It's Julie's Birthday!!

This girl is truly a superstar. I mean come on ... check her out.

I'm not even sure I can put into words how much I love this lil' lady. She pushes me and helps me to do things I didn't even know I was capable of. Evidence #1 in the picture below ...

If not for Julie there would have been no half-marathon under my belt.

Julie is also one of those people that knows exactly what to say to make me laugh, snap out of a cranky mood, stop being irrational, etc. etc. She's a miracle worker I say!

Julie - I know I say it all the time, but I am so glad that we randomly decided to live in a cinder block overpriced dorm room together in AP English class. It is one of the best decisions I have made. I hope you have the best birthday ever because you deserve it! Love you!!

Today is a special day

wanna know why? Well, it's one of my best friend's birthday. The Kelsters is celebrating the day of her birth this very day. In order to fully celebrate her I thought I would share some of my favorite memories of Kels ... a list if you will [cause I love lists] with a few stolen Facebook pictures.

1. Mrs. Ness' 8th grade U.S. History class. Making the video in my backyard of the underground railroad ... Oscar worthy really. [this is the first time I ever met the lil' lass]
2. The random times we hung out in high school ... like her 16th birthday where she received a pink Barbie convertible.
3. Having her come down to Julie and mine's freshman dorm on the back of Riley's scooter with Diet Coke for us.
4. Watching The Office for hours at Westwood.
5. TMNT - Halloween 2007


6. Hairspray and HSM: We watched one of those movies probably close to every weekend last school year and then listed to a CD mix with the songs nonstop. Not freaks, just fans.
7. Having to cut a hole in the bottom of her couch because my cell phone fell in it and we couldn't get it out without the hole. *Anyone reading this that now lives in Westwood please don't tell management. :)
8. Road trip out to San Diego.


9. Laughing to the point of it hurting. Happens a lot.
10. Late night chats because we just didn't want to leave.


There are TONS more fun memories with Kels and I can't wait to have many more.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KELSTERS! I love you!

Oh the memories

Remember this post? Yeah that was graduation. Here's a picture that I found last week from the first day of preschool.



So sweet. We were stylish even back then.

UVU say what?

Found out that Kelly was coming to UVU. Found out that there were cheap tickets. Found out it was on the baseball field. Found out it was going to rain. Found out other friends [Mike and his crew] were going. Found out Kelly is just as good live as on her CDs. Found out that you can injure your neck easily at a concert. Found out that I still love Kelly.

Found out that a little rain + best friends + kelly = fun times.

Cupcake Haven

So Kels, Loges, and I took a fabulous afternoon break and visited Sweet Tooth Fairy. Boy was it tasty. Just walking into the store gave me a high. Can't wait till the next time to try a new treat.

Us sitting outside in enjoying 78 degree weather, cupcakes, and ourselves. Did you notice that my head is about twice the size of Logan's? Lovely.



A cupcake toast!



Total satisfaction

That's fourth a century!!

She's kind of a big deal. Logan Marie that is. It's her 25th birthday today! For those of you who don't know Loges let me tell you about her.



Loges is:
beautiful, brilliant, sensitive, creative, generous, caring, loving, and fun. She can build a fort like nobody's business, whip a dinner out of nothing, make cards that people would pay big bucks for, and is an incredible listener and friend.



Loges will:
be an amazing 7th grade English teacher, an incredible Mom and wife, and will always be my friend.



You should get to know her, she's pretty neat-o. Happy Birthday Logan! Love you!!

The Sunday Night Yuckies

You know that wonderful weekend feeling you get on Friday? And then Sunday night rolls around and that yucky, dreadful, pit in the stomach feeling kicks in? Yeah... it's here. Maybe I'm just crazy and no one else gets it. I wish Monday didn't roll around so quickly.

But I had a lovely event filled weekend.

Friday -

Went to my friend, Whitney's art show. It's amazing! I highly recommend anyone in the BYU area to stop by the Harris Fine Arts Center and check it out.

Then after that checked out Ballet in Concert at BYU. It was West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet combined. Blows my mind how they can dance on wooden blocks in their shoes. I just don't understand it.

Saturday -

Slept in, so nice.

Loges, Kelsters, and I went to a delicious lunch at Olive Garden thanks to lovely gift cards from Carrie. Then off to listen to the mad skills of Vocal Point with tickets Loges gave us for Christmas-we've been waiting a long time for this show. Here's a favorite:



And even after all of that, made it to the last BYU basketball game. It was a fun weekend but it went by all too fast. And now Monday is ... here.

Julie's Birthday

It's BFF Julie's birthday today. I've known her since 5th grade. We even had the same Winnie the Pooh shirt. It wasn't until we both made the volleyball team that we became good friends and then living together just sealed the deal. I should have known that we would be BFF's though. There were signs of it all through our years together. One instance was in the 9th grade. We were both members of the National Honor Society ... aka NHS (dat's right). Actually, Julie was in the presidency of the NHS because of me. :) Anyways, we had an activity at Kids on the Move and after the activity there was pizza and ice cream sandwiches for everyone to eat. Julie and I just kept eating. Slice after slice... it was delicious give us a break. Anyways, we both noticed that we were the only ones still eating, even the boys had stopped (pathetic). So being the 15 year old girls that we were, we got embarrassed. So instead of just pretending like we were full, what do we do? Take another slice of pizza and run to hide and eat it together, just the two of us, free from skinny people's eyes. After exiting the closet we were hiding in, we found out that the ice cream sandwiches were being handed out. Have I EVER passed up on ice cream? Never! So we ate our first sandwich with the group. Everyone else was satisfied with their one small sandwich, not Jules and me. We wanted another one and what are two girls to do? Why hide in the closet AGAIN! eating more ice cream. Julie's mom, Cindy, came to get a broom out of the closet, found us there eating them. She just looked at us, asked us if we were okay, got the broom, and shut the door again. There, in the dark broom closet, we finished off some more ice cream sandwiches in peace and laughter.

I have no idea how at the time I didn't realize that I had just found a bosom buddy. So glad I had more chances to find it out.

Jules, you are: beautiful, hilarious, smart, silly, fun, a great listener, style diva, talented, wonderful, my BFF, a Harry Potter lover (like me), spiritual giant, stupendous wife, genuine, and legal as of today. I love you Jules!! and Happy Birthday!

Now that's just sweet

This post made my day. So unexpected and so wonderful.