Sunday Adventures

Sunday June 2nd 

Well, today I went to church with Brittany Russel. I thought I would try out the singles ward that I'm supposed to be in.... and it was awful. I just have no desire to attend a singles ward that I'm only going to be in for a few months. That is just not appealing to me. Church was good though, we had a great lesson in Relief Society. The talk the instructor based her lesson off of was called "Get a Life" by President Elaine L. Jack. First of all, the name of the talk is awesome. Second, it was just a phenomenal lesson about how we can be happy. We did also have a good lesson about temples, and how to lead a life by doing and giving our all. 

After church Bryan invited me over to help make dinner, which I was late for the helping part because Staci and I ended up talking... whoops. Dinner was great though! We went to Jake's seminary graduation. As we walk up to the church, cute little Grandpa Frandsen sees me and says "you know what you're supposed to do", so I walked up to him, gave him a hug and let him give me a kiss on the forehead. Could that man be any sweeter? 

Graduation was good, but oh my how my stomach was in pain. Have I mentioned how sometimes being a girl SUCKS? Thankfully before we left Bryan snuck me some IB Profen.. It's a little embarrassing how open I am with him, but oh well! Anyway, I think we had a good night! We played Trivial Pursuit, girls vs. boys when we got home. Somehow we won, no thanks to me! Janet is a genius. Of course I only answered on question - about Greys Anatomy. Sure shows what I focus on :)

Lovin him is RED

Saturday June 1st 

So saturday was awesome. Basically I spent the whole afternoon laying out at the pool with Merrill and Heather. We love getting our Vitamin D! Lots of good chatting time, and relaxing. 

I finally took a shower around 4pm so I could get ready to see my dear friend TAYLOR SWIFT. I met Jessica, her sister and two cousins on the FrontRunner, and we got ready to party! We walked around the gateway until we decided to eat at Costa Vida. Dinner was good, and we even ran into Janelle Frost!

To preface this, everyone should understand our love for Miss Taylor Swift.

We got to the concert and were dying of excitement. Jess and I had only been talking about it for the last 7 months. We had that whole CD memorized down to Taylors random remarks in the middle of songs. Ah. As the concert started, Jess and I were jumping up and down like every other little 8 year old girl there. Pretty sure Jess started to cry. So basically it was pretty amazing. We jumped up and down, screaming every word the whole time. Ah. she put on an awesome show. She even came over to where we were sitting. They had a platform in the shape of a circle that spun around, and she came out to sing 4 or 5 songs. we ran down and got pretty close to her. She was surprisingly adorable and sweet. She even made fun of herself for all her failed relationships ha. She had amazing pyrotechnics, and dancing. I do have to say Carrie Underwood still has my heart and threw the best show and vocal performance. But oh man, it was a great night! 

Bryan was making me laugh though, because they had a family party for Jakes graduation, and I missed it because of the show. Apparently everyone was questioning him about me, and when we're getting married, and if he loves me and why I wasn't there. I won't lie, it made me happy that they all wanted to meet me that bad. Oh well! There will be plenty of time to meet them all. No way I could have missed Taylor!

Dear Bryan,

I know you hate Taylor... And just so you know, she does have some pretty adorable songs. They aren't ALL about breaking up :) Here are songs that remind me of us. 

Begin Again

Stay Stay Stay

Two Is Better than One

Superman

I'm only me when I'm with you

and Fearless 

Love Chels

Bingham Friend Love

Friday May 31st

Well, summertime is here and what better way to start off summer than by having a BBQ, games, and a bonfire? I sure do love my friends! Newbold, Merrill, Heather and I thought it would be fun if we set up a night for everyone to get together and just have some fun and catch up. We set up a little facebook event and everything. 

