HAPPY TWO YEARS BOO BEAR

May 30th Davis and I celebrated our two year anniversary! I can't believe that two years have gone by so quickly. I am forever greatful for the memories that I share with D and I am so excited for the future. Thanks so much for being so amazing Deelight! I love you with my whole heart.

Lunch at Zupas to celebrate!

Dessert at Roll Up!

Graduation and our one year anniversary a year ago!

I LOVE YOU DAVIS CHANDLER!

JANUARY PHOTO A DAY (DAYS 1-3)

I saw this photo a day challenge on my girlfriend's blog and decided that I want to take it on. Even though I am 3 days behind, I am going to just make up for lost time and post days 1-3 right now. YAY!

Day 1-Introduce Yourself

I am Erika Ann Mouritsen, born and raised in Utah. I am 18 years young. I graduated from Orem High School in 2013. I am a dancer. I love to choreograph and teach dance. I love good food and a good movie. I am crazy in love with a boy named Davis. I currently am living life day by day and loving it. 

Day 2-Your First Love

This right here is my current and first love. He has taught me so much about life. He has helped form me into the person I am today. I am CRAZY in love with this guy and I couldn't be happier. We've been together for one year and seven months now and it's been the best time of my life. He is the greatest boyfriend a girl could ask for and I don't know how I managed to get so lucky, but I am so thankful that I did. I LOVE YOU DAVIS CHANDLER ELISON.

Day 3-Your Parents

This is my mother Shelle. She is a great mom and is always there to support me. I am so thankful for her and for everything she has done for me. She seriously is a super mom. She is married to my step dad, Jeff, who is my second dad. He is amazing and I am also thankful for him.

This is my dad Eric (and my sister Laci). He lives in Nevada and we don't get to see each other often, but I am thankful for the times I do get to see him. Even though he isn't around, he still does all he can to be a great dad.

This January photo a day is going to be fun and I can't wait to post tomorrow.

Until then, XOXO!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had an amazing year because I know I sure did! I decided to hop on the bandwagon and take a look back at 2013. It was fun to go through all my photos and see what an great year 2013 was! Here are some of the highlights.

January

+ ODC half times

+ Watched the vibe show "Floored" at the Scera.

+ Hit my first 100 likes on Instagram

February

+ Had a Valentine for the first time

+ Lost my best friend, Sydney, to suicide

March

+ 18th birthday

+ California with Davis for ten days

+ Watched a lot of basketball

April

+ cuddled lots. (that's everyday)

+ Keys to Success assembly

+ Fun double dates to Nicklecade 

May

+ Graduated high school

+ ODC Spring concert-performed my first solo ever

+ Took Senior pictures

+ One Year Anniversary with Davis

June

+ Went to Lagoon

+ Davis got his diploma

+ Summerfest

+ Cooper's Run parade

+ Started teaching dance class at Dance Showcase Company

July

+ Davis' birthday

+ Laci's birthday

+ Went to the Hogle Zoo

+ Spent the Fourth of July at the Johnson Mill

August

+ Swiss Days

+ Made Davis get over his fear of snakes

September

+ cut my hair

+ BYU vs UT game

+ Louisa left on her mission

+ more Swiss Days fun

October

+ Halloween

+ My nephew Thomas was born

November

+ Thanksgiving with Davis' family

+ started to nanny for my cousin Tiffany

+ Jake left on his mission

+ My niece Ceni was born

December 

+ Christmas

+ New Years

+ Temple Square

+ Saw White Christmas with Davis' family

+ Hung out at the Johnson Mill

+ Winter cruises

+ my best friend Ellie left on her mission. 

2013 was definitely a year I won't forget, but I'm excited to see what 2014 has in store for me. 

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:

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!!!!

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.

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}.