Dear Dantzel

You owe us a blog post. I'm serious. And seriously mad about it okay? I want to see pictures right now. Until then please entertain yourself with my new favorite band:

I'm on Virgin.

I just thought I'd brag and write a post since I have free Google Wi-Fi on my Virgin America flight. The internet is a little spotty and my laptop is almost dead (they really should include plugs on these things) but some internet is better than none - maybe.

Today everything clicked when we were taking off from San Francisco. My job totally has meaning. I've always wanted to help people, work for a non-profit or something like that but that's never quite worked out. Today I connected it. Airplanes are good because they help apostles get all over the world and missionaries all over the world for that matter. That's good because we can bring more people to the gospel. Airline companies need office supplies right? They need to buy printers, they need paper, pens, tape, etc etc. And while they could do without all that it just makes things more efficient (actually they probably couldn't do it without all that stuff.)

Anyways, my point is we are all doing good things! Dantzel is a nurse (or going to be) and she directly helps people! She is right there with them. Joslin, Beth, and Megan are directly teaching people the gospel, saving lives or saving souls really. And Brynne, well she sells people surveys. Just kidding Brynne. I will connect. Brynne sells people surveys that help us better understand people. I bet BYU has discovered lots of nice things to help strengthen student's testimonies. I don't even know if that makes sense. It's past midnight on our flight. So anyways, we all directly/indirectly help people which is nice right?

I hope everyone had a nice holiday! (and by everyone I mean Dantzel and Brynne. Since no one else is even here. Megan gets home so soon though!! Wow.) Love you both and love to all who are far away!

remember?

That time Grace and Dave got married?

And we all got to see Ashley's beautiful house.

And creep pretty D, see Grace, embarrass me, and hear Ashley's stories?

Or when Charlotte gave Ashley her wedding gift?

or when Grace had such a struggle with wax hands?

and "you wear THESE?!!""

or..."it's TRUE!"

and when Joey painted his nails.

and really did do a better job than Ashley.

And how much we loved our mini bouquets?

And Dantzel fixing my bangs all day/morning.

Or Grace not being able to kiss Dave in front of everyone.

Or how much we loved everything about Grace's hair, flowers, dress.

And D still being the best substitute boyf.

And the photog catching on to traditional pic.

And Dave and Grace looking so classy.

or this hahahaha

And navy blues looking so good.

Or my dress not ever staying down when I sat.

Or Grace still not being able to kiss Dave in front of everyone.

And missing Meg, Beth and Jos.

Or "I kissed a girl!!!!"

And the bathrooms with deodorant and mouthwash.

Or how many times we tried taking this pic?

Or when we saw Grace and Dave driving to Sundance?

And the text that followed..."creep!"

Or the magical reception with the best centerpieces.

Hot chocolate.

Laurie's choc chip cookies.

Darcy and Adam?

The jumping picture and how much Grace hated that idea.

Or me forgetting my card.

And how these are the only two pictures I took that night.

And how there was a mini high school reunion?

The blog was just feeling sad without any posts and I had too many pics to share.

I miss my girfs and loved spending a whole weekend with my favorite girls.

Still so happy for you, Gracie!

We love Dave and are so happy that you found ultimate happiness.

I feel sad.

I'm sitting here listening to coldplay and just finished watching gilmore girls and thinking about Beth tomorrow and I just feel so sad! What happened to all of us! Why did we all get separate ways? I hate it. I was reliving so many conversations and moments captured in all the pictures I have on my computer. I miss Trevor telling everyone to be careful not to fall in love with Allen because girls do and having the heat up to 90 degrees in our house so that it was always warm and sitting on those couches and watching people out our window and watching Arrested Development and doing homework in my room while listening to everything that was happening in the kitchen and and and yeah so many things. I just wanted to say that I miss it at all and I feel really lucky that I had such a nice experience with all you girls. love it and love you!

Do you know what we're not good at? Pictures.

Well over here in nyc it's just turned into wedding fest. Everyday between blog posts about office supplies and random marketing contests I'm mentally planning and emailing different people about wedding stufff. Man. I can't even imagine the possibilities when I'm done thinking about that. So we're sending out the invites this weekend and I figured well why not give my girls a preview? Right?

(Plus if I show you all the bad ones then the one you get will seem great right??)

This is what happened when we gave up and decided maybe we should just look at each other because that would be cute. Dave had a real hard time remembering to look at me.

This is when we were glowing and dave was on his cellphone.

This is the closest we got to a kiss picture.

This is when shadows are not magical.

This is when we take a "lets just act like we're walking picture" and dave gets a major close up shot and I look like I have a cape off my head.

This is when Dave tries to mimic what everyone else does in their engagement pictures. Great.

This is when you realize it has been 6 months since you have cut or colored your hair. And it looks reeeal depressing from the back.

This is when you realize you are running away with your professor.

(thanks to Hillary for fulfilling Dave's dream of wearing glasses.)

After all that, the pictures can only get better right? Love you girls and miss you! Can't wait to see you in like a month! Well I guess that's only 2 of you haha. Where did everyone go!! This is nuts. But Beth, I really will be seeing you in like 2 weeks or less.

school girl.

Sometimes I'm so sick of school. But no worries. I'm still going. Just thought you guys might like to know that I'm alive and going to school still.

And just wish that this could still happen with my favorite girfs (where was Jos during this pic?) Love love love and miss times a billion.

Annyeong!

For those of you that don't know Korean (or haven't seen Arrested Development), 'annyeong' is a greeting in Korean which means 'hello' or goodbye'. So why am I telling you this? Well I'm trying to practice my Korean so I will be able to speak the language when I go to serve in the Korea Busan mission. You heard me correctly - I've decided to serve a mission and I've just been called to go to Busan, Korea. You guys may hate me for doing this because we'll have to postpone our Yellow House Reunion (YHR) to mid-2011, but I hope eventually you'll be excited with me. I'm sorry I've been so secretive about it all, but after so many times of deciding to go on a mission and then flaking out on it, I wanted to make sure that I was for sure going before I told everyone (this was so secretive that I just recently told some of my family that I was going so please don't feel sad).

So I really had my heart set on going to Korea and prayed that if it was the right thing for me that I would get sent there. Well, after a very long process of getting my papers in, I finally got my call and I couldn't be happier about going to Korea. I am so excited to finally learn the language of my ancestors and return to the motherland.

Here's a picture of Busan. It is so beautiful. I went there in 2005 and loved it.


The Busan mission is in the southern part of Korea, so unfortunately I won't be near Brynne's parents (although I hoped I'd be in their mission).

So here are the logistics: I report to the Provo MTC on November 4. Sorry Grace, but I will miss your Pilgrim Fantasy wedding. However, hopefully I'll be able to see everyone before I leave. Dantzel and Brynne, I don't know where you're living in Provo, but I would love to see you before I go into the MTC. I hope you're all doing well. I would love to talk to you all soon!