Little Things I Love

When you reach for a drink that you thought was empty, only to discover there's still some left.
The kind of thunder that shakes the whole house.
Letters in the mail.
Old people holding hands.
The smoothness of freshly shaved legs.
Laughing until you cry.
My family. More than anything.
Waking up to sunshine, and also having sun well into the evening.
Bright sticky notes.
Places like Lollipop Lane.
Having time to eat breakfast slowly and languidly.
The smell of camp fire.

And...my short hair. Which I've been promising pictures of for ages, I know. A decent one finally got taken, and I'll include a not-so-awesome one just because you can see the hair cut well. Enjoy :)

My Peace Garden

As you might have gathered, if you're someone who regularly reads my blog, I've been struggling for a long time with being single. Sometimes it's okay, and other times it really hurts. I've had several guys in a row show significant interest, maybe even hold my hand, then suddenly back off completely, saying they're just not interested in dating me. It's like a formula that's become predictable in my dating life, and I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out what I've been doing so wrong that I can't seem to hold on to anything good...and I keep coming up empty.

I was talking to my sister about this a little while ago and she gave me some beautiful wisdom. She said, "Kimber, you need to cultivate a little peace garden inside of yourself, a place where you only nourish good, positive, peaceful feelings about yourself and your relationship with the world. Water that place inside of you instead of watering your feelings of fear or doubt or self-pity. As you grow those good feelings inside, good relationships will come at the right time and you will be better able to recognize them." Now that's what older sisters are for :)

As I thought about what she said, I realized it would be even better if I grew an actual garden that I could spend time nurturing every day, and while doing that, think positive, nurturing thoughts about myself. I told my best friends Megan and Erin about it while I was home that weekend and they wanted to do it with me! So we immediately went out to a cute little garden shop down town in Denver and bought matching pots (red for me, blue for Erin, and green for Meg) and some flowers. Meg and I got red poppies and Erin got columbines.

I still need some dirt for this little red pot of mine, but even having it in my room has kept me thinking positively and I love it every single day! If you feel so inspired, join my Peace Garden adventure. See what it does for your life :)

Story Time :)

Ugh, I know it's been forever since I've blogged...I just haven't had a whole lot going on. This weekend was pretty full though, so it's time to catch up! I meant to post this on Monday, sorry it's Wednesday and I'm still talking about last weekend haha.

Friday night I went on a merry adventure with my friend Abe in his little old yellow truck. The plan was to leave from work, go to his roommate's older brother's wedding reception in Lehi, then go to our mutual friend Hugh's play in Draper.

What actually happened: We left on time from my work, all dressed up and lookin' fly. We made our way to Lehi with the windows rolled down (no AC in the lovely yellow truck) so my hair was a disaster, but that was easily fixed (and in Abe's words, "looked hot ;)"). Once in Lehi, we found where the wedding reception should be...in the middle of an intersection. At this point, we realized we were in the wrong place, so we called his roommate and found out we were supposed to be in Pleasant Grove, about 30 miles back the way we'd come. Perfect. So off we went, back to Pleasant Grove. We ended up being perfectly on time, and we actually would have been awkwardly early had we not gotten lost. The reception was beautiful, very springy and lush. Even though I didn't know anyone, everyone was friendly and probably thought Abe and I were dating, which is far from true, but it was fun :) After about half an hour at the reception we headed off to Draper to find the play.
Abe assured me that he had looked up the address and directions for the play and was positive there was no way we could get so hopelessly lost this time. But of course, as fate would have it, we ended up getting totally lost once more!  The address he had took us, not to the Draper Amphitheater, but to City Hall. We looked all around there and couldn't find the amphitheater. My brother's house was only a few blocks from where we were so we decided to go there and ask for directions/use a computer. It was such an unexpected, pleasant surprise to get to drop on on Russ, Kindee and the kids, and they were very helpful. My nephew is crawling now!! And Lucy has gotten so big. Boy I love those kids. And BONUS of the trip: Kindee had 2 huge garbage bags full of hand-me-downs for me to go through, so we threw those in the bed of the truck and waved goodbye. With the help of Russ and his computer we finally had the right directions and made it to the amphitheater still with a few minutes to spare before the show started, so it was perfect timing once again! The production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was wonderful, the whole cast was great. There was so much color, and even though the play itself is dumb, the music was great and you could tell they were having a blast. On our way home we got to play on a kind of modern art playground which was really fun! Overall, a fantastic adventurous Friday night with Abe!

Saturday morning my bathroom flooded from the shower in the apartment above us, which apparently was "repaired" the day before, triggering the flooding. So most of my day was taken up with cleaning up water and making emergency phone calls to the management. Fun fun fun.

Sunday was very chill--I got to lay out on a blanket at the end of the day and read a book and fall asleep in the dying light. That was just beautiful.

And now I'm off to Idaho for the weekend with my whole family!! I'm so excited :) see you all in a few days!

It's June!!

Happy Official Summer :)

I spent an endlessly lovely weekend at home in Colorado with my parents and very best friends, going to grad parties and eating amazing food and laughing so hard by stomach hurt. In some ways I wish I could be at home all summer so that I could spend some real quality time with Meg and Erin and Matt (my 3 closest friends in CO), but on the other hand, I don't think I could ever live at home again. I love being completely independent, and I know I'm having so many experiences here that I would miss if I were home.

Pictures will hopefully be given to me from this weekend, and the epic water balloon fight that went down at our ward activity tonight! Also, my room is unnervingly clean for once. Yay!! Only two more days of work this week!