looking back

of coarse i am at work with nothing to do. so i am going to blog about something random that just crossed my mind. I stole this picture from Kendle. thanks Kendle for letting me steal it. the summer session is starting to get worse but it still has its moments of slowness. anyway if you read Kristen's or Adrian's or Kendle's blogs you would know that our little brother and sister went to prom together! they are super cute together and my brother is a stud muffin! i love them to death and i am so jealous the Kristen Adrian and Kendle were all in Tucson for this event. anyways kendle put this picture up and it made me think of those days back in high school. it seems like forever ago no joke. its funny to look back on that and see how much we've changed and how much we've learned and experienced. How we thought we would always be best friends and now some of us have grown apart and moved on and some of us are even better friends. i am so grateful for the friends I've had. there is not a life experience that I've had that my friends didn't help me through. sometimes i didn't listen when they tried to help me and sometimes i made them really mad but in the end they were just as good as friends as they have always been. although our prom night may not have been the best (some of us have our regrets) we had a lot of fun together and this picture is stinkin cute. especially in black and white (good choice Kendle). I can't wait for Kendle to move to Provo in June. we are going to have some good freakin times!!

countdown!

so i'm at work and i can't change my countdown and its driving me crazy but...

32 DAYS!

Woohoo!!

so basically Jared has committed to coming to TUCSON! i can't tell you how excited i am! he'll be coming somewhere around the 30th and staying till June 3rd and we'll fly back to salt lake together! i modified my chain last night... i got to take about 18 days off of it! now i have an even better excuse to be oh so antsy to get to TUCSON!

Goodbye Kaylee

Kaylee left us this week. it was a very emotional night. she had been moving her stuff out for awhile. when i got home from work that day all her stuff was gone. Annika told me she would be coming back to say goodbye later that night. she came. we had our last thankfulness and our last roommate prayer all together. she had to go so we stood up and she hugged Annika first.. and they started to cry... then Amanda.. and they started to cry then me... and i started to cry! we hugged and cried and finally made it to the door and we group hugged and cried and finally she was out the door. Annika went to give her one last hug that lasted a long time and they started crying more so of course Amanda and i had to get in on that. and we all cried! We will miss Kaylee sooo much!

Spencer and Brian James were there while this whole thing was happening... they didn't understand at all. its kinda funny how different boys and girls are. we are glad we are girls.

fallin behind...

Ok so i have so many things to blog about and so little time... i'm going to do a super quick run through of all the things i was supposed to blog but now its really not that important for its own post but i still want to put it up ready? go!

I took the time to pretend i'm a photographer.

I made awesome green beans from a pouch in the microwave! the most amazing invention ever!

We had our Final alphabet party... F night.

We drank from HUGE tea cups.

I spent about 4 or 5 hours making this strap for this purse. theres a longer story to go with this one but.. theres really no point... ok well real quick. i've always wanted a purse like this its bigger but its cute and it had a long strap and a short strap. the long one you could remove. i talked myself out of buying it the first time. a few days later i decided that was stupud and HAD to go back and get it. the only one they had left was one without the long strap. thats ok i don't need it. i told jared my tragic story because truthfully i really wanted the long strap. he came up with the brilliant idea of making one myself. so i did. there it is.

Spencer came over and made us 3 gallons of rootbeer!

And that in a nut shell has been the past couple weeks.

flip flops!

this is something that happened before i left for California but i never blogged about. Annika and I saved up our money for two weeks and made a goal to not eat sugar or fast food so we could buy the most amazing american eagle leather flip flops!

so ready for may....

to be over!....ok not really.

i am so ready for it to be here though.

in may

My nephews are coming i'm so excited for those boys!

my mom comes

i get to go home to tucson for two weeks!

and once may is over

i'm back in utah

i get to start my new job

kendle will be moving here

AND Jared will be home.

i can't even discribe how bad i want may to be here!!

Pictures from Anna

Thanks Anna for sending Jared these pictures to send to me! heres just a few. You're welcome mom.

The Family

wow its been a long time. so its been forever and everyone has told me to get blogging. I'm at work right now so i don't have any pictures but i didn't take any pictures in Cali anyways.

so i went to California and met Jared's family. well most of them. Jared is the youngest of nine. It was so much fun! way too short but fun. we flew into the Sacramento airport. i flew into terminal A and Jared flew into terminal B and we had no idea.. so it was fun to try and find each other. once we did it was a very cute reunion scene. it should have been on a movie. Jared's sister Mona flew in with him. so we met up with her, rented a car and drove an hour to Chico. right when we got there Jared jumped out of the car...while it was still moving nonetheless, and gave hugs all around. once Mona and i parked the car and got out his other sister Anna ran over to me and gave me this huge hug! i had no idea what hit me and i was little surprised but i totally needed it. i felt way more at home and welcomed by that. i then met his mother and his granny and lots of little people and more brothers and sister in laws. it was a lot to take in. his Dad didn't know we were coming. the family was there for his retirement and bought him a huge TV and a really nice sound system. so Anna blindfolded him and brought him into the living room. He was very cute and pretty surprised. The rest of the time was spent hanging out with family and stuff like that. Anna reminded me of Kristen in so many ways and Jared's dad reminded me of my dad... i think its a dad thing. it made me miss my family so much! family is really the greatest thing ever. its so important to me to get along with my husbands family. I'm not hinting or suggesting anything but if it was to ever come down to that Jared's family would definitely not be a problem.

Flowers

so now that my camera is working.. these are the beautiful flowers Jared sent me!

Imma little slow

So i told you my camera was broken and thats why i couldn't take a pciture of the flowers jared sent me... well i thought it was broken because when i turned on my camera it said card locked and i couldn't take pictures.. well turns out theres a little yellow button thing on the memory card that slides up and down that locks and unlocks the card. thank you amanda for fixing my camera.

Jared is cute

he might hate me for this but i had to.

hes not only cute there but he sent me flowers. through the mail! lol it wasn't just flowers it was a Gerber daisy plant in a really cute bucket he sure knows how to pick out flowers. I'm so lucky to have a man as sweet as him!
i would put up a picture of the flowers but my camera is being really dumb.

hemp!

summer means hemp jewelry!

sorry let me clarify... this is new hemp not the ones from last year the one on the bottom is way new the middle one i used the peace sign from one of last years and the buttons i used from one of last years. Recycle, man!

painting up date.

its not done yet...

lets PAINT!!

I'm starting to paint again! i don't do it much and how am i ever going to get good enough to be as good as Kendle if i don't paint all the time?! this is the start..

its just the start and you can hardly see it but I'm excited!

i'm leaving on a jet plane!

welp its official! I'm going to see Jared on April 15! we decided i would meet him in California. i talked to him this morning and that's when we discussed it and asked off work and then bought the ticket all today! its been crazy but I'm going. oh by the way I'll be meeting his family too. On my request for time off form i filled it just like normal and checked the time off without pay box and filled out the reason for leaving: I'm going to see my boyfriend and meeting the family. about 15 min later i get a call from my supervisors. she sounded all serious. she said "i have to decline your request for time off because you checked the wrong box... you should have checked jury duty." and the started laughing and asked all about Jared. they were really excited so they gave me the time off! it made me laugh. so 11 days till i get to see Jared again! I'm going into it with the attitude of "I'm going to see Jared and his family just happens to be there." just so i won't freak out as much as i am.

Thanks Kristen!

Kristen! I'm so glad you learned how to make this and shared it with me! its AMAZING!

for all of those who don't know about this amazing pizza its a Boboli pizza crust, garden vegetable cream cheese, cucumbers, tomatoes, yellow peppers, and broccoli. mmm mm good!