End of Sweet Summer Time

Here is the adventures of our last week in California in August going into September. 

We celebrate Anna and Jordan getting married. 

Had a bonfire on the beach. 

Had our one year anniversary. 

hit an owl.....

and just hung out with some amazing people. 

I love them all. I have loved getting to know all of Andrews friends and how they have welcomed me into their lives and are now some of my best friends. its great. I love having this group of people to hang out with. They are all so amazing and fun. 

These first pictures are of our bonfire on the beach. It was a little cold but so fun. 

We were serenaded by the beautiful Lindy playing the guitar and roasted some jumbo marshmallows. 

Andrew is really great at taking pictures with me :) 

Here are some pictures from after we got out of the temple. 

On our way home from hanging out at our friends house we hit an owl. 

It was so SAD! Andrew picked it up and got it out of the road. 

It was still alive so we hope it flew away once we left. 

Loook at how big he is! 

Andrew with one of his anniversary presents! 

We love you all! 

Enjoy this wonderful and beautiful weekend :)

love,alex&andrew

Happy October 3rd!

1 year and 1 month ago today.

I married my best friend in the beautiful Los Angeles Temple.


It was the best life decision I have ever made and the start of something I could have never imagined.
At first I was a little weirded out at the thought of being married at 19 years old but I wouldn't have wanted it any other way. I never really saw myself as a 19 year old anyway.  I wasn't much of a dater through out the years. When I met a guy and hung out with him by the first night I would usually know if I wanted to pursue it or if the guy would just drive me crazy. and most of them did. or it was just better off as a friendship.
However when I met Andrew something lit up inside of me. I got butterflies every time I saw him. I knew that I didn't just want to be friends with him and I didn't want him to leave my life either.
Little did I know that he would never leave my life. I got him for forever.

This past year as been full of life adjustments, changes, and amazing adventures with my best friend.
I love you Andrew English Sorensen. You are my everything and more. thank you for being my husband. you give the best hugs a girl could ever ask for. I love knowing that I get to grow old with you.

I am so in love :)

Just a little recap of the first year..

• Cruise to Mexico for our Honeymoon
• Alex got her gallbladder our just 3 weeks after the wedding
• We lived in California until December 
• Alex worked at her Father-in-laws office for three months
• Went to the ammmmazing Michael Buble concert. 
• Rented our first apartment together 
• Celebrated Andrew's 21st Birthday 
• Celebrated Alex's 20th Birthday
• Got a new puppy Oakley. Who unfortunately died but will always be loved and remembered. 
• Had the fire department show up at our house. 
• Watched Andrew play a lot of sports. 
• Had our first Christmas together 
• Celebrated our second Valentines Day together. First as a married couple.
• Participating and watching the Worlds Largest Dodgeball tournament..well we tried at least. 
• lots and lots and lots of homework..
• Going to Alex's first Dodger game
• Andrew got to see his best friend Logan for the first time in two years and I finally got to meet him! 
• We went camping 
• and finishing 
• spent another week apart which I highly suggest we never do again. I hate those kind of weeks
• We spent another lovely week at Lake Powell. play play playyyying 
• We have spent a lot of time hanging out with Justina & Curtis looots. 
• watching sports
• watching reality shows. including anything Kardashian & Project Runway. 
• We got a fish named Elias. 
• playing all the time. we are really good at finding random this to do
• he makes her laugh all the time.
• he laughs at her all the time. ha 
• he also scares her all the time 

What is going to come in this second year of marriage?

we have no idea. but we know it will be amazing by each others sides. 

Now for our 1 year celebration we went to an amazing restaurant in California which was right on the beach. yay. 

I absolutely love this restaurant and they have the most amazing Clam Chowder. I loove it. 

So we went there and then went to my all time favorite frozen yogurt place.. Pinkberry. yum yum yum

It was a wonderful night. I loved just being alone together with no stress or worry. just us having an amazing time celebrating our one year of forever. 

Andrew got me this amazing pearl ring that I have been wanting and a necklace that is just perfect. It has a pearl on it, then a stamped piece of metal with two birds on it, then another small stamped heart with a+a on it. MAN this boy did gooooooood. 

I got him this awesome BYU football book that he has been wanting for..well ever since he first laid eyes on it. And I also got him a pair of shoes but they are taking for-e-v-e-r to get in. 

but he is supper excited about them. 

overall what a successful first year of marriage. I think we are qualified to start year #2  

wish us luck cause here we gooooooooooooo

love, alex&andrew 

Awesome Thursday!

