Summer Summary

Well, this summer was great. Its really hard to believe that it is already mid October, so I thought I would reminisce a little about what all has transpired this summer.


May 24th - Memorial Day Weekend

I had such a hectic beginning to my summer when 2 friends got married on the same day. One in Lubbock and one in Abilene (3 hrs. apart) and I was determined to go to both. So...one almost missed plane, a broken shoe, two sets of "I do's" and about 1,000 miles later, I arrived back home and got to spend some quality time with my family on Memorial Day before I had to go back to Dallas!

(I am so mad at myself for not getting any pictures of Danielle's wedding, just one of the things that got lost in the hecticness of that weekend.)

My awesome roommate and friend, Kelli married my awesome friend and almost relative, Jeffrey.

Every year, our little farming community of Oklahoma Lane gets together on Memorial Day to clean-up the cemetery. It could be considered morbid, but I kinda think its a fun old tradition. This is my Uncle Bruce & Uncle Byron with Mom and Grandma.

June
June was slightly uneventful in the sense that I didn't take many pictures so I don't really remember what I did or who I did it with. I do know that I began helping with TRANSFORM, a church group that meets every summer and works on a school in a needy neighborhood. We did things like painting and landscaping. I was a group leader for the "A" wing of the school, we painted a mural on the kindergarden wall, which was sooo cute, and I met a ton a amazing people.
The rest of my June was good, as far as I know, I remember having fun with friends and family, but the details are vague. If only I would take more pictures! I need to work on that. (guess I'm more like my Mom than I realized.)

July
If June was uneventful and undocumented, July was event-filled enough to make up for it. I spent the 4th with my dear friend Kasey Wilson, I'm so glad that Erin was nice enough to let me have Kasey as a friend (because Erin & Kasey have been bff for ages), but good friends are hard to come by, so when you find one, you gotta share them w/ your sister. I guess Kasey is sort-of on-loan to me and I have to give her back to Erin when she comes to town. Anyways, we rode the DART to West End and participated in the "Trinity River Fiesta". We could ride the DART because Kasey's boyfriend, Justin came so he was like our body-guard. We ended up watching the fireworks from blankets on the grassy knoll. It was a very Dallas-y 4th.

I had a fun girls weekend in Ft. Worth with Kelly and Leigh, my favorite Interior Design major buddies from school. Kelly lives in Ft Worth and knows all the fun things to do down there. We had a fun-filled shopping trip, went to Joe T Garcia's, and later we went to the stock yards to a real life Honky-Tonk! I'm not an amazing dancer, as anyone reading this knows, but it was fun and I danced with a guy who dipped me at the end of the song, for real.

Here we are with John Wayne. We have a thing with taking pictures w/ fake people.

And of course I could not forget the ultimate summer event...Border Town Days! Or "BTD" to the seasoned Border Town Days go-er. This year was so much fun, as it always is. I like to think that I have the worlds funnest family, and I don't think that is very far fetched. There is never a dull moment when our friends and family get together and this year was no exception.

NERTZ!

August

My Birthday! Number 23 was one of my favorites because I got to hang out with so many of my favorite people. Leigh and Kelly came to spend the night with me and we had so much fun. We ordered pizza, watched the Opening Ceremonies for the Olympics and stayed up all night talking and played pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey (Leigh's idea). Later we went shopping and ate lunch @ The Cheesecake Factory, sooo goood. Then later I got to go to dinner with some great friends, Ashley, Sara, Courtney and Heather. In the end it was a wonderful birthday, and I could not have asked for more.

Also in August, all my family (minus Trevor) came to Dallas to go to my cousin Byron's wedding. It was so great to spend time with them, even if it was a short weekend!

September

September flew by. I don't know why because its not like I was super busy. I did join a home group with my church, so I've been having fun getting to know new people through that. I also went to Kelly Conklin's engagement party in Ft. Worth, she is getting married in May and I'm so excited to be a part of her wedding.

So that pretty much sums it up! What a great summer. If I wasn't already so in love with fall, I would be sad to see it end :)