Wedding Pictures....So long over do!

Well It is done. My best friend found a new best friend and is now married to him. I am glad for her because no one I have known has ever loved her more but now I am a lone reed. HA It's great though. I honestly and just glad the wedding is finally over and life is back to normal. Here are some pictures of all the fun!

For my own safety, I need a hair dresser!

Last night I decided that it is no longer safe for me to be in the bathroom. Really. Let me tell you a little story. Last month my mother sent me money to buy a new hair dryer for my birthday. I wanted it to be a really good one and I spent a very long time picking it out. I felt very good about my decision and knew that my blow dryer and I were in for many wonderful bonding moments as we got ready for school, dates, and other events. Boy was I in for a wake up call. I took it home and began using it before a date with a guy I had never gone out with before. I did my normal routine, part of which was blow drying my hair. After, when I was brushing my hair I noticed that the hair in the front of my head were a little short and looked singed. I saw way more hair then normal in my brush and started to freak out!. Yep you guessed it, I had burned my bangs right off with my evil blow dryer! Who does that?! Here are a few pictures. It wasn't so bad and I was able to cover the burned hair up but I was in panic mode when handfuls of hair started coming out.


(This isn't even a quarter of the hair I burnt! I have to pin my hair back every day now to cover it up as it grows out!)


Well last night a similar thing happened. I was getting ready for another date. (with the same boy coincidentally) And was curling my hair with a curling iron. All of a sudden a really good song came on Pandora and I started doing the chacha right there in the bathroom. What I failed to remember was that I was holding a curling iron heated to the highest setting right next to my neck. Yep, as I was shaking it like a Polaroid picture I definitely burned myself right on the neck. Oh it hurt REALLY bad! I grabbed some neosporin and put it on the burn and continued getting ready for my date with a hickey looking burn on my neck. Oh I love my life!

So I figure I either need a first aid crew on hand when I get ready, or a personal hair dresser. I am leaning toward the personal hair dresser. Or maybe for my own safely I shouldn't go out with this guy any more. ;)

Coin walks in Sexy Rexy (yep Dad, I just called it Sexy Rexy)

When I was young I remember going on coin walks with my grandpa in his neighborhood. What you did was walk to the corner and flip a coin. Depending on if you got heads or tails would tell you if you went right or left. I loved them! I thought it was a great adventure and we always had great talks. I don't remember what we talked about but I remember how much I enjoyed the talks and the time my grandpa took to pay attention to me.

Two Saturdays ago Tressa and I were working all day on our intro to theater class and were so sick of reading plays and corny scripts written by our teacher. It started raining and I was SOOOO excited. i have this umbrella that I absolutely LOVE! I never get to use it because it never rains when I am able to go outside. So Tressa and I put the books down and went for a coin walk! It was so much fun! I can't tell you how much fun I have with Tressa. Our walk was rather short because we both had blisters on our feet from the day before but we walked the streets of rexburg talking like pirates and enjoying the rain and my cute umbrella.


Starting out our adventure

My Turtle swims sideways, your turtle swims upside down

Well what a weekend this has been so far! Tressa and I came down for Elizabeth's graduation. She graduated from U of U! My parents and Rachel came out for the graduation as well and it was sooo good to see them. It was really exciting to go and see Liz Graduate. It made me really excited for my graduation in TWO years. Liz's mother-in-law came and that was pretty exciting too. We love her and it is always fun to see her. Here are some pictures from the day. By the time it was over I was so sick of the graduation song and our family's version. Ever since I graduated from high school we have had our own version of the graduation song taught to us by Eldon and we have sung it at every graduation during the march since. It goes like this (to the tune of the graduation march) My turtle swims sideways, your turtle swims upside down. My turtle swims sideways! your turtle is dead. Through the graduation I wanted to cheer or yell Liz's name. Actually I wanted to bring an awesome sign for her but Mark kept telling me this was a formal event and that I couldn't. Oh well. We had fun anyway.

Be carefull, You're coming up on old maid age.......

That was the warning my Grandpa gave me about a week before my birthday. I am not sure what I am supposed to do about that but thanks for looking out for me Grandpa! My birthday was Great! I had a lot of fun. I was pampered at work with birthday signs, cakes, and flowers. Then my best friend took me out to dinner and Tressa and I went to Utah where I was given more flowers by my sweet Grandpa. Here are some pictures from all the birthday fun.

College fun with my new wing Woman!

When I started at BYU-Idaho My best friend Catherine Loveland was my "wing woman" and I was her's. We were amazing at it. I usually had at least two dates every weekend. If one got a date she made sure the guy brought a double for the other.

We had code words to let the other know the kid sitting on our couch needed to leave and we could tell right away if we needed to back off at a certain function and give the other time to work her magic with the new potential "friend". We were 19 years old and had silly goals and games. In the end she found some one she wants to spend forever with and I am so excited for her.

I am over our little games and getting dates for every weekend, however I am not over having a wing woman. So I am training a new one up in the ways of a boy scout. ;) Over all she is doing really well.

We have gone to other functions but these are pictures from guitars unplugged and I made her get all dolled up with me to go. She was planning on ditching me once we got there but I won her over in the end. Here are some pictures of the fun.
Here we are getting ready

After I got her ready. Can I just say I was say I was very surprised when she busted out this face?

Here's one that's more like Tressa:

I love how people often tell me they think she is the older one, or they are all so surprised that we are 5 years apart instead of one or two. Yeah, she's just that mature.

I am so grateful for Tressa. What a blessing that she came to school with me this year. I don't think I would have gotten through the semester and wedding maddness without her.
I am happy with my brand spanking new little wing woman. One who wont set me up on dates and push me towards guy after guy but will go and do about anything with me and have a blast while doing it!

One of my Heros

I wanted to take a moment and write about one of my new heroes and role models. Well she's not so new but recently I have been reminded of how amazing she is and what a wonderful person she is to chose to pattern my life after. This woman is Sister Marjorie Hinckley. Every time I watch a video of her or read something she has said or written I am amazed at how wise she was and what an amazing woman she was. I was searching the Internet to find a quote she said for a scholarship application and ran across a whole web page of her quotes. Here are some great ones! Two of my favorite are numbers 5 and 7.



1. I couldn't possibly have understood this when I was young like I do now. When we look back on decades of life we see that the seemingly insignificant things we do over and over actually weave the pattern of our lives. And if those small and simple things are good, we will end up having lived a fulfilling life -- and that is a great thing!

2. The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.

3. Sometimes the pattern of life seems a little monotonous -- and discouraging. It is like climbing a mountain and, after reaching the top, getting knocked back down to the bottom to climb it again; but I guess the fun is in climbing and not in arriving. I hope so!

4. I decided that if I lived to be eighty-five I would stop counting calories and eat anything I wanted to eat. And I do! I would make my mother's lemon pie, but I have quit cooking too!

5. We all have a responsibility-- a responsibility to make a difference, to be an influence, to lift someone. We are all in this together to work out our salvation, to reach our potential, and to be our brother's keeper -- to help each other.

6. We each do the best we can. My best may not be as good as your bet, but it's my best. The fact is that we know when we are doing our best and when we are not. If we are not doing our best, it leaves us with a gnawing hunger and frustration. But when we do our level best, we experience a peace.

7. Each of us can ask ourselves each morning, "What can I do to make life happier for someone today?"

I think one reason why she is my hero is reflected in quotes 5 and 7. I truly want to learn how to better serve others around me. I would like to better realize what sister hinckley points out, that this life is not about me. How nice it will be to end my life knowing I spent it as a tool on the Lord's to bless his other children. Sister Hinckley definitely did.