life lately :)

...has been pretty wonderful :)

ha11oween

halloween costumes 2011! :)

 asian woman. christmas tree. biker chick. pinata.

 i beat him up and take his candy.

 elizabean, my christmas tree :)

vampire. cow. christmas tree. asian woman. biker chicks. bella swan. pocahontas.

oh yeah. this happened.

 

So I guess I'm twenty now.

Cool :)

what i did this summer

I went to the Space Needle with these lovelies

Helped out backstage at brother's play

Volunteered at the Special Olympics again

Went to Seattle

Practiced being a hipster

Discovered a love for wearing my Dad's old shirts and belting them.....

Spent some quality time with my friends that I love

Laid out in what little sun there was..... :)

Held feet with a boy

Went skinny dipping... ;)

SAW HARRY POTTER

Went to a real-live actual Rodeo in Wyoming

Ate frozen milk on my cereal.....

Had some quality cousin time

& Enjoyed the sunshine and the family and the love :)

au revoir, julia!

.... that sort of rhymes, if you say it right.... yes? no? okay. 

FUNNY STORY btw, so my favourite Julia Green has FINALLY started a blog (read it here) and in her first post she said "au revoir" and someone from her church commented on how you like shouldn't say that since it's like a final goodbye that means you're commending yourself to God or something.......?? We were confused. ANYWAYS, I use it here in this blog post because it ALMOST rhymes and also because the lovely and beautiful Julia leaves tomorrow for the lovely land of England. For 8 months. I will miss her to death....... but I'm also soooooo happy and excited for her in the grand new adventure. Sunday after church we drove over as a family to say goodbye and take pictures, which I will now post here for your viewing pleasure. :)

i love you so much jules :)

my beautiful friend :)

Meet Julia Green, author of Work Stories by Julia! And my one of my very best friends :) 

She is wonderful, and she is beautiful. And she is hilarious. And she is awkward. And she understands me and gets me and we are love :)
She's marvelously awkward, and we appreciate each other's creepiness. And we love each other. And she is just a marvelous person in every way. Even though we're a basically bazillion miles apart, we've only gotten to be closer. She's an absolute champion at keeping in touch :)
Oh and I adore her laugh. And her voice. And her snl quotability. And our abbreves and made-up words/grammar rules that we use so often we forget they're made-up :)
We also share a great love for slow loris's. And SNL. {Kristen Wiig♥} And Narnia. And Jesus :) 
Nothing ever really happened to make us friends. We just. are friends. best friends. of love and happiness and joy. Because she is just wonderful :) :) :) And my family loves her too :)
For my birthday, she reminded me of the story of how we met: 

"once upon a time, at the beginning of our friendship, you were leaving seminary with a group of people and i was passing you all. i gave taylor and mackenzie a hug but i didn't think that you wanted a hug for some reason so i pulled back... but you did. you kinda went in for it then pulled back. it was awk. so i was like "oh, you want a hug!" and hugged you. and thus began the beautiful awkwardness that is our friendship." :)

Easter

Easter is coming up. 8 more days! I'm so thankful for holidays like Christmas and Easter to remind me of what is most important, what I should be thinking about. My Savior, His Atonement, His Resurrection, and His unimaginable love for me... this is what I get to think about for the next few days :)
{I don't need an excuse to think about it, but sometimes I need a good reminder. So I'm thankful.}
Happy Easter Season. What a beautiful time of year :) :)

... coinciding with beautiful weather and a beautiful spring smell in the air today, and my best friend's baptism. God just loves us so very much. :)

tyler & nathan :)

today

today is a rather big day for one tyler john hughes, also known as my best friend. it's something that's been a long time coming, and i'm sort of exploding with excitement about it. i miss him a lot and love.

unfortunately i have two finals scheduled today.... and he lives ~1000 miles away from me. so i won't be there, not technically. i'm guaranteed to be distracted all day, but i won't actually be there.

which makes me sad.

but it's also okay :) i'm just glad that it's happening :)

i'll be home in 5 days.

which seems ridiculously long.

i'm hoping the time just flies right by.

in between, i have five finals, a cleaning check, and a 2-hour plane ride. 

wish me luck!

much love,

xox

weekend that was wonderful :)

My wonderful family came down to visit me and to come to conference and see some other various family members. It was lovely :) 

We had a few extra tickets so my roommates joined us for a session.

This was our view

Clearly sitting next to my brother in the Conference Center was the most exciting thing that had ever happened to me. And yes we are aware of the myspace-style-ness of the second picture. That was on purpose :)

Lyndy and Cece's Photographic Dictionary of Emoticons

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