Reminiscing...

For the three people who ever look at my blog... 

YES

I am clearly obsessed!

Today is 95 days until my favorite person in the world and man of my dreams comes home to me!

I've been thinking about it so much lately and it finally feels real, like he really is going to come home and I CANNOT wait! It is coming so soon! I always look at pictures because they make me so happy SO I decided why not put them all together in one place. 

This is the product of that idea I had this morning!

I LOVE ELDER STANTON SHIELDS!!

Surprise Package from Spain

My BESTEST friend Elder Shields sent me a package for my birthday and I of course screamed my head off when I saw this on my front door step when I got home from work...

Well this beautiful box came a week before my birthday which is COMPLETE torture to me. I have been DYING to know what is inside this box. Literally I would sit in my room and stare at it. I'd listen to a whole lecture online for school and at the end realize I didn't hear a word because I was staring at my box and wondering what was inside. Seriously majorly distracting!

Last night I had a dream about opening my birthday surprise and in my dream I opened it and Stanton had given me a detailed clay sculpture of his head... WEIRD! I didn't know what to do with it so I put it on a shelf in my room. (Don't ask how my mind comes up with these things). When I woke up this morning from that dream I decided it was time to open the package because it is seriously affecting my attention, school work and now dreams...

(Please excuse my morning hair and morning face in the following pictures- I know I'm just lovely)

I felt so bad opening it before my birthday that it took me a solid two hours to open the gift. I would cut a piece of tape then peak inside after ten minutes of staring, then cut another piece of tape. Really I'm pathetic. To make a long story short I know you are probable one-billionth as anxious as I was to find out what was inside. It was the one and only thing I told him I wanted him to bring me home before he left..

Excuse the dirty mirror too...

That's right... I have my very own Spanish jersey!!! YES!!!! You bet I immediately put it on and ran around the house! Honestly, he couldn't have possibly picked a more perfect gift! I can not believe he remembered or actually got me one! It was definitely a surprise and a wonderful one at that! I have to say I was a little disappointed that a huge clay head was not in my box, but a Spanish jersey will do :)

Basically, I have the most thoughtful and sweetest best friend in the whole world! I don't know which part was the best between the sweet letter, tape recordings, matching mugs, or jersey, but I do know that Stanton Shields is waaaay too good to me! Even from half way around the world, not having seen or talked to him for 19 months, he still makes me the happiest girl in the world! I am hands down the luckiest girl in the entire world! I love, love, LOVE that boy! 

Texas

Last weekend I got to take a fast trip to Texas and visit Matt, Telicia and Bridger! I LOVE TEXAS! Okay I love the wind, and I love that I was there visiting my sister; I don't know how much I love the whole no mountains thing, but needless to say it was way too short of a trip and lots of fun! They have the cutest house, an adorable baby, and brownies... it doesn't get much better than that! Here's a few pictures!

He was so cute with his jean diaper and Huggies shirt! I have a weird thing for cute diapers.

 When I got there the first thing I wanted to see was his army crawl. So I put him down and he kind of crawled for real for the first time! I am claiming to be his good luck charm!

He loves his electronics

Waiting for dad to come home

Happy time in the bouncer

The cute Webb family

Sistas! 

I love when he laughs so hard

 This was only my second time on an airplane and the ride there wasn't so wonderful, but Dramamine works wonders and there is something so magical about flying through clouds!! I couldn't stop staring out the window and I think the lady next to me thought I was crazy because I couldn't stop smiling!

Tis the Season

So I have basically slacked and not posted for the longest time, so I figured it's time to put something new on here! My holidays were pretty typical but a lot of fun! There was of course gingerbread houses made...

Ugly sweater parties to participate in...

My boss, Ben

Nephews to love on...

Beemer

Rigby smashing his face on the window

Great grandma's fur coats to try on...

I really want this one!

Games to play...

         Mom gave out jelly bean games where you spin the spinner and you have to eat the color it lands       

         on, but there is one good flavor and one bad one that look alike so you don't know what you're eating until it's in your mouth. (naughty or nice- get it?!)

My favorite missionary in the world to talk to!!!!

My favorite part of the whole month was talking to this sweet boy on Christmas!
Best present EVER!

And we ended it on New Years by sitting 3rd row, middle of the court at the Suns game! I don't really even know anything about basketball, but I do know it was sweet to be right up in the action! Basketball players are HUGE - in case you didn't know!!

I hope everyone had a Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year!

Office Prankster

So at work there is a group of three of us that are officially known as "The Office Pranksters" at work. It is a very proud title I hold. I have even made it to the top of Craig's "crap list", tied with Jeff in first place (Telicia knows what that means). This is also a very proud moment for me. So Jeff and I teamed together to pull a prank in the office on Halloween. We decided we were going to hire Lil' Craig to get in our huge recycle bin and pop out at someone who opened it. We hand picked a lady named Alice because there are a few people that possibly could have died of a heart attack if they were the one to open the bin. Long story short, I set up some cameras, we buried Craig in paper, and Jeff called Alice and asked if she could check the recycle bin for a pink piece of paper that he thought he "accidentally" threw away. Here was our result...

We couldn't pull it on anyone else because she screamed so loud that the entire office came running in, but it was well worth it!


Other than that, this was as exciting as Halloween got at the Nielson house....

Pebbles and Fiona

So happy to take a pic. with Aunt Jenni

What Happens in Vegas...

How to finish this statement is beyond words I can come up with. 

My parents had this genius idea that they wanted to take us girls to go learn what lifestyle we would never want to have. I think we learned our lesson :) It was actually a lot of fun for two days, but two days was plenty. The strip is way fun to walk down and see everything- literally everything. There were very talented people and not so talented people, classy people and ghetto people, fun things to see and some nasty things (to say the least). This was just after conference and we were walking around joking about how we couldn't look down or in front of us so we needed to look up like they talked about in conference! Of course right where we were standing there was a nude man painted on the ceiling... basically you're supposed to walk around with your eyes closed! The shows there are incredible though and first time at a buffet... I think I had at least ten plates. It was awesome!

My parents also kept saying they wanted to take us all the way around the world in one night so here's just a few places that we went..

DisneyLand

Vegas

My favorite!
Italy 

My cute parents

New York

Egypt

All you can eat!!!

My concluding thought on Vegas... if you aren't wearing the tightest dress you can find and carrying a drink in one hand with a cigarette in the other then people are going to look at you funny. 

How lucky I am to have someone that makes saying goodbye so hard. 

 ~From the movie Annie

<3