GOOD:

• summers at lake house in Missouri
  • swimming all day
  • SeaDoo (sooo fun. i tend to scream when i drive)
  • long boat rides
  • chilling all day
  • reading out on the dock
  • riding in the back of the pickup truck to get the famous gas station pizza
  • jumping off cliff (scariest thing ever! i landed weird and got a huge raspberry bruise on the back of my thigh...maybe this should be on the bad memories. haha)
  • jumping off platform manyyyyy times
  • learning how to water ski with kev
  • Grammy's big birthday parties
  • Fourth of July fireworks (all the boys being ruh-tards)
• RedSox games at Fenway Park every summer (i dont even remember how many i've gone to)
• watching (on tv) the RedSox win the World Series in 2004 & 2007
• Atlanta December 2007
  • Georgia aquarium
  • Coca Cola factory
  • CNN Center
  • Sundial restaurant
• spring break Florida 2008
  • Universal Studios
  • Sea World
  • MGM
  • Aquatica
  • Discovery Cove
• snow tubing in Colorado, spring break 2009-reallllly fun
• NYC summer 2009 & 2010 (favorite city in the world. so far)
  • 2009
    • NJ Transit
    • Liberty Island
    • Ellis Island
    • Empire State Building
    • Times Square
    • Planet Hollywood for dinner
    • American Museum of Natural History (the next day)
  • 2010
    • Madame Tussauds
    • Times Square
    • 5th Avenue!
    • rode in first taxi
    • running throughout Penn. Station to make NJ Transit
• christmas break 2009... (:
• spring break Florida 2010
  • Universal Studios
  • Kennedy Space Center (see: bad memories. haha)
• whale watching, Cape Cod, summer 2010
• Jayson being born (August 13, 2010)
• that one time at katies when her dad took us all out to yoghut & then blue marlin (:
• Katie's going away party at CaraLea's. well at the time it was sad. but i had fun there (: (Taliyah, Ashley, Me, CaraLea, Katie) Dec. 2010
• Spring Break 2011:
  • flew to Chicago
    • rented realllly nice brownstone for entire family
    • Emily's wedding day: touring Wrigley Field, wedding pics at Wrigley Field, wedding/reception on yacht.
    • downtown Chicago
    • Cubs game
  • driving to Colorado from Chicago with family (ended up being in the car for like 26 hours..it was horrible) (goes under bad memories too..but actually, now that its over, i dont feel like it was that big of a deal)
  • big wedding reception in Colorado
• Edisto Beach, SC memorial day weekend 2011
  • first time going there. me, mom, hannah, rachel, and baby jayson all stayed in a condo thing. it was all very cute and chill and quiet :)

BAD:

• when i broke my wrist in 1st grade
• the summer when the car transmission broke down on the way to Missouri (3 hours away from lake house-summer 2007)
• that day in Boston walking the freedom trail in Faneuil Hall (really boring. especially not fun in the summer)
• first time skiing-Colorado-winter break 2007 (thats the only time i've been skiing. kind of frustrating. kind of scary. it wasnt THAT bad though. the worst part was that it was like 12 degrees. then we got stuck up in the mountains because of a blizzard. ALL of the hotels and restaurants were full. we finally found a restaurant (Ruby Tuesdays?). and then had to take back-roads back to my grandparents house because the highways were closed. this was the day before new years eve. if we didnt take back-roads, we wouldve been stuck over new years.)
• one time at the lake when me & hannah crashed our jet skis into each other (funny now but not funny then) (summer 2009)
• poetry out loud in 9th grade. i memorized "i carry your heart" by e.e. cummings. sooooo scary. but i got a good grade.
• Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, FL (its like a big, long, boring 8+ hour tour)