silly me.

Edit: LOOK!!! Pictures. :)

I have a bajillion pictures I want to share with you. However, I left my camera cord (along with my laptop) up at camp this weekend. Thank goodness my family has at least 7 different computers/laptops around at all times.

Here's what I've been up to (minus the pictures, use your imagination.):

Making flower headbands from bandanas,

P90X yoga (with an audience of elementary students),

painting with Sierra Mist instead of water,

dreaming of the beach,

buying silly bandz,

seeing Letters to Juliet again,

falling in love with a new musical (especially the last song, Louder Than Words),

Days of '47 youth parade,

my first In-N-Out Burger experience,

lots of play time with Aundrea,

visiting all sorts of friends in Logan,

eating out at Angie's,

eating lots of cookies,

watching the epic hour-long episode of Sonny with a Chance,

nearly dying in a river,

[this is an example of our happiness of my not dying in the river]

riding a conveyor belt of rocks in the same river,

and showing off my new bruises from the wading in the river.

I am loving summer.

heart break

I've recently adopted a new rule in my life: I only mope in the shower.

Think about it. Raise your hand if you feel better, cleaner, relaxed, etc. after you take a shower. (Brownie points to anyone who actually raised their hand while reading this.) Plus, if you're feeling mopey enough that it's to the point of crying, the shower washes all your tears away and your eyes don't get all red and puffy. It's the most genius idea ever.

Even more important though, is that you don't spend a lot of time showering. Which, in turn, means you don't spend a lot of time moping. So, it limits your time, and you feel better after 'cause you wash all your worries and stress down the drain.

Now, I'm not a terribly mopey person. And, I'm getting back to my usual happy-go-lucky self. Occasionally though, I do still mope over recent heart break.

So, today, I was taking a shower when I got home from camp for the week and I was feeling a little down and mopey. I started thinking about heart break and I had a minor epiphany. You exercise to build muscles, right? How do muscles grow? Well, you tear them and they grow back stronger. That's why you're sore after you exercise and that's why you have to keep it up, so they can continuously be torn and grow back even stronger.

The heart is a muscle, right? So, when a heart gets broken, it should grow back stronger. Of this, I am certain.

Think about it. Heart break sucks. It hurts. But, once you've made it through, you always end up a better person, you learn, grow, change, etc. So, getting your heart broken is simply an exercise. Keep it up, and it'll grow back stronger.

I say, here's to taking risks and putting your heart out there to get broken. That's right, here's to heart break.

life

dear blog,

I'm sorry I've neglected you. Curse my mountain job and lack of internet.

Actually, I take that back. I love the lack of internet and phone service. I do. :)

What have I been up to?

Frightening some boys...

and pleasing others.

eating giant marshmallows,

getting stranded in Kamas,

bonfires with friends,

driving down steeeeeep hills in big trucks,

and taking pictures of the pretty flowers in my back yard.

And guess what. I adore this song.

What have you been up to?