summer time.

The Summer is my favorite time of year. I love the heat. I love the water. I love trying my hardest to be tan. And now I love the little time that I have home between semesters. I know I have been terrible at writing and I have no excuse because I have been quite lazy the last few weeks. But here's a little about my pre-summer in Rexburg and my seven week break so far in lovely Turlock.

I finished up spring semester with a bang! It was by far my favorite semester yet! I probably played a little to much but I will have some amazing memories from those play days.

I had the greatest roomates I could have ever asked for this last semester! We all had so much fun playing dress up and having 2:00 p.m. pancake time every night for the last 2 weeks of school. I love them all!

Summer at home has been so much fun!

We spent some time up at the lake with the Gauthiers and Tilbys.

Our family took a day trip up to see our cousins Brad & Maylin and Ryan & Steph and their adorable kids in Folsom.

Abby, Ty, Call and I went on a spontaneous trip to Santa Cruz for the day! We ate Pizza my Heart, walked on the beach and made the boys hang out while Abs and I did a tiny bit of shopping downtown.

I reconnected with high school friends that I have only been able to talk to on the phone since we graduated because of my stay in Rexburg for winter semester.

This summer I have also been able to spend lots of time with my best friend Call-e-wog! Best friends since we were in diapers :)

I attended a Giants game with my best friend Megan for her birthday. Funny story is that we were caught on camera! My little sister got a phone call from Ty Hyer saying that the Hyer family had caught me red handed skipping church for a baseball game. I promise to never do it again because in my attendance of the game the Giants lost, big time. I blame myself.

My family along with the Gauthiers were all able go see the musical Wicked. I have been hearing the music from Wicked the whole summer as a result.

It's been an amazing summer so far and I can only guess that it will continue to get even better!

i sould have been born in the 30's.

This last weekend was one of the funnest I have had up here at BYU Idaho and it sure helped having an amazing roommate that loves to do random fun photoshoots. Emily woke me up around 7:00 on saturday morning... the only day I get throughout the week to sleep in as i have ward council at 8:00 every sunday morning, but who really wants to sleep in. Her first words to me were, "Today you are a pin up girl", and boy was I excited to play dress up! Rain and all is was an amazing day all topped off with SUSHI!

livin' on hawaiian time.

I am lucky enough to have amazing parents who fly me out to Hawaii with them for a week. We arrived in Maui on Saturday May, 16th and as we always do went shopping for the week and got a little pick me up at McDonalds. Then we checked into our hotel and the fun started. Our friends the Wilsons came with us this year and we had lots of fun with them. Our week included lots of laying out, hiking, exploring, snorkeling, and just enjoying eachother!

We took catamaran over to Lanai for some amazing snorkeling.

Downtown Lahaina, enjoying the beautiful sunset!

Exploring the Island with the fam!

I am so grateful to have such great parents that love to travel :) It was definatly the best excuse to miss school that I have ever given.

my roommate is a photographer.

So this weekend we decided to have some fun and have a photoshoot. My roommate Emily isn't in any of the pictures but she was behind the camera the whole time and they came out amazing. We had so much fun despite the 30 mph gusts of wind.

I will post more about this semester soon but I am swamped with classes, homework, my calling of being the activities co-chair, and of corse my thriving social life hahaha.

it's good to have GOOD friends.

These past few weeks I have been so grateful for the wonderful people that I have in my life. I was able to go and visit my sisters to see her dance in her Nationals competition at BYU. Emron also came to watch all of his friends so we all had some fun together. Thursday night of the competition, after it was over me, Kylie, Emron, Courtney, Karson and Betsy went to Dennys. I dont think I have laughed as much as I did that night in a long long time. I sure love these guys.

This semester I have re-connected with some old friends from home, Taylor and Alyssa Fairbanks. I love these girls and they sure keep me entertained.

This is my "brother" Jason. Last semester we were FHE brother and sister and the brother and sister bit kind of stuck. We go to eachother for boy and girl advice and he has been the closest thing to a brother I have ever had.

My Girls! We had quite the exciting St. Patricks day! Danced the night away.

Lara has always been there for me. Althought we have had our ups and downs lately I am sure we will stay best friends for a long time to come.

I miss all of my friends back at home, and especially my family. Just two short weeks till I am back in Turlock. Too bad I will only be there for about 12 days... sad. But I am looking forward to a fun and exciting summer semester! I have my dad's visit to look forward to which will be in 3 days!!! Ahhh I will make sure to post somemore pictures then. :D

Two Months TOO Long.

For presidents weekend I got to go visit home!!! It was one of the funnest weekends of my life! I love my family so so so much. I got in on thursday and just hung out that night. Then friday we set off on our weekend adventure. I was fun because we didn't really know exactly what we were going to do and just drove. We were driving through fairfield and decided to stop at the jelly belly factory! haha it was pretty fun.

Then we set off for Bodega Bay! Me and dad had the best clam chowder we have ever had in our lives. And even though dad has had more chowder in his life than i have we both aggreed it was the best. Saturday was valentines day and we drove to a few random places which I am sure NO ONE has eve heard of. It was a BLAST!

We drove up the the "cliffs" by Bodega Bay. They are beautiful and almost look like they could be Normandy!

We stopped in a tiny town to have BBQ oysters and look around.

After some exploring we got to go visit some of my favorite cousins, Chris and Brit, and their three boys ( who i swear never stop growing!) We went out to a Valentines dinner and had quite the night.
Sunday We drove to Napa Valley and Sonoma, which are both beautiful but it was raining the whole time. Kind of a bummer but it was still pretty to look at. Then we drove into Emeryville to see our good friend Emorn. Because it was sunday and not a working day we got to go see his work, Pixar. We were able to go back and see his office too!

This was definatly one of the best weekends I have had in a long time! I love my family so much!

we like to party.

I guess me and lara could be considered "rexburg socialites"... haha. I have not gone a weekend with out going out and, I'm not gonna lie, I love it! We have the best friends in the whole world.

Our friend Jacob hosted a dress up, "fine wine and cheese" party. We danced, played cards, watched horse racing, drank martinellies and ate cheese! so much fun!

Me, James, Marcus and Lara
Me, Tanner and Lara. He's our tag along and we love him!

Corey, Me, Steve and Lara.

Bret, Me Travis and Lara.

There is a dance club in the burg called Locus that my friend Juan owns, one day I was talking to Juan and he asked me if I needed a small side job, and of course me being still unemployed told him that I needed one so bad! So now me and lara are Locus girls... we get paid to promote the parties! it's kind of a cool job... small but cool.

This week was an 80's theme party!

Me and Lara with our employer Juan!

When we dress up... we go all out!

We went to a highlighter party... this is our friend dilan.

It's been an eventful semester so far! I love it!

my first real winter?

So I am finally updating! I have been a popsicle for about a month now and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I though rexburg was going to be the worst in winter but so far I am loving it even more that last semister! It helps to have my best friend lara here with me and our apartment is so much fun!

I kinda like living in the snow!
Me and my best friend Lara!

It's about time.

So Merry Late (very late) Christmas. I haven't written on here in so long. Not a ton happening here, just enjoying my last few days in good ol' turlock. I go back to my life on tuesday so that will be interesting.

I spent the first week of my break with my roomate at her house in Laguna Beach and loved every second of it. We went into LA for a few days and just relaxed on the beach and had some great food.

After it was time to come back from my little get-a-way it was already christmas eve. We had our family that was in town, the Stiles and the Gauthier famlies over. It was a blast like it always is. Christmas eve holds my favorite traditions!

Those Gauthier girls are adorable!

Christmas was a memorable one. I got a new phone some uggs for those cold rexburg winters, and much more. I loved spending the morning with the fam.

But again one of my favorite parts of the break was getting to babysit addie. haha we had a little photo shoot.

Kaite you can steal this picture. : )