9/13/21

I am going to put in renewed effort to keeping up this journal of sorts. Especially because now I am working at the Missionary Training Center as a teacher! It has been easily one of the best experiences of my life so far. I started in mid July. After a week and a half of training I was able to pick up my own district! I grew to love them dearly and then sent them off on their missions. I was worried that it would be harder to feel so much love for my next district but now we are on our last week together and I love them just as much and I'm going to be so sad to see them go. I've already learned so much about myself and about the Savior at this job. And since I am learning so many cool things and hearing so many cool stories I feel that it's more important than ever to get it all down.

8/6/21

 I met up with my mom and sisters at the duck park by Walmart and we had like a little picnic lunch. That in and of itself was fun but what really made the whole thing great was the fact that once we tossed one (1) piece of bread, ducks came FLOCKING. I will include a photo and a video as proof of just how many ducks there were (and how funny it was watching Alicia try to decide how she felt about them!)

8/4/21

 Lo and I took this picture today and I just think it's really funny so I wanted to grace you all with its existence.

8/1/21

 I made lupulu for break the fast after church. It took FOREVER to cook (like I had to leave it in the oven during church so that it could fully finish cooking. But it turned out and it tasted so good and I'm so proud of it!

 

7/17/21

 As a wedding present for Mary and Emily I wanted to do kind of the same thing I did for Derity's birthday present. It wasn't necessarily a surprise because I had them both send me their favorite photo from their bridals. I'm really proud of them though! I tried to do the lettering in like a cute loop and I think it worked out well! I didn't anticipate the bouquets being so difficult so they look a lot different than the original pictures but they have the same colors and types of flowers.

7/16/21

Emily and Josh officially got married today!! Lauren helped me do my hair this morning and I finally got to wear the bridesmaid dress I'd ordered! We started off with their sealing at the Draper temple and took some group pictures. Then we had a luncheon at Thanksgiving Point that was seriously tasty. Finally we went to a cute lil reception hall in Lindon and I got to help set up and it was so fun! It's wild to me that so much is happening and changing, but it's also so cool to see how far we have all come and how much we have all grown up. I am so happy for them both!

I was feeling MAD CUTE 

Look at her!! She changed into this dress for the reception
because she couldn't dance in her wedding dress.

Couldn't forget a selfie of all three of us! So happy for them both!

 

6/25/21

 Rachael's baby shower was today!!! Her Mom (Jennie) and her friend Grace reached out to me and asked if I could cater because Rach still talks about all the truffles I made for my mission call opening. So I made what felt like a literal billion cake pops (well truffles really but cake pops for the sake of the pun, since Rachael was about to 'pop'!) It was kind of wild that we were actually having a baby shower for her though. Every time we do something for Rachael's baby or for Emily/Mary's wedding it's a reminder that we are all getting so old and so much life is happening to us. It always makes me so so happy though! 

Look at all those cake pops!