That night I went over to Bryans house. He was in the shower, so I hung out with Erika and the boys. Bryan came up stairs and our shirts were basically matching. Whoops. ha. Before we went to the party we stopped back at my house so that I could change and do a quick little work task. We got to the party and I was really happy to see who was there! Tanner Hansen, Amanda Larsen, Stephanie Horrox, Brittany Russel, Trenton Harris, Charles Sampson, Braden Loveless, Michael Christensen, Emily Christensen, Spencer Brown, Abbey Tuckett, Mark Woodbur, Alex Vickory, Soffe Hepworth, Mark Bullough, Hannah Degn, Michael Glissmeyer, Parker Devey, Nick Smith, Heather Soffe, Nicole Newbold, Nicole Merrill, Bryan and Me. It was so fun! Newbolds dad made us hot dogs, we played a game with a hula hoop, basketball, roasted marshmallows and just talked. I think it all went really well! Bryan was even socializing and wanted to stay later than I did. That never happens haha. I have to say it was so weird when I walked into the party because normally I would have jumped on everyone, but this time I actually had Bryan with me. Man, it's times like those that  I still can't believe he is home. I only talked about him for two years, and now he's standing next to me and I'm not telling everyone how he's doing, or how I can't wait for him to come home, or how I'm nervous to see him again. I'm so glad I don't have to worry anymore! 

So I love Heather, she cracks me up. She is so stinkin cute, and all the boys were in love with her. I am secretly hoping that her and Trent can fall in love. Either way, I hope we find her guy sometime soon. I know she worries about it a lot, and she just deserves the best. 

I took Bryan home after, and we of course had a good time talking in the car. I don't know why, but it really is one of my favorite things to just sit and talk to him. Well, I guess that's all for this post. I'm just really grateful that I have been blessed with such amazing friends. I would be such a different person if we had stayed in Salt Lake instead of moving to South Jordan. The majority of the people I was friends with there have not ended up in the best places since high school. The friends I made at Bingham are so great, such amazing examples and are just so genuine. Some of those people I hadn't seen in awhile, and when we see each other we give each other big hugs and it's like nothing has ever changed in our friendship. I'm most grateful for Heather, Merrill, Newbold and Amanda though - those girls have just been there for me more than I could have ever asked for. They keep me on the right path, they make me happy, they support me and they tell me when I'm being stupid. I'm a pretty blessed girl :)

5 Love Langauges

Wednesday, May 29th

So this was probably the longest day ever... work was never ending, and all I could think about was going home and hanging out with Bryan. I am seriously ridiculous. Anyway, we both wanted Bryan Chelsea time, so we opted out of going to ultimate frisbee that night. We decided we needed to actually finish and make our amazing list for the summer. We've only been planning on making this list for the last two years. SO, we sat together cuddling as we came up with ideas. I have to say- I like our list quite a lot! We have movies, books, food and activities included. I told him we are only putting things on the list that we can actually accomplish, so he better be finding a way for us to go to his cabin!

We were going to go clean his room (yes, that is on our list) but then he suggested watching The Hunger Games, and I was not going to argue with that. I love that movie. Overall, it was a really nice relaxing night with my best friend! I think that we are pretty dang cute! 

Thursday, May 30th

Once again, I could not wait to get home from work! I was dying of boredom. I did monotonous tasks all day so I felt like my brain was going to explode. Thank goodness Brandon decided to leave early, so that I could as well. 

I took a baby nap when I got home, and then talked to Bryan on the phone. Elder Tommy Tautkus is now home! He invited Bryan and I to meet his family at Cafe Rio! How fun is that?! Bryan decided I needed to give Tommy an awkward hug since he hadn't even been home for 24 hours. I gladly accepted. I think I live for making people feel extremely awkward. Bryan and Mark also apparently decided that I have to run and give Colton Weeks the BIGGEST most awkward hug when he gets home. That story to come in a few weeks :) 

Dinner was really good! I feel bad letting Bryan pay for me all the time, but I guess it is what boyfriends are supposed to do. I just don't like it ha. Anyway, it was so good to finally see Tommy, and I did give him a good hug. I wish I could have jumped on him. I'll just have to do that to Colton.

So basically I really enjoy seeing Bryan with comps and friends from the mission. He seems so happy and I actually really like hearing them speak Russian. I wish I understood! Regardless, I want Bryan to be able to keep it up and have fun remembering how amazing his mission was.

After dinner we decided to go look for some shorts for him. We ended up finding him a button up, v neck and shorts. He looked good in all of them! I especially liked the V neck that I bought him. I kind of really like that he wants me to dress him :) I never thought he would be fine with it, and he's all for it now.

