Yale And BYU Have Nothing In Common!

Some people seem to think that because I am a Yale University fan, that I am a "hiding my BYU pride." To clarify, I am NOT a BYU fan. I am planning on graduating from the University of Utah, so I plan on being red all my life. The only think I like about BYU is that my best friend has a full ride scholarship there. The Yale thing is my own little obsession. Everybody has one secret dream that they wish for all their life buy know will probably never happen. This little dream for me is going to Yale University. I would love to go there, but I know I probably never will. I don't think Yale would ever accept me. I don't think I am smart enough, or rich enough to attend there. But I will always have my dream of going to Yale University. So don't make fun!

In other news, I ate lunch today! Yay for me! In the past 3 days, I think I've eaten 2 meals. I've been sick all weekend with the stomach flu, so you can imagine how eating food was not really an option for me. But I am almost better, just in time for the new year. Yay!

I'm Stylin' Now! Yay For Yale University!

Boxers For Valentines?!?!

One of my fellow blogger friends has some bit going with a friend about giving a crush boxers for Valentines Day. I am so lost! I guess I'm not quite in on what the heck this means. Fellow blogger friend, you know who you are, please explain a little bit more, or I may just give you boxers for Valentines Day, which would be kind of awkward, and I think you know why. Wow, this is a strange blog! Hope ya'll had a very Merry Christmas!

Laughing Baby--This Is Hilarious!

Don't Worry, It's Not Coffee!

My mom and I went to Barnes & Noble today to finish some Christmas shopping stuff. While there, I found the Jane Austen section of books AND the John Steinbeck section. Oh, and the Shakespear seciton of plays. It was so awesome! When we were done we went to the Cafe' and got the B&N hot chocolate. Hot chocolate is one of my favorite things in the world! It's an addiction for me. But it's not just regular chocolate that I like. I like to add flavors to it. I usually put coffee creamer flavors like French Vanilla or Hazelnut, or Peppermint. It's dang delicious! B&N has amazing hot choloate. I got this Toffee Nut flavor syrup, and, oh my crap, it was heavenly! I can't get over it.

Lost And Confused

"The Nightmare Before Christmas" is on my list of the weirdest shows of all time. I use to love it when I was about 8 years old. Now, I am not quite sure why. It is on Disney Channel tonight, so wanted to watch it, just because it is so weird. Well, about 15 minutes into the show I was allready lost and confused. There are like 5 stories going on in one show, and none of them ever really seem to be explained. It's so confusing! I ended up just leaving. Emily is still out in the family room watching it, which is quite funny. She seems to be really into it. Natalie and are were being really loud and obnoxious at the table, as Natalie received some "inspiration" from my old AP English homework I for some reason still have. And as annoying as we were, Emily never budged, or got mad at us, which was strange as it is normal for her to do so. But then again, she isn't watching just any normal show.

How Was Church? Don't Even Ask!

Who knew you could have a bad day at church? Not me! The thought never even crossed my mind. But after today, I could never deny the possibility of having a bad day at church.

Well, the baddness didn't start in sacrament meeting. Sacrament was quite pleasant, plus we sat on a row next to this family with two super cute little boys. They are the hottest tots in our ward! It was Sunday school which actually blew my top. I am a Sunday school teacher for the 13 year olds turning 14. This is the absolute worst age for ANY living, breathing teenager. And I am the lucky one who gets to teach them. So today, I decided to take treats to my class. This is a rare opportuninty because I NEVER bring treats. These obnoxious teens do not need any suger. They have enough hyped up energy and hormones to last a lifetime! I brought these really good assorted cookies. The minute I opened them, one boy, whom we will call "Wilber," runns over and takes one whole variety of 5 cookies in one hand, and another entire variety of 5 cookies in another hand, not allowing anybody else to partake of that particular variety. This ticked me off! Because of Wilbur, I am never taking treats to my sunday school class again! And I made sure that he knew this. Then there were these 2 girls, whom we will call "Bevis" and "Butthead", who were so rude, loud, annoying, and disrespectful. I don't even want to think about them right now. I've had enough of my Sunday school class. Next week, my dad is going to come sit in my class and keep everybody good and respectful, because they won't listen to me. They seem to think that because I am young and not that much older than them, that I am not mean or strict. Therefore they disrespect me. It's just like some of the older kids on the swim team that I coach. They think because I'm a girl and am young, that I don't care how they treat me, but I do. I hate stereotypes!

After sunday school, I went to relief society. Relief society was a little better, until some lady said that young single adults are stupid. A little background on this lady: she is mean, especially to me. I used to be in a young single adult calling. While in this calling, I tried to get involved and tried to go to some of the young single adult activities. This lady was also involved in guiding they YSA's. But she was so mean and uncaring to me and did some things which led me to breakdown to a member of the bishopric to get released from the calling. They expressed apologies to me for what this lady did, and released me. And that experience has totally pushed me away from the young single adult program. I do not try and be involved with it, and I never go to activities thanks to mean lady. So anyways, back to relief society today. One of our relief society leaders was anouncing a young single adult activity where they the young single adults would be going to temple square to see the lights. She also added "make sure you dress warm, although I know the young single adults are probably smart enough to figure that out themselves." That's when mean lady rose her hand and said "no there not!" and looked straight back at me. This really upset me, especially with past things this lady has done and said to me. That was the climax of my bad church day. After that, I just layed on my mom's shoulder and covered my face with my hair so that nobody could see me cry. Hopefully next week will be a better week at church.

Oh My Lanta!

Natalie is one of the girl's team captains for the high school swim team this year. Well, tonight, she hosted a wild girl's team party at our house. I don't think I need to go into detail in writing. Instead, I'll just let you see for yourself some of the activities. High school swimmers are CRAZY FUNNY!

New Blog To Read!

My sister Maddie and her hubby Benny-boo-boo-boo now have a blog. Personally, I think Maddie was just jealous that I am becoming a better writer than her, which is humilating because she is a journalism major and everything. She's just jealous I earned my masters in Microbiology at Yale and am now earning my Ph.D. in Hepatology. Anyways, to make her feel good you should visit her blog at maddieandben.blogspot.com. I also added a link on my site, if you prefer that way.

Finals Are Over: What I'm Going To Do On Christmas Break

I took my last final this evening. Yay me! It feels so good to be done. However I ashamedly admit that I am excited for next semester. I'm really starting to get into my major now, and I've think I've got some pretty good classes set up, so all is well. But nothing feels better than being on Christmas break. I have compiled a list of things I am going/want to do in my time away from school. Here it is:

1. Swim! I rarely have time to swim during each semester. I have turned into a dryland person-you know weights, tredmills, elipticals-stuff like that. But when I have a chance to get back in the water to work-out, I take it!

2. Watch Gilmore Girls! I usually am able to do this on a daily basis. But I am excited because season 7, which is the final season of Gilmore Girls, just came out on DVD. I have it on hold at the library, so I am hoping to get to watch that season over the break.

3. Finish reading "Emma" by Jane Austen. Amazing author, and great book so far.

4. Drive my mom crazy while I'm the only one home, since Natalie and Emily are still in school.

5. Get married....................wait, HECK NO!

6. Relax and catch up on a semester's worth of sleep!

7. Send my missionaries Christmas cards.

I am excited to be on break. This means no commuting for a couple of weeks! Yay! So, funny story. I assume that most that for most college students, celebrations begin after completing finals. From the things I hear at school, I am sure their celebrations on dominated by heavy drinking and other scary stuff. Since I'm not that kind of girl, I celebrate by drinking..............Diet Coke. Oh yes, the breakfast of champions! Let me tell you, it was one heck of a party sitting at home with some Diet Coke. Wow, wow, wow. :)

Finals Nightmares!

This week is finals week. What does that mean? Tests, tests, and oh yeah, more tests. Yup, "it's the most wonderful time of the year. With those pencils and scantrons and books to take naps on when you're dead tired, it's the most wonderful time of they year!" Ok, so that was kind of cheesy. Anyways, I had a health final this morning. And to make it more stressful, I slept horribly last night. But in the small amount of sleep I was able to get, I managed to have a nightmare about my final. For those of you who don't know, my dad works downtown, so I commute with him everyday. But once downtown, I leave him and head up to the U. We ride UTA because his work gives him a free UTA pass, and the U gives all students a free UTA pass, so we save like a buttload of money on gas. Well, today, we planned on driving in, because my final was an early morning one, and we didn't want to have to get on our UTA commute at a freakishly early time. Now we get to my bad dream. I had a dream that I had woken up and gotten ready for my final. But I was waiting for my dad to finish getting ready. In real life, I always seem to beat him at getting ready in the morning, which is funny considering that I'm a girl and girls usually take longer to get themselves ready for the day, so I usually end up waiting for him. Well, we had planned on leaving our house at 6:45, to get to my 8:00 test. But in my dream, my dad took forever and we didn't leave until 7:30, which would not get me to my final in time! It was horrifying! You can imagine how relieved I was to wake up and find this was only a bad dream. A sigh of relief definately came out as I sprug awake. The bad part about waking from this terrible dream was that it woke me at about 4:45 or 5:00 a.m. I didn't have to wake up until 6:00, but I couldn't fall back asleep. I finally started falling back into a deep, relaxing sleep at about 5:45, and then pretty much had to wake up. Bleh! But at least I was on time to my final this morning, right? In fact, I was even about 15 minutes early, so I got to squeeze in a last minute study session right before. I'm just glad that last night's dream did not turn out to be a dream come true!

Man Purse

Man purse: who? what? when? where? why? how? My dad has a man purse. My dad's man purse is exactly like any other man purse. It is a HUGE backpack. Ask any male figure if he has a man purse. If his answer is, "I have a backpack," then you know he has a man purse. I just want to know what men put in there man purses - I mean, they are so big! What could they possibly need? My dad takes his man purse with him to work. I have to commute with him and his man purse. His man purse has got to be 3 times the size of my school backpack, which has everything I may need during the day, as I am stuck on campus far away from home with no car or locker to store things in. My dad gets to go to an office. Can't he leave stuff there? Futher more, what does he need that his office doesn't have? I don't know how these men do it. Today, my dad almost knocked me off my bus seat when he took his man purse off. That's how huge it is!

Enchanted

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We had a lot of fun down south with the Grandparents Stapley. Anyways, we went and saw the new movie "Enchanted" today. It was so good! It's basically my new favorite movie!

Here is the movie trailer:



And here is the Carrie Underwood music video with the song "Ever Ever After" from the movie. I LOVE this song!

Snow, Where Art Thou?

I can't wait for it to snow! I love snow and am getting more anxious every day! Every day I get more anxious! Wow, that was repititive, and redundant. That was repititive, and redundant.

Major Changes...No Punn Intended

I changed my major. I was doing a major in Health Promotion Education teaching and a minor in math teaching. But then, out of no where, I had a major panic attack and started to wonder if teaching was really what I wanted to do. After this stressful situation, and some research, I decided on a major that is definately what I want to do. I am still doing Health Promotion and Education, but I am doing the Consumer Health track, so I am not going to be a teacher. I don't know exactly what job I will get, but I do kow that there are TONS of possibilities with this major. The advisor for this program told me to come and look at five 3 inch binders to see some of the careers I could have with this. Holy moly! I'm really excited about this major, and I know this is definately what I want to do. :)

Tag! I'm it? What the Heck?

I have been tagged! Eeek! I have been tagged by Kristen, a.k.a. Bomamallama, E.L. (evil lady), or Llama Lady. Let's see if I can handle this:

RULES:
1. List the link to your tagger and also post the following rules.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog - some random, some weird, etc.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your blog also leaving the links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are "tagged" by leaving a comment on their blog.


Seven Facts About Lauren The Great!

1. I have weird nose bleeding issues. Sometimes, my nose bleeds really bad, out of no where. And when I say it bleeds really bad, it literally waterfalls out of my nose! My last nose bleed lasted about 2 hours, until the doctor drugged it up and stopped it.

2. I enjoy donating blood. Well, I'm kind of a health nerd, so I enjoy weird things like this. Plus I have a rare blood type, so American Red Cross like my blood.

3. I set my alarm to go off about 45 minutes before I have to actually wake up. Once it goes off, I just keep hitting the snooze button for 45 minutes until I have to get up. I think this is some sort of psychological thing which makes me feel as if I am actually getting more sleep than I really am.

4. My favorite show of all time is Gilmore Girls. I am addicted! It is so hilarious! I am constantly checking out the seasons of Gilmore Girls from the library. I can watch episodes over and over and over again, and they still crack me up!

5. I love pajamas. I have way too many pairs.

6. I have a missionary. He is really cool. He is my favorite friend.

7. I am a radio freak in the car. I always have to have a good song playing. I am constantly changing the station, and I become very upset if there are no good songs on. The radio is kind of a big deal for me in the car.

Now I get to tag. (I am only tagging 3.)
Nedge
Cousin Haley
Natalie Kid

Country Music Awards

The CMA awards were on last night, so I didn't get to bed until late. My favorite performances were by Rascal Flatts, of course, Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride, and I really liked Taylor Swift's performance. Some of my favorite winners were:

Horizon Award: Taylor Swift. For those of you who don't know, Taylor Swift is only 17 years old, and she helps write and play her music. When she won she said "This is definately my highlight of my senior year." It was funny.

Vocal Group of the Year: Rascal Flatts. They are my favorite country group.

Female Vocalist of the Year: Carrie Underwood. This was her second consecutive year to win this award. Last year, she beat Faith Hill out in this award. Faith Hill is one of my favorites, but when she lost, she flipped out, and it was so hilarious.

Single of the Year: Before He Cheats, by Carrie Underwood.

Entertainer of the Year: Kenny Chesney.

Great Weekend!

Boston Red Sox won the world series! Yahoo! And my favorite player is JD Drew! He hit a grand slam against the cardinal 2 weeks ago!

I FINALLY took the time to get some new, and well-needed, running shoes.

I got a letter from Jeff!

I had to deal with out-of-control Natalie, who was excited because she is on U.E.A. break. Wopee.

My health class was cancelled this morning, although I'm not that excited about it, because I love that class.

California Wildfires

I am guessing all of you are aware of the horrible fires in Southern California that are happening right now. Well, I was aware, but became especially nervous when I heard on the news this morning that thousands of people in San Diego, and other parts of CA, had to be evacuated from thier homes. I was nervous, because that is where Jeff is serving his mission. But, don't worry, I found out from one of his family members that he is safe and fine, because I knew you all were worried about him.

Graduation Night: June 2nd, 2006

I just got this picture from one of my friends today. This was at our graduation night party on the night of graduation. The Kearns pool hosts an all night graduation party for Kearns high every year. But me being the forgetful peron I am, I did not have a camera with me. Luckily, one of my friends did so she took this picture, and I was able to get it from her. In the boat is Chalece, Me, Jeff, Spencer, and Mike. They are some of my really good friends from high school. What a fun night!

Bye Bye Fall Break!

This entire week was fall break for us U of U students. Things I loved about Fall Break: Sleeping in, staying in my pajamas in the morning, not having to commute to school every day, being lazy. But on Monday, I have to go back to school, and I better get my butt back in gear real fast, because I think I have a psych test next week. Ahhhhhhhhh! I do have to say that though school is hard and extremely tiring and stressful, I am glad to be a student. It's nice to get away from my house every day. Next break to look forward to: Thanksgiving Break!

The Coooooooooooooolest Song Ever!

Monoplastery

Monoplastery - what exactly is it? I have pondered this for the past few days, and still have no idea. In fact, I get the feeling that someone, we won't mention any names, made this "disease" up! Alas! Seriously, what the hellicopter? To my friend who is ill with this "monoplastery," I think what you really have is polydipsia. Maybe you need a hepaticocholangiocholcystenterostomy!

In other news, I've been watching season 2 of Gilmore Girls, which I've allready seen, of course, and just HAD to put these funny clips on here. There are 2 naughty words in this, though. Gilmore Girls is hilarious!

To: Kristen

Of course it is a real disease..........actually it is a virus. I'm coming over to your house and I'm gonna give you a big, huge hug and cough all over you and try to spread my virus to you! Mwahaha! (Allthough I don't think it is contageous, dang it!) Then you can blog about have some disease, and I will be all like "Oh, poor baby!" Your just jealous that you've never had a blog dedicated to you, like I have dedicated for the most amazing Cindy Buckley, who is my favorite person in the entire stake! Bwahaha! Well, now you have a blog dedicated to you! Just teasin'! Love you Kristen..........maybe! Ha! You rock!

For Cindy Buckley, And Anyone Else Interested

I am beginning to feel better. I've been sick with Pleurisy, which is an infection in the lining around the lungs. It is very, very painful. Most people who get Pleurisy, have pain in their chest. But I had it in my back. It got to the point where it was hard to breath, because of the pain. I just have to wait for this to go away, since it is a virus, but the doctor put me on some nice, strong pain pills to help with the pain. I am feeling better today. I've been going to school, which has been uncomfortable. I missed church on Sunday, and pretty much layed on a heating pad all day long. But I got work off yesterday and today, to get more rest. To answer Cindy's question: How do I feel today? Well, the pain is less, but it seems to have moved into my neck a little. I had a bit of a headache today, but after a nice long nap, I feel much better. I am going to go to work tomorrow, and see how I handle it. I will conclude with the fact that pain pills are a great invention!

I Love........

Being Single!

Sunrises

Sunsets

School

Stormy Weather

Rascal Flatts

Cowboys

Whyoming

Flip-Flops

Hannah Montana

Missionaries!

Gilmore Girls!

Dolphins

Beaches and Oceans

The environment, especially the mountains!

Season Changes!

You All Must Read This Article!

Hey everybody! My older sister writes for an online newspaper. Here is the link to her most recent article. It is a very inspiring article!

http://www.hardnewscafe.usu.edu/

Look under the opinion section and the article titled "In the pool, determined swimmer teaches life lesson to coach."

Nervous Child

Last night, after our family prayer, I was reminded of something funny I use to do when I was about 6 or 7 years old. Well, I always love when little kids bear their testimonies in sacrament meeting and say somthing really funny such as "I hope my sister won't hit me anymore" or something like that. It's so funny because they are young and innocent. I use to be one of these kids. But my silly little sayings occurred whenever it was my turn to give the family prayer. Every time I said the family prayer at bedtime, there were two things I would never forget to say in my prayer. I would always say "Please bless that our clothes won't catch on fire," and "Please bless that our house won't get crunched." Man, if I heard a kid say those two things in a prayer, I think I would bust up laughing. But my parents never laughed - probably because these were regular things for me to say. I aske my mom if she ever thought it was funny or anything. But she just told me it was sweet, because I was so sincere about it. I was a nervous wreck as a child. I worried about all kinds of little things. In elementary school, fire drills and earthquake drills terrified me! These are two serious things to be concerned about, but I remember going home from school so upset after we had a certain type of drill. Now, after going to Kearns High, I have no reaction to fire alarms. Those of you familiar with Kearns and the "fire alarm situations" know what I'm talking about. Well, that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it!

GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!

Good News: I donated blood again today. I felt cool because American Red Cross actually called me and asked me to donate, because they needed my blood type.

Bad News: I am very annoyed at my coaching job and I want to quit!

Have you ever heard of sugar free, sugar?

Whoa! Look at Emily swim! Doesn't she look just like Maddie doing the butterfly?

Well, I've messed up my blogging goal allready. I'm bad at this! Anyways, good news of the week: Jeff had his first baptism! Yeah!

My Friends!

This is my gang I hung out with in highschool, well except for like one of the boys, but that's ok. Now, all the boys are on missions, one boy is in the Navel Academy, and I really only see one of the girls regularly, but I have been trying to stay in contat with the girl I don't see much anymore. Anyway, my friends are awesome, and I miss them all!

I have had a request from my Cousin, Willie, to update my blog everyday, even if I just blog about how well I slept the previous night, allthough I haven't even really been sleeping well lately because I feel like I can't get my mind or myself to relax. I am up to this challenge. The only challenge is that my week is so busy, yet I still feel like I have nothing to blog about. So if I ever have some way random blog, that makes no sense or is just pointless, you will know why. I realize I may miss a day here and there, but I will try my best to please Sir William.

Ranting.....

I haven't blogged forever.

We went to the first Utah home football game today. We lost 12 to 20, against Airforce, but it was still fun. Do you know Matt Osiada (I don't know how to spell his last name) from the Utes football team? He was our starting runningback this season, but he broke his tibia and fibia (the two leg bones of the lower leg) at our first game within the first minutes of the first quarter. He is out for the season which stinks for us. Anyways, he is in my health class, which is pretty cool. We were learning about stress management yesterday, and my professor asked us what kinds of things stress us out in our daily lives. Matt Osiada said, "Brokens legs" stress him out. It was funny. There are like 5 football players in my health class. They are huge.

Luke Nevel is extremely tall. He sat kind of by us at the game.

My junior swimmers, 6th graders and younger, stress me out. They are the biggest group of complainers in the world.

I'm really into the Goo Goo Dolls right now. They are awesome!

I miss my friends that I don't see much anymore.

I finally decided on a math minor.

School is good, but extremely tiring.

Gilmore Girls and Hannah Montana are the best tv shows ever!

What The Shrek?

Emily and I had and interesting Saturday night. We decided to make some more of our medley music videos. We had some technical difficulties, as you will encounter in one of the videos, but all in all they turned out pretty well.

