Lunch planning

K ladies, I'm sick of hearing we will make these plans. Let's just do it! How about march 24th? That should give Jessie plenty of time to finish her fee ride to money ;) wow I wanna do that testing. But how does that sound to you guys?

Here I am

Ok fine fine I guess it's my turn to jump on the bandwagon and update you all on my life.

This is me in case you forgot....

Well still going to school and actually doing pretty well so far this semester. I love my classes but I'm super busy with work and class that I don't have a lot of time for doing other things. One of my classes is called adult development and aging. I've decided getting old is something I do not want to do and I better not lose my memory. I absolutely love my job. It's definitely the best job for a student. Basically I get to do whatever I want all day. So great!

This past weekend I went and visited my aunt Lindy in Oregon. Funny story when we went to church, I was sitting in Primary cause I didn't want to go to Relief Society by myself so I sat and held my cousin for my aunt while she taught primary. A lady came and asked my aunt why I wasn't in Young Womens cause I couldn't be older than 14. 14!!!! That's a 8 year difference! So that is a sign to me I obviously need to dress more mature. Haha I also had 2 other ladies ask me how old I was and they both thought I was in High School. Blast my young looking face! They had the missionaries over for dinner and my aunt is determined to have me marry one of the Elders when he gets home. Talk about awkward. Well anyways it was so fun to get away and see family plus the views were BEAUTIFUL! We hiked to a few waterfalls and I loved it! I've decided I could definitely live there having those kind of views and only having them a few miles away.

Which brings me to my next subject. There's a boy I may or may not like. What a coincidence that he's from Oregon. Perfect right? Well not really. We're just friends right now but who knows what could happen. He graduates and is leaving in December so we've still got time haha. But I'm not getting my hopes too high because he's sometimes lame and won't ask girls out. Other than that there aren't really any other boys in my life that are worth mentioning. Except the a few weeks ago my cousin set me up on a date with a friend of the boy she is dating. Small world but the boy was Matt Moyes. Jess or any of you remember him? He went to Viewmont and was in mine and Jessie's grade. Random but it was fun!

Lately I've been thinking a lot about getting married and growing up. I've always thought about how great it would be to get married and have a family but lately I've been thinking about how life would be if I never got married cause who knows if I will! Surprisingly, I've thought about what life would be like if I didn't get married and I'm pretty sure I'd be just fine being on my own. I'd for sure get out of Provo and who knows possibly out of Utah. It's seriously making me so excited I almost don't want to get married. Don't worry, I'm not becoming anti-marriage I'm just keeping my mind open along with my options.

I was super good at exercising last semester but this semester I've been slacking major. I have a gym pass but I haven't gone in quite a while but I've made a goal to be better this week so we'll see how it goes! Haha. But I love exercising and the energy I get from it! So great! Plus, they have a cardio cinema where they play movies so it's great! Emi, I'm going to get a Bikini Bod! Also, my hair is growing which is good. I've decided I like longer hair on me much better. But let's be honest, I'll probably cut it again and start all over. Sorry I'm totally rambling now. I'm just putting off doing homework. Don't worry, next time I'll try to post some more exciting things when my life gets exciting! Love you all! We definitely need to do lunch or something soon!!!!

Jessie's Update

Hey Girlies. I love you all. I've been thinking a lot about childhood and how crucial it is to who we are now. I loved my childhood. Every second of it. Thanks to you guys. So. It's been forever since I've updated the internet world on my life. I have a blog, but haven't posted on it in a while. I don't really care to right now for some reason. But I want to post something on here. I think I'll follow Emi's lead and do a listy post.

 I don't know how to turn this dumb picture and don't want to reload it :) This is what it looks like in the morning, but I don't do it like this. Hah.

1. Some basics: I cut my hair short again. Really short. I love it. I think I probably won't ever grow it out again. I still look the same otherwise. 5'5" 140 lbs, brown hair, hazel eyes, 36B :) etc etc etc. I love my body. I love being a girl. Actually, I'm probably a C right now. Do your guys's boobs get bigger right before your period? Mine do lately. It's crazy.

This is how I do it, but it's hard to see. Sorry. I don't take many pics of myself. I'll work on it :) Ignore those other peeps. (The two girls are 2 of my old roommates, the one on the right is my best friend Leah.)

2. That's a good lead into something I'm obsessed with. Women's bodies. Menstruation, birth control, owning female sexuality, etc. I'm seriously in love with being a woman. I love my period (should be starting tomorrow or tuesday, with the new moon. I'm a crazy hippie when it comes to the moon and our periods) and love talking to other women about periods. It's crazy how many of us hate our bodies and hate what they do best.

3. I graduated in May. I'm not in school right now, but I plan on going back. Probably in 2 or 3 years. I feel no rush. I'm making plans for myself. There are many possibilities. I'm thinking of getting a masters/PhD in Psychology (I know I know, what does that have to do with architecture? whatever. I love architecture, but I want to work with people), maybe psychology and health, then maybe get another degree in nursing or something. I want to work directly with people, but it's not just about mental health (like a psychologist), it has so much to do with our physical health and emotional health. So I'd love to help women, but don't want to work exclusively with women. A lot of people are telling me I should be a midwife. I would love it I think. But we'll see :)

4. I am applying for a job that would move me to Seattle if I get it. It's the same job my brother John has here in Salt Lake, but the Seattle version of it. It's a "sale's job," technically, but that sounds way boring. I'll tell you more as time goes on. They have had the position open for a couple months and don't just hire anyone, so I don't know if I'll get it but John thinks I have a good chance. And I'd looove to move to Seattle. I am working on my resume and cover letter, but already have an interview with John's boss on Wednesday because John told her about me. So we'll see. It's a cool job, I'd be working with professors at Universities in and around Seattle. I think I'd love it. And i'd only do it for 2 or 3 years, save money, then go back to school. We'll see.

This isn't Seattle. This is San Fran. I took this pic :) I was there a couple weeks ago. A huge group of architecture students went for school so I went with them. hah. I love that city. It was my 4th or so time there. I'm blessed. 

5. YES we've gotta do lunch soon. Especially if I move. I can't leave without saying goodbye. I won't leave without saying goodbye. It sure has been fun seeing Emi and Camille a bit this year up in Logan. Love you guys. Now Becca, Crystal, Jo, let's get on this. My weekends are booked for another couple weeks (I'm doing a funny study where we take a pain pill, like weaker than a Tylenol, then they take our blood a hundred times over the course of two days. It's through this research center in Salt Lake, 25 other people are doing it with me. We come every weekend for 4 weeks, this is our second weekend, then by the end they've paid us $3300. Crazy huh?) so if we wanna meet up soon it'd have to be a not-weekend. Which is tough. We'll figure it out.

6. My jobs right now are just fun. I'm not saving money or anything, just kinda hanging out. I work at the wood and metal shop at the school of architecture at the U. It's the best job. I just build stuff and make sure students don't hurt themselves. I work just 20 hours a week there. Then I also work as a bike messenger. We only do legal stuff, so we run all the paperwork crap from law firms to courthouses all day long. It's so fun. I love riding my bike. It keeps me in shape. And I get to go in and out of cool buildings all day. I went in the church office building for the first time in my life a couple weeks ago. Funny.

This is a pic from the courthouse. I like taking pics while I work. 

7. I live by myself. I loooove living by myself. I lived with a few girls, my best girlfriends from college, for about a year, but they lived in the basement of an old man who smoked and I was sick of that. I live in the Avenues, for anyone who knows Salt Lake at all. Like, directly east of the temple. If I stood in front of my house and rolled a huge unstoppable bowling ball down the hill, it would hit the temple. That's where I live :) I've lived there for a few months, it's a one-bedroom little apartment. I love it. Here's a couple pics of the 'living room' space.

I love having a big window. I prop it open all the time. And it's on the ground level so I climb out of it a lot too. And friends knock on it when they get to my house. 

This is the most space efficient way I found to keep both my bikes inside. 

8. It looks like I have a boyfriend again. Since Davey I've now dated a couple boys. I didn't "date" anyone for a while, though I had a crush on every boy and kissed a few. Then I went to Italy and didn't think about boys much. Since I've been back I dated Sam for about 2 months, the boy from Logan. That was really fun and we liked each other a lot. But we weren't right for each other. We both knew it. We dated from beginning of October to end of November. Now I'm dating Tom. Tom Millar. If you're on facebook you can try to stalk him. I just flipped through his pics to see if I wanted to post any on here, but it made me all nervous. Hah. He's a cutie. I like him.

So I've known Tom for about a year and a half. He rides bikes like crazy like me. That's what has mostly brought us together. When I was dating Davey, Davey said, "If you had met Tom before he went on his mission, you two would be in love with each other." Then he got back from his mission and Davey introduced us, but I have never really been interested in him because he's suuuuuuper mormon. Not just like, Mormon, but really mormon. hah. Which is not really my style anymore, as you all know. I tell him "Man, if you had known me back in the day we'd be perfect for each other." We have a lot in common though, and get along really well. He's so mormon that he's been interested in me since we met, but didn't show it at all because he didn't want to make things complicated. But he's really in love with me. We're great for each other in a lot of ways. The only reason he's letting himself date me is because I don't him, "Okay Tom, I'll reinvestigate the church, I'll go to church and read and pray, but not for you. If I don't think it's right for me, I'm not going to fake it for the sake of us." But all he really heard was "I'll reinvestigate the church" and was sold :) So here I am, thinking about faith and religion all over again. But I don't think I'll ever go back to the church. It just doesn't work in my mind. I'm a really spiritual person, but I don't like religion. It's sad, because Tom really wants to be with me, and we'd be perfect for each other if our beliefs didn't differ so much. So. Who knows. I feel really peaceful when I'm with him, which means a lot to me, but I don't think it'll go anywhere, solely because he won't marry outside of the temple and I won't marry in. If I move to Seattle that'll end it for us. If I don't, we'll have to end it soon. For now we're both just happy pretending that it'll work itself out somehow; that I'll join the church or that he'll "lower his standards," if you will ;)

K fine. Here's a couple pictures.

This is a pretty recent picture, but it's hard to see his face really well. He's my age, he just turned 23. These are his sisters and his dad.  

This is him in high school or something. He still has the same pretty eyes and smile and cute nose, but plus like 5 years. 

9. Sorry, this is really long. So I'll stop. I could talk for ages, of course. I'm happy, girls. Really happy. I don't know where I'll be in two months, but I'm happy. It's been a great 2012 so far. I've been writing and drawing a lot. That makes me really happy. I still draw blind aaaaalll the time. As in I don't look at the paper as I draw, you know? So I'll leave you with this one, can you tell what it is? I did this blind, from memory. I love you girls. Thanks for making me who I am.

Lunch?

We should do lunch sometime. For reals. We hardly ever see each other!

I love being married. I keep forgetting that I'm the only one that's in this part of life. It is hard. fun, challenging, rewarding, lonely and lovely. We've been married over 5 months now. Crazy to think that it has already been that long.

I am finally making friends around here, in my ward and with girls in my apartment building.

Scotty and I teach primary. We LOVE it! Scott says he never wants another calling haha. It makes church go so much faster!

It seems like so many people I know are either pregnant or just had a baby or are trying. I am not in any of these categories.  It'll be awhile.  We are enjoying the time we spend together, just me and Scotty.

We are really bad at getting pictures taken together. Like REALLY bad at it. at least one of us is usually pulling a weird face or the pic is bad quality. or both.

This picture is when we went to the Preston Rodeo. in August. Super fun!

Being married makes it hard to be active, I know this is no excuse for unhealthy eating and too much tv watching and way too much facebook/pinterest... But I am starting to do better. I'm eating healthier, drinking tons of water and finding ways to move around more. :)

Some of my favorite snacks lately include: apples, oranges, bananners, string cheese, WATER, peppers, celery and laughing cow cheese, hard boiled eggs, yogurt etc. What are your favorites? I find that when I drink water more often, and eating smaller meals more often is smart. Of course we hear all these things already but I am seeing a difference. I still eat plenty of CHOCOLATE though!

I do have a new found love for Pinterest though... I've gotten all these ideas to organize our apartment and I've started using them. the parts that I have organized I love so much. You should see my closets... in a few weeks. :)

I am so grateful for our dishwasher. It is a little one but awesome. About the size of a large microwave, we have it on a table that wheels around the kitchen so we can hook it up to the sink. It's such a time saver and blessing. We got it from my dad(tyler) D.I. find (of course) but it was broken. Scotty fixed it. Awesome.

Anywhoo... this has been the most random post.

I have started indexing. I find it really fun. I get to see all these old documents and extract information from them so people can find their family members that are missing from their family trees.  I find it so interesting. The latest "batch" of documents is death certificates from Texas and the census from England and Whales in the UK. These records are from the 1800s. It takes a lot of my time lately. But I find it very rewarding.

Love you all! Hope all is well and I would love to see/ hear from everyone :)

bored at 1 am

Hey gal pals--
It's 1 in the morning and I cannot sleep.
Just wanted to say that I love you.
Life is beautiful. Especially when you have someone lovely to share it with.
McKay is the best kid I know and I'm the luckiest girl to have him.
I think being a woman is amazing. Look at all the stuff we can do. We can make humans for goodness sakes.
Does Jessie even read this blog? Seems like she hasn't posted at all.
Documentaries are great, but they always sway my opinions in their direction..is that a good thing? For example, I watched a documentary on natural child birth at home and how awesome it is. This made me want to give birth naturally in my home, but isn't that exactly what they want me to believe? I'll still watch documentaries anyway.
I love my parents more than anything
Camille and Jessie-thank you for coming to the show. It really meant a lot to me that you both were there. Really.
I'm so lucky to have great friends.
I'm getting really lazy at school. All I want to do in my life right now is:
1. date mckay
2. read lots of nice books
3. sew & sew
4. live by an ocean
5. make people happy
I really loved Hawaii. It broke my heart when I had to leave
I think making lists are my thing. Sort of like how this blog entry is like a list. It's mostly because I have a million things going on in my head and writing them down in complete paragraphs seems boring and tedious and long. So I make lists
baby hedgehogs. look them up on google images. you will not be sorry
This blog post was originally supposed to be really short.

Cool :)

Love,
Emi.

Hey girls! Just missing you all so much today! I decided to read the blog and look at pictures! What a blessing it is to have you girls as part of my history, my story, my life. I love you all so very much! Crystal, my sister, I hope teaching is going well, I know you've had practice being a mom, taking care of the Argyles. Maybe I'll be an aunt soon ;) he he! Jessie, Its been fun to run into you at Children Of The North Concerts! I've missed you! Watching our little Emi I just want to cry cause I'm so proud of that cute girl who came into my life in 2nd grade! No wonder 2 is my lucky number, that's when I found you!! I love you Emi! Becca! I love it when I get to skype you, it always makes my day better and you make me giggle and be grateful for technology, where I can see you, even when you are a couple hours away! Jalene, I hear you left the FB ha ha Good thing we have this wonderful Blog! Taking a break from school sounds amazing... I sure wish that were me right now he he I love you ne ne!

As for me, I've just been writing songs and working at Bridger Elementary School!

You may have heard the song I wrote, its on facebook, It's called Lean On Your Brother :) It's been fun sharing my testimony of Christ through that song.

I'm taking 2 institute classes right now... Preparing for Eternal Marriage and Mission Prep... I know, I know, they are kinda opposites, but we'll just have to see which one comes first.

I love you Girls!

<3 Camille T Boyce