So, we were driving to put gas in his car after we had prayer and scriptures (which was hysterical. Somehow all the kids ended up on top of each other). While we were driving I was trying to figure out which Love Languages I think he is. Wednesday night we had talked about them, and he totally guessed mine easy. I couldn't believe it! Right of the bat he said that I was physical touch and quality time. I kind of figured he was quality time because of how much he loves to just spend time with his family or his best friends or me. I ended up pulling up the quiz on his phone to make him take it! It was honestly SO funny. I would give him the responses he could pick and he would say he was both of them! And then I'd have to tell him to go with his gut of what he enjoys or prefers more. So, we get to the end of this and he is totally quality time and physical touch! How funny is that?! Oh man I can't explain how happy that made me. We are the same! I wanted to say he was physical touch, but I didn't know if he would agree with me on that before he  took the quiz. The reason I thought that was because he is very careful with hand holding, kissing and hugging. He doesn't do it all the time, but that because it really means something to him. So kind of silly, but not really! I just really like how somehow I like him more and more each time, and how I keep realizing he is more my best friend than ever. 

Memorial Day

Monday, May 27th

What a fantastic day! Heather and I woke up early and drove to a golf course to help her Dad. He had planned a bachelor party for Josh that was extremely extravagant. We helped take pictures and collect money for the games they played on the course. They had games like "closest to the whole" which involved putting money into a pot, and the closest to the hole on a par 3 got to split the money with the groom. We went to lunch a noon at the Golden Corral with all the men and Heathers dad paid for us. Lunch was great! Heather and I even shared some cotton candy!! yummmm.

Afterwards I went to the pool with Nicole Merrill. We laid out for a couple hours until I went home to get ready for dinner with the Frandsens! I went over at 5pm. I talked with Janet for a little while, which was nice. I think we are getting closer which makes me happy! I think she's great, and I just hope we can be close! Erika and I went to the grocery store together to get Ice Cream and Lettuce. When we got back we all ate dinner which was super yummy. California Smith was there for dinner as well. We played badminton after we ate for quite awhile, and it was actually SO much fun. I didn't suck either! I usually suck at games like that, so I was happy. Smith left after that, and the boys started playing one on one with each other in basketball. Bryan beat Sammy. But Rick beat Sam, Jake and Bryan. We played speed too! I had a lot of fun with that, minus the fact I was winded!! I need to work out more so that I can get better at basketball.  Ah I just love hanging out with that family! I guess that is how I always imagined a family would be. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my own family. I just really want to make sure I live in a way to raise my family how they have raised theirs.

We watched Psych, then had scriptures and prayer and then Bryan and I got to just sit and talk in the front room before I left. Those talks just make me happy, I don't even know how to explain it. He just makes me happy. Well, that was my memorial day!

Friend Love

May 20th-26th

What a long week! But, it has been a pretty good one. I feel like I was productive at work, and got a lot accomplished. Especially considering the fact that Brandon wasn't in the best mood all week and other people weren't doing their jobs. I handled a few crisis's very well this week :) 

Monday -  I worked, and we went to lunch at our little mexican place - La Fuenta. It is Brandons very favorite. That night I helped Kelsie get make up for her engagement pictures  and she was very happy with what we found for her! She will look very pretty. I'm kind of excited that she asked me to be the one to do her make up for engagements and bridals. When I got home, Staci was painting her office. That woman is like a super human I swear! We had a fun little FHE on the first Article of Faith. I was wondering where Staci gets all these cute FHE lessons from and I found out there is this website called ldsliving.com. I'm pretty sure that I will have to use these when I'm a mommy! They are really simple and short, but have a lot of perfect things for children to learn. This video about the first article of faith was so stinkin precious - http://ldsliving.com/story/70683-fhe-the-first-article-of-faith. When we finished, Heather Soffe came over and we went on one of our Walmart adventures. We were looking for lace to add to the shorts I was making from my old jeans. We didn't find any I liked, but did make cute shorts without lace. 

