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Sepia Tone Lovin'

2 days with my {Best Friend}

If you didn't already know, I went to high school in Georgia.

The first 2 years of it were pretty hard, and i was always looking forward to moving back to St. George for my senior year.

I turned 18 on August 31, 2007 and was just waiting for that day to come so that I could be an adult and move back to St. George for my senior year with my friends.

Then, after the summer, i went back to georgia before i turned 18.

I met Weston at church that next Sunday, (but i had heard how awesome his family was already from a bunch of people)

Then we had U.S. History together that Monday at school.

We spent the first 2 months laughing at every single thing we saw.

We played guitar hero, super smash bros, settlers of zarahemla, and went out to eat almost every day.

We got into trouble together, and had to go to saturday school twice haha.

We went to all our youth activities together. Church dances, youth conference, mutual, seminary. Everywhere together. The best year of high school. Plus we went to my senior prom together. i ended up staying in georgia pretty much because of him. and it was a HUGE blessing.

Now that i've been away at school, i only get to see him a couple times a year.

He got his mission call to Cordoba, Argentina and leaves tomorrow to go into the MTC.

I drove up to Provo Sunday morning just in time for his farewell.

2 of my friends from Georgia were there too, so it was so awesome to see them!

And Weston gave us a shout out in his testimony =)

I spent 8 hours at his house Sunday, playing settlers and games and talking with his family.

then yesterday we went to lunch. Landon and Weston drove down from Sandy and we spent the day around Provo.

We ate lunch at Zupas, then went to the Creamery and got some ice cream and walked around BYU.

Then we spent 2 hours at the Nickelcade haha.

Then saw Despicable Me. (Soo good, but not as good as Toy Story 3)

Then got some JDawgs for dinner

and played Wizard and Phase 10 til around midnight.

So another 9-10 hours just doing fun stuff.

Weston is my best friend.

I've never had such an awesome friend, it's like time doesn't exist and we just do tons of crazy fun stuff all day long. I'm going to miss seeing him the few times i get to. But i'll probably visit his awesome family.

I'm so grateful to have met Weston. He has changed my life and he doesn't even know it haha.

I'm going to miss him, but know that he'll be an awesome missionary!

I can't wait for the good times that will come after he gets home =)

Dearest Blogging Friends

Little Miss Stephanie Holm is so incredibly

HAPPY

Do you want to know why?

(if you don't, then you probably don't enjoy reading my blog.. sorry for that. =)

I have had the most incredible Summer vacation.

It has been more than i could have ever asked for:

{Family} galore with all my sweet nephews and niece

*swimming

*BBQ's and family dinners

*playing at the ranch

-riding fourwheelers, chasing the goats, picking sunflowers, baking really gross dutch oven cobbler, homemade ice cream, buying a new little puppy named "Ranger" to be our little ranch doggy.

{Friends}

*Lagoon

*Lunch & Dinner Dates

*FHE

*Tons of movies (alright alright i'm not ashamed anymore . . i've seen Eclipse THREE times =)

*Night games

*Making cute hair clips

*Camping

(my awesome song about P. Grizzly, i may have to record it to make everyone's lives a little bit better)

*Swimming & Laying out

*Doing little projects for my mommy

*talking til at least 2 a.m.

{Reading}

I've legitimately read over 6 books since I've been home

you may now call me a bookworm. i will gladly allow it.

{Alone Time}

There hasn't been a ton of this

but I got what I needed

and remember that post about where my umph went to?

I found it again.

It's called confidence, and knowing who I am.

and I found it

and Heavenly Father helped me by blessing me beyond comprehension.

And now here we are,

EIGHT stinking days til i go back to my home in paradise.

Can i be honest with you?

ok.

I'm anxious.

Really anxious to get the first couple of weeks in Hawaii over with.

and just to start again.

But i'm so so so so so so so so so

X's INFINITI

GRATEFUL

for this wonderful/amazing/beautiful/peaceful/serene/fun/awesome

summer vacation.

one more week.

=)

let's make it a good one.

I love you St. George. Thanks for the laughs.

{Love} to pieces

{American} Honey

I love America

I love that I get to decide what religion i want to be a part of.

I love that, even though there is a lot of corruption in our government, there are still people out there fighting for truth, righteousness, and peace.

I love that i grew up in this beautiful country, and got to experience popsicles and slip-n-slides in the summer with bare feet and the city pool. Fireworks on the 4th of July and family barbeques. Face painting and red-white-&Blue matching outfits. Frying eggs on the sidewalk, and rollerblading to the temple.

I love that I am an American. I am proud to be a part of the United States, and am so grateful that Joseph Smith did what he did, and was able to do it through the bringing forth of this amazing land.

The Lord set apart this place for his gospel, and if you haven't guessed, I love Him for it. because yes indeedio,

I'm proud to be an American.

{. . . }

*I got a new puppy =)

(he is the sweetest and tiniest little puppy and he goes with me everywhere, when i'm not fighting with my nephews to hold him haha. . . pictures on a later post.)

*I made 2 new friends that are so incredibly awesome i'll keep them forever. (bff's and so forth)

(after one night of hanging out, he said "i can't believe i've only just gotten to know you! great now i'll miss you when you're gone.) =)

*2 weeks left til Hawaii. . . i really felt like i just left.

(i'm exactly 50/50 right now. i want to go back, but i want to stay.)

*i have one and a half books left in the Book of Mormon

(i hope to finish before i leave)

*colored my hair

(the girl said i had 5, FIVE, colors in my hair haha so now it's all one color, and it feels longer even though she trimmed it..?)

*i got really sick a couple days ago. with no sleep for 2 days because of either my nose being retarded (like.. one side is runny and the other is stuffed, then i turn over and the opposite happens.. grr.) or the meds were keeping me up because i took the wrong ones haha. either way, my immune system is awesome cause it only lasted 2 days.

*i really really really want to go to lake powell again.

*my parent's ranch is Beautiful. and our little ranch dog scares the goats. I'll take pictures next time i got up. . . so ranch for a later post too.

=)

"I believe that Happy girls,

are the Prettiest Girls."

-Audrey Hepburn