Wedding Season

This summer several of our friends have gotten married, and there are several more that will be married soon. I wanted to post some pictures of me with the beautiful brides!

This is Cherie and me at her reception. Jake was the photographer for this one.



This is Tammy, Sarah, and me at Sarah's wedding. We're outside of the Mt. Timpanogos LDS temple right after Sarah's wedding ceremony.

What Are You Going to Take Out?

A few days ago, a group of us at work had to write a short proposal. Every time one of us would add a word to the proposal, one of my coworkers would say, “You added something--what are you going to take out?”

This stuck out to me because this motto seems to apply to people in our life as well. Perhaps that viewpoint is a bit dramatic, but this weekend, it really seemed to fit.

Last week, our friend Kenny was honorably released after serving his full-time LDS mission. I've consistently heard from Jake about how much he missed Kenny and how excited he was for Kenny to be back; luckily, we were able to join in on a party that Kenny's family threw him to welcome him home.



This is a picture of Jake, Kenny, and Connary who (although they don't look it) were ecstatic to see each other. Later that night, Kenny came and stayed the night at our apartment. Jake really enjoyed having him back.

Since we added someone, it appeared that we needed to take someone out.


This is a picture of Tammy and me. We've been friends and have worked together for the past year at the MPC (that hardly sums up the past year, but it's good enough). She recently graduated and is now moving on to bigger and better things, beginning with a trip to Asia. Even though I know she's moving on to more exciting things, it's still sad to see her leave. She is one of the most generous, loving, and caring people I've ever met, one of those people who makes you happy when you're with her. She will definitely be missed.

Overall, it's interesting how life has a way of balancing things out.

A Wonderful Display of Patriotism

Yesterday at 3:00 pm people started lining the streets of University Avenue in preparation for the 4th of July parade. We were kind of shocked at the number of people who were camped out along the parade route 18 hours before the parade was going to start.

This morning we got up and ventured out among the massive amounts of people to meet Jake's mom and stepdad at the parade (whom we never found by the way). As we waded through the crowds of people we started to get more and more excited. We still thought people were crazy for camping out to see a parade, but at the same time we were very excited at the wonderful display of patriotism. Jake commented that on national holidays in Hungary people would be out in the streets partying and celebrating, and the people lining the streets for the parade sort of reminded him of that. It was great so see people out celebrating and rejoicing for this country.

Passports

Yesterday, the MPC sponsored a family day event, which featured stations that highlighted several different cultures from around the world. Each culture was represented by a different station that participants could bring a passport to to get stamped. I worked for a few hours at the station on Africa.



At this station I had a lot of cool objects from Mali, Africa and a couple from Egypt. This was quite the cultural gap to cover, but it was still a lot of fun to do. I absolutely love my job!

With a Sigh of Relief

Monday afternoon Jake took the LSAT. After six months of studying for this wretched test and of trying to balance it with work, a heavy class load, church responsibility, and his personal sanity, the test has been taken! We're still waiting with crossed fingers to hear how he scored, but we both sleep a little better at night knowing that it is over.

To add to the excitement, I'm almost finished with the research for my senior thesis. I've been studying the supporters of BYU's Museum of Peoples and Cultures for the past couple months, and will be spending the rest of this year analyzing my data and writing it up into a (hopefully) brilliant paper.

We look back at these past few months with a sigh of relief and can't help but be excited that we somehow made it through them.