Provo Food Crawl: Lunch Anyone?

Conference Weekend:

This weekend was the best. 

There was lots of good food, time spent with family,

relaxing, and only a little bit of the never ending homework 

(see below):

I call this "the battle station" 

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We also had a little family party for my cousin that is getting married!

And by "little" I mean "50+ people"...

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Not to mention JP and I got to wake up on Saturday without an alarm (literally can't remember the last time we did that) and lounge and watch conference in our bed! (also can't remember the last time we got to stay in bed in the morning longer than .2 seconds after our alarms go off)

So needless to say, I was a huge fan of this weekend. 

Buuuut now it's time to get into finals mode -- it's a definite state of mind, wouldn't you agree? Because classes end one week from tomorrow! Bring. It. On. 

Provo Food Crawl: Breakfast Edition

I get a lot of questions about mine and JP's favorite places to eat go out to eat, because apparently it seems like we eat out a lot... haha... maybe I should start cooking more. 

Anyways, I've decided it might be kind of fun to put together a little series of good restaurants around town and keep them all under that tab up there labeled "Eating in Provo"

So without further ado, here's the first installment of some of our favorite breakfast places to eat in Provo!

PS: we're always looking for new options... So if you have a favorite breakfast place please leave a comment and share the love!

Apparently, We're Going to France:

So this is actually happening. 

We just finalized our summer plans and JP and I are going to Europe this summer!

He got into a study abroad in Paris and after weighing all the factors, figuring out some details, and readjusting life plans a little, we are going to be spending our summer in France!

We'll be stopping in different places all along the way too, starting off in Dublin, then visting Eric and Kimmi in Vienna, then we're driving (yep, driving) from Vienna to Paris, stopping in Munich and Zurich along the way!

After JP's program is over, we'll be making my dreams come true and stopping by my favorite place on this planet - London- before we come back to the states in August by way of Washington DC and NYC so JP can interview at some law firms for internships!

I can't wait. We leave 2 weeks after I take the MCAT and honestly, I can't imagine anything better after all these months of studying for 10+ hours a day. 

So bring it on Europe! :)

Easter 2013!

JP and I had a low key Easter Sunday this year, which I loved. Most of my family is out of town for Spring break (thanks a lot BYU...) and JP's family is from South Africa so they haven't quite converted to the American tradition of going all out for every single holiday haha. 

However Easter Saturday (is that an official day?) was spent down in Axtell (about 1.5 hours south of Provo) visiting my grandparents and spending time with cousins. 

We had an easter egg hunt and, thanks to my awesomely generous grandpa, the eggs were filled with varying amounts money.

 Needless to say that made for a way more intense easter egg hunt than plain old peep-filled eggs... 

(nothing against peeps! they are one of my favorite candies) 

haha. 

Then we took our colored eggs and rolled them down a hill!

*see below*

^^^ does anyone else's family do this??

And what's a better way to end an Easter Saturday than with a picnic at the park?!

Am I the only twenty-something person who still LOVES the swings? 

^^^ you might be tempted to think that's a homeless person lounging on the picnic table, but nope! 

It's just my dad basking in the sun haha. 

Law School Ball

 

 The law school had their annual "Barrister's Ball" (can you say adult prom? So awesome.) this week and since neither JP or I can pass up an opportunity to dress up, we put on our fancy clothes and joined the rest of BYU law school in some dinner, award-giving, and most importantly, dancing!

... Have you ever seen law students dance? Hi-lar-ious. I highly recommend it. They really know how to get down.

 

I have to point out Amber's really good photo-bombing timing in this one, well done!

My thoughts on:

>>>SNOW<<<

You know what's hilarious to me every, single, year?

How upset and surprised people are when it snows in March. 

We live in UTAH, remember?

It snows in March every year, without fail. 

It has snowed for the past as-many-years-i-can-remember and I would bet a lot of money that come next March... SURPRISE! More snow.

>>>CRYING<<<

Sometimes I forget how cathartic a good cry can be. 

Not to be dramatic, nothing bad has in my life has happened or anything, but you know when everything has been building up (and you don't even realize it) until someone (usually my mom or friend Markell) asks me how I'm really doing, and then BAM. Floodgates are opened and all the frustration comes pouring out in one big torrent. 

This woe-is-me episode usually lasts for about 12.5 seconds until we start laughing at my failed attempt to hide the fact that I'm crying in public. 

My perspective is restored and I can once again see clearly that everything isn't as bad as it seems and that I don't have (thankfully) a real reason to have an emotional breakdown (besides the fact that I'm a girl? Can I play that card?)

>>>MEMES<<<

Okay, 

WHY are memes so hilarious to me?

Seriously, they get me every time.  

But when I try to share them with other people NO ONE appreciates their hilariousness adequately... And the one person who was right there with me on the this-meme-is-the-funniest-thing-I've-ever-read level is currently across the country spreading the gospel in New Jersey, so THANKS A LOT ANNE, I'm completely on my own now in the meme department.

>>>SCHOOL<<< 

Only 3 weeks left til finals! 3! 

That's nothing. 3 weeks is the length of time I spent in Australia last year, how long I go between doing loads of laundry, how long it takes me to start and finish a TV series on Netflix, and lets be honest: I could probably read the whole Harry Potter series in 3 weeks if I put my mind to it. 

Long story short: 

There's  light at the end of the tunnel! 

Not that I'll be entirely free from studying... instead of going to class and doing homework for school I'll just study for the MCAT more haha but STILL, freedom is just around the corner :)