April Events

In the first 20 days of April, I did do a little more than just blogging.  But blogging seriously did dominate my time....I am so glad those 20 memory posts are done! 
(Scroll down if you have not seen them all yet.  I posted a lot of them after the date they were supposed to be posted because it was taking me so long.)

So, here are a few things we have been up to this April.

1) We saw our friends Dan and Michelle get married!

Aren't they cute!

2) We planted our garden!

Here are just a few of the things we planted:

3) We prepped for my birthday party.

4) We threw my birthday party.

A long post of the party will be coming very soon!

5) We celebrated my 30th birthday on it's actual day.

More on this day later too.

So I guess a lot of this month revolved around me, but I think that's the way it should be when you are turning 30.  Don't you think?

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Happy Birthday Steve!

Today is my friend Steve's birthday.

Yep, he was born one day after me....well more like 2 years and one day after me. Isn't he lucky to have a birthday so close to mine?

Happy Birthday Steve!

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Memory #20

For my last memory, I decided to give some links to a couple of other memories that stand out to me. These have all happened in the last couple years, so I have already blogged about them. Instead of reblogging the memories, I will just share the posts that I have already done in case you haven't seen them.  Here you go!

Climbing Half Dome with the Kinniers

See more from the climb here.

First Ever Swenson Family Camping Trip

See these posts here, here, here, and here.

Visiting the Farm

Posted here, here, here, and here.

Funny Story About Kim

Read the story here. 

Jumping With My Family

See more jumping fun here.

Thanks for letting me share some of these memories with you.  It's been fun to go back in time to remember them.

It was a good decade...onto the next one.

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Memory #19

 Our Wedding--July 4th, 2006

Here is what I remember from my wedding day:

1) It was hot (abnormally hot)

2) It was beautiful

3) It was SO MUCH FUN

4) This story about Grandpa

4) I was happy...so, so happy 

(and still am)

 

 

Photo Credit: Hilmerson Photography

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Another item on my birthday wish list:

Cake Plates and doilies

Source: Country Living

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Memory #18

Weddings
Weddings were a big part of my twenties.  That makes sense I guess.  Over the last few years, I was in four weddings that were all very special to me.  Here are some highlights from each of those weddings in the order they happened.

Brittney and Matt-April, 2007

These are the only pictures I have from Brittney and Matt's wedding....not great.  (Brit, send me some of your pictures and I will add them to this post.) Brittney and Matt got married just outside Seattle.  It was my first time traveling up there, and we had so much fun.  I loved seeing these two get married!

Kristina and Sean-January, 2008

My sister got married exactly a year and a half after I did.  Her wedding was so much fun and so beautiful.  It was gloomy all day, but it made the pictures so pretty.  The rain held off until the reception, which was at the Balboa Pavilion.  The banquet room had 3 walls of floor to ceiling windows overlooking the water, so when the rain did come, it was so beautiful to watch it fall as we danced the night away inside.

First two pictures by Hilmerson Photography.

Esther and Dave-July, 2009
I was very honored to be the maid of honor in Esther and Dave's wedding.  Nick and I were both in the wedding, which made it even more fun.

You can see more of Esther and Dave's wedding here.

Katie and Collin-February, 2011

Katie and Collin's wedding was the most recent wedding that I got to be a part of.  I was so excited that Katie asked me to be one of her bridesmaids.  You can see more from the wedding here if you didn't already.

I love all these couples to death!

My own wedding will be the next memory.

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Wish List Item

A paddleboard of my very own.

Kristina designed these ones for a company...aren't they cool!?!

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Memory #17

Funny Story About Nick-Spring 2003

When Nick and I had been officially boyfriend/girlfriend for about one week, we went over to a friend's house for a barbeque and some games.

{Us at the barbeque}

Our friend did not live far from my parents, so our car decided to stop by there on our way back to Biola.  While we were there, Nick started to feel a little sick and thought he might have food poisoning, so we all headed out.  Nick got progressively worse and worse until he had to throw up while we were on the freeway.  Everything happened so fast.  He told me he thought he was going to throw up, and he tried to roll down the window.    I tried to pull over real quick, but realized that the window was not rolling down.  Everyone started yelling at me to take the child lock off (I always kept it on because I couldn't stand it when people would roll the back windows down.)  So, I was simultaneaously trying to take the window off child lock and pull over to the side of the freeway.  I did not do either of those things in time, and Nick ended up throwing up all over the inside of the door of my car.  So, we pulled over to clean it up.

{Poor Nick....we made him pose for a picture when he was so so sick}

  While we were trying to clean it up, someone had the brilliant idea of dumping a water bottle over the door to wash it off.  The problem with that, which we realized too late, was that there was a little cubby at the bottom of the door that was now holding a bunch of floating throw-up....lovely.  But, we got it all cleaned up and went on our way with the windows rolled down to help air out the car.  A little while later, just as the girls in the back had rolled up their window because it was freezing, Nick unexpectantly threw up again out the window. It splattered all over the side of my car, and had the girls not rolled up their window, it would have been all over their faces.

The next day, I took my car to the car wash, then took Nick some get well presents. 

To this day, Nick is named Ralph in my phone.

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Wish List Item:

                                                                                                                                           Source: pier1.com

I love this hanging chair from Pier One!

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