just a little catching up

Oh wow. It's been quite a while since I've posted anything on here. Where to start...I've already told about most of the beginning of the summer... so I suppose I'll tell about the rest :] I honestly can't remember what we even did in June, so I guess I'll start in July and go up until now, and if I remember June later I'll post about it when I remember it :p So. 

The first thing I remember in July, is the PG fireworks show on the 4th. Chris tagged along with my family and him and I sat by ourselves and watched the fireworks :] It was FANTASTIC! I got some really good pictures of the fireworks :] Although, they were louder then I remembered. Anywhoo. Oooh, I almost forgot. The firework display was during the Alpine fire, so the mountain looked like an active volcano at times. Either that, or a village of cannibals having a very large bonfire... :p 

I also went to an outdoor concert at the PG Promenade. Performed by none other than PG's own Bonne Nuit!!! ( who just happens to be AWESOME!!) just saying :] I took around 125 pictures just from this one concert. Oh man, the facial expressions people make when they get really into what they're doing are quite hilarious!! 




Lets see, what else. Chris, Annekke and I went ice skating at Peaks in Provo. There was maybe 25 people on the ice the entire time we were there. It was super fun. I fell for the first time in like forever :p Oh, and don't even get me started on the drive home..... Lets just say I HATE construction with a burning passion of 100000000 suns. :p

There was a huge rainstorm one Monday, and Chris just happened to be over, so we went out and danced in the rain :] and I checked something off my bucket list ;] Kissing in the rain. Yep. It happened :]

On the 17, Chris took me on a double date with his parents. We went to Tepanyaki in Lehi. I ate my first piece of actual non breaded shrimp. Only because the cook dude threw it at my face wanting me to catch it in my mouth. Which I did. Chris couldn't do it. He tried..... twice :p Then we went to the Hale in West Jordan and saw The Sound of Music. It was actually really really good. 

Annekke stayed over the weekend of the 21. Oh man we had fun :] Mud masks, $5 booty shorts at walmart, waaayyyy too much junk food, drawing with chalk, watching the new Footloose movie. Yeah, it was a party :]

I went to Ryan Coomb's Mission Farewell. And Isaac Makin's. Yeah. I feel old. People I grew up with are going on missions. Weird.

And. Oh. My. Gosh. I learned my lesson about tanning. Don't use the beds. Nuff said. I had a coupon for a free week of tanning so I used it. Needless to say, I got very burned... well red actually. But weeks later I had a tan.... a very weirdly spaced out tan. Yeah. Just don't use tanning beds. End of story. 

 Annekke had a Nerf gun/sword and scary movie night at her house. It was an EPIC blast :] We totally NERFED her house. Then we watched Wait Until Dark with Audry Hepburn. It wasn't all that scary until the guy she stabbed that was supposed to be dead reached out and grabbed her by the ankle. Everybody jumped at that part. Yeah. Needless to say, my fears of the dark just got worse.



I went to see Annekke and Chris perform in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the AF ampetheater. It was absolutely amazing!!!! 





My family threw me a look 'whoo's going to college party. It was super cute!! There were owl cupcakes, cute little sodas, rice crispy treat "nests" with gumball "eggs" in them. Ohh it was awesome :] I love my fam!!!



I went on a group date to Temple Square with Chris, Annekke and Riley, and Shay and Conner. It was super fun :] We went to Chris's dad's restauraunt, Madaline's Steakhouse and Seafood. It was sooooo stinking good!!! And the cheesecake. Oh the cheesecake. It was a white chocolate raspberry cheesecake. SOOO GOOD!! Then we took tracks up to Temple Square. Then we went to Conner's band concert. LO FI RIOT!! They are so good :] And Chris smashed a car. 

I moved up to SUU on the 22 of August. Yup. I am now a poor college student.
And now I am all caught up. :]

oh how I love me some roses

 Lets just start this post off by me saying that this week has been the BEST week of my life :] I got a boyfriend ( who by the way is the sweetest boy on earth ), was given roses, and had my 2nd first kiss :] 

So rose story first. I went down to visit him at work ( Little Ceasers) on Thursday after my institute class with Annekke, and brought him a subway sandwich. He had told me that he had a surprise for me when I came, but wouldn't hint what it was. So I got there and he went into the back for a few minutes then came out with something behind his back. I was kinda freaking out at this point. Then he pulls out a dozen of the most beautiful pink roses I have ever seen :] The people in the store were looking at us funny, but I didn't care. I got roses from the sweetest boy :]

And now onto the kiss.......

So Friday night Chris, Annekke and I went to Maceys and got Nutella and Chips Ahoy then walked over to Sonic to eat them. Haha it was FUNNY!!  This was also when we figured out our song. Smile by Uncle Kracker "] Perfect fit "] Then I went to take Chris home, and susupposedly meet his aunt and uncle. So we get to his house, and he knocks at the door but no one answers, so we just stand there hugging for a good 20 minutes. Then Annekke yelled out a quote from asdf movie 5....... " hey, you guys should kiss!!!" Chris shot back with, " Shut up! We're having a moment!" haha oh how I love my friends.  Anyways, so we were having a "moment" and he told me he loved me, then was staring at me and started leaning down and then BAM!!! No, it was quite romantic :] Amazing actually. 

