So the lovely weather that we have been having has made me look forward to summer! And thinking about summer reminded me of how much fun i had last summer!
Last summer was exceptionally fun, and i don't really think that this next summer could possibly measure up to it, but i'm excited about seeing if i can make it just as good. =) although it will be hard, considering that my three best friends are all going far away this summer. but that's okay. it'll be good for me, i'm sure. =)
I thought that i would share some memories from last summer....some pictures will have explanations underneath them, and others won't, because- well, because i have a short attention span, and uploading these pictures has already taken a long time, and i already wish that this post was finished. i really gotta learn to focus. it would really be valuable to not lose interest in something ten minutes after i start doing it. i think this is why i don't like games. and why movies have to be really interesting or exciting or funny, or else i fall asleep. also why it's taking me forever to write chapter seven of my book. If anyone has any brilliant ideas as to how increase my attention span, i'm definitely open to suggestions.
also, i'm very hungry right now.
i want those good mozzarella cheese sticks appetizer things that come with that good sauce.
but we won't dwell on that. =)
this is me and clari at youth camping, after we went wading. it was fun. felt a little bit gross until our dresses dried, but totally worth it. i'd go wading again with you any day, clari! =) 
this was the greatest day at the beach ever! the weather was perfect, and we swam and ate and read and got sunburns. i will never forget stopping to buy candy at a bulk barn and opening the van trunk, and seeing the big water cooler fall out and spill all over the parking lot. this was also the day that we discovered meg's extraordinary talent for finding christian radio stations, no matter what area she's in. it's not a bad talent to have. the best station was Smile FM. "Less blah-blah-blah, and more la-la-la!"
i got to join meg and her family at a cottage for a weekend, and it was great fun. =) 
Canada's wonderland... i love rides that spin in circles. i also loved being pulled 170 feet into the air, and then being dropped into a freefall... Meg and Greg, if i was going to plummet towards the ground with anybody, i'd want it to be you guys. =)
My two funny little sisters... i love their friendship, and how they enjoy doing stuff together, even if it's just sitting at the edge of the water and drinking juice boxes.
WHAT???? is that a... smile??? on kenton's face??? why, yes, i believe that it is! haha. gotcha, kenton. =)
this is wendy and telulah!! i actually forgot about telulah until i went through my old pictures. i still think that she was the cutest puppy in the world. and although there was much debate about whether to call her "Buttercup" or "Telulah", we all know that in her heart, she was a Telulah.
This is me and tory at youth camping. we always have such good conversations... generally when we're supposed to be participating in something that we don't want to. =) 
this was my view from my air mattress on the beach at the cottage. i can't wait to go to the beach again!! =)
Everybody, meet Kitten. (I was the one who named her, in case you were wondering who was behind that brilliance). Kitten grew up, and is now a very fat cat, and kind of annoying because she's so tame. But back when she was little and scared of me, i kind of liked her.
Last summer, my church had the funnest bike social that i've ever been at!! I don't know why it was so much fun. It just was. =)
this is me and meg and kenton at Wonderjam. Despite what the picture looks like, we don't actually look quite that dorky.
oooohh!!! this is me!! with dogs! I don't even like dogs! they're hairy and smell kinda bad. but puppies are okay! and i'm good at putting them to sleep! one puppy just curled up in my lap, and i petted it for awhile, and then it fell asleep, and then before i knew, i had like, seven more puppies sleeping around me. it was truly a precious moment. =)
i did a lot of reading this summer. it was great. but there's still so many more books out there to read! how will i ever get through them all??? and what if i miss a truly brilliant book? sometimes it's overwhelming...
again... the day at the beach. =)This is me and meg at the cottage again... we took a paddle boat and our laptops out to an island and wrote and sat in the waves (but not with our laptops) and my knees got really sunburnt... it was awesome. =)
so this is not nearly all the fun times that i had, but it's some of them.
can't wait to see what summer 2012 will be like...
but first i gotta finish high school. =)
