To Landon from Holly: Remember That Time...

So, I was looking through my pictures, wondering if I should put some of them on Facebook and trying to organize them, and I noticed all of these great pictures that I had forgotten.  Here's a small trip down memory lane.

 When we went to the Vineyard with Darek and made out in the truck while we waited for him?

When we tried to stuff ourselves in the desk?

When we went on that super fun trip and spent all day together in that dumb truck but still had a great time?

When we went to the BYU vs. Boise State game and you were a sass and wouldn't touch me on purpose but we still had a great time?

When you put me to bed in the princess bed?

When we went to the Cheesecake Factory for the first of many times?

When we went here and I told you I loved you?

 When I made this nice diagram for you to show you that I do more for you? 

When we went to the Cheesecake Factory (again) and we took this picture and then you took a bite out of the cookie and I was ticked?

When you buried me in this pile of leaves?

When we went on this super awesome road trip to Denver and talked the whole time and had so much fun and arrived at four in the morning?

When we made friends with this llama and talked about getting married?  To each other, not the llama.

When we sat on top of the train car and learned how fun sparkling apple cider can be?

When we/mostly you ate free chicken sandwiches?

When you did this...

And so I did this?

When we got ENGAGED?

When I kissed your cheek with lipstick on so if left a kiss mark?

When you took a ton of pictures of my beautiful ring?

When we wore our snuggies together?

When you got this gem?

When you shot this elk while in your churchies and a leather jacket while looking super hot?

When I asked if you would get this nice puppy for me?  I still want it, by the way.

When we made friends with these sheep?

Thanks for all the great memories, Landon!  I'm looking forward to many more.  

Love you,

Holly

Reality #7

One weekend Landon came home for the weekend.  Notice how all of our stories occur only on the weekends?  That's because that's the only time we ever get to spend together.  Lame.  For quite a while, Landon had been wanting to play in the cotton seed at the dairy.  We actually had time on this particular Friday night, so at around 10:30 we drove out to the dairy.

When we arrived, Landon said we needed to be careful because he didn't want anyone to get the wrong idea. So we had to sneak around.  We climbed up to the top of the cotton and got situated with our blanket.  All of a sudden, some dumb guy showed up with the loader.  Landon assured me the guy wasn't going to come to the cotton because they only feed that to the cows in the morning.  But then we could see the lights coming towards us, and I almost peed my pants.  And then the guy came in to get a load, and we could feel the hill shaking.  It was so scary!  I was just imagining a big chunk being taken out, us falling down, the cotton covering us, and me suffocating with cotton in my throat.  It was so bad!!!  But it was really fun, too.  That dumb guy came and got like EIGHT loads.  And every time I almost hyperventilated.  But Landon was so calm and patient; I knew I was going to be okay, for the most part.

Landon said the guy was probably just going to make a batch and he'd probably be there only about another 20 minutes.  Approximately 2 hours later, we thought he was finally leaving.  In the meantime, Landon and I chatted and had a wonderful time.  When the guy finally left, Landon went ahead of me to make sure he was really gone.  When he thought it was clear, he signaled towards me to go.  As I was going across, that dumb guy came back, and I had to hurry and hide.  I was SO afraid that he was going to shine his light on me, and I was going to be completely alone just standing there super awkwardly.  Then he left and I was able to find Landon.  And then the guy came back again!!! So we had to climb up in some other junk that was like dark brown sand.  And it gone in our shoes and everywhere and made a mess.  We finally made it back to the car, about 3 hours later than we were originally planning.  What a crazy adventure!

On Saturday, Derek took us flying and later we went and swam in the hot springs.  Here are some pictures.

                                                               Brent & Marilyn's cabin

Reality #6 - Holly's Perspective

One weekend, Landon was going to Lava Hot Springs to stay at his Uncle Brent's cabin (not to be confused with Uncle Tom's cabin).  Landon really wanted me to go, but Makenzie was coming home for the weekend, and I already had plans with her and my mom.  But I really wanted to go too, so I figured out a way to go.  But I kept it a surprise from Landon :).

