NEW HEADER!!!

Don't you just love it?!?! John Duncan made it for me, and I LOVE IT!!!!! Absolutely love love love it!! John is the one that made this picture all cool looking too, remember?

Oh, and I'm back from Mexico! I had a freaking blast!!! Hopefully I'll have pictures up sometime soon, but if not.. well, that sucks haha (:

I'm back at work :/ Kill me now..

Post #100

And I think this is a worthy post for the 100th post! Tomorrow, at this time, I will be on my cruise to Mexico!!! Packing time :/ I HAVE TO HURRY!! Be back Saturday night with tons of pictures!!

CURVE.

My inspiration. My happy place. My comforter. My desire.


I bought this cologne for Jonathan on our One Year anniversary last August.. LOVE IT! Being the sweetheart that he is, he gave it to me when he left on his mission. For the past little while, I've sprayed one squirt onto my bed every night, just because. When I'm sad, I spray it and cuddle up with Franklin. When I miss him, or when I'm about to be creative, I wear it as if it's my perfume. (I try not to do it too much though, cause people often think that's kind of weird that I'm wearing cologne..?) Whatever. I don't care (:


P.S. I SHOULD BE GETTING A LETTER TODAY/TOMORROW WITH PICTURES!!!!
P.S.S. MOM SENT KAY AND I A PACKAGE!!! (:

Embarassing... and painful :/

There's a girl that lives in the Bran that throws some sort of food party every week. Yesterday was ice cream sundae day (: !! YES! Unfortunately though, the time comes when you have to cease stuffing your face with that deliciousness and leave the party. When you walk out of her apartment, there are a few stairs that you have to walk up, and then a few you walk down.. Well I wasn't paying very close attention and went to grab my phone and didn't see the stairs to go down. I missed two steps, landed on the edge of the third and BIFFED IT! So I hurried and got up, looking around to see if anyone had just witnessed that, and when didn't see anyone, I walked off pretty fast.. I went to my downstairs apartment (Holly, Jori, Carly & Lindsey's apartment) and just told them the story. Then I found all of my owies!!



Scraped up my wrist and it hurts worse than it looks! Somehow scraped up my shin too? AND MY TOES! I JUUUUSSSTTT PAINTED THEM 2 HOURS BEFORE THIS! Gosh dangit. I was so mad about that! Poor little toesies..

Then when I was leaving the girls' apartment, I tripped on at least 2 things, almost falling flat on my face. But because I have such awesome reflexes and balance, I stayed alive.. My goodness.

And-

If I could have any job in the world, this would be it.

Cartoons..

..these days are so stupid! What happened to the good ol' cartoons like these?!




1. Arthur
2. Dexter's Laboratory
3. That's 70 Show
4. Bananas In Pajamas
5. Recess
6. The Woody Woodpecker Show
7. Franklin
8. Malcom In The Middle
9. Pippy Longstocking

I am determined to find somewhere that has them and give them to my children whenever that time comes. Because I'm sure the cartoons that are on when they're growing up will be 20 times worse than what's on right now!

Zoey and the stupid white sock..

Cool title, huh? It could be a good children's book title if I substituted the word "stupid" with something less harsh (: Well, I made a trip to the bank yesterday to grab some coin rolls so I could count all the money that Zoey had been keeping for me! A few months ago, I had a $20 bill that I found, but I had no use for it at the time. So what did I do? PUT IT IN ZOEY! And thank goodness I did, because now I REALLLLY need it!

Now, it may not look like much, but there was actually $53.45 in there!! YES, YES, YES!!! This is the money I'm allowing myself to spend in Mexico! Hopefully I won't need more than that!

And for the stupid sock. I never ever ever wear white socks.. and the one day that I do, this is what I get:

A HOLE! RIGHT WHERE MY BIG TOE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE SO WARM AND COMFY! But noooooo. I have learned my lesson.

You have won this time, white socks.

I have an announcement:

AND I'M SO EXCITED TO TELL YOU!!!!

