My Husband

I want to marry this kid....

Pictured: Elder Jeremy Struk

I was looking at the Dallas Texas Mission Transfer Pictures today on facebook and ran into this beauty pictured above and I decided that I am going to marry Jeremy Struk. He is so dang cute all the time and we have always joked about it. 

In all reality he would be the perfect husband. Why would I want to pass that up? 

The first time I met him was the first day of seminary freshman year and I was about ready to shank him. He was just way too much energy for 6:00 am. Little did I know that he would sneak into my heart and become one of my best friends. 

We have been there for each other in the ups and downs. I love him so much it is ridiculous. 

That is it! I have made up my mind! We are going to get married once I can convince him of it and after he returns with honor. 

Swollen Eye

It might just look like a large bag under my eye to you but my eye swelled up a ton last night while I was sleeping. It reminded me of the time that my ear swelled up. I just like to make my body parts larger than they are supposed to be.

Don't worry, my eye de-swelled and before church was over today it was almost back to normal.

Waxing my Legs

I tried waxing for the first time ever. It wasn't that bad. There is a video of it all happening but it isn't that entertaining because it didn't hurt that bad. Maybe one day I will go get my legs done professionally. I sure do hate shaving a lot.

Feeding the Ducks

For FHE we went to go feed the ducks at the local duck pond. Above is Kat and Tiffani. I love that picture of Tiffani because it looks like she is doing a gay man throw. 

Here is more of the group throwing bread. It was quite enjoyable. I don't remember who took my camera a was taking pictures but there I am on the right.

Pictured: Taylor, Kyle, Kat, Sonya, I forgot his name, Spencer, Brooke, Me, Kevin, Jeff (I think) and Tiffani

This is part of my FHE family... I guess most of my FHE family. We are only missing Alexa. The boys are really starting to grow on me. I think that the Sheffield boys really love FHE and want to hang out with us girls all the time but Spence and another one of the boys just aren't up for that. Kyle and Kevin are brothers and Jeff is their cousin. They are my 3 favorites, if I could pick favorites.

Brother and Sister: Jeff and Tiffers.

Ghetto-fied

This is what Bailey does to my late at night. I like to get intouch with my black roots everyone once and awhile.

Mother's Day

I was asked to give a talk on Mother's Day.

This is part of what I said:

My mother is the slow rush of ocean water next to the newly built sand castle.

She is the constant blurry view out of the window during the often twelve hour plane ride to New Zealand.

She is the zesty smell of freshly pealed oranges on Christmas mornings.

Mom is the sound of fast ticking computer keys in the middle of the day.

She is the flesh colored band-aid on my new booboo.

She is the social activity happening at the church building in five minutes.

She is meal made for the missionaries on the dinner table and the laughter filled conversation that intertwines.

She is open arms ready to take in her daughters or anyone who needs love.

Mom is the backpack full of activities, the rush of the wind hitting passenger seat door in the Arrowstar Van, and the hotel stop in Winnemucca full of swimming on the long ride to Utah.

She is the undiscovered piano sheet music just waiting to be played to sooth someone’s heart.

She is the phone call that makes my heart mend back together after a long hard day away from her.

Mom is never changing, always busy, and always there.

I also substituted the phrase "a mother's love" instead of charity because Gary totally gave me the idea.

Moroni 7:45-47

45 And a mothers love suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

46 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, if ye have not a mothers love, ye are nothing, for a mothers love never faileth. Wherefore, cleave unto mother, which is the greatest of all, for all things must fail-

47 But a mother’s love is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him.

Caves

Welcome to the Civil Defense caves.

I went with Deberlee and the rest of the family. It was awesome. I am not going to lie, I was kind of freaked out at the beginning but it was too unfathomably amazing to be freaked out about anything

Kaylee got too scared and didn't make it to the end and took Mark with her. The rest of us pressed on to the end. It was so cool. I am so glad I got to with them. It was my first cave play date but I hope that it is not the last.

Picture on the Wall

Bailey and I started on the daunting task of my picture wall. As she put up the picture I put the tape on the backs of the pictures.

Well, the tape didn't really stick and this is what happened.

Haha. So, we tried again but we had to wait until my Aunt and Uncle brought up the rest of my stuff which had sticky tac. We were very successful in our endeavors.

This is the end product. I love it so much more than the lame white wall that used to be there. Bailey is so good to me. She is the one that also put up this baby up.

This is my roomie Brookie.

We do a lot together. She doesn't like germs. She is from Utah. She loves her family more than gold. She is super duper.

We go to devo and the temple together every week. It is awesome.

Ryan and RosaLee

They got married! I would like to thank them because they were my first real engaged couple that I took engagement pictures for. Their reception hall was decorated so nicely. I was impressed. It was almost a Aalita C reunion at their wedding. I had a lot of fun but it was a lot different than Tiff and I expected. I guess we are already growing apart. 

Brett Hansen

Brett is one of my most favorite FHE brothers I have ever had. Yesterday he came up to my place and we went on a walk. I live right by a huge empty field and we just walked along it until we turned around and came back the other way. We also adventured into a lush neighborhood. There are some huge houses in Rexburg.

He is the brother I never had.

Dumpster Diving

Bailey, Addie, Jarika (I am so sorry, I have no idea how to spell your name) and I went on an epic dumpster diving quest. Little did we know that we would find a bunch of gems. 

The Kmart dumpsters and chalk full of goodies. 

After we found many items we wanted to use, we headed back to my place to glue it all together. 

This is kind of what the end product looked like. None of us wanted to keep it and so we thought the best idea would be to ding-dong-ditch it at some male's home. Of course the one person we wanted to do it to was outside on their porch and we just quickly drove by.

We ended up finding this random car with no doors and back. We popped the Barbie car in the trunk and wrapped the car with toys for tots banners. Don't worry, the blue thing under the windshield is a love note we left with a number for him to reach us on. 

The night was super awesome and it turned out way better than I was expecting.

He never called. :(

I Got Braces!

The rumors are true. I have braces right now on my top teeth. Soon I will also be rocking the braces on the bottom too. My ortho place is in Idaho Falls since I live more in Idaho than in California. It was also a lot cheaper to get it done anywhere other than California. 

They didn't really hurt except for spacers. I am already ready for this bad boys to be taken off but I can wait for the end product.