Christmas Time Is HERE!

I've been working on Christmas cards for like...the past week. And I just now figured out what I am doing for Jake. I asked him what he wanted for Christmas because I really wanted to get him something. But all he said was "a Christmas letter". Still, I wanted to do something more than just a letter. Because he deserves it! He's such an angel to me, and I really want to show him how much he means to me. So, I wrote the letter. It's 10 pages! But I think it's really cute. And it came from the heart. Which is how gifts should be right? But I ALSO...made him a coupon book! Fun, huh! I put stuff like "foot rub" and "dinner and a movie" and "fun picnic in the park" annnd some other stuff. I can't spoil all of them though! (I've come to find out that he actually reads my blogs from time to time...uh oh. ha.). I'm also going to throw in a few pictures maybe. Me and Melanie took some cute ones before the break started. I wish I would've uploaded the ones she had onto my computer because then I could use those too. But I only have mine. They're cute though. We had a lot of fun that night and the pictures are proof! :) Anyway, I feel like I've been writing out thousands of cards too. I only have 5. They're all missionaries too--Korben, Alyssa, Kathryn, Jenna, and Bradley. I just feel kinda bad cuz all my cards and stuff will be late. Oh well. Getting something late is better than not getting anything at all right? Anyway, I'm SO EXCITED for Christmas! And for Jake to get his gift! :)))) I really just want to call him right now and tell him alll about it. But I won't. Hehe. Here are some of the pictures from the other night!

This is our Christmas card.
Merry Christmas everyone! :)

Eclipse + Scott Pilgrim + Mt Dew = Perfect All-Nighter

Okay so I realize the title of this blog makes it seem like I'm just partying all night long, but I'm not. I swear. And me typing this blog also might make it seem like I'm wasting my time. But again. I promise I'm not. Here's my explanation: Melanie and I are going to do alllll our homework and stuff tonight (while watching Eclipse, then Scott Pilgrim, and drinking Mt Dew) so we can focus on other things for the rest of the week (like Christmas cards, crafts, packing, and cleaning). Fun, huh? It is. Trust me. :)

By the way, Eclipse has been my favorite of the Twilight series. Mostly because of Taylor Lautner. Lets be honest. He's a total babe. Also, so is my boyfriend. And he could be Jacob Black's twin. Just sayin.

I might quit this thing.

This 30 day thing is quite tedious. I'm not sure I can handle it anymore.

Day 16. Another picture of myself.

I look a little rough, haha, but at least my teeth look good. This was over the summer in Colorado. I worked at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, and one day me and Melanie went exploring in the cave! So exhausting. She won't let me put any of her pictures up though, because she says she looks awful. I beg to differ. I think she looks awesome. Anyway, that's my picture. 

Oh, I fixed my digital camera! It actually kinda broke the same day this picture was taken--it got tons of cave dirt in it. But I vacuumed it allll out and now it works fine! :-) so happy about that. 

ipod shuffle.

Day 16. First 10 songs on shuffle on my ipod. Seeing as I have no ipod, I went to the itunes dj for my shuffle.

Here are my 10 songs:
1. Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas
2. Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz
3. The Light & The Glass by Coheed & Cambria
4. U Know by Boyz II Men
5. A Woman In Love from Guys & Dolls
6. Hometown Hero Remix by Big K.R.I.T. feat. Yelawolf
7. Lives by Modest Mouse
8. I'll Follow the Sun by the Beatles
9. Goodbye Apathy by OneRepublic
10. I Want You (feat. Will.I.Am) by Common

Some of these I've never heard before and I didn't even know existed in my itunes. Ha.

Mi Familia.

Day 14. A picture of my family. I have a large family. All of whom I love very very much.

yeah thats my coat.

So yeah that's a lot of pictures. And I have more. But I wasn't able to post them all. So expect another family post soon. And also soon to come: a post about Kieffer! :)

You looked beautiful taking pictures tonight? please answer the question

haha thank you. i appreciate that.

