hooray for birthdays!!

 

today a very good friend of mine turns 23 (aka, old).

her name is ALLY and i love her very much!! we've had some crazy times, her & i. adventures in logan that i wouldn't change for anything! she is such a blast to hang out with & always lends an ear when i need to whine about something.

basically, i love her to death.

happy birthday ally!! i hope your day is spectacular!

feeding the chickens.

so my parents chickens are HUGE. i find them rather disgusting, actually...no longer cute fluffy chicks = lauren does not want to hold them. or touch them.

my niece, nephew and little sister, however, don't feel the same.

i went home on sunday to pick up some things and eat dessert with the family, and we spent quite a bit of time outside in the yard feeding the chickens leaves.

and lucky for me, my parents ordered 4 more baby chicks! soon enough i'll be able to hold them and call them "cute" again. :)

on a side note, my nephew and niece are the cutest. i am obsessed with them. especially when they do cute things like:

matthew is the funniest. "we're matthew & grace, if you like us send a message!" i don't know what goes through his head half the time, but it sure makes for a good laugh.

lately.

luke playing with his friend's daughter anniha. she has the hugest crush on him. he introduced me as his girlfriend and she stopped smiling, threw her arms around luke and started running her fingers through his hair. cutest ever.

sunsets from ogden = my favorite.

harvest moon festival on 25th street.

spending mornings on the patio with kitten smitten.

finally getting to visit my grandparent's grave and my dad's first wife's grave. their buried like 5 minutes away from me, so i've felt guilty about not going.

happy tuesday!

bed hog.

an evening in park city.

last week i went to the centerville starbucks store party. even though i transferred to a store in ogden, i was lucky enough to still get the invite to red rock brewery for dinner and drinks, and jupiter bowl for some awesome bowling and music!
it was a really good time, and it made me miss all the awesome people i worked with for the past year. here are some pictures from the evening:

guess we weren't ready for this one...ha.

all of us outside red rock.

bowling!

on our way home we saw a MASSIVE fire from the freeway. i called fox to ask what was going on and they said it was a human caused fire...so of course a few of us went as close as we could to see the fire for ourselves. it actually ended up getting within several hundred yards of people's homes...so glad the firefighters got it put out!