One month of fun done...time to start the next one!!

I meant to write a post when the semester got over but then I just got too busy! I have had so much going on up till now. So here is me catching up...

Spring term ended and I was very glad that it did! My grades came out great and so did my tailoring project!

This is the wool jacket that I made. It is tailored for me, though my roommate asks me why I never took her measurements to make sure it would fit her right. haha I am glad to put it in the back of my closet until it gets cold again, because after working on the same project, every day, 4-8 hours a day...you need a break!!

I started working at the all so famous Creamery on Ninth East again the week of finals. I returned to one of my old positions as an AM Receiving Supervisor. I'm still goin strong, lovin the early mornings and getting to take a nap after everyonce in a while. haha

Kyle drove down on June 20th to spend some time with his sister in Ogden and to come visit me in Provo! He stayed until the 30th and so we had lots of fun!! We went for a walk in the one of the many parks of Provo, watched world cup, went to the Manti Pageant, BQQ'd, ate muddy buddies, went for picnics and swimming, walked around temple square, and went to see the animals at the Hogle Zoo!! There was a new baby elephant named Zuri we got to see, and cougars, monkeys, prairie dogs, penguins, everything!!! It was awesome.

We rented "This Is It", the Michael Jackson movie, and it was way good! Lots of sweet dancing and MJ music if you haven't seen it yet! I also saw G.I. Joe for the first time. We had a bonfire one night with my roommates Vanessa and friend Ben. They brought foil dinners and then we ate smores and toasted marshmallows. So good!!!

On one of the days I gave Kyle a tour of campus and we went to the MOA and looked at the "Life of Christ" exhibit that is there currently, went to the cooking and sewing labs and saw Sis. Smith (one of the professors) for the first time since winter got over. On another afternoon we went on a "great mountain dew hunt" looking for the 3 flavors that they put out for people to taste and vote on. We found two of them, but the last one was not to be found anywhere. :( We also played black light mini golf!! It was awesome... I glowed. hahaha :)

A couple days after Kyle left I flew out to Dayton, Ohio to visit Tracie and her family. I met my parents and Blake there. We went to the Air Force Museum which had really cool planes and a lot of them!! Tracie and Brent are fixing up a house there in Dayton to move into soon so we helped out a little bit with that too.

We drove out to Nauvoo for a couple days. We stayed with Aunt Beva and Uncle John, and Uncle Gary, Aunt Katie, Carol and Natalie were there too. We had fun going to all the little musical productions that Aunt Beva, Uncle John and all the other missionaries put on in the buildings by the temple. It was really nice to go to Nauvoo. We saw the Hendricks house, watched the Nauvoo Pageant about the Pioneers in Nauvoo, played a pioneer game, made the little button spin toys, and Aunt Beva gave us all sweet hats that she had made. And I got a necklace that she made too for my trip necklace from Nauvoo!

Mom and Dad and all the older people went through a Nauvoo temple session and the rest of us just got to look on the outside and see how pretty the temple is. When we drove into Nauvoo I found it is a really small town, there's not even a grocery store. haha You're driving kind of parallel to the Mississippi River and the road curves to go inland up the hill and the temple just comes up out of nowhere on the top of the hill, overlooking historic Nauvoo and the river.

The last morning we were there we walked through the little shops and galleries in Nauvoo. There were some really pretty pictures of the area and the temple in some of the stores. Blake and I stopped by the fudge store before we left though. We needed some for the drive!! I got a magnet there that says "Families are like fudge, mostly sweet...with a few nuts!!"

Back in Ohio Blake and Dad built a tower using all the duplos Tracie had. We had to keep Rebekah and William from knocking it down, but when Blake and Dad were done all they wanted to do was build a big tower!

On the Saturday before I came home we made it down to Waynesville, Ohio where we found antiques gallore!!!!! There was a little car show and the whole street was antique shops. We spent a lot more time there than we thought we would, but we saw some pretty sweet stuff! In one of the stores I saw a sign that said "Kids left unattended will be sold!" I took a picture of it.

So that's that! I spent time with my family, spent time with Kyle, saw some really cool stuff, traveled to a few places, became Tracie's bread slave for a couple days, and now I am back in Provo! Life is good, and I still got a lot of it left!

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