A little catching up

Obviously I haven't posted in a while. It was nice cutting out things that weren't necessary in my life but now I don't get to look back and see what we did the past few months and my thoughts on it all. And that makes me kinda sad. Which is why I think I am going to start posting again. I have had the ache for it the past couple weeks and just never have. So here we go.

It has been a weird past two months. Not being a full-time student and not working full-time or even part time, err kinda... I have felt pretty lazy. Like I need to be doing more and accomplishing more to fill satisfied with my days. Some days it has been amazing to have no set responsibilities and to sleep in until whenever I feel like getting up and other days it has felt very unsatisfying and depressing.

Last semester being a full time student was hard. The first two months of school I thought I was going to mentally break down. and lets be honest all I really had to do was pass my classes and I would be fine so really there was nothing to stress about. But when I get all the information of what I am supposed to do in a three month period it kinda freaks me out. Okay maybe it freaks me out a lot. and I panic. and its super annoying when you have no idea what the teacher is asking of you or how they grade so you are just trying to figure it all out... Yea thats how September and October went.

Then when the assignments were graded and tests were taken I felt like, ok I can do this. what was I freaking out about? and it turned out to be an awesome semester. The class that I started out hating turned out to be one of my favorite classes.

I learned a ton about families and a little about art and sewed like crazy.

We also traveled a lot... Is that a surprise to anyone? thats kinda what we do.

Andrew's brother Aaron went to BYU-Idaho for his first semester. Lisa, their mom took him up there so naturally we thought we would tag along and see how it went.

The next weekend was Anna's baby shower so of course we had to go to that as well.

When October hit it was time for haunting season. I am pretty sure that is the only thing Andrew misses about Idaho, being able to haunt at the straw maze for the whole month of October. Luckily the past two years the owners have welcomed him back whenever he wants because he is just that good. and trust me I have had enough experience to know that he is really good at scaring people. So we went two more times in October. Hanging out with Anna, Jordan, Justina, Curtis, Taeden, and Caleb, along the way. We even went to the Apple orchard and picked apples.

Andrew was pretty excited about his costume this year!
I think it turned out pretty awesome. 

In October we also welcomed home our dear friend Clayton who was on a mission in New Zealand and we had to say goodbye to our dear friend Chris who left on his mission to Peru. What great guys and awesome examples of leading a Christ like life and having Christ like love. I'm so proud of both of them and glad to call them as our friends.

Of course we went to a ton of BYU Football games. Andrew waited in lines hours before the doors opened to get us a good seat. And he sure did do a great job. Every game we had awesome seats! The BYU vs. Texas game was probably the most crazy game. Andrew waited in line for a few hours and it was pretty hot out. I got there before the gates opened and waited with him. A little before the game started this HUGE and pretty scary looking storm cloud came rolling in. It started pouring and lightning and thunder. It was CRAZY. All the students were dancing in the stands. Then we decided it would be best to seek cover so we hung out under the bleachers for a while. When the rain finally did stop we took our seats and we were freezing and the game was delayed! Our friends Logan and Alex went and got warm clothes so we had them pick us up some. But it was still a pretty cold game BUT BYU did awesome! and we ended up winning the game! YAY. Afterwords, Andrew and I went to our favorite little run down Mexican place. We were riding the scooter home and all of the sudden the tire blew out! Luckily Andrew stomped his foot down saving us from falling over and probably getting very hurt and a lot of road rash! (I sure am grateful for that guy!) We ended up parking the scooter in a lot and walking home.. still being a little wet and cold! Andrew did something to his foot, he never went to the doctor, just wrapped it and was really careful for the next few days. That was such a crazy day though!

Before the game.. notice how clear the sky is! 

The storm coming in! 

After the game! We WON! 

In November our first nephew on Andrew's side of the family was born! Ryder Jay Parson, on November 4th 2013! So of course we had to make a trip to Idaho to see him right away! He is the cutest little guy. I am obssesed with him. We got lots of snuggles in with him that first week of his life and then again during Thanksgiving time when all the Sorensen's went to Idaho for the week. We had a great time relaxing, playing with the dogs, snuggling the baby, snowboarding, skinning a deer and eating lots of food!

