5.30.2013

PART TWO

part two: an anniversary
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may 30, 2012: onto part two of my amazing and special day. not only do i get to celebrate my graduation today, but a year anniversary with my darling davis chandler. there aren't enough words to describe how thankful i am to have him in my life. he's my best friend, my shoulder to cry on, my rock, my everything. i couldn't be happier than i am now. he is an amazing boy and i love him with all i've got. 


how it started.
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this year has FLOWN past. it feels like yesterday davis was giving me our first kiss.
right here, is the very short version of how everything started.

sunday: while davis was with beto they saw i was online. davis and i had only met before one time and we barley remembered each other. somehow we were facebook friends. from what i hear, beto couldn't stop talking about me. he told davis to message me. "she's so hot man!" {hahaha} davis messaged me and we started talking. we exchanged numbers and started texting as much as we could. we decided that we wanted to meet up.

wednesday: davis and i texted the whole day and talked about our plans to get together that night. i had been swimming with my girlfriend's over at hunter's and was not feeling too cute afterwords. i was so nervous when i went to pick him up. i felt so ugly because a. i thought he was pretty cute. b. i had never hung out with him before. {girls, you know how it is} we went to cascade park with beto at...oh, one in the morning. the whole time i remember thinking, "what i am doing here? i want to go home." i couldn't exactly tell you why i felt this way, but for some odd reason i just felt weird being there with him and beto. you would think that after a weird night of wanting to go home the whole time that i wouldn't want to hang out with him again, wrong. there was something about davis that got me to come back. he was just too cute and had the greatest personality i couldn't resist. 
we started hanging out every day.

saturday: this is the first time davis and i hung out alone. i picked him up so we could go hang out with some friends. they took longer than they told had us they were going to, so we had some time to chat. we sat in my car in a random parking lot for an hour or so. we told each other stories about our familes, friends, and such. we got to know each other a lot better that night. when our friends finally came around, we had a fun night. we were out way past the sunrise. most of the night was spent hot tubing but we also made a beto's run and i watched the boys play a basketball game at scera park at 7:30 in the morning. 
this night, was the first time that anything "cute" happened between davis and i. i was getting tired from being out so late and while we were sitting in the back of our friend will's car, i nervously put my head on his shoulder. luckily i had made the right move because he put his arm around me and we cuddled.

sunday: the whole first week davis and i hung out, we went hot tubing a lot. we decided to go this night and got our swimming suits... well davis and his friends did. being a lame girl, i would made up an excuse why i didn't want to get in because i didn't want davis to see me in a swimming suit. {total regret that} we made our way to our normal hot tubing spot. when we arrived, there were a few intoxicated men there, one of which was a total creep. he was a 22 year old and he was flirting with me hard core. i was only 17 at the time. he kept asking me to give him hugs and for my number. it was very awkward for me. thankfully, davis could tell i was feeling very uncomfortable and he stepped up and protected me. he sat by me and was constantly talking to me to get the creep away. i was happy because davis wasn't just acting like he was interested in me, he actually was. luckily, when the creep saw this, he backed off. {hallelujah}. this was the first time davis held my hand.

tuesday: i watched davis play basketball for the first time. i went to watch with his best friend connor and connor's girl at the time, haley. after watching a few games we headed up to her house to watch a movie. we only ended up watching about 20 minutes of it before connor (our ride) had to leave. on our way home, davis sat in the back with me. while being all flirty and cute, davis said to me, "what would you have done if i would have kissed you during the movie?" dying inside i replied, "i would have kissed you back." before another word was spoken, davis kissed me. GAAAH. i died when this happened.
when we finally arrived back to my car davis got out to give me a hug and an unexpected kiss goodbye. i didn't see the second one coming at all. i drove home with my head in the clouds.

this boy stole my heart from the start and hasn't let it go since. he has a pretty firm grasp on it if you ask me. this past year has been amazing! i'm happy i was able to celebrate my graduation with him today! tonight we celebrate our anniversary by having a fun date night watching the playoff game at wingnutz. basketball, wings, and good company. what more could you ask for?

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
I LOVE YOU DAVIS.

