Summer is where the girls go barefoot and their hearts are just as free as their toes.

This summer has been so much fun, and I'm sad that it's over. I can't remember the last time I've had a really good summer, it was definitely before I started this blog. Last summer, I spent the whole time either working, doing lame stuff with Sammy at night, or going to church camps. I did fun stuff, but I didn't end the summer feeling accomplished. The summer before was just filled with work and I didn't really hang out with people much. The summer before eight grade, I spent most of my time listening to Eragon or Harry Potter on my ipod and crocheting and eating wheat thins and maybe hanging with Sariah every now and then. This past summer, I feel accomplished. I'm not sure if I'm ready for it to end or not. I would like to go to school because I miss seeing people even if I don't talk to some of them, I just like feeling social, but at the same time I want more time for swimming and tanning and hanging out with people. One thing I am excited about with summer ending is that I no longer have to babysit Hannah and Emma. I love them, but they can be brats when they want to.

One thing that made this summer great was the fact that I didn't work at Lagoon. Two years was good enough for me and I was very grateful that my mom told me to quit otherwise I would've worked there again this summer. However, Ashley was a rides office supervisor at Lagoon this year and I got the pleasure of driving her to work early in the morning or picking her up from work past midnight a lot. I have a grudge against that place. This was probably my last summer not working (I haven't had a work free summer since seventh grade, sad...), I went and applied to be a bagger at Fresh Market today and they said that they'd call me for an interview on Monday so yipee. I need to be saving up money, and with Ashley going to college it showed me how important money is when you're decided to attend college and I will be off to college in two years so I better get crack-a-lackin.

Anyway, I made a list of things I've done this summer because I'm weird like that, and it's fun to remember things that I've done, so here it is, enjoy.

• I have kissed boys :) yes I'm not afraid of people knowing that I, Celeste Black, am a teenager who counts kissing as one of her favorite activities. It's quite fun.
• I have gone fishing. I went with Dolly and it was fun even though we didn't catch anything because I can say that I've gone fishing!
• Youth Conference. Way back in the middle of June, I went to Youth Conference. We went to the Manti Pageant and did a ropes course and it was very grand.
• Played truth or dare with Sammy and a few boys. I won't go into detail, but I found it delightful :)
• Rock climbed and did ropes courses (both at youth conference and AFY)
• Went on a hike with some friends. It wasn't much of a hike, but it included walking uphill in the mountains for a while.
• Played at some parks. Me, Sammy, and different boys have played at the park at night. We didn't do anything saucy, it was just all in good fun.
• Swim. I went with my sisters, Heather Lieber, my family, and Mikey Evans this summer. I like swimming, and I have a way cute swim suit.
• Be in a parade. For lacrosse, we got to be in the Centerville parade which was way fun but tiring. During the parade, this man threw a piece of candy at me and yelled "catch!" so I instinctively threw out my lacrosse stick and caught it and he said "that's a true lacrosse player right there!" Whenever we saw candy on the ground, we scooped it up with our sticks and threw it. It was so much fun.
  
• I went shopping! Of course, I'm a teenage girl and we do love to shop (when they actually have decent clothes..)
• Read. Last week, I read three books in three days, and I have read quite a few books during the summer. It's great entertainment.
• Barbeque. I never knew how to spell that, thank goodness for auto spell! Anyway, a friend of mine had a Barbeque which I went to and it was very fun.
• I've listened to lots of music, music is amazing and makes me happy.
• I took a dance class. It was interesting because I haven't taken a dance class in like 5 years but I kept up well. Hopefully I'll be taking classes this fall.
• I have gone to get smoothies at both Smoochies and McDonald's with various people. I LOVE smoothies!
• I had two sleepovers with Amanda, not including AFY. Amanda is my most favorite cousin ever!!
• Go see Harry Potter 7 pt. 2. I saw it with Ashley and her not boyfriend Caleb. I really liked it, of course there were some parts that could've been improved but overall I thought it was a great ending!
• Go to emergency room. I was babysitting my little cousin, Noah, and he's allergic to milk and my dearest father gave him cereal with milk in it so we had to rush him there.
  
• Go on a date. Actually I went on 2...and a half? I went mini golfing with this guy from Cedar City and his friend and Sammy for a double date and got ice cream with a football player named Logan. I also have gone to the movies and gone swimming one-on-one with a couple guys and I didn't consider them dates but my mom did so there's your half.
• Hang with cousins. My cousins from Texas came down and I spent time with them and I've also spent a lot of time with my local cousins which is fun because family is good.
• Get sunburned. The first time I went swimming this summer, my legs got super burnt. I couldn't wear pants and I couldn't shave or take a hot shower for a week and it sucked bad. But they're tan now so it's all gooood.
• Go to Lagoon. I went once with my sisters, but I was in a bad mood that day so it wasn't that much fun, but the second time I went with Sammy and boy I met at AFY and that was delightful. Lagoon sucks though, screw them.
  
