Thanks Nate. What life's like after being gone for a month! I'm a new being.

Kay so.. I owe this post (the reason that it is happening at this time) to one of my best friends nathan tingey. haha shout out to nate.. i love you! Well anyways, he reminded me that I haven't written in a month; and I realized the story is only getting longer if I don't write NOW. Sooo thanks Nate. Okay so for about the past month, I have not received any home time for more than 24 hours. But.. it's been awesome. Haha I feel like I am famous! 

Hahahah okay.. so FIRST I went to my cabin!! I love that place. So much! Every time I go I just wanna move to a ranch or small town and just be a cowgirl the rest of my life.. YES. haha so we went up there for the fourth of JULY and visited our cousins. It was so fun! We saw this huge parade-- where I saw Catie Porter strolling the street with her fam!-- we ate and played games with our cousins, and I canoed for the first time! Hahaha I am a TERRIBLE canoer. But, I'm working on. My boy cousins, TJ, Buddy, and JImmy were chasing us down to flip us. So, giving in while screaming, we all jumped off the canoe and Buddy flipped over our canoe getting caught underneath in the freezing water. Hahaha it was SOO cold! HILARIOUS. Kay the fireworks that night were ABSOLUTELY mind blowing. They were GORGEOUS! As we sat and watched them, we would call a name of someone before it lit off in the sky; as it would blow up, it would describe their personality like perfectly! Haha we then gave it a name.. FIREWORK HOROSCOPES. Haha the night ended off wonderfully when I saw one of my good friends Conrad Nicol! Haha he came out of no where being his random self and picked me up; and, while swinging me around, he screamed at the top of his lungs. Haha man. I love that kid. 

After we jumped..

So I arrived home Monday morning, unpacked from the cabin, and packed for student council camp the next day! Student Council Camp. YES... there is definitely a camp for this! Well.. that was absolutely an experience I will never forget!! From the board breaking, food screaming, out of comfort zone, sickness, wonderfulness, friendship building, sick rhymes, and hoedown throw-down skit making. MAN. I totally grew from this camp. First off, the first day.. I was NOT feeling so hot. Yikes! But I overcame that throughout the next couple days with the help of the dear nurse and her sprite-tylenol-cracker method. WOOH! oh. and tootsie pops. Those things saved me life. Hehe so.. I broke a board. Yes that's right. With my bare hands, I punched through a pretty thick, wooden board. This speaker taught us all that we can do anything if we put our minds to it. And it's all about how bad we want it. So on one side of my board was my goals and dreams.. going to BYU and being a young ambassador, and running a marathon or half. (Now that I think about it, I should have put marrying Justin Bieber on that side too). Haha. Then on the flip side was what would keep me from reaching those goals.. like self motivation, the fear of failure.. (JB not being LDS). Ya know. Soo then.. with the skills she taught us, I focused super hard, while everyone else's voices surrounded me went hazy. I focused and with the adrenaline boosting encouragements from the crowd, I did it. I broke it on  the first try! YEEEES! Well later on in the week we did many other things that pushed your limits and put you outside your comfort zone. LIke staring into people's eyes silently... which was incredibly cool! Some people you could tell were just so guarded, and others you could see their whole life story and would just start bawling your eyes out. Hahaha. You just had to be there. I also had to eat baby food! Haha I decided to do the eating relay and took one for our team.. uhh I almost threw up. Just my luck to get baby food as mine! Sooo tasty.. it was peas. YUCK. hahaha my council was SOO awesome; I became good friends with a lot of them! And at the last night, I had to make up our group's skit.. which was the hoedown throw-down. Haha it was so fun! Then. the dance was awesome! What a cool.. let's just say something I will never forget.. experience. Haha I don't think anyone can really understand unless they've been through it. But I survived, AASC 2010.

My goals.. minus Justin Bieber. 

Focus... no doubt.

YES!! 

COWGIRLS <3

MOOO! Stuco cow?!

The last night I got about 3 hours of sleep.. only to come home, unpack, and pack for YASE!!!! My favorite place on earth! The place.. I would be flying off to in 13 hours.  

Well I have officially decided to end this post here, haha I'll have to write about my 3 other trips in due time. My fingers are cramping. I LOVE YOU GUYS! And miss you! 

Walk on sunshine. :)

Be yourself.

How to fight lonliness: SMILE all the time.

When in doubt, JUMP.

Emmaline.