This has been a wonderful week! So many great things happened! When Jake and I went bowling on his birthday, he lost in bowling, so the bet was whoever lost had to write the other person a note a day for a week. It was great getting a cute note from him each day. Jake always drew fun pictures and folded the notes really cool. I loved getting the notes each day.
Elton John and Billy Joel Came to town. I would like to get some glasses like his.Kneaders brownies (German chocolate brownie) is still the best in town and truly can cure any mad chocolate craving. Taco bell 99 cent chicken burritos and mexican pizzas are fantastic, and really healthy.Easter candy is truly the best candy of any holiday season! Cadburry and Reese's eggs are the best!!! After college class, Jake and I went to the bookstore to buy chocolate covered cinnamon bears, and ended up getting some Easter candy as well! yum!Went to Wallaby's Barbecue and saw my hand-print on the wall. I was so excited to see it there because I completely forgot about it!
Meat and potatoes. Quite a hardy meal. It was a lot yummier than I expected. They also give students a 25% discount! That is a nice touch.My friends Nicole and Breanna said I must give "Farrs" one more chance. I was quite hesitant, but after eating this yummy combo of white chocolate yogurt, kit kat, and pretzel, I will go to "Farrs" anytime and get this combo! I think if you get more than one combo of yogurt flavors it melts to fast, but if you get only one flavor, then it is fine. My new bike riding goal.For hair school, on Monday they are having a photo shoot. Nicole, Breanna and I went to a store called Taylormaid. It has costumes, wigs, and almost anything imaginable there. It is almost scary. The blue and red wig I thought were pretty cool, and we thought about making something of that sort. Nicole and I seared threw magazines for hours and looking at hair and makeup photos online to try and come up with something we wanted to do for our photo shoot. We decided though that we are just going to do the next photo shoot next month at school. Not enough time to prepare for what we wanted to do. I went back and started looking through a bunch of photos from when I did makeup school. That was fun. Here are a few.
Bed time!At night time, I usually get the luxury of getting read a bed time story, family prayer, and being tucked in like a "burrito" as Stacey would call it. Stacey tucked me in and put Mr. Dinosaur on my face to eat me, or to snuggle with for the night. Shes the greatest.
I ran out of grocery's and need to go to the store, so I have been eating out a lot for my lunches. Went to "Noodles and company." They are awesome there! I got the pad thai with peanut sauce. Way yummy. On your birthday, they even give you a free meal! But its not my birthday, so I bought it with my money I earned from doing eyelash extensions. This week has been fun because I got to do 3 new clients eyelash extensions. At hair school the back sink broke in the dispense, so Nicole and I were board, and we decided to clean it. It was full of unwashed color bowls and junk. The entire sink. I was embarrassed to put the before and after pick up, so you just get to see the after, with our cool stop sign we made. haha But for being in hair school for over a year now, this was my first big mess I have seen. Not to shabby.For Friday date night, Jake and I went rock climbing and met up with MJ. I tried to climb my first 10a. That was exciting for me! Wahoo! Then we went to the Bean Museum on BYU campus.
Eskimo Kiss with a rhino. A wild cat bit my head. A man sized bear. A beautiful sunset.
I am amazed at how many cool museums and exhibits that are all around campus and are FREE! It is great! The Bean, and dino museum are my favorites! There are still many to be found and explored! We had fun walking around the museum and taking pictures with the animals. Then we went and picked up food! Jake got In-and Out burger and I got Cafe Rio. There sweet pork is the best meat ever! It is very tender and juicy! The portion size of the meal though, is huge and can feed a family.I love date nights with Jake!
