The family

So I know I say this all the time but I truly believe I have the best family in the world.

Calum gave the most touching talk today in church that my heart seriously wouldn't stop burning.

I was blown away by how comfortable he was up on that podium.

He was a natural!

I just kept thinking about how close we are to him going on a mission.

(he will be amazing by the way)

I was a little worried yesterday when I came upstairs to make breakfast.

I find him and his friend making breakfast for themselves

(an attempt to make breakfast at least)

He put milk in the pot for hot chocolate and the milk ended up like exploding out of it and then he burnt his bagel in the oven (from baking it).

All I could think was, he will need lots of prayers on his mission.

I know its a little ways away, but its still coming up and I can hardly believe that my stinky baby brother is as old as he is.

And now Aiden is passing the sacrament!

Aiden is the sweetest sweetest sweetest kid you will ever meet.

He is so mellow and calm and is just the cutest kid ever.

The other day, I was sitting at the table eating dinner

and my dad calls to the boys to take the trash out and Aiden immediately comes to do it.

And after a minute of waiting for Calum to take out some of the garbage, he says,

"well I guess Calum isn't coming. I will just take both."

LIKE WHAT 12 YEAR OLD DOES THAT?!

He is just so stinkin' easy going and I could just squeeze the life out him because I love him so much.

And then of course there is my little Aislyn bug.

She is a hoot

Such a G 

Seriously she makes me laugh all the time.

I love how little she is, but it makes me so excited for her to be older because I just know we will be the best of friends.

but that can of course wait because I'm not ready for her to get big yet.

She is obsessed with sparkly everything, and pink and lipstick and boys.

Oh my heavens she is so boy crazy my parents are in trouble. 

She makes me laugh so hard all the time and I am so lucky to have her as my sissy.

And then of course there is my Dare-Boy!

He is my other baby brother.

He is just the most polite and grumpy and funny boy you will ever meet!

I love when he comes over in the morning in his PJ's and has hair that is just sticking up all over the place.

One of my favorite things about Dare is he has this lisp that turns all of his "S" sounds to "Th" sounds.

So Aislyn is "Thithy".

 I will cry the day he grows out of it.

He is such a love and I am so grateful that he is apart of my family. :)

Thank goodness for baseball boys!

Well a lot has happened in my life these last couple months!

About a month ago, Nate decided that he needed to focus his time and energy on the mission.

It was definitely hard to hear, but nothing has been more clear to me in these past couple months except that Heavenly Father has a plan for all of us.

Me and Nate plan to keep in contact and remain friends so we can still support each other :)

I thoroughly enjoy documenting my life on my blog, and since this is such a cute story, I am writing it down so I remember it!

About a month and a half ago, I was walking into the student center on campus to study before I had to go to my other class.

As I was walking in, I saw this group of about 10 boys walking out of the student center.

I am usually pretty social, but 10 cute boys in one group can be kind of intimidating

and being the brilliant girl I am, I looked right past all of them, and wasn't planning on giving any of them the time of day

(I had to play it cool duh)

As I kept walking, I started up the stairs and this blonde guy yells out

"you're gorgeous!"

I was beyond words embarrassed and flattered by this guy.

I'm serous he made  my whole day.

So fast forward about month, and things with me and Nate were really changing and I wasn't sure if Heavenly Father wanted me to date, or if he wanted me to faithfully wait for Nate.

So I am driving to class one day,

and I just started praying and telling the Lord that if I was meant to date, he needed to put someone in my path to make it happen.

About an hour after saying that prayer,

I was walking out of the student center after studying, and I see a group of about three guys walking towards the student center.

I had recognized one of them as being the blonde guy that had embarrassed me about a month earlier

(I totally braced myself for him to yell something else again)

Once again, I tried to play it off cool like I didn't really notice this group of guys,

and just kept walking my way to class.

But of course, this blonde guy (who was dripping with confidence)

yells to me again

"Hey, you're gorgeous!"

my mind was just going a gazillion miles an hour at this point and so ya know, fight or flight instinct and I yelled back

"what?"

as if I didn't hear him ;)

smooth, I know.

Anyways, he ends up leaving his little group of friends and coming up to me!!!!

I was probably drooling.

not even kidding

this guy is a looker.

Anyways back to the story!

He asks for my number and proceeds to tell me he is playing baseball at SLCC (I died right then)

and that he was an LDS returned missionary (just died twice)

and that he was really interested in taking me out

(um yes please when and where)

after we finish talking and getting to know each other a little bit, he finally asked me out and once I said yes, he gave me the cutest hug in the world

(you know the one where he picks you up and spins you around? yeah that one)

I seriously had hearts over my eyes for the rest of the day.

I immediately texted my mom freaking out

^^^ Not even exaggerating I was dead hahahaha

We ended up going on a date that night and the rest is history.

He is the sweetest guy ever

like seriously the sweetest.

I am definitely one lucky girl.

We have been going on dates ever since and he continues to surprise me in the sweetest ways.

Hope that was a fun little love story to melt your heart this week.

Xo.