My temporary home.

So Sara just requested photos of my room and so here I am in my new room and I decided to write about whats been happening lately. Warning: Its long.

Since I have been so busy these past couple of weeks it really hadn't hit me that I was actually moving to Utah. I spent my last day hanging out with Sara and the girls, Kayla and the rest of the fam. I wasn't really eager to pack so I left most of it for the morning I left--not so smart! I was just throwing things in because I honestly felt like I was just going on another trip and I was just "visiting" Utah. I guess I was just kidding myself because I now realize this is no "trip" , I'm here to stay. That night 20 minutes before Best Buy closed my parents surprised me with letting me go get a new computer! So Sara and Brad followed me and I was in and out in 10 minutes. I had to say goodbye to sara in the parking lot which was so hard. We both cried like babies. She has been my best friend and an AWESOME sister and i will miss her so much. I could go on forever.

That next morning I had to say goodbye to the rest of the f

amily. Tears everywhere. Saying goodbye to Kayla was so hard. I didn't want to make her sad and so I was trying to hold back but I just couldn't. I cried like a baby. Hugging my dad goodbye was especially hard. He has been my buddy while at home. We usually always went into our family room and talked about our schedules for the day and just life in the morning. I will miss that. He was always in and out during the day and it was so nice to see him so often and catch up on each others day. Love you dad!

I am not going away forever but it's still so hard. Luckily, my AMAZING mom came out to help us get everything we needed and just spend more time with us. We got in at 2 am and that morning Allison started her job. My mom decided that they wanted a car out here for me and allison so most of our days consisted of driving in the car and going car shopping. Let me tell you it is not what I expected. I officially hate car shopping. It is fun for the first hour but after 2 or 3 days I was not a fan. We had fun going to Ikea and getting bed stuff and looking around. The big thing for me was that as I was walking around Ikea I came across this huge tree picture/canvas thing. I didn't even question getting it. I just had to get it. I didn't know if it would go in my new room but no matter what i was going to have it. It reminds me of Maryland so much and I always used to take walks on the trails by our house and I just love all the trees. And it just screamed me. It was okay to put together and only took little nails to hang up so overall really easy. After getting that my room came together like that! My room turned out really nice and so peaceful. It reminds me of my room at home and I just love it! Obviously I didn't need it but my Mom was so sweet and wanted to make it feel more like home for me and made it all very nice for me. It was so nice to have my mom here and I kept on telling allison that she is lucky mom was here because I would have been in a very bad mood and very homesick if she wasn't here! haha. On monday we all took a drive up to Sundance and walked around. I love it up there! It was so beautiful and made me love Utah so much more! Sadly my mom left this morning and let me just say I HATE goodbyes. It kind of hit me after she left that this is it and I'm staying in Utah and I kept on thinking to myself " what did I get myself into?"

I will miss my mom so very much. It kind of feels weird to know that I won't live with my mom and dad anymore and I am sort of just on my own and making my own decisions. Its good and exciting but I still will miss my family so much! So today has been really hard day but on a good note this week is Education week so I think I am going to go to some classes and enjoy that. Allison had to work today and so I just had the apartment to myself which made me miss my family even more! I decided it would be a chill day and so I watched a few episodes of Lie To Me on Netflix, thanks to Sara and Brad! It is my new favorite show. Sara wanted pictures of my room so I put a few below. Well tomorrow I am going to go on campus and explore and do some school! I will miss home and Maryland so much but I am excited about things and eager to try my best in school!

Cafe rio. Pork salad and burrito. enough said.

New computer! but HP you will be missed.

My last night I slept with Kayla and she woke up in the middle of the night for about an hour and we played on the computer and just snuggled and talked. a.k.a --PERFECT last night at home. It was so adorable. I miss her so much.

Going to miss this little girl like crazy.

I think I packed too many candles and frames. whoops! Its fine though because i talked Allison into putting them all over. And she thought I couldn't do it! ha!

With a batch of cookies...how could it not feel like home? :)

Going to miss her.

Sundance

Love you Mom!

new roomie

This is the tree picture I got. It looks like the sun from the window is doing that but that is how the picture is. It is so beautiful and reminds of Maryland every time I look at it. It makes the room so peaceful.

my room.

gotta pick out some pictures for the frames

Georgetown Day/Night

For Allisons birthday celebration Sara and I all went on a bike ride to Georgetown on the Capital Crescent Trail. We were missing adrienne!!! I have to add that it was like 105 degrees and the humidity was killing us!!! I will definitely do this trail again, it was such a nice ride.Probably better without the crazy heat! We got back to the house and got ready and went to Serendipity to eat. We dressed up and had the best night! Luckily the wait was not bad and had some delicious nachos and a salad. Of course we had to get the Frozen Hot Chocolate and we also got this amazing chocolate brownie master piece! We walked around for a while and had so much fun! People probably thought something was wrong with us..we were laughing sooo hard and having lots of fun :) such a good day.

Loved this tunnel!! Was definitely my favorite part of the bike ride :) so fun to bike through it.

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!

ok so i was supposed to get a picture of me drinking it and there was nothing left and so I was pretending..it made us laugh so hard.

Summer days

I went up to Sara's for a few days and had a lot of fun! We went to the water park in west virigna and had a lot of fun with the girls. Sara and I even got to go down the slides! It was so nice to go to the water park when it was SOOO hot outside! And when we got back we had a fun dance party. haha video later..Thanks sara for a fun time!! :)

I just love her smile!! she's the cutest.

Stylish Annabelle..

The girls enjoying there rice cakes..

This was what Annabelle did all day. Wiping her eyes. Even when she didn't even get them wet!! She was so paranoid of getting water in them..too funny:)

Little Julia had no fear!! She crawled straight over the water! She needed to teach Annabelle a thing or two.

HAHA this was Annabelle all afternoon.

ha and this was me....I just loved getting buckets of water dropped on me!ha i was not acting my age. I miss being little..

That night we had a Dance Party or should I say the fisher girls had a dance party. I just enjoyed controlling the music while laughing at them. They had some pretty awesome moves..

Like mother like daughter :)

Julia wanted to join the fun

Took Kayla out to Potbelly's Saturday night.We both were wearing our new summer dresses!! She looked adorable!! I forgot how crazy parking would be on a Saturday night so we were driving around for about 20 minutes trying to find parking anywhere!! And i said that maybe we should just forget it and go somewhere else but Kayla said " NO! we will find a spot! We just have to keep on looking.We need our milkshakes!!!" Her positive attitude inspired me to look once more and amazingly we found one right in front of Potbelly's. She got out and said " see i told you??!! " What a cutie.

Sweet Annabelle

I just had to post this adorable video of Annabelle playing the piano while singing. how cute!!

Lately..

It has been really nice outside lately and I have loved being outside. By our house there is a pond and there is a trail I always take and it leads off in many different directions. My favorite thing is to take new ones and have no idea where I am going. Walking in the HOT weather isn't so bad because there are so many trees that give me shade. I love just walking in the woods with the nice sound of water right next to me.It's so peaceful and I rarely see anyone else on them. A few days ago I was about to cross a stream and I guess I wasn't looking down and I smell something really bad so I looked down and 2 feet in front of me was a dead deer being eaten by thousands of bugs. I turned around because I didn't feel right just passing it...disgusting. Anyways, I'm loving this nice weather!!!

I was on this trail for hour and a half and had no idea where I was. That's the fun of it though. I finally had to turn around because it was degrees outside and had no water!!!!

beautiful.

not a bad view.

Had to throw a picture of Kayla in here. She is adorable!!!

she is the cutest.

love her so much!