nineteen years + one day

{i'm back to the blogging world}

My birthday was yesterday and I am finally 19 years old, finally!

 I don't feel any older but I defiantly don't feel as young as 19. 

I can hardly believe it myself that I am so young.

My birthday was much more relaxed this year than any other because

I only spent it with a smaller portion of my family.

My mom and Kasey surprised me with a 

lemon poppyseed birthday muffin in

the morning with candle lit.

It was so sweet of my family to try and make the best of my 

birthday while I was so far away from my friends in Utah.

+ Ohio hasn't been all bad this summer.

I've have...

1. gone to a Dayton Dragons baseball game

2. Blue Angels air show

3. canoeing

4. some great shopping

5. {doing this in the upcoming week} going to Kings Island!

{an amusement park with roller coasters on the world's top list!}

6. and seen just about every movie out in the theater.

Good job for Ohio not letting us down, but believe me, 

I am stoked to go back to Utah!!!

this land is your land

happy fourth of july!

I've always loved the firework show. 

Patriotism is all in the barbecue, the family, the whole she-bang! 

But the fireworks will always be my favorite. 

How can you celebrate our country's freedom 

without big explosives in the sky? 

You just can't. 

It all begins with a couple starter fireworks to build up the anticipation.

Then you move on to the booming sounds that 

fill your ears which you (in my case) begin to hate, 

but start to love even up to the finale.
Then before you know it's over and your shouting for more.

Living in this big Ohio suburban neighborhood,

every direction you look there are houses shooting up

big real fireworks so the show is really all around you.

Which is pretty cool. 

{plus fireworks have been going since last thursday}

The best July 4ths I've ever spent were in New Hampshire.

My older sisters and brothers were there and all

the kids I've known since I was 5 years old.

There were live bands and food vendors and all those

carny games you see at Sixx Flags.

Plus the show was always an hour long or longer,

 much better than this year's 10 minute show.

hope you all had an amazing fourth of July!

secrets {part II}

You might think this is gross and/or think I'm insane but I like the smell of skunks... Maybe it's one of those acquired smells that you learn to come to terms with overtime, or maybe it's just very familiar. But I kind of like it... whatever!

I idolize Jenny Lewis and have seen her in concert & loved her, but my favorite concert I've ever been to was Ingrid Michaelson, where she played a never-heard-before song called "Blueberry Boy". Ingrid is a hilarious woman. 

I find it extremely awkward when I boy opens a door for me and then I find myself in a double doorway and don't know if I should open the second door for myself or stand there...

I believe in things like ghosts, aliens, and even wizards.

I wish I could speak French and Italian fluently but unfortunately I can't roll my Rs but I can fold my tongue into a clover!

I am obsessed with soy milk or any rice or almond milk. I'm not lactose intolerant, I just really love it!

Sometimes I fanatise about being an amazing dancer. Contemporary, tap, anything really.

I have road rage on occasion. I'll talk to the cars sarcastically and it drives me crazy if they either, don't use their blinker, or never turn it off.

{xo}