Our Second First Date

Friday, April 12th

So, today Brandon is out of town. Bryan asked me if I wanted to go to Temple Square with him, Sister Fitz (Melissa) and Elder Mironchenko (Oleg) at noon. I decided to go into the office in the morning and get a lot done so that I could leave for the date at noon. I think it worked out pretty well! I got to spend the day with my boy!

We met up at Bryans house, and he was a little on the awkward side! Well, all of them were. What can you expect? They had only been home for 3 weeks or so. On our way there, we stopped to get gas. The minute Bryan got out of the car, they began telling me how they have heard so much about me and how we are basically perfect for each other. They said he talked about me all of the time, and they had never heard him say one bad thing about me. I can't even explain how happy that made me. They also said he was so nervous when he was coming home to see me. I thought he was only nervous about his family.. so that also made me kind of happy! :)

So, we went down to temple square. It was a gorgeous day and we just walked around all the flowers and visitor centers. We went to the Conference Center and did a tour of the top, which I had actually never done! It was beautiful up there! Oleg wanted to take all these pictures which made me happy because I was too afraid to say we should take them. So all of the beautiful pictures are thanks to him. I was in heaven though, I had dreamed of these pictures forever. Since he's been home I've had to put new pictures of us on my screen savers just so that I realize how real he is again.

We went to City Creek Mall and ate dinner there. I don't even remember what I was saying, but they just kept commenting on how me and Bryan are perfect for each other and how I just know him so well. They are pretty cool! Fitz is so friendly and Oleg is like my buddy even though I barely know him.

We decided to go hike up Ensign Peak, and that was fun. It was a lot steeper than I remember it being, so I was winded when I shouldn't have been! But don't you worry, I made it. We looked out over the valley and Oleg and Bryan were talking about how pretty it was and how Ukraine didn't even compare to America. It is funny because they make Ukraine sound so awful sometimes, but really they just miss it more than they can even express.

When we got back to Bryans house, we decided to watch Captain America. I hadn't ever seen the full thing, so that was good for me to see! Elder Taylor and his girl that waited for him (London) Showed up for the movie as well. During the movie Fitz and Oleg started to cuddle and Bryan like had a little freak out! He just kept saying they were missionaries and how that wasn't okay a few weeks ago. We were all pretty shocked by it, but they are so cute! I was happy for them. The only sad thing was is that Oleg had to go back to Boston for the rest of the summer :/ Talk about bad timing.


I was a happy girl all night though. I got to cuddle and hold hands with the boy I've been dreaming about for the last two years! I was finally meeting all these people from his mission, seeing him speak Russian, and just feeling so happy and safe. I honestly can't believe how well it is all going. Life just seems perfect.

Oleg took this little gem over to the left. He sent it to me the next day, kind of made me laugh. So basically, you can tell I'm incredibly happy.

The Homecoming Talk

Where does time go? It's already the middle of May! And my boy has been home for almost 2 months! I guess we having catching up to do again... 

Sunday, March 31st

Homecoming Day Picture

Well, the day had come. It was finally Bryan's homecoming talk. I knew what dress I was going to wear two months before... So saturday night I spent the night at Nicole Merrils house and Heather came over. We had a fun night doing what we do best: talk talk talkin. Merrils parents were out of town so all three of us slept in her parents bed. We just had a big cuddle fest sleepover! The next morning all three of us got ready together and they all calmed me down and told me I was pretty ha. What good friends I have. Heather couldn't come to the actual homecoming, but Merrill went with me, and we sat next to my dear friends Mark Woodbury and Kyle Crowther. Man, it's still weird to me that they are all home. Mark tried to put his arm  around me while Bryan was speaking to get a reaction out of him, too bad he didn't notice. So he starts talking about Grace, Merit and Mercy and I seriously couldn't believe how amazing it was! His farewell talk was fantastic, and he comes back and knocks his homecoming talk out of the park. It wasn't the typical "talk about my mission and people talk", it was so meaningful and taught me so much and he incorporated the perfect stories from his mission into the talk. I just remember thinking "yup, I'm so in love". 

The rest of the day was perfect, minus me getting picked on by his family (which I secretly loved). He spent most of the afternoon catching up with aunts, cousins, uncles and grandparents, and I just loved seeing how happy he looked, and enjoyed talking with Erika and her cute cousins. At one point I did have a nice little chat with Grandpa Frandsen. He even told Bryan to go away, and said he'd take care of me. One of the most adorable and hilarious old men I have ever met. 

