dear, st. valentine,

[foto by auburn jones]thanks for helping things along last yearso that this year,i can stay awake [bloggin] just to watch him sleep.so grateful to God that this man even exists…and that he was somehow convinced to love me.i am excited for the weekend alreadyfor...

dear life,

i often have mornings that make me stop and realizeyet againhow much my Heavenly Father loves me.this time last year,i was a giddy school girl because you had given me this guy:and it was about this time last week that we had dropped the L bomb2 weeks inand we...

dear cc,

today…i would like to thankyour mom and dad.for their love of each other,and their miscalculation of birth control.and i would like to again thank you for doing the dishes last night,so that today’s birthday breakfast would go smoothly.and thanks for...

side story:

this one time i came hometo see my sister in a showit was a secret and it was halloween.mom told me i needed to bring a date…and that i should probably be social on halloween…though i never ask men outcause my dad trained me not to,i picked up the...

utah wedding of joy

one day, while blissfully engaged,this favorite roommate called me to tell me she was happy for me…yadda yadda,and oh, btw, dating someone!!i cried just thinking about it.partly cause i am a big baby,but mostly cause i am so glad she is so stinkin happy.[what...