Overprotective Big Brother Syndrome- its contagious!

I havent blogged in FORVER... but i thought it would be fun to keep track of stories my husband and I will ONE day look back at an laugh. 

It all started a week ago.... my facebook status read "It happened today... First time I saw my husband get genuinely get upset, his 'little' 18 year old sister got a boyfriend. Heaven help our future daughters... Lol ;)" 
Little did i know... that overprotective big brother syndrome is contagious and i caught it! But not at first.... first it seems i was the only one excited for his little sister. It turns out the York family is filled with overprotective siblings, and when Elliots dad told him to take care of Courtney... he took that to heart. When id chat with courtney (the 18 year old who just got a boyfriend) id say things like 'he sounds great!' but my husband would comeback with "whos side are you on?!" and "Stop being so positive!" hahaha but last night I finally joined his dark side of overprotectiveness. 

Elliot's baby sister (courtney) pulled a prank on us---
 We had just settled down for Ice Cream and Netflick in our PJ's at 10pm when Elliot's phone goes off to a text from one of Elliots sisters (Amberly) saying 'Shoot him' referring to courtney's boyfriend
I got a million guesses out like 'he kissed her' 'he said i love you' 'he broke up with her' before she text back saying check facebook..... 
Status update... ENGAGED! 
Needless to say we both freaked and tried calling her a million times. when no reply we decided to check her apt. Nothing. So went on a manhunt all over town for them. 
30 knocked doors, 3 date places, one irate husband and 2 trembling roommates later, we found them... and found out it was all a joke.  
After we calmed down about it all i looked back and laugh at a few minor details...
- we kept randomly blurting out 'its wednesday!! Who gets engaged on a wednesday?!!'
 (out of all the crazy things wrong with this picture we picked that one to yell outlloud! haha It would have been more reasonable to yell- "she just turned 18!" or "they have been dating a week!" or "this is her first boyfriend!" "She doesnt even know him!" NOPE--- we're going crazy over the fact that its wednesday... lol)  
- My husband threatened him saying 'I'll set my wife loose on you' 
- we should freakin be detectives! Not only did we track down his apt using deductive reasoning but we got his phone number and last three places to be seen. Not to mention were pretty good at bursting into rooms. 

Moral of the story.... dont mess with a protective big brother & I wouldn't want to burst down doors with anyone other than my fantastic husband. He is my favorite partner in crime. We are never short of laughter, adventure and kisses. I love my life. 

Return Missionary in list form

First 6 Days back from my mission in List form

Yes… my brother got married 3 days after I got home. Best welcome home ever!!!

Day One: Wednesday

Mall, Mission release, family reunion & welcome home Party at my house!!!!

 

Day Two: Thursday

Temple for Laura <3, get bridesmaid shoes, wedding rehearsal dinner & first date from being home off the mission.

Day Three: Friday

Ihop with grandparents, pack for college, go shopping for bachelorette party gift, then go to bachelorette party, have sister time with Laura crash in bed.

Day Four: Saturday

My brothers Wedding!!!!, Temple, reception, then elephant bar and grill reunion with my friends, dessert with friends come home and crash.

Day five: Sunday

Church (stake conference), singles ward, chill with friends, come home to family, hmmm… its kinda hazy now…. OH baptism at singles ward, and then… my first kiss back from the mission.

Day 6: Monday

Say goodbye to my family and dog, Fly to Salt Lake City Utah, Miss my first day of school, Chill with mission buddies, drive to Rexburg Idaho and get there with a few hours of time before class starts on Tuesday. 

As for the awkward stages of being a return missionary... i dont think i had time for it. So there it was, and i was fully immersed. 

Sister Guymon to Chrissy the RM

Ok I know it has taken forever to get around to it but I think I’ve found a spot to kind-of start my blog. Getting home from my mission. Then I can refer to my mission stories and stuff in other posts if I feel inclined to do so.

