the 'start' of our adventure

Here we go. Miriam and i started on our adventure monday morning. we took cebre along to drop her off with cassy in sacramento. in williams, there were some mexican boys with a stand of watermelons. we decided to stop and get one cuz we knew that it would totally make their day. we did so and as we drove away, they all yelled to us that they wanted our numbers and proceeded to yell their numbers to us. it was so funny. we definatly were the highlight in their day.

this is us three-cebre, miriam, and me. this was in auburn where we dropped cebre off. it was rediculously hot. for us humboldt girls, 97 is pushing it.

and here it is. this is what happened when we started climbing the mountains up toward truckee. we broke down on the side of the road the first time. the car made a clicking sound and when we pulled over the car had overheated. we got some water for it and after driving another 15 minutes up the road, we limped into a gas station and the car had overheated again. the nerve! that was about 2:30pm and it wasnt until 6 that we were finally saved. between 2:30 and 6, we had made so many phone calls that we wanted to throw our phone off a cliff.(not seriously mom, its her phone.)
sister cherrys sister in law drove from lincoln(north of sac) to rescue us. she drove all the way out there to get us. she took us home and fed us and put us up. she was so awesome. she saved our lives!!
Jared drove out to get us on tuesday, picked us up at about 6 and then we drove all the way back to salt lake. we didnt get home until 4:30am on wednesday. it was one of the most crazy things i think i have been a part of.
after getting to car back to the airport rental place, packing all our stuff into the house, and getting settled down we finally went to sleep at 6:15am. we had to get up at 9:30am to go to provo for miriams interview at the MTC. we were running on not very much juice. we are insane but man this is going to make the best story later...
"hey remember that one time we tried to drive all the way to utah on almost no sleep and broke down? then in three days got less than about 5 hours a night? good times."
"remember that one time we went on that date that jared set us all up on and it ended up being a huge flop and half the girls flaked and we ended up watching 'the gods must be crazy' instead of boarding the canyon?"
"remember that one time when we were staying in provo with jared, we decided at 2 in the morning that we wanted to go out and lay in the parking lot and watch the stars and didnt come back in until 3:30?"
"remember when we drove for 20 minutes around orem looking for the jamba juice before realizing that it was in provo then decided instead we would get ice cream from the gas station?"
"remember jareds roommate had the sweetest motor bike in the world and went to put gas in it just so we could ride it around the parking lot? good good times."
"remember we went shopping in provo and got matching american eagle jeans and scored them for 25 bucks each!!?!? yeeeahh!!"
"this one time we were walking to the campus post office and we went by a shop that had a tandum bike and we asked the guys if we could test ride it and they totally said yes. miriam was nice enough to let me drive. one of the best bike rides of my life!!! and we had a random guy take a picture of us!! awesome..."

this was the on the walk that we took at monicas house when we had to wait all day for jared to drive out to get us. we were feeling a little cooped up in the house so we went on a walk in our pjs and our stylin' glasses!!! it was sweet!!!

JAN YODELING!!!

Ok here it is!!!!! I got Jan on tape yodeling. We were all laughing so hard when she did this. I have so much more respect for her now my goodness!!!!

jazz camp and an update

I went to see the Wilkenlohs on my way to be counselor at a Jazz Camp in Mount Shasta. i hadn't seen them since the last summer. Way too long! We went and saw a movie and stayed up late watching "That Thing You Do" and eating 2 foot long otter pops! The best of times I'll tell ya.

This is what I got to see for an hour while driving from the wilkenlohs til I got to Weed. It was so beautiful.

This is Kelly and Justin- the other two counselors. You cant exactly see Justin but i tryed. We became really good friends and had a blast. It was so much fun.

These are the people that were running/in charge of the camp. Jared Voss was the Choreographer, Andy Shelden was the Camp Director, (skip the little girl) Rodger Emmerson was one of the vocal directors, Greg Jasperse was the other vocal director who came from out of town, and last was Jan who was our pianist. She helped with sectionals and stuff. She was hilarious. I have a video of her yodeling for us. I'll try to get it on here. It was so funny.

This is a bunch of us. Camp was so fun and I made a lot of friends.

This is the good picture of us three. So awesome!! what a great week.


So just a little update on whats going on in my life. I have had a job at target for about two months and I'm there for another week. Its been a blast working there. I have made lots of friends and have improved my retail skills. Still nonetheless, on the 29th of July, Miriam and I will be starting our big adventure. First, we're going down to Santa Barbara to visit Miriams former teacher. We are then going up to Utah to see Hannah, Jared and some other family a few days before flying to Florida. We are hangin with Sarah and her fam in Lakeland for two weeks. Utah will wecome us back for another week and a half or two weeks until Jared and I, leaving Miriam in Utah(sniff) drive down to LA for a cousins wedding on Saturday the 23rd of August and drive back up here to Humboldt Sunday or Monday and I start HSU on Tuseday the 26th.
What a month coming up for me huh?? I'm leaving in a week and a half and coming back to a completly different place. I will be the Releif Society President during school and welcome all the new freshman and transfers to HSU. All of my summer friends will be going back to school or off to school. Danny is gone on his mission and Joe will be gone when I come back. This year is going to be a lot different than last year was... all I can say is BRING IT ON with a smile!!!!!!