Monday, June 30, 2014

GOOD FOOD AND EVEN BETTER FRIENDS


Tonight I had the best dinner date with three of my best friends (Stacey, Ali, and Megan) and it was honestly one of the best nights I have had in a while. It's been a few weeks since I've seen these lovely girls so thankfully we had this great opportunity to catch up. Back towards the beginning of the year as prom planning started to come around, we decided that we would put everything together for our group and planned dinner and the after party and all of that good stuff. We worked sososo hard on planning prom and making it perfect and the restaurant we used was super nice to mail us a gift certificate to come back and eat there! Let me tell you, this food is to die for so we were pretty stoked about this gift certificate. 

It was so fun to get all dressed up in the midst of a summer full of nike shorts and tshirts to eat the most delicious meal ever all over again. Ali even said "you know how when you read a really good book for the first time, you can never read it that way again? well every bite of this it's like you can." That's how good this food is. But enough about the food... 

This night was extra special to me because we had the greatest conversations. We would talk about everything from boys to church and that's why I'm so glad I have friends like these. They are always so supportive with whatever is going on in my life. It's the greatest feeling and I definitely felt it tonight. I love that we can be so open with each other and have really serious conversations, but at the same time we can be completely goofy and laugh til we cry (which happened quite a few times tonight). 

We all leave for college soon and I'm going to miss times like these. It won't be so easy for us to get together for dinners like these, but I have a good feeling that we are all going to keep a close bond throughout the next four years. We even decided that tonight we're all going to write down everything that's going on in our lives at this moment and four years from now, after we graduate from college, we will get back together for a dinner at this same restaurant with our letters and reflect on how our lives have changed since then. I'm so excited for what the future holds for all four of us and I'm hoping that we can continue to have this goofy, supportive, Christ-loving relationship in the years to come.

Friday, June 27, 2014

HILTON HEAD ISLAND

I'm super late on this post, but at the very beginning of summer I took a trip to Hilton Head Island for a week with my whole family. We have a timeshare right on the beach that we usually go to every other year, but we skipped last year so I was ecstatic to find out that we were going back this year. It was seriously the best trip to Hilton Head yet. I got to hang out with all of my crazy cousins every day and it was a blast. Hopefully I'll be able to join them in the summers to come because Hilton Head is one of my favorite places to go (it's a close tie between HHI and Camp Pike). And with me going to college and everything it'll be a lot harder to find time to go. So here a few pictures that sum up the week...

Here is our awesome view from the balcony

The littles buried Uncle John
We were lucky that there was a full moon one night
Hannah and I got up early to watch this beautiful sunrise


The littles love taking goofy pictures, they just about died laughing at Hayden's face in the middle


I also made a video of the whole trip, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to get it on vimeo or youtube because the file is so big! But as soon as I get it to work I'll definitely be posting it here.

Friday, June 20, 2014

GOODBYE SENIOR YEAR

It has been WAY too long since I have been on here and so much has happened since I last posted that I am just going to have to recap the past couple of months through some pictures...

Banquet was a lot of fun with my best friend and my roommate:



I finally chopped off all of my hair and donated it:


Celebrated Senior Sunday at church:


Performed in my 15th and final dance recital:


Had fun dressing up as a guy for senior dress up week with Shannon and holding Monty for the first time:



Went to tons and tons of grad parties:


Met my cute baby cousin who fell asleep on me:

 
And finally graduated with all of my favorite people: