Sunny and 75

Last week I went to my younger cousin, Morgan's 8th grade graduation as I have previously talked about. We had her graduation party and it was so sweet! 

They obviously weren't paying much attention to me, but this is Morgan and one of her good friends, Sam. 

My aunt and uncle put a picture of Morgan from her first day of kindergarten on the cake! I wonder what the people making this cake thought about it...they probably had a nice laugh. 

My uncle also wrote a poem for Morgan for her graduation. It was so cute! She's growing up :)

I had my last final yesterday!! I'm officially a junior now!!! I studied so much I think my brain is worn out. 

I studied for 5 straight hours for chemistry!! 5 hours!! Buuuut I got through it with the help of my man, Phillip Phillips 

I think we all can tell what the real accomplishment was here....I listened to 5 straight hours of Phillip Phillips :) 

I had to get all of my books together for book buybacks at school yesterday. It was stressful...trying to fit all the freshman, sophomores and juniors in the cafeteria, not the best idea. 

Two nights ago was the last night with my tablet...as much as I hate having to use it for school, I'm gonna miss the little guy. I loved having my own laptop! 

Yesterday was probably one of the best school days I've ever had. Since I have my restricted now, my parents actually let me drive to school! I woke up at 5:30 am (I'm actually surprised I got up!) I got ready and ate breakfast 

I drove over to my best friend, Lexie's house to pick her up. 6:30 am, right on the nose. We drove over to Starbucks, being the tipical teenage girls we are :) I got the blended strawberry lemonade....by far one of my favorites. Then headed off to school and got there about 30 minutes before the first bell, huge success in my book. 

After taking my last exams, chemistry and geometry, I met up with Lexie in the cafeteria and we walked to the car together. 

We drove over to panera, hoping to beat the lunch rush. Baaaaaad idea to go to panera at noon....literally no where to park. So surprise, surprise we went to Mcallisters :) after lunch we walked across the parking lot to hobby lobby 

We decided to get a little crafty on our first day of summer by making pocket tshirts! 

I picked out this pretty, pink chevron pocket 

Lexie went with a classic, gray chevron pocket. 

We also bought some tie dye to use tomorrow night! 

We got back in the car and drove over to target, one of the best places on earth, to buy some white vnecks to tie dye. She also had me try my first naked juice! 

The strawberry banana was so good! Definitely getting it again. 

We went on a walk....got rained on. It was actually fun :) 

After the rain cleared up we drove over to my boyfriends house, he needed some help with correcting some math homework. With me being that odd kid who loves to do math, I was excited to help. 

Later last night we grabbed some vanilla ice cream and surprised our friend, Matthew with it. He has just gotten his wisdom teeth out three days ago and was a little swollen still. 

SUMMER DAY 1 

Today we woke up at 11, it was such a great feeling to sleep in. Lexie made eggs for me and my other best friend, Katelyn. 

After just hanging out for a while and watching some What not to Wear, Katelyn and I jumped in the car to go get sweet tea. Where might we go? Hmmm how about the place I talk about in almost every blog post. MCALLISTERS! This time, we decided to go big or go home. 

Two gallons of sweet tea, three girls....challenge accepted. 

Katelyn snuck a cool looking panorama when I got in the car. 

Well today marks the day where I got gas all by myself! Look at me gettin all old and such. I still can't believe that $10 only got me 3 gallons. Stupid gas prices. 

Katelyn and I got kinda hungry so we picked up lunch for everyone.  

While it may not be the healthiest choice, it was fun! (I know this is so not paleo approved, but hey...first day of summer. I took a little break) 

While drinking my sweet teas and enjoying the nice weather on the back porch, Katelyn gave me a tattoo!! Well...a sharpie tattoo. 

I had seen on Pinterest before that you could make temporary tattoos by drawing it in sharpie, rubbing on some baby powder then spraying it with some hair spray. It actually worked!! 

Katelyn drew birds on my right foot 

And wrote love on the inside of my left foot....this one started to rub off because of my sandles, but I'll touch it up later. 

I've been so busy!! Hopefully I'll get to blog more over the summer! 

How has your summer been? 

Update!

I have been so busy with school that I haven't had time to blog! Let me recap everything that has happened recently. 

1. I started trying to lose weight with my best friend. We both really want to and we decided that the best way to do it was together!

2. I went to lunch with my parents and had an amazing salad at one of my favorite places...McAllisters!! I got the pecanberry salad...I highly suggest it 

3. I started the paleo diet with my family this week! It's not as difficult as I expected it to be and I've already lost about 8 lbs. this week. While it takes quite a while to prepare each meal, they've all been delicious. Not a single meal has left me feeling bloated and I feel comfortably full after eating. In the past I had lost 15 pounds by just keeping track of calories using the app, My Fitness Pal. With the paleo diet, it says not to worry about counting calories, just watch portion control, and eat paleo approved things! So easy! 

This was my first paleo breakfast. It took about two hours but it was so good! It didn't really fill me up much though. It was almost like a little egg pizza! I can't remember everything off the top of my head but it had egg and lettuce in it and I topped it with salsa and chives. 

I didn't take pictures of every meal but just some of my favorites! This one here my dad made...I was surprised it turned out amazing with him cooking! (Shh don't tell him that) 

This was a cumin chicken lettuce wrap. After everything was cut up and seasoned it only took 6 minutes to make. So simple! I would love to eat this every day. I rinced pieces of Boston lettuce, added a slice of avocado (even though I hate it...my dad made me), and added in my chicken, peppers and onion. As Emeril would say, "Let's kick it up a notch!" and we topped it with a little like juice! (Whatching Emeril on tv when I was little used to be one of my favorite things) It was great. It was a little messy, but so worth it. 

4. I started job training for my first real job! Yay!! My two best friends and I decided we wanted real jobs and so we applied together! 

5. I started finals at school yesterday! I thought that day would never come with all those snow days! I took my US history final and got a 91% (woot woot!) 

6. I took my road test at the DMV! I was so nervous about parallel parking! I was also scared I would get a mean guy grading my test...he was a little grumpy, but oh well. The good news is that I passed!! I have my restricted now!! The first place I drove alone was to the bank for my dad. I started driving, smiling and excited, and then of all things...IT STARTED RAINING! The first time I ever drove in the rain was by myself. It was a little stressful but hey I got through it! 

7. Last night I went to my younger cousin's 8th grade graduation! I can't believe she's going to start high school next year! She graduated from the same gradeschool I went to so it was sad to see her leaving. I had a very small gradeschool so everyone was really close. I even got to see some of the people that graduated with me that I hadn't seen in almost a year! We planned to all go see the fault in our stars together next week! 

8. Finally were caught up to today! My mom and I drove up to the tanning bed, for her...she won't let me go. She told me to drive over to McAllisters to get some sweet teas. (Even though not paleo approved, but you can't pass up a Mcallisters sweet tea when it's right down the street) So I switch over to the drivers seat and go on my way. I get there, park pretty perfectly if I do say so myself (I have a major parking issue) I look over and realize that my mom never gave me the keys...great. I couldn't turn the car off to go get the tea! How could I drive without the key you might ask...we have one of those cars that just has the button to start. 

So I have to drive all the way back to the tanning bed and wait for her. I had to waste a lot of gas sitting outside because I couldn't turn it off!! Finally she gets in and gives me the keys. I dropped her off at Kroger and headed over to get the tea. On the bright side I had a free tea card! And I got my other card stamped to number 9! 

  

It took a long time but I was finally ruined with my sweet tea :) 

I'll leave you with this question...

Have you ever had their sweet tea? 

It's so great