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!

Sunshine

I love the sun. and sitting in it. and sleeping in it. and reading in it. and frolicking in it. I really wish it was sunny outside. But it is the exact opposite. 

I came to Utah with the expectations of getting away from the crazy million days straight of just rain, but I wake up to this instead...

Insanity. 

That's what I'm headed towards, unless I get out of here.... 

Yesterday I spent a good 45 minutes on the phone with my little golden friend Jerrica. She is great. We have the most amazing phone calls all the time and she just makes me smile. see? 

How much more adorable could two people get? (; 

We both love Giraffes. and playing piano. and talking to each other. and the song "Haven't Met You Yet". and the song "What are Words". Have you ever heard that song? it is mine, and Lauren's, and Jerrica's, and Kenzee's FAVORITE!! 

Watch this. It is amazing. This man proposed to a girl, and she got in a wreck and now has many problems. He is there for her and helps her learn to walk again so that she can walk down the aisle to him. 

I want a man like that. 

I miss my friends who all live down in Salt Lake. I am excited to see some of them when I go down again. Withdrawals are a fact of life for me nowadays. I miss their shining faces that used to brighten my day. Now that I'm in Logan to brighten my day I have to rely on those amazing phone calls and texts and myself....

and complete strangers. I was waltzing around in Walmart a couple days ago when I almost ran into a man and his cart. He looks at me a little bewildered as I am probably staring at him with the "deer in the headlights" look and what does he say to me?:

"You have THE most beautiful eyes I have EVER seen." and with that he walked away. 

I had the BIGGEST smile plastered to my face the rest of the night. It was great. If only that happened every day.... 

I LOVE FRIENDS!

I love my friends. They are the greatest I have ever met. I am so thankful and grateful for them! I don't know what or where I would be now if I hadn't had all of them with me my freshman year of college. I Love them and their worthiness and their love that they all have for one another! 

Now that it is summer we have all gone our separate ways (sort of). Everyone is down in Salt Lake, while Kylee and I are in Logan. But I will never forget our memories. Boy, are there a lot of them! 

LOADS OF PICTURES!!! (: But still not even a third of our memories:

Here is a link to a video that Lauren and Kenzee made. Watch it. I have like 4 times already! <3 

THIS IS US....

I want you all to know that I love you. You will always be my best friends. Now, and forever. Remember that, and remember these fun times we had together. I love you all!