The White's Life

Today we went to lunch with (Zach's) Grandma Tippetts + it was lovely. I just love Grandma Tippetts. She is so sweet and loving + on top of that I feel like we can chat with her for hours (which we kinda did today)! When we asked her out to lunch she was so excited and offered up a really awesome coupon! I was so happy she was excited because I was really excited to ask her to join us. Lunch was suuuper yummy (like homemade chicken pot pie yummy) and our company was even better. I hope we make this a monthly thing because who knows how much longer Z + I will be living so close! It was a perfect lunch + bright spot to our rainy day.

Two years ago (last month), I was a Y-group leader with my good friend Courtney at BYU's Freshman New Student Orientation. We showed up on the first day of training, signed our names on one of, seriously like, 40 lists and then walked into the Varsity theater in the Wilkinson Student Center. We sat down and not much later, a handsome guy walked down the aisle saying,"Group Green 14? Is anyone Green 14?" Courtney and I were indeed wearing green 14 bracelets from that one of like a million lines we wrote our names on. We told him we were and he came and sat down next to us. From the moment he sat down next to me, I got butterflies that after 1.5 years of marriage have never gone away. We introduced ourselves and got to chatting. His name was Zach, he was from Provo and had recently returned home from a mission for our church. I was instantly smitten with this man, which was not something that happened easily for me. After a weekend of hanging out with a super cool g...

I can't even believe that I can title this post "my last first day". What the whaaaat?! I'm feeling quite a few different feelings about it, ranging from nostalgic to ecstatic. I really just can't even believe that this day is here! In fact, this day has come AND gone already. I'm taking only major classes this semester which isn't all too surprising since it's my last semester of classes; I wasn't expecting, though, to have 4 out of 6 of my classes in the same exact classroom with all four of those classes on M/W. Soooo basically I sat in the same exact seat for 4 hours straight today + probably will Wednesday too, but it's all good because it's the home stretch! I can do it! This semester I get to take my high school teaching practicum, advocacy for p.e., motor learning, exercise physiology, outdoor activities (!!! I'm super excited to take this; some things we will learn are hiking, geocaching + dutch oven cooking), adolescent ...

This is kind of a pre-qual to our Yosemite post since we actually went into the city a few days before we went to Yosemite. And both of the posts should probably be prefaced with the statement: we decided on a whim to take a road trip out to California (the bay, my hometown) after Zach finished his internship and I finished school. Back to the matter at hand; one of our days out there we met up with Zach's brother + sis-in-law on the glorious BART and went into the city. It was great to hang out with our family and nice to make a little trip into San Francisco on the same day. We love C + M and are grateful they let us tag along on their day trip.                                  ^^^ seriously, look at these brothers #definitelyrelated ^^^

You guys. Go to Yosemite ASAP because, wow, it is beautiful. Zach mentioned that he really wanted to go (in fact, he said it was one of his greatest dreams) so we decided to make a day trip out of it. People said we were crazy for trying to go all in one day, but we are now home tired but very pleased with our day trip to Yosemite National Park. Zach was incredibly excited and I was extremely tired (since we got up at 5:45 AM to leave) but it was TOTALLY worth it. Absolutely beautiful. I am super grateful to have Zach as my eternal companion and adventure buddy. Even though I was sort of grouchy/car sick/hangry, he remained positive, cheerful and loving towards me. I don't deserve him but am so happy to have him. It was a great day. WARNING: PICTURE OVERLOAD, MAY BECOME OVERWHELMING BUT WORTH IT