|| sights of our summer ||

our weekendings

what a weekend it has been!

friday we went to Tanner's work party. it was fun to meet everyone he spends is days with and spend some time in their beautiful new office. i am so proud of him! 

after that things got reeeally exciting. we drove back to provo and i studied for a test for the rest of the night. what a fun time we are! just kidding. i hated it, but you do what ya gotta do! 

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saturday morning i woke up, and headed to the testing center, 

tanner woke up and headed to tow a car with his dad.

my test went fairly well so my stress level plummeted afterwards! 

after my test we met back up at home and walked down to center street hoping for 

a fun little lunch. we found a little chinese place that looked good, and it did not disappoint! 

we love being able to live so close to the center of things.

saturday evening makayla and i went to the relief society broadcast.

i loved it! they all focused heavily on trials + relying on the atonement during our struggles.

a message that i always need to hear, but especially lately. 

ok, but let's be real here. the highlight of the evening was sitting behind NIE NIE and her adorable baby. i was a little star struck, she's such an inspiration. 

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after the broadcast we met up with the boys and headed to CPK and then Pitch Perfect. so much fun.  

can i just say, the movie was SO FUNNY. we were cracking up the whole time.

it basically just made fun of glee, and Rebel Wilson - "fat amy" 

 is possibly the funniest human on the planet.

just sayin. go see it. 

september frustrations

last night i had a huge breakdown. on the kitchen floor. 

i swear all of my breakdowns come in the kitchen. (not that i ever break down) 

school is tough, work is good, but hard to balance with school, and i just feel like i don't want to be doing these things! 

i don't feel like i am excelling in school, but instead feeling super mediocre.

and as a perfectionist not having the time to achieve my idea of "perfect" in the things i am doing

i am feeling lost! 

i want to feel passionate about the things i am doing

but instead i feel like i am dying to move on to the next thing 

i am grateful for this time in our life, i am not grateful for the essentials of corporate finance though.

not at all. 

all in all? i need motivation to keep it up! someone give me motivation? anyone? 

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on a more positive note 

i am sooo so grateful for the life we are living, and feel so much joy everyday.

even in the silliest little things

like how amazing the candle smells that is burning in the kitchen right now (seriously! yum.) 

& our nightly jogs along center street 

last night as i felt overwhelmed with my imperfections, tanner sat next to me on the rug under the sink,

and helped me make a plan to make things better. 

a plan that included a whole lot of help from above. 

and in that moment that life felt oh so imperfect

all those imperfections built up to one perfect moment of love & support. 

and i am grateful for that & the challenges and for the chance to grow and see what i am capable of.

god is good. life is, at the end of the day, SO GOOD. 

 and it is all going to be just fine.  

|| summers end ||

school has begun! and i never even blogged about our fun end of summer trips to california, vegas, and st. george.

here are some pictures of our picture perfect summer! 

|| we are sooo baby hungry, don't even get me started! ||

in the middle of july we went to 7 peaks for about 3 seconds with griffin and caitlin

 || in vegas for M & M wedding reception ||

vegas was glorious - we went night swimming + watched a movie in the pool

hung out on the strip with marcus + makayla {a first for me}

& ate a maggiano's 

 || we left vegas around 8 pm and drove to see paul + ainsley ||

had a total blast on our middle of the night car ride talking and being best friends

went to anthro in palm springs { i die. } 

went night swimming

ate some amazing indian food

and fell in love with ms. cailin. 

a bike ride + a birthday + a wedding

It has been so long!!

We have been having a lot of fun & summer has just flown right on by. Soon enough I will be back in classes & spending my nights studying instead of going on bike rides & going swimming seven peaks. Tanner is going to be a lonely man soon! (I tend to obsess over doing perfectly in all my classes! Miserable for him and me!) 

But let's show you what we have been up to lately. We love our bikes so much. We love long rides up the canyon and talking to each other on our rides, and we especially love wooshing past all the other bikers as we fly up the canyon on our bikes. They are so fast, it's crazy! 

Tanner's birthday week was so fun!! He got lots of bike stuff, lucky guy! I also made up a new tradish for him. I bought a little box that says birthday wishes all over it from target, and each day there was a special surprise in there for him! We loved it so much we want to continue it when we have kids. So fun! Along with the Birthday box we kept the apartment decorated all week for his birthday! So very festive, it was!  

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For his actual birthday we went to Tucanos with T's fam. It was fun and very filling, and then came back and opened presents and ate cake with Grandma, Javan, Quinstigram, and Tanner's parents. Needless to say the apartment was a little cramped! 

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Wait, there's more! Jake and Makaela got married at the Homestead in Midway on the 28th, and it was beautiful, and so much fun, and we love Makaela. Yeah! 

Sorry for the picture overload (not really). Happy weekend! 

What a wonderful week we had!!! 

Tanner suuure does spoil me. He is the best.

We had THE MOST incredible dinner Thursday night at Chef's Table. 

Sunday was fabulous as well. We had an amazing dinner at my parents house and had so much fun spending time with family. And eating some good good food. 

Tanner got me a Staub pot. I have been wanting one forever so I was so so surprised! (We even decided to not eat out tonight and cook in (big deal for us lately!)) The pot is amazing and is a nice alternative to crock pots. (I have a weird hatred for crock pot food... whatever) 

I wish we had a picture of the both of us! 

I am so grateful for everyone's birthday wishes and love! Birthday's are the best, huh?!

Tanner's is coming up on the 2nd of August. Looks like we should start celebrating!!!

friday the 13th

Yesterday was not a good day. Hopefully blogging about it will make it seem more funny and less ridiculous.

 Tanner & I planned on going camping Friday afternoon with some friends (ok actually just with our only friends, M & M) as a fun little Birthday getaway. We found the MOST beautiful spot *which I can't show you a picture because of what happened later* up by squaw peak. Seriously it was such a gem. It was a little rainy as we left but nothing too bad, so we headed up the canyon excited for a fun night. It was nice a cool as we set up our tent and unpacked the car.

And then the heavens opened and it started pouring & pouring & pouuuring rain. Marcus called us saying they didn't want to spend a freezing cold night in the rain.. can you believe that? Just kidding. At that point we were cold, soaking wet and hoping our tin foil dinners miraculously would cook in our poor fire.  

And then... somehow we just decided to throw in the towel and take down camp and go home. We felt lame giving in but we were soaking wet and the rain wasn't stopping.

As soon as we had the tent taken down (Tanner did most of the work) the rain stopped. But we just headed home anyway, thinking it would probably still end up raining during the night. (Pretty sure in didn't :( ) 

We came home and watched parks and rec and ate our tin foil dinners that we finished up cooking in the oven. While we ate I threw all of our muddy smelly clothes in the washing machine. 

A few hours later we were getting ready for bed & I could not for the life of me find my phone.

& then it dawned on me .

It was in the washing machine in the pocket of my coat.

Oh, what a day. 

*thank goodness for phone insurance,; Monday cannot come soon enough*

I am excited for a new day, that is for sure!