"You told me the Cookie Monster was one of the Seven Deadly Sins."

Diane's visit has come and gone but it was "Beautiful. Wish you were here." :D We seriously had so much fun! It was jam packed with beautiful amazing fun. Here is the short version of the trip:
Thursday:
-Breakfast in Concord
-Walden Pond (Gorgeous colors!!)
-Picking pumpkins (which I will get pictures of them, since i was crazy and carved them...)
-Salem Ghost tour (so cool!!)
-2 pieces of cheesecake--delicious!!
Friday:
-Boston
-Freedom Trail
-Cambridge/Harvard
Saturday:
-Drove up to Ogunquit, Maine
-The freezing beach
-Perkins Cove
-Cape Neddick/Nubble Lighthouse at Sunset
-Lobster Pound--yes. LOBSTER. as in I, ABBEY BICKMORE, ate a lobster. well, 3/4 a lobster.
-2 MORE pieces of cheesecake..yum...
Sunday:
-Merginal Walk aka cliff walk along the beach
-Spur of the moment decision to go to Providence, RI
-Walked around Brown University Campus
-Back in Reading, MA played "spit" as per usual :D

It was so much fun!!! I miss her already but I'm so glad she came! It was a blast and I don't remember the last time I laughed that much! Love you much Di!

Don't even know how to explain that properly...

Even though the "pose" is excessively cheesy and senior portrait-y, it emphasizes how GREAT i feel i look...

Okay. I'm done. oh, and of course, there are TONS more pictures on flickr...I am my mother's daughter... :D

"Oh wait I've thought of some. Jerk. Ass. Arrogant inconsiderate, mindless frat-boy low-life buttfaced miscreant!"

I'm stealing my wonderful mother's idea from her blog and now will be making my own wish list!

I would consider my life lived to the fullest if I can travel here
I would love a pair of these
I wish this family could be home (meaning UT)
I want this job desperately
I want to accomplish this by 2011
I want this to be here faster so I can see my mom
I want to someday meet him
But more than anything else I hope to find this

That is my 21 yr old wish list...
however, 2 wishes I couldn't find links for:
1-I wish that Louisiana was closer to Utah
2-I wish that my little brother be safe and happy but home fast!

Okay...that is it...

"Now whats on the agenda for today. I hear there's a shipment of plutonium coming in on the docks."

I went whale watching today and it was so fun!!! At the closest, I was 4o feet from a whale. How freakin cool is that????
I went on Lori (my boss)'s brother Rick's boat (does that even make sense???) with him, his wife, his and Lori's brother Chuck, and their friend Denise. Being on a boat is very relaxing and it was a seriously beautiful day. I am surprisingly exhausted considering all I did was relax on a boat on the ocean for like 6 hours and watch birds and whales...I probably say 10 to 12 whales today. Very very cool...I loved every minute of it! It's okay guys, I give you permission to be jealous. :D haha

"You sound distracted, did something cute just walk by?"

September 27-28th I went camping with my ward (aka 100 people) in Sharon, VT which is where Joseph Smith was born, hence the church trip. It was so beautiful and so much fun!! I took way to many pictures of the bonfire-esque fire we had but it had been so long since i had been camping that I was beyond thrilled to be there! I made a lot more friends and had a blast with the ones I already had. I love the East Coast in the fall!! The colors in the trees are beautiful and the nice crisp air...ah! wonderful...
Okay, so the pictures are as follows-the pond near the Sharon, VT church, a bunch of ppl by the still growing fire, some of the campsite (girls-most-stayed in cabins, boys stayed in tents; i stayed in a tent...), me pretending to punch my friend neil in the jaw, one of my many fire pictures, people standing around the fire as it started to drizzle rain, ppl sitting by the fire, where we had the fire-next day, Joseph Smith Memorial-one foot for each year he was alive. It was a great trip, and now I can add Vermont to my list of "states visited". :D
Okay, I'm done.

"Maureen told me that Howard Stern said that if you squat, it makes the baby come out faster."

This post is to basically say:


to Isley!!!


I'm so friggin excited for you guys! I love you both
and I know that you will be blessed
beyond your wildest dreams because
of this wonderful child.
Congrats and I hope that mom and baby are doing well
and to see pictures on the Nitty Gritty very soon! :D
AND I can't wait to see my new nephew at Christmas!
I love you guys and I already miss my new boy!

"Oh, that would be the year the pumpkins arrived late."

Friday September 19, 2008
I took Connor and Drew on a VERY
New England adventure:
APPLE PICKING!
Holy crap it was SO MUCH FUN!
Connor was having such a blast picking his very own apples that he was on FANTASTIC behavior which allowed me to also have a wonderful
time! We got to pick a PECK (haha)
of apples and a carton of raspberries
and a couple of little pumpkins
(because it's too early for Halloween
size big ones!). It was perfect weather
and it was absolutely BEAUTIFUL!
Everyone--it is officially fall! :D
We had so many DELICIOUS apples
to take home that we didn't know what
to do with them all, so I thought how
wonderful would it be to make Grandma
Orme's apple pie! So I did! Officially and
completely all by myself! Homemade pie
crust and all! It was SCRUMPTIOUS, if
I do say so myself! :D just LOOK at it!!!

"For the second time. Mom, it's a pretend wedding. J.Lo has them all the time!"

**For my 100th post (finally got there!! :D), my title quote is from the 100th episode of Gilmore Girls titled (conveniently...) "Wedding Bell Blues" ...not that there was ANYTHING sad about the below information...**

























Pictures are worth a thousand words...
Ashley Wilson (now West)'s wedding
Saturday, September 20, 2008
This was a wedding that I just could NOT miss. Ash has been such a wonderful friend of mine for many many years and I am so very happy for her. She looked so beautiful and happy. David is a great guy and I'm really happy that they've found each other. Congrats ashley and david! :D
And I'm SO happy that I was trusted with the music for their wedding reception. If i do say so myself, I did a FABULOUS job. haha :D

but just to break it down for ya'll my trip home for this wonderful event:
Saturday (sept. 20):
4:30 am-on the way to Boston Logan International Airport
6:00 am-left BLIA to JFK
9:00 am-left JFK for SLC
11:50 am- LANDED in SLC for a 1:30 (start time) temple wedding
1:30-3:00-Temple pictures
3:30-5:15-hung out w/ Isley and saw curtis and deacon for a nano second!
5:30-8:30-the reception...where YES I did meet old but now new friend, KC...
8:30-midnight-hung out with KC, his cousin Devin, and a saw Isley (again :D) and Sophie and Deacon for another nano second!
Sunday (sept. 21):
2-3 AM-hung out w/ dustin and bryce
7:30 am-on the way to SLC Airport
9:00 am-left SLC for JFK
5:30 pm-left JFK for BLIA
7:20 pm-home in Reading, MA.
8:30 pm-exhausted, I fell asleep.

It was an intense day. Wow. But I am so very glad that I went. It was ABSOLUTELY worth it.

Oh and a random taste of my "playlist" for the wedding was:
Van Morrison "Have I told you Lately"
Beatles "All you Need is Love"
Nat King Cole "Unforgettable"
Paul McCartney "Maybe I'm Amazed"
Billy Joel "She's Got a Way"
Joe Cocker "You Are So Beautiful"
Edwin McCain "I'll Be"
Celine Dion "When I Fall In Love"
Peter Gabriel "In Your Eyes"
Eric Clapton "Wonderful Tonight"
**the playlist was 60 songs aka 4 hrs...**