On Thursday I decided I would be able to go, so I called Derek to figure everything out with him and told him to not tell Landon.  On Thursday and Friday, I kept having to tell Landon that I wasn't going to be able to go, and it was really, really hard because I wanted to tell him so bad.  On Thursday Landon got a new phone and he said he wanted to come home to get it, but it was mostly just to see me.  But I had to tell him no because I was already planning on going.  He sounded so sad when I told him that Derek could just bring it and it would be a waste of time and gas.  But I really didn't want to ruin the surprise.

I left Friday after work and Landon and Darek left Rexburg around the same time.  I met Brent and Derek and everyone else a little outside of Lava and followed them to the cabin.  Because they had stopped in Pocatello to get something to eat, Landon and Darek were already there.  We had to unload the snowmobiles at the bottom of the hill.  As everyone else was doing that, I was parking my car because Baby couldn't make it up the hill.  Then Landon came down on one of the snowmobiles and said hi to Whitney and then noticed me and my car.  I gave him a hug, and it was so nice.  He said he felt really bad for thinking that I didn't love him enough.  I proved him wrong.

Then we went up to the cabin and unloaded all of our stuff and hung out for a little bit.  We were going to go swimming that night, but it was too late, so we decided to go snowmobiling instead.  It was so fun!  The weather was pretty warm, so it rained almost the whole time.  When we got back (at like 12:30), Darek made us really good pancakes, and then we played Schum, which Landon and I dominated at.  By this time, it was really late but we decided to watch a movie anyways.  But we both fell asleep almost right away.

The next morning, I woke up pretty early and I couldn't fall back asleep so I went and jumped on Landon to wake him up.  We chatted and had a bed party and talked about lots of fun things.  Then we went into town to get breakfast, and it was waaaay good.  

Reality #6

One weekend landon was going up to Lava hot springs to stay at his uncles cabin and he really wanted holly to go but she couldnt because she had plans with her family. Landon was super sad and he complained alot but then when he showed up to the cabin guess who was there to surprise him!? HOLLY!! he was super excited and felt really bad that he had complained So much. ( that was really nice of you holly, I love you a lot and I'm grateful you put up with me haha) Any how they had a party that night playing cards and night riding and watching a movie and eating pancakes. and then the next day they got up and had breakfast and she went home. I would say if we have one thing in common its our love to be surprised. I will always love that a ton! I hope you do to.

Reality #5

I added this pic in just for fun.

One weekend (last) Landon came home on thursday to kick of an awesome 4 day weekend with holly. They started it off by going to landon's neices birthday party and then the next day after Holly got off work they went snomobiling in the field behind Landon's house. It was super cold out side but they both sucked it up and went anyways. Landon found out that night that holly is not only a really good side by side drive but also a class sledder! After sledding Landon and Holly went with Derek and a girl and Austin to Durfee Hot springs where they spent the rest of the evening de-geling (defrosting) their bodies in the hot springs. It was suuuuuuuper nice. The next day was saturday so they got up and met each other for lunch at noon with Landon's family because his parents were going off somewhere fun with out the kids...again. Anyhow at about 2:00 Derek, Holly and Landon All left and went snowmobiling at pomerelle. The air was warm and the sun was out and it was a good thing too cuz ding dong landon forgot his snowpants in the dryer, so he just went naked. joke. he had pants on. Anyhow They went sledding and it was super fun and Holly drove some too and discovered that she was a pretty gifted snowmobile driver (shes now preparing for the x-games). After they went snowmobiling they came home got all spruced up and then landon took holly out on a date. They ate a lil mexican food and then went to a really dumb movie called pitch perfect but it was ok because they were in the balcony section so they kissed a lot to pass the time haha. After the movie they made their way back to their homes and went to bed. Then Sunday came around and they were late to church as usual but they got there just in time for the sacrament. Sunday was an uneventful day full of napping and chit chat and muddy-buddies that holly and landon made. Soon Monday rolled around. Landon went and picked up holly at around 9:30 and they returned to his house and made breakfast and danced and played in the kitchen and Holly did this sweet dance to eye of the tiger which landon enjoyed very much. They then went downstairs and finished watching Fantastic mr. fox and then they went upstairs and had a nap. when they woke up it was time for lunch and homework so they spend the rest of the after noon watching netflix (holly) and Doing homework (landon). They then went to visit holly's grandpa who Landon found out is reading an odd western book about a man who is fighting for women strip clubs and then they went to burgers etc. The night was near an end so they rushed back to Landon's house where landon finished his Homework/watched revenge with holly. Then they both settled in and watched the bachelor until Derek and Austin came home. Then they got to play mom and dad and take of their kids. Well eventually it got late and Holly had to go home. So reluctantly Landon carried holly out to the car and they drove home. But wait it wasnt over yet before holly left the car. Landon and Holly kinda broke a world record and kissed for 3 minutes and 30 seconds. Then they kissed for real for a bit and They said I love you to each other and the Magical weekend was over. The End. I love you Holly.

