Where Did Summer Go?

Seventeen weeks down, and only one more to go.

What on earth? Didn't we just start summer? Wasn't it just last week that I was planting my ill-fated herb garden? And wasn't it just days ago that we were in Disneyland?

Summer always goes by way too quickly. I'll be in class exactly a week from now. I'm doing everything I can to be "prepared" for the new school year; buying textbooks & new binders, spending a few hours in the practice rooms trying to get my voice rapidly whipped back into shape before choir auditions, scheduling every last hour of next week into my new planner, and trying not to worry about all the things I didn't get around to doing this summer... of which there are a lot.

This isn't to say that I *didn't* do a lot this summer, though, because I did... even since I last posted...

Anniversary weekend.

Dino Museum and Thanksgiving Point.

Littlest brother on BYU campus with me.

South Fork Park

Rexburg

We were the fun car to road trip with, I think.

Old Faithful

First time EVER doing sparklers.

Possible carpal tunnel! D:

Lowe's.

A belt in our car decided to escape without warning... hooray...

Thankful for good friends. 

We've been busy!! 

We spent a lot of our summer with family and friends- both in and out of town. These last three weeks of summer we have all to ourselves, and it's been a good way to get ourselves ready to launch back into school again. I'll be starting my Practicum classes, and Nick will be doing his film capstone project. I'm so proud of him. He's worked hard to get here, and there is some good stuff that will be coming from Nick Ritter in the next few months. He's actually been really busy this summer with a program he helped organize called Six Week Cinema. We're looking forward to a film festival for Six Week at the start of September.

I love being married to a film guy. It's a blast.

Ah- one last thing! My life is starting a brand new era as I am no longer an employee at BYU Independent Study. I was there for a full three years as a Data Entry Specialist, and my last day was over a week ago now.

My time there was really great. It's full of dozens of memories that I won't ever forget. Moving on is bizarre, but it's the right thing for me right now. The future feels limitless (and a little intimidating). I'm excited to discover what's in store for me.

I've spent the last week applying for dozens of jobs, interviewing like crazy, cleaning my apartment, and preparing for school to start. This "break" has been awesome for me. It's been a while since I've been able to feel like I'm doing things for myself- things to make me happy for me. I think Heavenly Father really knew that I needed this breather before hopping back to BYU. It's so important to take care of yourself mentally, spiritually, physically and emotionally. I've been learning this a lot this summer, and hopefully improving because of my findings.

I'm excited for school, I think. Nervous. But excited. I've found that I'm a LOT happier being busy than I am being lazy.

I guess it's a good thing, then, that I'm about to become VERY busy.