Sunday, October 26, 2008

A weekend in California











We went to California last weekend for my friend Ryanne's wedding. It was beautiful. She wore her Great-Grandmothers wedding dress so it was very sentimental and wonderful. I sat in the Sealing Room watching her and Casey be sealed thinking of life and how grateful I am. Grateful for my husband and for our sealing two years ago; grateful for where we are in our lives and what we have learned; grateful for being a Lowe; grateful for my job and the opportunity to be in school again; grateful for my other college girlfriends who live near and far; very grateful to be in the temple; and grateful to be in Orange County.
Ryanne and I had so much fun while we were in college, in the singles ward and at the OCC Institute. I have friends that I know I will have for life, Ryanne being one of them. Ryanne is one of those cool girls that you always want to be but you just don't have the guts. She has lived ALL over the world and visited every continent but South America and Antartica. She is a girl from a tiny town in Montana and moved herself to beautiful Newport Beach, California after she graduated high school. She went to (I know I'm getting some of these details wrong) Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and the Philipines. She decided about a week before the Olympics in Greece that she wanted to go there, so she went. She was supposed to go to the China Olympics also, but she got married instead. She has been on many more adventures and now her new apartment is going to be her next adventure. Her husband teaches school in Orem and he picked out their apartment. Carpet in the Kitchen (and bad carpet at that). Do I need to say more than that?
The other pictures are of my cousin Troy's little girl, her name is Lucy. She is adorable and it was so fun to see her while she was at her grandma's house, my Aunt Lynda. She was so fascinated by my shoes, I had to put her in them! We also got to see Cousin Bryce, and Cousin Troy and Sarah. Saturday night after Ryanne's reception we played our new favorite game, Apples to Apples. I know for most people this is not a new game. It is to us and that's okay. My Mom and Greg had a blast playing it with us. My Mom was in tears from laughing so hard and Greg won. We played again Sunday night and had just as good of a time. It was a wonderful weekend.

1 comment:

Jamie said...

I'm always amazed at people that adventurous. Glad you could be there for her wedding. love youguys