Sing me to sleep tonight, sweet Juliet.

My addiction and guilty pleasure these days is Family Search Indexing. I find it so calming and methodical, so fun to decipher the names, and heck, it's even worthwhile! I've now indexed 1047 names since the beginning of the summer, so in a month. Hooray! It is so much fun, you should try it sometime!

"Family history, I am doing it, my family history..."

I always get sooooo bored on the topic of family history and genealogy during church and such, but I never get bored doing indexing! It is a fun and simple way for me to get involved in family history, which I know is very important for me to do!

Book 6.

The Map Thief, by Heather Terrell.

I definitely liked this book the most of all the one's I've read so far this summer. It was a book seeking to find an answer to a real life mystery through fiction. It was really interesting, and very likely actually. This author helped me really feel the emotions of the main characters, the book felt very real. It was really neat! I would recommend this book.

Book 5.

Say You're One of Them, by Uwem Akpan

This book was really really depressing. It was five short stories put together, each told in the point of view of a child. Each child lived in different, but each dismal, circumstances in different countries in Africa. Each of the stories ended in the death of the child, or someone very close to the child. It was very very sad. The saddest part is I know these things really do happen in Africa.

Baby come back.

I was feeling moody and down the other day. I was feeling like I didn't have any friends or people that cared about me. I then realized I was being a bum. Because there are so many people that I am friends with and that mean a lot to me! Therefore, this post is mostly for myself to remind me of all the great people I've met and grown to love even more this past school year :)



Alex Wright - aka the best fhe dad ever!!



Bishop and Sister Armstrong - suuuper classy people.



Bencois. What a great kid :)



Blake "Stoneface" Lord. I like it when he wears dark jeans.



Bro. Davis is soooooooo great!



Brennan Leavitt is a cutie with a cute smile!



Carly is the bestest younger sister eva.



Chalay! I just like her a lottt.



Chris "bestie" Perfili! He was a hoot.



Oh Christine. The fun times we had!



Dear Clarka. It was a pleasure to be his sidekick.



Collin! From beginning to end, great friends.



Daniel's a cutie :)



David challenges me to do hard, but good things. Like dominate mancakes.



Don!! A great chatting buddy.



Emily Eckley is darling in every aspect.




Grantie Panties!! Good times.



Ian Ian Ian. Great kid.



Jam-es! You're so cool :)



Jared! I miss his crazy ways. And seeing his bedroom light on driving home.



Jay! Tell me story? haha.



Jerlier! Future roommates! Woooo!



Oh Katie. You are so silly. Hope Cali is warmer than Utah ;)



KLEE!! Come back from Idahoooooo :(



Kolby is so much fun!



Oh Kristen. Living with only children makes me laugh.



Kylo!! I miss him sooo bad! BFF!



Kylie!! I love her so much. Best roommate ever!!



Oh good ol' elementary school best friends :)



Parker! I love Parker hugs.



Rebbie! She's a great girl and a great friend!



Ryan! This picture just describes our relationship.



Sammie! Such a great boy.



Oh Shawn. I know you think I'm psycho.



Spencer! This right here is one classy boy.



Sterling! He gets me through hard days.



I can always count on Trevor for a laugh or two.

I'm feeling like a star - you can't stop my shine.

Oh yeah, last week I cut all my hair off. So... here it is :)
10 inches shorter, 10 minutes to do it, 10 times lighter!

Before...

After...

Book 4.

Postcards from No Man's Land, by Aidan Chambers.

"Some people say falling in love is a kind of madness whenever it happens. If that's so, all I can say is I would rather be mad than sane."

I was sooooo happy when I read this quote. We are like kindred spirits.

"He remembered Anne recording in her diary how she longed to be kissed... and sympathized, kissing, in his opinion, being among the best of pleasures. But why, he wondered... was such a comic action as melding your damp oral membranes with someone else's so desirable? Where did sure an impulse come from? What on earth could it have to do with evolution and human survival in the Darwinian circus that it should be so widespread and wished for?"

True that, double true.

This book was definitely not one of my favorites. I thought it was going to be a cool World War II story, but then it ended up being a love story that I didn't really like or approve of really. And there were just some really unnecessary things in it that could have been left out and made the book much more enjoyable and not random. I wouldn't recommend it.

Book 3.

The Crystal Cave, by Mary Stewart.

This book is the legend about Merlin. I liked it because most of the time it is the legend about King Arthur, and only briefly mentions Merlin and such. But this book went into his life, from being a bastard child to finding out his real heritage to his great prophesies and doings. It was a cool book! I'm sure glad I don't live in medieval times! (PS that is a very tricky word to try and spell.) I might have to go find the other two books in the trilogy now!