a love list

i love the rain. it is such a beautiful thing.
i love a good thunder storm, even better an az thunder storm with warm rain and the smell of wet dirt.
i love a clean house with no dishes to do.
i love when the Y is lit up- it looks so spectacular.
i love seeing friends in the library, it lights up my day.
i love trees, shrubs, flowers, and planting beds.
i love when people i love update their blogs so i can keep up on them.
i love a good solid work out.
i love looking at amazing food blogs.
i love fall/autumn, pumpkins, colored leaves etc etc :)
i love when casey makes fun of me and/or acts like a 5 year old
i love that last night my nose got cold when i was walking outside. it's getting colder!
i love playing bingo while i work.
i love a lot of life right now

so...conference weekend really was spectacular.

we watched the 1st session with my SIL megan and my mom

2nd session with my bro weston's family and cute lil abby

casey went to priesthood (3rd session) with mis hermanos (my brothers) and then followed it with in-n-out

i was able to play with my mom and megan [amanda and abby couldn't come:( dumb] and the 3 of us went to a fun little sub shop in springville btw- megan is getting SUPER preggo!

mom and i reminisced about the fun little things we did during all those priesthood session when it was just us:

going to the dollar store and getting to pick anything i wanted, going on the merry-go-round, picking out any movie i wanted at the blockbuster (usually a barbie one:), grabbing something yummy to eat (going out to eat was a BIG deal growing up). later down the road it turned into subway trips, deseret book parties (it's like 15% in the whole store with treats to eat:), and other fun little things. it really was so fun! i hope to do the same fun little things with my girls someday (and maybe have lots of SIL's to come along for the ride!)

4th session was listened to in the car as we drove to logan to be with casey's family!

all of casey's dad's siblings and their kids got together and had fun eating, talking, laughing, and catching up!

5th session was watched there with all the family too :)

my favorite quote was from elder uchtdorf via leonardo da vinci

"simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"

simply beautiful huh?

i really was so excited for all the speakers.

cnoference is a special time for us to be together and just listen to prophet's voice along with other great general authorities.

so inspiring,

uplifting,

and pure wonderful

brick oven lovin with the 4

amy came to town with 1, 2, 3 TIM!
so the 4 of us girls got together and a blast together, like always!
i just love these 4.
i will give a brief history of the 4 of us bc i want to :)

kimber and nicole became friends junior year in a death english class that we hated and secretly learned a lot in.
nicole and brooke have been bff's since the beginning of time.
brooke moved to the south (aka georgia and somewhere else in jr high). lamo. but they sayed in contact. coolio.
kimber and amy met beginning of kimber moving to non-mormon territory, aka red mountain, at girl's camp.
we became friends but never really loved each other til...juniorish/senior year when we started working with best buddies and the special ed classes in high school.
senior year came, brooke moved back to AZ, nicole cared for her like a puppy who lost their way and introduced her to us. 
nicole also worked with some of the special ed kids, brooke joined the team and from there we went full force best buddy officers, parties, besties, weekend warriors, etc etc
we did a lot together senior year and talk about it ALL the time bc we loved it so much :)
along the way we picked up friends like gigs, TIM, max, colton, aaron, matt, markus, mandy, chisum, best buddy advisors, janessa, and so many others i'm probably forgetting...
let's just say senior year was epically awesome.


so now, we make big efforts to get together if and when everyone is around.
it's the best.
we all have...loud personalities and it just works great together


ps- tim and casey are very nice to put up with 4 of us.
we were actually talking and saying how they fit in great to our group of loudness

that night we went to brick oven and had the yummiest yummies 
and after went to our place and played just dance.
it too was freaking hilarious :)
but there are NO flattering pics of that to post haha

 

and this:

was our recreation of this:

glad we got together ladies :)

Continue in Patience

wasn't conference just wonderful this weekend?

i just loved it.

i'll be looking forward to the november ensign where i can read them all again.

i was searching around on lds.org this afternoon to find something and ran across this.

it's beautiful :)

weekend did's

what a busy friday and saturday we had!

here's is the low down:

friday

7:30-1:30 pm- went to a golfing tournament thing for my major to meet/golf with a bunch of employers!

fun indeed and i improved my game of golf indeed. poor casey had class and research during that time

2 pm- dance class

3 pm- go home, meet up with casey, take a short nap

4 pm- dance class

5 pm- drive back to the golf resort and go to an opening social for my major with casey, twas fun :)

7 pm- race around getting ready to drive up to Bountiful to go to my cousin's reception (Steven Beckstrand)

i know, horrible blurry picture that i didn't realize was so horrible but i still want it documented.

so excited for these 2!

