Feeling Small Again

Jessica's favorite thing to do when she is here on Sunday nights is to pull out all of the home videos. It usually starts out with her on my mom and dad's bed, but within about the course of a half hour the whole family is piled in my parents room on their bed. I know. It's amazing that all of us can fit, seeing as I am 5' 9" and only Nathan and McKay are shorter than me. Judging from the height of Patrick right now at a whopping 6' 7" (same as dad, though he would tell you that he is taller) I believe the chances of the two youngest boys being shorter than me are, well zero. I am destined to be the shortest person in my family, it is just a matter of time.

We currently rank in from tallest to shortest at 6'7", 6'7", 6'0", 5' 11.5", 5' 11", 5'10.5", 5'9" (me), and then Nathan and McKay (we haven't quite started keeping track of how tall they are). The funny part is that I wouldn't exactly call myself short around well any other family except mine. Maybe I'm wrong but 14 year old twin girls that are 5'11"+ are not exactly the norm. From videos of my childhood, to having younger sisters get taller than me, I'm getting used to feeling small again.

Jessica Black's Wedding

Here are a couple pics from Jess's wedding. Julie Anderson, Kathleen Reed, and I had a splendid time supporting our favorite bride! (keep in mind I took these with my phone...not too shabby)

Weddings

Everyone and their dog is getting married. Jeff and Melissa had their reception last night at the Lion House and then today i spent all day at my roommate Jessica Black's wedding festivities. Crazy how girls spend months planning a wedding and it all is over in a matter of hours.

Totally worth it, but still crazy. For goodness sake. Both were beautiful and it was fun to see tons of friends and family and ward members.

I'd post an awesome picture from the wedding, but of course we all forgot cameras and the only picture I did take was on my cell phone which I can't get to link through the bluetooth on my computer. Kind of annoying, but what can you do?

So Jess was my roommate all year and when I see her I just think of all sorts of random conversations and jokes that we had. . . which turns out to be a curse. When I was talking to her all that I could think to say was "Girl, you huge". Just because we quoted that so much winter semester. Some kind of bridesmaid I am, all I can think to say to the bride is "I love you heftiness, I love your zestiness..." whatever I guess :)

McKay's Song

McKay came up with this song out of the blue last summer while in yellowstone. It just resurfaced this week so I though I'd share:

Roll, Roll, Roll Nathan's head.
Hardly down the stream,
hit it, bash it, smash it, crash it.
Merrily, Merrily, Merrily.

Such loving siblings.

I thought it fitting to show you the true McKay... he's a keeper!

Patricks Latest

Today at work I got this text from Patrick:

"So... While I was unicycling this morning, i came upon a rather rocky and queerly steep descent. As i maneuvered down this death trap, i found myself rather tilted in a forward position. so great was my angle in comparison to the mountain, that the only means to escape an abrasive fate was to bail. And so i did, greatly underestimating the grade of the hill i found myself, patrick, hurtling down this hill at top speed. Fortunately i had a camel back on, unfortunately, my shirt was not on due to it being tied in a shawl around my noodle. Needless to say i tripped, turned so i landed on my shoulder, and proceeded to slide down the mountain. In bare skin. When i finally came to a halt, and regained consciousness. It appeared the camel back had spared my back from a more gruesome fate, alas the upper arm and shoulder looked like they've been attacked by a bear. Delicious. I continued on my way, feeling slightly more manly than previously."

So, there you have it. What makes it better is that he informed me that he concocted this wonderfully elegant message while sitting on the toilet. Information that both you and I didn't need to know...