So I guess I haven't updated this in a while. Went on vacation about a month ago to Denver, Colorado and then to Yellowstone National Park. I liked Denver more than I thought I would, which is good since I see myself ending up there or in the Minneapolis area. Yellowstone was amazing, there was everything you could ever want in a national park. All of the geological stuff, the waterfalls, rivers, lakes, and wildlife, it was just awesome!! I will post pictures sometime when I get around to it.

First week of school a lot of the landscape architecture students and arch students (myself included) went to Minot for Extreme Makeover Home Edition. It was kind of stupid, they had SO MANY volunteers that I didn't end up doing much except moving boards around. At least I got a free shirt, right?

Ryan's little bro Nick moved in with him a few weeks ago. He's pretty cool, but he JUST got a phone like, 2 days ago and he doesn't have a car. He doesn't have any friends in Fargo either. In other words, Ryan is all he's got, so he is ALWAYS with us. We decided to have 2 nights during the week for just Ryan and I to have some alone time (one of them is tonight, yay!). Anyways, I'm going to go have lunch with my little sis, have a great week everyone!

Well, I leave REALLY early tomorrow for my summer vacation!! We're leaving at 6am for Denver, CO. We'll go to Six Flags while we're there, as well as visit a firm I am REALLY interested in working at. It will also be cool to just wander downtown in a city I've never been to before, and the firm is right in the heart of downtown.

After Denver, we're heading for a big change of pace to Yellowstone National Park. Never been there, it should be fun! Enjoy the last week of summer everyone!!

Just to keep everyone updated, Ryan and I made up. He is such an amazing guy...he realized he was being rediculous and admitted that he was wrong. That is rare...a guy who recognizes when he's wrong, and then is also able to admit it!! I've got a keeper!!

Last night I went to my friend Allyson's apartment and we watched some videos of when we were 18-19 and in our partying stage. Oh my gosh, I can't believe how much I've changed!! I was so embarrased by the way I acted! It's funny how different your memory is in comparison to a video camera. Our memories are limited to the mindset we were in at the time the memory was being created, so in other words how I percieved things at 18 is how I remember things at that time, but then looking back on those memories when I'm 22, I am just shocked! Even some friends who don't seem like they've matured at all have matured enough to seem a bit different from the people I watched on those videos last night. I have a whole different perspective now. I wonder what it will be like after we've died and we can see everything in true perspective, what we will think of ourselves? Will we be appalled at the way we behaved, the priorities we set, and the way we spent our time? Or will we be proud that we lived out a life of integrity and left a legacy? It's the way we react to the little things that happen daily more than the big decisions in life I think that will determine the answer to that question, and that is affected greatly by what we are living for. Are we living for ourselves and to make ourselves comfortable and content, or are we living for something much bigger than ourselves and much more satisfying than any things we can gratify ourselves with here? I don't want to look back on my life with the same thoughts as I did last night looking back just four years ago!!