Valentine's day and Mission Reunions

My Valentine's evening consisted of chocolate covered strawberries, cookies, chick-flicks, and roommate bonding.

 Followed by a trip home, and drinking Martinelli's with my family (:

That Sunday, I had the opportunity to speak in 2 Sacrament meetings in my home Stake.
In the second Ward, I met this guy:

 He just got called to serve in San Fernando! How cool, right? We had a good talk (:

And if that's not cool enough, the family of one of my best friends from the mission was there as well! So fun to talk with everyone.

My birthday dinner! Messy tacos, mmm

Sunday evening, we went to visit Andrew, one of Corb's BFF's and basically my second older brother.

While I was on my mission, Andrew got in a pretty bad motorcycle accident.

He has been fighting hard for months to heal and return to his normal self.

The journey has been long and will continue to be!
Ohhh my heart was so happy seeing him again. He is the sweetest thing.

 He was cracking us up!!! He's in a phase right now where he just loves pulling faces and making people laugh.

Purple potatoes from Winder Dairy. They remind me of Siddhi, who always fed us the coolest foods (: Including purple potatoes, straight from mother nature that way.

 Jayci made the trek down to Provo for a sister date!

 We got chicken and waffles (: I'm seriously addicted.
Isn't Jayci completely gorgeous? Kills me.

 My sweet roommate Lauren brings me my favorite snack as I do homework (: Apples with cinnamon and peanut butter.

 Stake Ice-Skating!!

 So much fun. I ran into some old friends too--one person from my Northridge YSA ward over the summer! Fun surprise.

 MISSION REUNION!!

 All of us:

Went to watch a movie at Chad's house after. Of course, I fell asleep for all of it...whoops. I am my father's daughter.

Poor Kaden tore his Meniscus! 

 Look at that face, it kills me.

 My dad came in town! And brought Corb with him.
We may have gotten chicken and waffles...
I'm not even sorry about it. (:

Of course, they took their shirts off and got a picture in my roommates bed. Hahah so I texted it to her (:

I accidentally left my backpack in his rental car, so he drove back the next morning and met me at work. The little sneak, he got into the MTC! So we got a picture with Grandpa Joe and Grandma Carolyn (:

 A little retail therapy...(: I didn't have work one morning, so I went to the mall. I kinda jumped the gun though and got there 40 minutes before it opened haha.

 One of my recent art projects:

 My sweet district!! They are in Anaheim and Riverside (: Love them.