From the Old Phone

I dropped my phone while walking out of Target on Friday.

I picked it up assuming just like all of the other times it has been dropped, it would turn back on.

False.

My phone was broken. 
So naturally, I panicked! How does anyone survive without a phone?? 
Then I remembered that I might have an old spare at home. 
I got home, found the spare, turned it on and hooray it worked!

Finding this phone was like finding a piece of treasure- I had almost 200 pictures all from at least 3 years ago. 
Here are just a few:

My Junior and Senior year I had the best nanny job ever! These girls and I were best friends. 
On nights that I stayed over we would do crazy things like paint our faces and TP-ing cars.

At Chick-Fil-A with Jess I left my retainers on a napkin that got thrown away. 
I dug through the trash for a long time, found them, then sanitized them a million times. 
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Campaigning for Proposition 8

My niece, Makinzie was good at homework

My best roommate, Emma 
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The Wal-mart mullet

Cutie sister Stephanie 
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Best Luke picture of all time

Nieces 
I miss snuggling that sweet little baby Brookie

New York City
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Jess and Paisley

Sidewalk graffiti 

Along with all of the pictures, I still had text messages on this phone. 
My favorites are from Jay from when we were dating.

-I'm tired :( and I miss your beautiful face :(-

-Its hard to go to sleep when I can't stop thinking about you.-

-Good morning most beautiful girl in the world!-

-I'm so excited to see you tonight!-

-You're my favorite.-

-Man I wish I could be with you right now :)-

Reading those messages brought back so many memories; that constant longing to be with him, counting down the minutes til school was out so I could run over to his apartment and snuggle on the love sack, those good-byes that lasted 10 minutes because we didn't want to say goodnight, waking up to a text that said 'good morning beautiful!'
 

And getting these cute messages.

I wouldn't go back to dating. Marriage is SO much better and I still get cute messages all the time. 
But I am just so grateful for the dating experiences we had.

Saturday morning Jay and I attended the Provo temple. 
While in there I found myself thinking about the pictures I found, which led to thinking about so many different memories in just the past 4 years, good and bad. 
I then became so incredibly overwhelmed with gratitude for everything I had ever experienced in my life. 
I have been so truly blessed and my heart is overflowing with gratitude.

Here's to cherishing old memories, and continuing to make new ones.