Shopping

1. General conference!! I'm back to taking notes and I feel real good about it :) 

2. Connor and I went to Zumba step and had a blast for as long as my knee held up. 

3. I went to target and bought Mycah ALL the things! 

4. We played Diminion at Tommys apartment and I love those people. 

Busy

1. We went to our personal finance class today which was another resounding success. I like it a lot, plus they made cookie bars for us that were amazing. 

2. I went to the gym!! I sweated and felt great about it! 

3. We had a really good day at the office and I'm sad Kim is coming back tomorrow :( it's been a really nice week without her. 

Good old days

1. I went grocery shopping after work and saved $20! 

2. I made meat loaf for dinner that turned out so well! 

3. Connor and I tag teamed fhe and got a ton done in a very small amount of time. 

4. I got a new bra in the mail and I love it! 

In memoriam

1. We had a wake for Melody tonight in the clubhouse of her apartment complex, it was an amazing turnout of people brought together by her. So much family. So much love. Denise and Dawn came down to help, Aubrie & Devan and Ryan&Patti were there. Brandon and all the siblings of Melody. Gina and Dustin&Laura. Plus melodys boss, his wife, tons of coworkers and patients. It was just so sweet and fun. Connor and I spent a lot of time with Michele making her laugh and eating delicious things. 

2. As horrible as this might be, Michele offered me Melodys clothes and that would really help me out since we don't really have the money for clothes and I wear through my nice things because I wear them to work. 

3. We got meat that Andrea purchased for us when we dropped her off at home tonight and got home much sooner than we were anticipating. 

All in all a wonderful weekend full of healing and love. 

The past few days

1. I made brownies on Friday for Connor since he didn't get offered the job at Qualtrics.

2. I went to Zumba step with Lindsey Deschamps! We had a blast! 

3. I went with Alexandra to visit Jeanice and had so much fun chatting with them. I almost feel like that is me being visit taught because we have become such good friends. Plus my visiting teachers haven't come the past two months. 

4. We picked up Andrea and drove to Logan to spend a little time at aunt Jeanne's before the memorial tonight. 

5. We stayed up very late playing cards and roaring laughing and eating fun treats and loving on each other. I love these people, this is basically what my childhood was like. Staying up way late laughing and playing way too many hands of Rummy 500. It was balm for our souls. 

6. Jeanne spoiled us and I ate more food than I've had in days because I've been feeling so nauseous and gross. Not preggo, woo. Just sick. 

Yoga

1.I'm just really happy with my yoga class. It's been helping a lot and even from just going 4 times I already see improvement and being able to push myself farther. I'll work this weight off yet! 

2. I had a great day. There's was lots of laughing and I made lots of progress in my work queues, plus I went in picking early for a meeting and so I worked many hours. 

3. Connor and I picked the carrots from the garden and I squealed and jumped around when I thought I saw a big gross bug. Connor saved the day. 

Finanncy

1. I came home from work today and just sat down. I didn't have anywhere to rush to. I didn't have something to immediately get to. I had two full hours till our finance class and I gloriously wasted it. 

2. I walked to the church for our class and had a grand ole time talking to my mom on the way. She's fun and I'm glad she lives closer to me now. 

3. I am beginning to see the importance of what we're doing in that class and I'm very happy about it. Plus now I know our group better. 

Hey

1. I went to yoga even though life was stressful today and I almost didn't have enough time to get things done. I still didn't get everything done, but slowly and surely it'll work out. 

2. We meal planned for fhe. We had a disagreement last time we tried so it was good to be able to get it done for the next month so we can eat purposefully. 

3. When I got home from the gym Connor announced that he was going to mow the lawn and I almost cried I was so happy. 

Meh.

1. Connor played Farkle with me twice today! He always laughs when I ask. 

2. I came home from church early with a monster stomach ache and Connor took care of me before heading back to church. 

3. I got some things done for my calling before church and felt pretty accomplished. 

We'll miss you.

Grandma Michele's sister Melody passed away early in the morning today. I've been thinking about them all day and I don't really have three good things for today because of that. We went to the temple and I cried about it there, I went shopping and thought about it there, I did laundry and made dinner and thought about it there. Life is crazy. Death is crazier. We miss you already, Melody. Thanks for being the best fake great aunt anyone could have asked for! 

Dude.

1. Mycah got the house in Saratoga Springs!! She's mostly still panicky about it, but once things settle she'll be so happy! 

2. I volunteered at a elementary school carnival. It was tons of fun. Plus I got to see good friends from our old ward. I love those people. 

3. I worked out again today. Someday it will be habit, that day has not come yet. I love it. 

Colder weather

Guy, it wasn't a thousand degrees today! 

1. Went to Sizzler with grandma michele, that's a fun place. 

2. I went to Costco. I love that place. 

3. It rained all day and was stormy and wonderful! And I had my last therapy appt for my depression. Boom. Gone. 

Three days in a row!

1.I worked out hard three days in a row! Three days in a row! Three days in a row! 

2. Connor and I had a discussion about chastity since a movie we watched was surprisingly very loose morally and really shocked us. 

