Secondhand Serenade

On Friday I went to my first concert. It was way fun except for sitting there on grass for 2 hours waiting for it to start. My friends and I saw a band called Secondhand Serenade :). Their opening acts were single file - who wasn't that great, and Parachute who was actually really good. Secondhand came on after them and sang a lot of songs. I love their music not one song is bad. I highly recommend listening to them. Their songs are really good but the stage performance was pretty boring but that's okay. It was crazy hot the whole time especially up in the crowd by the stage, but we got over it. After the concert we all went to Braedon's house for food and to chill then we went to Lily's. Everyone left except for me, Lily, and Alyssa cuz we were going to have a sleepover! So we went over to Alyssa's and on our way over we found Braedons toy fish that he won at the concert in my car. So we decided to "kill" it. Mean I know but it was fun! So we crossed out its eyes and put a hook in it and put a nail through it and put those plastic soda things around it haha it was really mean but funny. Then we put it in water and we sent Braedon pictures saying that littering kills fish and all this stuff (he recently got pulled over by a bike cop for littering a gum wrapper). Then we went to his house, window chalked his car, and hung the fish on his rear view mirror. Haha the next morning he found it and was pretty sad we killed his fish but he didn't kill us. Later on we went to wal-mart and got him two REAL fish! We were going to just get him one (named Doofish) but the lady said that they survive longer in pairs so we got him a friend named Extra. Haha we gave it to him and he was happy! So Friday/Saturday was super fun!

Photoshoot

A few weeks ago my friend, Alyssa, called me and told me she had refered me to this photography place. They were looking for two girl seniors from every high school in our area and needed another one from my school. They ended up calling me and I had my first photoshoot with them yesterday. It was at 8:30 in the morning but still crazy hott. The photographers name was Valery and her husband was Jared - he basically does the lighting and editing. So we met up and took a bunch of pictures at this old storage place with a bunch of huge bins everywhere. It was a lot of fun and I can't wait for the next one. They are going to take all of my senior pictures for free, all I have to do is promote them! If you want to check out all of my pictures just go to www.mysimplephotographer.com, click on proofing gallery, then click on Seniors, then click on me. In order to look at them you just have to enter in your email address and you are good to go!

Date Night

Last night was way fun. After girls camp my friend Megan and I decided that we would go on a double date. So we planned the whole thing out got some dates and even got another couple to join in. My date was Beau Jones and he is a stud. He is on the soccer team with my good friend Nick and I thought he would be a fun date so I asked him. Turns out he was a very very fun date. So we all met up at Megan's house and started making pizzas! It was kind of difficult to roll out the dough and everything but we managed. Hunter -Ashley's date- was like a pro pizza maker or something! He must make pizza all the time at his house because he stuff his crust with cheese and it was almost a perfect circle. We were all quite impressed. My pizza had a cute little smiley face on it :). Once the pizzas were in the oven we went and played twister. Beau was trying to act all cool and stretch before we started, so we all stretched haha. Then the game began. It was a really fun game, probably because I was basically just hanging out on the end of the mat but it worked out. Hunter was standing the whole first part which was lame haha. Megan, Alex, and Beau had it the worst.
Beau was first to get out followed by me but only because he pushed me off! Then Ashley was the next to go. Alex, Megan, and Hunter were really good! We all ate our pizzas by the time they were done playing haha. After everyone ate their pizza -which was very delicious- we pulled out the kareoke machine. We must have sang songs for like 2 and a half hours. It was so much fun everyone was amazingly good! But we also made a joke out of it and got some good videos. After our concert we had an ice cream sundae buffet which ended up breaking into a huge whip cream fight which was fun but not the cleaning up part. Haha after that I took Beau home and then went and slept. It was a WAY fun date :)