9 pm- on our way driving home- we realized we didn't really have any other plans for the night so we stopped at the Bountiful temple bc it was just beautiful there on the hill in all its whiteness. i love how vibrantly white the temples are in the night. we walked around and just talked and laughed like we were dating. good little memories we made :)

on our drive home i fell asleep pretty quickly and casey was the good husband a drove.

he always drives and i always get to sleep! sorry love, but thanks for driving

once we got to orem he decided it necessary to stop at the new winco in town!

we have testimonies of winco from CA.

he picked up lots of cheap granola and of course his chocolate covered gummy bears.

i stayed sleeping in the car while he went in :)

i was pretty much a walking zombie after the car ride home and fell immediately to sleep again.

saturday

i was able to go to a fun baby shower in the ward in the morning and take a fun saturday test at the testing center.

during that time casey took his 1st practice DAT test! crazy days coming ahead of us!

casey's dad arrived soon after all that was done and we went to yummy costa vida for lunch.

i then drove them to the byu football game so they could get there sooner, 

came back home to drop the car off and walked to the game to meet them!

dumb game. they lost.

going to the rs broadcast would probably have been a better use of my time...lightning will soon strike me 

immediately following the game though we had stadium clean-up.

yes, that means we cleaned up the trash in the stadium (east bleachers). yuck.

again, for my major. 

casey was a good husband and stayed to help me. it was more fun with him there :)

we were exhausted and starving by the time it was done but we still had to walk 20 minutes home!

the walk home was pretty funny though, i can't even recall what we were laughing so hard about except for the fact that we were! i love those times.

we got home put our stuff down and raced out the door to the car to realize we locked ourselves out of our apt and the car keys still in the apt, haha, luckily we could still laugh at this point and weren't mad :)

coincidentally our landlord was outside at the time randomly and let us back in.

we then were able to get keys to our car, race to little caesar's and get pizza and crazy bread. so worth all $5.

after scarfing down all food imaginable, we played just dance, watched a movie, and stayed up way too late.

all in all, i think we can say that we enjoyed our friday and saturday.


ps- i'm very grateful that i you can have the capability to create a mormon tabernacle choir playlist on pandora :)

couponing with the savvy shopper!

This Picture makes me so happy!

as you can tell from my way too huge of a smile face that makes me look chinese:)

this is Amy, the SavvyShopper!

do you know who she is? you don't? well you should bc she's one of my all time coupon bffaeaeae's :)

no really, her, her site, her videos, are partly of what really helped me to learn how to coupon shop!

and she's one of the all time queens of it! 

i just can't say enough, really, she's incredible and what she does and she's so cute and fun/funny!

tonight i got to go to a coupon seminar she put on here and provo,

and i still learned some awesome tips after all i have already learned!

i just loved every moment!

i had a huge silly grin on my face like the whole time!

seriously friends, DO IT, learn!

this woman has a freaking store in her basement of cheap stuff bc she's so amazing at couponing!

i want to be her someday!

sorry all my sentences end in (!), i'm just so so so so happy right now

i.heart.couponing.

and owe so much of my/our new found love and passion to her :)

ps- i think this is the 1st time in my life where i met someone i felt like i totally knew but had never met in real life/slightly idolized and so i was in slight awe/overly excited when i met her. and now i slightly feel like a stalker :)

Things I've learned about myself lately

-I do not like being alone even the tiniest bit anymore. Not at all.
-No matter how much I try bacon, mushrooms, olives, and pickles, I cannot like them for the life of me. I want to, I really do, but I just can't.
-When I don't have meals planned in advance, cooking is a burden. When I have it planned cooking is enjoyable and then Casey can do it with me.
-Routines are good.
It's not worth saving money buying text books online if they're only going to show up a month after school starts and you've missed all that reading
-Our job truly rocks.
-I love milk (2%). I love love love love love it. Not nearly as obsessed about it like Annalee, but I love it when I get my milk. I'd literally drink it with every meal.
-I love Sunday walks :)
-I do not pick up after myself...and I don't even realize it! Casey is helping me remember to put something away that i literally just used!! I'm so dumb- I don't know what has gotten into me lately.


In other news, today's weather was heavenly. We woke up to thunder but no rain came until about 2 in the afternoon so it was beautifully overcast with a little breeze and barely dropped temperatures, so nice.

So for daily praying, Casey and I decided that instead of consistently asking each other "Who prayed last, is it your turn or my turn?" that instead, we'd just take odd vs even days. So that's what we do. I'm even bc I like even numbers. Casey is odd bc that is what was left over :) So yesterday in the morning we said, hmm what day is it?...It's Sept 21! Happy 10 months to us :) We had a quick little kiss and then went on to prayers. It was nothing special except that it was fun acknowledging the fact that it was.

The other day, this woman got mad at me at the library bc the sign above our Library Security office says "University Police" (bc we are a department of them)...she was mad bc the sign was "misleading" bc it wasn't the University Police headquarters...lady, it doesn't say headquarters. Unnecessary attitude was given.

That's it for now from this side of the fence :)

Pirate Soup!

So we had this amazing chili that Kimber made yesterday and it was quite tasty I would have to say. She is quite the chef! So I figured I would have to put a blog post since it has been a while since I have. Life is so busy we just have a hard time keeping up with everything. This year seems to be the year of making the most of our time. Yesterday was Sunday and we love to go for a Sunday morning walk (hehe), also we went and picked Flowers yesterday, which I am sure Kimber will post a picture sometime. I think the funniest thing is that I have a black eye from FLAG FOOTBALL!!! I mean come on Flag Football. It doesn't quite make sense. Well we love being back in Provo. We love BYU football even though it is on a rebuiliding time. We love our families and are happy to be married. Tomorrow it will be 10 months. Congrats babe! Love ya