JULY!!!

Ahoy there, folks!

July was the most AWESOME month, and I haven't written a thing about it yet! Oh No!!!

Well of course, the last day of June my Aunt Ginger comes and brings Randi and we just had a grand old time! On the 1st of July we went to the Kennecott Copper Mines here in Bingham. It's really quite amazing to see what they've done to the land and how everything works. (I found out that it's a very environmentally friendly mine.) It was dad's first time ever going. He enjoyed himself a lot :) Everything he looked at, he would go off about it from an engineering perspective, which was pretty cool, too. We had our 4th of July BBQ on the 3rd cuz the 4th was on a Sunday this year. Of course it was the bomb!!! Good food, good company, all around a great day. Especially going off to light our illegal fireworks we got from the Chinese kids who work next door to Sub Zero :) We'd drive to an empty parking lot, light one off, then drive away real fast! Hahaha it was great! While GG was here we also got to go to the Gardener Village in SLC (at 7200 S. I believe). It was a fun time. Good shopping and good food and of course good company (I do so love being with my family). She and Randi left on the 7th. We miss them! Also on the 7th though I drove up to Paris, Idaho with mom and dad after dropping those two off at the airport. We stopped by bear lake and drove home just in time for me to pick up a pizza and go to girls night!!!

Girls night at Sub Zero was so fun!!! We had pizza and drinks and music and p.j.'s and everything in between! We watched New Moon (Laykn had never seen it before, and Eclipse had come out in theaters the week before). Then we each grabbed a couch and slept over! It was pretty awesome :) The next big event would be my birthday...

We had planned on going up to Park City to go shopping, but mom got really sick that weekend! :( It was AWFUL! I've never seen her so sick. She did take me out to lunch at China Isle where I got my favorite, Mango Shrimp :) Then she gave me $50 to go out and shop with Beth. We spent most of our time at Rue 21. My favorite clothing store! Beth was awesome to shop with the whole day. That night we had some cake and some singing (and Rachel picking on Matt for a bite of his food, he was not happy about that). Overall, good day! Two days later we took Steph apartment shopping in Ogden. I have the greatest place!!! It's in the Christopher Village apartments, it's huge, it has a pool, and its quite, and very close to campus. I couldn't be happier. We have a 3rd roommate named Monica, but I'll get to those stories later.

Friday the 16th I got my wisdom teeth out. I looked like a chipmunk on botox according to Rachel. I woke up humming. Don't ask me why, but I was humming quietly to myself for the next 2 hours. I wouldn't even stop to talk to people, I just gave hand signals haha. Thumbs up or down. The nurses were very tolerant. On Sunday I made my mom give me bites of the steak they were having for dinner. Yum! For the most part though, I lived on mashed potatoes, pudding, soup (LOTS of soup), spaghetti-o's, and apple sauce. I lost some weight out of it, so I guess that's good? Monday I went to see the Wizard of OZ because my friends Melissa and Camille were in it! They did so so so so so so so good!!! Melissa was Glinda, and Camille was Dorothy. Isn't that perfect? It was wonderful, and so much fun to watch. I was back to work by the next Wednesday and Thursday was Chloe Flathers (now Chloe Garfields) wedding. What a great wedding! It was pretty much my dream wedding. They had the white tent set up beautifully in their backyard (I never really liked the idea of the tents, but it was gorgeous!), tables set up everywhere with good food and gorgeous bridals, a pool with running water (for background noise, maybe?), and a dance floor. The environment of the whole place was just fun! Everything was gorgeous and well put together. Of course it was, it's Chloe after all.