Awesome-

• Andrew did the laundry. and the dishes. and made the bed. 
• Seeing friends I haven't seen in two weeks and feeling like it has been years. yea it makes me sad they are so far away from us. 
• not being behind in my advanced sewing class. I am making andrew a shirt.. a plaid shirt at that. yea its hard but going great. I actually love it so so much. thank you teacher for letting me hang out at your house for three hours. ha thank you x factor for being on in the background
• doctor giving me an allergy shot. they make me happy. and feel so so so much better
• General Conference is this weekend. 
• Did I mention General Conference
• Did you guys hear President Utchdorf's talk. it was incredible. more than I could have ever asked for. I need that talk more than anything. I love him. I love the gospel of Jesus Christ. God is wonderful. 
• Coldstone. end of story. 
• Andrew got a job at the Straw Maze haunting. Can you say every mans dream? ha he is so excited and I know he will be amazing.. really I know. He scares me on a daily basis. 
• BYU football games where they do good. I can not wait to go to school there. i love school spirit.
• Reading Stephine Neilsons blog. Seriously if you haven't watched her mormon message you are missing out. You will bawl your eyes out and then think you have the easiest life in the world. She is such an inspiration to me. 
• I AM SOOOOOO EXCITED FOR GENERAL CONFERENCE. YAY

Aren't you guys excited too??? Andrew starts work tomorrow. then we get to watch conference. and I will do lots of homework. and then catch up on my sleep. I really need to. Good thing tomorrow is Friday. 

Hope you all have a great weekend. Go watch conference. We love you all. Thank you for being in our life. 

love, alex&andrew 

p.s- enjoy the rando pictures :) 

LP 2011

Hellllo Peeeeoppple.

Its been forever. I know. life is great. busy busy busy. oh my how school is so busy. and I have been sick this week which made me not in a great mood. sorry everyone who had to witness that one. ha
I thought I should catch up on some posting.

In August we went on the Annual Lake Powell Trip. It was amazing. So relaxing and just playing all day long. amazing.

Now here are some pictures to show you what a week in Lake Powell is all about :)

We gaze at the beautiful scenery 

we wakeboard..a lot. 

I am becoming a pro. (yea i know I am the white one of the group) 

one of my favorite pictures of the trip. look at that amazing color. and the amazing wakeboarder and his cute little puppy. and the MOON. dang. 

we do sweet tricks in the sunset. 

we braid some awesome mullets. 

we hike to rainbow canyon. 

and take lots of pictures. 

we have fun. 

we go on awesome boat trips. 

we have tube wars. 

we jump off cliffs. 

we make puzzles 

we take crazy, bumpy boat rides in a storm. 

and we watch the moon come up. 

Needles to say we have an awesome week. 

love, alex&andrew 

Kansas

I haven't wanted to blog lately.

and honestly.. I still don't want to.

but I decided I should share the only pictures we took while I was in Kansas.

enjoy :)

While I was there I had a craft day with my mom. it was awesome. I decided those days should happen ALOT more, cause they are AWESOME. This first picture is of my pumpkin..the finished one has a bow rapped all around it. its really cuuuuute.

Then we made some jumbo clothes pin magnets cause I have nothing cool for my fridge and too many things to hang up thanks to all the awesome people getting married lately ;) 

One day while there we went to Schlitterbaun. They are the best water parks in the world all in Texas except for this one they have started building in Kansas. awesome right?! it is only half done but it is already pretty great. and an amazing way to cool off on a 100 + degree weather day.

Welp those are all the pictures I have and all the time I want to spend doing this! 

If you want a better up date you can call me :) 

ha yayyyyy 

love,alex&andrew 

Life in July

Here is some more of life in July. Lots of fourth of July. Just a month later.
And then some random pictures. can you tell what I like?
Diet Lemonade, pinkberry, and this fruit drink andrew made me fall in love with.
Well if you didn't know I am in Kansas right now. playing with my family and missing andrew.
he is in california right now with his family and spending some time with his best friend who just got back from a mission in Japan. sweet, right?! We are finally in our break period. Enjoying our time of no homework. just a little working and lots of playing. its great. i love spending time with family. although we eat A LOT. man I better start working out again once we go back to rexburg.. ha
Hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend.
Enjoy!
love,alex&andrew