone instead
• jumping/dancing in the gutter when it was pouring
• watching chick flicks that made us all a little teary-eyed
• posing like freaks down town on main street
• Walking into a ATV store just to explore and sit on everything
• Nearly running out of gas in the middle of now where
• breaking down on the median of a highway
• getting serenaded by cute Mormon boys with flowers
• frantically producing a newsletter
  
• LOTS and LOTS of nerts
  
• just whatever else happened to pop into our heads
  

Summer Epiphonies (sp?)

Summer is a funny thing. All school year long we look forward to it, but when it comes, it's never quite the way we imagined. This year I had it all in my head that this summer I was gonna get up at 8 am every morning, exercise and three or four mornings a week practice my violin (I just got the coolest piece ever, it's a bourre by Bach and I love it) and then spend the day chatting/texting friends, cleaning my room, reading, and just enjoy being organized.
I can now officially say that I was wrong. On mornings where I do get up at a decent time it has been because I had something specific planned for the day. Surprise there . . . I've only practiced two or three times since school let out (I promise this will improve, I will not digress again!) . . . My room isn't in the best shape (excuse, I'm packing for camp) and I've hardly read unless its been emails or blog posts. The biggest shocker of all (not) is that my exercise schedule is never a planned thing, its more of, "Hey! (insert friends name here) wanna go on a walk?" (As you can see the exercise is very vigorous.) Usually its a spur of the moment thing.bAnd because of a YW project I'm doing, I've spent quite an amount of time gardening. So much for the ultimate schedule.
Anywho, I guess the point of the post is just to say that just because something isn't the way you planned, doesn't make it bad. My summer so far has been awesome, I really can't think of a time I have been genuinely bored. I've actually been fairly busy between ortho appointments, going to the doctors with Zach, slip and slides with the nieghbor kids in the front yard, shopping with my mom and Kass, going to the pool with friends, and of course the usual computer surfing . . . I really haven't been just sitting around (well of course except for all the computer stuff). This summer is actually shaping up pretty nicely.
Girls camp starts tomorrow, then I'm going camping with some family friends, soon follows a family reunion, EFY, staying at my aunts and youth conference. I'm kinda enjoying it all. Correction- I'm loving it. The only reason to go back to school at this point is to a. see more friends and b. the sooner I'm in it again, the sooner it is over for good. I guess I like learning too so that can be a reason. Any ways, I hope you enjoyed my ramblings of today!

Its over . . . Woooo Hooooo!

So yesterday Kassi graduated from high school. Yea Kassi!! It seems like only yesterday she was chasing boys on the playground, and hanging out with her friend Kelli from third grade . . . It seems only yesterday we were chanting "Sassy Kassi" and playing dog and owner (I was the dog.) Oh how time flies. Everyone keeps asking me how it feels to have her done with high school. . . so my answer (to all you who may ask) I feel no different than I did two weeks ago. Kassi has only been counting down since her sixteenth birthday, so her graduating has been no surprise. . . In less than a month she will be moving out and going to BYU. . . (in the words of grandma miller) Oh my glory! that little chicky is growing up! Way to go chicky.


Lagoon day was a couple of days ago and I have to say, It was the best Lagoon experience I've ever had! I hung out with Mercedes, Brit, Carlos, Brayden, and Jakob (others came and went so this was not a group date- that was for you dad:)) We had a blast! Everyone enjoyed themselves from what I could tell. At two we met many from our school and most of the faculty at the bumper cars . . . Let me tell you, it was quite the sight to see! I totally got so many of my teachers and friends. . . It was da bomb. the ride Wicked was soooooo much fun . . . For those of you who don't know what it is. . . its a roller coaster that goes straight up and straight down again, goes through some corkscrews, lots of hills and twists and turns. . . Yeah. . . Its the best. . .


Now for the reason for my title. . . Today was the last day of Jr. High. Never will I have to be a student there again. I am done for FOREVER!!!!!!!!! Wooo Hooo! Today signing yearbooks was the best. I loved wishing my friends a great Summer, whether they be old or new. . . This year has really been a lot of fun. I've made some lasting friendships, while others have just drifted apart. I think its all part of growing up. . . Any way you put it I'M GOING TO HIGH SCHOOL BABY!!!!!!!! I can't wait to serve my duty as a Squashmore.