Fantastic Times

Good things that have happened:

• BYU vs. USU basketball game. Despite the fact that their fans were kind of rude there, we pulled out the win and it was a fun, intense game.
• Waiting in line for an watching Harry Potter with Sarah, Britt, Kyle, and Caroline. Freaking great. Want to watch again (Sarah? Britt? anyone else in?). I think I secretly love waiting in line for long periods of time. It's kind of fun (when you have other people to be with you).
• Opening of graduation present: SARAH AND I ARE GOING TO DISNEY WORLD AND THE WIZARDING WORLD OF HARRY POTTER! Five nights and six days between the two parks and we get to pick the dates. I'm so stoked. Thanks to all who made this possible (I'm not positive who all is involved but I think Laurel came up with the idea and both sets of parents contributed).
  
• Craft night with Britt and Sarah (we made candle holders and ornaments. They are lovely and crafting is so soothing).
• BYU vs. New Mexico football game. We basically trashed them and somehow ended up with front row seats for most of the last quarter which was awesome and I loved it and next is the Utah game. I'll admit that I was complaining for awhile because I was freezing to death.
  
• SDSU nearly beat Utah. We killed SDSU. WE HAVE A CHANCE! I just need the Cougars to play well next weekend.
• Right after the football game was a basketball game against the Chicago State Cougars. Our seats weren't great, but we completely destroyed them. I was impressed when some of our fans started clapping for the other team's good plays. Way to be classy.
• I started decorating for Christmas today! So far I have my tree up and a bell mural thing on my wall and some tinsel garland and one of the twins put up a nativity. We'll see what else I can pull out in the next couple days. Love it.
• Soon is Thanksgiving. I haven't decided what I'm doing yet, but I get a break. Yes!

My Boys

All weekend (at least since Friday night's amazing basketball game) I've been mentally preparing a blog post about "my boys," namely Jimmer, Jackson, Noah, Jake Heaps, Luke Ashworth, JJ, and so on. Then came last night.

We've been having a competition in my ward between the guys and the girls. The girls won by a hair so the guys had to serve us dinner - that was the deal. They put this beautiful dinner together and did it up right. Every single girl in the ward (all those that came anyway) was treated like a queen.

The boys who decided to valet park our cars, those are my boys.

The boys who escorted each and every girl to her seat on an arm, those are my boys.

The boys who slid in chairs and took our coats, those are my boys.

The boys who cooked and served a delicious meal, who gave personalized invitations complete with live music, who wrote beautiful letters of appreciation and gratitude for each girl individually, who planned the whole outstanding event...

Those are my boys.

I'm hoping to be able to get a picture from last night and post it here. Watch for it.

Don't worry sports guys, I still love you too and you did a bang up job this weekend and it was absolutely awesome.

Epic Day of Epicness

Can we please address how awesome today was?

• School was great today even though the kids were wild.
• It started flurrying and Sarah and I got really excited (the kids didn't really care).
• We listened to Christmas music on the way home.
• Then I went to Sarah's and we got silly about Harry Potter silly bandz. She gave me some.
• I came home to a package on my doorstep: new TiVo courtesy of Laurel (it records two channels at once and is paid for for life and is pretty awesome even though I haven't set it up yet.
• Glee tonight.
• I can nap if I want to.

The Weekend in Review

The good:

1. Thursday: Inception with Sarah, Vampire Diaries with Sarah, and watching the Backstreet Boys on Oprah (TiVo'd so we didn't have to watch the whole episode).

2. Basketball vs. BYU-Hawaii (exhibition game) in which we dominated and had a grand old time and of course saw our dang awesome team and got stoked for the season (except Jackson Emery didn't play which was sad).

3. Eating some of these with Sarah and Mike.

4. Watching That Thing You Do (ok, so I slept through half because I was tired).

5. Dang awesome football game vs. UNLV on Saturday including seats all the way at the top of the east bleachers and completely dominating UNLV (55 - 7).

(picture stolen from Sarah)

6. Productive time before getting ready and going to wait in line.

(picture stolen from Sarah)

7. For Divine Comedy with Sarah, Britt, and Kyle! (which was hilarious I think).

The bad:

1. The Colts lost to the Eagles today.

2. Probably because of this. :(

It Works and I'm Dumb

I was out the other day shopping for playground equipment for my class. Naturally I went to the dollar store to pick up some cheap jump ropes. I was at the checkout stand when I saw this:

Except it wasn't just a regular dollar store, it was the Dollar Tree so I actually saw this:

I have, of course, seen the ads on tv and wondered if such a thing worked, but I was never willing to pay the price and find out. When I saw the $1 version I figured why not go ahead and try it out, and I did. That night I tried it out on my calf and my thigh. Not the quickest process in the world, but I definitely got smooth legs (though I'll admit I only really did one patch on each because it takes quite awhile). I thought it seemed pretty good, though, as a maintenance type of tool if you're already shaved or something.

Since this fancy schmancy tool (which essentially is a sticker of fine grained sand paper attached to the little pink holder) seemed to work I tried my armpits next. It worked, but my skin there is more sensitive. I didn't break out or anything or even get red, but my pores were all burn-y when I lotioned and took a shower (not in that order).

Fast forward to last night when I decided I would try it on my upper lip (with the little baby one of course). I've been waxing for years so my skin on my upper lip is not particularly sensitive. I usually get red, but it dies down by the morning after (sometimes quicker). Stupid, stupid, STUPID! I wasn't super persistant to get all the hair because it started to burn and then Laurel suggested aloe. Mistake number two which made it burn worse. All of this resulted in me going to school today with a red upper lip. You can ask Sarah. I'm pretty sure I looked like a fool. Luckily, though, the redness did go down some in the night.

Still feels painful and kind of chapped, though...

A Song That I Can Dance To: The Macarena

Ok, so probably not what the music challenge meant, but I do what I want and I chose a song that I know the dance to. I was in elementary school when this came out and I remember having a ward event on a ranch and my dad taught the primary kids this dance. If you know my dad at all, this is even more bizarre.

Apparently if you dance to the Macarena you are dancing your way into a healthier life:

Now, I love the Macarena, Electric Slide, and Cotton-Eyed Joe as much as the rest Mormon girl, but really I love to dance to something with a good, heavy hitting bass and a quick beat (hip hop, of course).

Halloween

I have a confession to make. Halloween freaks me out a little bit. I don't think that devils or witches or ghosts wander free. It's nothing like that. Really it's all about the masks and not knowing who people are just by glancing. That really stresses me out! Don't get me wrong, I think dressing up is fun and I love the unique and bizarre costumes and all. I guess it's just me being a baby or something. My strange fear was especially heightened at the Alpine Village Halloween dance party (yeah...). There were plenty of people (guys, I'm guessing) in their creepy masks, but it wasn't just the creepy ones that got me. There was this short little awkward guy in an Iron Man mask that stressed me out like nobody's business. Throw in the crazy Halloween lighting and oy, creepy. Pretty much any full face mask gets my pulse racing a little bit, but definitely the ones like this picture are the worst.