heather's wedding!

My little sis got married. It was so fun to be there, even though it was a quick trip. Here's pics!

Studly brother. Comes out to UT in ONE WEEk for school. So excited!



Beginnings of the candy counter. Didn't get a finished shot.



Mmmmm. Chipotle. :)

Me and my Mama!

The wedding was outside in my parent's backyard. It was a perfect day :)

Hope you are all doing well!
xo

Nat

I'm still alive

Hey friends!

I survived April. And this was the result:

And I got to celebrate with these lovely people:

Then I went to New York, which was heaven. That deserves it's own picturey-post soon.

I have had such mixed feelings with moving on with life after getting a Bachelor's degree. Change is always scary, but always ends up being for the better, doesn't it? I am so, so, so grateful to have gotten the chance to finish school. I think most women who get married at the age of 20 don't get that luxury. I did, thanks to so many people. Especially my sweet parents. Anyone who knows my parents know that they are probably the coolest people on the planet. Truly. Alex and I both agree that our life goal is to be exactly like my parents (or as close as we can get to it). They have helped me so much along the way. I will be thanking them for all of eternity for all they have done for me and my own family unit.

I'm glad that I went through the graduation experience. I attended commencement as well as my specific graduation. I got to do it with my friends, as well as listen to amazing, inspiring speakers. In case you didn't know, a graduation in the arts is the best. Totally. I graduated with Dance and Music majors. There were beautiful performances. It was by far the most entertaining graduation ceremony I have ever been too. It was fun sitting my friends too.

Thinking back on my education, I wish I would have enjoyed it more. Granted, I loved college - most of the time - but I wish I would have enjoyed the hard parts more. I don't regret any decisions I made during college, though. Thinking back on the 18 year old Natalie fresh out a high school, I am such a different woman now. I am a wife, a performer, a teacher, and (hopefully) a better friend and member of the church. I am so grateful for everything I have been blessed with over the last four years.

I have been given countless blessings countless time, and I can not thank my Heavenly Father enough for it. And thank you, significant people in my life, for all of your love and support. I finished. I really did. Who would have thought. :)

xoxo

Nat

The Testing Center can't even handle me right now

Although my official Divine Comedy days are behind me, Alex and I got to do something awesome with them yesterday. For a music video they are working on, they needed a large crowd to come and turn the testing center into a club. That's right, we had a dance party. In the testing center. Where tests are taken. It was so, so fun, and an experience I will tell my kids about when they're at BYU.

In further news, here's a picture update of our December. Sorry it takes me so long to update this thing! I'll be better. I promise.

They had a nice little goodbye moment for me in the middle of the last show. Tears were inevitable.

Weirdos.



These lovely people cam into town for my last show. (Well, it was just Mom and Josh who came in to town.)



We had the chance to go to the Christmas Devotional. So awesome,

We took a stroll around temple square. It was gorgeous, as always.

The weekend before finals I hosted a DC girls sleepover. Tons of fun, and very little sleep. :)



Then, after finals, we headed to MN! We spent a lot of time with these awesome people.



Played in the snow. A lot.

The Jazz where playing Minnesota while we were there, so I got Alex tickets for his anniversary gift!
It was tons of fun!

We got to Skype wiht Ty on Christmas!

Did a lot of laying around and watching Thr Grinch. :)

Merry Christmas! :)

 

And lots of puzzling.

My camera died on Christmas, but we also celebrated Alex's birthday and had a really fun New Year's party.

 

It was a blast, and now we're back to reality. Darn. :)

Hope you're all doing well, and are enjoying your three day weekend :)

Monk Reunion 2010

We had the chance to go to a reunion for my Mom's family -- we do it every other summer. It's totally heaven!

We took a red-eye flight to get there -- here's the view as we were landing in the JFK airport. It was actually kind of fun!

The view from our room :)

Our first night there :)

My cute parents!

This is how Nora looked most of the time!

Thomas siblings :)

The whole family! :)

Thomas girls

Cute Neve

Tommy Boy :)

Our movie this year was Pirates!

Nice tan line, eh? :)

Then we got stuck in Chicago -- they put us up in a hotel, it was actually really fun! We had an extra day of vacation.

We can't wait to go back, and we miss all our Monk family members! :)

P.S.: Here's a picture of the Cilantro Lime Quesadillas I made a while ago

Yum! :)