Random Picture Post

Here are some random pictures from recently...I think I'm caught up for the most part now!

Steph came down to visit! It makes me soooo happy to see her, she is just so darling and looked especially beautiful tonight!
A week or so ago Erin, Brooke and I had a movie night in our room hahaha. We moved the TV in, brought in armfuls of junk food and turned on Tristan and Isolde and just relaxed :) Perfect.
The chair at my desk was partially broken the day I moved in and then a week or two later Brian was over and he sat down and leaned back in it which caused it to break a little further. Ever since then it's been hanging on by a thread...until last week when I was sitting at my desk skyping when all of a sudden crash! It just completely broke underneath me and I fell the floor!! I just laughed and laughed.
When Erin and I pulled an all-nighter last week we made enchilladas, but with no recipe! They tasted surprisingly good!
However, not all my food creations turn out quite so great. Take a look at the ugliest crepes in the world! Matt and I got a little carried away
Yep, definitely not appetizing or aesthetically pleasing, but they did taste good if that counts for anything!

Sunday Dinner

I love a nice Sunday dinner so I decided to make a big meal today. Pot Roast with carrots, potatoes and onions. Green Salad. Fruit Salad. Mashed Potatoes. Gravy. Rolls (those were not homemade). MmmmMmmm. Once I got started I couldn't stop...I just kept making more and more food! I still have a lot to learn about cooking, that's for sure, but I think it turned out pretty well overall!

Notice the pretty placemats Aunt Heidi gave me for my birthday :) Thank you! I use them every time we cook! (usually as actual placemats, but today there was just too much food to sit at the table and eat.)
All of this food is making me really excited for Thanksgiving!!
Steph and some other friends came later, but here are the first people here. There was A LOT of food!

Summer Gang '09

Went to Chuck's birthday party last night and had such a good time seeing everyone! We had to take a few pictures with the "summer gang" just for old times sake. Michael, Bree and Chuck are three of the funniest people I know and I always have the BEST time with them!!

New Moon!

New Moon came out last night and yes I was there for the midnight showing haha. 6 of us went and had a great time! We left at 6:30 to make sure we got there in plenty of time to get a good seat, went to Chili's, got ice cream, talked, laughed etc. And I thought the movie was great. I had just barely finished the book so all of the differences between the book and movie were extremely obvious to me, but they kept it pretty similar for the most part. However, there is so much emotional struggle between Bella, Edward and Jacob that I was anxious the entire book/movie. Therefore, I think I liked Twilight better. However, Taylor Lautner (Jacob) is ridiculously good looking and adds oh so much to the movie, not to mention he is such an incredibly nice, happy guy who truly loves and protects Bella. In the books I think I am Team Edward, but in the movies I am Team Jacob for sure. - see picture at bottom of post.

Here we all are standing in line!
Erin and I. She's the reason I ever got into the books
Erin and her sister Brooke holding up all our tickets!
Epic fail on my part. Sorry guys, I cut everyone out haha oops
All squished in the back!

No caption needed on my part - he's perfect.

Sunday Fun

One of these families has an extra member now :)


Nate and I played the piano on Sunday and such a good time! He's amazingly talented and I always tell him that I am his #1 fan haha

Busy busy!!

Life has just been wonderfully busy lately leaving me little time to blog. So many good things going on right now. Can't believe how fast this semester is flying by. Last night Erin and I stayed up ALL night to write a term paper due today. A summary of the night: Two trips to Smith's, broken shoe, car boot that Erin made them take off for free, failed steam room trip, enchiladas, delicious ice cream, severe breakdown of laughing, visit from Darien and Joe, Corpse Bride...oh yeah and writing that major 10 page research paper. You'd think after staying up all night and only sleeping 3 hours today I'd be worn out and in bed now, but nope! I'm wide awake....so I'm going to post pictures of some of the things I've been up to lately

Kindness

“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."

-Joseph Jubert

Took this picture in Grandma and Grandpa's pretty front yard.

