Craft Weekend at the T's!

Between Conference sessions, the hubs and I have been working on our (and by our I mean "my"... what a guy being so helpful!) little painting projects. You have to understand if you don't know this about me already, but I am SO not a crafty person. I did scrapbook for a while, but I have zero hand-eye coordination and lack most or all ability to make something cute. Plus, I had the understanding that crafts were lame as my experience was limited to stupid projects from Young Womens (my leaders would always scold me for making my own thing instead of a Young Women Value Mobile. Gay!) and seeing foo foo rafia crap in middle-aged LDS homes. I recently made some new friends in my ward here that do some stuff that is actually really cool. One of them repaints hand-me-down furniture to make them her own and they look really good! Seeing what she has done inspired me to rescue give-away items and some of the wah-wahhh stuff I already have a new, adorable life! We  are about done with contestant #1 aka tiny table. I think it just needs a lil inspection and a nice coat of gloss since I thought I wanted satin finish, but it turned out to be much more flat-looking than I expected. I decided I would like them to be glossy anyway. Next up are a mirror, a lamp and an old bookcase. I will update with before and after pictures after we are done!

A most excellent video

To all my Fresh Prince generation... Ohhhhh yes!

I Remember.

Ten years ago today, I was a fifteen-year-old- high school sophomore. I heard the awful news while I was dressing out for gym class when a classmate came into the locker room and told us what had happened just a few minutes earlier. We watched the news all day in every class and people were praying and crying. So many heroes were born that day, and I remember how united this country became. I miss it. With wet eyes, my thoughts and prayers are still with the families of the fallen. I remember.

Fall is on its way!

I am sooo pumped for the gorgeous weather that began today and will continue through the week (and hopefully beyond!). The highs all week will be around 75. Perfect! I would love to live somewhere with California-type weather where winter means a sweater at most. Joe and I went on a Sunday drive tonight and as we walked to the car I actually got chilly and ran in for a sweatshirt! Love it! (The bank sign we passed said it was 64.) I normally don't like fall because then winter is around the corner, but after all this 100+ degrees crap this summer I am all for a cool down.

Interesting article...

Just wanted to share an article ("Are Evil People Crazy?") I thought was interesting and thought that maybe it might interest some of you, too.  I would love to hear your opinions and insights on it. What a great debate topic!

PS: If you think I'm weird, just remember that I am a psych major! :)

So adorable I might just change my evil ways...

So I think someone posted a link on FB a link to an article on a fashion blog written by a man. It turned out to be a modest fashion blog and browsing it (looking for ideas to still look good even when I feel like a nun on a campus full of hoochie-dressed ladies) and I found a link to a swimsuit website that interestingly only has modest swimsuits (even some for you mamas-to-be). To be honest with you, it's been years since I have even considered wearing a one-piece, but this site actually has me reconsidering -- the swimsuits are THAT CUTE! Now that is really saying something. SO if you are looking for an adorable one-piece or modest tankini, go HERE! They (not surprisingly) have a ton of stores throughout Utah, more surprisingly they have one in Rexburg (great news for all you BYU-I ladies) and they even have a few locations elsewhere. Enjoy, my friends!

WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!

My sister, Melissa, posted this clip on my facebook page this morning because Orange County is "our movie" because it's awesome and plus, she misses me. So: if you have the same sense of humor as me/ like this clip, you should def netflix it or whatev. You're welcome.

I cannot make this stop playing in my head!

Anyone feel like an apple?

