Sunny, WARM St. George Weekend!

This past weekend I got to getaway from the cold and nippy Salt Lake City to enjoy the warm and sunny St. George! This weekend was Trevor's younger brother's mission farewell talk (he is going to Chile.) Me and Trevor were super excited to be getting a weekend away since we have been getting really stressed out with school, and work etc. So after taking an incredibaly not fun hard Macroeconomics test we were on our way! I was really extra excited because my Mum, Dad and Sarah were coming up for it as well! We got there late Friday night and basically went to bed within the hour of getting in. Saturday morning I went to go get my haircut from Courtney. While there my Dad and Mum and Sarah all came to see me. I was suprised they had been up but laughed when I heard they had been canning food at the cannery... (I am sure Sarah just loved the fact that they drove all the way from San Diego to St. George to wake up and can food! haha) We all squished into the Salon and chatted before they headed out to go see New Moon with Dad's Cousin (so jealous!) While I rushed to go get ready for The Crowley Family pictures we were taking that afternoon. After the pictures we the boys all helped Trevor's dad put up Christmas lights, and all the girls headed to Costco to buy food for the open house/family lunch after Derrick's farewell talk. We drove in Trevor's dad's new 2010 Camaro and it was fun to chat and shop (even if it wasn't for clothes!) After that me and Trevor headed out to get presents for his mother and Derrick who had just had birthdays in the past months. FINALLY done with shopping I was excited for my family to come over. We spent the rest of the night all visiting and hanging out. Sunday Derrick gave his talk which was really great and we all enjoyed lunch after at the Crowley's. It was nice to sit out on the deck and enjoy the sunlight!!! After everyone had left we played the Wii for a bit as a family then me and Trevor packed up all our stuff to head home. We stopped by the condo my parents and sister were staying at and visited for a bit while we picked up all the stuff my mom had brought/done for me (amazing scrapbooks put together of wedding cards and fun things, tons of Christmas decorations including a mini Tree!, all my laundry she thankfully did for me, and just a bunch of other random odds and ends.) Unfortunately me and Trevor hit a bit of a snow storm on the way home adding an hour onto our trip home! Looks like the snow is finally going to stick this time around, and it was back to the reality of our cold habitat. THANKS to my amazing parents and for sweet Sarah who all took the time to drive up to Derrick's farewell and to come see me :) I needed it and miss you guys all the time. I can't believe how happy I am and how blessed I am. Great great weekend, Love all three of you SO much!

So I got Bangs.

My Husband...

So a week or so ago me and Trevor were sitting at home. Trevor leans over and asks "Hey I have to go to this Jazz Guitar Concert tonight for a class, would you want to come with me?" I hadn't been feeling too well and had been complaining about how tired I was so I told him I would have loved too, but just wasn't up for going out tonight. About an hour later I see Trevor come out of the bedroom dressed in church clothes and he picks up his guitar and says "Bye" while he starts heading out the door. A little shock I stopped him and said, "What are you doing with your guitar and dressed so nice?" Before he answered I knew what was up.

"TREVOR! You are in the concert aren't you?!" I screamed.

So of course I made him wait while I put on a dress and went with him to watch him play in the Jazz Guitar Concert... he even had a solo! (which you can watch at the bottom page)

Gotta Love my husband's communication skills.

Meteor's Flash of Light

Last night me and Trevor were crawling into bed, when all of a sudden our entire room lit up with light from the window. It was a split second, and I went, "Whoa what was that?!" Trevor and I assumed it had to have been a car making a u-turn or something. It was the only thing we could come up with. Then this morning I am realizing... wait, there is a huge fence and a yard around our bedroom window, there is no way light from a car could have done that? I was stumped. Then I get into work today to hear some co-workers talking about the huge meteor's flash of light last night. Last night a huge meteor lit up salt lake city as bright if not brighter then mid day for a split second! I found this video and story on the ksl site and it is pretty dang cool. You have to go watch the video! They are pretty sure the meteor is a straggler from the shower that just happened on Tuesday. "It was seen all the way from Southern Utah to Southern Idaho. There also are reports of people seeing it from Las Vegas and areas of California." I am happy to know the real reason why our room lit up like that last night, and even better that we were still awake for it! How cool would it have been, to be outside?! Crazy stuff this universe is capable of...

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=8714738

p.s. Apparently if you find some scraps from this thing in your yard or whatever they can be worth thousands of dollars. I say lets go rock hunting!!

The Secret to making Friends...

So as some of you may know, I haven't really felt like I have made a lot of friends at church, and I have been really trying but nothing has seemed to work. Well today I found the secret... cute sweaters! I have been going to church in our new ward since September, and that whole time only one person and I have really talked or got acquainted for about ten minutes. Today I had 5 different girls come up to me all starting with, "I LOVE your sweater!" which all led to conversations name exchanges etc. So when wanting to make new friends, apparently you just have to dress fabulously :)