One of my best friends of all time, that I met last year, moved to San Fransisco to work as a big girl in Cooperate America. She needed to get her weave fixed, so this was great news, she was coming into town to visit! Her and I got to go snowboarding Saturday morning! It was the best feeling ever having her there, and it happened to be the most beautiful day out and fresh powder to play in on every run! I am sooo happy I got to see Jen and play with her! A beautiful day on the Mountain. An amazing creation, and great joy! A homeless person on the mountain.Jen = hardcore. Taking the gondola back from the mountain to the parking lot. What a great day!Jens favorite restaurant is Outback Steak house, so Jen, Stacey and Jake and I all went out to dinner there. We had the best waiter that in all of my eating out experiences in life, she really was the best waiter I have ever witnessed. She was super kind, always refilling drinks, repeated our order back to us, and....brought us tons, and tons of bread! It was truly bottomless bucket of bread. Outback has great bread, and it is really yummy dipped in ranch. I feel like anything to add on the extra calories makes food really good. ha haSince Jen was in town, we needed to return back to our old ways of terrorizing Joesph. We went to jump in the Krispy Kreme dumpster, and sadly there were no doughnuts. It was only full of dough. We have already tried that one to before where we got the dough and tried to make our own donuts, but they didn't taste nearly as good, and it was ridiculously messy. But, that was half the fun of it. It was a sad day to leave the dumpster empty handed.Sadly, Staceypants phone was broken, so we went to the Apple store to see if there was anything they could do. Jen, Jake and I stood in amazement as we watched Stacey's interaction with the computer man. Her foot action was so entertaining, and mesmerizing. I think this means she is in love.Despite not having any donuts to drop off at Josephs doorstep we went to see if he was home. Sadly he was not. This is us, sad and upset he is not home. (I feel his picture looks identical to the one in front of the dumpster.) We than went to Walmart to look for friendship rings because the 3 musketeers were finally all back together. To our shock and amazement, Walmart didn't even have friendship bracelets! I am still devastated! But I did by the movie "Love Potion # 9." Even since I have heard that song as a child I have been wanting to see the movie. Then we dropped Jake off, and finished the night off, for a girls night out! Excpet the fact that we were all really tired, and went to bed. I did get to get some cleaning done on my room though, so that was a great feeling.
On Sunday, I was at meetings from noon until 9:30 at night. I love Sundays so much, and really enjoy them, sometimes I just wish there was more time in the day on Sundays. Woke up around 10 and made chocolate chip pancakes (i think this is now my new Sunday morning tradition), and went to the ward council meeting. We have so many fun activities planned! I am excited! Our next big one is sledding at Solider Hollow! That will be a blast!!!! In church, all the talks were on hope. Then in Sunday School the lesson was on "living in the world, but not of it." I thought some great points that were brought up on having balance with the gospel and real life were, putting Christ first in your life, surrounding yourself around good friends, and having your priorities right by putting Christ/gospel first and everything else will fall into place. For our ward prayer, we have the cutest girl and boy in charge of it. Each week they choose the funniest questions to ask at the apartment spot light, and go all out for treats! This week they had smores! They put the smores in the oven and brought them out and they were great to eat! Jake had a great idea of putting his in the freezer and that looked awesome! Then, Jake and I finally fished our piggy banks! wahoo!!!!! They turned out so cute! I now only spend dollars and keep my change so I can put it in my piggy! Yes, maybe that is defeating the purpose of a piggy bank. Spending money to get change to put in my piggy? I am so grateful Jake is great with computers. He helped me transfer a bunch of stuff off of my computer to my hard drive, and now my computer is not freezing up all the time! That is great news!This week Jake and I also got to go to the temple together for his ward and do baptisms. That was a blast. This was a great week full of rock climbing, hair school, hair school, (I now have 1530 hours completed of hair school and 470 left! yes!) collage, food, church and friends! It was the best seeing Jen this weekend! I am dying to take a trip up to San Fransico to go visit her! Hopefully someday soon!
M is for monkey
Monday, February 22, 2010
A wonderful day today! My stake offered a Book of Mormon challenge to complete it by April 10th. So jake and I started reading it everyday together, but it was a lot to read together and we got a bit behind, so we download the "bom" off of the LDS website so we can have audio to listen to. So today I got to sleep in, woke up and drove for about two hours and listened to some scriptures. It was great! I never realized how cool the church website is and all the great tools and resources they have on it. Really neat! Then went to FHE and to the rock gym. Ohhh how I love rock climbing! Jake got a pass now, I am really happy about that, so hopefully we can start going more often. Then Jake and I made staceypants a funny blue alien "avitar" movie. I think she is going to love it! Today I am grateful for people working hard to plan activities and going the extra mile.
