My car hates Logan

Apparently there is something with Logan that my car doesn't like. I've only had two major problems with my car needing serious fixing and both have happened when I get up to Logan after a weekend back home. I am not a car person so I have no idea what to do when I notice some weird noise coming from my car. My dad normally is there to fix it but of course my dad isnt in Logan when something serious happens.

I think my car has finally reached its limit of being a good car. The transmission now has something wrong with it and will cost a lot of money to fix. It may be the end of the only car I've had since I turned 16. It is currently parked to the side of a road because it made a horrible noise and smelt very badly that I knew I wouldn't make it home. I had to sit in it for about an hour before someone was able to pick me up. It was a very stressful and emotional day. My dad is currently figuring something out to do, but it may result in just buying a new car that will solve the transmission problem and also get a bonus of working AC! That is the only good news about the situation.

I luckily have great people in my life that are willing to help me out in my now stranded position. I have been offered rides, a bike, and also to borrow cars for the week. It's made it a lot easier to get through the situation but I still don't like the fact of having to depend on other people to get to and from school every day.

I'm just frustrated my car had to break down on me. It's been a great car these past 3 years and I'll be sad if we do end up getting rid of it. It has cost me a lot of stress and money but I am still attached to it. I guess we'll see at the end of the week what the verdict is. Will we fix my car or get a new one?

The Posse

After my first week of being back at school, I came home for the weekend to spend some time with my good friend Nick Flynn who will be leaving very soon on his mission. Nick is the last of 6 close guy friends to leave. The 6 guys, Pace, Jace, Soup, Joey, Josh, and Nick all called themselves the Posse. These 6 guys were my best friends throughout my senior year of high school and now they are almost all gone. Since Nick is the last to leave, he was sad that his best friends wouldn't be there. So, being the clever guy that Nick is, he came up with a way to make sure they were there.

For a while now Nick has had an idea of making cardboard cutouts of the other 5 guys to place strategically throughout the room during sacrament for his farewell. Now of course this idea was shot down by his bishop but that didn't stop the idea of at least making the cutouts.

Saturday night came around (last night) and we decided we better put the plan into action since his farewell was the next today (today). We went to Zurchers and picked out 3 different cardboard cutouts: John Wayne, Zac Efron, and the Jonas brothers. After getting very weird looks from the workers, we purchased them and set off to start the process. It took us a long time to find good enough pictures of close up faces but we found some in the end. We blew them up and cropped the head out so they looked like floating heads on the computer screen. We had a few problems with printing the pictures out so we left that part till the very end. We grabbed a bunch of ties and tied them around all the cutouts and then I made name tags with white out on black paper. After all that, we finally were able to print out the pictures and tape them onto the cutouts faces. We had to cut the cardboard to fit the new face, which we called their "haircut" and once we did, our project was complete. We had our 5 good friends staring back at us and it was a great sight. We were very proud of ourselves because they all worked out so perfectly.

Floating Head

Before

Name tags

Jonas Brothers= Soup, Josh, & Jace

Zac Efron= Joey

John Wayne= Pace

Getting "haircuts"

After

The finished project on display in the entry way of Nick's house :)

College

Well summer is now over and it's time for school! I'm a little torn about coming back to school. I'm excited to finally have something to keep me busy because I did start to get bored of having nothing to do at home. I'm also excited about not being a freshman anymore! The night I got up here, I went to this dance party and you could easily pick out the freshman from the rest. I took one look at them and now know how stupid I must've looked last year. The only thing I'm not so excited about is the actual school work part. I've decided to try out the accounting major which is a little scary. Hopefully it works out though and doesn't just kill me with the workload.

I moved up to Logan on Saturday and packed my whole life into one car like always. I don't have very much stuff so it's not too hard to fit everything. I am lucky to have very generous cousins that are allowing me to live with them in their basement seeing as how I decided to come back to school on very short notice and then finding housing would've been very hard. But Jeff and Marci went all out in preparing my room which I love!

They've made me feel very welcome and at home. I was a little nervous at first that I was intruding on their space, but they've made it so I feel comfortable here. Their kids have been very welcoming too. From the moment I walked in the door they all were so excited and couldn't wait to show me around the house. They always come into my room just laughing and wanting to play and have fun. It's a good time.