Yeah, this week has been like a dream for me :] And there's much more to come.......Annekke and I have like 20 double dates planned for the summer :] This will be the BEST summer EVER!!!

and the rest is history...

So much has happened since sweater swing... seeing as that is the last time I posted anything :p

First off would be the Festival of Colors... it was pretty fricken cool!!! I didn't even buy any chalk, and I was still COVERED within like 20 minutes... ;p Prett y epic if I do say so myself :]  Even if I was only there for an hour and a half :p

Next up is Morp. This year the theme was "Super Heroes". So what do we do??? Make capes!!! yeah that's right :] I took Stephen, Annekke took Wes, Shay took Conner and Michelle took Josh. And as you can see, my date was the best cuz he was Ironman :] He has a fan in his brace from when he broke his back, and he now has a fan that GLOWS!!! Yeah, it was basically the BEST costume at the ENTIRE dance :] Yeah, my date was the coolest :] 

Then there was the Avengers midnight premiere :] Soooo worth the lost sleep :] There were eight in our group, Me, Stephen, Brady, Kate, Shelbey, Tiff, Kylie, and Heidi. I didn't get home till around 4 a.m. :p Totally worth it :] We went to the Cinnemark in American Fork, and guess who was there.... IRONMAN!!! Yeah man!!! and so we had to get a picture.. oh i forgot to mention I also got extra credit for doing this :] Thank you Reeves!!! So yeah it was AWESOME!!!

Then there was the Senior Sluff Day at Lagoon. It RAINED!!!! Yes, rained. For three hours straight. And me and Annie were SOAKED!!! (as you can see in the picture, which was taken after around 30 minutes of being in that blasted rain) But it was still fun :] I left around noon, and then apparently it got better... WHAT!!! Oh well :] Still fun.

And last but not least, there's GRADUATION!!! :] Yes, after 13 years of hard work, I finally made it :] My graduation present was the laptop that I am typing this on :] along with about $120 from relatives :] Then was the SENIOR ALL NIGHT PARTY which was AMAZING!!! They had a comedian, inflatable bouncy toys, FOOD, a photo booth, storytime with Newman and Bayles, and a NEON dance :] it went from 11:30 to 4..... and I stayed up ALL NIGHT!! Yes please!! :]

Oh and I got a job up in SLC with my dad. What do I do? Put things in boxes and get them ready to ship... for $9 an hour!!! :] super easy!! :]

sweater swing: footloose edition

 Sweater Swing was a blast from the past!! I asked Evan Taylor, and it was awesome. So i asked him with a bottle of his favorite beverage, and attached a note that said, " Evan Taylor, it would be great if you would 'Pop' on over to sweater swing with me." I know, I'm so clever. :p And then he answered me back with.... Mtn. Dew!!! As you can see, it said, "Jessika, I 'Dew' want to swing with you!" Um yeah, so basically both me and my date are pretty awesome like that. :P

 My mom did our pictures by an old barn near my house. The theme was "Footloose"so i had my mom's old 80's belt, and earrings, necklace and even her class ring. Then I did the whole off shoulder sweatshirt thingy. Evan's dad was in the original Footloose movie, so he knew exactly what to wear. :P

My bff Amelia Rasmussen and her date Josh Rebollo were the other couple in our group. It was soo fun!!

Since the theme was "Footloose", we thought a foot shot would be appropriate. So we did just that :]




We went bowling at Jack and Jill Lanes in AF, then went to Pizza Pie Cafe in Provo. Ooooh how I love that place!! Sometimes Evan and I like to make semi serious faces because we can :P

So yeah, that was probably one of the best girls choice dances I've been to this year :]

birthday fun

 

So for my 18th birthday party back in February, my friend's band Bonne Nuit came and played in my garage. New meaning for garage band :p They were AMAZING! They even played a song that I asked them to, as a birthday present to me :] The song was For You I Will by Teddy Gieger. It was sooo good. Those guys can ROCK! They also let me join in at the end of I Love Rock and Roll by Joan Jett. LOVED IT!! 

long time no blog

 So I haven't posted anything forever and a half. So I will just make a few different posts about what's been going on in my life lately.

First post is about Sweethearts. It was my first ever boys choice dance in the history of my life. It was AMAZING! My friend Austin Rushton asked me, and of course I said yes :] There were three couples in our group. Me and Austin, Kaden, Todd and their dates ( i can't remember their names)

My dress took a while to find, but eventually I found it!! On clearance for $40 at 2Love at the mall. I loved it :] And the corsage Austin got me was beautiful :] My friend Julie made the boutineer. A white rose that had ribbon that matched my dress. 

Austin bought me a rose at the dance too. The colorguard was selling them for a fundraiser, so he got me one :]

my FIRST EVER boys choice dance :]

I got asked to Sweethearts yesterday!!! Just watch the video. There's a reason this kid is my best friend :]