Thought this would be fun to meander down memory lane...
20 Years Ago: 10 Whopping years old. I had glasses, feathered bangs, a frizzy perm and would wear awesome combinations like a long-sleeved white button down shirt, florescent geo-print clam-diggers, huarache sandals with two co-ordinating socks and one side of my hair up with a butterfly claw. Either that or Units. WOW. That's quite a visual! Amazingly, I still had a healthy dose of self esteem and plenty of friends! I loved elementary school. My teacher was Mrs. Moody. One of my best friends was hit by a car and survived after a series of what I consider miracles. I loved soccer, swimming and playing with my friends.
10 Years Ago: I had gotten back from Jerusalem, living with fun roommates down at BYU--one of my favorites being my older sister, writing to a missionary pretty regularly and dating. Happened to see a really cute guy give up his chair during Sunday School so that some girls that had come in late would have a seat, and jokingly said "DIBS!" to my friend sitting next to me. A couple of weeks later, actually got to have a conversation with this cute guy at a party and hit it right off. We ended up spending a majority of our free time with each other from that point on. It didn't matter what we were doing, we just couldn't get enough of each other! Things were getting a little more serious by the time the missionary got home and I dated both at the same time for a little over a month (which seriously STUNK--I wouldn't ever wish this situation on ANYONE!) and just felt like I really needed to see where things lead with Casey. Well, obviously things lead down a great path and we both felt that we'd found just what we'd been looking for, so we got engaged Oct 14th, planned our wedding and were married Dec 29th!!! Love this guy!!!
5 Years Ago: We were living in Charlottesville, VA--what we sometimes dubs as our "Camelot" years. Casey was in the middle of med school, Ash was our world and we had the dearest friends and neighbors that became our family away from family. Ty joined our family and we couldn't have been more excited! We learned to appreciate the great families we came from as we were away, but couldn't have imagined how our experiences at UVa would strengthen our own little family. We were also building debt up to our eyeballs:)
3 Years Ago: Casey graduated and we were offered a spot for residency at the University of Utah Internal Medicine program. We were thrilled that our kiddos would actually get to be near grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins! We celebrated by heading down to Florida and enjoying Disney World with extended family. We lived in my aunt & uncles home while they served as mission presidents, and grew to love so many in their neighborhood. Intern year for Casey was a BEAR--I feel like we didn't always handle it as gracefully as I'd have liked, but we survived it all the same!! This was a very significant year for us as well because we lost Casey's mom, Trish and my grandmother quite unexpectedly. These two women had such tangible impacts on us, and still continue to, to this day.
1 Year Ago: We were house hunting and found our home (almost exactly a year ago, in fact!) and couldn't be happier with our home, neighborhood and community. Ash was in kindergarten, Ty was finally rounding the corner of a rough toddler stretch (seriously, I lost count of how many times I felt that I was failing this kid as his mother! Thankfully, he's such a sweet boy now;) and Tink was our happy, content baby. We moved in at the end of summer.
So Far This Year: We've settled into the groove of being a family of 5 just in time to prepare to welcome a new little girl in 2 months! Casey is almost done with residency, I'm almost done with being prego, Ash is almost done with baby teeth, Ty is loving preschool and Ali is almost done with wandering the halls at church and being in nursery!
Yesterday: Finished "Austenland", got Ash off to school, went to check on my poor mom who has kidney stones and got some bonus visits with Liz and her kids, my aunt Laurie and my Dad while I was there, picked up Ash from school and went to the park with the Pelo's on a really nice afternoon. Got materials to sew costumes for Road Show from the awesome director, Becky (And YES, apparently this stake still does Road Show's, and no, this is not in my comments from 20 years ago, honest!) Made dinner. Had a great visit from Casey's sister, Robyn where we got to talk about our pregnancy questions and concerns! Got the kiddos in bed just in time for Casey to come home to kiss them good-night. Tried to convince Casey that we REALLY need a vacation;) Got bummed when he was talking about the fact that we need to make sure we're being responsible and putting the money in things like our kids educational funds, our retirement, saving for the backyard improvements and replacing his 13 year old car. Went upstairs and started reading The Ensign. Really enjoyed the articles and felt guilty for acting like a baby:) Totally fell asleep at 9:00. How embarassing...
Today: A nice, leisurly Saturday. Had some fun kids in the neighborhood over for much of the day to play, took all three kids to the grocery store, made dinner. Casey got home around 6 and we watched "Barbie Mariposa". Now this one was a real winner! Put the kids to bed, Casey asked me where I'd like to go on a trip (Awww, what a nice guy, even when I was a little pouty!) watched the Jazz game while I worked on Road Show costumes and Activity Day crafts.
My fingers are tired, and I commend anyone that even made it this far!! Try it out for yourself--it's nice to remember fun things from your past that you'd forgotten about!
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That was so fun to read. What a great idea!
You're good! Thanks for doing that one...I totally remember you 20 years ago! hee hee
You looked dang good in that banana claw, you know it! And I loved your perm. One of my favorite memories of growing up in the Irion home was doing pillowcase races together across the upstairs hall. You are still such a fun sister!
I loved reading your memories. It's such a great way to get to know you! Glad you loved banana clips as well.
I read Austenland a few months ago and so enjoyed it!
I need to get Barbie Mariposa. The girls are begging to watch it.
so katie, where is casey taking you are your vacation?!! i have always had such a travel bug, but traske usually stomps it out pretty fast too...especially with trying to figure out where we are wanting to end up and interviews. someday?!
I loved it!! Great memmories. I remember your outfits and your big rimmed glasses 20 years ago...isn't that fun!! I loved your post...you're such a good mom. Roadshows!!
I am sad that there was no mention of me during your "sticky things on your glasses" stage 20 years ago. I was right next to you with the black units and coordinating polk a dot waistband. I do not think there are many memories from that period of my life that do not include you. We were ultra-nerds!
I miss you and am sad I did not make it to your house while I was in UT. Typical of my visits.... I look forward to actually living near you to make new memories with our families together.
Kristi- I agree, you ARE a significant person in my life, but the "sticky things on my glasses" was circa 1986, hence didn't make the post:) Acting drunk on apple juice, riding bikes all over the neighborhood and making up dances in the rain should have made the post though. Wow--why were you my friend again?!?! I can never doubt that you were friends with me because of my sparkling personality and not because of my good looks at that stage!!
What made you do the memory thing? How are you supposed to do it? And thanks a TON for having Ev and Wy over that was so helpful. Ev is having Ashlyn withdrawls, I told him the break was coming up and he'd have plenty of time to play. So now he doesn't want to go on a vacation anywhere, just stay and play with Ashlyn. Crackn' me up.
That was fun to read and it made me think where and what I have been doing the last 10-15 years! How fun
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