Ask me anything

Day 13 sounds dumb.

I really don't want to do day 13. Here's why: A letter to someone who has hurt you recently


No one has really hurt me recently. Not enough for me to write a letter to them anyway. To me, that's kind of a big deal, and I'm one who would rather tell someone to their face than write a letter via the world wide web. I'd rather write them a letter that they'd never see. So I can get allllll my feelings out. Then I'd go talk to them about whatever it was they did to hurt me. So I have no letter for anyone. 


But I will tell you guys about my weekend. :)


I left on Friday for SLC with Mellie, and spent my Friday night with Jake. It was so so good to see him! I missed him so much. We walked to Cafe Rio at like 10 pm (when it closes!) and the sweet lady that worked there let us in even though they were already closed! As always, the pork salad was divine. But afterwards we went back to his place and just talked (and stuff). Spending as much time as possible together since I was leaving the next day and neither of us know when we'll see each other next. It's tragic, I know. (Thank goodness for skype!) We watched this craaazy movie though. I'll spare you the details, but just take my word for it and NEVER see The Human Centipede. Haha. It's terrible. However, do watch Bones as much as possible. Anyway, it was a realllly really great night. We had a lot of fun together. And I miss him. A LOT. :)


Next day, I went with Melanie and some friends to SLC to shop and eat. And so I could catch my flight. I made the mistake of eating Sbarro pizza--I had been craving pizza all week, so I decided to get my fix. Bad choice. It was awful. But I did find some awesome deals at PacSun. Over the summer, I went to one in Denver with Mel, and found this super cute lace tank top. It was kinda pricey and I wanted to get other things instead, so I didn't buy it. And I really regretted it. But we went in there over the weekend and I found the same tank for only 7 bucks! Of course I bought it. And some nail polish. And a ring and some earrings. :) So happy. I also found some film for my fisheye camera at Urban Outfitters. But I didn't buy it. It was really pricey. 18 bucks for 3 rolls of redscale negative. That's pretty much how it ran for all the films, too. So I'm going to shop around a little more. I called my friend Spencer, who is a brilliant photographer by the way, and he gave me advice on it. He is, after all, the one who gave me my first lomo camera. :) He is the best. Seriously. 


So after my adventures at the mall, we headed to the airport. I was so exhausted at this point because of lack of sleep, I kind of had a hard time carrying my luggage around. I figured I would crash on the plane, but noooo.... obnoxious loud kids in every direction. No sleep for me. So I watched one of the greatest shows on earth instead.

But my computer died because the kid next to me just had to charge his itouch. Keep in mind this kid was under 12. And he had a freakin droid. NBD! Ridiculous. Kids today. I swear. 

Anyway, that was my weekend pretty much. Since being home, I've just been spending time with family. Waiting anxiously for my brother's return! :) I can't wait.

How I found out about Blogspot and WHY I made one.

See Day Two. Because this one is kind of redundant.

Thanksgiving break is almost here! FINALLY. And guess what? My lil brudder comes home from his mission next week! :) I can't wait. I've missed him so much. I got to gmail chat with him a few days ago. It was pretty hilarious. The first place we're going to go to when he gets home? Taco Bell. Yeah. The funny part is, he flies in at 8 am. So I highly doubt we'll actually go to Taco Bell that early. Also, he still thinks his xbox is available for him to play. Little does he know, it's being used for entertainment in the Mullet Bullet. I'm gonna rofl so hard when he sees it. He probably won't have words. Not in English anyway. Ha, get it? Since he speaks Portuguese now? Ha.

dork. haha.

Anyway, there's this weird flu going around. You get a headache for days. And it never goes away. Weird. I don't have it, but I've heard stories. Sounds pretty miserable. I really hope I don't catch it.

Oh and tomorrow, I'm going to Utah. To see my man. :-) I can't even wait.

Another Picture of Me and My Friends

Day 11... I haven't been taking many pictures lately, something I need to do better at. But here are my pictures!

