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Whaddup!  Sorry I literally have no freakin' idea how to work a computer, so I literally got 3 different people to try to make a blog for me. Not terribly techy to say the least...Anyways!

Summer is pretty sick so far.  After I got home, I went to a couple lacrosse games for my high school where I still have a lot of friends playing on the teams.  It was great to catch up with them (lol catch up...punny) and hang out.  I also got to see a lot of friends from high school so far.  AND I went to the fun. concert with Afia and Evan Saturday we got back, which was so great. What a great show, gosh...then Tuesday I left for the beach with ten other freshmen girls involved in YoungLife.  The group was me, Kaylee, Jess D, Jessica F, Leah, Bekah Meyer, Sarah, Anna, Rachel P, Caroline H, and Lindy.  Was a pretty swell group. I was a little afraid because typically a lot of girls can end in a lot of girly drama.  But there was none of that! It was so great to get to know them better.  Had so much fun though it was rainy all days but one...Went swimming of course! Not surfing...but still very fun.  And ended up getting SO BURNED. I literally just peeled off a layer of the skin on my stomach.  Its still so bad and I got back last Friday.  I can't think of a better vacation to start the summer though.

Other than that, I've been packing my schedule with lots of fun things.  Hung out with my WyldLife girls here, and been to the YoungLife club here.  Its been just a very nice start to the summer.  Had a lot of family time which has been good, sometimes hard but typically good.  Playing a lot of lacrosse with my brother.

About to go into coaching the Ripples soon, just went to an elementary school talent show, so I could see all of them.  So many kids either sang or danced to that song by Onedirection, What makes you beautiful. So funny. But until then, giving guitar lessons at home.

But yesterday was interesting...Yesterday was really hard actually kind of something that popped out of the blue.  My good friend Nikolle has a sister named Ashleigh who has been struggling with depression for a while, and has had several suicide attempts.  Yesterday Ashleigh attempted suicide again. But this time it was so scary and different from the others. I have hung out with Ash several times, and prayed with her and thought she was feeling better.  She is a hard person to get close to though.  Well Monday morning around 4 AM she took an entire bottle of sleeping pills and literally ripped up her leg with a razor.  She was unconscious for 12 hours.  Her mom found her first, bleeding and unconscious.  I just can't imagine it, it was so horrible just hearing about it.  The cops and ambulances showed up trying to wake Ash up, but she wouldn't.  She was put in ICU and is still there tonight.  She finally woke up later Monday night, and called Nikolle when I was with her at a friend's house.  You could barely understand what Ashleigh was saying she was so drugged up.  Yesterday Nikolle, our friend Rachel, and I, went to go visit Asheligh in ICU.  She was awake, but looked so weak and little on the hospital bed it was alarming.  We had small talk for a bit, but the elephant in the room needed to be addressed.  It was only me and Nikolle there with her then.  Nikolle sort of sat there quiet and sad.  I am not sure why, but I started talking to Ashleigh about everything.  She needed to be told that she is hurting a lot more people than herself, and it is not her life to take.  Only the Lord can decide when it is time to go, and He obviously still wants her here.  I swear, craziest thing ever, I didn't do any of the talking, Jesus Christ Himself was in that room.  I left and talked to her parents for a little.  They were so exhausted and worn out looking it was painful.  Her mom said "I have seen things in the past 24 hours that no parents ever should see." It was so hard, but for some reason her mom thanked me. The Lord is working hard there, and will continue to work in that situation, the situation needs so much prayer.  You all got my email, but this has been weighing so heavily on me, so please continue to pray.  She will be going into in-patient care soon, and will get treatment, but it is up to her what she does with the treatment. And may it all be in the name of the Lord.

You guys are all so great, I pray that your summer is full of the Lord.  Whew sorry that was so long. Miss y'all.

Favorite song right now...Wanted by Hunter Hayes.