PART ONE

 part one: a graduation.




may 30, 2013: part one of my memorable day starts with high school graduation. I DID IT! i never thought this day would come. before i could even blink, it was already over. i got up this morning soo excited. i put on my new shoes and dress {which i was soooo stoked to wear} and was ready to rumble. my graduation was at 9am but the earliness and lack of sleep didn't slow me down one bit. 
as i waited in the tunnel, i was getting butterflies. this was MY graduation. my once and a life time experience was right before my eyes. how do you not get butterflies when you think, "i'm about to graduate high school"? i was also thinking, "please don't trip in these huge heels..." {i didn't by the way. go me!} i walked out to my seat in my cap and gown and this is when it really felt real. i said yesterday in my post that when i got my cap and gown, that's when it felt real... nope, this was the real moment. the ceremony began and of course it flew by. everything lately has been going way faster than i want it to. i got my chance to walk through the "o" and i received this..


i am officially a high school graduate! it still doesn't seem real. i've said to davis more times today then i can remember, "babe, your girlfriend just graduated high school!!" i'm sure he's sick of hearing it but hey... i'm just too excited. i want to go to the top of the mountains and yell to the world "I JUST GRADUATED!!!"




afterwords, we took the typical graduation pictures. it was bittersweet. that's probably the best way to describe it all. it was sad seeing everyone leave the uccu center. that was the last time i will see almost everyone in my class, or any of the other ohs student for that matter! we're all about to move on with life and go onto do amazing things. it's crazy to think that 10 years down the road we'll all be grown up and going back for our 10 year high school reunion. we're going to start college and families and god only knows that else. a lot of the boys in my class already have their mission calls. some of them will be leaving in just a few short weeks. how did time fly so fast? we're so old... 
i loved orem high and will ALWAYS be an orem high tiger. #tigerpride




grad night:


5.29.2013

IT'S FINALLY HERE...

today was officially my last day of high school EVER!! 24 hours from now i will be an orem high school. graduate, class of 2013. umm... wait, WHAT!? i'm already graduating? how is this real?

this morning i had to be to school bright and early {6:30 am} for the senior send-off assembly practice. it was hard getting up this morning, but it was bittersweet. it was the last time i would ever have to get up to go rehearse for an assembly. shucks, it was my last assembly ever as an orem high student {tear}. i was lucky because i was able to perform with the seniors of odc one last time on the orem high stage. it wasn't our best performance, but it felt good to move and perform. i don't get the opportunity to dance as much as i used to. i have always enjoyed being able to dance in front of my peers in assemblies and at half times. it was fun to show off what i could do one last time before saying goodbye. i had miss hunter film our last dance and i want to share it... {don't kill me girls!} like i said, it wasn't our greatest performance. the dance looks a little messy. {okay, it looks really messy...} we hadn't even thought about it since our concert which was at the beginning of the month. i'm proud of these girls. i'm so happy to have them as sisters. even though it was messy it was totally us. like liz said on our last day of dance company,  "we are one dysfunctional family". the messiness fit us perfectly.


after the assembly i got my last yearbook. for not being at school a lot this year, i was in the book more than i had planned so that was pretty cool. since i didn't have a ton of friends this year, and only a few close ones, i didn't have many people sign my yearbook. i got the people who i cared about to, and then went to get my cap and gown...

ignore my closet behind me...

as i went up to the library to get my graduation attire, this is when things started to feel real. i can't believe that my years of high school are over. i am finally graduating! when i was little, graduation seemed so far away. even when i was a sophomore, it seemed like it couldn't come fast enough, but it did. it's already all over. i wish i would have realized how fast it was going to fly past me. i have mixed emotions about the whole graduation thing. i'm so excited to finally be out of there. no more of that lame "school" stuff. i'll miss the fun parts high school: dances, odc, student council, football games, assemblies... the list goes on and on. i will for sure miss high school even though all i talked about all year was how much i hated it. there are some things i regret and wish i could go back redo, but for the most part i loved high school. i love orem high. i wouldn't give up the experience i had there for the world. that place will always feel like a second home.

tomorrow i get to walk with my class and receive my diploma. i finally get to step through the "o" and have my name read aloud in front of the whole audience. having my name read is a pretty huge accomplishment. when they read your name to everyone, they are pretty much saying, "you did it." it's like the icing on the cake. it's taken some hard work to make it through high school. some rough times and some amazing times. i'm so happy that i made it and never gave up.

