halfway.

this time last year i was a horrendous wreck.

i was saying goodbye to my best friend for two whole years.
my partner in crime, my biggest supporter, my everything.
i cried for 24 hours straight, and ate a lethal amount of unhealthy foods.
i was not a pretty sight.

you know how super heroes have to get dumped in a vat of toxic sludge or something awful like that to become super?
i'm pretty sure that is how this fella's mission is for us.
this past year has been the toxic sludge year. not super fun.
but now, because of all of that toxic sludge, we are super heroes.
so this next year will be full of a lot of awesomeness,
and a lot of saving old ladies from burning buildings and cats from trees.
(hey, comes in the job description.)

i'll see you soon, my dallin pete.


lovely randoms:

-i had to go on bus runs for my work today (picking up children from school). while on the bus on of the children said "don't touch that! if you do... i'm... gonna... have... an... EXORCISM." i'm not sure he knows what that word means.

-remember how i was real sick? yeah, my doctors weren't a fan of me being sick so often so they decided i need my tonsils out. i'll be accepting donations in the form of popsicles.

-i was eating lunch in the three year-old room one day at work. the teacher in that room had told her kids that they should eat all of their food because "a clean plate is a happy plate!". i sat next to a little girl who was scarfing her food down as fast as she could. when i asked her why she was eating so fast she said very seriously "my plate is going to be SO happy."

-can we just talk about how awesome may has been? my brother came home from his mission, i got employee of the month (heyoo, 50 dolla gift card!), i got to have my whole family in the same place two weekends in a row and i got to the halfway mark with that crazy fool pictured above. three cheers for may.

-today at work i was put in the school-age kids classroom, and it just so happened to be the day of a field trip. the park we were going to was really close, so we walked there. we passed by a ravine with a nast waterfall thing in the middle of it. the kids were oohing and ahhing at this waterfall when one of the oldest kids lost it and started yelling at everyone else telling them "there are so many better things life! this will not be the greatest you have seen! AUGH." it was really hard to not laugh.

-before the above mentioned field trip, i put lots of sunscreen on, spf 50 to be exact. we were out for less than four hours. it was overcast at least 75% of the time. i still got sunburnt. woof.

random dancing!

that title goes out to you, elder!

i am uber sick at the moment (heyo, strep round deux!),
so forming a long and cohesive post is just not going to happen.
so here are random snippets from my life as of late.

-my all-time favorite show, the office, ended this week.
it was seriously one of the saddest days of my life.
a little ridiculous? perhaps. oh well.
there was no way i was letting this amazing show go out without a bang,
so one of my best friends and i threw an office finale party.

pigs in a blanket in a blanket, miiiiint chocolate chip, beets and a stapler in green jello. classic. 

the whole gang. office attire was required.

jim&pam and dwight.

my thursday nights are now full of sadness.

-while getting ready for the party, casey (jim) and i were driving around getting supplies and jazz when along came a lovely song on the radio. i believe the lyrics were "you feel my love as i wrap my fingers around your throat". yeesh. someone has a hard time distinguishing between love and strangulation. (which i thought was very easily distinguishable.)

-my mom and i were talking about people losing weight, and how when some people lose 40 pounds it is hard to tell but when others lose 40 pounds it is very obvious. her exact words were "exactly! if i lost 40 pounds i would look emancipated!". i then told her that she looks pretty free all the time, not just if she lost 40 pounds. it took her a little while to get it. 

-a little girl in my young toddler class always says "seeeeeee" when she wants me to come look at something. so the other morning when she shouted out "seeeeee" to me i walked over to her to see what she wanted me to look at. she held out her hand to show me a giant writhing spider. oh my awfulness. i don't think i have ever screamed so loud.

-i was talking to some of the kids in the after school program at work. they were talking about how bad smoking was. one of the little boys said "they're really addictive! it's because of all of the nickel-teen." i was laughing too hard to correct him. 

-it was pajama day at work on friday. obviously, with my love of pajamas, i embraced it with open arms and showed up to work like this:

i'm even wearing spider-man socks.

i got a lot of compliments. 

i'd say my blog url is pretty fitting, eh?

-like i mentioned earlier, i am heinously sick. can't talk at all, barely moving, not sleeping well, you get the picture. well yesterday night (saturday) my family decided they would all stay in and watch hunger games with me. i sure am grateful for the family i have.  

they're kinda my favorite people.

home.

it's pretty crazy when you have been waiting for something to happen for two years...
and then it actually happens.

we're really attractive people.

my brother is (finally) home from his mission in frankfurt germany.
our family is whole and complete for the first time in two years
and it feels absolutely amazing.

it feels so good to have everyone home.


randoms:

-we went to see iron man three today. it was wonderful. i highly recommend it.

-less than 13 months left till i get my other missionary back. almost halfway done.

-we went to outback steakhouse for aaron's first meal back in america. the waiter forgot to put my order in and spilled water on my leg. on a better note, the steak was delicious and i ate an alarming amount of an awesome blossom. (extra awesome please.)

-we went to tmobile to get aaron a phone when he came home. being the lazy children we are, we waited on the chairs in the store while my parents figured things out. i got really excited because i thought that my chair was special because it reclined. nope, i had just broken it. oops.

-i keep seeing all of these prom pictures on Facebook and it makes me slightly sad that i am not going this year. really i'm just in it for the dresses... and the cute date.

the good 'ol days.