My Summer Thus Far

Summer is officially here (and halfway over at that)!! I'm looking forward to all that the rest of summer brings.

(This is kinda scary, but did you know that Christmas is in 21 weeks??)

Summer has been pretty good so far. There has been a few not so great things, but that's just life. Why focus on the negative when we can focus on the good in life?

~Each June our town has a carnival and it is so much fun. I love riding rides. I met up with some of my friends there which was a blast.

~I went to the library in June! I haven't been in awhile so that was super exciting. :) Although I got too many books, and read hardly any of them....

~Three friends of mine came over and we had our annual When Calls the Heart marathon. It was fun watching season 6 together!

~I started a bookish Instagram account! That's been a lot of fun. Feel free to check it out here. 

~My dad's work had an employee work party and that was a fun night. For dinner there were food trucks. That was my first time eating at a food truck. (I always thought food trucks seemed a bit shady for some reason, but hey, I'm still here to tell about it. ;)) I totally felt like Hailey Dean though from Hallmark's Hailey Dean Mysteries. If you've seen those movies then you know what I'm talking about. ;)

~My phone dropped into a small puddle of ketchup....that's an interesting story..., but anyway, my phone was completely fine, I just was cleaning ketchup out of the case for a few days to come. 

~I sold books at a used curriculum sale. It was fun! I bought a few too, but thankfully I sold way more then I bought.

~The nasty mosquitoes are out. Those things love me and I currently have several bites.

~In April I started writing a book. I can't believe it at all! It's actually coming along quite well though.

I love my little bottle flash-drive. It really is a little message in a bottle!

~My mom, two of my brothers and I went to see Toy Story 4 in the theatre. I really like the Toy Story movies, so I was super excited to see this new one, but unfortunately, it wasn't very good and was quite a disappointment...

~I watched some fun Hallmark mystery movies so far this summer:

Picture Perfect Murder: Newlywed and Dead

Mystery 101: Playing Dead
Hailey Dean: Killer Sentence 

~Aside from those Hallmark movies I haven't seen many other Hallmark movies. I (you may want to sit down for this) haven't been in a Hallmark mood for several weeks now.

~I read an amazing book three weeks ago. It was Katie in Waiting by Erynn Mangum. It is definitely a new favorite! It was really encouraging and I could relate to the main character, Katie, so much! It was crazy how similar we are!!

~For the 4th of July my family and I went over to my grandpa's house for dinner, then later in the evening we met up with some friends to watch fireworks.

~I just got done with staying a few nights with a girl we know while her parents were out of town. It was pretty fun once I got over my homesickness. ;) The girl I stayed with and I did stuff like bake cupcakes together, watch movies, do doll stuff, and other things.


That's pretty much my summer thus far in a nutshell. ;)

I hope everyone is having a lovely summer!