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Summer, All the Time

It's a week into summer and it feels like it's been so much longer. I've gotten more done this week than I did most weeks of school. I don't feel the need to take naps all the time either. It's summer and I'm living. I've already gotten my Apple certification, I'm now an Apple Product Professional which means I should be getting a raise at work! I've been riding the bus as well so I've had time to write and read during times I would have been driving. There was one day I missed the bus and I was so mad at myself and as I was driving, I saw the bus I would have been on broken down on the side of the road. I'd said a prayer before work to get there on time and Heavenly Father really had my back. 

I've finished a book already, Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor. It was a great read, I'd definitely recommend it. I've decided that I'm forever going to be  reading teen books, they're great. We took Sammy to Thorntonfest for the first time!!!! It was great we got to listen to some good 80's music and saw a woman doing sign language to a deaf dog. It was really cool to watch!

And I got my homebody self out of the house the other night and went to my friend's annual bonfire. Here's last years. This years it didn't rain and the weather was nice. It was weird seeing everyone from high school again, it's only been a year but we're all so different. It was hard not to have the typical, what's your major, where you going to school conversations with everyone. I've decided I want a fire pit in my yard. The sad thing was when Kelsey said this would probably be the last one since last year we'll all probably have apartments in our various cities. 

We were all talking about past bonfires, and the very first one I brought a stack of church magazines that were in my room because I thought it'd be fun to burn them. I was a pretty bad kid. Sammy stared in horror as they told the story and was like, "You burned them?! But they have good articles in there!" It was a fun night with friends, and my first college party. That's how the cool kids do it, after the first years over. 

I finally got pictures of Kelsey!



Sammy and his best man friend! 


The moon was beautiful





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