sister time is a good time

2.1.12

dinner: el pollo rico

movie treat: peanut butter flavored and banana flavored popcorn from popcorn express

movies: seven psychopaths AND beasts of the southern wild

fun night filled with the best chicken sopes i've ever had, papas nachos that will stop your heart, the best popcorn flavors to mix, a couple of pretty good movies, and lots and lots and lots of laughter. my sister is the best!

2013 sundance film festival

my sister and i went to sundance again this year. we had a wonderful time (we have a great time together no matter what we do!).

we purchased our tickets in person (which was dumb...this year they had an online option and we chose to just buy our tickets in person. we missed out a couple of shows we wanted to see. next year we'll be smarter about it all - although we said that last year too).

we bought fancy boba tea drinks after our ticket purchase (any excuse we can find to purchase fancy drinks!).

we went to dinner at rovali's before our first film, emanuel and the truth about fishes. interesting story line. we liked it, although i love jessica biel-timberlake so i'm partial to any movie she's in (maybe it's because she has the teenage me's dream name...jessica timberlake). we even snuck in fancy hot chocolate to sip on during the movie (white lavender hot cocoa...divine!)

our second film landed on tanna's birthday! i snuck birthday treats for her (us) to enjoy while watching the way way back (which was a hilarious movie...with a good message at the end. it is also the first comedy i've cried in because i was touched by the message).

at the end of sundance we always regret not going to any of the screenings up in park city. this year was a deep regret because my longtime crush, joseph gordon levitt, was in town for the entire two weeks of the festival! he's a regular to the festival so i'm hoping i didn't miss out on my opportunity to meet him (since, you know, that could happen...).

sundance 2013, you were fun. and we're already looking forward to next year!
























we also experienced the first ice storm of my lifetime. it was wicked crazy. both of us are "fall victims" so neither of us were as confident as we could have been. perhaps the idea to crawl to our cars was mentioned more than once. and maybe, just maybe, we got applause when we actually made it to ours cars (& not from each other. sweet stranger?) this is not to be mistaken as a horrible event. like everything we do together, there was lots of laughter & smiling involved.

our neighbrhood has the best youth!

i've told you how amazing i think the youth in our area are when we went on trek.  this weekend we had another confirmation of just how amazing they truly are.

this is chad.

 

 

he spoke in our church's sacrament meeting this past sunday.  he also just left on his full time lds mission this week (he's serving in Honduras).  the things he said in his talk were simple, yet powerful (which, i think, describes our religion perfectly).  he spoke of simple truths.  how we can all change.  that the atonement of Jesus Christ allows us to be the person we want to be.  that the book of mormon is a true book and can help us change.  that we are all children of God.  that God loves us, no matter what.  and we have the power to talk to him whenever we want.  the spirit that chad brought into our church meeting was undeniable.  i would dare say that every single person in that chapel felt it.

 

i am so excited for chad.  i'm excited for the people of Honduras who get to have this remarkable, steadfast, 18 year old boy share a message with them that will bring them more joy and happiness than they have ever known before.  and he will do that.  he will help people change their lives.  i know he will.  he has already done it here, in little ol' ogden, utah.  and he will do it there. 

 

chad is a boy who grew up in our neighborhood.  i am so proud of that.  our kids are going to be so lucky to have people just like chad surrounding them.  they are going to be strong, too.  just like chad.

the snow days just keep getting better & better

side note: isn't my husband hot? oh baby, yes!

kids

we want kids. we're adopting. but while we're still finding our babies, i'll enjoy the adorable kids around me every chance i get.

these two girls are. my. favorite. they are our neighbor friends' kids. whenever they see each other they get really excited, hug, and take each others' hand as they walk away to play together. this weekend i helped host a baby shower for one of these girl's mommas. i told the girls they could play in my room. i peeked in my room to see what they were doing and found them like this:


they were playing house and it was time for bed. after the cock-a-doodle-do noise was made, they started doing this:


and i was 100% okay with it all!

i can't wait for parenthood. we're gonna rock at it.

*we sit with these sweet girls most sundays at church.

this past sunday one looked at me with her treats in her hand and said

"i'm going to share my treats with you...because i love you."

how sweet is that?! i cried, that's how sweet.

i love these two little girls!

this makes my dad happy.

happy footballing!

when it snows...

we snowshoe!

snow life is a good life.