ROADTRIP!

So, the roomies and I spent a wonderful week in SoCal with Sara's family. We drove to San Marcos, stayed for Thanksgiving break (we get the whole week off, gotta love Idaho!), and drove back. It was an incredible week, with many exciting events!

We left Friday night for our overnight pit stop in SLC at my Aunt's. Here is Anny begrudgingly taking a bite of her 2nd ever Taco Bell sampling!

The next morning we took off around eight a.m. and my two travel buddies were both passed out pretty quickly. Thanks girls.

Here we are somewhere in Utah, where you could literally see where the weather was better on the other side. We had clouds all the way up until this point, then we didn't see them until our trip back to Old Iceburg ;)

My dad served his mission in the San Diego area, so he had a few suggestions for us. He made us go out to an amazing restaurant, which he generously told me to use his credit card ;) (Don't worry, we didn't have any of the exotic cocktails...)

We stayed with Sara's family and it was a blast! She has three sisters and one brother (the youngest out of everyone). We got to help out, meet tons of new people, and have sooo much fun. At one point we were trying to help Sara pick out her and Zach's song and this is what ended up happening....

Aren't they cute?

And, of coure, we did some shopping. Anny absolutely fell in love with her long, lost love of a jacket...

not really.

Sara's sister and best friend threw her a bridal shower. It was super cute and not too raunchy... per Sara's request. The games were fun and people got super creative. Here's our lovely model rommate, Kaylie.

Meet Amanda. Sara's sister, Megan, and I were the designers of this lovely piece ;)

No explanation.

Our last outing of all un-married women! Woohoo!!!

We'll never tell what we did ;)

Thursday was the nice and busy day. Zach's side of the family was getting Thanksgiving dinner ready for about... EIGHTY-ish people, while Sara's side set up the reception hall/barn. Of course, we ran with Sara's side. It was nice to feel helpful.

Beautiful Gumpy babe hauling some of the goods...

I think that this may be the last picture we have of single Sara.

Gorgeous Anny... and me.

Here are some of the decorations. It was all SUPER cute.

Clean-up!

(We did help, I promise).

We drove back that Saturday and picked up Sara's cousin/straggler, Andrew. We stopped in SLC again and, of course, hit up Temple Square. AND we saw and talked with Elder L. Tom Perry of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.... for the third time ever!

It was a very, very, very good trip, but needless to say, we were pretty worn out.

Another One Bites the Dust

Our beautiful Sara got married!!

She got married to a great guy (that's right, I approve).

Introducing, Zach and Sara Allen!

Obviously, we did not want to let her go.

(In my opinion, I don't think that Zach is trying very hard).

But lo and behold, we had to let go.

Sara and I have been through

trillions of dishes,

257 pictures

235 rolls of toilet paper,

182 adventures,

90-ish credits,

45-ish mac and cheese dinners,

11 months,

6 trips to Utah,

5 church callings,

4 birthdays,

4 music videos,

4 roomates,

3 semesters,

2 wards,

1 skinny dip,

1 AMAZING friendship,

and

0 arguments (wink, wink),

together.

Love you Sara!

We miss you!

Maybe Someday...

... I'll be more embarrassed by this kind of stuff and stop posting it ;)

For your viewing pleasure...

It's November!

Yes, yes, I'm a big slacker.

So, October was a good month. I am loving school. It easily and quickly felt like home again long ago.

Here's a small summary of what we have been up to.

We made our traditional bi-annual trek down to my Aunt Christine's for General Conference! It was a blast, as always. My Aunt Christine always treat us so much better than we deserve and she constantly reaffirms to me how wonderful a lady she is! The talks at Conference definitely prompted a lot of thought and gave me things to work on.

Here is Zach and Sara. Zach didn't think that Sara wanted to be seen with him... he had a pretty grody mustache at the time. (19 more days until they get hitched)!

My beautiful roomies.

L to R: Kaylie, Anny, Sara.

Our crew, right before going into the conference center for the Sunday afternoon session. Sidenote: that was the session where Elder Holland gave his going-down-in-history testimony and talk on the Book of Mormon. We were so lucky to be in that session and truly feel the strength of his feelings and knowledge.

The day after we got home from General Conference, we had the privilege to wake up to this. It melted by the afternoon and we have only had one additional snow-stick since then.

On October 13, Elder Dallin H. Oaks gave the devotional here at BYU-I! He spoke about religious freedom. It was pretty intense. It made the news all over the place. If you haven't read it, I would recommend it. Sara and I were able to get tickets to attend the devotional. We were able to sit in the same room with apostles of the Lord while they gave incredible testimonies. And they weren't just heartfelt and testimony-building talks (though they were these things, too), but they were powerful, truthful, and blunt talks.

Sara's cute Halloween cookies.

We participated in a huge stake service project. We pulled weeds and painted fences. We were rocking awesome weed-pickers.

The stake provided us with styrofoam cups to put our paint in. For brushes, we used the gloves they provided us with to pull weeds. It made for an interesting service project. The paint was eating through the cups so quickly. I ended up with 3 stacked cups, and it eventually ate through all of them.

P.S. The weeds were pokey.

Lalalala

Well, my internet does not happen to be the best in my apartment. It works really great most of the time, but random things don't work, three things actually: email, uploading pictures to blogger, and submitting my accounting homework. Hmm... lovely. So, maybe someday I will upload pictures. We'll see. I'm not a big fan of the "all words" posts, since I'm not as entertaining that way ;)