"Have you seen a picture of Helen Keller's Dad?"

This last week of work
has been an interesting one
to say the least...

Things happen when you work
everyday and close everynight.

Thank goodness for the wonderful people I work with.
Because without Hunter, Derek, Brad, Stacy, Brownie, Sarah, & Alex
....it would be quite awful.

I am deaf.
I seriously think that I am
partially deaf.
I have a hard time hearing things...

Here's just a couple things that I have heard:

"The cotton candy machine is stuck!"
"Babies in trees."
"Can I put syrup in that?"

The Church of Hot Addiction - Cobra Starship

"You can float with your two flotation devices right there."

Boating at Bear Lake with Jessy :)

"Did Chastity call us?"

Why yes, Jessy is black.
[She lifeguards.]

....Wait, what? This should be fun...

Yeah...
some of us got baptized.

Marilyn Monroe Picture :)

I L O V E T H I S G I R L .

A Story to Tell Your Friends - Every Avenue

NO PANTS POLICY

This is the LAC.
I went there with some tacos after work...
You know, just chillin' after close.

These last couple days have been so crazy.
I work. A lot.
But I sleepover at Jessy's. A lot.
It's basically the best thing ever.
We make midnight runs to Smith's
to get drinks and talk to her fellow employees.
We get ice cream
and Domino's pizza
and chocolate crunch cakes.
We talk to Colby
and he tries to talk us into
"three cuddlesomes."

Basically,
I love summer because
I can sleepover every night at my best friend's house.
I am so happy she's my best friend :)

Love ya Jess.

Summer Sun - Jukebox the Ghost

"Well, I'm an AMERICAN!"


Today was a great day :)
Lauren made some DELICIOUS chicken
so we invited over a bunch of friends
over and had dinner together.

We talked about missions,
cars, and college.

Then Austin and I decided to go to Paradise.
Paradise is out past Hyrum and before Avon.
So we drove past Hyrum Dam
and onto a dirt road...
just a little off-roading experience.

Since it was the 24th of July
and we're in Utah,
and aerials are now legal,
we saw a TON of fireworks.
They were being set off all over the valley.
It was so pretty with the sun setting
and color confetti-ing the sky.

We drove almost all the way out to Porcupine Dam
and then came back to Paradise.

I played at the park
and he walked around in his boot
[but no crutches this time]
and then we walked back
when the creeper man walked around the building
a couple times.

"It's ok, I've got my knife."
"Do you even know how to shut a knife?"

We finished off the 24th of July
stargazing in Paradise.
Literally :)

Tonight - Secrets in Stereo

"A Quicky-nic." -Grandma

Boys are dumb.
Actually one in particular.
Ok, I guess make that two.

So I decided to get out of Logan,
and go stay at Lauren's house.

We did NOTHING.
It was glorious.
We just...did whatever we wanted.
It's so much better then working, let me tell ya.

We went shopping
I got some new shoes.
and we got lunch and took some pictures
with dinosaurs.

Best part of the day?
"Well nothing rhymes with picnic." -Mama Clark
"Um, how about quicky-nic?" -Grandma

Thankyou Clark Family :)

Car Crash - Matt Nathanson

"I really like coconut juice."

Thurs, July 7 11:53 PM
From: Austin James

I don't really like makin plans.
So i just say whenever
we are up n ready.

When I woke up and was ready
I went over to Austin's
and we set off to Bear Lake.

We listened to Katy Perry,
Neon Trees, and He is We.

We talked about everything.
I love it when we spend time together
because he is the kind of person
that I can tell anything,
and I know that he won't judge me.

We talked about
religion, food, and the world around us.

We honked the horn
and lifted up our feet when we went over
the cow grates in the road.

We went to La Beau's
and I got a hamburger
and he had grilled cheese
with my pickles on it.

I got a raspberry shake
and he got a butterfinger shake
and we ate them at the park.

I ate mine with a spoon
and he ate his by
having it fall on his face...

We walked out to the beach
and talked about how beautiful it was.

We got my bracelet.

We drove home and watched a movie.
He and his sister tried
to brush Miley's teeth. (the chihuahua)

I L O V E D A Y S L I K E T H I S
where you get to spend time in the sun
with your best friend.
And laugh until you feel like
your body will rip apart
if you don't stop.

I love summer :)

For Always, Forever - Every Avenue

"Where are my eyeballs?!
Oh, there's my right one."

This whole week has been crazy.

The Fourth of July was amazing.
But when I knelt down to take a picture
I knelt on a firework.
Thus, I have a nice burn on my knee.

It didn't hurt
so I brushed it off and it seemed fine.
Then I woke up the next day and...
it was not fine.

On Wednesday I went to the doctor.

Doctors are so much FUN.
Lauren came with me
and it was great.

The doctor made me sit on a table
and he started poking my burn.
Why thank you,
it's not like it didn't already hurt.

"Can you feel this?"
"Yep."
"Can you feel this?"
"Yep."
"Can you feel this?"
"...Kinda."

"Well it looks like a bad burn.
Just get in the shower and scrub it until it bleeds.
That way the dead skin will come off
and new skin can heal over it."

What great advice.
Since it hurts already,
without you touching it.

And then as I'm leaving...
"When was your last tetanus shot?"

I am deathly afraid of needles.
Example: Donating blood at USU.
We just won't talk about that.

So later that day I got a new tetanus shot.

Overall I'm alive.
No lockjaw for me.
(Thankfully, my tongue will be
INSIDE of my mouth for the rest of my life)

Just lots of triple antibiotic cream, iodine,
and ibuprofen.

Breathe - Michelle Branch