Goodbye's

I've never been a fan of 'em. Especially this week. I feel like its been just one big week of goodbyes.

GOODBYE #1 - to David and Lucy for the weekend while I went to WA to spend some time with my family.

GOODBYE #2 - to my family. Who I don't see NEARLY as often as I would like. Luckily I was able to see them only after 3 months this time and not the usual 6. Jen, Chris, Ryann, Molly, Mom, and Dad are going to come visit us here in Rexburg at the end of June. I am SO excited. I have so many fun things planned for them! They are going to get all of the BEST that Rexburg has to offer!!

GOODBYE # 3 - to my in laws. They were on their way home to Leavenworth from Spanish Fork, UT and came to spend one night with us. We went and ate at Jimmy Johns, tried and fell in love with my first MACAROON (an eternal love affair as begun), played the T Shirt game, laughed and just enjoyed being with each other.

GOODBYE # 4 - to our great friends, the Lamberts. Chris and Audrey has been there since day one. Chris and David were in the same stake back home. I met Audrey at Chris's mission homecoming. David and I had just started dating and Audrey and Chris were JUST about to start dating. I fell in love with Audrey this night! She was so sweet and so willing to make an outsider feel completely welcome. Chris was the DJ at our wedding and they had just got engaged. They moved up to Rexburg and we have been best friends ever since. We have had countless nights of laughing and game playing and eating yummy desserts that Chris would make for us. We drove to WA with them for Christmas twice and had such a blast on our road trips. We would play karaoke and belt out THE WANDERER like nobodys business! I will miss these best friends of ours. Audrey was accepted into her graduate program in Michigan. They will be there for two years. I really hope and pray that it isn't two years before we see them again.

GOODBYE # 5 - to our other great friends, the Hesselgessers. It breaks my heart to know that we have been here in Rexburg for the past 2 1/2 years, and hadn't started hanging out with them until only the last 4 months. Kelly has shown me how to cook amazing (and somewhat risque) cookies, coupon, and how to be an amazing mom!! They have been so much fun to play killer bunnies, joker, the newlywed game, and of course, CARCASSONE! Tyler and Kelly... we love you guys!!! I can't wait until we go rafting/boating/camping this summer AND when we all attend UW in the fall of 2012!

Goodbyes are hard. But it means we are all achieving our goals and going towards the next step in life. It's definitely VERY bittersweet. In 4 months we, too, will have to pack our bags and say goodbye to Rexburg. As much as I can't wait to move back to WA, it's going to be really hard to move. This is our home.

MY ROMANCE IS CHEMICAL.

I went home to WA this weekend to see my FAVORITE band in concert. Did I tell you that this band is not only my favorite, but my mom's as well? AND my sister, Kim's??

We saw them once at Project Revolution a few years ago. But that just didn't compare to the pure awesome-ness of last night.

My Chemical Romance.

You might think that this band is just for GOTHIC teenagers... AND that my mom sister and I will stick out like a sore thumb, AND you are probably right... but who cares, we had fun!!

Doors opened at 6:30. So we thought that if we got there at 6:45, we could just walk right in. Wrong. We were at the back of the line standing in the rain (thankfully we were one of three who had an umbrella) and had to wait about 45 minutes before we got in the door. The opening bands were something architects and Neon Trees. Here's a vid from Neon Trees doing Animal (the only song I knew...)

MCR came out with a new album about 6 months ago. It's good. Really good. But I am still in love with their second album. The Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge album. It's crazy and out there. Like me. You might remember some of their songs from this album like Helena and I'm not okay. I was really worried that they were only going to play songs from their new album. Which would be okay, but I REALLY wanted that second album to be highlighted.

My dreams came true. This was the second song they played - and it just so happens to be my FAVORITE.

Ya. You might not really be able to understand the lyrics... but any MCR fan can. But the point is,

LOOK HOW CLOSE WE ARE.

It was awesome. We could see every facial expression. Granted, we had to be EXTREMELY close to the people in front, behind, and to the side of us - and probably was gropped one to many times ... but again, ALL worth it.

Here's Helena. From the second album.

I am always reminded of my dad when I hear this. He is so confident that the lyric is "Because I met her in Franc-AY" instead of the actual lyric "Things are better if I stay"

He's Funny.

I was going to put two more videos up... but I think that blogger has a limit on these things? Bummer. For you anyway...

Just in case you didn't know... I love my chemical romance. and my mom does too.

Here's Kim and I on our way.

here's a pic of us before they came on...

 We had LOTS of fun!!!!!!!

Now I'm ready to go home. and see david. and see lucy. I miss them like CRAZY!