the news!

well i'm supposed to be sleeping right now, but i am just in a blogging mood! mostly for one big update...

 I AM OFFICIALLY ACCEPTED INTO THE PHD PROGRAM!

other than that, it's been a great summer so far! (if you can call it summer with all the rain...which i have secretly been loving...)

my dear friend/mission companion kayla got married!

 fun times with high school friends

 mother's day!

 kelly and i in our matchy rain jackets! (she is also in the lab full time this summer so we have plenty of adventures together)

 my roommate stephanie won a vacation off the radio!

 kelly and i again, this time with the awesome flask of cells i composed a limerick on . . . everyone likes a good limerick :)

yup, life is pretty great :) seriously . . . today was just fabulous. it was WARM, pops and i ran 12 miles with a gorgeous view of salt lake valley, i got to reunionize with some high school friends i hadn't seen for years (kenzie, dani, marianne, and amber to be exact), i got to go to the temple, we listened to elder lynn robbins at stake conference, i came home to my acceptance letter in the mail (and a letter from my first greenie who's coming home in 2 months!), AND i got to belt out country tunes with my windows rolled down quite a bit today. lovin' it.