Myrtle Beach

Every summer my family takes a vacation to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I love it there and have been thinking about the beach since early March. I love the snow in Utah but after months of that beautiful white stuff I was ready for some sun and sand. We've started making a habit though of going during biker weeks...I don't really know why but I saw hundreds of Harley Davidsons. It was fantastic!

Me and my man Andrew

My friends John, Al, and Melissa drove down and spent the afternoon with me. We went to this museum called Wonder Works. It was cool, it had rides, exhibits, and bubbles! We had a blast!

I also convinced my baby sister to go parasailing with me. She is real scared of heights but she was brave and came along. I loved it! It was so much fun, even a little relaxing. I texted my roommates telling them that they had to go with me again sometime! The rest of the time we spent on the beach or at the pools.

Danielle and Molly

Ryan

Two of my favorite boys in the entire world

Rachel and I went to the hotel bar one night and sang ourselves a little karaoke. It was great fun. I can't wait to do it again.

Me and Ry- guy

Molly giving Chad kisses

Mommy and Molly Pop

Me and Molly. We love each other....we had a rough start though. At the beginning of the summer she screamed every time she saw me. However now she realizes I am apart of the family and not a baby sitter, so we are real good friends now.

Moving

So my family has moved into our new house....finally! So a majority of this past week we have been unpacking and sorting through everything.

This is how our house looked for the good first part of the week.

So the bad thing about moving to a new town is that all my friends are two hours away from me. However 2 of them are real sweet and have taken time out of their busy schedules to come see me. Nathan came and stayed the night and was a real sport when I forced him to go shopping with me. Oh plus I know he has that ugly thing on his face in the picture above but he was a wise (and kind) man and shaved that thing off before he came to see me because he knows how much I hate it!

Even my love Della came and had Sunday dinner with me and my family. We had a real good time. We had a good talk, sang a lot, fought over my room decor, and she spent the night. I love her more than bacon!

Then one day I made the journey to go see my friends. My dad had to testify in a murder trial. I watched part of it, I felt like Olivia and Elliott from Law & Order should have been there by my side. So after viewing part of the trial I spent time with my best friends from high school. We went to Chili's and my friend John hugged me of his own free will. Now granted we have been friends for over seven years....what can I say he moves slow. So
I do everything in my power to make him uncomfortable. Like sit really close to him or grab his hand in public....he hates it. After lunch we all went and hung out at Della's house watching movies, eating junk food, and going through all our past yearbooks making fun everyone. Then the boys left and the girls stayed up late discussing the coolest places we had ever made out....my sister, Rachel definitely won!

So when you get a new house you also get a new ward. I love my new ward and I'll tell you why. 1. Now I usually don't like family wards because our last one had children that screamed so loud that you couldn't hear the speakers. I always wanted to go back to the Puritan ways and have someone there with a stick to bop children on the head with when they were misbehaving. I prayed that they would make that my calling in our old ward...the ward stick hitter. Instead they made me a Nursery leader. This ward however the children are cute and I just make faces at them during sacrament meeting.

2. Our organist wears a bow tie every Sunday

3. I'm not told every Sunday how I should be dating, not hanging out, and that I should be getting married.

4. My favorite young women's leader is in our ward now.

5. We have cute little black woman who wears a big hat every Sunday and during the lessons she yells "Amen" and "That's Right" in her adorable southern accent!

Home Sweet Home

This week I arrived home in North Carolina! I got to start off the week by seeing some extended family. Some of which I hadn't seen in over ten years! It was a lot of fun!

So my Daddy just retired from the Army so we've moved to a new city and my parents have bought a new house! It's all quite exciting! I love our new house. However we are not living in it quite yet because the military, being their lovely selves, as still of yet not delivered our household goods! So right now nine of us are living in my sisters house until we get our stuff. It's a party!!!
This summer I have a list. A list of 40 things I want or need to do this summer. Strawberry picking was on that list. I love strawberry picking (not blueberry picking ....that takes way to long to fill a bucket)! We hit up this place close to my sisters and got us some delicious strawberries!Then this past weekend my sister and I went on a double date with our two adorable nephews. We started out at this place called BounceU. It has inflatable bouncers everywhere! Then we went to dinner and finished off the night watching Tangled together. I'd say it was quite a successful date. However I've never been on a date in my life where I needed so much energy or had made my date cry....okay maybe the later has happened before but that's a different story. Anyways we had a good time and I sure do love those boys!