High on Summertime

Do you know what I love? Driving home for the weekend. Okay, I don't actually love the 3 hours in the car by myself part. What I do love is that I can decide last minute that I would rather spend my 3 day weekend with my family in Burley, than alone in my apartment in Provo. And then just hop in my car and make that happen in a matter of hours (or longer if I decide to stop and spend the night in Kaysville with some girls that I kind of like). I feel like I am reverting a little bit because, with the way it's looking, I will probably see some part of my family every weekend (or week) of the summer. That's the kind of thing that a new freshman in college does right after they move out and are going through their first semester of college away from home. However, I never really gave myself that option. I went home for Thanksgiving my first semester of college. Now that going home a lot is an option, I am definitely taking advantage of it. Really though that was kind of the point of me taking classes at BYU this summer. I was going to take classes either way, but I decided that I would rather do it at BYU than SVU so that I could be closer to my family and go home every weekend. I realized that this is my first real summer away from home, and it drives me crazy to think that I am missing out on what constitutes a traditional Crane family summer. So, I am going to do a lot of driving so that I don't have to miss out on too much.

It was kind of silly for me to go home this weekend, because I am going back up there after class on Tuesday for the 4th of July and then to head to Spokane for Mikey and Corrina's wedding. That is already going to be a TON of driving, but I wanted nothing less than to sit in Provo for three days doing nothing while my favorite people were just 3 hours away. And it may not have made the most sense, but I had a wonderful weekend. I played with my puppies, baked chocolate cookies with Mom, played Life with Mom and Mitch, watched Clash of the Titans with Dad, wrote a paragraph of my paper that's due on Tuesday, went to People Like Us with Mom, went boating with Dad, Mitch, and Cheri, watched (slept through) Captain America, laid in the hot sun, and went to church with my family.

Sam and Lexi are both out of the country right now, which I'm not a huge fan of. It was weird for me to be the one at home with neither of them there. Lex has only been gone for 4 days and I am already so sick of her being gone. It will be a long 3 weeks. Sam has been gone forever and will continue to be gone forever. I hate that. I'm excited for when (if) we all get to be together for a second.

Well, that's about all I have for you. I'm enjoying trying out this school close to home thing. I may be slowly losing the independence that I have gained the last two years, but I'm not too concerned about that. I just like my family.