the allens

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Class of 2010

We spent the last 2 days celebrating Owen's GRADUATION from BYU. Owen's parents came in from Texas to celebrate the big day. It's always fun to have parents in town...thanks for coming! I couldn't be more proud of him and we are both excited for what ever life brings us after this. So here are come pics from both the commencement and convocation exercises:

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Spring + Wedding

This past weekend I got to go back to AZ for my older brother's wedding. Owen had to stay here in UT for finals so I flew solo all weekend. One thing I learned is that mini-vacations are not as fun when he is not with me. But I still managed to have a good time at the wedding and spending time with some family.

The wedding + reception at Val Vista Lakes

Jessica + Alyssa

Dustin + His Groomsmen

Angela + Dustin

Stella + Flower Girl

My family - the twins

The WHOLE family - the twins + Owen

I also got to spend some time with Owen's sister, Dawn, and this cute girl:

Irelyn + making rolls = messy! But I do miss this little girl A TON

Before I left for the weekend, Owen surprised me with this fun concert in SLC:

Owl City

Love my concert buddy

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Summer of Temples

My dear friend Erin and I (along with Owen) have made a goal for ourselves this summer...visit and do a session in all of the temples in Utah. My new found love for the temple has come from reading this book:

I fell IN LOVE with this book. I first started reading it at my sister-in-laws house and I could not put it down. I had to order one for myself too. The author draws a beautiful picture of each temple and gives a history of its preparation, building, and dedication of each one. But my favorite part about the book are the amazing stories of sacrifice, miracles and heavenly guidance that occurred for each temple building. It truly gives me a testimony of the importance of temple work on this earth. The stories of the first temples built are so inspiring to me. The amount of faith that the these people must have had for our Heavenly Father and his work is greater than I can imagine. My favorite stories will be coming to the blog soon.

Salt Lake Temple Session...one temple down...ten more to go!

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Just so everyone knows. I have the best wife ever. -Owen

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Adios Twins

The twins reported to the MTC this afternoon. Taylor going to Paraguay, Preston going to Argentina. Sterling and I got to drop them off. Adios for two years twins!

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Spiders and Sleep

The other morning I woke up to a HUGE spider on our bed. I opened my eyes to a semi-dark room and saw the thing climbing up the corner of our bed. The thing looked kind of like this:

I jumped over Owen screaming spider! and ran to the bedroom door way. I stayed there and screamed and jumped up and down and pointed while Owen tried to find the thing. I COULD NOT understand what was taking him so long to find and kill the spider. It was HUGE and right in front of his face, jumping from the bed and back to the wall. I had never seen anything so big and scary that moved so fast and I couldn't understand how it got into our house. Finally after a few minutes of frantically searching, Owen yelled to me "How big is it!?" and I showed him by making my hands to about the size of a x-large pepperoni pizza. He stared at me for a second and then started laughing. Really hard.

I looked back to the bed for the spider and it was gone. And Owen was still laughing. I read the other week that lack of sleep brings hallucinations. I think I need more sleep. I don't want to wake up to spiders anymore, real or sleep-deprieved made-up ones.