3. Mycah and I had a blast swapping snarky comments at the coding training we went to this morning. 

Dreams

1. I had a kick butt workout the second day in a row! 

2. Connor and I went to the self reliance devotional tonight and picked to work on personal finance for the next 11 weeks. I'm really excited about it! Woo money's! 

3. Max got his mission call to Kiev Ukraine! 🇺🇦 reporting to the Spain MTC on January 30th. 

I saw myself in the mirror

Thankfully I do this thing in my life where I don't see myself as I actually am and continuously think I'm much smaller, this is not the case. So today when I saw my reflection in the yoga studio mirrors I got amped up to be better and work harder to make lasting changes and only eat when I really need to and make good choices while doing it. It's going to be hard, but oh so worth it and my body is capable of amazing things. 

Sweaty and gross and oh so sore and happy! You better work it girl. 

Kick butt yoga

1. I spent all day getting amped up for it and actually went to yoga! It was lovely and challenging and I hope I sleep good tonight! 

2. Connor and I played Farkle for FHE and I beat him really bad! Both times! He still loves me, we good. 

3. In Bobs email today he said that he prays for me every night and it just melted me right till I was a puddle on the floor. 

Coloring books

1. We had a regional conference for church so I brought my coloring book and colored pencils and had a grand time. 

2. I took Connor on a drive to cascade springs. He got pretty sick in the car so I hope none of the roads we take next summer are like that one. 

3. I made fried chicken for dinner and it was awesome! 

Saturday

1. I had a horrible dream about people I once loved(and totally still do, but they cut me out) so Connor said I could use a cheat day today and we had sweeto burrito 🌯 and cookie dough from Dulce. 

2. We went to the temple. I'm happy to be completing the names Lauren gave me, but felt a little numb after my sad dreams. 

3. I mowed the lawn and cut out a ton of brush filled with snails (kill count:20) while Connor worked on campus then I had a nice little meltdown in the shower and tried to keep it down so my neighbors wouldn't hear and think I was being attacked. Hyperventilating is fun. 

Michele.

1. Grandma Michele likes to shop. I like to shop with her :) 

2. I bought 4 things at Thai pan trading and spent $3.40! 2 pair of sunglasses, Christmas ornament hangers and a bath mat. Win all over the place! We also got Michele shoes for $6.00 at Payless because they had a buy one get one half off sale so I bought one, then hers were half off! 

3. I bought a trailer bird house for Michele that I've had my eye on at the hospital gift shop and was giddy about it all day :) 

Sam and bean

1. Connor dubbed Christopher "sam" while playing Farkle tonight. 

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3. We went for a rather long walk and got many many steps! Our goals are coming right along! 

Ps. Connors already worried and stressed about the semester and I'm not helping because I'm worried and stressed about my body acting up. Yeesh! 

Back to school

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2. He's just so cute. Also, students are back and traffic is nuts. 

3. I got the hulk from the library and it's so cheesy and 80's and I love it! I'm only halfway through before I ran out of time, but it's great. 

Friend home evening

1. We have this marvelous group of friends! And they suggested we start doing friend home evening once a month. We hosted the first one and it was a wild success. 

2. I worked for 8 hours today to make sure I don't need to use paid time off for this holiday. I love going in when no one else is there. I got SO much done. 

3. Everybody did the dishes after dinner so I had very little to cleanup after all was said and done. 

Sunday funday

1. Fasting was hard, but Lauren asked us for a ride to church again so we got to chat with her a lot. I like her, she's happy and nice. 

2. The air conditioning in the church isn't working so well these days so halfway through sacrament we bailed to the hallway where it was a little cooler and made fans out of paper. I like Connor. 

3. We went for a walk tonight. I love walking around here in the evenings. 

Fake farming and mini muffins

1. Ally had us over to her cute little apartment for brunch! With Tommy too! It was lovely! 

2. We went to the SLC farmers market early this morning and ate all manner of samples and happy things. There's a pretzel booth that I want to go back to every day forever. They were amazing! 

3. We went to smiths and Connor filled the car up with gas while I picked up the few things we need. Then he proceeded to take MANY pictures of Moe pumping gas and driving the car and stalking me in the grocery store. It was great fun :) 

 

I love Moe :) 

Ooh also, we went to the beehive bazaar to support my cousin Lisa's little boys in their button making business "button up" they're adorable. Coming soon to a present giving place near you. 

Zucchini bread

Many things from the last many days 

1. We helped max move into his dorm. Organizing is one of my favorite things so I really enjoyed helping him unpack. 

2. We are ourselves into a coma at the old spaghetti factory so Mark could see where Maia works. On Wednesday night. 

3. Also on Wednesday we went to "the roots of knowledge" in the UVU library. It's stained glass that is amazing! It's lots of vital parts of history all painted on stained glass. 

4. Thursday we had a surprise dinner with Annie and Mark and Nate and Maia and Connor at Even Stevens in Provo. 

5. We went to a session at the provo temple and it was like 90% missionaries. It was so fun! 

6. We made 3 batches of zucchini bread between Friday and Saturday and had a blast doing it! I love having an oven that works! And many zucchini to make it happen!