Reality #4

I know this is hard to believe, but there was actually a time when Landon and I weren't dating.  This particular story takes time during this point in our lives.

One weekend, Landon was getting ready to go to Hawaii and was flying out of Salt Lake.  He decided it would be a good idea to stop by and visit me.  We planned to have a date night, with different people as our dates.  We went to see the second Sherlock Holmes movie and had dinner at the mall after Megan and Landon took a million years to find parking.

After the movie, Landon, being the brilliant man he is, had the great idea to go to the Capital building and drink sparkling apple cider on the steps.  I should have known then that he was a magical person.

When we arrived at the Capital, we saw a few cop cars driving around but didn't think much of it.  We got to the top and were drinking our apple cider.  Then a car drove up on the steps! and I started getting a little scared inside.  Then a man walked up and we realized it was a cop.  He asked us if we'd seen anyone walking around, and we said no.

We continued to have a merry time, and then another guy came walking around and asked us again if we'd seen anyone walking around. Again, we said no.  Then someone asked why they kept asking us that and if something was going on.  He said there was a man running around that they were looking for, but he said they couldn't tell us why they were looking for him.  And that's when my mind started going crazy, and I thought there was a killer on the loose.  Everyone tried to play it off like it was nothing, but I think we were all a little freaked out.  We quickly drank the rest of the bottle and ran back to our cars.

We never found out who the cops were looking for and what he had done.  Anti-climatic, I know.  Sorry.  It was crazy, though.

Reality #3

Once upon a time, when Holly and Landon were dating for the first time, Landon made a special trip to Salt Lake to visit Holly.  They had a wonderful day filled with fun and adventure.  They met up with some of Landon's friends to have dinner and to see the very last Harry Potter movie in 3D!  After that, they went to McDonald's to get a little treat.

That weekend, Landon had received special permission to bring the beloved Porsche down to Salt Lake in order to impress Holly and woo her.  It kind of worked.  She thought he was pretty hot in that thing. But he's also hot not in it, too.

Now this particular McDonald's was in a pretty sketchy part of downtown.  It is right next to Pioneer Park, a super creepy place to be at night because all of the bums and drunkards and druggies hang out there and sleep there.

So Landon and Holly and their friends were enjoying their ice cream when all of a sudden this scary black man came up and started chatting with them.  Holly also noticed that this man smelled kind of funny, not like he hadn't showered in a while but more like he'd been rollin' and then smokin' some doobies and perhaps some other stuff, too.  He asked them for some money.  They said they didn't have any but they could buy him something to eat.  But he still didn't want that.

Then he went on this little rant of how he was underprivileged and they had lots of opportunities ahead of them.  He then happened to look out the window and see the beloved Porsche parked in the parking lot and looked right at Landon and asked him if that was his car.  Landon quickly blatantly lied to the man.  And I'm sure Heavenly Father forgave him because if not, they probably would've been shot.  And that would have been sad.

Eventually, the man left.  Holly and Landon and their friends quickly finished their ice cream.  They said their goodbyes inside the restaurant.  Then Landon instructed Holly to get in the car as quickly as possible and he wasn't going to be a gentleman and open the door because he didn't want them to die.  She forgave him for that because she didn't want him to die.

The end.

Reality #2 - Anti-Adventure

So one weekend I decided to go visit Landon in Rexburg.  On my way there, Baby died.  And I wasn't able to go.  And I was sad.  But Baby made it home safely and hopefully she'll get better soon, so that's good.  They (other people, I guess) say absence makes the heart grow fonder.  My heart is very fond right now.  So you better prepare for lots and lots of kisses next weekend.

Here's a picture of Baby being towed away by my new buddy, Ron from Custom Towing.

Reality #1

Reality #1 - One weekend me and Holly drove to Denver. We left at 6:00 pm and we arrived at 4:00 am.  Check out the photos.