CLASS OF 2013, WE DID IT!!!!

MEMORIAL DAY BREAKFAST

since davis and i didn't do anything fun or special for memorial day, i decided to make us breakfast. since i'm not the greatest cook, i made waffles, which i'm pretty pro at, and bacon. i finally mastered the art of bacon. go me! {davis loved it} yeah, i've messed up making bacon pretty bad before. i'll learn to cook small steps at a time.
yum.

5.25.2013

A SPECIAL DAY

sydney taylor bruning is a person that i will forever hold close to my heart. 

i officially met sydney my junior year. i say officially because i had known who sydney was long before i got the chance to meet her. she was miss popular. she lived, what seemed, a perfect life. she was a dancer, as was i. she decided, along with a few of her other dance friends, to make the studio switch and come to where i danced, the vibe. everyone was excited for her to come. none of us knew her well, but we were all curious to see what she could bring to our team. she was very outgoing from day 1 and everyone learned to love her very quickly. not much time passed before sydney was one of my best friends...

through out the year, we had the chance to share many stages together. while dancing together, we were able to bond everyday in rehearsals.  i even got to travel to the other side of the world with her. she made me laugh the hardest i've ever laughed. she's done some of the most craziest things i've ever seen a girl do. she was always taking things to the next level. she was hilarious! now, all i have are those memories and photographs of our times. 

feb. 7, 2013 was the day everything changed. this was the day that i learned sydney had ended her life. this was one of the most challenging experiences that i've had to conquer in my 18 years of life.

we celebrated her birth yesterday. it was an amazing day dedicated to sydney. the weather was beautiful and everything was at peace. i was able to visit her for her big day. what a blessing it was to be able to go to her grave site with two of my {and sydney's} closest friends.




i was fortunate enough to be able to spend the evening celebrating with sydney's dearest friends and family. we ate her favorite foods and laughed about the amazing times we all got to spend with her. 


sydney is one of the amazing girls i have ever met. she was so selfless and cared so much about everyone. i miss her so much and there isn't a day that goes by that i don't think about our friendship. i am so lucky, because i was able to have sydney in my life. i wish she could have been here with me today so i could have given her a huge birthday hug and 18 spankings. 

i love you sweet girl. i hope you had an amazing birthday, partying hard like i know you would have if you would have been down here on earth with us. 

5.23.2013

ALL GOOD THINGS COME TO AN END...


i am dreading tomorrow...
tomorrow is my last day of orem dance company, aka the only thing that kept me sane this school year.
i'm so sad that i have to leave this group of people. i'm going to miss everyone so much! i am going to miss dancing at half times and on the orem high stage. i am going to miss never going to school but always making sure i was there, just for dance company. i could always be myself in dance company. i could let loose and have no cares. it was always so much fun to go and dance with all my friends almost everyday. i'm going to miss being on presidency. ellie, maddie, naomi, liz, and i rocked it this year. 


i am going to miss my amazing director, hollie, the most. i'll miss her craziness. i'll miss the yells that we would constantly hear from her. {out of love of course}  she has taught me so many life lessons. she is always for me if i need someone to talk to. i could call her up at any time of day and she would stop what she was doing to help me or give me some advice. i'll miss sitting in her office and having "gossip hour". hollie is my second mom. she is such an amazing woman that i look up to more than anything.

dance company was the only thing i looked forward to all throughout my senior year. i'm crushed that it finally has to end. i knew it was coming, but i didn't know it would be this hard to say, "see you later".
 i will be back for gossip hour you can count on that. 

I LOVE HOLLIE & ODC!!

5.22.2013

CLEARED

dress: pac sun// wallet: target// boots: f21
today was a goooood day.
i got cleared for graduation
my councilor and the assistant principal doubted me.
i had to complete 4 packets to catch up on credits i was behind on.
today, i took my last final for my packets and PASSED with flying colors.
all the hard work paid off and i couldn't be more relieved.
i also got the last of my nc's cleared. 
{hallelujah!}
i couldn't be more happy that i did it.
this girl is going to graduate.

