Big Brother Graduate

Well this past weekend Drew got to graduate from good ol' BYU.  I am really glad that he finished after 15 years so he can finally start his life.  But for real, even though the campus consists of about 35,000 people they all somehow knew Drew because he has been here forever for one and two he has been in almost prereq classes for most majors (just kidding Drew ;) ) Anyways,  I was fortunate enough to be a apart of this special moment for Drew and Jess so just congratulations on graduation and for finding a job and good luck!  I appreciate everything you have done for me in this year I was here, it has made the transition from BYU a little easier, thank you for the mooching off of you when I was starving and just for the random invites to spend the night when I needed an escape from single housing.  I will miss both of you, Drew and Jess, but glad that we got to spend some time together making memories out here in Utah, thanks again!

Time Flies When You're Having Fun

This weekend Zachary I got to celebrate our 6 month anniversary! To those who have been married for years that may not seem like such a huge feat, but we did do all 6 months long distance and realized we like one another more every day we get to be together.  Well we each planned something for the other and Zach had Friday and I had Saturday.  For Friday Zachary bought us tickets to go see the Jazz play and it was so much fun!!! Those men are so big, Zach made the comment that it must be really hard to play being that big because the ball is so small, it would be equal to playing a high soccer game with a size 3 ball.  But anyways it was really fun!

On Saturday I made Zachary his favorite dinner, (thanks to my mom for the idea and his mom for the meal and help to cook it)  It was the first time I had ever cooked an actual meal, with sides and a main dish, but it turned out really well (Zachary said so) and so I do not think I am such a bad cook.=)

Well time really does fly when you are having fun, I cannot believe that we have be dating for 6 months already and have known each other for 2 years.  He really is my best friend.

Conference...or the attempt of...

So some weeks ago I asked for tickets to Conference and I was so excited to go! Zachary, Lisa, Emilie and I were all going to go the Sunday morning session but unfortunately a series of unfortunate events happened that resulted in us not being able to go (thank you so much momma for the effort of the tickets however). But first thing is Lisa decided not to go to spend more time with Christie up in daybreak, Emilie got sick on Saturday night and was not able to go so the end result was that we did not end up going unfortunately this time, but perhaps before we leave Utah it can be crossed off my bucket list, again thank you so much momma for your effort to get us those tickets.

So instead after Zach took care of Em, we decided to spend the second session of conference with his old mission companion Marcus, his wife Callie and Marcus's parents.  We had a delicious dinner and all settled in for conference ( a very good session, my favorite talk was in the Sunday morning session, but I enjoyed the afternoon ones still.)

We are on Google earth, so we are not being distracted by a game, it is pretty easy to listen and surf Google earth at the same time =)

I love conference (aka "blankie/pajama") Sunday =)

Model

About 2 weeks ago at work one of my coworkers asked me to be his model for one of his school projects, I think he is animation major and his project were fears, so he depicted different fears and I was the fear of seeing someone in the mirror staring back at you.  Well when I took the picture I just had to make a creepy face with my hair in front of me, but he took it to a WHOLE 'nother level, so this is the result....creepy huh?

Festival of Colors

What a lovely weekend I had! I love the weekends and I wish that there was always one more day too, because weekends are far to short and do not provide enough time to recuperate for the upcoming weeks activities, but oh well...Anyways...
On Saturday morning Lisa, Zach, my coworker Brittney and I drove to Spanish Fork to enjoy the Festival of Colors, a holiday celebrated in India that announces the the arrival of spring and the passing of winter and lucky for us this weekend was absolutely beautiful and exemplified Spring marvelously. We missed the scheduled color throwing but did not miss out after buying our own chalk to throw at people and still got the feel for the experience.

(When we saw this we all thought it looked a lot like the "large and spacious buliding" )

After about an hour we went back home and all took showers (it took forever to get the last bit of chalk out of our ears and hair) But with success, then Zach and I took Brittney home and Lisa back to Drew and Jess's and went out to lunch and while he joined a random pick up soccer game, I watched and laid in the sunshine.  After that he and I went to the Mt. Timpanogus temple to do baptisms and later after went out with his friends.
We ended our weekend with card playing in the sunshine, Frisbee throwing, eating delicious Easter dinner (thanks to Jessica) and laying on the couches-a perfect Sunday, and a perfect weekend with some of the best company =)

Phase 10 =)

Camping!

This weekend was going to be a seemingly normal one with Zachary coming down  and we would movie watch, walk at a park, and ect, pretty much the same relaxing thing we do every weekend, but out of the blue Drew and Jess invited the two of us to go to Moab on Saturday night to go camping!
It was absolutely beautiful, we walked the narrows and went to see Goblin Valley.  In the narrows it was so crazy to see that after thousands of years water could cut into a solid rock wall to make such a beautiful sight.  It was so neat, because I could see the exact way the water ran, it was just so beautiful.  Then at Goblin valley (pics on Jessies blog) it was so crazy how rocks could erode into those alien like shapes.  Over this weekend I felt like I had been shipped to Mars, and that is no exaggeration, I prefer Earth much more, but it was just so crazy! I still cannot believe how vast and strange the landscape was, nothing what I was use to at all.  But as beautiful as it was with the rocks and the sky going on forever I still prefer the cover and greenness of the trees.  I loved the trip and glad that Drew and Jess provided the opportunity for Zachary and I to go while we live out here, but I prefer the vast dense forests of the east coast any day.
But here are some of the pics that I took.

Sunshine!

Something I have realized while going out to school in a place that is very cold is that my perception of that word "cold" has changed drastically from Georgia to Utah.  It was funny, this past month sometime, I was talking to my mom on my way up to work and I told her is was absolutely beautiful here in Provo and she said is was very chilly in Richmond Hill and it was funny because we found out that the temperatures were both in the 40's =).
So anyways, taking full advantage of today's lovely weather which was full of sunshine and temperatures rested in the mid 40's Zachary and I decided it was just too nice of day to pass up to not spend it outside.  So even though mid 40's was not perfect "play outside" weather it was such a relief from the overcast snowy weather that persisted for the last 3 or 4 months that we took the opportunity of the sunshiny day to have a picnic.  We had turkey sandwiches with chips, water, clementines, and oatmeal cream pies (otherwise known as "health food" by dad on fishing trips).  And like I said 40's is not perfect weather so I did get cold after eating and Zachary wrapped me up in out picnic blanket, it looks like I'm just a wad of blanket, but I promise I am in there.  So with the promise of more sunshiny days we look forward to being able to spend more time outside finally =)

(just excuse our corny cutesi-ness) =)