SUMMER 2009 - the best summer of my childhood, one of the only i care to remember. back when Britnee was the only cousin with a baby, and even then she was just pregnant with Matthew

• eating pasta salad in laurie's house
• kristen running from the crazy squirrel and then it touched her
• jade recording the squirrel touching kristen and playing the video over and over and over (which we died at laughing EVERY time)
• wading in the river almost every day
• shellie and br's basement FILLED with denver bronco memorabilia

SUMMER 2013 - nathaniel had just joined the navy. he was a corpsman. it was my first time in illinois, first time in a major city like chicago. also the largest (weight) i've ever been

• going to white castle for the first time
• going BACK to white castle after we made it to the hotel because jonas and i fell in love with their 'cheescakes-on-a-stick'
• riding on the subway
• where i saw world war z for the first time
• ^coincidentally, right after this, after a meal at panera bread we saw a homeless dude twitching hard asf on the other side of the street verrrry similar to how the zombies twitched in the movie
• at this before mentioned panera bread, a really pretty black chick told me she liked my hair

SUMMER 2018 -kj and i had just broken up after a year and a half together and my grandparents were being impatient and selfish about heading back up to montana: no one else could take them so i did. i quit ulta with no notice and left with them in may. i had no plans and only knew that i didn't want to leave until august.

• grandpa running over a median in raton, new mexico and getting a flat. we were stranded for three days.
• joining tinder and swiping for so long there was no one left in the valley
• going on two separate dates w native boy trey
• going on a date w white boy isaac
• jacob's random and sudden bloody nose after we spent the day at the fair
• crying at mambo's with angellica and katie bc i loved them so much and i was grateful for them: for restoring me, for befriending me, for being nice to me when i couldn't be nice to myself
• white customer yelling at natasha bc his fries weren't extra crispy

SUMMER 2019 - stayed from june 15 to september 9.

• hiking 11 miles with angellica and tommy
• jacob dropping my panda express running from cops
• katie & gel flashing my tits to everyone at her parents time share
• wearing bandana's 24/7
• picking cherrys for the first time w lauren, jonas and the grandparents
• the overpriced and very far away cabin in lakeside w the cool bunkbeds
• the floating trip where will fell off into the water and almost died
• the missoula trip and how shaylee ruined it
• hiking to avalanche lake w gel and gen
• going to both of gel's senior photos