HOMER THE CROSS EYED CAT

this is my cat homer.
i didn't really like him when my mom brought him home a little over a year ago.
{actually i hated him}
he was evil.
i would try to be nice to him and pet him, but then he would turn on me.
bite me. scratch me...not nice.
then davis came along. homer was literally in love with him; davis felt the same.
as i saw their love for each other grow, i honestly became sooo jealous.
i decided that i needed to change my relationship with homer. i needed to make it better.
over time, homer has grown up and become a nice majestic cat.
he has settled down and doesn't turn on me as much.
 {he still does sometimes. that little brat.}
i've tried snuggling with him and being nice to him and so, i've learned to like him.
he is actually pretty dang cute... i mean look at him.
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because homer is very very cute {and cross-eyed} davis decided to make him an instagram.
if you have an instagram and love cuteness i would recommend you give homer a follow.

5.20.2013

GRADUATION ANNOUNCEMENTS

for the past two hours i've been addressing envelopes for my graduation announcements! i'm so excited to send them out to my friends and family! it's so weird that my high school years are finally over. it's pretty bittersweet, but i couldn't be more excited for graduation next thursday! here's a preview of my announcement if you don't get one in the mail. if you'd like one send me your address {here}. my amazingly talented cousin, shaylee, took my senior pics which can be seen {here}

SENIOR SPRING FLING


saturday was my last high school dance ever, not that i've been to too many. we went as a dance company group and so i decided it would be fun to ask one of the boys who is on the company with me.
his name is erick and is was such a fun date. 
the night started at q's house. his dad is a photographer and he set up a mini studio in their garage.
{i don't have those pictures yet}
then we went to winger's roadhouse grill. erick and i both got sticky fingers which are my fav. 
after a yummy dinner, we headed to the school for the dance. we had fun dancing for a short time until the dj went sort of psycho. because kids weren't "jumping straight up and down" he stopped the music and ordered administration to escort some random kids out. this process took forever and before it was over our whole group decided to go out into the parking lot to start our own dance party. people followed our trend and before we knew it, everyone that was attending the dance was outside partying it up with us. mr. clinton, our assistant principal, was in a funk and in the end they called the cops. 
great...
when we all found out the cops were coming a flood of kids tried to get back into the dance, but they wouldn't have it. the dance was over at roughly around 10:15...yikes.
during all of this, a sophomore was on the phone with one of his "dj friends" and was planning another party.
once confirmed, a bunch of the groups from the dance headed to foothill park, where these dj's were setting up. 
this party was BUMPIN'.
literally ten times better than the dance at the school.
dances at school << dances at foothill.
the crowd doesn't look too huge, but boy it was fun.
 the music was crazy loud and we all knew the cops were going to get called. the party surprisingly lasted longer than any of us would have thought and of course, the po-po came. 
once the party got shut down, our group went to maddie's. i was only there for about ten minutes before calling it a night. 
this was honestly the most fun dance i have ever been to. it was a night that i'll always remember. 
shout out to my date, erick, for being so awesome and fun! 

SENIOR PICTURES











last tuesday my lovely cousin shaylee took my senior pictures for me. she took me to a few random places in provo on center street and we had this fun photoshoot.
i absolutely love the way my pictures turned out! 
i'm so excited to graduate. i can't believe high school is all over.

THE BOY WHO HAS MY HEART


this is the boy who stole my heart. his name is davis chandler elison. you'll be hearing a lot about him and our adventures together seeing that we are with each other what feels like 24/7. he is an amazing boy. he is the greatest friend to everyone. he is never the first to judge and will always try to be your friend, even if no one else wants to be. he tries to find the good in everything, even the little things. everyone that meets his is lucky so i consider myself the luckiest girl alive. 


POST NUMBER ONE


hello world. it's me erika ann mouritsen. i guess that i'm sort of new to the blogging world. let's just say, i haven't blogged for a long time and i'm excited to start up again. i live in utah and i'm about to graduate high school in just 10 days. i'm a dancer. i've danced since i was 8 and it's my passion. my heart is currently taken by the sweetest boy in the world, davis, but you'll all learn more about him later! i'm excited to start my blogging journey and share my life on my new "journal".