Fast cars and freedom.

The first week of summer is always an adventure. 

Especially if they're girls' trips to Southern California.

To start off the week...I spent two straight hours in a dressing room. This store is amazing for the future sister missionary needing major fashion help and decent prices. My mom kept bringing me clothes by the pile to try on. Let's just say that I've got everything to wear for the next 18 months! 

And...going out to dinner is always a plus.

Day 2:

Getting a farmers' tan while seeing giraffes, lions and tigers was pretty cool...minus the farmers' tan. More like a farmers' sunburn. So many cool little animals and birds and small Chinese trees! 

After our legs almost gave out, we headed to Old Town! In Reb's own words, "Oh look! It's like Nauvoo for Mexicans!" 

The last stop of the day...the beautiful San Diego temple. This was my second time going through, and my first time doing an endowment session for a deceased woman. It really is a house of learning--and I have SO much learning to do!

I've got 3 weeks left of being a normal person...I don't know what to think! I'm so excited I could just leave right now, but 18 months is a long time to miss people. I need to pack these weeks full of hang-outs and goodbyes...I hate goodbyes. But that just leaves room for more hellos.

Anyway, tomorrow we'll finally hit the beach and relax all day with my new book of quotes from C.S. Lewis.


Favorite song of the week: God Gave Me You by Blake Shelton


"God gave me you for the ups and downs, God gave me you for the days of doubt. 
And for when I think I lost my way, there are no words here left to say, it's true, God gave me you."

Uno mes mas.

In one month I'll be lying on the beach in Southern California. But until then, I have about 437,523,169 things to do. I swear, the last month of the school year is when professors decide that they are the only professor on campus. If I ever become a professor, I'll give study guides 3 weeks in advance, and have the final open-note and ONLINE. Every student would love me, and I'll hear one word ringing in my ears: tenure.


Let's get to the "one more month" thing. That's when I'll be actually on the beach, and done with school. So, that means that I only have about three weeks left. As much as that excites me, I can hear my to-do list running in my head. If only I had children to delegate my responsibilities to. I better start packing my swimsuits to make myself subconsciously believe it's summer. 


Finding out that summer starts in early April was I think the best part of transitioning from high school to college. I thought people were joking when they told me that--nope. It's true. I also did more homework in high school. The homework aspect has significantly gone down. Not that I don't do work in college, it's a lot more work from a lot of different things. Which I appreciate very much, because I'm convinced I have work ADD. I can't work on one thing for more than an hour. And that's pushing it. 


Getting off topic again...there are three particular things I'm excited about this fine day:

1. Featured blog post on byutvsports.com...http://blog.byutvsports.com/post/The-fall-to-DePaul.aspx...with my video package below! This time, I included the stand-up. It's at the end...so watch to the end.
2. My mission call gets decided today. (If it's on schedule...)
3. My best friend opens her mission call tonight! Here's to Rebecca, and hoping we go to the same mission. Yeah, right.

And off topic another time...these are my Sundays at Aunt Suzanne's. I'm not in town to go very often, but I get to go at least once a month! My niece and nephew. Danny & Allie. It couldn't be a full blog post without pictures of little kids!

Love them. Happy almost Friday!