Then on the way home we HIT a deer! AH! I actually had no idea what happened, I was looking down at my phone and just heard a clunk and saw some things fly up over our hood. I thought maybe it was a small animal but not a deer! Well we pulled over and it was definitely a deer. Andrew said he saw it coming across the road and we barely hit it. The poor thing was almost out of the road and then it hit the corner of the passenger side of the car. We couldn't even find it afterwords! I am glad though that we could still drive the car and that Andrew handled it so well. He didn't swerve or do anything crazy but he was very safe about it. Luckily his parents were right behind us as well so they pulled over and the guys made it so we could still drive the car and not ruin our tire.

In December of course I was crazy with finals and finishing school. We also celebrated Andrew's 24 birthday! We went shopping, saw Frozen, and ate delicious food at Tucano's. That week we also saw Marilee and went to Savior of the World with her and her kids. It was a beautiful performance!! I would love to go every year if we live here!

The end of December we spent with my Family in Kansas. We celebrated Christmas and the New Year by playing games, eating lots of food, shopping, going to a KU game and exploring Kansas. It was a wonderful time seeing family and making life long memories.

Nowadays Andrew is working full time as a property manager, which right now includes helping to move a 16,000 sq ft house. Needless to say he is a busy, hard working guy. I am being a little house wife, cooking, cleaning, blogging, and pinteresting (thats in the description right?). I have been making lots of YouTube videos and trying to start a children's swimsuit business! (I'll talk more about those two later) We are going to all the last basketball games of the season and watching as much of the Olympics as possible, or that I can stand ;) I am also taking an intro to entrepreneurship class. It is wonderful and I would recommend it to anyone! It is inspiring and really opens my mind to the possibilities that are before me.

For Valentines weekend we went to St. George with Richard and Lisa and our friends Logan and Alex to relax and enjoy a little warmer weather. We were shopping, riding, watching the olympics, of course eating lots of good food, and visiting family.

It has been a great past few months. Busy but wonderful! We are certainly looking forward to more traveling and warmer weather!

and if you read all of this good job. That was a long one!

love, alex&andrew

Ramblings of a Sports Fanatics Wife

guys I have a story to tell.

If you know us well you know we go to a lot of sporting events. A LOT.

We like BYU and the Clippers and KU and Oregon and Dodgers and yea..

So we got an All Sports pass so that we can go to pretty much any BYU game we want which is awesome for Andrew and has saved us a ton of money.

Since we live in Utah Andrew doesn't get to see the Clippers as much as he would like. In person or on the TV. So when we got the chance to see them play the Jazz for $4 a ticket Andrew jumped on it.

We went and of course the seats were up realllllly high.
We get to our seats and the lady sitting right behind me had the highest pitched cheering voice I have ever heard. It was the most obnoxious thing EVER. or at least that is what I thought.

So the game begins and we are watching and cheering and enjoying our time and the people who have the seats next to us show up. It was two 10 year old kids and what seemed like their babysitter.

They sat down and from then on out the child sitting next to me never closed his mouth. He asked question after question after question. What is this? what is that? oh look at that! oh look at this!

If you can't tell by this point I was starting to get a migraine. ugh

So we get through the first half and we were both on edge and ready to.. well I don't know, but you get the idea. It was annoying.

Andrew decided we had to move or we both would go crazy. I was a little uneasy about the idea. but I finally gave in and decided it would be better for my sanity.

We moved and the second half began and I was in a much better mood after that.
Well about 15 or so minutes after moving I am looking over to my right at the drunk people joking around and being loud when all of a sudden one of them goes tumbling DOWN! ah
let me just say when we first got there I totally thought I was going to fall out of my seat or down the stairs to my death. It was SO SO SO steep. It took some getting used to.
Well there was no one sitting in the seat in front of this drunk person that fell so she tumbles down head first I might add and her head hits the cement. It was loud. and sounded horrible. I honestly thought she just broke her head open. ahhhhhh.

Luckily and I really mean luckily, there was no blood. She was knocked out for probably five minutes and they did some tests to see if she had a concussion, but ah I was so scared for this girl. But she turned out okay and it calmed down the drunk people right away! but my heavens it was sooo scary!

and that is my ramblings of our sports adventures and this is just one game! oh my what an adventure!
Maybe I will have more to share with you soon :)
love, alex&andrew

Wrapping up 2012

Guys I have a lot to talk about and I really just need to get it out of my brain and into this wonderful blog so I can share all the amazing things we have been up to.

