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Summertime!

About 3 weeks ago, after an adventurous trip that included lightning striking next to my plane and being stranded in the Chicago Midway airport for a night, I made it home to beautiful, green, humid Virginia for the summer! Thanks to amazing professors that let me take my finals early, I was able to watch my amazing little sister Amy graduate from high school! I am so excited that she's going to be at BYU with me in the fall! I spent the rest of the week in training for my summer job as a camp counselor at the Herndon Community Center! The following week, we got to meet the kids! I have two co-counselors and we are over the 5th and 6th graders! They are such a fun group of kids! They constantly make me laugh and are so sweet and fun to be around! I can't think of a better summer job for me!I'm definitely learning a lot that will help me in my future career as an elementary school teacher!  I absolutely love kids, and I feel like I am in my element when I am working with them. We play sports, go swimming, and take field trips every Friday! I just love my job! Then this past week, the Shipp family took our annual trip to Nags Head Beach in the Outer Banks! I love the beach so much. We had so much fun swimming in the ocean with incredible waves, swimming in the pool and hot tub, getting ice cream at Fat Boyz, shopping, going for walks/runs, watching some hurtin' fireworks on the Fourth of July and having lots of Office marathons! Amy, Jonathan, Michael, and I got to go out for the most delicious seafood EVER with the adults! I had the most amazing crab cake and scallop cake ever. It was literally to die for! Of course one of the highlights of the trip was getting the big news that Grandma and Grandpa are taking the whole family on a Disney Cruise to the Bahamas next Thanksgiving after Matthew gets home from his mission!! We are all beyond excited! It was a perfect week with my favorite people! I am so blessed to have the most amazing family! Summer is the best!

                                     
                                                               Amy's graduation!
                                      Field trip to Bowl America with some of my cute campers!
                                                         Taking a walk on the beach!
       
                                                Watching some So You Think You Can Dance!

                                         
                                             Shopping on our last afternoon at the beach!

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