Elizabeth's Wedding Shower

A week ago Saturday I, along with my sister's good friend Maggie, threw my sister a shower. It was at Sage Restaurant and turned out to be a beautiful day!

My mom is the greatest. She says the greatest things and is so funny! It is always fun to go out with Mom, especially in a new group of people.

The ring...


I did the flowers and was relieved when I was able to find something within my budget that looked good.




Happy Shower Liz! Now onto the wedding...

Touchdown! Sort of

A month or so ago my sister, Elizabeth, invited my brother, Jason and I to play some flag football with her unit at work. It was the cardiac critical care nurses vs. the ER doctors. So much fun! I got to play with the ER dr's cause there had to be one girl per team on the field at all times so I ended up playing against everyone I came with. It actually made for some good jokes and taunting from the other players.

Everyone had a great time running around on such a gorgeous day. That is, until Jake (a nurse) completely tore his achilles tendon. Ouch! The ER dr's were on the scene all assessing the situation. It was pretty cool to see them doing their tests on the muscle and already giving him the referral to the right ortho surgeon. He ended up with 6 weeks off work, non weight bearing the entire time. Bet his wife will think twice before letting him play flag football again!

Winter

This winter was just unbelievable. No matter how great of an artist there is, none compares to our Maker. I am grateful our Heavenly Father blessed me and those who live in a close proximity with such glorious skies all winter long. I couldn't get enough.

Where, oh where, has my CPK pizza gone?

On Tuesday I went to lunch with my mom and sister to CPK and got the delicious Chipotle Chicken pizza on their awesome honey wheat dough. Then I brought the leftovers back with me to work. I don't work Wednesday's so I was looking forward to having it on my Thursday lunch break. Thursday rolls around, I go to the fridge at work, when lo and behold, it's gone. My co-worker ate my pizza! I was devastated. I had been looking forward to it's goodness! What do you do when this happens? Has this ever happened to any of you out there who may look at my blog? Can you feel my pain? Is it right to be angry? I mean, that's ridiculous, right? I'm trying to not think about it anymore, but I just can't believe someone would take without asking. So now what I am supposed to eat for lunch? I spent good money on that pizza!

Welcome Home!

Picking up my little brother from the airport was awesome! We all missed Jordan. It was crazy to think of how much has happened in our family in the past 2 years. I am so proud of him in every way. For continuing the work knowing what my mom was going through, but knowing she wanted him out there. He served well and his whole outlook is so different. What a great brother! His testimony is such a blessing to everyone around him because he lives it. I was extremely impressed with his homecoming talk as well. But the night he came home we just had fun! Celebrated at Olive Garden (although I had just gotten over the stomach flu so I wasn't really into that so much. But being there with the whole family was great.)


Waiting for Jordan to arrive...
My mom said she wouldn't cry, but my sister and I knew better than that. Here she is "not crying".

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Hollywood...

So the day after Christmas Jason and I took Danielle and Kiffy to Universal Studios. We had passes and were excited to use them because we have never been. We had the best time! Despite the freeeeeeeeezing cold and the lack of rides, we managed to have such a fun time! Hoe could you not with such great friends? We got the see the back lots, you know, where the filmed Jaws and Desperate Housewives and stuff. We rode the Simpson's ride which was a trip. I don't think my head agreed with the cold or that ride (it is a roller coaster simulator in a room where you are completely surrounded by a cartoon and literally feels like a roller coaster) because I ended up with vertigo for an entire week. Worst thing of my life. But anyway, the day was great and it was so nice to spend time with Danielle and Kif. Love them.