the packing begins

so last night marked the first day of "clean and organize the b. family life"
i decided to start with sydney's history. which is basically everything important to me stored at my parents house from age 4-23. yes, i decided to start with that (it's still a mystery to me why i choose that task).

i found a few gems hidden in that hold closet of mine. i made spencer endure a couple hours of "hey babe check out this picture" or "oh my  gosh i can't believe i wore that" "ahh we look so little". yes picture after picture. i was in heaven.

at one point of the night spence had had enough and i was left to myself and my memories. to be honest it was a little more emotional than i thought putting things away. every piece of memory had a story. i had kept things for a reason. my first pointe shoes, my graduation ropes, my 6th grade officer t-shirt, love letters from boys in high school and so on.

i finally got to a point where my entire life history (well at least till my little 23 years of age) was boxed away in two large rubbermaids. so lets be honest i didn't really cut things down. i tried :-)

as i was about to put the boxes in storage spence came across my jr. high and high school officer sweaters. of course he had to put them on.

sometimes i wish spence had been the boy i feel in love with in jr. high. always looked up to and secretly crushed on until high school. then in high school we would have dated, gone to dances together and fallen in love. after two years of beautiful letters he would return and we could get married and have all our memories together.

but then i remember how fun it has been to share stories with each other. on long drives he'll tell me a story about a time in high school. i realize i never heard that story but now i've just learned something new about my husband of (almost) two years. and then i get happy because i am now a part of that memory. and i share stories with him. i love sharing my stories with him. if spence had been there from the beginning i wouldn't have any good stories to tell!

so here is the point.
going through memories is hard but yet still fun.
and i was able to share all those memories and the things that make me sydney b. with my husband.
and i love him even more for still loving me after some of these jr. high pictures

more from our graduation

remember when the mr. and i graduated?

i do

and we now have the diplomas to prove it

(i'll take a picture of the sweet frames we got to display them)

well....our awesome photographer sister took some great pictures

i've shared some but now i want to share more

don't mind the fact that the graduation robes make me look huge!!!

so now for an overload of grad pictures....

mom this is for you!

yep i played the harp.

i was scared to death but it was such a cool thing hearing myself play

(i've never really heard my harp over the sound system)

we got to walk together

we were close to the beginning and i had to go first = not knowing what i was supposed to do!

my cute husband!

and thats us....on the stage... it was a cool experience being able to see all our friends and family!

it was such a great day

thanks laura for the great pictures!!!!

graduation pictures of the mr. and mrs.

so spencers cute little sister took some grad pictures for the mr. and i

i want to send out announcements this week so i need your help...

which one of these do you like best?

and please forgive me for wearing a byu shirt....

it comes with being alumni sadly ;-)

i'm making graduation annoucements tonight....

i'll post a picture when i'm done

oh and guess what

i'm playing the harp at graduation

pretty fun eh?

i'm scared to death but i think it will be a great experience

good thing i'm not graduating with the music majors

our new little toy

the mr. and mrs. are now proud owners of one of these pretty little things.
spence has wanted one forever and so as a special surprise for graduating i got him one.

you should have seen his face when he opened up the box with the case, he was so confused.
and then you should have seen his face when i had him open the box with the actual ipad in it.

we skipped out on a movie so we could play with our new little toy
(okay technically it's the mr.'s toy but i can pretend it's mine too)

yeah know we're newlyweds supposed to be saving our moneis but....
i think it's okay to be irresponsible newlyweds every once in a while.
soon enough we'll be paying med school debt so why not pay it while playing with our ipad ;-)

man i love having reasons to celebrate. thanks for graduating babe!

a proud mrs.

the mr. and i are celebrating tonight....

but shh....

he doesn't know.

we're celebrating something big

wanna hear what it is?

the mr. is graduating! 

yep. my cute spence is officially done with his undergrad. 

he can't actually graduate until april (we'll both walk together)

but he is done.

and i couldn't be more proud.

he worked so hard.

a degree in economics and he is pre-med 

usually people just do bio for pre-med.

my man did basically two majors.

and is graduating with a stellar gpa (more than his little wife can say).

so the point of this post....

i am so proud and grateful for all his hard work. byu is hard but spence worked even harder.

he has done so much already for our family.

one day he'll be a great doctor.

but today he's a great husband.

congrats baby! you made it!

now lets celebrate!!!!

(yep i even made you a congrats banner, you know how much i love banners!)