I love early premiers

This is a couple of days late, but I haven't had time to post about it in the last couple days because of school.

HUNGER GAMES : CATCHING FIRE WAS AWESOME! It was SO true to the book. I want to go back and see it again!

Also, happy half-birthday to Bry and quarter-birthday to me two days ago when we went to see this- Nov. 20!

Feeling great!

Even though I woke up not wanting to get out of bed, today has turned out to be a great day.

Here are some of the reasons why:
1. I found out this morning that Bry and I will be seeing Catching Fire in theaters at 7:45pm on WEDNESDAY. Boo-yah. (Yes, I know you're jealous. No, I can't buy you a ticket.)
2. I'm getting a new set of glasses for the first time in over 6 years this week and they are beautiful.
3. We went to Papa Murphey's tonight to grab a Hawaiian pizza and got a family-size for the price of a large because someone ordered it and then called back after it was already made to say they changed their mind.
4. It was sunny and warm enough to wear flip flops.
5. When I got hungry at work I was able to eat my favorite granola bar which my supervisor happened to give me last Friday and that I'd left on my desk.
6. One of my professors informed the class that he decided to cancel class next Monday, so now I only have ONE class next week.
7. Only 8 days left until Bry and I leave to Portland for Thanksgiving break.
8. Only a month and a day until Bry and I go to my house for Christmas.
9. Bry brought home free hand soap he got at work randomly, as well as a Lindor truffle, and this cutie:

I GOT 'em

Mwahahahahaha. Months of planning (not really- more like it has been planned for months- it didn't actually take that long to plan) finally succeeded. The months of being paranoid that my plan would be discovered or I'd slip up. The stress that occasionally kept me up late at night with fear that something would go wrong- they'd find out or figure it out or my transportation would be delayed or unorganized.

But today it ALL came together. Here's how it went:

1. Bry dropped me off at the Provo airport which was very small and slightly confusing, but sort of fun because of how small it was.
2. Ariana and her dad picked me up from the Oakland airport.
3. I walked through the court behind Becca and Isaac's house while I called her and asked her to check for a package on her front porch.
4. She sent Aiden to check the front door and he answered it to find me! I said "hello Aiden" over the phone and then hung up and heard Becca in the house say "what!" Aiden's face was totally expressionless when he answered the door because he came looking for a box and I wasn't a box, so he ran in with me and told Becca "no box, just Auntie!" Perfect, kid. Thank you. =)
5. When I saw Becca I declared "happy birthday!"

Meanhile, mom was upstairs having heard my voice while painting (and realizing it was NOT on speaker phone) and was practically cursing me for coming while she was working on painting a door and messing up her mojo. hahaha. How was I supposed to know?

It's going to be a great, but short weekend. I hope to enjoy what I can of it, though. =)

Blessing

So. It's late. This week I've been almost literally running back and forth between things. I have to START studying for a test that I have to take tomorrow (last day- woot). I figured I should at least see if I could skim over readings for my classes tomorrow. I look at the agenda for one class tomorrow and it reads:

"In class exercise. No preparation necessary."

Awesome.

Birthday stuff

This is a little late, but what's new with my journals?

My parents took myself, Bry, Becca, and Isaac to a Giants game on my birthday. Mainly we were there to admire what an awesome park it is, sitting right on the bay. Beautiful. =) And we were there to watch the game- Giants won, woot! But they won with bases loaded and a walk, so not very exciting.

My supervisor is THE best. This tiny turtle cake was super good.

 Also, my husband was great and surprised me with this belated birthday present in SLC. Our horse's name was Ace. :)

Yellowstone- July 27

This is really late,  but whatever. Here are some pictures from our trip! It was awesome. :)

We did a small hike to get to this "natural bridge".

Buffalo butt. Sadly, my best shot of a buffalo.

Yellowstone- I get it. :)

ELK!

Hot springs are awesome.

Old Faithful. A must-see.

Tetons at night.

Tetons during the day!

My second 5k

Yellowstone photos will come, but I figured I'd do this one first because it's short.

My lovely friend Brynn agreed to sign up with me and stick with me and my slow self during some training for and the running of this 5k. We did pretty well considering it was 3.44 miles (a 0.3-mile-extra 5k), and we'd only gone half that distance for most of our training and the farthest we'd gone before that was 2.7 miles. It was good, and we were both happy to have completed it. =)

Three miles may not be very long to many of you reading this, but it's a lot for me. It was worth it, though.

Here's us pre-race. We sadly did not get a post-race picture.

Oh, and I've decided my tennis shoes have had a good go. They've lasted through the training for and running of two 5ks, as well as many days of Utah winter (and fall and spring).

My shoes are pretty beat up.

And yes, the inside heels are indeed torn up- and that isn't the only place on the inside.

Also, I LOVE that my number just happened to be 214 because if you take out the 1 it's my favorite number. =) Awesome.