Law The End? It is finished. Here I sit on my bed having just eaten a giant bowl of blueberries (I didn't realize I had a huge bag of blueberries until today and now I'm frantically engaging in my pre-move tradition of masticating
Law Trial Advocacy, DC Last week my Law School travel group went to Washington DC for our trial advocacy competition. As expected, it was full of laughs and strange. Wednesday: We left on Wednesday
FYI Why I'm Not A: Doctor: When I was in Mr. Landeen's seventh grade science class, we started talking about diseases (because that's what you do in seventh grade science class). I sat on the front row next to my friend Aaron Ludwig who had
Church 2010 Another year has come and gone. I can't believe it's time for the annual sum-up post already. 2010 was a good year. It wore me out like any good year should. In 2010 I started eating salmon regularly. I read
Church Ukraine Temple Dedication I sit now in the basement of the Sheremetovo airport in Moscow Russia, stranded in hour 14 of what looks to be a 17 hour unexpected layover. I say "unexpected" because I had carefully planned my escape from Eastern Europe to give
Ridiculous A Tragic History of Sports This may surprise you all but I'm not very good at sports. That was actually a huge understatement. And this is probably the thing I am most self-conscious about in life (besides my foot disease). The thing is, I should be at
Law 2L The final final ran its course on Monday morning. I came out of the test, got cornered into an awkward and slightly contentious conversation regarding some of the most recent and most frustrating law school drama, and then almost literally RAN out of the
Grandma 2009 It's that time of year again when I really start thinking about what's happened in the last 12 months. How have I changed? What has made this year different? Was this year my best yet, as it always should be?
Law Four Weeks In Wrapping up my fourth week of school today . . . It's strange to think that I've only been back in school for four weeks. The double-scheduled meetings, the 30-pound case books, the journal editing, the classes, the paper writing, the relentless and
Church Russia, Ukraine, and a Long Flight Made it home. If this was a cheesy church video from the early '90's I would say something here like, "it's funny, I just got home but I sort of feel more like I just left it"
Russia Orphans Whenever Krishelle, Uncle Will and I travel anywhere (mostly thanks to Bridgette) we constantly sing the "Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut; McDonalds, McDonalds" song and we get really excited if we can spot all three places at once in whichever
Nostalgia Goodbye My Friend Yesterday was my last day of work at a job I've had for about 3 and a half years. I've always known that when the final day actually came I would have a really hard time leaving. I've
Ukraine 15 More Shots of Ukraine Another batch. Enjoy~ The last one is my model pose in a Ukrainian forest:)
Ukraine 15 Shots of Ukraine More old images. Each picture represents a variety of stories. Maybe one day I'll tell them all~
Ukraine O' I Believe In Yesterday . . . This one's just for fun. I was just going through some old stuff on my computer and I came across this picture from Ukraine. The 12 year old
Nostalgia The Old Life It's been 3 years ago last week that I got back into the states from Ukraine. It's hard to believe that that much time has gone by but when I think about being there again and seeing the people I
Nostalgia A Little Jog I got this from a friend's blog. I hope you will play along. Here are the directions: 1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me
Nostalgia A Letter First of all, I want to update everyone on canker situation; as of tomorrow morning, I believe that my final canker will be entirely healed. So many of you came through for me during this very difficult time and I want you to know
Grandma Living and Surviving I know it seems like every other blog post these days is about my great grandma and the ones that aren't are about whatever crisis I'm currently going through with some clever anecdote about my nieces but I must slip
Nostalgia 10 Moments Every once in a while you hit an exact moment where you realize that everything you see beyond that moment will always look different to you than before that moment and it's all because of that moment. I'm not talking
Church Lutsk Today I drove through snow to get to Ogden to see Andrei and Luda. Both of them have had an incredible impact on me and although I hadn't seen either of them for over two years, I have thought about them often.