I did finally get some alone time with him, and that boy surprised the crap out of me. He grabbed my hand! The boy had only been home 2 weeks!! I was expecting something more like at least a month, but hey - I won't complain. Ah, it was just a good night! Being with his family and him and I loved how everything just seemed right. 

Hang out with the Boy

Sunday March 24th

I spent friday night with my dear miss cousin Nicole Newbold on friday. We talked all night, and hung out with Sof. Bryan finally got a phone, and texted me all night! I was pretty dang happy - especially when  he said "Goodnight my favorite girl." Silly as that may sound, I felt so happy! I jumped up and down and told both Erika and Nicole. They thought I was a bit spastic, but who cares! I had been dreaming of receiving that text for two years. 

Saturday Newbold and I woke up to go to the Oquirrh Mountain temple for baptisms. When we walked outside - it was snowing like crazy! I was sad because that meant our ultimate frisbee game with Kyle and friends was going to be cancelled.... Well. Newbold and I went to the temple anyways, and it was really good! We had a nice time, and it was relaxing and what I needed after a very long anticipated week. 

To my surprise, I had a text from Bryan asking if I wanted to do something with him that day. Umm hello?! Of course. That was much better than playing ultimate! So, I went over and got to spend most of the day with him. It was perfect. We didn't do anything incredibly special, we just hung out together! We ate chips and salsa with his dad, made cookie dough, talked to Grandpa Frandsen on the phone, picked up a corsage for Jakes prom date, took Sammy to a friends house, ate cookie dough, learned some Russian, talked some more, cuddled just a little bit, and I may have accidentally inferred that he is my Happily Ever After  :) Everything between us just seemed natural, and we talked to each other the same as we always had. We were still completely open, honest, silly and cheesy. 

I left around 7, and he went to his Stake Conference. I got to spend saturday night with Heather and we definitely had a good time! I love my quality Heather time. 

Sunday was wonderful! I had spent the night at Heathers and we went to Nick Smith's homecoming. I honestly didn't know the kid well, but I had to support my BFF! 

My favorite part of the day, was going over to Bryans! We spent a good 3 hours looking at all of his mission pictures!!! They were pretty cool, I can't believe he lived there. I had a good time listening to him to random stories. I want to look at more with him sometime because I'm sure I could get even more stories out of him just by looking at them.

After we finished, we went upstairs for ice cream, scriptures and prayer. Surprisingly his parents let us go down stairs and just hang out together. For some reason they are surprising me so much. I thought they would be a lot more protective, but so far they have been incredible! They really are such good parents. Anyways, Bryan and I just had fun talking and telling stories. He somehow always manages to get the most embarrassing things out of me. But hey, we wouldn't be Bryan and Chelsea if it weren't for all the complete ridiculous honesty and silliness. And guess what? We definitely did some cuddling that night. Hello was this girl in HEAVEN! I most certainly didn't want to leave after that, but I have to say - It was a good close to a perfect weekend.

My Best Friend.

Today is April 14th, and I realized something - I haven't written in my journal once, and my best friend got home from his mission 3 weeks ago. I was talking to Heathers dad today, and he asked me how things were going with Bryan. I told him silly things and how happy I am. He said "exciting times these  are, make sure you write them down!" Well, I'm going to see if maybe I can at least write in here at least once a week since I won't be writing letters anymore! Thats 3 hours each sunday that I have of extra time! 

March 20th, 2013

OKAY, here we go. Bryan got home on tuesday March 19th. Heather slept over to keep me company and keep me calm. I have the best friend in the whole entire world - she showed up with an adorable package title "missionary survival kit". How cute is she? It was filled with lotion, a shirt, lip gloss, stickers of the temple, and ice cream. What a sweetheart. I almost cried! We had a way good night though. We went to cafe rio for me, and got heather a shamrock shake from Mcd's haha. She loves those. And then she had the genius idea to drive to the airport. WE ARE FREAKS. We totally did it. We didn't actually see Bryan, but we saw a crowd of people! It was kind of really fun. Then we might have driven up to his house... we just wanted to see how the house looked and if it was decorated BUT... we happened to turn the corner to his house as he was pulling his suitcase into the house. I SCREAMED - "Oh my HELL, drive drive DRIVE! I see him!" Funniest experience of my life. Now we can officially add stalkers to our set of skills.

Surprisingly, I slept really well that night. Wednesday the 20th came! This girl went to one class, then to work, then back home to get ready and relax, and then off to Bryan's house. I was doing fine all day until the hour before.... and then I was going nuts. Pretty hilarious. But, Dan and C'Jay told me I looked super beautiful and smelled amazing. So that helped :)

Okay, here goes nothing.

