Michael and Aubrey Lydiksen

Today Michael and Aubrey were sealed for Time and all Eternity in the Salt Lake Temple. The ceremony was beautiful, and I am so happy that I have a new sister that is just so wonderful!

Mr and Mrs Lydiksen

A little catch up

So this is what happens when you wait to do laundry for like.... well..... ENTIRELY too long!!!

Keep in mind this is a king size bed full of clothes. I hate laundry!

Well, anyway I am sick today... have been for about a week, the stomach flu is a killer! But so today I have been sleeping, watching movies and doing laundry. Well, maybe DOING laundry is not the right word, I have been switching the laundry... folding is a different story!

LOST tomorrow

Michael's wedding in a week!!!

Rain

So it's raining today. usually this doesn't bother my- i actually like the rain... but I got dressed cute today and now I have to go trudging outside on campus. Oh well! i took my History midterm.(just finishes, now i'm sitting in the library trying to avoid doing homework) I hope I did OK, I'm nervous. I think I have done well on all my essays though, so hopefully it will even out!

Tonight is the last REAL episode of LOST and then the season finale... gasp what am i going to do with myself?

So I would like to start suggesting good books that I read to you.

HUNGER GAMES

both of these books are awesome and I can't wait until the third book comes out!

I was skeptical about this next one, i mean ALIENS come on... right... Ok i was wrong I really liked this book! I would Definitely read this one- its a little long but i really enjoyed it

one of my fav photos of Thomas

This is right after he opened his mission call. i think it says it all!!

My Bad

OK, so I'm not very good at keeping this thing up, but I think MAYBE 2 people read it so, I don't feel THAT bad!

So school started! I am so happy that we are finally getting back to school. I have about a year and a half left, so hopefully I will graduate Fall 2011. I can't wait. I am going to study English, and eventually i would like to teach High School English. but we will see. All I've got to say is that WOW Spring and Summer semesters are SHORT. I swear all I have been doing since I started was homework. I have my MIDTERM on Tuesday. It's pretty crazy! but I am enjoying this semester. For fun i am taking a guitar class, I really like it, so I might keep pursing it!

So I got a new job! I was working up at American Fork which is a good 25-30 min drive from here. So I have been looking to get a position a little closer, and I finally did! YAY! it is about 4 min away, and I am bumping up my hours. So for the next couple of months I am going to be pretty busy working full time and going to school, so wish me luck!

(I would put pictures up, but for some reason i cant figure it out all of my pictures upload as a link, and I can move them or size them. any help would be awesome!)

this is a post form mother's day that I never got around to posting, so enjoy!

This Mother's was was really fun, since I am not a mom yet it is a little different how we celebrate. We pretty much just had dinner with friends and family! It was so much fun, I love Sundays- the rest of the weeks is so hectic you really don't have any time to see anyone,so Sunday is really the only day we can all get together. Ever since we have moved to Utah we have stared the Traditional Sunday Movie Night. We just have everyone over I make treats, and people bring treats and we just hang out and watch movies. It is probably one of the things I look forward to(except for LOST,... but I will get to that later!)

So this week we had dinner and then watched...

TRON

oh wow, wow... I don't recommend this unless you have 2 hours of PURE boredom because well WOW is all I can say. We watched it because they are making a sequel. All I got to say is I really hope it is better than the first on because... wow

OK I cannot wait for the Series Finale of LOST oh its gonna be awesome!

Spring is HERE!

Oh, it is so beautiful here. After a big rain everything is green and budding. I love the spring, it means that Summer is almost here!

So here is a little update on what is happening in our lives.

Patrick and I started school! Yay finally. I am majoring in English and should be done in about a year... maybe a little longer we will see. So this semester I am taking a guitar class! I am so excited Ihave always wanted to learn the guitar, and now I am. I am also starting up the violin again. I figued that that was not something i wanted to loose. So I am going to be practicing on my own for now, then i start classes up again next semester.And I think I will start playing in the orchestra again, I was thinking of maybe minoring in music.... but again we will just have to see!!

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On April 7th, Thomas came over, with a little surprise in his hands. His Mission Call.

He is going to......

Guatemala, Guatemala City Central Mission!

He leaves on July 7th !!

I am so excited for him it is going to be an adventure!

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So Michael's big day is coming up! Just ONE month away! Oh, I guess I haven blogged about this.

Michael is ENGAGED! They are getting married on may 29th! He is going to marry a freaking AWESOME girl! It is so great, since half of the family lives in Utah, we have really gotten to know her well, and she fits just perfect to our family! The other nigh Pat and Michael went to go play basketball, so we just hung out and watched Pride and Prejudice. Kim came over and it was the perfect girls night!

So a couple of weeks ago, Aubrey had her Bridal shower at a cute little dessert boutique called The Chocolate. It was so much fun!

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DADDY Came to VISIT!!!!

It has been so long since I have seen my dad. It has been almost a whole year. Last summer I went home to visit for a week, but Dallas is a lot further than Provo. So now we are close enough to see my parents more often! Although we do miss Mom and Dad Hinckley.

Dad was down here for bussiness, but he had time to come and hang out with us! it was so much fun we went to olive garden, and the next night i made dinner and the whole family just hung out. it was nicce. like being back home.

It has been so nice being here, and getting to make our own little home! I can't wait for all the new adventures we will have!

One Year Older... Maybe wiser too?

Well, one cool thing about Patrick and me, is that we have the pleasure of sharing a birthday!

Patrick is exactly two years older than I.

This has posed a little bit of a problem. See, I like my birthdays. I like them a lot.

For about a whole month before, in between, and after, life is about ME. Its not a birthday for me...its a BirthMONTH!

But now I have to share my Birthday... with my husband.... I am not quite sure how I feel about it. So we decided to switch off on who the "birthday boy/girl" is. Our fist birthday together it was MY birthday, so Patrick planned it all out and I didn't have to do anything. So not much different from a normal birthday. BUT this year it was his turn. It killed my birthday buzz, now I couldn't just sit back and enjoy my birthday... I had to plan HIS! You can see my predicament. Well, thankfully we are broke so it really didn't make a difference if it was "my" birthday or his.

I had to work on my birthday, kind of scary, It was my first day at a branch... time to put all my training into work. But it was good, and I actually did pretty good at my job!

Then we went home got ready for the evening and went to Red Lobster. It was fun I got some yummy halibut, and Pat got a Sampler dish... the only thing was he got Crab. Like the whole crab on your plate. he went to town on that poor little crab and i about got sick. See I am not really a fish person. I don't like to be able to see what it was that I am eating. So Patrick is just LOVING his time. taking the crab lags and crushing them and pulling out the meat. Once he was done with his first leg he looked up to see my horrified face, and laughed, and of course finished his meal. I lost my appetite a little bit. He was having WAY too much fun ripping that crab apart.

Later that week we went to go see Avatar. OH MY... wow I absolutely LOVED it. We went to go see it in 2-D because Patrick gets bad motion sick. So we didn't want to get sick with the 3-D. But after seeing it we are DEFINITELY going to see it again, but this time in 3-D. It makes me wish I could live in the rain forest!

So I would have to say that OUR birthday was a success. I have my new job as a teller at the Credit Union.I love learning about everything there. It's nice to have a job that you actually enjoy!

Well, I have the WONDERFUL opportunity to be one of those lucky people living in here that has church at 8:30 in the morning so it's bed time!