Terrible News

On Christmas morning my family and I went to Yakima to spend the day with my aunt and uncle and grandparents. We had a wonderful time playing cards, eating good food, and enjoying the spirit of the season. It was a Christmas I would have wished for all people worldwide to be able to have. Unfortunately not everyone gets so lucky.

As we were driving back to Moses Lake we noticed a car driving the wrong way down I-90. How does that happen? People were flashing their lights at him, trying to get him to pull to the side and flip a u-turn. He was seriously endangering his own life and the lives of the other drivers. It was terrifying. But we kept driving and passed three police cars flying by the other way. We thought that it was a good sign there weren't any ambulances and hoped that the driver had fixed their mistake. We just had to pray that everything would turn out all right.

Then today I saw this article:

http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/latestnews/671265-8/ellensburg-man-killed-in-wrong-way-crash

This man, unfortunately, had a cruddy Christmas. Our hearts go out to his family and friends.

Here's to You

Lot's of exciting things have been happening over the past week. Christmas, of course, was wonderful, but everything paled in comparison to what happened to two of my best friends.

They got engaged!!!! (Not to each other)

 

To Chelsea and Brittany (and Chris and Garrett), congratulations! I love you two to death and I'm so excited for you.

You should both be aware that I have become very adept at facebook stalking, and I may have stolen a lot of (ok, pretty much all of) these pictures off of your facebook pages. The pictures of you on my own page were sadly lacking.

To Chelsea first: I love everything about you. You are an incredible person and an even more incredible friend. I love your smile and your laugh and the fact that we can talk to each other for hours and never get bored. I love that you are the perfect hugging height and that you give me hugs all the time. You are one fun-loving, creative woman, and you never cease to amaze me. We have a lot of memories together and I can't wait for the new memories that you will make in this next chapter of your life. Cherish every moment.

 

 

 

 

 

Brittany: I don't think I can really define the friendship that we've had but I'm glad to be able to say that we were, in fact, friends. You are lovely and crazy and super smart, and Garrett is very lucky to have you as a wife. I love your sense of humor, the fact that you are forgiving, your singing voice, and your willingness to share your talents. I'm proud of the way you have turned out (wow, sound like a parent much? ), and I love you. Congratulations again.

 

 

 

 

Just in case you didn't already know, you are adorable.

 

Does this define our relationship?

 

Yes, I think that will have to do.

 

 

And equally adorable are these pictures of us. BFF's forever?

 

So here's to the future.

Here's to the rest of your lives and a beautiful eternity.

May you always be happy. I'll love you guys forever.

Home for the Holidays

It feels good to be back in Moses Lake. Really good. Even if I'm only going to be here for a few weeks, I'm loving being home again. I think my biggest problem is the fact that at school the bathroom lights turn on automatically in our apartment. Now every time I walk into the bathroom here I stand there for a second wondering why I'm still in the dark. I'm going to need to fix this soon...

Thanksgiving break was fantastic. My parents and grandparents came down for the week and we stayed in a condo in Park City. Mostly we just played card games and whatnot, but on Wednesday we went to Welfare and Temple Square. I'd never been to Welfare Square, so it was amazing to me to see how the Church's welfare system works. Seriously, it is incredible. They make over 2,000 loaves of bread every single day! And they make some dang good chocolate milk.

Temple Square was beautiful as always. We went a little too early to see the lights, so that was kind of a disappointment. But we went and saw the Salt Lake Temple, the church office building, the old tabernacle, the Christus, and things in between.

 

 

On another note, I also just recently finished up finals for Fall semester (yay!). They went a lot better than expected and I feel great about it. Now I have two semesters under my belt and I'm ready to tackle one more. The end of the semester brought about some good things, namely dates and BYU basketball. My goal was to go on at least one date during the semester and towards the end I went on two in one week. Success! The men's basketball team could have played a little better (in my opinion), especially in that last game against Utah, but at least we pulled out a win so I won't complain.

 



 

Unfortunately I didn't bring my camera to a lot of games, so this is really the best picture that I have.

 

 

One day there was a knock on our door and I heard some people running away super fast. I thought maybe they'd leave a plate of cookies or something at our door. Nope.

 

A straight up gingerbread house.

 

 

Thank you to whoever left this for us. I was definitely craving starbursts.

 

My roommates and I were feeling very festive, and decided that our door needed a little decorating. So we got together and created this.

 



 





Cute, right?

 

Well, in that spirit I'll bid you a Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas. (And a happy new year!)