single digits.

i feel like i'm morphing into one of those girls who only talks about their missionary. 

you know, those girls that call themselves missionary girlfriends (GAG ME), whose every instagram picture is about their missionary, who hole themselves up in their room writing 15 page letters everyday and who sob at night because they cannot bear to do life without their missionary.
ok, i'm definitely not that extreme, i just feel like i've mentioned him in every blog lately.
BUT.
i couldn't let this momentous occasion go unblogged. sorry, world.

today, it has been 15 months since i have seen my very best friend.
which also means that i only have 9 months left until i see him again.

that is SINGLE DIGITS people.

I used to have 24 months left.
but oh ho ho! NO LONGER.
i'll take 9 over 15 any day of the week.
(or 24 for that matter.)

see you soon, dallin pumpkin.
(ok, so it was two days ago. let's pretend i don't suck for 4 seconds.)

life events as of late:

-my family moved to colorado springs the summer of 1999. my very first friend in colorado was casey. casey has been one of my best friends since that summer of 1999 and we've gotten even closer as we've grown up. i have called him more than once completely sobbing to end up laughing and feeling super loved when we hung up. he's always been there for me through thick and thin, no matter what.

14 years of awesome right there.

i said goodbye to this kid for two years this week, and there have been few goodbyes harder. i had to flee the scene pretty quick (i hate getting emotional in front of people), but i cried all the way to my hair appointment and i'm crying as i'm writing this now. i'm so proud of his decision to serve the lord, though, and there is no where else i'd rather he be. see you in two, case.

-in case you haven't heard enough about missionaries yet, here is one more bullet about them!

i also said goodbye to jared this week. (who decided to take these two away on the same day?? not okay.) jared was a really good friend of my roommates who i became quick friends with because he understood my dry sense of humor and would play mario kart on the n64 with me. he was always there to be my date (like pictured above) when i had to have one and didn't want to ask someone. i'm not looking forward to being in idaho without him this fall. but i am so proud of him for choosing to serve the lord too. i know some pretty awesome guys. 

-oh yeah, there was that one time i got my tonsils and adenoids out and it was the worst two weeks of my life. i may or may not have emailed dallin 13 different times, all of them while on drugs and none of them coherent thoughts. (one being about how grateful i am for mashed potatoes.) oops. 

before- super chipper. so oblivious to the awfulness about to be inflicted on me.

after, realizing that satan himself is sitting on my throat.

on heavy medication- i probably drank my weight in sonic's ocean water.

there were several blog entries written while i was on heavy painkillers that i have little, if any, memory of writing. one of them replaces the lyrics of the fresh prince of bel air theme song with lyrics about getting my tonsils out and how awful it was. yeesh. 

-that one time i went to costco in orem, utah and found this little gem:

those crazy mormons and their nutella.

-we ended out little trip to utah with a trip to temple square. it was gorgeous as always. 

i'm going there someday. well, not there. but to a temple.