This past weekend rocked my socks off, haha. Oh my goodness, I had sooo much fun!!!

  Thursday night I went with Jadon, Mike, and Melissa to see Transformers 2 at a big movie theater down in the springs. An absofreakingloutley AMAZING movie.. it was very perverted, though, so big warning about that. But we had so much fun!! Jadon got us tickets for a 7:50 showing, and we had gotten there around seven, so we walked around the parking lot for a while, just talking, then crossed the highway and went to Target. Mike and Melissa bought Skittles and Sour Patch Kids and Jadon and I bought Twizzlers. We were going to sneak them into the movie, but I had left my bag (our mode of candy transportation) in Jadon's car, so Melissa and I ran back to grab it so we could get them inside.

  Jadon had gone mudding (where you drive your car through huge mud puddles and splash your car so it gets all dirty) the day before, and while Melissa grabbed our stuff, I decided to be impish and wrote "Just Married- Leave Me Alone To Dieeeee" on the back (lol it's an inside joke). Then we ran back to the theater just in time:).

  We got out around eleven thirty, and had a total music jam on our way back up to town:)

  Friday Jadon came down to get me around lunch time, and we drove up into the boonies to meet with Tyler, Mike, and Jadon's family so we could all go canoeing. At first I thought Melissa was going to come, but it turned out that I was the only girl- and the youngest teenager, to boot:). Tyler, Jadon, and Mike are all eighteen*rolls eyes* haha.

  Tyler was the first one there, so we hung out with him for a while, just joking around and laughing. Then Mike got dropped off by his mom. I hate to say it about anyone, but she was just annoying! She kept repeating herself over and over and over, talking constantly and nagging Mike to put on sunscreen and don't scratch up her car and don't get into poison ivy and don't do anything that would make her have to come back out here and ON and ON. lol. Wow, we were all glad when she left, me especially. She kept addressing me, mostly because I was the only other gal there. Yikes..

  The boys immediately put on their swim trunks (making sure I was far away first, of course, lol) and dove into the river, which was swollen to almost four feet. It's normally like one and a half.. the current was so strong!!!

  They all wanted me to come in and join them in the water, which was freaking cold. I refused plenty of times, but they all have little sisters and my "No's" had almost no effect. They resorted to trying to pull me/ push me in, constantly faking me out, haha. Finally, when I ran out of excuses, I went back to the car and put on my extra set of clothing, then came back out and started wading into the water. Jadon, just for another laugh, went to fake me out again, and rushed at me, pretending like he was gonna shove me in. I stepped backwards with a gasp and my foot slipped on the rocks...SPLASH, in I went, spluttering and coughing! hahahaha it was GREAT. We were in stitches for minutes, lol.

  After hanging out in the water and playing splash-fights (apparently for a wimpy little sixteen year old girl, I'm pretty intense about splash fights XD) we all got out and walked a ways up stream so we could float to a small island in the middle. Tyler and Mike went the wrong way in the maze of bushes and long grass, so they ended up farther down-stream than Jadon and I, which was SUCH a good thing!! We start wading into the water, and all of a sudden I'm just caught in the current. I can't fight against it. All the guys were okay- Tyler's six foot and built like a football player, Mike's six four and wiry, and Jadon's five eleven and he's got muscles, man.  But me? A little five-four svelte ballerina? I had no chance. My feet were swept out from under me, and down the river I went! Jadon shouted for Tyler to catch me, and he reached out and got a painful grip on my arm, holding onto the reeds by the side of the river to steady himself. Mike swam down next to me and helped Tyler drag me into the shallows. Ow.

  From then on I stayed at the edges of the river, holding on to the plants growing there so I didn't get my feet swept out from under me again. The boys had somewhat of a hard time fighting the current, too, after a while, so we eventually all came back to where the cars were parked and just waded around for a while.

  Finally Jadon's family came with the canoe and some old friends, and we all had watermelon and took turns both riding down in the canoe and drving down to pick the others up just before the rapids. It was so much fun, I got so tan:).

   Around six-ish, maybe earlier, we teens left and all went to Tyler's family's campsite just a few miles up the road, Mike and Ty in one car and Jadon and I in the other. Of course there were huge mud puddles everywhere, so the guys decide to start mudding while they drive. Both cars start speeding up, Tyler's in front and Jadon and I behind him. We're both going at least sixty when Ty hits a huge puddle and slows way down, too late for Jadon to see. All of a sudden, we come up out of the mud and Tyler's Jeep is RIGHT THERE, two inches away from our front bumper, and we're still doing sixty! I scream and Jadon cranks his steering wheel to the left as Ty cranks his to the right- the collision was avoided, just barely. OH my FREAKING gosh, I was hyperventilating!!!  Jadon's Explorer locked up, and we skidded like crazy, but were able to get back on the road behind them. As soon as we could, we stopped.. the guys all looked really concerned about me, haha, I was just sitting in the front seat with my hands cupped over my mouth and nose, trying to stop hyperventilating, my eyes wide. I was so scared, I swear my heart stopped... I made them all swear to never do that to me again. We got a good laugh out of it later, but my gosh... whoo.

  Anyway. We got to the campsite without further harm, and had some hamburgers with his family. Hahaha ohh another great story- so we're all drinking sodas, and Mike and Jadon both burp really loud. Tyler's like "Hey, you guys, you're in the presence of a lady." And all of a sudden I let loose with the biggest burp of my life, totally by accident! Hahahaha we were laughing sooo hard!! Woooowww.. lol.

  After dinner the guys went mudding again, and Jadon's car got so much water up in the engine that it refused to work after a while. So we all sat out there and talked until he could get it working again, and decided to go to Jadon's youth group after saying goodbye to Ty's family.

  Youth group was fun, too. They all were eating, so we had some fries with them and read out of the book of proverbs. Then all the guys (there were only three girls, including me, and like fifteen guys) went outside to play football. So Rachel and Emily S. (the other two girls, two of my best friends) took me out to their house (Rachel is married to one of Emily's four older brothers, and they live on the same property) to see their new horses!! We talked and walked around and fed the horses, then went back and watched the boys kick each other's butts, haha. It was GREAT. Jadon took me home around ten thirty, on the way we got to see a spectacular storm off on the horizon. It was the greatest day:).

  Saturday was July Fourth, so I got to sleep in and eat a really rockin' breakfast of sausage and pancakes before going down to our town's annual festival thing at the park. MM, cotton candy and music and booths galore. SOO much fun. Unfortunately, it started raining, so the fireworks were cancelled. BUT.

  July FIFTH, our town all comes out to the middle school's football field to listen to a big symphony and watch this amazing display of fireworks. The army comes out with their cannons, and at the very end, before the fireworks, the symphony plays the William Tell Overture and they shoot them off, haha. Thankfully, no storms came to rain on that parade!! 

  Mike, Melissa, Tyler, Jadon and I all met up there around six, along with Tyler's sister Tory and their friends, Brock, Key, John, and Taylor. It was so much fun. We just walked around everywhere and talked to lots of random people. We were right next to the cannons when they went off, and saw the fireworks up close. It was spectacular! I love this town:).

  Afterwards Jadon took Mike, Melissa and I out to Taco Bell, and we hung out for a bit before I had to go home, and listened to lots of metro station.. I've been addicted ever since, lol. 

  Haha so that was my weekend! I had a BLAST. How was your fourth of july weekend??

~Lyssa~