Want to hear my funny stories? I had also spent the last part of that week looking for a 3rd roommate. On the ad I put "STRONG LDS standards." Just like that, all caps. The first girl we met wasn't Mormon, but "lived by the standards." She was super nice, but dressed like a non-mormon. The next girl wasn't an active Mormon (I have serious reservations there, those ones are more likely to rebel against or not respect our standards). The 3rd girl was Monica, whom I adore! She's like 5' flat, or shorter, has red hair, is modest and cute. I felt so good about her. She was very confident and so sweet. The last girl I met was very presumptuous. We drove an hour and a half to meet her in Scipio, when she called and asked us to meet her in Aurora (another half hour down the road) so we did. She was coming from Richfield so the drive for her was about 20 minutes. She came with two boys she had met that day on the lake, and a girlfriend she met in May. We texted quite a bit before meeting and she said she was VERY active in the church. As we talked, she referenced a lot to her singles ward and her friends missions, etc. However, she came in a low-cut tank top and shorts (granted, they were bermuda shorts and very appropriate). My mom tried to think leniently because they had just come from a day at the lake, but the vibe from her was wrong. She was nice enough, but she didn't have enough common sense to think that other people might be looking at the room. She also seemed kind of spoiled. So all the next day she bugged me about if she was getting the room or not and I finally said sorry but no. I tried to be gracious about it. Her reply was "Well thanks for wasting my time. Bye. :)" I was so miffed. It just confirmed my choice. If I had chosen her and any sort of conflict arose in the apartment, that's the type of crap she'd give us. Nothing is ever going to be her fault. I drove 4 hours round trip to meet her and I didn't complain about her wasting MY time! Inconsiderate... I'm sorry, I'll be nice now. SO... Monica is who we chose. She's 24 and a teacher at Morgan Jr High School. She teaches English, and is 2 credits away from being able to teach French. She loves to cook (her favorite food is Thai :S She says it's just for the curry, not the peanuts, so no problems there, eh?).

Last Sunday I went to Bethany and Sarah's ward :) (They moved out to Provo together this summer! Fun!) Afterwards, they made me and Darcy Alfredo Tortellini. YUM! I've decided I want to put together a cook book for us college girls of things that are quick, easy, and nutritious. As well as things that don't require a lot of specific shopping, but more of general staples. Tuesday morning Darcy took me to the Temple. I did baptisms for the dead for some Hungarian girls from the 1840's and 50's. I don't know about the confirmations I was doing, but they were foreign names. My guess was Finnish, but they could've been Hungarian as well.

On Thursday I partied! I picked up Sarah and Bethany, telling Sarah we were taking them out to dinner. She thought we were going to SLC, but I kept driving and we went to Park City instead! She was so confused!!! At the hotel, I gave her a birthday card from her mom. Enclosed was $200 and a note saying happy surprise birthday, I'm treating you to a girls retreat! She had paid for a hotel room (which Darcy went up earlier to decorate) and Sarah was SO SURPRISED! We went to a fancy Italian restaurant for dinner, where it was $20/plate and they gave you half the amount of food than at a normal restaurant. It was good though. Then we wandered main street just talking and laughing and looking in shops. We met Summer Saunders! (If that's her correct last name...?) She was the Olympic Gold medalist for America in Swimming for the summer Olympics and she was on last season of Celebrity Apprentice! Sarah got a picture with her, she was very gracious :) AH! Awesome! So we went back to the hotel (after an adventure to find an open wal-mart... don't ask. haha.) and had ice cream cake and played Pit and watched P.S. I Love You. I've never seen it before now, and it was adorable!!! In the morning we ate breakfast, checked out and headed to the Alpine Slide and Coaster. (I still haven't ridden the Zip Line.) The Coaster was WAY fun!!! It's like the slide, but your strapped in so you can go as fast as you want!!! WOO!!! We headed back to Park City Main Street for some more shopping (I love the Olive and Tweed store!) and I bought the best caramel apple ever! It was a fresh green apple, dipped in caramel, dipped in mini M&M's!!! YUM! Then we went to the outlets, bought tons of new clothes :) and then headed home. Overall, great trip! Loved it :) And I think Sarah did too!

So now I'm home after a long day of work. The Rasmussen's are coming over after church tomorrow to celebrate dad's birthday and mine (they were in Arkansas for mine). So that should be fun :) July just flew, and I already have so many plans for August! Keep an eye on the 14th, cuz I'm moving back out, baby! I'm sorry I haven't updated more... Which means this post is way too long. I've been so busy! What a fun month! Now it's August (technically). Jessica's baby boy is due December 9th, so I guess we'll wait and see what happens there. Matthew moved out to Provo finally with some friends. He's happy. He has a great apartment too! I'm excited for him. So there's the newest news. Until next time, my friends!

Peace Out!

Tinkerbell