Tender Mercies
Sunday, February 21, 2010
I love, love, love Sundays! This morning I woke up to my phone ringing, and it was Jake and he told me I should come down stairs to my apartment to let him in. He had brought stuff to make my favorite breakfast! He made me choclate chip pancakes! It was such a fun Sunday morning breakfast. Then Jake went to his ward and I started working on a project for one of my classes. I looked outside and it was a beautiful snowy morning! The snow shall be so good snowboarding tomorrow! At the beginging of fall Semester President Thomas S. Monson came and spoke to us on campus. He talked about his gratitude of everyone of the prophets that had previous served in the church. He told a cute story of how he gained his testimony of each of them, what he remembers them eating in the church head quarters, their favorite hymn, and how they each helped significantly, and so differently for each to contribute to the church. I loved the talk because it hit right on to how I was feeling and how my mind set has been on the importance of legacies. It also made me really want to study more about each of the prophets of the church to learn from their examples and teachings. The talk was so fantastic and I couldn't figure out how to attach a link, so for future reference in case anyone or myself wants to look at this talk, go to http://speeches.byu.edu The talk is from Thomas S. Monson given Sept. 15, 2009, and the talk is titled "Principles from Prophets" and was a BYU devotional. This talk really inspired me and has been on my mind, so when I heard for one of my classes the requirements for what we had to do for a final project for our class, I knew I wanted to study about all the prophets, and make a book about them on Shutterfly. This morning I started to do a bit of research on the biographies of some of the phrophets lives and downloading pictures of them for hte book. When I was doing some things on President Hickley, I could not help but cry. I miss him. He truely was such an amazing man, and left a great legacy to follow. I feel like all day tender mercy after another keep heading my way. In church, all of my favorite hymns were sung today. "I know that my Reedemer Lives", "How Great Though Art" "Jesus once of Humble Birth." I was really overwhelmed with such great feelings of love for our Savior Jesus Christ. I am so greatful for music and the influence it can have. Its neat how music can really speak to us in a completely different way than words. During church I saw Jake when he got done with church, and mine was switching meetings. We both had written notes for each other without knowing each other wrote one for each other. We exchanged them. It was fun. I have the sweetest boyfriend. Later we ate left over Indian yummy food and talked to Jake's parents on scype. That was great! Went to a fireside tonightt by a pianist man named David Hatch. He was a neat character. Listening to piano made me really want to get back into playing violin again. Its been to long since I have played it regularly. Playing an instrument can be so calming and relieving at times. I love how the gospel just makes sense. It just proves to me over and over how true it is. For refreshments after the fireside there was a ton of fruit, cookies and meatballs! It was great! Then went to ward prayer and had more candy! Yes, I feel like even if food was not a big part of my life, it is always around me and in my face its not possible not to be. Sadly. haha. Since Joesph was not home on his birthday when Stacey and I were able to go over, we went and brought him his pink snuggie over. He loved it, and is so excited for the picture to get printed on it asap! We sang happy birthday to him in man voice, and sang him a hannucah song. He put the snuggie on right away and talked to us in for at least 30 minutes. Today was absoultley fantastic! I love life! Today I am grateful the little subtle blessings that come our way, and lots of yummy candy to eat on Sundays. Also, Hayley I am so happy you love that I love to blog now. Its so fun for me to know you know whats going on in life and having you be more of a part of it! I have the greatest family of all time!