These are my friends Crockett and Megan. I worked with them over the summer and I love them to pieces! 

This is Jenni. We were instant friends the first night we ever really met and hung out. She's fun.

Me and Julie :) We've been friends for a long long time and I miss her so much! This was in the Opry Hotel. It was obviously a cold day outside! Ha

This is Julie and her man, Morgan. I had just met him that day basically. He's tight. We all had a lot of fun that day. This was at the Predators game.

I have good news, and bad news.

I'll give the bad first because it's short. and not really that important...the page I use for reference on my 30 day blog thing is having technical difficulties sooo unfortunately I will not be posting a blog like that today.

Here's the good news. The boy interest I mentioned earlier (last week I believe) is now my boyfriend. :)


It's still a little weird for me, because it's been a while since I've actually officially had a boyfriend. But. It feels good. And I really like him. His name is Jake and he's from Reno. Here's the funny part--there's almost a 5 year age difference. And my new nickname? You guessed it. Cougs.


It doesn't really bother me though. Yeah, it's weird a little bit. But he's mature. and smart. Sometimes I think he's smarter than me! I really like him, and he is a real sweetheart. I can be myself around him and he makes me really happy. Not to mention he's a great kisser! Ha. He makes me laugh, too, which is a pretty big deal to me (among other things!). We're long distance right now, and it's really hard, but we'll see what happens. :)

Here's the only picture of us.

This was went I went to Cali this past year. When we hardly knew each other. But I think we still had a connection. Cuz we've had crushes on each other ever since.

Of COURSE they have one for music!

Day 10- Songs you listen to when you’re Happy, Sad, Bored, Hyped, Mad


This one will be especially somewhat difficult, because I've loved music since I could like... make conscious decisions! Who knows when that started really... Ha.


I'm actually really excited to do this one though because I love music so much. However, this blog might be especially long.


So. Music I listen to when I'm happy. Well. Currently, I'm listening to some Michael Buble :) He has an incredible voice and his songs are so wonderful. Usually when I'm happy, I tend to listen to stuff like his--Frank Sinatra. Harry Connick, Jr. Dave Barnes. John Mayer. Jason Mraz. Sara Bareilles. Copeland. Coldplay. Jamie Cullum. Taylor Swift. Yes--I openly admit to listening to Taylor. She's tight. And I relate with her...Um. who else. Cartel. Paramore. Boys Like Girls. Jack's Mannequin....I dunno. Oh and lately I've really been diggin Justin Bieber's "U Smile". I KNOW it's Bieber...but it's so hard not to like that song!


Let's move on. Sad. Usually when I listen to sad songs, it's the same artists, just all their sad songs. A good example of the perfect sad song is "All By Myself" by my girl, Celine. Haha. It's seriously the epitome of sad. What else. "Split Screen Sadness" by John is pretty good. Copeland has some pretty good sad songs. And Coldplay too. Oh and Jack's Mannequin "Swim". It's such a good song, and I'm not sure it's meant to be sad, but when I'm sad I listen to it several times, cuz that song has ALWAYS got me out of bad emotional ruts. It's absolutely incredible.


So when I'm borrrred...I usually put on this new stuff I've been into. Well, it's new to me anyway. And it's not boring stuff, it's just...different I guess. But I LOVE it. It's like the dubstep, house, electronic (NOT techno) stuff people listen to lately. Like deadmau5, pretty lights (my personal favorite currently), bassnectar, 3OH!3, hoodie allen, umm... and pretty much anything else I like from this new sick blog I came across from my friend Crockett.


Being hyped is a completely different choice of genre for me. This usually entails the hip hop/r&b/rap portion of my itunes. Like Lil Wayne. Kid Cudi. T.I. B.o.B. Timbaland. Ciara. Rihanna. Chris Brown (especially his new song "Yeah 3x"!). Shwayze. And basically anything else that falls under that category. Some of it is really good, and fun, but other times it just plain old sucks and ruins the hype.


Mad. Sometimes, this is the most fun choice of artist! It's also kind of important to depending on how quick I want to get my rage out, ya know? Usually I'll pick a little evanescence, sometimes Jimmy Eat World, umm...Flyleaf. Such a good anger artist. My Chemical Romance. Sometimes I listen to Muse when I'm mad too. I also like to run to the things that I listen to when I'm mad. Sometimes it pushes me harder. 


Anyway, I HIGHLY recommend looking some of these up. If you're interested. :)

What Am I Proud Of?

Day 09. Something you’re proud of in the past few days.


Haha um... I'm not sure? I guess within the last week I've been able to keep up on my homework. I ran a mile or so with no problems at all (not that I usually have problems, the thing was it was absolutely freezing outside and I wasn't wearing the proper attire, so surprisingly, I wasn't totally miserable). I've kept my room fairly clean, too. I'm especially proud of my Halloween costume! It was so fun. Here's a last picture for your entertainment:

melanie and me.
she's Poison Ivy.

and for those of you who are curious, here's how I made my masterpiece costume.


I bought a full white unitard from amazon.com (blue ones are pretty hard to come by i guess). I dyed it blue using Rit's royal blue and navy blue (i had to dye it twice cuz the first time i came out kinda purply). After drying and rinsing and all that, I got to work on the paint job. I bought two kinds of fabric paint (the squeezy kind, not the actual paint on kind)--sparkly glitter and navy blue. I knew the sparkly kind would give it a little something, plus it was just pretty. :) anyway, I downloaded a bunch of pictures of Mystique from bing and google so I could have some kind of template as to what I was doing. I pretty much made it up as I went though because I had no idea what I was doing. I started with the legs and worked my way up though, trying to make sense of all the scales and whatever on her crazy blue body. Then I did the midsection. Then the arms. Then the whole backside. The fabric paint alone took me about 3 days on and off (drying and what not). It was pretty tedious. But it looks pretty dope! Haha. Then, on the actual dress-up day (in which I won first place for best costume at the ward party! dang straight!), I used like...tempura paint and acrylic paint mixed (I would choose something different though if I could do it again) and painted it on the rest of my body that was still showing after the unitard. I painted my face too. I spray painted my hair orange with that temporary hair spray (after putting it into a bun and throwing tons of gel into it to give it that nasty greasy look she has). I also had purchased some crazzzzy yellow cat eye contacts. So legit. And so scary. These were probably the hardest to come by because they're so expensive. I bought mine from the UK for only 17 pounds! Ha. Which isn't that bad actually. I can wear them whenever I want, too! Don't worry though, I won't. They're creepy. Umm so yeah. After my skin was painted, and my hair was in place, and my contacts were in, I painted parts of my skin (face especially) with the remainder of fabric paint I had (since she has scales on her face too). I threw on some navy blue flips flops and called it good! :) Even though I only got to show it off for one night, it was so much fun and totalllly worth all the work! 

I like him A LOT :)

So there's this boy...

and he's amazing.

:)

7, 8, lay them straight!

It's day 08 ya'll... Actually I should be on day 11 or something butttt I was in Provo all weekend chillin w my new boy interest so I was duh-strack-tid! So it's day 8--Short term goals for this month and why...


When I saw this one I was like great. I have to make goals? Ugh. But I'll suffer through this one. And maybe I'll even get some of them accomplished.


Write a 6 pg paper on the book Nanda Devi--because I have to for my leadership class.
Start running. A lot.--Because I'm running some crazy long races in the near future.
Stay on top of my HW--pretty self explanatory.
Chill with my bro!--because two years is up and he is coming home! :)
Dye my hair--it's about that time again.
Learn a new skill--because I want to :) except I dunno what it will be.
Take more pictures.--because I love photo. 
Write more letters--because my friends need them. and I need their friendship. :)
Work on my inner self?--it's an ongoing process. and also long term.
Go back to Provo to get my phone charger--because like a fool, I forgot it! Gr...




I think that'll definitely keep me occupied for a while. Ha.

Lucky Number Seven.

Day 7...  A picture of someone/something that has a big impact on you


If I were to post a picture of each person who has had a big impact on me, we would be here for a while...
But I guess the person who has the MOST  impact on me is my mom:

I think this is the most recent picture I have of her... and us. She'll probably kill me for putting it up here though haha. This is at a New Years party. Hence my lovely little hat.

My mom is literally the most amazing woman ever (of course I'm sure almost everyone can say that about their own mom) and she has gone above and beyond for me. I've never met anyone who loves me as much as she does, and who has forgiven me for everything I have said and done (besides Heavenly Father and Jesus!) and been proud of me even when I wasn't. She inspires me to do my very best and love myself no matter what. She not only knows what to say and when to say it, but she's tactful about it. Even when it's not what I want to hear. She's taught me right from wrong and she did an excellent job! I wouldn't be here without her (duh) but I definitely wouldn't have continued to live and be happy without her. She's helped me through so much and has kept me going in rough times. I love her to pieces and she's one of my bestest friends. I am so grateful for her and everything she does. I don't think there are enough words in this world to describe how much she means to me. I love you Momma.

My Favorite Superhero and WHY.

Well all you avid readers...it's day six. (I can't believe I've followed through this far!)

As long as I can remember, my favorite superhero has always been The Flash. I watched the Justice League as a kid (and by kid I mean all the way up until maybe freshman year of high school) and he was just always my favorite. I thought he was funny, and lets be honest--he's faster than Superman. Don't try and argue with me on that because my brother told me they raced once and that they tied, but the Flash would have won. And this guy has a pretty sweet spandex get-up. Red and yellow? Yes please. Plus look at those ripply muscles! And this guy can supposedly violate certain laws of physics! Intense. Did I mention he's got a wicked awesome bod? Haha.

Here are some other favorites:

this guy...

because of this guy... 

 AND.....

this guy

because of this guy...

Something Grand

It's Day 05 ya'll... Today I will be sharing with you a place I have been to... Hence, the title:

Some of you who will read this have been there too, but I honestly never thought I would go here when I did. Last February (?) for Presidents' Weekend, me and some good friends of mine decided to take a short trip to the GRAND CANYON (and VEGAS!). And grand it was! Actually, I think "grand" is somewhat of an understatement. This place is so immense and massive, one could probably have a heart attack! ...Okay that's an overstatement... but seriously. This place takes your breath away. It took mine. But I got it back, thankfully. Ha! I learned a lot on this trip--about myself, about my friends, about Heavenly Father. I mean there have been few places where I have felt so close to Him.. and this was one of them. There's just this crazy energy that comes from this place. Like you can do absolutely anything. It's intense. I also metaphorically learned about standing on the edge--pushing your boundaries--and not in a good way. Haha. Anywhere it said "do not cross" or "stay behind the fence", I wouldn't follow. I did what I wanted. And when I said metaphorically earlier, I mean that in life, sometimes we have to be careful about doing the same thing. I think that's what rules and guidelines are meant for. They are meant to be broken, yes, but you have to be careful as to which rules you choose to break. Anyway, this trip was sick. I hope I can go back!

Eden is more than a Garden...

I know I've already posted today, but I feel inspired!

Here is my inspiration:

The lovely strawberry blonde in these pictures is my good good great friend, Eden Olenslager. Who, as of tonight, is now Sister Olenslager. Because she is reporting tomorrow to serve in the Dakotas. Exciting, huh!? I'm really happy for her and I love her so much. She is such a good person and is one of the most Christ-like persons I know. I really will miss her but I'm so proud of her decision to serve. I know she will do a lot of good out there. She is an incredible example to me and she makes me want to be a better person. I wish her the best of luck out there, and I pray that she will be safe and hope she has the best time out there. :-)

Love you Eden.