ooooohhhh grrrrl... Longest post EVER

6 days until Oregon. Happy happy happy. I am beginning to notice that since I live with my sister, our blogs have been relatively similar....we take the same pictures of the same events and blog about them within the next 2 days. Emily usually beats me getting the pictures up, so it seems like I have less going on in my life. Not so....

But I also realized that Kathryn and Jake got married like 5 months ago and I posted no such pictures of the happy day!!! AND i was looking through them the other day and my heart filled with happy.

I don't understand why Jordan 1 always looks SO disappointed to be in a picture with me.(..bastard...)But I love him anyway.

A lot of you may not know that Grace's Dad and Kathryn's Dad are really really awesome. But they are, as this picture proves.

In Grace's backyard. What a bunch of beautiful people...and I have no idea why leah's hand is positioned that way on Fauf's belly button. Weird. But then again, Leah is just weird. Watch out Armenia, Sister Leah Pettit is upon you.

There many problems with this picture...for starters, I forgot to flip it and I am too tired to fix it right now. Second-of-ly, Jake looks like a criminal and I look like I just woke up from a reallllly great nap (both of which are FALSE, just in case anyone was curious). And Jake insisted that he get a picture of my FREEBIRD tattoo on his wedding day outside the temple. Because he doesn't make fun of me enough when he's not getting married.
I saved the best for last. I miss AmberLee so much it is kind of disgusting. This is the most recent picture I have of the both of us and it's from July. Distance sucks when it's between two people that are such great friends and lovers!!! AMBER, I LOVE YOU!!!! Move to Salt Lake and lets live together again and this time we won't fail all our classes and eat Rice-A-Roni at 3 in the morning and never sleep and drive around all night and eat at McDonalds like 4 times a day.... We will have to think of healthier hobbies, dude. I miss you for reals. Pour one for the homies.


I miss when I didn't have scars on my face and arms and tummy.

Rest In Peace, Snow-woman

It snowed a lil' bit friday night, so on Saturday Ethan, Emily and I played in the snow. Me and Ethan made a snowman, but then it turned into a woman. And you know what??? Someone knocked it over last night and stole its head!!! Along with my wig and my scarf that I spent FOREVER making . Lame-o neighbor kids. But she was pretty while she lasted. Poor snow girl. She was so great.
Sitting in our snow chairs, eating delicious snow.

If you want to sing out, sing out

we are a happy family!
We went to temple square to take pictures and look at the lights and the Afrikan nativity scene.

I am a grown-up sometimes :)

This Thanksgiving was kind of a special one. Even though I'm living with 2 of my siblings, both of them had other plans for Thanksgiving. So instead of tagging along with them, I decided to have all my other family-less-for-the-holiday friends up to my sister's in Salt Lake and cook them a real home-style Thanksgiving, just like Grandma made, right Tessa? Or, in Jake's case, Grandma's maids...or servants...or whatever you would call them. Weird.
But I bet your Grams never wore THOSE bunny slippers in the kitchen, eh? Didn't think so.

I have the greatest friends, I mean, not only are they good at being my friends, but they are great people in general. Gracie, Tessa, H, and Will all spent the night last night and Erin, Jake and Kathryn came up today. We are a handsome bunch of crazy kids. I love these peeps, and I wish a few more could have been there, but some people do have families...whatever :)My favorite baby's mamas. I love Grace and Kathryn so much its kind of disgusting.
So we collaborated and made a delicious, all from scratch dinner consisting of an amazing turkey with home-made stuffing, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, deviled eggs, Tanya's famous rolls, salad, and about 500 pies. It was probably the best dinner ever served to humans in the history of dinners. Or humans.
We tried to keep all family traditions running, so before dinner we held hands and gave thanks, after dinner Grace sprayed our mouths with whipped topping, and we had a Crazy-Hat parade a la Kathryn's fam. It was exactly what it sounds like; we put on crazy hats and walked around the streets, all the while singing "Let me Clear My Throat" by DJ Kool.


I am thankful for my friends. And my family. So so much. My family is amazing and I love them to bits and pieces. I don't know what I would do without them.
Oh, and I'm thankful for livers. And doctors. And organ donors.

Weekends of fun and frivolity

I love the weekends. Me and Gracie get to spend mucho time together, which really isn't that mucho compared to last year. I miss last year!!! But whatever. And I get to see the friends I love and play and eat carne asada fries and just be friends and love each other. That is my favorite way to spend the weekend.

Dear Donor...

So I wrote the letter to my donor's family. It was really hard and kind of weird. I didn't really know what to say or how much to say but I had to say something because it is just too crazy not to. It had been 3 months and 5 days since my transplant so I figured,, why wait??
I really hope that they write back, but you never know. This may be the only time that I ever get to write to them, which would really suck, especially since I misspelled the word "donor" and noticed it too late. Hmm. Hopefully they won't hold that against me.

Write me back!!!!

Happy Will Day!!

Yesterday Grace and I celebrated Will day with the best person in the world to celebrate it with...WILL!!! It was great and fun and wonderful. I love will. And I love Grace. Perfect combo.
I'm going to start working this week!!
I found my camera!!!
Happy!!!! Many photos to come.