Monday, October 26, 2009

Yoga

When I lived in Santa Barbara, my good friend Meredith got me hooked on Bikram Yoga during my junior year. For those of you who aren't familiar with Bikram Yoga, it's a 90 minute, 26 posture series practiced in a room heated to 105 degrees. Once I got married, I couldn't really afford to go anymore, so I haven't been in about 9 months. Well there's a studio here by my apartment and they have an introductory special that's 30 days unlimited for $28. I recently made friends with a couple girls in my ward and they wanted to start going! I do much better with exercise when I have someone doing it with me. I went this morning at 6 AM and it was great! It was very early, and hot, but I'm going to fall in love with it again.

In other news, Bryce graduated! He starts his trek to Texas tomorrow!!!!!!!

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Let the Countdown Begin

I absolutely cannot wait to see his face in person. 10 days.


Monday, October 19, 2009

Things I Miss

1. Bryce
2. Angie and Maren
3. My parents
4. Fall in Ogden
5. Being able to hear the ocean from my apartment
6. Reading my textbooks on the beach
7. Riding my bike to school
8. My dog
9. Watching SYTYCD with Melinda
10. Tennis
11. Amber and Rosie
12. Yoga
13. Photo adventures
14. Playing with friends until all hours
15. Silvergreens
16. Blenders (not the appliance)
17. State Street
18. Movies at the Arlington
19. Temple Square
20. Jakes over the top
21. Temari
22. Sitting in front of the fireplace at my parents' house
23. Driving down the 101
24. Mountains
25. Family dinners

This list isn't complete. But as you can see, I miss California and Utah. A lot. *sigh*

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Dear Austin...

Dear Austin Weather,

Please decide whether you would like to be 100 degrees and humid, raining so hard my windshield wipers can't go fast enough, overcast and 60 degrees, foggy, or 75 and perfectly pleasant. I would really appreciate it if you would take your bipolar medication, it would help everyone out.

Sincerely,

Alison

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Maren!

My big sister Maren came out to Austin last week to play with me. We had a lot of fun! We did a lot of eating, watching chick flicks, and shopping!!! If you ever come to Austin you MUST go to the outlet mall in San Marcos. It's ridiculously huge. Over 200 stores. We kept thinking we reached the end of the mall to discover tons more stores. We shopped for six hours and barely scratched the surface. Guess that means she has to come back??? There were some awesome deals. So much fun. I didn't take that many pictures and the ones I did take need a little bit of explaination. hahahaha.

She will probably kill me for this, but oh well. So when Maren got here the first night, we went out to dinner and then came home to watch Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (disappointing). Maren took off her shoes, which were Mary Janes to reveal that her feet had totally swollen up! I was dying I was laughing so hard. It was so funny. She had to ice them to get the swelling to go down. We figured it was from travelling?


I should have taken a before picture of this but I didn't think that far ahead. This is my beloved pink beach cruiser that I rode to school in Santa Barbara for 4 years. After that much time on the coast, my poor bike was looking a little sad. The handle bars were seriously rusted, my basket was starting to rust, and it just needed some cleaning up. Cue Maren. We went to the hardware store and bought some paint and while I was at school, Maren made it look like new! It's just so cute.


I love this picture. Maren's favorite holiday is Halloween and Target was full of awesome decorations and costumes. We found this sweet mask in the dollar bins. I don't know why she didn't buy it. It looks amazing. Oh Mer.


Miss you already!