so you think you can dance

this saturday we went to a bbq with rochelle and dustin davis,
and some other good friends from high school.
they were such awesome hosts.
they made the entire dinner all of us.
it was so great to see them again!
they had the game "so you think you can dance" on the wii and we literally had a hayday with it.
i loved these shots of the guys getting so into the game.

why yes, she is MY mom.

i've been thinking a lot about my mom lately. she unfortunatley wasn't here this weekend for mothers day because she, my dad and the 3 boys went on cruise. i don't even want to talk about how jealous i am. anyways, i've been thinking back to some of the most rememberable times with her.

i remember coming home from pre-school when we lived in california and there was a 60 year old, chinese man just sitting cross legged on our living room floor watching cartoons (we lived in an apt at the time while my dad went to school) and he was eating a bowl of roman noodle. it was pooring outside. he didn't even know english and she let him in, fed him, and let him sleep out in our car that night. and what makes this story even better, is when my dad got home, he didn't ask questions, or even tell her how dangerous it was of her to do that. he got out the blankets and made the car as comfortable as he could.

all of our family was driving to our cousins house, and a man had a sign up leaned next to him that said, "i'm hungry, please help". my mom told my dad to pull over to the side of the road. my mom yelled out to him, "what would you like to eat sir?". he stood up and walked up to the car, "anything, please." so we turned the car around back to the house, and my mom put together a sub sandwich, a drink, and some chips together for him. we all piled in the car and drove back and gave it to him. i will never forget that memory.

after high school, for some weird reason, i went from platinum blonde to pitch ugly black. i walked in the house absolutely hating the decision i made and my mom was sitting on the chair right by the front door. i walked in and she stood straight up and started laughing, and then after she stopped laughing she said, "take that wig off right now." i started bawling. then immediately after i started crying she said, "well, why in the heck did you dye it black??" zero comfort, haha, not even a sugar coat of comfort. i love so much thinking back to her reaction.

bottom line, it's so easy to love her aside from her weaknesses, because she never hesitated for a second to love me with all of mine.

i love both my moms.

i love both my moms with all my heart.
i love getting to know them each more and more the older i get.
i love knowing they are both here for me.
i love girl talk with them.
i love learning from them. each have different ways of living there lives and i'm so grateful for that.
i love laughing with them.
i love crying with them.
i love watching them both raise there families so strong in the gospel.
i love having them both for my moms.

happy mothers day to 2 of the most wonderful woman i know.

i live for fridays.

its a good day, just because its friday.
i feel like i've been so ansy lately, i have this window right next to my desk and it teases me looking out and seeing the perfect weather...and plus there's a beautiful, huge tree right out the window that makes it even more tempting to just go sit outside.

a couple that looked around my age came into the clinic and they were all over each other. they were practically making out on the chairs. i was staring, only because they were drawing so much attention to themselves. i wanted to barf looking at them. then about 25 minutes later, an older couple in there 80's came in holding hands and the man gave his wife a kiss on the cheek. my heart melted. then for a minute i felt stupid that i was so rude about a young couple showing love, but i was lovestruck when an old couple showed there love. i don't get why it's so much cuter when old people show there love.

brad is finally done with his finals this week! which made us both in dang good moods the rest of the day! when we were driving home, we started talking about our trip to europe this summer and got so freaking excited we both started laughing so hard, (i may have screamed out of the blue really loud too) and turned up the music full blast. it's fun when you have something to look forward too. like the weekends....i hope you all have been looking forward to the weekend!

questions that i think about.....sometimes daily.

do zits really have to happen after the age 13?

why do i react like the world is ending when my food order is wrong, and i've already driven away from the window?

do people think i'm doing drugs when i give myself an insulin shot?

why can't scrubs be daily clothes for every. single. person?

why does poop have to smell so dang ronchy? (my job)

how come texting someone back sometimes feels like the hardest thing on earth to do for the moment? (i actually know this answer......it's because im lazy)

why on earth does the good tasting food have to be bad for the body, and the healthy stuff can't taste that good?

is it sad that i feel more productive after writing people back on facebook then i do after a full day of work?

why in the crap does the face have to go red after feeling stupid?

how can after just having a good, simple conversation with someone i love make me feel so at ease?

what else we did in vegas, including the strip.

just some more pics from the trip.
for some reason we were loving the horse shoe game so much.
i don't think i've ever even played horse shoe for more than 5 minutes before.
we played for about 3 hours.
like i say...it was all about the sun!

and the strip-i can't believe how nasty it gets with each year.
and by nasty i mean the people, the shows, the language, the flipping of the nography cards.
it seems like it's all just getting worse and worse with each year.
thank goodness for the gospel.

viva las vegas..and its weather.

i'm tellin ya, the sun makes all the difference.
we were so lucky to go at the last minute down to vegas with kristin and taylor for the weekend. the hotel was awesome!
kristin and her marriott deals made us feel like celebs with how nice it was.
and i think we all managed to gain a good 10 pounds with how much we ate.
(but i think we lost all the weight on the way home from how much gas we all had afterwords)
we even managed to get in some heavy-duty horse shoe playin.
we were using any excuse to be out in the sun.

*best part of the trip- when taylor told us all that we had to sleep in till 9 so he could get some good sleep, then him waking us all up at 6:00 am because he was too excited to gamble.

*second best part of the trip-watching taylor lose his 60 bucks while gambling.

*third best part-we actually spent our time doing cool things other than walking the strip. (but yes, we did of course spend some time walking the strip:))
the strip isn't the coolest when your lds.