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It has been quite a while so I will attempt to catch up on what's happened so far this summer...

1. I did find a job, as a waitress/server at Torero's Fine Mexican Dining, around the beginning of June and started working around mid-June. The job is wonderful, even though I'm not full time and the pay isn't exactly what I was looking for. I couldn't have asked for better co-workers. We all help each other out and have a little fun on the job as well. It is like working with family. Even the customers are wonderful, most days. 
2. Me and the parents had a big blow out. Mostly about my personal choices in life and how they don't agree with them all. It was an emotional rollercoaster filled with accusations, yelling, crying, and anger. It lasted for about a week or so, but I think we have all finally come to terms. We all respect one another now and we have all learned that we can happily agree to disagree, for the most part. I'm sure this argument will come up over and over throughout our lives and I think I can take it as long as I remember who I am and what I believe in. I believe and hope that once I start living on my own this issue will resolve itself.
3. We, being my aunts & their guys, my parents, me, and then the parents friends, all went on our family's annual canoe trip. I chilled in my aunt Vada's canoe with her and her boyfriend Josh. The trip was 10 miles of serene and peaceful adventure. A nice one day vacation from the world and the younger children. Just what we all needed. 
4. I haven't seen much of my high school friends this summer. Me, Martina, Marissa, Rebecca, and Dylan all had dinner and went bowling at the beginning of the summer but it has been difficult to cordinate everyone's schedules since then. I've seen Martina a couple times since then and I've hung out with Brittney a few times but it's just not the same anymore. I saw Kayla at her graduation and again today but we haven't really hung out. It is like we all have to get to know each other again. We have all changed over the year. Or maybe I've just changed. I'm unsure.
5. We have also, as a family been to Nashville Shores, Adventure Science Museum, the park, and the YMCA throughout the summer. Along with those things we have pool parties at our house and cookouts. The third of July we all went to watch the fireworks on the riverside while eating watermelon and funnelcake. On the Fourth we went to church and then to a church member's family's party. It was awesome. They had a pool, pot-luck food, blow up waterslides, sprinklers, glow sticks, endless candy bars, a ton of people, and a huge firework display once it got dark. They even had smaller fireworks for all the kids to shoot off with them watching and helping, of course. Needless to say, all the kids and adults had a blast. It was a great way to celebrate our freedom. 
6. Yesterday my mom and the 5 younger children left for a 2 week vacation, leaving me, dad, and casey behind to work. They are visiting friends in Louisiana, family in Texas, and family in Arkansas before making their way back. We are working at our jobs, keeping the house clean and tidy, doing mom's To Do List she left us, and trying to relax in the quiet house while we have it. We are on vacation too, just in a different manner.