It has been awhile

I am sorry I have been slacking this summer with posting. Since I can't really type all of the fun adventures I have been up to let me do something better. Show you pictures of most of them! Here comes a post of mostly pictures, which I hope you enjoy. :-)

This is the AMAZING Sarah Kidd. She was my Relief Society president and it only took us about two weeks to become best friends! No joke we became so close until she left for Uganda as part of the Help International program. She is so awesome like that. She comes back on Saturday though and I am so excited to hear her fun stories!!!

(Amy Meadows, Sarah Monson (who has grown to be one of my best friends even though we haven't lived by each other for a year!!!), and Caitie Philburn (only the coolest roommate ever!!! We instantly became friends the first time we meet each other. I'm going to be so said when I move back to Snow and she stays here.)

Sugar Plum Cottage to get Snow Creams before we went to see the Manti Pageant.

Roy's Pizza. Always a must in Ephraim.

Before the pageant started.

I love her!!!

Scott and I playing racquetball.

It was a blast and he is REALLY good.

We loved watching the Women's World Cup together and sad that it ended so quickly!

Ethan, Rick, Christie, my dad, Brett, and I all went to NY this summer for fun and had such a great time. Brett loved the city and I loved the church historical sites. It was always nice to spend more time with Christie, Rick, and my favorite little guy, Ethan!!!

My dad was so nice to go do baptisms with me inside the Manhattan temple! Such an odd temple too. It has three stories (the first floor is the temple, second a distribution center, and the top is the chapel. So crazy)!!!

I took off as soon as we got here. I didn't care to spend much time inside the farmhouse and such. I wanted to spend as much time as I could inside the Grove!!! It was so AMAZING. This is the bench that I sat at the whole time, which was pretty far up in the Grove.

I LOVE REESE'S!!! When I saw a giant size "candy bar" of them I had to buy it! There was two half pound size cups and I had to compare it to the normal size. I was in Heaven!

Scott is such a sweetheart! He always surprises me with sunflowers. The first time was the morning after we meet, the second was when I came back home from San Diego, the third (which is these) was when we went to Walmart to pick up a few things, and my newest bunch came Monday. Each time he writes me the cutest notes and this last one wished me luck for my big test.

We have been on two hikes in Zion this summer. This is the Subway and his dad took the three of us (Scott, me, and Autumn, a girl in my FHE group and who Scott had a HUGE crush on before he meet me. I still can't stop laughing about it.)

Still hiking Subway.

Yes, did a few fun repels during the hike. However, the water we sometimes repelled into was FREEZING!

This was Mystery Canyon, which we hike with his family. Everyone was there except his mom, Laurie (one of his sisters) and Brian and his family (Scott's oldest brother).

I've played in two kickball tournaments with my old roommate Kylie. It has been so much fun to play with her again.

Scott and I have been to two Real Salt Lake soccer games!

This was our second game and we had 6th row seats!!!

Winger's with my roommates from my first semester, except for Skyler. I've missed them so much.

Sarah Monson, Scott, and I went to PF Chang's thanks to my sister we were able to all eat there for only $12 total!

After dinner we went up to a lookout point.

Sarah loves nature and all of the beauty of it. Look out points count right? I think they do and if not they certainly do have their own beauty.

Another temple (Provo) done for us! Sarah and I are trying to go inside of all of the Utah (at least Utah County) ones.

I love this place! Scott took me here on our first date and they seriously have the best shakes I have ever tasted. They literally put pies and cupcakes inside their shakes if you order one of the pie or cupcake shakes!

Scott and I went to Color Me Mine, which is a place where you pick out something and then paint it yourself. They then do the final polish/glaze/whatever you call it to make it a final product. We choose to paint a bowl so we can actually use it. While we were finishing it we decided to put the date on it and we then realized it was our two month dating mark! Such a fun surprise. I was shocked neither one of us remembered. Then again we are counting every 30 days instead because of our awesome chain... (Each day one of us writes down on a paper strip our favorite memory of us and we link it onto our chain. One person does that every day until the next thirty days are up. It is now Scott's 30 days to write about us. We are on days 61-90!)

It has been a summer to remember for me! Crazy how fast time has flown by! I move back down to Ephraim next week and school starts the week after that. I am so not ready for school to start again!