The HayDrews Strike Back!

   My years at BYU were crowned with one amazing year living in the same complex as my sister and her husband, Peter.  Our apartments were separated by a parking lot so we could yell at each other as we pulled in or if we saw the other leaving the other apartment.

   Every night we played Supersmash Brothers together until I said "2 more games!  I'm the only one who works and who has to get up early!"  We would eat together, watch movies every weekend, and I would drive them all to school on my way to my first teaching job.  

   It was the year I have saudades* for.  I crave how things were but with kids and distance, things are never quite the same.  We have a fun time trying, though.

This visit included...

A Christmas Eve visit to IKEA!  Turns out that is the best time to go- it was practically empty.

Copious amounts of Mario Kart and Supersmash Brothers. I'll have you know I kicked everyone's ox (the first night).

The now annual HHH Christmas Eve Talent Show- Peter joined in as well as the kids.  

Walks around Stone Mountain

HHH Christmas Eve

Peter and Emily came with us to celebrate Steven and my 6th anniversary.  He took me to the Local 3 because they had fancy popcorn on the appetizer menu.  And UGLY LIGHTING, AM I RIGHT?? Yikes to us

   I feel so blessed to have such amazing friends that also happen to be our family.  Emily and I understand each other... our lives as well as our speech when we laugh so hard and no one else can understand what we are saying :)

  Love me some Andrews.

*Saudade is a Portuguese word that has no direct translation in English. It describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing will never return