BEST. WEEKEND. EVER.!!!

Can I just say...we just got back from the very BEST weekend EVER!!!  Being able to spend 96 straight hours with my sweetheart was AWESOME!! He's my very best friend and we always have the very best of times with each other.  I LOVE making him laugh.  I fall more and more in love with him, with each passing day.

We were lucky to have the opportunity to meet up with Levi's sister & bro-in-law who came in from the mid-west to celebrate her birthday and wedding anniversary.  Since they were coming all that way, their Dad and wife planned to go out to Vegas to meet with them. We figured it would be a very good time to meet up with all of them.  Unfortunately, Levi's other sister who lives here in town, couldn't make it out. Since it would be my first time meeting this particular sister, it was great we could make this trip. 

Honestly, it felt like the honeymoon we didn't really have.  We lived it up!  We did what ever we wanted and whenever we wanted.  All that mattered was us.  I LOVED LOVED LOVED THAT!! We didn't really have any kind of schedule and flew by the seat of our pants.  We spent some time by the pool and it was WOOOONDERFUL!!! Sun w/ my sweetheart was perfection!!! Each and every moment with him was just so delightful.  I've come to realize that marriage to this spectacular man is like a slumber party with your best friend that will never end and just gets better and better. This vacation couldn't have come at a more perfect time.  Simply stupendous!!!

How you like them apples?

I'm going to...

I'm pretty dang excited!! I've been wanting to go to Seattle for a few years now, so I'm stoked that work will be taking me there for a week.  As in this next week.  

I leave a day before Levi gets home from his 3 week trip.  

Yeah, I'm bummed because I've missed him T-E-R-R-I-B-L-Y!  It's bittersweet, but I'm still stoked for this cool experience, of being in Seattle.  I'll be helping out some friends with their film archival conference.  Since it's a conference, it's full of people who LOVE this stuff. I remember meeting the lead film archivist from UCLA, who apparently is really big in this field.... yeah, I had to match his enthusiasm while he went on and on and on about archiving.  

Other than that,  it's a very sweet set up.... I get paid, a free plane ticket, my own room & board and get to do a lil sight seeing of Seattle.  I'm a lil bummed that my sister won't be going this year, as she did two years ago to Philadelphia. I'll also be missing my stake Christmas concert that I've been rehearsing with for the past 2 months.  I hope they do well!

I can't wait to see/do: Pike Place Market, The Great Wheel (I'm hoping to ride this, since it'll be my first time on a ferris wheel.), Chihuly Glass Museum, go to Starbucks [which I'm sure I'll be doing a lot of drink runs here] and eat an apple.  

However, I. CANNOT. WAIT. to fly home! My sweetheart will be picking me up from the airport and I couldn't be more pleased!! I've missed him so much and to be honest, I've always wanted someone special to pick me up at the airport.  There's just something more....special about it!  I can't wait to wrap my arms around him and just hold him tight.   I've never been this patient before in my life--3 weeks turned into 4 weeks.... and sadly, I'll be missing our 2 month anniversary.  I'm grateful that he's patient, because it kinda rubs off on me. 

Kinda.

Well, I gotta go finish packing.... Hello Seattle! Can't wait to taste your apples!

Things I should be doing: Packing.

I hate packing.

I'm not the best packer in the world.

I just want to take EVERYTHING I own with me....but I can't.

I like options, or at least the option of a washing machine in case I want to wear something again.

Ugh.....

I hate packing.

Vacation....from life!

Wouldn't that be nice to take a vacation from life? No really, think about it... to get away from it ALL and not have to worry about those things that weigh your mind, spirit and heart? That would be nice to pack away your belongings and just to get away--far, far, far away. Where would I go, if given the chance? I would fly to far away Tahiti. I imagine myself laying in the sun and feeling it's peaceful heat. I would lay on a white, sandy beach and listen to the waves break on the coarse Tahitian sand. I can just see the clear blue water and all the colorful fishes swimming amongst the coral reef. The gentle trade winds would carry the delicate aroma of Tiare flowers, while keeping me cool in the warm summer heat. Off in the distance would be a ripped, golden skin Tahitian Adonis sauntering towards me, ready to shower me in various gifts of Tahitian black pearl jewelry....

Wow--I need to stop or else I might be calling in sick tomorrow and bookin' a one way flight to Tahiti!