Papa.

My Papa, Ronald Lafarr Page, was the best grandpa ever.

He was-

Amazing.
Thoughtful.
Loving.
Caring.
Serving.
Smart.
Funny.
Candy-loaded.
Priesthood Holder.
Husband.
Dad.
Grandpa.
Great grandpa.

He lived and loved the gospel, and taught us all until his last day of the importance of the gospel, and of his love for it. He lived the gospel with everything he did. Whenever there was something to be volunteered for, a neighbor to be helped, a room to be cleaned, anything, he was there first to do it. He loved his callings and did every part of them well. He loved doing family history, and I am so glad that he did it to find out about our family and bring them together again. Also doing family history for the church to find out other families and bringing them together. He is a man who lived and breathed the gospel, and I am so grateful for that.


He had the greatest love for family, and is one of the main reasons that brought our family so close together. He was always caring, and loving, and there for you if needed. Whether a concert, a game, a play, a recital, or even just for lunch.

Papa and Nana are the best grandparents that people could have. They are so caring and loving and happy. They love being with family and we love being with them. Papa was a great man, and we will keep him in our memories by living in his example. To one day, return to him be with him and our Heavenly Father again.

A missionary is a person who leaves their family for a short time, so that others can be with their families forever.

Alex Left us 2 years ago. Now He's coming back. I am oh so excited!!!!

Catchup.

Summer was great. 

I did loads. 

and worked.

and played.

and swam.

and got tan. 

Then school started. 

and I had to wake up at 6:30.

Classes have work.

I have to do it at home.

I'm stacked with it.

I read. 

about biology. 

and statistics.

and music theory.

and such. 

It's cool.

I go to football games with Joey. 

He's pretty cool I guess. 

Life's good.

Family visit in oregon.

Jeff, Me, and the infants I'm related to. 

(I'm the best aunt)

The fam in Park City.

The cousins playing.

beautiful Britt at her wedding.

Joey. I like him.

Hiking with Kylee. It's a big cave.

long time gone

It's been forever since I have actually sat down and blogged.
A lot has happened.
Joey. A boy.
Taylor Dolbin left on his mission.
I turned 19.
Family get together in Park City.
And most exciting, I get to go home to Oregon for a whole 10 days!!!! That is so exciting.
Lots of friends to catch up with..
two wonderful weddings to attend.
and much much more! Ah.
I will blog when I make it to Oregon.
meow.

My Gracefulness is Amazing

Burn my finger on a toaster strudel.
Hit my head on just about everything.
Get faked punched, but in the act get accidentally real punched.
Burn my finger on a 425 degree cooking pan.
Get my toe run over in a door.
Slip getting out of the shower to change the song I was rocking out to.
Run into countless people in the grocery store.
Almost get hit by a car.
Belly flop twice doing aerials off the high dive.
And so much more, all this week....

Wow, good thing my middle name isn't grace, it's Eileen.... I lean and fall over is more like it....

Michaelthefish.

He.

Is

Now

Swimming

In

The

Porcelain

Sea.

With Lawrence.

RIP little boy.

L.

L stands for a lot of things.

Laughter

Life

Little

Like

Lotion

Lots

Large

Lame

Loser

Liable

Load

Love

Lauren.

The reason I bring up Lauren, is because she is coming to visit!!!! (:
I miss her so much, and to be able to spend a little bit of time with her will be utterly AMAZING... just saying.

Isn't she gorgeous?! (I was crying.. ew.)

Fish.

I got fish. 

Michael bought them for me.

I accidentally flushed one down the toilet alive. RIP.

They are cute fish. 

But they might die soon.

I don't know.

I don't speak fish. 

Aw. Cute.

Almost 20.

I work.
nobigdeal.
I've never had a real job before now.
It's pretty cool.
I got my first pay check on Friday.
It was for only one day of work.

$19.49

Do you realize that is almost $20?!

Man, I'm rich.

odd numbers

I don't like odd numbers. If you know me, you know this. They're creepy. 


BUT I have 2 experiences with odd numbers. They don't creep me out this time. 

3.


The number of days I spent in Sandy.
Doing what?...
oh just:
Walking in the rain with no shoes on
Getting 3 new fish named Fines Doubled, Michael, and Lawrence
Accidentally flush Lawrence (still alive) down the toilet. Rest in Peace.
Watching "the firecracker" on Extreme Home Makeover
Catching up with old friends
Freaking out about clothes
Going to the singles ward
Going to Michael Jacob Zajacs farewell (see below)
Going to the after party filled with friends, food and fun
Eating Thanksgiving in a ball for dinner at Laurens
Indulging in cheesecake made by Laurens lovely mother 
Watching Princess Bride (a classic in my life)
Painting my nails multiple colors with Lauren
Watched Tangled
Went to Ikea and made it through the whole store in 10 minutes
SO. MUCH. FUN!

Laurens AMAZING work vest.

The crazy finger nails. 

7.


My worst enemy. I very much dislike odd numbers, but 7 for some reason I just don't like that number at all the most.
June 7th is a day that I can say for once I am a little bit happy for. I still hate the number though. It is the day before Michael goes into the MTC.
He is one of my best friends. 
His parents think we're dating. We're not. haha
7. The day before he is able and worthy and willing to serve on a mission in Richmond Virginia, and to serve the Lord. 
7. The day before one of my best friends is taken away for a whole 2 years with no contact except wonderful letters. 