• See Transformers 3. I saw this with a boy just as friends but my mom seemed to think it's a date. We're just friends... The movie was good though, Shia LeBeouf is hot :)
• Babysit Porthos. Porthos is my cousin's shih-tsu/maltese dog. We used to hate each other, but now we have a close bond. He's just seriously misunderstood and needs to have some anti-anxiety spray put in his water dish (my aunt Tina did that to her devil dog and now he's an angel)
• Go to the mall. I went to Gateway, Layton, and Trolley Square. It was fun.
• Watch fireworks. Generally, people light fireworks on the fourth of July.
  
• Play guitar and piano. I've already given my schpeel on piano, and guitar is like a side instrument that I play in my spare time or when I'm supposed to be cleaning my room, like today.
• Watch Phineas and Ferb. I never saw an episode before this summer, but now I am in love. It is such a funny show and my family had a nice movie night together when the Phineas and Ferb movie came on. Where's Perry?
• Go to Girls Camp. I wasn't very thrilled to go, and I wasn't very thrilled when I got back, but it was a good experience I guess.
• Go mini golfing. That was my double date. And then I went again a week later with AFY friends.
• Go to AFY. That was the best week of my summer, it was so much fun!! It stands for Adventures for Youth. It's at BYU-Idaho and you are put into groups with 12 boys and 12 girls and a boy and girl couselor and it's a church thing so you learn about church stuff and you do a ropes course, go to the temple, go river rafting, play fun games, and have dances. And meet cute boys :) Aaaah so much fun!! We also made a music video and I was the main person. I'll post the music video and the video from my week at the bottom if it will let me and you'll be so jealous that I got to go :)
• Be on a bus for 5 hours. I went to AFY with my cousin and the bus was 5 hours there and back. Fun...
  
• Hang with Amanda 10 days in a row. We went to AFY together which was Monday through Friday, and then we hung out on Saturday with AFY friends, I returned her hair gel to her on Sunday, and we hung out Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday with AFY friends. Best 10 days of the summer.
• Pass out. So on a Saturday night after AFY, Amanda and I hung out with two boys, Adam and Justin, from AFY, and we had this brilliant idea to play the passing out game. I heard it kills brain cells, and maybe it does because I confused my hair product with a Harry Potter potion the next day. Anyway, you lay on the floor and pant for a minute and then you stand up and hold your breath while someone squeezes you from behind and the next thing you know you're waking up on the floor wondering what just happened. I got me passing out on video, I'm not sure if I should post it because some people might get upset at me for passing out.. but it's soooo weird! And stupid.
• Go to a drive-in movie. On a Monday night, Amanda and I went to a drive-in movie with Adam and Justin and their friends and we watched Captain America. We didn't really pay attention to the movie because we were busy talking, but it was wayy fun.
• Drive a jeep. Yeah this girl let me drive hers, it was sick. I want a jeep. (and yes, I did just say SICK)
• Do a back hand spring. So this girl from AFY, Stephanie Craven, who is also the owner of the jeep, had a sleepover with Amanda and me and she does gymnastics. So I took advantage of the opportunity and relearned how to do a front-hand-spring, back hand spring, and round off back hand spring in about an hour. It was so fun, I haven't done a round off bhs since 7th grade so it felt great.
• Go to Cedar City. Sadly, Ashley went off to college at Southern Utah University last Thursday. I was so excited for her to go and everything but then when it came time to hug her goodbye, I burst into tears. We've been buds for almost 17 years and now she's living 4 hours away and it made me sad. Oh well, she met a cute boy from her EFY group a couple years ago there and I hope they become good friends... ;)

Aaaand that's it. That was my summer. Some of you may think it's lame, but to me it was very fun. The only thing missing was a family vacation, but oh well sometimes life happens and you can't do everything you wanted to but I've still spent a lot of time with my family and I don't need a vacation with them to make me love them more.

School starts on Monday. The juniors and seniors don't have to be there until 9:30, but since I'm in link crew, I have to be there at 6:40 am. We have to help the incoming sophomores and be their mentors and play games with them before school starts on Monday. It sucks getting up early, but I think it will be fun and I get a cool shirt. I'm ready for school, the only thing is that I haven't actually gone to find where my classes are. I just have the room number so I'm gonna have fun trying to find my classes on the first day but oh well, the school's not as big as it seemed last year so I should be fine hopefully.

Well that's it, summer's over, and the sky is crying right now because summer is over. I had fun while it lasted and I'm sort of ready for school to start. Bring it on.


This is the music video that we made at AFY. They had us do this to promote positive media. That's me as the main, upset girl. My bangs are weird because that was the day we went to the temple where we did most of this and I didn't have a flat iron so I just gelled it back and that's also why I'm in a dress. At the campus, if you pick flowers it's a $35 fine so that explains the flower part, and we went on a blind walk where we were blind folded earlier in the week so that's kind of what the scene is representing. Also, my cousin Amanda is one of the rebel girls with me, the one with the black and white dress and brown wavy hair. Enjoy :)


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This is the video for the entire week that they made, the only place where you can actually see me is 2:18, there's a picture of me on the raft next to my cousin. There are a couple of shots of a purple raft going through the rapids, but there were two so I can't tell which one was mine. As you can tell, AFY is a blast! :)



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