100 Summer Memories

100 Summer Memories

1. Selling Lemonade with my siblings
2. Being old enough to bike down to the pool by myself
3. Triple Sleepovers with Alyssa and Andrea
4. Spending every day with my best friend Lauren
5. The tree house
6. The zipline
7. Making up a secret code with Lauren
8. Garage Sales
9. My first mission trip!
10. Salter Path
11. Fishing on the Pier with my dad
12. My "Barbie Tent" at the beach
13. Befriending Max one summer and staying friends with him
14. Creepy Indian guy that made cool paintings on rocks
15. Riding dirt bikes and four wheelers
16. Camp Burton
17. Moving to Virginia
18. Grandpa having his stroke
19. Spending every day at the YMCA pool that summer
20. Grandpa coming home and getting so much better than we ever expected
21. Going to FOCUS for the first time
22. Watching the Women's soccer team win the Olympic Gold
23. Not going to the beach for the first summer in years
24. 7th Grade soccer tryouts
25. Meeting Courtney and Kaitlyn
26. My first summer in my house
27. IMPACT Virginia
28. Justin coming clean
29. Grandma's vegetables from her garden
30. Our first beach trip without dad
31. Hamburgers at Grandma's
32. Watermelon
33. Driving to Ohio
34. My first summer of being best friends with Hayley
35. Having the trailer at the beach permanently
36. Salter Path being destroyed by a hurricane
37. Going to West Virginia with dad and Lisa
38. The guys we met from WV, including Shamu
39. The Four Wheeler accident
40. Youth Sunday at church
41. Trying out for the Jr. High soccer team and not making it again
42. Morgan bringing me a Dr.Pepper and a handmade note after not making the team
43. School clothes shopping
44. Finding out Hayley and I had every class together
45. Not doing Marching Band because I was trying out for soccer
46. Being glad that I chose not to do Marching Band, even though I didn't make the team
47. Going to Emerald Isle, once again. (Did I mention I love the beach?)
48. Going to Camp Crossroads and climbing a 40 ft mountain, and repelling down a 70 ft one
49. Breaking up with Andrew
50. Bradley
51. Week of Hope mission trip in Manassass, VA
52. Ali and Octavius
53. "I get down, and He lifts me up...
54. Falling in love with volleyball
55. Waking up to VeggieTales
56. Talking to Quaid
57. Danielle's birthday party
58. Going to Orlando Studios with my dad
59. Riding The Hulk 10 times
60. Getting my cell phone stolen, then getting it back
61. Skinny Switching
62. Diving into a three ft. pool and totally scratching my chin up
63. Making the JV volleyball team
64. Going through hell the month of August via Volleyball practice
65. Freshman Orientation
66. Going to the James on Brian's boat
67. The Sanitary
68. Hiding the cookies in the oven at the beach
69. Boogie boarding with dad
70. Walking to the ice cream shop
71. Riding the pig at King's
72. Stopping at Sonic on the way home
73. Being single for the summer
74. Ankle bracelets
75. Going on my first out of state mission trip to Pennsylvania
76. Joseph Freeman and the Lollygaggers
77. Forgiving my mom
78. Not having to drive to Ohio for the first time to see dad
79. Watching The Grudge at Dylan's party
80. Hayley being amazed at the trash can
81. Carytown with Aunt Connie and Jarred and Jonathan
82. Our first time staying at the Beach House
83. High School Musical 2
84. The first Staff Retreat
85. Not making Volleyball
86. Driving for the first time
87. Scoping out boys
88. World Changers in Cherokee
89. Feeling God and realizing that He really is what I want
90. De-shingling and shingling a whole roof, and redoing it because we messed up
91. Going to Disney World and feeling like a little kid again
92. Meeting the princesses and seeing the best fireworks ever
93. Having a summer love
94. Hayley and I's first adventure with her driving, and getting stuck in the Car Wash
95. Gay Cowboys
96. Feeling really old at the beach
97. CentriFuge, and becoming closer to dad's youth group
98. My dad becoming a dad again, and getting a new family
99. Spending three solid days with Hayley, and driving every where by ourselves!
100. Making cupcakes and leaving them on Joseph's porch
101. Seeing Nathan preform at the Comedy club with Travis, Dylan, and Hayley
102. Looking at the stars through Travis's sun roof
103. Staying up until the wee hours in the morning
104. Daleen's vegetables
105. Realizing I am enough
106. Going to summer school with Hayley
107. Wal-Mart with Hayley at 10 o'clock and getting in trouble
108. Dancing in the rain with Travis
109. The Talent Show at the beach
110. Flip-Flops
111. Stadium Arcadium by The Red Hot Chili Peppers
112. Burnin' Up
113. Starting this blog
114. Becoming friends with Grace, who lives in Chicago, because of this blog
115. Feeling Free

So, there you have it. I know, I know, it's more that 100, but I just have so many memories! Maybe I'll do a list like this again in a couple of years and compare them. Hopefully, I can look back at this and read something that I had forgotten about. I know that some of these memories aren't very happy, though most of them are.
It's funny how so often, the things we remember aren't always the good things. We will look back at a period in our lives and there will be one HUGE thing that sticks out, and everything else kind of lays in the background. Craziness. Basically, I love summer! Especially the beach, that is always a big part of my summer plans. Now I gotta give props to Grace, because this was her idea first. Thanks Grace!