the construction version of the girls camp cup game

my brother jeff wanted to play along. so we let him. as a result, and as usual with the glazier boys, we couldn't stop laughing.


thanks mom and dad for a fun grad/birthday/farewell party. we'll miss you mucho

plain white tees and pick up sticks

devin is graduated from BYU. hip hip hooray.


after finishing our last final on tuesday we went home and as we were leaving noticed we had matching white t-shirts on... wierd. it feels good to have summer here.We celebrated our first our little family's first graduate by going to the new Five Guys by university mall. great atmosphere- but i think burger supreme has got them



The celebration continued with a long challenging game of pick up sticks with some home decor brought to us by IKEA. Some of the best 3 dollars i've ever spent.

Devin won 79-70Devin had Commencement. I think I cried at least 6 times, education is so empowering and beautiful.

We're off to convocation, some bbq, and packing up for the summer. I leave for tour with BYU on MONDAY- ah

Europe awaits

This summer we are going to europe to visit devin's mission. We'll be spending most time here in stockholm, sweden.


Devin's friends from the mission are letting us stay in their cute little "stuga" or cottage in the countryside of sweden.our venture begins in amsterdam. stay just one day there

Devin's mission presidents live in london and we'll be spending two nights there.
there we plan to take dev to his first broadway showfrom there it is off to france for 3-4 days. i'm maybe most excited for this
due to my eye accident last time i was in europe, i wasn't able to go to any of these places like i had planned. i saw a video of my friends doing a 300 foot bungey jump in between two canyons in interlocken, switzerland. i've wanted to go back ever since. we'll definitely be making a stop there. I aslo kinda wanna go sky diving.


after interlocken, its a night train over to italy. this is where we are torn. we only have 3-4 days in italy. i wanna see rome,venice,
and cinque terra, but i dont think we can fit them all in. any suggestions from you well-traveled on which two are most worth seeing?

after italy we fly to sweden, spend our week there. we'll spend a day in denmark on our way to
berlin- where our returning flight departs.
we couldnt be more excited but need all the advice we can get....?!!! let's hear from you: favorite stops, sights, shops, etc... thanks!

it is not unusual...

...for devin to find something he likes and not stop thinking about, and pursuing it for days on end.

prime example: me.
another less important, materialistic, more recent, prime example:

we saw this car this past weekend and in those four days since devin has :

1.made sure utah laws allow for right-side steering wheels.
check. (if you look closely you can tell this one has one, probably the main reason he is in love)
2.looked up all the functioning '73 mini's everywhere from san fran to london(the hub of right handed cars, refer to number one)-
check. although they are rare, this didn't stop him
3.discovered shipping rates from overseas.
check +.
4.learned about gas mileage.
check plus again.
5.learned about crash ratings.
no check. i told him state street is the fastest we'd take this baby.
6.tried to convince me that i can learn to drive stick.
no check. (i'm sure i wouldn't mind a few good hours in church parking lot, laughing with my best friend, but i had to put up a fight.)

alas, he has found his dream car: a '73 mini, with the checkers on top- or maybe i just added that part.
secretly i kind of love it too-

no we will not be buying a car like this anytime soon.

had a ball

saturday devin and i went to the traditions ball at the hinckley center. admittedly i was too stressed to be excited to go. but all it took was devin pretending to pick me up at the door, some hearty salsa dancing to snazzy jazzy tunes, uplifting and hilarious company and i was hooked. looking forward to someday becoming one of those old couples in the background on the dance floor who still got it.

Toms Shoes

Meet TOM'S Shoes. TOM'S is an example of a company that uses their ideas to fix social problems. The whole brilliancy behind TOMS is for every shoe bought, another pair is given to someone needing shoes in a third world country. This is the kind of organization i want to be a part of forever.

Yesterday Devin and I bought our first pair.
Mine

devins


SOOO next week the club that Devin and I are a part of at BYU is putting on a TOM'S Shoes event. Real TOM'S representatives will be showing videos and experiences about 'shoe drops' (the incredible part of the story where shoes are actually delivered to kids who need them) and much more. It will be an perfect FHE. 5:45 -7:00 in the JFSB auditorium. Our goal is to fill the whole auditorium so please come and bring your friends family and fhe groups! See you there.

CAN i CouNT?

so yesterday at family home evening with the barkers and the swanks devin was asked the glorious question, "how long have you guys been married?" out came the words, "15 months." in my head i was thinking ..... oops i'll have to remind him.... so i said, "no dear, just 13 months. one year plus three months"......................... ....................... silence........................ ........................then i felt really silly. my apologies for the incorrect post.

bottoms up to you devin. next time someone asks me that question- i'll let you answer.
pic from our family murder mystery dinner

Yesterday

will mark 13 married months with devin. i love him.

to quote a favorite friend and all time best song:

say nighty night and kiss me
just hold me tight and tell me you miss me
while i'm alone as blue as can be
dream a little dream of me
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
But in your dreams whatever they be
Dream a little dream of me

silly pic on valentines. look at devins eyelids... cant help but laugh

secretly...

...i wish i had the self control to be a vegan, the money to buy fancy food, and a husband who loved the idea(he loves eating healthy, but he also loves his manly meat.) maybe one day i will. but in the meantime i spent over a half hour looking at this blog before lunch.
marian, a dear sister of a friend from high school, and her sisters began a blog to share all their marvelously healthy things. i have always wanted to be like them. here is my public attempt.

doesnt this chocolate cake look too good to be healthy?







i think i'll have one of these for lunch







they even have date squares for you bec:)

now it is time to go eat. cooking skills here i come.

my hunt

i'm so interested in polaroid cameras, but before i make the plunge from digital to film i wanted advice from someone who knows.
are holgas the best value polaroid to buy? they have them at urban o, so i don't know of other options.
are they hard to get the hang of?

a few things i love about polas:
square pics are better than rectangles
the fuzzy edges
its plastic
the informality and unpredictablity of the pics
the rad camera color options
they are on sale at urban o.


a few things i dont know that i will love
remembering to take off the lens cap- i'm sure i'll get far too many black pics
paying for film

ps... i'm obsessed with these pictures of venice taken with a holga

pps... if you have any camera knowledge please help out!