MVHS Class of '93

 20 YEARS!  

Holy cow it has been 20 years!  We really don't feel that old and I don't think we look that old!  

We made a weekend of it and stayed in SLC.  Our hotel was awesome!  They gave us a suite, provided snacks, robes and hola hoops!  (seriously, they did!) 

 My BFF came for the event!  Of course she had to be there!  

 I won an award for having been the most places. I am so glad I could accomplish so much since high school! ha! 

 No explanation needed! It's just what we do!

We really haven't changed much in the last 20 years!  We know how to have a good time late into the wee hours! Oh how I love these girls!  What a great weekend we had!

*funny story: Of course I was texting Erik all weekend.  We had been dating for about a month.  Most of my friends didn't even know we had gotten back together.  So much of the conversation was about him/us.  On the way into the reunion a girl in the parking lot (we had been in the same ward growing up) said to me, "Sari we need to get you married!" It was a weird thing to say when you haven't seen someone in 20 years!  So I text Erik and told him what she had said.  Then I said, "Can I just wear a ring on my left hand?"  Ummm ... I wasn't thinking so straight when I said that.  It was pretty innocent.  He text back, "wow!  That is a loaded question.  But I like the idea of it." It was the next day that we talked about getting married.

Master of Educational Leadership

In the middle of my crazy life I had graduation.  It was so fun!  My mom and dad, Erik, Hun and Kim came to support me.  I know I have said it before but I would never have made it through this program without my family and friends.  I was not very fun for those two years.  Yet everyone was still nice to be and very encouraging.  So blessed!

It's official!  I am a Master of Educational Leadership and Administration!  

 Look at my fancy hood!  

 WHAT!?!  This diploma is fake!  (The real one had already come in the mail)

 It is a good thing that Erik was not around for my two years of grad school.  I am pretty sure this kiss would not have been happened!  Like I said, I was not very fun!  

Timing is everything! 

 Besties!  

 My Hun! 

 LPP Cohort 27

It was such a proud day!  We did!  

My family and future family had a celebration for me!  Jennie did all the decorations.  It was such a great day!  

Thanks everyone!  (again and again and again!)

The Perfect Day

Our wedding day was ... perfect!  

It was dreamy and beautiful!

I could not have imagined a more perfect wedding!

 Erik and I were married in the Mt. Timpanogos LDS Temple surrounded by our friends and family.

I am so grateful that we could be married for eternity.

 We are both so lucky to have amazing parents!  I am pretty sure they were thrilled/relieved for us! 

 I have always been lucky to have such great friends!

 My Bestie and wedding planner.  My blissful day would NEVER have had happened without her!  Thank you is not enough for all she did!

 "Worth the Wait" 

It seemed like a fitting theme for our wedding.

 Our reception was A-MAZ-ING!  

No seriously it was amazing!  I loved every detail and every second of it.  I wish I could have slowed down time to soak it all in.

 Wedding day pictures were done by Bry Cox.  He is simply fantastic!

 My pottery was used as the center pieces.  So fun!

 We were spoiled with all the gifts we received.

Chandeliers and stars were the decor.

 It was such a perfect day!

 I LOVE LOVE LOVE my dress.  It was one of the few things that I really cared about and I was not disappointed.  Oh I love it! 

 My veil was borrowed from my friend Ashley.

 "First look"  

Before he saw me in my dress for the first time I snatched a quick pinch.

 Erik's sister, Steph, took our engagements and bridals.  She is so talented ... to say the least!

 Erik and his siblings 

I love these pictures.

 My family all did so much to help with this special day! 

 I am so grateful for their love and support! 

 I surprised E with his own BYU cake ... along with a ticket to the BYU vs Notredame game.

 This is one of my favorite pictures.  Don't we look like we could be in a magazine!

What a dream!  

Oh how I love him!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! to all our friends and family!

Introducing ...

Let me introduce you to Mrs. Sorenson.  Yep!  That's right ... in my blogging absence I was very busy getting married (oh and starting a new job, and moving and selling my house).  It has been six months and I still can hardly believe it myself.  What a whirlwind, dreamy, life changing year it has been! 

