The Many Adventures of You & Me: July 2011

Reusing the first.

My mom bought me a white dress,

Not red or pink or blue.

She said it was a special dress

Like very other few,

There has been just one before,

A dress now put away,

That I wore some time ago

Upon my blessing day.

As a little baby clothed

In my first white dress,

My dad held me in his arms, {I like to imagine this is how my baby girl is hanging out in heaven. My grandma and grandpa Frogley are watching over her, they know her and they are telling her about the family she will be coming in to. It makes me smile to know they have met her and are protecting her.}

There to name and bless.

So pure and clean was I just then,

With time to grow and learn

About the Father's plan for me.

My glory I must earn.

Now I've reached the age to judge

The wrong road from the right,

And I am here to be baptized

In this dress of white.

{my dad and I on my baptism day}

So once again I'm free from sin.

The path is clear to me.

I'll grasp the rod and hold on tight, I vow with certainty.

Just as mud would stain my dress,

Sin would stain my soul.

The key is to repent or bleach,

For whiteness is my goal.

And if I try my very best

Then richly blessed I'll be,

Wearing inside God's holy house

White dress number three,

So today I make this pledge:

I'll strive to choose the right,

Through this sacred baptism ordinance

In my second dress of white.

(Linda Gay Perry Nelson, 1993)

I have now had the chance to have all 3 of my white dresses and I am excited to share my very first one with my daughter.

This is my blessing dress from 26 years ago, when I told my mom I was having a girl she immediately said "we need to go find a blessing dress"

I told her I wanted baby H to wear mine, she agreed and got to work making sure mine was in perfect condition.

A few random numbers...

3- I didn't know

6- i lied

7- I wanted to die

9- Party!

11- started to seem real

12- I worried

14- embarrassment

14.5- dirrrrty dash

14.52- happy 4th of July

17- at girls camp 17.5- trying to convince Jon

17.51- extremely active

17.6- Deseret News 10 K- Happy 24th!

{ I seriously wanted to die in this picture, thanks mom for keeping me going!} 18.5- FINALLY!!!!

When you wish upon a star....

Everybody has dreams.

BIG dreams.

Little Dreams.

Current dreams and dreams about the future.

I was reading a blog about a girl who is currently studying abroad and was a little sad, that used to be one of my dreams. The thought of being emersed in a culture while going to school was always appealing to me. I love to travel, so my dreams usually included an new exotic place. I thought about the dream I have had over the last 25 (almost 26) years.

I have dreamed about...

being a doctor

traveling to every country in the world

making a difference

being an OT

being a PA

getting married

having kids

being successful

being creative

inventing something great

humanitarian trips galore as a medical professional

having fireworks at my wedding

Recent dreams

moving for grad school

going to nursing school

a house

a real career

I really can't complain, I have a great life and many wonderful dreams have come true.

The dream that can't come true fast enough...

To Tyler.

We traveled to Peru

We laugh a lot

(the bread and testicles story will forever be one of my favorites, as well as the romantic music call to the mission pres)

We took pictures

We enjoyed life

I was hurt when I heard you were taken at such a young age.

I am glad you were with your family at the time.

Enjoy heaven and remember never delete a picture :)

{Machu Picchu- May 16, 2009}

Jon and I went over to his house to pick up the pictures (after Peru- June-ish of 2009) and he filmed this.

Funny to watch.

Thank you for the memories Tyler.

You will be missed.

It is a sad day....

when you have worked at a place for:

168 weeks

843 days

33600 hours

(I have apparently worked here too long)

and you had to break down and buy yourself lunch for the first time.

I ALWAYS bring my lunch to work with me unless:

We get free lunch for one reason or another.

Sad, Sad day. How do people buy lunch all the time?

It is EXPENSIVE!!!

If I bought lunch every day I worked here I would have spent $4215.

wow.

Just a random thought.

Favortie.

I love this holiday!

Here is a recap of the CRAZY weekend.

Saturday: My mom, Sara and I started off the weekend wit the Kiss me dirty run a t Wheeler farm.

As you can see, it was NOTHING llike thie dirty dash.

This picture is at the end, my shirt was white at the beggining and the end!

Saturday afternoon was spent with the Grandparents who were in town.

Saturday night Jon went on a date with CJ and I tagged along.

They went to Cheesecake Facotry for dinner (where I ran into Rylee!)

played xbox with Josh (i worked on YW stuff and took a nap)

CJ and Jon (without me) went to get TCBY

and then played MORE xbox (I took more naps)

The date lasted until 12:30 am, that boy needs an earlier curfew.

Sunday night the Kings and the Evans stopped buy to pick up some cookies and we enjoyed watching the neighbors (5 of them) light off (illegal) fireworks.

Heaven!