Thursday, December 29, 2011

my best friends wedding

Lindsay Bickmore has been a huge part of my life since the 8th grade. She is that friend that you can go weeks even months without talking and then we get together and it's like you saw each other yesterday. Jordan Magleby and I crossed paths in the 6th grade when he transferred to Oakdale Elementary School. We crossed paths again when he "went out" with my friend Taryn and then again when him and Lindsay started dating. Their relationship was anything but traditional, they dated on and off since they were 16 and then when Jordan got home from his mission they started dating for real. Soon they were engaged and now they are married. 
 text i got when they got engaged






Ingunn, Lindsay, Me and Brinn

Sunday, December 4, 2011

olive garden, lights, + friends

The evening started out with dinner at the Olive Garden in Sugar house, the experience was next to miserable. Our waiter managed to drop all of our checks and cards and instead of coming back to put things back in order, he thought he could figure it out himself. Zack and Chelsey ended up not being charged anything, while Dolph and Adrian were charged upwards of $100. At this point we had been there for nearly 2 hours, 40 minutes of those hours were spent waiting for our cards to come back, this is when we summoned the manager over and he couldn't figure out what had been charged or not charged and whose checks were who and we ended up getting the entire meal for free along with $20 gift certificates all around. Our whole purpose of going up north was to take Rory to the lights on Temple Square for the first time, so we sped over to the lights and meandered about for some time. It was a whole new experience taking someone that new in the church to temple square. I definitely take living so close for granted and it was very enlightening to stop at all of the statues read them, explain the history of the church and who everyone was and their role in the church. I learned a lot about myself that night and a lot about the impact the church has had in my life, and how much I know and don't know about the church. It was a humbling experience indeed.



 Zack, Rory, Dolph, Adrian

 Whitney, Kirsten, Chelsey, Me



 sorry for the picture overload, but I couldn't decide and I love them all.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Giving Thanks

This year Thanksgiving was in sunny St. George, everyone made it except Grandpa, who was in Atlanta, and Cameron and Maren, for understandable reasons, The little Drew man! The trip down was very enjoyable, Megan, Jason, Landon and I hit the road with a very specific music selestion: She and Him Christmas, Michael Buble Christmas, Lady Antebellum's newest, and to top it off a little SheDaisy Christmas. Jason LOVED it all, especially SheDaisy. I think since then he has purchased every  song they have ever recored! Once in St.George the real party began! Dinner as Casa Dona Maria, Thanksgiving feast, Black Friday shopping (where we missed a brawl by minutes according to reports), More shopping, more eating and lots of family time! This was a much needed break from the semester, and now on to finals!


As you can see the children were thrilled to be leaving

*picture from Stacey's Blog