home sweet home.

last weekend courtney and i ventured back to our home land.

the dear old saint george.

oh how i miss that place. 

i actually don't miss the town that much.

mostly i just really miss the people that i had to leave there.

the main reason for this little weekend trip was that our dear friend taylor got home from his mission.

we were more than excited to see him!

before i moved to college i did a very bad thing to the golden carpet (my car).

i didn't check the oil. 

it ran bone dry.

the guy at the car shop said i was lucky golden carpet didn't burn up.  

poor little car.

dad was pretty upset and even more concerned that i was going to fry my car up when i moved and didn't have him to check it for me.

so.....for the two weeks leading up to me moving i received the same "check your oil" lecture almost daily.

i guess you could say it stuck.

even the mazzarati (court's car) benefits from those oil lectures.

 our drive was full of singing and heartfelt talks.

 goodness sakes i love this girl!

ok, ok so i don't know all the words.
throw a tomato at me if you want.


one of the other very important things on our list for the weekend was to meet a special little lady.

baby taisley rae. 

she is perfect in every sense of the word.

her mother, tessie is a dear friend of mine. she was on jetettes (the drill/dance team) in high school and then tried out for rebelettes and danced with me this past year at the college.

she welcomed taisley to this world three weeks ago.

i fell in love with her the minute i saw her. 

she is teensy tiny and oh so precious.

annnnd.....tessie already looks absolutely amazing for just having a baby.

this picture.....is too precious for words. 

feel free to get a warm fuzzy inside while looking at it.

looking into such pure eyes cannot be beat.

after meeting baby taisley court and i went on a date with her cousin and one of his companions from the mission. 

no pictures were taken but it was surely a date to remember.

we got stuck in traffic on our way to mesquite for over an hour. 

you may be thinking that this would be irritating but we just all chatted jammed and chatted some more.

finally an exit came, of course we took it.

headed right back to saint george and continued our chatting and jamming at dixie bowl.

everyone said i lost.

they just forgot that bowling is scored like golf.

lowest score wins. right? right.

as soon as the date was over we went and picked up tay!

holy cow it was good to see him.

we basically ran to his front door and attacked him when he opened it.

here we are back in the high school days....

seems like only yesterday that we were saying goodbye to him.

it went by pretty fast but now that he is home we can't get enough of him!

having him home makes me that much more excited to have all our friends home.

court and i have already been writing them all telling them they have to move to provo.

with tay in stow we headed to menchies to meet up with a bunch of other friends.

this stud is troy ogilve.

he was on ambassadors at dixie state with me, is an absolute sweetheart and i just adore him!

 sunday was taylor's homecoming talk. 

he did amazing, even got me to tear up a little bit.

can't wait to be to all of their talks and have a picture with us all together again.

until then court and i will just smother tay and keep in tough with their mothers like we have for two years.

 we love our boys and we love their moms almost as much as we love them!

samuel wade platt even came and visited me after the homecoming.
we went outside and did handstands on my front lawn in the pouring rain.
now that my dears, is a good friendship!

and of course the time i spent with my family was fantastic.

it was really hard for me to leave them this time. 

i haven't been very homesick at all while living up here but it really hit me sunday when i left.

i started crying the second court told me she was on her way to pick me up.

being with my brothers was wonderful. 

i feel like every time i leave and come home they grow so much. 

when i first graduated high school i wanted to move out so bad but i am so glad that i didn't because i built such a great relationship with my brothers those two years extra that i was at home.

now if i think about them too long i get all emotional and start sending them annoying big sister texts.

goodness sakes i love them.

 needless to say...it was a very busy but oh so rewarding weekend at home. 

can't wait to go back!