A Stroll Down Memory Lane

This week, my old roommate Stefani was able to come visit for a few days. Kylee came down as well so that she could hang out with us. I hadn't seen Stef since her wedding last summer in Chicago. I just have to say that I was so lucky in the roommates that I had during my single days. All were wonderful and I have remained friends with each of them. I lived with Stef my sophomore and junior years, so 2 out of 3. Having her here made me recall lots of fabulously funny memories from our time together. Here is a TOP TEN for your enjoyment!



10- We had a list of "Family Rules". My favorite should not be repeated, so I won't. Stef was the firm enforcer of the rules, which included, "In this family, we don't go to the bathroom with the door open" and gems such as that.

9-One night, Camille, Kylee, Stef and I decided to watch "The Notebook." We ended up crying, laughing, and eating gallons of ice cream all night long. We took hundreds of horrible pictures.

8- The time we went to Yellowstone once with some of my friends from IF. Stef had never been and she was super enthralled with taking pictures of the buffalo. I am so over that, since my mom has a huge box of pictures of just buffalo sitting at home. Nonetheless, it was fun.

7-We played flag football both years and Stef and I attempted to be just like the boys, so we had a body slam that we would do whenever we did something good in the game. I am sure we looked super professional.

(our fiercest faces, yes I know, mine is pretty pathetic!)

6- Our "Family Photos". We took these very seriously. We went to Wal Mart the first year and spent a total of $5 on a huge packet of photos which we proudly hung on our wall and distributed to anyone who would take one. The next year, we had a friend in our ward take our pictures. Again, we were so proud.

5- Stef had some strange sleeping habits (still does, I am sure). It was not uncommon to find her asleep upside down in the front room chair, or in equally awkward positions. She was dating Ronnie (her husband now) during our second year together when her and I shared a room. Ronnie was across the country, so let's just say there were far too many 4 am phone calls for my liking...poor Ronnie would just sit on the other line while Stef slept through it. I am kidding about the poor Ronnie thing, poor me is what I mean!

4- At the time, we were way into abbreviating everything. One time, we went to IHOP (we frequented that and Denny's for their hot chocolate) and the waitress told us something was "delish." We still laugh about that one.

3- Though Stef might deny it, Camille and I actually are responsible for her marrying Ronnie. Without us, she wouldn't even know him. He was in our ward our freshman year and then she moved in sophomore year after he had moved to Louisiana for Law School. We suggested that they started emailing, then visits started, and ya know, the rest is history!

2- Stef had the funniest eating habits. Her diet consisted of oreos, spaghettios straight out of the can, cheerios, and macaroni and cheese with tuna.

1- Number one has to be the time that we all drove to the hot pots past Spanish Fork (which we did many times), but the time I am thinking about, we had 13 people or something and no flashlights. We always went in the middle of the night and it is hike to the hot pots, so we all had to do a human chain to get there. I think this was also the trip that Ronnie was sick throwing up and the time that Stef claims he saved her life because otherwise she would have fallen off a cliff.

Here we are in our old age (now).

Love ya Stef! Thanks for being such a great friend.