cooking

as my mom and roommates can testify, i've always hated cooking. i don't want to wait for my food, i just want to eat it right then and get going. my mom used to call me to the kitchen and ask me very kindly to help make the sunday rolls or just a green salad, for crying out loud, and i would put up a fuss and yell and run away and hide in a corner. (i'm not even really exaggerating here.) and since i've been in college, i've mostly existed on a diet of macaroni and cheese, cold cereal, and PB&J sandwiches. tommy's roommates still praise me for my mac-and-cheese skillz, and are shocked when they find me eating anything else.

but in the last few weeks, i've found out that i kind of LIKE cooking. i'm trying to figure out what has changed my anti-cooking feelings so drastically, and i've come up with this reason:

-the world is coming to an end.

or, maybe it has something to do with:

-actually having the cooking supplies that are necessary (like pots and pans and cheese graters and spatulas and sharp knives) and having them be NICE and not trashy.
-having a kitchenaid (this falls under the above reason, but it's such an exciting machine i wanted to include it on its own)
-having the right ingredients and a place to keep them
-having someone to cook for and with (because tommy helps more than i do)
-having tons and tons of delicious-looking recipes and cookbooks that i'm excited to learn how to make

i didn't have any of these things of my own before, but this has all changed with getting married and the wonderful, amazing, generous people who have given us our new kitchen supplies. last week, we made homemade bread, homemade ice cream, a delicious cake, and snickerdoodles. we're eventually going to work our way up to real food and not just desserts. it's been fun. more fun than i ever would have expected. mom, gloat all you want!

sister missionaries

this picture was taken in december, 2008. i miss this.

not even one year later, four of these best friends are on missions. i can't even say how awesome they are.

but this week, after more than a month of an empty mailbox, i got a letter from this sister missionary. and i wanted to share my joy.


she has reached her NINE MONTH MARK. she's HALFWAY DONE!
i try my best not to remind her of how much i miss her in my letters, but it's hard.
i'm really proud of her... she's such a rockstar.
i can't wait for our date at fuddrucker's 2010.

late nights in the library

obviously, we are very productive. (no, seriously, usually we are. it's only about when it hits 11:00 when i get antsy and take pictures on tommy's computer and distract him, even when i still have that paper to write.)




tommy needs more things to do. clearly.

wedding pictures

how can i be expected to do homework when there are at least 1000 pictures like this one to go through? this is clearly far more important. who cares that i have a paper due wednesday that i have yet to start?



and once again, a ginormous THANK YOU to miss kylie nixon for being a magical photographer!

one fine day: saturday in salt lake

i SHOULD be studying for my icelandic 101 test right now, but since i don't want to, i thought i would really quickly update this blog and tell about the perfectly wonderful weekend we had.

this is what we did on saturday:
-went to a session in the salt lake temple, which was amazing. it really was. there's so much happiness there. we got to see the sealing room where grandma and grandpa myres were sealed. unfortunately, we forgot our camera, so we had to make do with using tommy's cell phone to take a picture outside of the temple.



-watched the joseph smith movie (where i bawled my eyes out, of course)
-bought bagels at einstein bagels for lunch
-went and read on the grass at a park by the U of U for a few hours
-went to the U of U football game with tommy's family. we were probably the only people in the whole stadium NOT wearing red, and we were glad to escape without being questioned about where our true loyalties lay.
-celebrated tanner's and jolysa's birthdays at their joint birthday party in provo with dancing and funnel cakes.

it was a perfectly lovely day.

hiking mount timp at midnight

we were feeling a little bit crazy this weekend, and decided to hike to the top of mount timpanogos on friday night. we started at about 1:30, probably, and got up to the top by 6:00 a.m. to see the sun rise. we went with alec and grant, some myres cousins, and their friends tucker and rex.
was it worth it? it was beautiful, but it was RIDICULOUSLY hard and cold. let's just say it was a great life/BYU experience, and i don't know if we'll ever do it again.





afterwards we went to the cannon center for breakfast/lunch, courtesy of grant myres and his friend rex. thank goodness for dining plus dollars.

summer hungover

i just can't seem to get back into school like i should be. hmmmmmmm... shocker...

any ideas why or suggestions on how to fix it?

senior year, baby.