Lunch, Hammock, Study

I enjoyed a nice lunch at school today, by myself of course. But I was quite amused by what happened. If you are familiar with the U of U, there is a very large grassy region by the union bulding. It is covered with tall, old trees, and it provides for a nice lunch area and reading. Well, today as I was eating, I glanced acrossed the way a little and saw a student fussing with a large blanket-like material. I thought he had brought a blanket to sit on while studying or whatever. I went back to reading. A couple minutes later, I look up again and the blanket material is suspended in the air between two trees. It was then that I figured out this was not a blanket. This student had brought a hammock to school with him to set up on the trees so he could take a nap in. It was the coolest idea I have ever seen! Man, I'm jealous.

Summer Lovin`!

Today is my last official day of summer vacatioin. I go back to school on Monday. I guess I'm ready to go back. At least it will get me away from the pool a little bit. (I'll still go to the pool everyday for work.) But I've actually decided that I have two pretty sweet jobs. With coaching swimming, and lifeguarding, I get to dress casual any time I want. I can wear flip-flops, sunglasses, shorts, heck I even get to wear a swimsuit for lifeguarding. What more could I ask for? But anyways, back to school. This semester I am taking psychology, health, environmental studies, and intro to visual arts, and for Institute I am doing the first half of D&C. Have you ever noticed that the last three letters of Institute are "UTE?!" I'm still not quite ready for school yet though. There are a couple more things I must get to be totally ready. This morning, I was up at the U with one of my good friends, getting ready for school. Being up at school made me excited to get started with it again.

I've had a pretty awesome summer. I've had fun in Yellowstone and Jackson Hole, camping, and backpacking. And of course, I've pretty much lived at the pool most of the time. But, I got a pretty nice tan from being at the pool so much. I really have had a fun time this summer, and for my last party of the summer, we are going to watch the premier of High School Musical 2 tonight, followed by a new Hannah Montana!

I Can See Clearly Now The Rain Has Come!

Wahoo! The four-month long fight is over. Megan and I are finally friends again. I am so happy! I didn't have a recent cool picture to put on here, so I though ya'll might to see what I call "Sweaty, hot, Lauren after her morning jog." It makes me laugh!

6 Months!

My best friend has now been out on his mission for 6 months!

Party Like It's Yo Birthday!

Emily had a little friend birthday party last night. It turned out to be a big success with some weird costumes from Nedgie Wedgie, some cool party hats, and a major water fight. We also had some "Tattoo Art By Lauren." Above are pictures from the wicked awesome party.

Weird Addiction

This summer, I have become addicted to chocolate soymilk. It is so good. I have shopped around in attempt to look for the best deal on chocolate soymilk, and it has come to my conclusion that Target is the way to go. Not only do they sale chocolate soymilk, but they sell it in "light," so there are less calories and fat and stuff like that. Plus, Target seems to have one of the cheapest prices, and if you buy the soymilk that is not a real brand, it is even cheaper.

Onions Make Me Cry

I was up at Park City this morning to coach a swim meet. When I stepped out of my car, I was taken in a fancy by how cool the morning air was. Down here in the valley, the mornings have been so warm. I am usually up by 6:00 a.m. everyday, and the temperature is usually in the high seventies. I have forgotten what a cool morning feels like until this morning. It wasn't cold, cold, it just felt really cool compared to the valley. It was a nice change.

This evening, my family and I had a little BBQ/picnic for dinner. I was chopping up some freshly picked onions, and, oh my gosh, I almost cried! Boy they were good onions, but the burning sensation in my eyes from the onion fumes were brutal on my eyes. Luckily I was the only one in the kitchen at the time!

Starry Boyfriend

"Starry Boyfriend." I read this word on a friend's blog, and thought it was good diction to describe the perfect boyfriend. It kind of made me chuckle.

I Need Super-Model Skills

Have you ever posed for a picture that you thought would look really good or cool or funny, but ends up looking retarded? And then the other person or people posing with you look perfect? Photography is an unfair subject I say. I guess it could also be the effect that this picture was a result of being stuck inside at a swim meet that was delayed by lightning last night. Hmm.

Love Them Mountains!

These pictures are of the small backpacking trip my dad, Emily and I took over the weekend. I am kind of a mountain freak, so I had oodles of fun. Emily had a really difficult time with all the bugs. She was positive that she was the only person in the entire Uintah mountains being attacked by flies. Anyways, we did alot of mosquito swatting and we even went fishin'! I can't wait to go again. Here are some videos I took of the trip as well.