Summer time in the Cache Valley.

I Love Summer.

Why?

It always brings the unexpected and the most fun adventures.

To me summer means friends, sun, so you think you can dance, tan feet, watermelon, lazy days, the fourth of July, swimming, vacation, smores, my Birthday, corn on the cob, fairs, fireworks, popcicles, and fun.

I have had a mega fine summer thus far in L-town. It has consisted of:

Moving into a nasty little apartment, but I do have my own room and bathroom which is rather nice.

I have a new little nephew. Ty Dustin Hillam. And I may be partial because I am his favorite aunt, but I think he is probably one of the cutest babies I have ever seen.

Mel let me come and take some pictures of him while I was home last week, and considering it was with my dinky little point n' shoot and light from the window I think they turned out pretty good. Obviously not maximum quality but we made due. Plus when the subject is as cute as Ty its hard to take a bad picture.
I'm so excited to have this little guy in our family. And to see how he completes the amazing Hillams little family. I love them so much. And so blessed to have such an incredible family.

Last week I took the week off and headed down south the the K-Town so I could spend a week full of adventures with this girl.

Stephanie DeLaMare.

We went shopping at the outlets in Park City. Went to a drive-in movie. Roasted Mallows. Sling shot-ted. Played a little game of capture the flag. Hung out with the girls. Got sunburned swimming. Put together a package for the Elder Strong's. Laughed. Watched Glee. Laughed. Had a sleep over. And it all went by to quickly.

Its crazy to think that my best friend will no longer be on the same continent as me in 17 days.

We have never not known each other, and have literally grown up together three houses apart for 20 years.

You might recall a post mentioning this beautiful girls twin sister (my other bestie) Shannon Sue Ellen. We have all gone through so much together. I don't think they will ever know how much I have looked up to them and their beautiful examples and testimonies.

Their dad got called as a mission president to the Philippines. So Dave, Kayla, Ben, and Steph are all moving June 27th. It is going to be such an amazing experience for their family, and I can't think of better people to have been called to this.

It just sucks that my best friend is leaving me. I know I should be super happy for them which I totally am. But sometimes I like to be a little bit selfish as well.

Step-On-Me you are going to have such an amazing experience, and I am going to miss you everyday. But I think it is safe to say if we can make it through 20 years...the next 20 will also be an adventure. All I have to say is Bring it on.

The six chicks + little Cambria. About to go swimming.

Slack Lining. Very difficult. Uber Cool. Makes Rick look like a GIANT.

I am super sad I didn't bring my camera on the boat. But the miss Laura Luke and I went Wake Boarding today with some awesome friends. Little to say this picture sums up the experience...Minus the freezing cold temperature and cloud cover that did not add to our summer goal of getting tan.

But we did have fun, and my fore arms got a massive work out. They hurt so bad I am having to type this with my toes. Wake Boarders are hard core it is a tough hobby/sport. My new goal: be able to stay up longer than 2 seconds next time I go.

Other fun shananigans of Summer 2010 so far...

• Going four wheeling and to a Bee's Game with a cute boy.
• Having Crepe Saturday's and Sunday's with the roomies.
• Meeting new people.
• Catching up on all of the Glee episodes.
• Went golfing for the first time.
• Seeing my brother Inlaw skydive.
• Spending Memorial day with the Family.
• Being able to read books. Hooray.

and just lovin life.

Hope you are having a great day.

Young Victoria.

Attention World.

If you have not seen this little beauty of a movie. Run to Redbox right now and get it.

I'm serious Run.

If you are like me and love old movies such as Pride and Prejudice, North and South, Emma, Sense and Sensibility....this movie is for you.

Even if you don't like old movies as mentioned above this movie is still for you.

(Haley Jeanne)

I went and got it from red box when I was staying at the Crocketts last week while they were out of town and I watched it one and a half times monday night, then I watched it the next night, and the next day and almost every night until I just barely returned it today.

At this rate I could have bought it for what I owe redbox now. But that is ok. It was worth it.

I will own it one day.

Because I

Love

Love

LOVE

it.

Oh and did I mention I pretty much love Albert? One day I will have an Albert of my own.

Until then I will just watch this movie over and over.

As should you.

Empty.

So it turns out you cars need gas in order to run correctly.
Who freakin knew!?

Well I obviously didn't because last night on my way home from work my car died in the middle of Sardine poopy canyon. Luckily this time I wasn't dressed like Professor Trelawny.

This time I was fortunate enough to have a car full of all my possessions because I am homeless this week, it was pitch black outside, and raining. That's right I said raining. But a real nice highway patrolman stopped and offered to help me fill up my oil....haha yes I thought it died because my oil was out. Wrong. Then he kindly offered to drive me back so I didn't have to freeze in my old grandma car all night.

My amazing friend Jessica Gifford is the only one I knew in Logan this week and she graciously let me bum at her house. And today I got to go to work in the same clothes and hair I had worked in the previous day. I am very grateful and I am sure my clients at the studio were glad she let me use some of her toothpaste to brush my teeth with my fingers. Don't you just love doing that? I don't.

Then today after work my lovely mother, father, and sister Kristen came and rescued me. Dad brought up the trusty old gas can we filled it up to the brim with gasoline. We all crossed our fingers as Dad started filling the BU up. And by some miraculous work from above the car started and got me safely home to Kearns, Ut.

I am so grateful that it wasn't anything other than my own stupidity and blondness that temporarily killed the car.
Lesson learned. From now on I will always check my gas gauge before entering the Bermuda canyon.
And I will never tell my mom I hopped into a car of a policeman again. She about had a heart attack when she found out...thinking he was a rapist or killer (mother I am not that stupid).