First point of business, Mr. Piggy now has a name!! And is now a girl!! Haha

Her name is Zoey the ZebraPig (:

&&&AND&&&

This is my car.. formerly known as "The Grouch"

But a name change has been called for.. are you ready for it??

HIS NAME IS NOW HUMPERDINK!!
Direct quote from Kaylee: "HUMPERDINK!?!?!?! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! I want to ride in your car everyday now"

That's right.. he is the coolest of cool(:

Just thought I'd share

the song that Bishop McCurdy had us listen to yesterday:

VIRTUOUS, FAITHFUL AND WISE By TUCKER HANSEN

Chosen of God so clean so pure, Chosen to give birth to our Lord, Worthy to carry God's gift to the world, Mary, your burden was your reward.

Did she know she was the mother of God, When she held him in the straw? Did He see in her eyes, her courage, her faith? Did He look up in wonder and awe?

Someday she'll stand before her Son, With head held high, she'll look in his eyes. He'll thank her for being his mother on earth, For being virtuous, faithful and wise.

Do you know you are a daughter of God? Do you know He knows your name? And like Mary before, He's looking to you, To prepare yourself the same.

Someday you'll stand before the Lord, With head held high, you'll look in His eyes. He'll thank you for being a mother on earth, For being virtuous, faithful, and wise.

I'll prepare myself now to be worth that day, By being virtuous, faithful, and wise.

Today

is NOT going well at all.

I really just want to go home, lay in bed with 7 cartons of ice cream lined up on a table beside me (so I don't get cold, of course), watch cute chick flicks and cry. Then fall asleep forever. It's that time.. if you know what I mean.

Good thing I have amazing friends who give up going to a paint club and tell me we'll just stay home and have a girls night and watch movies all night.. Thanks, Courtney (:

But the good news: It's Friday. Which means I don't have to deal with annoying co-workers for two whole days once I leave here today!!

ANNNDDDDD I will be on a cruise ship in 10 days, 2 hours, 43 minutes and 25 seconds (:

FOOTBALL STARTS TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tennessee Titans VS. Pittsburgh Steelers
Who do I want to win? Psh, I don't take sides.
I'M JUST SOOOOO EXCITED!

Going to Eric & Maegan's to watch, kick off is at 6:30. Kay and I are bringing 7-layer dip.


Best night ever.

I am so inspired!

I got a letter from Jonathan earlier this week with a quote by President Gordon B. Hinckley titled, LOOK FOR THE SUNLIGHT:
"I am asking that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the possitive'. I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good.. look for the sunlight through the clouds."


Absolutely amazing. He was one awesome man of God, that's for sure.

Another thing that's keeping me with the spirit that I'm feeling so strongly was Institute last night. I'll post about it on my institute blog later on, but it was stupendous, to say the least! I'm in love with that class.

Anyways, Happy Thursday!

Oh, hello Wonderful Sunday!

New apartment (which is still not finished :/ ), new city, and best of all, A NEW WARD! If I had to chose one word to describe it so far, it would be: G O R G E O U S.

This was my Sunday:

-Woke up at 10:53am by a phone call from Linds saying she had pancakes ready downstairs (:
-Got ready, left for church around 12:40 for our 1 o'clock church, giving us a few minutes to find the church
-Sat down in the chapel, looked around and of the few people that were there, I already spotted three or four hotties!
-A few minutes passed, the the cute boys kept on comin.. Holly turned to me and said "The guys just keep pouring in!"
And it was true!! I'm guessing there is 80% guys in the ward, 20% girls. LOVE THOSE ODDS!! Not to mention that 60% of those guys are deliciously gorgeous (:
-Instead of the normal church sessions, we had our sacrament meeting which went 10minutes or so over, and then we all stayed in the Chapel for the next two hours, going up one at a time and saying our name, address, what we're doing in Utah, our roommates, and one "claim of fame", which made it really easy to look at everyone! Our bishopric got up just for a little bit, and I'm really excited for this ward. It seems so fun and crazy! We're going to the bishop's house tonight for FHE where there will be steaks, other food, pool party, and FUN!! I'm living the life, right?! (;
-Then Linds and I tried scoping out some good trees to slack line somewhere at the Bran, but with no luck just went down to UVU. I completely failed at getting my slack line set up, so with the help of Reece, we realized I needed just a few more things to get the most out of my slack line experience. Nevertheless, we did walk on it for a few minutes.
-We came back to the apartment and decided to go on a walk by the river with Kaylee, Carly, Seth and Holly!! It was so cute (:
-At 9, we went to ward prayer and ended up staying about half an hour later just talking to some new found friends, and made dinner plans with them for next Sunday!! All we (the girls) have to do is bring dessert.. how easy is that?
-Then a few people came over to our apartment for a game night! Kaylee drove everyone that came over, and there was a total of 8 in her Mazda 6! One guy (Kyle) was in the trunk, I was slewn across Linds, halfway on Kay as she was driving, and Shea, Jeff, Julie and Holly were squished in the back seat!
-We chose Phase10 which was a good and bad decision. It is a VERY long game, and I had theeeee worst headache, but I love that game so I didn't want to quit and go to bed. Plus, they were cracking me up!! When commenting on Shea's "floor dancing" skills, which were hilarious, he said "I don't know what specific dance moves, I just do what the music tells me to!"
-Like I said, it's a long game. It seemed like it was taking ages to finish, so Shea and I started cheating (; Kyle was getting so mad, but it was still funny. FINALLLLY, after sliding Shae three wilds, he won the game at 1 in the morning.
-Then it was bed time (:

Overall, EXTREMELY good Sunday (: I can't wait for tonight!!

23.

23 FREAKING DAYS UNTIL OUR CRUISE TO ENSENADA AND CABO!

I am so excited. I went last April with the fam, but now it's time to go with Swiss(Kaylee) and some other girls!! It's from the 21st-25th.. Oh, I can't wait (:

These are from last year:


YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!

Institute

My institute class started last night!! And one of the "elements" that we have to complete, is to "Keep a journal of careful notes during the class" and although I forgot to bring paper to write things down yesterday, I got a few things. But I decided to make a separate blog of everything that happens in there, and my feelings and what not!! Feel free to look at it, follow it, ignore it, whatever! But it's there mainly for me, and to keep myself inspired, so maybe it will inspire you as well? Just check it out (:

Get motivated!!

I decided I need to be more goal orriented, and have to do lists! I made one the other day for things to do at work, and it was such a good idea! Just the privelege of being able to draw a line through a couple of words was motivation enough to do things that I had been putting off for.. well a while, to say the least ;) So I made a "chore list" for our new apartment so I can remind myself of the things I need to do daily, (that might seem like second nature to most.. but I just forget!! or ignore..) weekly, and monthly! I'm hoping it works out!!


I do plan on making an actual chart though, so I can put a gold star there when I complete a task, or write my name or whatever it may be!

Anyways, I'm off to go check out Verizon (and possibly buy a new phone today) and then to the apartment to unpack and make the apartment cute and meet the new roomies!!!!!

It's another one of those days -

- where I just want to stay in bed allll day. Unfortunately, that's never an option on weekdays because I have to be an "adult" and go to my 8-4 desk job( bleh:/ ). But on the bright side, Kaylee and I are officially all moved into The Bran! I recruited Mark and his roommate Chasen to bring both of their cars over to Pant's and load them with as much stuff as possible, along with mine and Pant's cars as well. And a little more in Kay's car.. When I told Mark that we needed his car too, and not just Chasen's little SUV he responded with "Good grief woman, how many cars do we need?" He had no idea how much stuff we have.. BUT!! it's a good thing we brought all of those cars, because we were able to make only one trip!! Our apartment is on the third floor, so we told the boys that if they took everything up there, Kay would give them each an hour massage and I'd make dinner and possibly a dessert. They were so excited and said they would, but by the time we got down there, HUGGE black rain clouds were right above us, and there was so much lightening! So Kay and I decided to make it go a little faster and start bringing stuff up too, so they weren't moving in the rain. Everything was in our apartment in less than an hour!! I was shocked! It took Kay and I.. what.. 2 or 3 days to move everything from our apartment into Pant's shed? But I'm so excited to finally be there! We decided to pay an extra $10 and move in a day early, and it was SOOO worth it! We got the bigger bathroom and the nicer room (one that didn't have a hole in the window) and moved all the extra furniture we didn't want into the other room, and we got the nicer kitchen cabinets!! Plus, there wasn't a million people in our way trying to move at the same time. We still have boxes and boxes and more boxes to unpack, but we got our beds all made and that's all that matters. Another plus, our beds are SOOOO COMFORTABLE! Well, compared to Winter Haven's beds. Anyways, Carly, Holly, Lindsey and Jori move into the apartment below us today!! This is going to be a fun year!!