Saturdayness
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Well, my blog has been becoming my new source of journal writing. I usually write in my journal each night, but instead have been blogging. Its kind of fun to do this though because you have the option of putting pictures with your writing as well. neat! This morning I had to take a test for college. It was great being able to take it online at home, because I was able to have lots of furry friends help support me while I toke the test. After taking my test, went rock climbing with MJ. Ahhh how I love rock climbing. Today while climbing I felt on top of the world. I feel rock climbing is a great hobbie for any age, any skill level. Jake decided today he is going to get a pass to the rock gym! I am so happy about that because that means I can start going more and he can join! And we can also start attending Yoga classes together. Wahoo! This is fantastic news! Then I got to go to the temple. My roommate Stacey was going, so I got to go join her as well! While waiting, I was reading the Book of Mormon, in 3Nephi 18:15. It reads, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, ye must watch and pray always, lest ye be tempetd by the devil, and ye be led away captive by him." I thought this was a great reminder that the little things count in life, and it will help us stay on track. After the temple, Jake and I drove to meet up with his brother, wife, and baby at the "Bombay House, Indian Cuisine" for a birthday dinner for Jake. Jake had brought a treat for the drive, of an amazing creation called a Pecan Roll. Jake's parents make them every Christmas holiday and it had the chewiest, softest caramel, neugut and pecans. YUM! Jake's parents have a super cute tradition for the kids that are out of the house, to send them gift cards to a restaurant of their choice for a birthday dinner on them since they cant physically be there. I thought that was a great idea! and I got to join, so thank you Sue for a fantastic dinner! This was my second time having Indian food, but it was fantastic! I loved it! We got mango and rose petal tasting drinks, yummy rice and sauce meals, and pigged out. The best part about it is, there is left overs for dinner tomorrow to! It was fun to play with some of Jake's family as well! I love playing with other peoples families. Jake had a fever by the time we got back home so he went home and went to bed. So, I had some time to catch up on some laundry and make some crafts. I worked on finishing up some fabric flowers and putting them on clips and head bands. Today I am grateful for great examples in my life, and how those people make you want to suceed and do better in life. Quote of the day "I love making up nicknames for people, especially myself- Staceypants)
Its snowing! Its snowing! Its SNOWING!
Friday, February 19, 2010
Woke up this morning at ten and stacey and I got ready to go snowboarding. We went to are all time favorite "great harvest" to start the day off right and get energized with pumpkin and chocolate for the mountain. We found a trick though that if you buy something then you don't have to pay for a slice of bread, so its cheaper to get a treat than buy to slices of bread. So, they had snickerdoole cookies today, which they have never had so we got one. It was super soft and chewy which was perfect, but it had sugar crystals on top, so that was not my favorite. But it was an ok cookie. "Paradise bakery" and "sweet cakes" in Arizona I would say have awesome sugar cookies. Snowboarding was awesome today! It has been way to long since I have been. I need to stop being a snowbum slacker and not going. Stacey has gotten so amazing! I feel her riding is flowing absolutely amazing! She a blast to ride with! Fridays are our date night on the mountain together. Its the greatest! Then went to a yoga store to pick up some things for stacey and came home. I really want to start doing yoga. Its sounds so amazing! And peaceful. At the rock gym and the regular gym I go to they have classes. I need to go to them. Then stacey and I went to club "walmart" to get our friend joesph a snuggie for his birthday tomorrow. We are screen printing a picture with all of us on it doing the "live long and prosper" sign. A favorite greeting of all of us. The snuggie is hot pink. I think he will love it. We are going to kidnap him at midnight and take him to "krispy kreme donuts" because stacey and I always dumpster dive in that dumpster and drop of donuts to Joesphs front door. Since its his birthday, I guess he deserves fresh donuts? Stacey and I went to "jamba juice." I got the berry fufilling with granola on top, truly the yummiest combo possible. Well, Joesph ended up not being home and was on a date so we dumpster dived and got bags of donuts and put them on his front door. Then we all went to walmart again to look for plastic eyes for Jake and my piggy banks and the game "jenga."
Next we went to "farrs" icecream to give it another shot. Jake and decided we still like "yozone" better despite everyones obsession with "farrs." At walmart, we saw this awesome Chia pet! I wanted to get it, but then I remember hearing about this super cool one that is President Obama, and his hair grows. I need to look online for that prize possession. Today I am grateful for beautiful snowy days, and warm jackets!