E-ren

Erin and I basically share a brain and are attached at the hip. We enjoy doing all the same things. Somehow we always end up in the most random situations together, but it happens so often we have just come to expect it. "This would happen to us" and "Why am I not surprised" are phrases that we say a lot. Erin is the most loyal and loving friend ever - I can't imagine what my experience at BYU would be like without her. And not only is she a true friend, but she's hilarious. EVERY day we laugh so much! Sometimes about truly funny things and other times about the most ridiculous things. For example, today while we were driving around we were listening to Lady Gaga and the Goo Goo Dolls. I was like, "Who comes up with these names? Goo Goo Dolls? Lady Gaga? What does that even mean?" Then Erin had this brilliant idea: "The Goo Goo Dolls and Lady Gaga should go on tour together and call it the Goo Goo Gaga tour." hahahaha. So ridiculous and random, but awesome. Everyone needs a friend like Erin, she is seriously the best!

A Twilight Conversion Story

For some reason when something becomes incredibly popular it makes me less interested. Never read the Harry Potter series....it became too commercialized and everyone was just way too obsessed with it in my opinion. Well, I did read the first book and liked it. And then when the 7th book came out I opened it up and read the last 30 pages. When I told people this they looked at me like I'd just committed high treason, but honestly those last 30 pages made perfect sense and I felt like I'd just saved myself a massive amount of time. Ok, so like I said, when things become too popular I lose interest which was the case with Twilight. Three years ago Erin read the book aloud to me while I drove her around places, but it just didn't appeal to me. I felt like Stephenie Meyer's writing was lacking greatly and Bella drove me insane. Despite being the only person in the world who didn't love the book, I did go and see the movie and actually ended up loving it. I saw it six times in theater which for me is unheard of. I'm not sure I've ever seen any other movie more than twice in a theater. It's kind of sad when you like the movie better than the book. Well time keeps passing, but the Twilight epidemic has not slowed down. People continue to be obsessed and I have continued to stand my ground that it's overrated. But I realized that in order for me to have a true opinion of the book, I should actually read it myself (having Erin read it to me doesn't really count). So a few weeks ago I asked Twilight-obsessed Erin for her copy of the book (she was in love with Twilight before it even became popular) and read it cover to cover. The first half of the book was painful - it confirmed why I had disliked it so much. But then the second half of the book - the parts where it becomes more about Edward and less about whiny/accident-prone Bella, well then I started to enjoy it. The writing style remained less than decent - I feel like she went through her manuscript and clicked on the synonyms tool for every 5th word and threw in a random, less-used word just to make her writing seem more intelligent, but instead it just ruined the flow. Not to mention there were a few words like "chagrined" that she used over and over and over. It just got awkward. All I'm saying is for someone who is selling millions of books, I expected higher quality writing. However, by the end of the book I had a better opinion of it than when I started. And now, before I go see New Moon I have decided to read that book as well. I'm about 70 pages into it and the writing is so much better. I don't know what changed, but she stepped it up a notch and everything just flows better. Bella is still always complaining, but I realize that's never going to change. The only downfall is that it's so sad already. Spoiler alert, this part broke my heart: " 'You're not good for me, Bella.' He turned his earlier words around, and so I had no argument. How well I knew that I wans't good enough for him."

So basically, I went from dislike to like. I still don't love the books, still not a "Twilighter" and still not obsessed, but I can now start to understand why everyone else does love the books. The end!

Tony Parker sings too??

Country Dancing

I am so NOT a dancer, but I did go country dancing tonight with Joseph and some friends and had a really, really good time!! I've managed to go nearly 5 years at BYU without giving into this crazy trend, but I broke down tonight and went. And I'm so glad I did because I haven't laughed this much in a long time!

Sweet Tree Flip

We were dropping some friends off a little while ago and this random guy out front of the apartment complex kept doing these awesome running flips off a tree. Of course my natural reaction was to pull out my camera. And that's Erin's voice you hear in the background. But yeah, I was way impressed. I tried. And failed. It's hard!

Bizarre Ads

I can't remember who forwarded me the e-mail with these ads, but I figured they were blog worthy. Especially as a public health major I find them so amusing...like were people serious??? Hello!!

Fireflies by Owl City

I am loving this song!!!

To listen and watch the music video click on this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI4JLa0hbUw

Love this

Go where we may - rest where we will,
Eternal London haunts us still.
-Thomas Moore