*I'll take pictures of our apartment as soon as we get it all set up and get the boxes out of there!

Oh yeah!! The family reunion was awesome!! It was so fun to see everyone again! And to spend time with Ma, Kev and the kids was nice and relaxing (:

We made it! We're in Washington!! And I just had THEE most ROCKIN' photoshoot with Ma!! Here's a couple of my favorites (: Definitely more to come!

I can FINALLY relax (:

I've been non stop busy for the past month or so with all sorts of different things, but it all ended yesterday! We had our final cleaning checks for our apartment at 4 and we had the new girl do the inspection and one of the first few things she said when she walked in was "I'm supposed to be really strick, so I'm just pretending!" And she passed us off within 5 minutes!! Which is awesome, because they usually ARE extremely strick, trying to get as much money as they can from everyone right before they leave. But we got lucky (: Even though we DID clean the apartment REALLY REALLY well. Then we went down to the garage to load the last of our belongings into Kaylee's car, just in time to find a guy next to her car and a boot on her back tire!! Which was just PERFECT timing, (sarcasm) because I had my final in less than half an hour, and my car was down at Pant's(Aunt Pat)!!! So I walked my little self to school and had a few minutes to spare before my math final. Got locked in the bathroom stall for a little bit, got pretty scared and started planning on an escape route, when I realized I just had to UNLOCK the door. Man.. Hahah, went up to class and wasn't nervous at all, until my teacher started telling stories of how hard finals are and blah blah blah. I was in there for about an hour and a half, which is the LONGEST I've ever been in there to take a test. I'm really hoping I do well, so cross your fingers! Oh, and good news about Kay's tire, she had management come down and tell the guy to take the boot off!! Phew! After I took a few more things out of our (now)old apartment, I headed down to Provo and Mark took me to Pizza Factory!!! I seriously LOVE that place. If you're ever in Utah and want some good pizza, go there and get the Chicken Alfredo pizza and a couple breadsticks, and I promise you won't be disappointed! (But if you are, I will GLADLY take your left-overs!!) Then I went back to Pant's and packed up most of my stuff for this coming week in Washington!! We're heading out right after work and should get there by 4 in the morning.. ISH? Then staying with the fam until Monday when Kay and I head out to Camp Zarahemla for a family reunion until friday, staying with the fam again, then coming back to Utah! So it's a good break from all the hustle bustle!! I'm very happy!

And of course, a couple of pictures!

DEEES IS MY LOVELY SEEESTER (:


This morning, Kaylee and I were late (once again) and didn't have time to grab some food, other than a banana on our way out of the house. So I walked to Target, which is right by my office building, and got some cereal and milk! I thought we had bowls, but cups work too!! DEEEEEEEELISH! It will be my lunch as well! And.. possibly... dinner. But it wasn't very expensive for a whole day's meals!! Roadtrip starts in 5 hours and 15 minutes. Oh yeah, I'm excited (:

New Mini Book!

I made Jonathan a quote book for our "Two Year" anniversary[Aug16], well.. Two years since we first started dating, anyways.. as well as his 6 months on his mission[Aug18]. So here it is!! I would upload all of the pictures on here, but it would take up too much space. So just look at it on the Two Peas site! Let me know what you think of it!

And this is the paper plate that Jaycee and Tanner decorated for him: