June. Spring and Kaylon make for a good month

Thunderstoms. I am not sure if I have mentioned this before, but it needs to be said. The number one reason I love Colorado weather is the thunderstorms. Heavy. Loud. Hail. Rain. Lightning. Intense. Storms. I sit and look out my window reverently whenever we get one. It is heaven. :) Oh...and PS. Read May's post below too, I don't want it to feel neglected.

If you can't already guess from my post title this month, I've spent a lot of time with this dude. I have seen him every single day since we realized we were two peas in a pod. Let me tell you a little about what we have done this month. Yeah, we do the regular get togethers with friends for Erin cooked dinners, institute and other church activities, but we've done some pretty rad stuff this month too. As a side note, I am excited for my family to meet this stellar guy because I cannot put into accurate enough words how incredible he is. He is my Mr. Perfect (for me); a mans man who serves, treats his mom like gold, shows love and compassion, is kind, dedicated, honest, virtuous and of course melts my heart. Ew, gross, cheesy. Whatever. Get over it.

#1 bluegrass festival in Pueblo. Kaylon and I joined a group of friends for some awesome bluegrass, including Ryan Shupe and the Rubberband earlier this month. My friends and I probably had more teeth than most of the attendees put together, which was definitely interesting, but all in all it was an awesome day. Highlights? Being stalked by Natalie who tried to take cheesy pictures of Kaylon and me. (See below. :) ) Natalie hitting on the drummer for Ryan Shupe. THE MUSIC!!!!

#2 clay pigeon shooting. For some reason there isn't much more attractive to me than a man that can blast multiple things out of the sky all in a row. That's my Kaylon. Growing up a little bit country AND 5 years in the military will do that to you.

#3 family dinners? Yep. Kaylon's family is from Colorado and we get to join his folks and whatever siblings are around for food and entertainment. His family rocks.

#4 suit shopping. Ok, I am dead serious. Kaylon needed suits and we went shopping for a couple. It was quite honestly one of the most fun things I've done with Kaylon. I don't care how odd that is to anyone. We couldn't stop laughing. Our suit helpin' man loved us. :) Um, and hello...he cleans up good...

Ok ok ok. What ELSE has happened in June other than some dude right? Well, it has been a great skype month for Laura and me. We get to have our Colorado/Japan sister-mance almost twice a week, which has been awesome. I love my sister and am grateful for the friendship we continue to build, even on opposite sides of the world.

WAIT. One more thing. It's almost embarassing. Because I'm 30. And I look like I am 20. Well now I look like I'm 14. Why you ask? Because I went and got myself braces. Please don't go telling me that my teeth were perfect, blah blah blah. That just makes me want to snap my rubber band from my braces at you. I am a hygienist. I noticed teeth. Especially my own. And compare them to braces perfection that come in an hope in my chair. I get teeth envy. Also because I'm a hygienist, braces are free. FREE. 7000 treatment for free. Yeah. My upper teeth have a midline cant to the left and an occlusal cant leaning inward. It makes my bite off. Which gives me headaches. Oh. And besides. Kaylon said I'm beautiful no matter what. Enjoy this last one. ;)

Yea! I'm finally writing about MAY!!!!

Thank goodness most of my readers probably only check this once in a blue moon, because that seems to be about how often I write. :) I will be updating June as well, so read em both!!! Sadly I don't have TOO many pictures for the month of May. Most of my goings on were not photo necessary. Read on for the biggest things in my May.

ONE year on the 22nd. I can't believe I've been here a year. Can you? I am happy to say that in my entire year, there is not one thing I dislike about Colorado. I love it here and plan on being here indefinitely. I have loved the weather, the people, the culture, the incredible efforts at nature preservation...I am a happy girl. I am so glad that I was guided to move here, because it has really blessed my life, and even though there have been ups and downs, I wouldn't change the last year for anything.

Appetizer party: Of course, you know me, I had to throw yet another appetizer party. By popular demand, everyone brought awesome treats, desserts, and dishes to share and it was a hit. Friends were home from BYU-Idaho, BYU and other schools, so it was the perfect time for everyone to catch up. I just love entertaining, and I am so glad that my place is perfect for it!

QUILTING! I started on my quilt for real. Megan Morton is the BEST girl friend a girl could wish for. She helped me get started, teaching me the ins and outs of cutting and sewing. Who knew that quilting was so easy?? I chose to do a quilt with four different sized square/rectangles through, so piecing won't be easy, but I was up for the challenge. This is a little section of the quilt, just laid out and not sewn yet.

Mormon day at Ashby Dental. The 12th of this month was almost too bizarre to be real. Let me pull an excerpt from my journal to explain: "I deemed today Mormon day at Dr. Ashby’s office. It all started with Jessica Berg, Dr’s first patient. The name vaguely registered, but it wasn’t until Christy was saying to Jessica “you went to BYU? Dr Ashby and Erin went there” that I looked over at her. Yep. Knew her face. We realized that we were both in Mountainwood in 2004 and she married Rob Berg, Dan Vincent’s roommate. Wow. What a small world! J Next up we had our most recently baptized convert Eric Harrell come in for some tooth pain. I had a new patient at the same time, who was from SLC and in the CU Boulder ward. Then my final patient of the day was Roger Reynolds, a guy who moved here from Delta, UT a few years ago. His oldest son is at BYU. And he is in the same ward in Parker as the Langstons. Wow. Four patients, all LDS, no connection whatsoever, coming to an LDS dentist with an LDS hygienist. It was too funny. I told Christy that Mormons were taking over the world. ;0) That’s when she shocked me with a revelation that she had thought of looking into our church. Really? I may have to give her a pass along card or a Book of Mormon." Enough said. :)

The dreaded church talk. I don't understand why people LOVE public speaking, and why they volunteer to speak in church. I'd rather rappel off cliffs. And climb insanely high mountains. Obviously. :) I was the lucky girl asked to speak on Mother's Day, which would actually turn out to be somewhat significant. That's for later. My talk was on how we are ALL mothers, whether we have children or not. I will say this...that my ability to prepare and give a talk has improved exponentially since my last go around. A big difference? I was confident, spoke carefully and gave my talk without looking. I was told by multiple people that I was a natural public speaker. The RS Pres told me that she was envious that I was so at ease and confident at the pulpit. Who were they listening to? Haha.

Kaylon Ross. Yes. This is where the significance of Mother's day, the 8th, comes in. I met this guy on Mother's day. He introduced himself to me, and when I found out that he'd been pretty much MIA for a number of years I assumed he had no friends and decided to help him out. NO, I didn't have even the slightest inkling that I was doing anything more than friendshipping. By the next Sunday the 15th, we'd exchanged numbers, saw each other at institute and texted back and forth a few times. But by the NEXT Sunday, the 22nd, I'd had Kaylon over for games with friends, sat next to him at FHE and institute, had been asked out for the following week, hung out and chilled with Megan and I did quilt stuff, and carpooled to the YSA sports day. It was the 21st that I realized that I was completely head over heels for Kaylon. It was like a lightbulb. And that's all you get so far folks. Jk. Here is a picture of us at the Rockies game. :) Ok, now you have to read June for more. ;)