Fabulous weekend

Crazy Family+friends+sun=Perfection. Saturday I spent all day at a family reunion of at least 150 people. Of those, I probably know 1/10 by their faces and even less by name. Crazy Utah big families. Gotta love it though. It was outside at a cute little park next to a church. (Go figure right? A big family reunion next to a church, epitome of Utah.) Anyways, they had a photo area where they had dress up clothes and ridiculous hats and crazy back drops. Lets just say that the family pictures were priceless! My cheeks hurt at the end of the day from the rosy hue they had acquired and from all the smiling and laughing that had taken place. I loved it!
Kaitlyn came and stayed with me for the weekend as well! We went to Yo-Gurt and got this delectable frozen yogurt. Who would have thought that Orange paradise, or whatever that flavor was, and chocolate thin mint would ever go well together, but it was divine! Then we went outside and there was this super bright rainbow and even a double rainbow!

Taste the rainbow!

We got home and there was an absolutely gorgeous sunset! Pictures don't even do it justice.

I love it! It's like Heavenly Father's paintings. So different every night, but always so incredible.

Oh how much I just love this girl :) She is the best!

After we finished obsessing about the sunset, we went in and watched "The Roommate" (freaky show! I am not a fan of it) and then we watched "Life as we know it" (LOVE this show! Then again, what do you expect from a hopeless romantic like myself?). Then naturally, being girls at a "sleep over", we didn't really sleep. We stayed up until after 2 AM just talking and giggling, discussing crushes and being thoroughly twitterpated. It was fantastic!

Less than 5 short hours later we had to wake up to attend mission prep. Needless to say, we weren't extremely coherent in class....or really the rest of the day. It was great though, and highly amusing at times.

Now she is gone though :( but I will only go through withdrawals for one short week because then we have another EFY session next week! SUPER excited! It will be a party. Until then, I will remain occupied with running, working, and Cali baby!

- EB (ugh...endings. I still am working that one out)

Fun Fun in the sun!

You know you are in Utah when your family reunion consists of at least 150 people. It was quite the adventure.

Well Here is me :) Hello

These are my wonderful roommates from this last semester. Love and miss them!

Me and Jojo our foreign exchange student from Norway. This was christmas day! She just barely went home a couple weeks ago and we miss her.

This is my adorable little nephew Ian. He fell and smashed his face against the corner of the couch. Pretty little shiner though :)

My little diva niece Miranda :) isn't she so cute?!

My sister Shauna with my niece :) cute

Me, My cousin Marc, and Jojo.

Two of my best friends! Michelle on the left and Madi on the right. We have all been best friends since at least 8th grade!

My cute puppy! Zoey. She isn't so little anymore

I was an elementary orchestra teacher this last year up in Logan and this is one of my classes! Oh how I loved them and teaching! :)

This cute picture is of me and my sister Sara. We went on a Utah temple trip and this is temple number 4 that we went to. That was a really fun day!

My EFY girls! This was my group of girls, they were all so awesome! I had the 14-15 year old girls. So much fun!

My wonderful co-counselors! Kjarinda (I think I spelled that right) and Trevor.

My whole company! We had the most amazing company ever :) it was wonderful

Some of my most favorite counselors ever! Me, Tanner, Kaitlyn, and Marie.

This is my dear friend that I was talking about earlier in my first post who got me started on this blog. Kaitlyn, we became instant BFF's!

All of us looking fabulous and sweaty after our Friday dance. With 400 or so youth dancing in a small ish gym...it gets EXTREMELY hot!

One of the boys in my company. He was probably my favorite :) his name is Joey and he was the most hilarious kid ever.

Michelle and me at the Logan fireworks, baking in the sun but looking fabulous while doing it ;)

More best friend shots! Madi up top, Michelle, Me and Stef.

Step One: Learning how to use this nifty little thing I've just created

So thanks to a very dear, new friend, I have been inspired to start a blog. Not to mention that my sisters both have one as well. So i'm joining the herd and becoming a sheep by following everyone. Ba Ba

Alright, being new at this I have no idea what is standard protocol, so i'm going to wing it and do it my way. Since it is MY blog. Right now I am at a point in my life where life has been at a stand still for awhile. I have been going to school and getting my associates, but until recently I just was waiting for the next step. Finally I put my mission papers in this week and I feel like that long awaited dream is finally becoming my reality! Even though I have wanted this pretty much my entire life, there are still so many emotions that have exploded inside of me that I sometimes wonder how to handle it all. Nervousness, anxiousness, excitement, ancticipation, jubilation, but most of all....Bliss. Pure joy and happiness! It's wonderful and I can't imagine being anywhere else or doing anything else at this point in my life.

Now comes the part that I don't know how to do...adding pictures and ending a post. Sincerly me? Until next time? Love, me? cliche...oh well, I will figure that one out later. Hopefully pictures are to come!