What a fun time I had a few weeks ago in Provo at my brother David's graduation! We're so proud of him. David graduated from BYU in BioChemistry and will be going to medical school next year. I really enjoyed spending time with him, his girlfriend Diana, my brother Albert, and my parents. And thanks Albert and David for humoring me by escorting me on my personal heritage tour. This was the first time I had been back since we moved away nine years ago, so it was fun to take a trip down memory lane.
I also got to visit with Tim's sister Keri and her family, cousins some whom we hadn't seen in eighteen years, Auntie I-Jin and Uncle Ming, was so happy to run into one of my closest childhood friends Mindy York, watched Mission: Impossible 4 at Movies 8 (that brought back memories too!), and stuffed myself with so much yummy food.
Sorry for the long, long post with lots of pictures, but I didn't want to miss anything when I put this into our photo book.
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| We're proud of you, Dave! |
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| Tim and I loved going to Diego's for their amazing chimichangas. Back then it was just a dumpy little shack with no place to sit inside--I was amazed to see it was now a nice restaurant! Too bad the chimichangas weren't as good as I remembered though. |
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| This is where Tim lived when I met him. We had lots of hamburger helper and Kool-aid dinners here :) I also attempted to make pancakes (for the first time) for Tim and his roommates-trying to impress them-and ended up completely burning them. |
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| Our first apartment! Tim used to grill pork chops out on the patio every Sunday night. He also made lots and lots of popcorn in this apartment (can you tell I'm hungry?). |
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| This is my Uncle John's condo that I lived in after moving off campus. Tim and I used to race to the top floor-he would scale the balcony while I would run up the stairs-of course he always won. |
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| My dorm hall! Everything looked exactly the same as it did 14 years ago! |
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| David showing off his claim to fame-the star tutor on the BYU tutoring poster |
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| The practice room where Tim proposed! He played and sang, "From This Moment On"-he had secretly been working on it for about five months! He even had his roommate hide roses in the piano bench. How romantic! |
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| I miss those beautiful mountains |
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| There were over 5,000 graduates! It was neat to see Elder Oaks-he's the one apostle that I've met before. |
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| David with his girlfriend Diana-what a sweet girl! |
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| I snuck into the Eyring Science Center to take a picture of this hall--this is exactly where Tim and I first met, after church one Sunday 13 years ago. |
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| We got to take a quick trip to SLC to see Grandma Shen's painting in the Church History Museum--her artwork got chosen to be in the International Art Exhibit for the third time! |
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| Doesn't my mom look good? :) She exercises about ten times more than me with all her tennis playing and working out. |
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| The proud family--good job, Grandma! |
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| I'm glad we got to see the temple and walk on the temple grounds, what a beautiful sight! |