How I felt after finals 

Uhm so its 2013?? uh yea I would have never known with all of those Facebook posts ;)
But really when did this happen and when did January just show up and kill off December. I am really not okay with this. But like any new beginning and change I am excited to start this semester and see where is takes me. I learned so much last semester I am excited to dive back in and fill my little noggin with knowledge. And I know Andrew is really excited to find a new job and start working again. (If you have any good leads for us please contact us asap)

We made lots of treats 

Well like most of my posts lets go back a little bit. HA
If you didn't know Dec 10-14 is finals week for BYU. Most classes you can take the final whenever you want. Thats how it was for all of my classes but one and that was just on Monday so it was pretty legit. As for the other 3 I took another one on Monday and two on Tuesday. Did I drive myself crazy...yea I really surly did. It was a stressful, exhausting, not caring, but really caring couple of days. I must say though that I was SO happy to get them over with than to sit around and study my booty off and get the same grades. Overall finals went very well and I am pleased and happy to say that one more semester is behind me.
We left for California on Thursday the 13th so that we could work and earn a little money while we were on break. And can I say that I am really glad we did because first of all we missed the after finals rush and we missed the sky dumping snow all over the place.

Went to a Clipper game while in Cali 

That whole next week we worked our little booties off but not forgetting to relax and enjoy this break time.

Jake looks creepy but it was so cute they were all cuddling! 

I made some jewelry for Christmas presents, and honestly I thought about keeping if for myself ;) 

So you should probably stay tuned for my bunches and bunches of posts about CHRISTMAS! yea you know that awesome Holiday time :)

love, alex&andrew

P.S- Here are some more awesome photos from the Clipper game. We went to The Pantry before the game. It has some a-m-a-z-i-n-g home cooking. We were verrrry satisfied.

Sunday Loving Kansas Style

I am sorry I have slacked off in my Sunday Loving. And my picture taking has also been lacking. Which is sad because the weather lately has been B-E-A-U-tiful. But maybe that is why. I have been enjoying the weather instead of doing other things :) which is fine by me.
Well on this edition on sunday loving I would like to talk to you about a subject that is held very high in our household. and that would be Sports. But I would like to be a little more specific. Kansas Basketball


I love it.  I love Kansas Basketball. Now I won't say I am the biggest fan. I do not watch ALL of the games like my husband does with BYU or Clipper Basketball. But I keep track of them. I have loved them ever since..lets say high school. I'm not too sure to tell you the truth.

But I can tell you that in 2008 when they won the Championship game in overtime. I freaked. My family freaked. My dad ran around in the streets. SCREAMING. and then the next day I got out of work (by some miracle) ditched school and headed to Lawrence to see the boys come home. It was AWESOME!

Emily and I at the homecoming.

wow we look young 

 The crowd at the homecoming 

And I think from then on out I really was hooked. Now ever since then they haven't been as good but that is okay because I still love them. And today when they won against #1 Seed North Carolina, I freaked. It was great. I knew there was a chance they would lose but I had HOPE and lots of it. and it WORKED!
ahhhhhh FINAL FOUR HERE WE COME. and yes they might lose against Ohio St. but they made it to the final four and that is good enough for me this year :)

Now I do have one confession. I always wished I had a school of my own that I could cheer for. But I knew I never wanted to go to Kansas. And now that I am going to BYU let me tell you, I am REALLY EXCITED. I have my own team to cheer for. Kansas will always have a small special place in my heart but I have a strong feeling that I will be a real cougar in no time :)

these bears sat at our reception. aren't they the CUTEST?! 

Well here is to March Madness!

Are you watching??

love,alex&andrew

Take me out to the Ball Game..

TAKE ME OUT TO THE SHOW.
buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks
I don't care if I ever get back
cause its root root root for the DODGERS
if they don't win its a shame.
cause it's one two three strikes your out
at the old ball GGGGammme.

It's officially SUMMER time. 

We got to go on the field to watch fireworks and all the little kids were rolling around. 

sitting in the grass.

His gonna touch it..ohhhh

rubbing our feet in the dodgers stadium grass. 

magical fireworks :) 

picking the grass for a memento 

sliding in the grass

grass to take home?

I've got it, I've got it. 

No, I've really got it!! 

love, alex&andrew