as i sit here in the wilk, there’s a mom standing in front of me, bouncing her adorable baby girl.
the baby keeps looking over her mom’s shoulder at me and she has the biggest brown eyes.
she is adorable.
i felt like she was staring into my soul, reminding me that i hadn’t blogged in an incredibly long time.
so here goes.
first things first: thanksgiving.
tayte and i changed our minds a lot while trying to figure out how to get down there.
go with tayte’s parents and rent a car, go with hilary, andrew, and amy, drive ourselves with someone else, go with hilary & co., …
the following is a collection of our (mine and tayte’s) thoughts:
if we went with hilary, etc. we would leave tuesday afternoon and drive back sunday.
or we could drive by ourselves and leave tuesday morning.
or we could leave monday after classes.
or we could just leave monday morning.
if we’re gonna leave monday morning, we might as well leave saturday.
if we’re gonna leave saturday, we might as well leave friday after classes.
and if we leave friday after classes, we might want a cookie to go with it.
tayte really wanted to drive halfway and stay in vegas for a night, so that last option sounded perfect.
also my family thought we weren’t coming until “probably monday or tuesday,” and johnnnie had his eagle court of honor saturday afternoon.
this was all coming together beautifully.
we left friday morning right after tayte’s class got out and drove to vegas.
that night, we just walked around the strip, bought some drinks, ate some quizno’s…you know, the vegas usual.
it was a riot and a half.
here’s picture proof:
this is my favorite place. it’s so happy. plus it’s full of chocolate. plus…it’s just so so happy!
i also love this water show. it’s so peaceful and pretty cool.
so our carpet had this awkward red stain right next to the door. we hypothesized multiple scenarios that could have possibly resulted in that red stain.
for the sake of any children that may be reading this, i will refrain from recapping the scenarios.
what happens in vegas stays in vegas, i guess.
the next day we drove the rest of the way.
the weather was very rainy and chilly.
we stopped for gas and tayte could not get the gas cap off.
he tried and tried and made me try and neither of us could get it off.
finally, tayte just pried it off, breaking it in half in the process.
thankfully, the screw part was still in there, so he used a screwdriver to get that out, filled the tank with gas, and popped that screw part back in place.
i was sure we were gonna die.
later that night, we stopped by an auto parts store (that was randomly open late) and got a new one.
this was the part we had to pry out and snap back in:
what it should have been and what it was:
so we pulled up to stephanie’s house just as my parents were walking out to their car.
they were #totessurprised.
a lot of the womenfolk were surprised to see us, but a lot of the men just didn’t realize that we weren’t supposed to be there yet.
the next day was sunday, and after waking up late and showering rapidly, tayte asked me if i had packed his white shirt.
yeah we had his suit, his sunday shoes, but not his shirt.
so he wore the next best thing: his only collared, non-plaid shirt.
it didn’t button down all the way, so he couldn’t not wear a tie:
and the suit was definitely a must:
so here’s the finished product:
i didn’t think it was too shabby, and i didn’t think people would look close enough to even realize.
but as soon as sacrament meeting was over, reed leaned over and said
”did you need to borrow a white shirt?”
i guess people could tell.
oh well.
c’est la vie.
overall, thanksgiving was awesome.
we were very well taken care of, and we loved every minute of it!
it was so good to see my family and we were so glad we spent the extra money so that we could be there longer.
so here’s the thing.
tayte and i had a newest addition to our family.
key word: had.
it was very very short-lived.
do you see it?
that is literally a bug inside of that picture frame!
i’m pretty sure i killed it when i ran my finger over it to see if it would fly away.
unfortunately it will probably never fly away.
last update.
next week is the last week of classes, then finals then it’s over!
i am almost done with my last semester as an undergrad at byu!
i start student teaching in january and i finally have my assignment!
{that was a very much-anticipated email, let me tell you}
i’ll be student teaching with a partner, and i got paired with miss olivia payne, and i couldn’t be happier about it. (she’s awesome)
we’ll be student teaching at salem hills high with a teacher that i can’t remember.
it’s all coming together and it’s a little surreal, but it’s awesome!
so that’s us.
our lives are slowing down and everything is clicking into place.
except for all the white crapola outside…that is not acceptable.
the cold can go away as well.
i should probably stop and sit on my hands so that i start to feel them again.
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life is really good.
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