Let the record show (to anyone who read my previous post) that when Kyle and I started discussing ex-girlfriends, it was totally and completely my own doing. I brought it up, and when Kyle tried changing the subject (as any smart husband-to-be would do), it was I who re-directed the conversation back to his ex-girlfriends. [...]

One time when I was a little girl, my mom returned from Homemaking Evening bearing a sign made of three wooden hearts tied together with raffia. Each pink heart had one word written on it–”Hogar Dulce Hogar“–which is Spanish for “Home Sweet Home”. Every time I come home from a vacation I get that foreign [...]

I have been positively itching to post on my blog since this road trip started over a week ago. For those of you who don’t know, last Thursday I started out on a eight-state road trip with my fiance, Kyle. We departed from Alberta, Canada, and went through North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, [...]

A person has to have lived in the Great State of AZ to fully understand what I am about to say… I propound that there is a scent unique to Arizona. I have been a lot of places in my day (I like to consider myself a traveler), and I have never smelled anything quite [...]

Another love of my life is my dear friend Chelsie Akers, or rather, Sister Akers. She is currently serving a mission in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and I miss her more than I miss Diet Dr. Pepper on a road trip through Utah. My friendship with her started later in life, and we weren’t officially kindred [...]

My friend Lindsey Burnham is another person I love dearly. We met in Junior High in Seventh Grade but didn’t become close friends until the next year when we were partners in Mr. Finn’s Algebra I class. Bonding over pumpkin seeds and You’ve Got Mail, it didn’t take long for me to realise that Lindsey [...]

“Lead me, guide me, walk beside me…” It’s a well-known hymn and primary song, but it perfectly sums up my parents’ role in my life. Growing up, I didn’t have the Gilmore Girls kind of best-friend-banter relationship with my parents, but I never once doubted their love for me. I feel so selfish sometimes when [...]