Journey to Hong Kong

We have begun our International Adventure! Yay!

We flew into San Francisco and my brother-in-law, Wesley, was able to come from Vallejo to pick us up and take us into the city.

We went to the Golden Gate Bridge. Aren't Andrew and I an attractive couple? We are in our comfy clothes ready to fly for 13 hours across the Pacific Ocean! Yay.

Me pointing at one of the little cables that the huge cables of the Golden Gate Bridge are made of. Very impressive!

Awesome picture by me. The sun was setting when we walked across it.

Wes needs crisis counseling. He is sad and contemplating jumping cuz he can't find a wife (thus he is looking at his naked ring finger). Don't worry Wes! You will find her someday!

The Bridge at sundown.

And now Andrew and I are waiting at the international terminal for three more hours until our flight takes off at 1:35 a.m. Oh the joys of International Adventures.

You Know It's Spring When...

• You can't see the inversion or your breath.
• The fountains around campus are on.
• You really really really want to go swimming.
• You debate the necessity of a jacket.
• People finally stop complaining about the weather on Facebook.
• Flowers bloom.
• You plan many vacations.
• Potato bugs (rolly-polies) cross the sidewalks.

I Can't Take You All...

Since announcing that we are going to Hong Kong, I have had numerous requests to shrink people and fit them in our suitcases.

Sorry, I just don't have that kind of technology. I would love to take everyone and have a giant party in Hong Kong where we would eat tons of food and squish together on the train and sweat a ton cuz it is super humid there.

So, depending on the price of internet at the hotel, I will try to post pictures while we are gone so you can kind of be there with us. OK?

Two days!!!

Finally Friday

A few things that are random that are on my mind:

My pea plants are doing awesome! I hope they produce.Good work little pea plants! Keep on growing!

Other plants are doing well. For Family Home Evening, Andrew and I talked about Alma 32 and how to gain faith, we need to plant seeds in our heart. Andrew planted summer squash in his heart and I planted broccoli in my heart. We are glad that both things are doing well.

We leave for Hong Kong in just a few days! I'll be outta here next Thursday. :D

I did not wake up for the Royal Wedding, but I did watch the highlights. I liked Queen Elizabeth's happy yellow dress and I really liked Kate's wedding dress, but not as much as I like MY wedding dress. I hope they have a marvelous day!

Kate Middleton's dress. Very nice. Source.

My wedding dress. Sorry Kate, mine is perfect. Photo by Dirk Widdison. (PS - I'm on the homepage for Dirk! I'm the one in front of the blue garage door. :D) For more wedding pictures, check out this post.

My brother Matt got his mission call on Wednesday. He will serve in the Colorado Springs mission and he leaves August 31! I'm really excited to finally have a missionary sibling. :D

(That's Matt)

My finger does not hurt as much as it did yesterday. A piece of egg shell stabbed me under my fingernail--OWWW!!!

Paper rewrites are going well but I still need to do a lot of work and probably shouldn't blog.

Tomorrow I am hostessing a baby shower for my friend Michelle and her baby boy. I love hostessing things.

I really just want to go hiking but I haven't been able to go since I went snowshoeing in Green Canyon.

All in all, it is a good day. And it will be a good weekend.

Easter Photo Shoot

When I was a little girl, my mom always made the girls Easter dresses and then they would take our picture by the flowers. I've made myself a few dresses, but since I hate putting in zippers, I sometimes buy a new dress. So, on Easter Sunday before church, Andrew put on his Easter tie and I put on my Easter dress and we went out for a photo shoot. There aren't many flowers at the end of April in Logan, so it was quite the hunt.

Andrew by a tree. Isn't he handsome?


We finally found some daffodils by the Institute! I knew the Church wouldn't let us down. I love my Easter dress! It is kinda Jackie Kennedy-esque. Plus, daffodils are my favorite flowers, except for hydrangeas.

Family Easter picture. How cute.

Happy Easter everyone!

Easter Time + End of Semester = Bad News

I love Cadbury Eggs almost as much as I love Lindt Truffle Balls.

And since it's Easter Time, I've had a ton of those amazing pastel, sugar-coated, smooth chocolates. I think I ate like 20 since I got home from work. At least I exercised today, right?

It is also the end of the semester and I am so tired. Yesterday I was motivated. Today I am not. I have fought this lack of motivation thing for a few weeks, thanks to the looming burden of revising major papers and a thesis proposal. So instead, I bum around on blogs.

This blog thing has gotten worse cuz I'm trying to only get on Facebook once each day. So instead I blog stalk for a lot more. I'm not sure if this is healthy. But I do think that blogs are more interesting than Facebook cuz I get to know people.

So the moral of the story is: sometimes it's good to bum around and eat Cadbury eggs, and I can do it every so often as long as I get my other work done.

And my pea plants are doing so well! I hope they grow and make lots of yummy peas for me to eat! I love peas! Probably more than I love Cadbury Eggs (heresy, I know).

My Funny Body

I am definitely an apple body shape. My torso is way short, my waist is relatively small, my hips are huge, and my thighs could crush your head. Plus, my bosom is tiny.

This week I had to buy some more underclothes and I looked at the sizing chart at the store. I used the measuring tape. And I had to laugh.

Hips - 44"

Waist - 32"

First off, it is awesome that I have a foot of difference between hips and waist. Second, although I wish I were thinner in my hips, I'm glad I could still find humor in this.

For the kind of underwears I was looking at, the 44" hips were almost to the next size up and the 32" waist were in the next size down. I laughed so hard--it wasn't very reverent so I felt bad. I bought the ones that would fit my hips. They felt like they were falling down all day! So I took the unopened ones back and got the smaller size which made me feel awesome.

I am just shaped weird and I always will be. :)