My Birthday/New York Weekend

Last weekend was my 22nd birthday. We went to New York with my parents to celebrate!! Lets talk about the best birthday I've ever had...Matt disguised all my presents so I'd have no idea what they were. In the picture below you can see how he put 22 pennies and 2 candies on the inside of the wrapping paper to throw me off with this one, and I had no idea it was a DVD. Every gift I opened I was completely shocked because the box implied that it was a completely different shape, or weighed 50 more pounds then it really did. He did so well on my gifts. Folks, I finally got an iphone. I've wanted one for maybe 3 years. I was shaking/ in shock with excitement. He got me some other wonderful gifts as well.



This was such a dreamy birthday!! We had so much fun in New York with my parents. They're the best. Matt, thanks for always making birthdays so amazing. :) You're the best too.

Goodbyes..

My sister Maddie and her husband Matt moved to Dallas yesterday. I was such a bawl baby and cried basically all day. People even asked me if I was pregnant because I had so many emotions going on (and I've put on a little weight lately). Maddie has been my source of strength here in Provo. I currently have no one to watch the bachelor with, chat with at work, go to the mall with, or borrow clothes from because she's left me. Maddie has molded my personality in so many ways. I've learned how to be kind, helpful, generous, and many other wonderful things from her. We're excited for them to start this new adventure but they will be very missed.

Back to School

Today is Matt and I's first day of school. Matt has a pretty rough semester. He's working 30 hours a week and taking 12 credit hours. We won't see each other much because he has night classes 3 times a week. This summer has been so much fun for us!! We've had some bad things happen but we've done a lot of fun things as well.

GOOD: camping, 5 guys and a movie every Friday, California, guitar hero, golfing, CNA program with Maddie, buying Notting Hill, fishes, good meals, swimming, Matt's work promotion, Monday night dinners up the canyon.

BAD: Getting a new transmission, replacing the car windshield, flat tire (I hate cars), Fred dying, Kevin leaving, Wyatt moving, Anticipation of Maddie moving, hardly saving any money when we expected to save tons (whoops).

For our last official summer night we had a date on our balcony. We've been wanting to eat out there all summer so it was fun to finally do it and reminisce about our summer and talk about the year ahead.
Oh how I hate school...adios lazy summer days.

A Farewell and A Birthday Party

This week my brother and his family moved away so Wyatt could go to Med School. It was a very sad farewell. My brother is the most humble, sweet guy in the world. I always enjoy being around him and leave hoping that his goodness has rubbed off on me just a little bit. He was the person that beat me up, made fun of me about boys, played basketball with me everyday when I was going through my tomboy phase, always took time to hang out with me, and protected me the whole time a was growing up. We had a little farewell dinner with the family to say goodbye. We already miss you Wyatt, Chelsea, and Tate.

On Saturday we went to a birthday party for Tyler at Seven Peaks! I'd never been there so I was super excited.

It was a fun day! Now...back to school.

New York!!!!!

I had to announce this to someone because I'm just that excited: we just booked our tickets for a marvelous vacation to New York. We're ecstatic that we get to go there over my birthday weekend with my lovely parents. I can't wait!!! I love birthdays...and parents for making this possible. I don't know what we did to deserve this trip, but we sure are excited.

Take Me Out To The Ball Game

Last night Matt and I went to the bee's game with my family.
We had so much fun chatting, playing with kids, eating lots of treats, and trying to catch baseballs.