Tuesday - Was nothing special at work. When I got home from work, I helped Staci make dinner, and then I ran to the Temple. I met miss cute Brooke Saunders at the Oquirrh Mountain temple We were there for quite awhile, but it was really nice to sit and feel the spirit. Plus, it was nice to see Brooke.  I hadn't seen her for a couple of months. Later that night I went to Newbolds house to hang out with Newbold, Sof and Heather. We made a facebook event for a fun little friend party/ BBQ. People better show up! It is about time for a summer party with good friends. Heat and I took a midnight run to McDonalds after, and had one of our quality girl talks. Definitely a good night. 

Wednesday- Bryan picked me up after work and we drove up to Provo for our Wednesday Ultimate Frisbe. May I just say, I am getting very good at this and all the boys want me on their team now! I invited Jessica and Jordan and I'm really glad that they showed up. I'm hoping that Bryans friends will accept them in so that we can all get together and have fun during the school year. We went to sonic when we finished and got drinks. Bryan got us a Rootbeer (typical) but then added vanilla. Yum. Rootbeer will forever make me think of Bryan. We went home after that and watched the rest of the Heat vs. Pacers game, which may I say was SUPER intense. Overtime and then Labron wins it with like .2 seconds on the clock with an amazing lay up. Bryans cute mom saved us dinner, so we ate after family prayer and scriptures. I kind of love that family. 

Thursday - I helped Staci make dinner and then afterwards we went outside and gardened for awhile. She is trying to get me ready to be a married woman by helping me cook, and be crafty and do yard work. I love her!

Bryan and I had planned on making our list, but then Daryl Warner asked Bryan to hang out. I feel bad for the kid, he's pretty lonely. We ended up going to sonic with him for 50 cent corn dogs. He stayed with us at Bryans house the rest of the night. I thought he would leave.. especially with how much Bryan and I were flirting. Ah. I really wanted to finished our list, but what can you do?! We still had a good time :) 

Friday- I got to work at home, which was awesome. I ended up mostly working from my phone because Staci wanted me to come play with her and Sawyer for the day. We had a Sawyer Day! We went rock climbing, to Pretzel Maker, mini golfing and then to the pool! Bryan called me and asked me if he could take me to dinner, which made me really happy! We went to Cafe Rio!! YUM. I miss our Cafe Rio talks. We always have a good time together, and it just reminds me of the first time we went together and how we talked for like two hours. Man, I knew I was crazy about him then. I can't believe how much more I've come to love him!

We picked up Erika from dance and then went home to get jake for our little double date. My dork of a boy thought it was going to be awkward, so he ended up being the awkward one. He got better as the night went on though :) We saw Star Trek in Darkness, which was AWESOME. Seriously. I loved it. We played ping pong and pool at Bryans' house. Jake took his date home after and then Bryan decided he had to teach me how to actually play ping pong. He surprisingly was a very good teacher! I'm not completely awful anymore. Also. Bryan makes me happy. I kind of like him. 

He took me home after and we just always have the best talks. I see why everyone says to marry your best friend. Life is just so much more fun that way. He is literally my very best friend.

Saturday- Summer is finally here kids. I can't explain my excitement. The problem here, is that I work in an office during the prime sun tanning hours.... thankfully I have a boss who worships his "Sun God" and likes to leave work early, or work from home.  I spent the majority of the day at the pool laying out, reading and playing with Stacis boys. We had a very good time! That night I took Erika to menchies and we had a girls date! She's a pretty cute girl. I love how she just talks and talks and talks. There is never a dull or quiet moment with that girl. When we went back, I helped Bryan finish his jobs, and then we went to his room while I watched him clean his room. It is funny how we have fun even when he's cleaning his room. He wanted me to tell him what clothing I like and don't like of his, and I got to look through a lot of his mission things. I wish he would just let me look at his journals! He did read one day out loud to me. Also, I have to say I love that he will kiss me a lot more freely now. I'm glad we weren't that way before his mission, but I think it's pretty great now. I'm super happy we don't make out either. I mean, don't get me wrong. I LOVED making out with him, but I'm honestly just loving that we don't need it. It just makes me even more sure about him.

