Catching Up

There have been a number of things I've been meaning to post about, but for some reason I just haven't had time...

So, this is my effort to quickly catch up on some things that happened this last month.

1st, we had a bunch of friends over for J-Baum's 22nd birthday! We were finally able to get most of our friends all in one place in one night. Many of us hadn't seen each other for over 2 years! We are all connected in one way or another. I'll try to explain some of our connections. It gets pretty complicated. Here are some pictures from the night:

Some of Jessica's favorites - diet coke, chocolate covered raisins, and confetti cake.

Angie and Minh (Angie became my roommate after Freshman year at the request of my friend - her brother - Jesse, who I met my freshman year at BYU. Angie and Minh have been together for years now, so he's pretty much part of the family. :))

Lionel and his girlfriend, Ashley (I met Lionel freshman year as well - he was roommates with Chad. I also went to high school with Ashley.)

Sandy, Melissa, her future baby, and her husband Dan (Sandy more or less took my place in our apartment after I got married. She grew up with my roommate KaRynn and my friend Deveny. Dan I met freshman year. He was roommates with Jesse and lived down the hall from Chad and Lionel. Before he left on his mission, Jessica and I convinced his girlfriend at the time, Melissa, to transfer to BYU and live with us. Melissa and I also went on study abroad to Paris together.)

Chad and Jesse. (Chad and I have been friends since high school. As mentioned, Jesse lived down the hall from Chad. The four boys - Lionel, Chad, Dan, and Jesse - always hung out at our apartment freshman year.)

Jessica, Kate and her husband Peter. (Jessica and I have been friends since high school. Kate went to high school with us and was our roommate for a while. Kate and Peter got married this last summer.)

Eh...

The whole lot. It was a little crowded...

Singing to J-Baum. Don't we sound lovely? It was a lovely party and a good time was had by all. I loved having all of my old friends back together again. We sure laughed a lot at all the memories. :)

In other catch-up business, this photo was from a combined service project that the YW/YM did for an elderly man in our ward. We weeded around his yard and helped him organize a room in his house. We ended up having a lot of the youth come, and they all had a great time. We might just have to plan more service projects if we get that kind of turnout!

Jonathan put together a panorama of the land we are dreaming of buying. This kind of gives you a better idea of what it looks like. Sigh. Someday. Hopefully if you click on it you can see it bigger.

I went back through some of my old posts that I never finished and deleted most of them. But there was one that I finally finished. It was supposed to be a birthday post for my friend Erin, but I was lame and didn't finish it until now. If you want, you can read all about my darling friend Erin here.

I've decided that I am going to start a series of posts called "The Best (Movie or Song or whatever) You've Never (Seen or Heard or whatever)." This will be a once in a while thing, kind of like my mailbox posts. I tend to find things that I get really excited about and want to share with everyone, and this seems like a good place to do it. I already know what my first post will be. Stay tuned. It's gonna be great.