Ok, so I got home in September and it seems like forever ago but also just yesterday. My mission was amazing, life-changing and was the greatest decision I have ever made. I loved it. It was fantastic but it had to end, and so it did. I came back a little early to jump straight into school at BYU-Idaho but not too early. I had about 5ish days at home (In California) before I was off to Idaho. In those five days I did quite a lot but I want to talk about my first few hours off the plane--- getting released from my service as a missionary from my stake president.

I got off the plane, (& missed southern hospitality immediately) and then I was greeted by my parents with signs (made by mom of course). I was told my brother and soon to be sister in law wouldn’t make it until tomorrow. (BUMMED!!!) 

 We then were off to go for my release but my dad thought it would be good if I went to the mall along the way as to give President Alexander time to get home from work. I was able to get anything I wanted for me…. Running shoes with neon laces. Big deal for me, not gonna lie. Left the mall, a million pass along cards later and headed to Presidents.

We got there and I got interviewed and we chatted with my parents. Great things were noted but one that meant the most is something he said to me. It was along the lines of;

“Sister Guymon, on your mission you dealt with eternal matters on a daily basis. Everything you did was eternal. From what you studied, to who you spoke to. This has been your norm for the last year and a half. Your back now. Your gonna do some things that seem, not so eternal. Like school, dating, meeting friends, and other things like that. Im gonna guess that you might get frustrated at one point and feel down that what your doing seems insignificant to your eternal salvation. But there will come a day when you have found ‘the one’ and you will be looking across the alter from him and you will have a flashback at your decisions you will have made from now until then, and you will realize just how very eternal those decisions are. Never forget that.”

I’ve tried to keep that in mind and be excited about the upcoming adventures in my life, rather than missing my mission so much im in ‘return missionary freak out mode’. I will ALWAYS have fond thoughts and a piece of my heart in Georgia, but I also had some of my heart in California and Idaho & Oh boy was I excited to see my family! So he made me take off my name tag, and I became a girl with a first name again.

I was so excited when we pulled up to my house, I wanted to see my dog so bad! I ran to the door and as I swung the door open CODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My brother had jumped out from the door and screamed boo!!! There was a photographer waiting to get my reaction to seeing my brother for the first time in 3+ years and it was AMAZING! Not only that but my soon to be sister in-law was there! I hadent seen her in 1.5 years so also super pumped! Then my dog! Great surprise. It turns out the mall was them just delaying me. Cody and Laura had hopped on a plane that landed shortly after mine and they raced home just in time to surprise me =) best surprise ever!

This was taken minutes after my brothers  surprise… My eyes are red but that’s the face of a girl with her whole family for the first time in over three years! (Left to right; beautiful mom, hilarious dad, ME, big bro Cody & amazing sister in law Laura)

K now lets go through my next 4 California days now…. (new post maybe… I think so)

Ask me ANYTHING!!!

Ok... not gonna lie... I'm not really sure what everybody whats to hear about when I write my blog so Im taking requests. I got an account with a website that lets me answer questions without seeing who the questions come from. So i would love it if y'all could ask me a question or write something you would like to hear about in my blog and I'll make sure to work it in my story. i just need to know what ya wanna hear. Here's the site; 

http://www.formspring.me/chrissyguymon

My First Blog!

Hey Y'all! So I finally did it! I've started a blog. I've been wanting to do it for a while now but I finally made the decision tonight. I've taken on a project and i want to record my process and I felt a blog would be the perfect place. That and I've stopped journaling since my mission. As for my project, here it goes...

My story of my Spiritual Journey is on my Mormon.org profile but something I failed to put in there was the fact that I have never completed (or started for that matter) my Young Women's Personal Progress Book. This is kinda like the girls equivalent to an eagle scout in my church. On my mission, I had my initial shock of... 'o my gosh i dont know primary songs'... so I learned them. 'o my gosh i dont know scripture stories'... so i read them. Along with many other things I also realized o my gosh I never did my Personal Progress... so I'm gonna do it. Its never to late =)

So as I started in on this all, I thought.... perfect timing for a blog. So here it goes.... the next few post's I'll try and catch you up from when i came home from my full time mission I served in Georgia.