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it's amazing to me how the days and weeks just pass by. 
i went to california - - nearly THREE weeks ago? it doesn't seem like it was that long ago, that's for sure. 
after an unexpected death of a close family friend, we weren't sure if we would still take the trip due to his funeral services. but it all worked out AND we were able to attend his services the following week. 
read about it here. 
a tragic, tragic story. many prayers sent their way. 


with their family on our minds, we headed to california. watched cougar baseball take their first 3-game series against UC riverside, 2-1. 
last minute, andrew was invited to attend the lakers game in a box seat friday morning with the game that night. he called me (coolest sister, of course!) and i said yes i would go. be proud, i drove from riverside to downtown LA all by myself! no crashes. i picked up mr. andy and we headed to the staples center. 
don't think i love the lakers, but come on, when in rome... we entered through the VIP entrance - yes, we felt totally cool. 


watched some more baseball, did some sightseeing, drove around hollywood, stalked some celebrity homes :) and spent some time with my bro bro. 


the trip in pictures:

phenomenal trip. 

full.

early in the a.m., we headed up to salt lake for tajia's wedding. it was so fun to see some family that we don't see very often. addy wasn't having the fact that her parents were gone, she cried basically the whole time tim and becky were in the sealing. but, she survived. 

the Varlin Law family. (Varlin, Carla, Carson, Talia, Tana, McGwire, Roman, Sofia).

missing big V, Andrew, and Adam, but he's in Africa. 

after the temple, we drove back down to provo for the Senior Day baseball game. there were quite a few seniors that graduated. and i'll admit, it was a little sad when andrew walked up as he was announced. 

andrew and shar bear.

we love this game.

baseball is going to be part of our family, forever. 
my dad has been coaching at BYU for 12 seasons and for almost all of those years, i have had a brother playing! i was a batgirl for a few years, of course when i was younger. i'll see if i can scrounge up any of those pictures. 
this year was andrew's last year at BYU. after a mission and a year of being hurt, he finished up school and baseball. he had a great year and it was so fun to have a lot of my family at some games. they were visiting for a wedding. i think we definitely had our own cheering section!

vern and vanita. (she just had her hair done so it would be nice and poofy for the wedding! ha)

braden, austin, and ashton.

gma and connor (doug).

my baby girl.

another day!

many new pictures to come. but as of now, we have a houseful of people. and it's a good houseful at that! tim and becky decided to surprise us and show up at our house on wednesday! none of us had any idea they were coming. there is a big family wedding tomorrow (saturday), andrew's senior day baseball game, and of course mother's day on sunday (involving a phone call with adam in africa!). perfect timing. i was completely surprised when i pulled into my house, saw tim's truck, and went inside to my sister-in-law, becky, tim, and my dearly missed kids! after some tears, i am so happy they are here! 


here's the cuties playing with their papa:

we are in for a crazy day tomorrow. the majority of the law family is in town for my cousin's wedding. i think the steps at the salt lake temple are going to be filled with lots of law's! it will be a cluster that's for sure. we had our own section at the baseball game. i wonder what the people around us were thinking, haha. maybe i don't wanna know... 

i made some homemade cinnamon rolls last week. half wheat flower too, they were pretty tasty! 

not the best picture, but rolls in action!

gorgeous taylor.

for some reason, adding pictures to this thing is not easy. one goes to the left, one to the right. and i can't seem to get two pictures to be right next to each other. maybe i'm not doing it right, but it doesn't work. tips are awesome.

what a great few days it's been. still got lots of ideas blowing through my head, but overall, it's been pretty great i think. 

and loving this sunny weather!

late.

well as of late.. 

i have been enjoying lots of farr's ice cream and yogurtland. (only farr's is pictured below)

i decided to rock these kicks at school last week. in honor of the last day of classes? good excuse. 

i am branching out lets say. 

over the weekend, vegas was calling our name so we went! cougar baseball played three games and we enjoyed watching them (even though the umps were completely ridiculous, and i'm not just making that up). the weather was so nice on friday and saturday! too bad i couldn't sit at the baseball game in my swimsuit and feel okay about it. 

on the way down. sweet app i got on my phone. love it. 

friday night's game. 

how beautiful is the moon? 

disclaimer: all these pictures are from my phone. 

after a great weekend away, now i'm back and getting ready for finals. but no classes so that's a plus. i need to study my little brain out and get it done! plain and simple. 

have you ever had something happen to you that's made you stop and rethink and reevaluate what you are doing and where you're at in your life? well that same occurrence has been part of my past few weeks. and as of now, i am done reevaluating and am moving forward. and i feel good about it. i need it. 

i don't feel good, however, about the fact that i am still trying to figure out my major and what i am going to do with my life! any tips are greatly appreciated. 

longest post ever? i think so. but it was much needed.