I do feel a little cut off from the college life because all my friends live very close to each other and right by campus so I'm far away from all of them. I'm used to that sort of thing though seeing as the past two years I've lived in Murray while all my best friends lived in Holladay, a good 15 minutes from my home, so it's all good.

I'm now just excited to see what this new year of college will bring me!

Summer

Well it's been a very long time since I've updated this so it's probably about time. Summer is almost over and I've done many fun things. Here is a little summary on what I've been up to for the past 4 months, and get ready for a lot of pictures!

The first of the summer I went on a little road trip with Rylee and Brooke to Manila to visit some friends from college. We were amazed at how small this little town was and couldn't imagine growing up in such a small place. We did have a lot of fun camping and hanging out though.
They live right by Flaming Gourge so they took us on a scenic tour of the place and it was beautiful. This picture was at one of the look out points.

I went to the sand dunes with Tobin Heather and JD. Tobin had been promising to take me there for a long time and we finally went. It was a lot of fun. Heather and I had just a little too much fun dancing and taking pictures.

I then went on a week long trip to California with John Sara Mandi Carl and Robbie. We had so much fun. It was probably the best trip I've been on with friends. We had a fun time at the beach, walking the pier, and going to Six Flags. It was a great time!
We had a lot of fun in one particular store on the pier trying on all the different crazy sunglasses they had. It was a good time.
The very last night there, we discovered awesome beach bikes that we enjoyed riding down to the pier and getting ice cream. I had the best bike by far with the basket, bell, and pom poms coming off my handle bars.
I got to go to the REAL soccer game with David when he performed. It was a lot of fun for the 6 of us girls to pretend to be Davids bodyguards. I had a great time and David was amazing when he performed, but what else is new?

I also had a lot of family stuff this summer. I had the great pleasure in going on a trip down south with some of my family to Zion, the Grand Canyon, and Bryce Canyon. I had never been to any of those places and they were all amazing. My favorite place was Bryce Canyon!

One of my favorite family reunion places has been the Heber Valley girls camp. It's a great area and has many fun activities. The best is the lake that we get to ride in canoes and paddle boats for an hour. My sister-in-law Marcie and I loved the life jackets we had to wear and couldn't help showing them off.During clean up time, I stayed busy entertaining the kids. We were playing a game that my cute niece and nephew (Sadie and Carson) love to play. They catch me and take me to jail. They are very serious about the game as you can tell by their faces. Oh how I love them.
I've gone boating a couple times with my friends. It was stormy one particular time we went. It wasn't the smartest idea but we still had a lot of fun!
This summer has also been a time for many farewells. One by one my guy friends keep leaving and it's soon going to be just the girls left.

I've also had the opportunity to go on some hikes. I love going on hikes. Nature is truly beautiful.
My favorite hike was one I went on with Ellen Stacey Lindsay and Brooke. Half way up the mountain we ran into snow. Luckily it wasn't cold and it increased the fun we had.
We made it to the top and it was beautiful! The lake was frozen over but it was still worth it!On the way back down we had to hurry. We had limited amount of time before Stacey had to be home and at something for Miss Murray. So we figured the fastest way down was to run. Now running down a mountain isn't the smartest thing to do especially when there is snow. We didn't care though and it was so much fun. We ran and kept sliding at times and it was just great. I did have a couple accidents though. Everyone had stopped at one point and seeing as I was running pretty fast down a mountain with snow, I couldn't stop myself and ended up tripping which resulted in this:We ended up going off of the trail for a bit to jump off cool rocks and take pictures. As I was following Ellen and Lindsay I fell through the snow into a little stream. It was very wet and cold but very funny. It took me a while to get out because the snow all around me kept caving in.
Once I got out and we finally found the trail again and we made our way down the mountain. As soon as the snow was gone it was a very speedy way down. It was amazing that no one really got hurt. It was a great time and I would love to do it again!
Well that was a very brief summary of my summer and I do mean brief. I wish I could go into more detail about these events but it'd take way too long. But besides any fun trips, I've just been mowing lawns and hanging out. It's been a great summer and I'm sad it's nearly over but I am pretty excited about going back up to school.