This is the house I made for the Festival of Trees. People donate gingerbread houses which are sold, and all the money goes to Primary Childrens Hospital. Our family has had the opportunity to decorate 2 trees, and the past two years we have made gingerbread houses. This time I did a little hawaiian one, cause who wouldn't love to live in warm, sandy, paradise?! Yay for Christmas:)

i am thankful for....

the gospel of Jesus Christ...6 brothers...parents...opportunity to attend college...good roommates...living in the US...traveling...friends...talents...music...missionaries...being ward missionary...a job...prophet...hot showers...working out...good food...good food people make for me...healthy body...all the opportunities i have had up to this point in my life...institute...scriptures...church building close by...warm weather...beautiful creations...pretty flowers...temples close by...technology...phones...ipod...movies...blankets...heat...plumbing...cookie dough...opportunities to serve...good examples in my life...priesthood...hugs...color yellow...letters...prayer....atonement....laughing...pictures...and on and on and on....

christmas light wall

This is our bedroom wall.

Christmas lights strung back and forth, with pictures clipped on.

Kind white-trash looking when the lights aren't on and there's just green strands of lights pinned all over the wall.....But I love it.

Creative, I know:) Pinterest did give us some inspiration....

goodbye fall

This weekend was the USU vs BYU basketball game....kinda a big deal in these parts! People started camping by the Spectrum on Tuesday. We went Wednesday to get a camping spot and wristbands to get into the game, but spots were full and they weren't giving out wristbands. We were told they would hand out more starting at 6 am Friday morning.

So Friday at 5 am (thats 5 am in the freakin morning!) we put on our million layers of clothes and went to stand in line. We get there and.....THERE'S NO ONE IN LINE!! Funniest thing of my life. There we were, three girls, in the freezing cold dark, just waiting to get a stinkin wristband, looking like homeless bums. We of course weren't going to go back home, so we just sat down to wait. Don't worry, we had a movie to watch, food to eat....we were set. So, we waited. And waited. And then a few more people came and told us they thought it was going to be 8. What the heck! haha. After all that we did end up waiting until 8 to get a wristband for the game. But we were FIRST in that line!! Also, we were lucky enough to make some friends to hold our spot in line all day, allowing us to come back later in the afternoon to wait in line some more:)

It was SO worth it! The game was super great! You haven't lived life until going to a basketball game in the Spectrum. Those fans are CRAZY! Poor BYU. We won 'em good:)

Notice the guy in the left corner of one of the pictures?! haha. He was not happy about someone wearing a BYU jersey in the crowd....

GO AGGIES!

(this video is super great.)

football games....

eating food...china style

roomies....

important facts

You know you are a creep when you recognize the girl sitting on the bus by you and have never talked to her. In fact, you don't even know her name. You just blog stalk her, so of course she looks familiar.

It's never good when you can't tell if someone is dressed up for Halloween, or if those are their normal clothes.

Since when did Halloween become National Dress-Like-A-Slut day? I thought it was about eating candy and carving pumpkins, not walking around in just a loin cloth or plastic wrap. Ew.

Facebook isn't your diary. Your deepest feelings and not-subtle-at-all hints about wanting to be asked on a date should not be posted. Unless you want DESPERATE written all over your forehead. Neither should anything about your bodily functions. We all know farting never gets old, but that's what texting your bff is for.

Pinterest is dangerous. Addiction. Guilty pleasure. Time waster. Gonna make me fat. Inspirational. Sounds great, huh?

Country songs sure know how to describe life. 'Nuf said.