So where do I begin?  How about with a love story -- our love story ... in a nutshell. 

 Spring term had just started.  I had six weeks left of school.  I literally felt like I was holding on by a string and a prayer.  

One Sunday afternoon (May 5 to be exact) I casually checked my email, not expecting to find much.  What the heck! I had an email from Erik?  What? (yes THAT Erik!  Erik from three years ago!)  Someone has to have hacked his email!  (because that happens all the time! right?)  The reason for my skepticism was that I had not heard from or seen Erik in almost two years.  Nothing! (I had deleted him from my phone, FB ... everything!)  The email was goofy and a little confusing.  He acknowledged that this was out of the blue but wondered if I would like to go do something sometime.   After a total freak out with Kim I responded to his email with "call me" I didn't know what else to say.   After an awkward conversation (how do you sum up the last two years of your life over the phone?) the ice was broken.  A few days later we went out.  We hit a bucket of golf balls and then went to dinner.  Within minutes of sitting down to eat I launched right into ... what are you doing?!?  I laid it right out there that I really did not have time for this ... whatever this was.  If he just wants to be friends great!  Call me in July when I have finished school!  I believe at one point I told him that he was going ruin my life, my new exciting life that I was about to have.  I may have even told him to leave me alone (charming I know!).
He did just that.  He left me alone, for the most part anyway.  I did my best to stay focused on school but was pretty bugged that he was actually leaving me alone after waltzing into my life.  We text and talked a couple of times.  At the end of the month I was starting to see the light at the end of the grad school tunnel so I text him.  We made plans to go out to dinner before he headed out of the country for work.  We met for Thai food, ran to Target to get him some stuff for his trip and took a peak at my new wood floors (yep .. I was still remodeling my house!) I returned to my car and I knew, DANG IT!  I am going to marry him.  Ugh!  This is not my plan!

Things moved pretty quickly after that. 

One month later we discussed getting married.

Three weeks later he proposed.

Two months later we were married!

(I wasn't joking when I said we moved fast!)

And that is how I became Mrs. Sorenson (in a nutshell).

I'm DONE!

I DID IT! 

I am DONE! 

I have officially completed my masters degree in educational leadership and administration! 

Let's take a look back over the last couple of weeks ... leading up to this moment. 

Remember when Kim made me this paper chain?  June 12 seemed forever away! 

With TEN days to go I started a countdown.  This was exciting stuff!  

Those were a crazy ten days; papers to write, finishing my remodel, going to a administrators conference in Park City, Beck coming for a visit .... I certainly did finish this adventure with a bang! 

Before I knew it (even though it had been the longest 14 months of my life! One of those weird time things ya know!) My time with these great people had come to an end.  Such bitter sweet emotions.  Going through grad school in a cohort is pretty great!  I adore each one of these guys and gals.  I can honestly say that we carried each other through this program. 

My rocks!  

I owe my making it through this program to these two girls (no, for real!) I would have never made it without them!  I may be a little ... or a lot co-dependent on them now.  I am not sure how I am going to make it through the day or week without a constant stream of text.  But who says we have to! 

While I am soooooo glad to be done with school and papers and homework, I am going to miss MCKB 319, wearing nice yoga pants and cream cheese and crackers!

I can honestly say that this has been the hardest year of my life.  Don't ask me to explain why or how ... it just has.  I can also say that I don't regret doing it because I have learned so much, not just book learning but about myself.  One of the greatest things I learned in getting my masters degree is that I can do really hard things.  Much harder than I ever thought!  And I think that is a pretty great thing to learn! 

Of course I owe a huge thank you to my friends and family that supported ... but mostly put up with me during the last 14 months.  Ugh!  I was not fun!  But they loved me and encouraged me anyway.  So thank you!  

I AM DONE!

I am looking forward to having a life again, being fun again, and seeing what adventures await me!

"This Too Shall Pass" 

LPP Cohort #27

single digits!

9 days! 

Holy Cow! 

I do love being an Aunt!