Good Luck, Michael! I love you and will miss you.

Freak out.

Something that happens to me daily. 
I can't avoid it. 
I over-analyze. 
I deep-think.
I process one too many times.
I let my mind run wild. 
I need to stop...


RELAX.


That's what I need. 

OR.

Me: Lauren, what should I blog about?

Lauren:

blog about work!

or about the beautiful weather!

or about pillows

or about burping

or about clothes

or about sunday

or about couches

or about disney

or about traveling the world

or about tye dye

or about animals

or about sending mail to a friend and her absolutely loving it!

or about trees

or about the sun

or about a song

or about the clouds

or about missionaries

or about food

or about you apartment

or about utah state

or about tv shows

or about light bulbs

or about telephones

or about carpet

or about memories

or about picures

or about spelling things wrong

or about laughing

or about old people

or about the wind

or about secrets

or about being tickled

or about being sick

or about miracles

or about being bored

or about paychecs

or about spelling things wrong again

or about making pie

or about being random

or about going on walks

or about swimming

or about sweeping

or about driving forever

or about sunsets

or about windows

or about love

or about the scriptures

or about nooses

or about books

or about being late

or about sleeping

or about watching glee

or about singing

or about doing this forever

SO..... I decided to blog about the word OR. and that I love Lauren. (:

Dora and Diego

Richie and Kenzee... in Logan?! 


Oh what a great day it is. 


We went to Old main. And sat... 
We went to the Geology building. And I swallowed a piece of my phone...
We went to Lund 201 and Kenz took her math placement test. 
We got free hats.
We went to Smith's and bought a pizza and cookie dough.
We made lunch. 
We ate lunch. 
We laughed. A lot. 
We had fun! 

     Dora and Diego... at our finest! (: 


Such a great day. 

Colors.

My friends love to color. 

with...

Chalk. 

Crayons.

Markers.

ANYTHING!!

on...

the ground.

paper.

windows.

mirrors.

each other.

EVERYWHERE!!

I love to color too. 

I think that's partially why we're friends...

Story: 

Taylor learned a song when he was three.

He applied it to my life. (as he does with just about everything) (: 

Jerrica and I love the name. (: 

Thank you, Taylor. 

She did this.

 Definitely made my week... times 10! 

I wanted to pay her back by drawing one too... Well not draw... Rather, put together. (: It gets the point across.

I love to see the Temple

I do. I love it. Which is why this past trip down to Sandy has to have been my FAVORITE trip of all. 

Up until the end of my freshman year of college I had only ever been to 4 temples. 4 great temples that is... 

The Jordan River Temple

The Salt Lake Temple

The Portland Oregon Temple

and The Logan Temple!

All such great temples! 

I wanted the experience of the temples down in Sandy, and around there, because I visited SO often and lived there when I was younger, yet hadn't been to that many temples.... until...

It started out Thursday night at 5:30. Lauren, Michael, Caleb, and I went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. It was so fun! I had never been there, and so we decided to go the night I came down to Sandy. It was so fun! 

That night, Jerrica came up and stayed the night with me. We woke up bright and early at 6:30 AM and Lauren, Michael, Jerrica and I went to the Draper Temple! It was so fun to go to yet another temple that I had not yet been to! 

After the Draper Temple we decided to head back over to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple, because Jerrica had NEVER been to it. We headed back over and had a great experience at that temple!

After my second trip to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple, we decided on a whim to make a Temple Tour out of our day. We then headed over to the beautiful Jordan River Temple. I hadn't been there in 6 years (since the first time I went to the temple when I turned 12) It was such a great experience! 

After the lovely time at Jordan river we headed straight for Temple Square and did baptisms at the Salt Lake Temple. The changing room is one of my favorite parts of doing baptisms there. It is just so beautiful. Lauren, Jerr and I got caught in a trance on the wonderful door knobs.... (: 

After the Salt Lake Temple (Temple #4 of the day, 5 for Michael, Lauren and I) we took a small lunch break and headed up to Layton to visit the Bountiful Temple, and the lovely Richie Thomas for his birthday. We saw  Pirates of the Carribean 4 and had a great time as a huge group at the beautiful Bountiful Temple! It was such a great experience to go there with almost all of my friends!

That was all on Friday! Saturday afternoon Kenzee, Jerr, Lauren, Michael and I headed down south to good ol' Provo and picked up Josh and went and visited the Provo Temple and waved hi to the amazing elders in the MTC. We thought we saw a friend of ours and stalked a group of them on the Volleyball court even though it wasn't him! 

After dropping Josh off we went up to our last stop of our Temple Tour and visited Mount Timpanogos Temple! It was just about the same as Bountiful, but as Jerr states "It was made first"... We almost didn't make it through, but when the helper found out we were on our 7th temple and had limited time to make it through, they let us in last second and we completed our amazing, spiritually uplifting, friend bonding trip!

We tried to calculate all that we did and overall Michael did a million and ten (exaggeration) baptisms as the baptizer, and Lauren and I were baptized and confirmed for about 101 names. It was such a blessing to be able to go through and do that! I am so grateful for these guys and the great fun and memories that we created together this weekend!