I drove over, and got there are 5:30pm. And no one was there! So I texted his mom and I sat in the car. To be honest, I was happy because I felt like seeing him outside would be so much less scary than walking into his house and awkwardly hugging. Funny story. Our hug was still incredibly awkward hahaha. Oh how I love that boy! They pulled in, and got out. Erika jumped out with a camera (way more awkward than I imagined it woud be), and then we had an awkward "hello" and an even more awkward hug. We. are. cool.

We sat in the front room and talked for 20 minutes. It was so awkward. I asked him to tell me about his mission. What was I thinking? "How was your mission?". Did I not write him the whole two years? Oh my hannah. So, I did get him to speak Russian! And he looked really good.

Dinner was good! We had Cafe Rio, and it was fun to sit and joke around with his family. So, I'm expecting that I won't be there very long because he's tired, and that we're just gonna sit and talk about his mission with his family - then is mom says she's going to book club, and his dad had bishop meetings or something. I like could NOT believe it. They were going to leave, and I was gonna be alone with him. I was terrified out of my mind, slash super happy.

We went back to talking in the front room, and you'll never believe it - everything went back to normal!  I can' explain it. Yeah we are two years older, more mature and more spiritual - but I was with my best friend. And seriously, I have never been so happy. We talked about so many things! And everything was current/ We weren't like talking about how we used to like each other. We DO like each other, and he missed me and was happy to see me. AH. I couldn't have asked for anything more. I seriously love this boy, and I can't wait to fall even more in love. I left around midnight, called Bev, and just started crying. I realized that I wasn't imagining how happy I was before he left, and that it was worth it. I was in a dream... and I still am!
                                 My Best Friends is home :)

BYU Loving

Growing up I always thought I would go to Brigham Young University. My mom, dad, Grandma, and Grandpa went there. Sometime in high school I realized going to BYU probably wouldn't happen for me. I had good grades, but not great grades. My ACT scores were just above average, but not quite up the the BYU standard. I also soon realized I loved American Sign Language and realized I wanted to pursue that in my education. As I began researching my options for schools, I found that BYU wouldn't make sense for me even if  I could find a way to get in. They just didn't have the degree I needed. The most you could do with ASL at BYU would be to minor in it. Salt Lake Community College offered and interpreting program, Utah State Offered a teaching program, and Utah Valley University offered a General Studies, Interpreting and Education program with American Sign Language. I prayed, and looked at my options and came to the conclusion that UVU was where I felt I needed to go. 

The thing is, I still love BYU! Thank goodness so many of my friends attended BYU. Bryan let me purchase a sports pass through him, and before you knew it people on social media had begun assuming I went to BYU with how many posts about their athletics I had. Bryan left on his mission, and I continued to go. Brooke Saunders who had been a friend of mine in Madrigals let me purchase a ticket through her. We were decent friends, but I didn't realize that we would become such great friends  by the time we got through college. I got to make new friends like Whitney Simmons through going to games. I became close with my sweet friend Kylie Anne. At the beginning of Junior year, my roommate Becca Gearig began attending games with me. I've gotten to bring other friends, and even my sister to games. BYU is wonderful, and I love that I have been able to go to all of these activities with my friends and how we have been able to enjoy so much time together while rooting for our Cougars. I didn't have my blog back then, so I figured I needed to share some of these memories. Here are some of my favorite times with so many different amazing people! 

Dreams Come True

This post is dedicated to my trip to New York City with three of my very best friends! Heather Soffe, Nicole Merrill and Amanda Larson. Best winter break ever - filled with Broadway, site seeing, carriage riding and making Heather's little girl dream come true! 

CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK

December 15th-19th 2012

Our fabulous cab driver

Church at the Manhatten Temple! 

Well Hello :) Beautiful temple in the middle of NY

The on going Bush Pic - I love you Dale! Love Chip

My Girls!!!!

CENTRAL PARK :) 

Friends Fountain!!!

Mormon Adds? We like this.

Heathers dream come true - Rockefeller Center

We went once at night time because you HAVE to see the lights at night. Its a must :) We went for a second time to go Ice Skating..... at 7:00am - yes, you read that right... I have to say, it was worth it! I've never seen Heather so happy, and it was like the movies! 

Here are a few other random pictures from our fabulous vacation. Enjoy :)

Vendor Hot Dogs - Yum!

Leaving was hard, but we will never forget all these wonderful memories, and adventures we had! So many more to come! I love you girls for always!!