Provo is coming alive again. Pedestrians are popping up all over the place. More cars populate the road. There is a longer line in Costa and Zupas. Where I could go running on my own sidewalk by myself, I now have to share. Unfortunately this means that school is looming around the corner.

However....this also means that football season is on its way.

BYU sports pass. Heck yes.

I felt like I haven't read a real book in ages!! Bridal magazines have consumed my reading time. Jake and I are now looking for apartments and we think we have found one. At least I sure hope so. I thought looking for your very own place would be fun, and it was...but now I just want to find a place and be done with it! We will be chilling in the town of Provo for a while. Who knows how long. Probably a while. We've been slowly adding things that we have to the apartment list. This is what we have so far.

• 1 T.V.
• 1 very heavy kitchen table
• 1 Maybe dresser
• A Wii (this made me very happy!)
• Possibly a couch and a love seat
• A very nice desk
• A rocking chair

I think that's all that comes to mind right now. No worries. We are coming right along. KSL has been a fantastic friend through all of this. Oh and my family! I can't forget them! Yesterday Jake came to visit me during lunch and made us the most delicious lunch ever! I seriously am so lucky.

Penny and I have been quite the avid bike riders. I hope to go on many more. This time we met at Provo canyon, got on out bikes, and headed down the trail to Bridal Veil Falls. It rained a little bit before we got together so the ride was a little humid; BUT it was cool humid! The weather was perfect and the canyon smelt amazing. Very fresh and somewhere along the trail we passed some type of lilac bush or something because it smelled very very good! This trail is very deceiving though. It looks flat. It's not. Biking up to the falls was hard! I was so confused on why I had to stand up a couple of times and do some hard pedaling when we were on a flat trail. We finally made it up to the falls, stopped and took a couple of pictures as it started to rain, and found a place to eat our snacks.
The ride down was a little chilly because we were flying downhill. I think I reached 20 mph going down one hill. At least that's what it said on my little device on my bike. We both had to pull out our sweaters. We passed these two guys on a skateboard and I only bring this up because we passed them about three times! Haha the first time I had to stop and take a picture, so while taking that they passed us. Penny and I headed out and passed them again. Then we went to check out this park with these really nice pavilions. As we headed up to the pavilions I saw the two guys pass us again.
"Dang...we are going to pass them again!"
I felt really stupid as I passed them again and waved with an awkward smile.
As we reached near the end, we started to slow down just a tad and take our sweet time because we thought no one was around. Well Penny and I start riding across the bridge when we hear this "bbbrrring bbriiinngg!" behind us.
This old man on a bike came out of no where and apparently was impatient with us. The sound of his little bike bell sounded annoyed. We quickly moved out of his way and let him pass.
"We just got belled at."
"haha yes we did, by an old man."


Next time I want to bike to Vivian Park!

My friend Penny and I woke up this morning to participate in some service work that was being done around Provo. Last time she planted around 2,000 flowers in front of the old Academy in Provo and had a really fun time. This time...wasn't.

We drove to Pioneer Park where we were supposed to meet everyone and drove around for a couple of minutes before we finally found the group. I was thinking we were going to do some planting and what not at the Pioneer Park, but we both came to realize that was not so when we saw the Farmers Market was taking place there. We signed our names, each got a shovel, and Penny got a pair of gloves. I was above gloves. They took us down the street to this abandoned parking lot; at least it looked abandoned. Very abandoned. Our service project was to pull the weeds around the parking lot. Seriously?! Isn't there some other poor looking park or cool building that needs our help? A few of us were thinking that maybe some weed killer would be more efficient in this scenario, but we went a head, pulling weeds out of rocks and pavement.

But even though this pretty much was a pointless service project, it still felt good to do some service. Hopefully next time they find some that actually needs to be done.

After a plethora of trips home from Ogden with Mater packed to the max...I am now officially moved in. I think. Mostly everything is unpacked and I finally got my bed made so I could have something to sleep on. Mom and I went grocery shopping at Costco, love Costco, and I am pretty much set for quite a while. My roommate doesn't move in till August so I have to whole place to myself for a bit which has it's ups and downs.

• ups - I have the whole place to myself.
• downs - I have the whole place to myself

I already spent a month by myself at my apartment up in Ogden, and I just about went crazy! But I think this wont be too bad because I have so many friends that are close, and of course I have the grandparents to keep me company! This weekend was a little crazy! I had my last day at work Thursday, moved almost everything down that night, got up Friday morning and moved everything to Provo, only started to unpack when we went to my sisters graduation and did family stuff, and finally got to see one of my friends that just got back from his mission. Saturday was Seven Peaks with a bunch of my friends. It was so nice just to relax and have fun for a couple of hours. After that I headed back to change and get ready for a friends birthday party. Geesh! Thank heavens Sunday is a day of rest because Monday I start my new job and go straight from there.