Day 11: Shelby and JD

Oh Shelby and JD. Probably the two weirdest people I've ever met. and that's why I love them. They can instantly put a smile on my face, but they're also both really good at telling me when I'm being an idiot. They're so in love and it's so beautiful to see. I don't know what I would do without them!

Colorado

With the busy summer my whole fam had and the fact that we haven't taken a vacation in a really long time, we decided to head to Colorado for Labor Day Weekend. We have some cousins out there that are getting "up there" in age and we hadn't seen them in a while. I headed back to RC Thursday night and we left early Friday morning. We made a pit stop in Omaha to pick up Shelby and JD. It was quite a leisurely drive and it seemed like it took us FOREVER to get there. We eventually made it and had a great couple days together. Here are some photos:

GORGEOUS. 

Dude knows how to travel. 

My daddy :) 

SUMMER (in a nutshell)

Hello blog readers! My summer went WAY too fast, and I spent a lot of time with people I love. Therefore, I didn't get a whole lot of blogging done. Here's my summer in a nutshell.

I worked four jobs: Twin Lakes Grocery and Grill, Lynch's Bar and Grill, Rockwell City Pool, and I was a co-coach for the Rockwell City Area Swim Team. Let me tell you, it was a busy summer. I worked so hard because I'm saving money to go to France with my best friend Mollie next summer.

Although I worked four jobs, I still found a little time to have fun. I spent a lot of time with this boy:

I also spent as much time as I could with my family, including the two cutest boys in the world! 

I worked at TLGG with some awesome girls like this: 

At a place like this: 

I coached a team full of energetic, crazy swim team kids like this: 

  

  

With two of my best friends: 

I worked at the pool with a bunch of goons like this: 

     

Doing weird stuff like this: 

I went to a few family weddings. One was my cousin Brad and his new wife Megan's. I went to that one by myself, but I saw lots of family there that I haven't seen for a while. 

My great Aunt Zeta

My cousin Danielle

The second family wedding was my cousin Joe's (my Aunt Sharon's son) and his new wife Steph. It was such a fun wedding! My whole fam (sisters, etc.) were home for the wedding. A few photos: 

Connor and I at the wedding. Nice photobomb, Shelby. 

My sis and me :) 

 

Aunt Sharon :) 

My sisters and me with Aunt Sharon. 

That boy of mine :) 

Although it was a busy one, it was also a great one. Hopefully next summer I can cut down to 3 jobs ;)

                                   

Dinner Dance

Saturday, March 17 was the Rockwell City Rotary Club's annual Dinner Dance. My mom is the president of the club, so she planned pretty much the whole thing. We spent Saturday morning and afternoon baking desserts and setting up tables for the event. Both of my sisters came home for the night and the whole family (minus Kaden and Connor) attended the event. We ALWAYS have a great time. We kept that tradition up! Some photos from the day:

Setting up: Kaden was a big help in moving the walls! 

We had some down time, so Kaden and JD hung out in the chair. :) 

Love them. 

My sisters made me put on this hat. They thought it would be a perfect fit because I have a tiny head...

There are MANY more photos from the night that I will soon be posting to Facebook. :) 

Spring Break!

I'm mashing this all into one post-I won't go into much detail. On the Sunday we flew out, we drove to Omaha and had lunch with Shelby & JD. Shelby so generously lent me the last 2 Hunger Games books. YES. I think you can figure out what I did all week... :) We had a peaceful direct flight to Phoenix and the lovely Josiah was there to greet us when we arrived. We grabbed some grub and headed to his place. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday were filled with shopping (yay), eating, reading, and sitting by the pool in the sun. It was, well, AWESOME. It was so relaxing and fun. Such a great week with Zac. Friday we got up and climbed North Mountain. Yep, you read that right. I climbed a mountain. It gave me a splendid insight on how out of shape I am. Yikes. We headed to the airport. The journey home was not as short. We had about an hour layover in Denver and flew back in to Omaha around 12:30am. We(Zac) drove all the way back home. Here's some pics from the week. Zac HATES getting his picture taken...

These were taken on Tuesday night when we went
to Rock Bottom for supper. YUM!

This was at Mellow Mushroom on Wednesday night. John (left) is who Josiah lives with in Phoenix.

Thursday night we went downtown Phoenix. We ate some delicious pizza and fantastic crêpes.

 The view from the top of North Mountain. So beautiful! (even though I'm not usually a fan of nature)

And at the top we saw chipmunks. They were not afraid of us. They were so cute!! 

And that was my Spring Break in Phoenix. :)

Shit My Sister Says

Shelby read the Hunger Games first, told Lindsay to read them, who then told me to read them. I'm still on the first book because I'm always hard at work studying ;)
Last night Lindsay texted me. "How far are you in the Hunger Games?" I responded with "Not far" and told her where I was. Her response? "Keep reading. once the games start you won't be able to put it down. It's like crack."