Hola! (Since I can't think of a better title)

Hi people!

I know, you probably thought you'd never hear from me again, however, contrary to popular belief, when you get married you don't necessarily fall off the face of the earth, never to be heard from again...although it's an option. I decided to write this post because I've been in the process of coming up with a menu for the next two weeks and it reminded me of dinner group, so I decided to write this pointless post to give a shout-out to all y'all. If any of you ever feel like dropping by, please do, I live in Wymount these days (and as far as I know there are no asbestos in the walls or ceiling) and have a snack cupboard. :)

Sarah

Dear friends,

I miss you.

Tonight I was sitting eating at a table with a family, and I thought, "Gee I miss eating on the couch with 11 of my favorite people in Utah." (yes friends, you were some of my favorite people in Utah). I also miss dinner being a surprise (instead of something that I've planned and prepared, every day.)

I hope the summer is treating you well.

And if you ever end up in the DC area let me know.

I'll make you dinner!

Love,

Emily

Wild Animals and Open Doors

Sarah, we just thought you would like to know that your dear friend Cornelius and his new acquaintance Wuffalumpus the Polar Bear unexpectedly wandered their way over to our apartment. It was quite a surprise to see two wild beasts sitting in our living room when we arrived from helping your roommates move. I suppose this will teach us to not keep our doors open all the time.


Well anyways though, Cornelius and Wuffalumpus have made themselves quite at home here. Me and Kevin have had few animal friends in our lifetime so we've tried as best we know how to make them feel comfortable. As you can see in the pictures below, we think they've quite enjoyed just "being with the boys," no offense to the fairer sex intended. It's a guy thing. As Cornelius related to me just barely, "It's nice to finally have guys around. Sarah's great but she just doesn't understand my innate desire to blow things up and eat unreasonable amounts of pizza." Me and Kevin have tried to provide as sympathetic an ear as possible.

He seemed pleased when he discovered a freshly cooked pizza. I believe his exact words were "Pizza, ginger ale? What are these blessed creations never before experienced?"

Cornelius seemed to enjoy reading a book with me. As he put it "This is SOOO much better than the Book of Mormon in Arabic."

As we were watching TV together Cornelius got a little excited - "Weee! I just love watching TV while riding on my cheesemobile!"


We haven't touched Marcus' X-box for months but at Cornelius' insistence we finally pulled it out and he ended up playing several hours.

Kevin thinks Cornelius may be the snuggliest kangaroo... err dog, he has ever snuggled up with for a nap.

We're not quite sure if Wuffalumpus, our polar bear friend, is capable of speaking but he has certainly consumed prodigious amounts of pizza. In fact, we were just idly looking through pictures on Google of various sea creatures and he seemed quite excited when we showed him images of baby seals. He began smacking his lips and drooling. We're not quite sure, but we think he was disappointed we didn't have any of the real stuff on hand.

One of the pictures that seemed to get Wuffalumpus rather excited.

So it's been great having them around. We have tried multiple times to send them back to your place, but the wild little creatures keep coming back. Cornelius keeps saying something about sticking around for a few weeks, but at the rate they eat pizza and soda this could get expensive. Please come over and try to talk some sense into them.

I like countdowns...and planning

2 days till General Conference Starts

Also 2 days till the George Strait/Reba McEntire concert.

8 days until a quick weekend road trip to rexburg

13 days till the last day of school!

16 days till I jump out of a perfectly good airplane

20 days till graduation!

23 days till I leave Utah without having plans to come back for the first time ever.

In 29 days I'll have the most amazing chinese food on the planet

and in 30 days I'll fly to Colorado and inherit 2 children.

Just final papers, projects and finals stand between us and our density I mean, destiny!

See that light. It's the end of the tunnel.

Also, for your reading enjoyment (if you feel so inclined) here's my blog post from yesterday on my personal blog:

http://misadventuresofemily.blogspot.com/2011/03/extreme-humiliation.html

please feel free to laugh.

Why I Love Spring

In line with Lindsay's post, I thought I would share one of the (many) reasons I love spring. I look forward to this particular thing all year long.

PEEPS!

That's all.

Because it has been SO long since anyone's posted on this thing...

So, a few minutes ago a nice lady from a neighboring office came in and said, "We had leftover pizza, so I'm gonna leave two boxes with you guys. Sound good?" Umm, yes. Yes, nice lady, that sounds very good. We gave her appreciative, but dainty smiles and demure "thank-yous," she walked out of the office, then the six starving girls got up out of our seats and made light work of the deliciousness. Mmm... Papa John's pepperoni pizza...

That, along with the fact that it is GORGEOUS today make me think it's gonna be an awesome day! Is it a bad thing that food and good weather can have such an effect on my happiness? I hope not... It's the little things really...

Anyway, this is a really silly blog post, but I wanted to say that I hope you all have an awesome day today. I hope you enjoy the Spring weather and I hope that random nice people give you yummy food.

Here are some photos of things that are making me happy at the moment:

(Papa Johns Pepperoni Pizza)

(Me, eating Papa Johns Pepperoni Pizza)

(BYU in the Spring)

(Baby Polar Bears-- Seriously, they are sooo cute!)

(Hawaii-- I must have Spring fever because I have been daydreaming about running away to the beach a lot. I mean, A LOT. Someday I will go there... someday... and it will be awesome... sigh...)

Happy Spring! And happy Wednesday! See you at dinner group.

What you missed at Dinner Group Tonight...

Today there was a smaller than normal Dinner Group turnout. We missed you all. And you missed us! Trust me. You did.

Not only did Julie make AMAZING taquitos (and they were amazing and delicious), but we celebrated the birthdays of two of our favorite pirates:

And no pirate party would be complete with out a pirate ship:

Kim and Kevin's ages together= 50, so 50 candles were squeezed onto the cake

Maybe we ought to have taken off the action figure... But it did light up beautifully. 

Especially a delicious pirate ship :)

We missed you! See you next week!