I can tell by the smell of the tuna fish trees.
They're making a comeback.
Let's catch up.
Starting with the K-dawg's birthday. My dear friend Keenan turned the big 22! Woot woot!
We bought him a present to open almost every hour of the day. It was great. His mom made us all a yummy dinner and we enjoyed desserts and just the Keenster himself. What a guy.
Thursday was one of the greatest days. EVER.
Aaron and I decided last minute to go to the Andy Grammer/Train/Mat Kearney concert in Salt Lake.
Best decision I've ever made.
I have had a bit of an obsession lately with Andy.
We were stoked. Clearly.
When Andy Grammer came on stage I thought I was going to pee my pants.
Dying. Just dying.
HE WAS SO GOOD LIVE!!!
Starting off with "The Pocket?" Great choice, Andy. We were probably the biggest Gramm man fans there. We knew all his songs unlike the impostor fans that just knew "Fine By Me" and "Keep Your Head Up."
During his song "Slow" he started to walk out into the audience and HE WALKED RIGHT NEXT TO US!!
Next was Mat Kearney! I only knew a couple of his songs but holy cow!! He was incredible! He walked into the crowd at one point and walked right by us too! This time my brain was actually functioning so I reached out and touched him. Yeah. I went there.
Train was awesome! The fans were going nuts for them. They were way better live than I expected. I'm now on the Train train. Choo Choo.
Towards the end of the concert we were getting a little tired and had more fun watching the crazy people around us than Train. The variety of people at this concert was....incredible. 50 year old men in running shoes who knew every word. Grandmothers with sweaters tied around their waist and beers in their hands. Teenage girls in colored skinny jeans. You name it. They were all represented.
So after the concert we lingered for a bit and saw a security guard blocking off a fence. This lady asked him if they could get through because they wanted to get to their car. He was hesitant but then said that he could let people through so we went in with a little group. Then we saw a trailer. Then we saw a small group crowded around this trailer. Then we saw him. ANDY GRAMMER. We rushed over to him and the small group of people trying to take pictures with him. I whipped out my camera and we asked some kids to take a picture of us with him. I walked up to Andy first and he put his arm around me. Let me say that again, HE PUT HIS ARM AROUND ME. That's basically a side hug! What what!! Aaron stood on the other side of him and we took the best picture to ever be taken.
We talked to him for a little bit. Here's how it went down...
Carlie: We basically came to the concert just for you.
Aaron: We love your song "The Pocket."
Andy: Oh yeah? That's like my favorite one!
Carlie and Aaron: Yeah! Us too.
Carlie: I was a little sad you didn't sing "Biggest Man in Los Angeles."
Andy: Oh yeah. That's a good one. Next time!
Carlie: Yeah next time! I love you. Marry me, please? Please, Andy.
Andy: Sure, yeah why not? Let's get married in the morning. Also, I want to become a Mormon.
Something like that.
If you want to know how I reacted, watch this from 1:10 on.
Exactly how I reacted.
So happy. I had to warn Aaron a couple times on the car ride home that I was going to scream...and scream I did. We got frosty's and talked for a good hour about our Andy encounter. What. A. Day.
So. Friday I was wasted. I'm not sure what a hangover feels like, but pretty sure it was pretty similar to the way I was feeling. Andy Grammer had drained all my energy.
The whole day I studied and studied and studied and studied for my stats test. I went in to take my test around 7:45 that night. I am the slowest test taker to ever hit BYU campus so it took me a long time. I had made multiple plans for Friday night....and missed all of them. Thanks, Stats 121. It had been a bit of a rough day and by the end of my test my brain was fried. I walked down the stairs of the testing center to find a note with my name on it attached to some candy. I literally started crying. I found out later that night that it was from my good friend Trevor Smith. Then I walked out the door and saw my score on the screen.......drum roll please....98%!!! WHAT'S GOOD. I was so happy. I immediately went home, put my sweats on, and was welcomed with a chocolate chip cookie from Aaron. People are too good to me. Then I spent some quality late night roommate time with Mad. Enough said.
Saturday morning---afternoon---Madi and I made a Wal-Mart run.You know those funny pictures of the crazy types of people you see at Wal-Mart? Pretty sure we were those people.
That night I went to Aaron's BYU Men's Chorus concert with his family. The concert was so good! It brought me back to the high school choir days. I'm convinced that one of the choir directors called up Disney channel and asked if she could borrow Lizzie McGuire's dress from the Lizzie McGuire movie. I was just waiting for her to rip off her skirt and have the purplish blue sparkly pants underneath. Didn't happen. Maybe next concert.
Afterwards we went out to get some frozen yogurt with Aaron's family. So fun!
Sunday we got to go to the Brigham City temple dedication broadcast. I can only remember going to one of these before so it was a really cool experience. I had never heard the Marriott center so quiet!
Afterwards we had a little indexing party and then the gang all went over to Keenan's house in Highland for dinner with his family. It was a blast. Dinner was delicious and we had so much fun talking and playing games with his family. Thanks, Larsen Fam!
Then off to dinner number 2 with the Wray Clan. The Story's are nice enough to have the cousins over almost monthly for dinner. All the Provo/Highland kids came. The theme this time was "harvest foods," so I made a mean sweet potato dish. Yum. We played the "Who's in your family?" game multiple times. I love Wray get together's.
Then back to the Colon where we continued our marathon with HSM 2. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Monday. School. Work. Then FHE where we made weird goop stuff and played with it and somehow related it to the gospel.
And then practiced giving each other piggy back rides.
I went to Madi's house with her to watch their favorite show. Mostly I just wanted to play with her dog. I miss Toby.
Tuesday. I got a call from my friend Celeste Ripley from AZ saying that she was in Utah and was stopping in Provo! What a great surprise! It was so fun to get the Arizona girls back together. I missed them so much.
Wednesday. I got to go to Aubrie's ultrasound! Little nephew Butler was being naughty and not wanting to cooperate with the doctor but he just looked so cute. I CAN'T WAIT to meet him. That baby is going to see so much of me that he will probably think I'm his mom. February 5th needs to come fast!
When I got home, Aaron had made me dinner. What?! How lucky am I?? It was so good.
Then we went to the library to study. And by study I mean Aaron studied while I skyped Rachel and pretended to be productive. Don't worry. My grades are rockin this semester.
Thursday was National Chocolate Milk day! You KNOW Mads and I celebrated that. Beverage of choice right there.
Friday night I accompanied Aaron to a mission get-together out in the middle of nowhere. But really. We had dinner and visited with a couple of his old mission buddies and a senior couple that served too and then watched a John Wayne movie all together :)
Saturday and Sunday were so great. I don't want a novel right now though so we'll save that for a later date.
Happy Monday and Happy October!!!
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