Girls Camp

This past week I went to girls camp and it was sooo much fun! All of the youth leaders went up a day early(tuesday) so we could get everything ready for when the stake came up. We had to set up our camp which was insane beacuse we had one beast of a tent! It was one of those army tents and it was huge and heavy but totally worth it. Then we had lunch, a devotional, a service project, and just hung out. The next day we made posters, got ready for everyone to arive and sang songs. Once everyone showed up and set up camp, we had a flag ceremony and then split all the girls up for hikes. The hike I went on was really easy, I was kinda bummed haha but i'll live. It was supposed to be five miles but it only ended up being two. Once the hikes were over we all went to our wards and did an activity. The next day was ward day. My ward played a bunch of games, sang songs -we brought guitars! - ate food, made little yearbook picture frames, made friendship bracelets, and tye dye shirts! It was really fun. Thursday I honestly can't remember what we did haha I do know that we wrote letters to missionaries but that is all I can remember. Friday was our last day but we weren't allowed to break camp until 2:00. So in the morning we had skits and camp cheers, devotionals, and ward time. My ward did this activity were we split all of the girls up in groups and we talked about what makes a good friend and what makes a bad friend. My group did awesome! Haha Sister Wilkey also came and talked to us about friendship and modesty. By the way our camp theme was friendship if you haven't caught on yet :). Oh I almost forgot the best part. So I as on my way to go help my ward set down their tents and stuff and i'm on the path in the middle of this forest and I am almost to the path to turn off to get to their camp. I look down and there is a snake just chillin on the ground. Of course I didn't scream, move, or even breathe because I thought I would scare it and it would bite me. So I stood there in the middle of the forest with a snake like a foot in front of me - if that - for five minutes until finally there were some other girls that were walking behind me making a ton of noise and when the snake heard their noise he must have got scared because he slithered away fast. Luckily he slithered away and didn't bite me. But after he left I ran to camp and I was freaking out. It was actually kind of funny. Turns out it was just a little gardner snake and it wouldn't have killed me, but the fact that it could have bit me was just scary! So after that we took pictures, took down camp and went home. It was super fun and I can't wait for next year.

Family Reunion!

The past week was the Hoppins Family Reunion - and it was super fun! The first day was really chill. Everyone just showed up and we all hung out, ate food, and got to know one another. The next day everyone got on an amazing bus and went to some musuems and then the beach! The beach was kind of cold but it was fun. My cousins pretty much rock! The next day was family game day. We went to a park and played EFY games and water baseball. It was fun you had to stand in pools at each base and the whole family was making fun of each other and being competitive it was fun :)Then we had a movie night - we watch Enchanted. On the last day we went back to the park and took pictures of the individual families and the whole group it was pretty insane. Then we went back to my Aunts house for laser tag, bungee run, bounce house, food, volley ball and just to hang out! Volleyball was probably the best because everyone got into it and idk it was just fun. Laser tag was fun too. All the teenagers went in and played tag which was fun except everyone kept getting hurt because we were running around in this maze and someone would turn the same corner as you and BAM! your on the ground haha. It was totally worth it. The bungee run was also way fun. You put this belt around you that had a bungee cord connected to it and you ran as far as you could and placed your "marker" where you landed and then you flew back. I wasn't very good but Erin was! Sunday everyone just left, well mostly everyone. Everyone that stayed came over for a left over dinner night. All in all it was a way fun week and I already miss it!

Dad's Birthday

Yesterday was my dad's birthday! We all woke up early and got ready because we still hadn't really gone birthday shopping haha which was okay because we still needed to get food for the barbeque we were going to have later on that day. Once everyone was ready we went to costco and got food, clothes for dad, and new phones for the house haha. After that we came home we wrapped presents, cleaned the house, and prepared chips and other stuff for when people started to come. Once some people showed up we started playing uno spin which was really fun and I must say that I dominated!! :) After that we ate some steak and it was very delicious! Then we all talked and went inside to play Yahtzee - which I also dominated in. It was a really fun night. Who knew my dad and stepmom's friends could be so fun!? Haha well it was a good day and my dad had a great birthday.

4th of July!

Today was the fourth of July and it was pretty fun. We just chilled all day and cleaned haha we went to Alex's work for dinner it was pretty tasty. We ate alligator! It was actually really good! When it was time for the fireworks we just went to a little place downtown and watched them. There were people everywhere! It was so crowded! I was glad we didn't go to the beaches though, they are way worse! All in all it was a pretty good celebration for our country!