Sunday - Today was a little tough because I went to Sam Tooley's Farewell. I was SO excited to go! The problem was that I had to see Callie, Bre, Jessye and Brette. I haven't been closed to any of them for awhile... Bre and I keep up by texting and snapchatting, but we aren't nearly as close as we used to be. Brette and I didn't leave on good terms after we moved out.. so I was nervous about seeing her as well. Anyway, I went and Sam did SO incredibly well. She will be such a good missionary. When she finished I went to talk to Bre and Callie, and they we actually very nice so I thought "wow, this isn't so bad". Brette was even being nice. The Kokkolas and Bartlomes were even there! I got frustrated at Sams house though because Callie and Bree didn't talk to me hardly at all.... They don't even ask how my life is going or seem to be interested, and here I am always asking how they are doing and still wishing the best for them. Ah. I dont understand how people can quit caring ya know?

I got to talk to cute Sam for a bit, and she was so adorable and sincere. I guess I would just imagine that old friends could always be sincere when they see each other like the way I am or the way Sam is. She was sweet though, she told me she could just see a "glow" in me since Bryan had been back. I really liked that she told me she loved how I was always happy while he was gone, but now there is a glow, and she likes that I'm in love with my best friend. She also told me I looked really amazing, pretty and skinny - which is a fantastic compliment from her because she doesn't throw them out.

Well, even though things didn't go that great with seeing Bree and Callie, I was happy to see and support Sam. We even got a cute freshman roommate pic! (minus Macey)

The rest of the day was great. Sunday was gorgeous and Heather and Merrill wanted to go on a walk, so we took a nice sunday afternoon walk around Daybreak. See, these girls are so great. I'm so grateful to have friends like them who love and support you through everything. I can not see Merrill for a few months (she goes to SUU), and then see her and everything is just as it was when she left. I love best friends that are able to just pick up where they left off. I am super lucky to have these girls as my best friends. 

Heather and I :)

Dance.

Friday, May 17th - Sunday May 19th

Ah Friday was a long one. I swear work was never going to end... One suggestion - don't start the week off with golfing and lunch.. you will not want to for the rest of the week. After work I went up to Provo and went to my dear Jessica's dance recital. It was actually awesome!! The whole performance was a medley of all their songs, and there were always dancers on the stage. Jessica did really really well! Madison and I gave her a quick hug before her next performance, and then we left.

Afterwards I went to play with my Bev. We talked for awhile, and when her husband Dom got home we continued talking and finally went to In n' Out. Yummm :) I love those two, I don't mind being a third wheel with them at all. It is really nice actually being friends with your friends husbands. I hope whoever I marry will be the same so that I can stay close to my friends.

Saturday I was a lazy bum and slept in until like 10:30am.... whoops. Staci and I did some organzing in her house and some saturday jobs until I left for a family party. My Great Grandpa Colby's 99th Birthday would have been that day, so my Grandpa and all of his siblings  threw a little get together to celebrate. I was only there for 20 minutes or so, and I wanted to stay longer but really had to get down to Provo for TRC at the MTC. I am glad I got to see grandma and grandpa and some other family members even if it wasn't for long.

I rushed down to Provo for TRC, and Ben Daniel met me outside to show me in. Man! It is so weird being at the MTC! I definitely thought it was cool though. I loved seeing people studying scriptures outside, and all these missionaries with their missionary tags on. I met with two different ASL companionships, and they were awesome! Well, the sisters did an awesome job teaching to my needs and keeping a natural flow of conversation. The boys were more awkward.. probably because they were teaching a girl though.. Overal, it was a great experience, and I'm glad Ben asked me to come down. I definitely want to go help out more often. 

I went straight to Bryans house after that and we took Sammy to a quinceanera. The boy complained the whole way over, so Bryan and I gave him a hard time. I won't lie, it was pretty fun. So, we met up with the rest of the Frandsens at Bingham for Erika's dance recital and may I just tell you - I love Grandpa Frandsen. He is probably the cutest old man EVER! Besides my Grandpa Colby of course.  Well, Grandpa Frandsen pulls me to the side and starts explaining to me how all of his grandchildren and grandchildrens wives have to give him a hug and let him kiss them on the forhead or cheek first thing when they see him. Apparently I am not included in this, so I gave him a hug and he kissed me on the forehead! You should have seen the surprised look on Bryans face. He said he knew what he was doing when he pulled me aside, but he couldn't believe that was actually happening. I guess Grandpa Frandsen knows what's up!