I can't believe I've already been back from DC for just over a month! But at the same time...I absolutely can. I can't blame this past month for being extremely long...it's a tough act to follow up the best summer of my life.

 confederate white house in RICHMOND.

             GOOD STUFF.              u.s. capitol in the U.S. CAPITAL

 being cool by monuments.

 going to memorial day parades on THE MALL.

 going to games as a member of the media...baseball, golf, football...

 seeing my boy kenny in concert at the home of the redskins.

 meeting ann coulter.

 watching the orioles as a fan (but not an orioles fan...)

 good times with awesome people.

 lee house @ ARLINGTON.

 smithsonians

 photo-ops with the washington monument in the background.

 national zoo-ing it up with the guys.

 double date time.

 white house.

 ford's theatre.

 RITA'S.

 fourth of july in WASHINGTON.

 library of congress.

 hangin' by the JEFFERSON.

 monument walk:KOREA.

 hey mr. lincoln.

 SHAKE SHACK concretes.

 weird things...

 GEORGETOWN cupcakes.

beautiful TEMPLE.

I didn't want to picture overload too much...but I did all this and much more. I'm so glad my dad took me out and my mom came out to visit over July 4th. She came about halfway through my adventure and it was great to spend time with her and show her my DC "expertise". We had a lot of fun and I'll always remember it! I love my mom...she's the best.

.....BUT

It would not be the best summer at all without this boy:

Meet Colby. We're both from good ol' Utah county...yet don't meet 'til we're both at the other side of the country. At church. How weird is that?! And I finally met someone who may even be weirder than me. I know, right? Didn't think that was possible either.

My first impression of the hilarious guy in Sunday school was that he looked like the old spice guy. Then, I obviously thought he was hilarious...also really cute. Didn't think I stood a chance. But somehow, I tricked him into thinking I was pretty cool too. I'm still figuring that one out.

Orioles game, zoo, fireworks, sunday pizza days, softball game, transformers 3, heavyweights, and just hanging around together doing absolutely nothing are just a fraction of the things I'll remember. He picked me up from work at 10 in Maryland so I wouldn't have to walk in the dark and came over to hang out almost every day. SO...

The reason these past five weeks have been so long? He's still in Virginia. Only ONE MORE WEEK. I've never been so excited for anything in my life...it's better than Christmas!