In honor of International Kissing Day (July 6th), Matt and I decided to take a spontaneous date to the International Peace Gardens in Salt Lake City and share a smoochie in Vietnam (theoretically). For any of you in the Salt Lake Area who haven’t been to these gardens, they are definitely worth a drive out. …
Naomi Chase Lane
With all the spare time I have on my hands this summer, I’ve started to delve a little bit into family history work. Now, when I was younger, I always thought that family history work was meant for grandmas/empty-nesters who needed some way to spend all of their free time (that is, when they weren’t …
July 4th Festivities
Matt and I just got back after a long, fun-and-family-filled Fourth of July week, where we: Joined up with my family at Bountiful’s annual Eaglewood celebration, Had us some homemade strawberry ice cream, Enjoyed the sunset, Watched some fireworks, Went to a parade (and got LOTS of saltwater taffy), Cheered on my brother in the …
Book #12: The Count of Monte Cristo
Title: The Count of Monte CristoAuthor: Alexandre Dumas# of Pages: 1462Genre: Classic Romantic Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi once said, “After an enjoyable event we know that we have changed, that our self has grown: in some respect, we have become more complex as a result of it.” He goes on to say that to enjoy such …
Tuesday Tell-All
*I still haven’t recovered from our crazy wedding weekend–probably because I’ve only gotten about 9 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours, I’m carrying around three extra pounds, and my feet still have blisters from walking around so much in heels. It was totally worth it though. *You may (or may not) be wondering …
Kayla and Sam
Oh man–you know what’s almost as great as you getting married yourself? Your best friend getting married. I’m just so happy for my best friend Kayla that I could almost pop. Plus I feel like Sam fits right in with our little group of friends, which is important because it means that now that she’s …
Mikey & Ashtin
Welcome to the weekend-of-weddings recap! The lovely couple you see above is Matt’s best friend Mike (who will heretofore be referred to as Mikey) and his beautiful bride Ashtin. (Funny story–because I have only recently begun to really get to know Mikey, I always had all these crazy ideas in my head about him. Every …
The 100 Most-Recommended Classics
When I was a high school senior, my AP Lit teacher gave us several book lists at the beginning of the year to help us become more well-read. I set a goal then and there that I was going to read every single work listed on the “100 Most-Often-Recommended” list (list taken from here). I …