Thank you Officer Preece for rescuing me in the cold dark canyon. Thank you parents and sister for saving me from staying in logan without any belongings. Thank you Jessica for giving me shelter and muffins. And Thank you buick for still being a wonderful car...I will never put you through that torture again.
Sincerly-Me

Oh P.S. I got a 3.6!!! Wahoo!
Take that probation.

Splendid News.

Wonder of Wonders! Miracle of miracles!
(song from Fiddler on the Roof)

Yes...this magnificent song has been stuck in my head since I looked up my grades on my transcript.
So here is the story. My lovely counselor advised me to take Evolution-Biology 3010. Because it would fulfill two of my gay breadth requirements. So of course I thought wow, kill two birds with one stone! That will be wonderful, no it was not wonderful folks. In fact it was the extreme opposite of wonderful. I can officially say I hate evolution. It IS a theory. (that is the main thing I learned during this devil class). Luckily I had the wonderful Jessica Sweat and Madeline Newhouse in the class to suffer along with me, because without them I think I would have died.


So after months of extremely hard tests and writing ridiculous papers with very very very strict guidelines, all while trying really hard to sound scientific (which for me is very hard because I am definitely not scientifically minded) I just found out I got a
B-

Yay!!!!!!

Why am I cheering for such a bad grade?
Well because this is not a bad grade when you think you aren't going to pass the class.

People of the world I cannot tell you how much of a relief this is!!!

It is a wonder of wonder! Miracle of Miracles!
I don't know how I did pass!

Thank you Bill Brindley for giving me a passing grade..I am sorry I cursed your class almost everyday this last semester. You really are a nice old man.

But evolution you are still stupid.

Guess What?

I am officially done with classes as a sophomore.

One more week of finals....and school is over.

What does this mean you ask?

SUMMER.

Huzzah!!!

LOST

So if there were one decision that would be the most horrible, worst decision you could ever make one week before finals it is this one.



Sunday night Hali and I decided it was a good night to fall asleep to a movie on the the trusty old lap top....as we are looking through her netflix account for something to watch she says we could watch lost....Why Why Why!?? Why would we ever do this to ourselves!




I have always thought LOST looked like a good show but never watched it when it first came out and was always to lazy to rent the seasons to watch them. Lucky for us Hali has a sweet netflix account so we can watch it anywhere anytime. Awesome right?



No. Not awesome. Especially the week before finals. We are so dumb.



Pretty sure the last four days we have watched 17 episodes....and when we aren't watching the amazingly addicting show we are thinking about it or dare I say dreaming about it.



Finals why do you have to get in the way of our new obsession?? You have hit us at a very inconvienant time.



I cannot wait until the blessed day comes when school. Until then I say DIBS on Jack.

Lets let the Sunshine take us there.

Alright so life since spring break has been going a million times faster then I would like it to. School is kinda killin me right now...really though.

But, Good news! There is only four more weeks until school is our for the Summer. That is crazy talk but oober exciting.

Katie Jo, Laura Luke, Haley Jeanne, and I are all staying up here in Logan for the summer months. And word on the street is Logan is the bomb during the summer.

Because school has been a mad house of craziness since i got back from California I have had hardly anytime to blog about my Spring Break festivities.

California was Amazing.

California IS Amazing.

Here is a condensed version of our S.B 2010 Itinerary:

Saturday: Wake up too early, Drive to Cali while trying not to get killed by killer tumble weed. Meet some cool Utah guys and get their numer while driving past vegas after we held up a Stop looking at the porn sign to them.

Check.

The Killer Tumble Weed...coming right up around that next bend.

Sunday: Went to a local singles ward which had really good speakers, walk down the hollywood walk of fame, find out its not as cool as you imagine cause lots of weirdos go there. Go the the Observatory that overlooks L.A's skyline.

Check.

I like to call this one Rabid Chip Munk.

Look Framiliar? This is where they filmed the Jog/Photography Club scene in Yes Man. This is us pretending to be the extra's in the movie.



Monday: Huntington Beach, it was so warm and wonderful.

Sunburns. Sand Castles. Sun Glasses.

Check.

That night we went to Dana Point and had a camp fire. We roasted hot dogs, mallows, and laid on the beach looking up at the stars while making up raps and almost peeing our pants. The boys we met on the freeway came and they were really cool.

Tuesday: The girls and boys seperated for the day while the boys went to a brazilian restaurant and the girls went shopping in old town Pasadena. We love H&M...just sayin.

Cute little Cupcake shop.

Later we met up with the boys in China Town..it was kinda boring.

Bought cool friendship bracelets.

Check.

That night we met the cool freeway boys at Santa Monica Pier. It was a lot of fun.

We stuffed our faces with Crepes. Played in the ocean at night. And met more kids from utah, and one that was in High School Musical. Score!

These are the cool boys.


Wednesday: St. Patricks day and Disneyland!!!

You can't tell by our faces but we were all pretty bitter towards Rain Forest Cafe. We waited for a table for about an hour and twenty minutes...the original wait time was 45.

Lame.

Thursday: Disneyland again! Hooray!

Heads popping off with excitement.

Check.

Friday: Newport temple, and Laguna beach.

The Newport Beach Temple is beautiful. It was an amazing experience.

Saturday: Six Flags.

Needless to say it was kind of a crapper. We only got to go on four rides the whole time.

Saw a whole lot of W.T.

Check.

But yet the roller coasters were still awesome..except when Laur and I got stuck on one for ten minutes.

It was such a fun trip!!! I am so glad we got to go.

California, someday I would like to live in you? On you?...but only for a little bit cause I would get homesick for Utah. Because Utah is pretty spectacular, except when it snows on April 1, 2, and 5.