We now have for the first time in our (year long) marriage... INTERNET! I wrote about how my old laptop got broken like two weeks after we got married, so we had no reason to get internet until now. I will probably blog more often now that I have a new laptop.
Well, I start school on Monday and I am excited and  NERVOUS! I feel like a freshman all over again. An old freshman. I hated the feeling the first time around. I would sneakily look at my map of campus and pretended that I did know where I was going (it took me like an hour to walk to my apartment once that should have only taken ten minutes tops). Well, SEVEN years later (Seriously! Starting to feel old, people!) -- after five years of college and a two year break -- I am returning to school to FINALLY finish up my bachelors degree! It  has taken far too long! Tommy Boy can be heard in my head: "Tons of people take seven years to graduate." "Yeah. They're called doctors." Oh well though. Anyway, I am starting at a new school, the University of Kansas, and couldn't be happier! We moved to this great little town two months ago, and it was relatively empty.  Lawrence is buzzing right now with all the kids back and they have their little parents with them and everyone is hoarding school supplies... it has stopped being so freakin' hot and the days are getting shorter... I feel fall coming and I just want to sharpen some pencils and take a big bite out of a big, red apple. Wish me luck!

SHOULD I CUT MY HAIR OFF?!?

Help!help!help! I have been growing out my hair for two years aka the last time I cut my hair into a short A-line which was cute and fun, but having my hair that short drives me crazy since if you don't feel like doing your hair you have no choice... you can't put it up! Well, anyways... My hair is now rib cage length which means it's FINALLY where I want it (HELLO SHAKIRA HAIR!), but the thing is I'm not sure that it's the most flattering on me since 1) I have an oblong (read: long)-shaped face and long hair just draws it out and 2) long, long hair probably doesn't help the fact that my baby face makes me look like I'm 12. Here is a picture of my hair a year ago which I am seriously considering going back to and my hair now. Forgive the quick-and-dirty myspase-ish bathroom photo and my apparently poochy stomach. I like food... so sue me.

PS: There is a place to the right to VOTE for medium or long hair! 8)

The Kitty Surprise Has Been Resurrected

Does anyone else remember these from the early 90s?? Man, these things were so cool and all my (girl) friends had them. I remember asking for the bunny one, horse one, cat one, puppy one and whatever other variety they had for Christmas and my mom made me narrow it down to one. I got the Kitty Surprise for Christmas and was so excited to rip open the stomach and find that my kitty had X number of kittens! How exciting/creepy! I had forgotten all about this favorite toy until I was over at my parents' house and I glanced out the back door and saw it sitting on the rain-soaked back porch. It is so much creepier than I remembered. I said, "Ummm... WHAT is my Kitty Surprise doing out on the PORCH?!?" My mother responded that she was using it to scare away the birds and that it was working on the older birds, but the younger birds didn't seem to mind... To which I said, "Mom, you're super weird. I'm totally documenting this." HAHA! So hilarious! That mom of mine is thinkin' outside the BOX! A+.

Passion & Melvin- Cater 2 U (Acoustic)

These dudes are so amazing! I bet the lil high school hunnies go crazy for these guys!

There's no place like home... There's no place like home...

 

Well, today Joe and I (me, the native Kansan) experienced our first tornado! I was driving home on my lunch break around 11:00 AM to have lunch with Joe and the music stopped mid-song and the robot recording guy told me to take cover for a tornado!! Kinda freaky! It was pretty dark out and it was raining hard, but nothing looked unusual especially since we have been having so much rain lately. Well, then the tornado sirens went off. If you don't know what those are they are basically a foghorn thing on a big high pole that rotates around on top and makes this loud semi high-piched warning sound. If it's facing you it's super loud. I have heard it a decent amount because they set it off on Wednesdays to make sure it works, but I don't hear it often foreal! When I was a little girl, I used to see the sky change to crazy colors every now and again... green, yellow or orange. This time I SAW a real tornado and there were no crazy colors! I burst through the front door to tell Joe what I heard on the radio, but he had the news on -- I'm sure it was on every channel! There had been a touch down about 20 minutes south of us and the wall cloud was quickly headed our way. It was already to where I work -- I had called to let them know what I had heard on the radio and my boss said that everyone was gathering in the bathrooms to take cover. Joe called me to our back door and there it was! We had a huge funnel cloud that appeared to be on the ground although we couldn't see since trees were in the way. Joe took a video of it (here is the link to the video!)and I took a couple pictures! I started to line the bathtub with pillows (which after the fact Joe thought was hilarious) since we live in an apartment and have no basement, but the funnel moved away from us. *PHEW*! According to the weather people on TV, the tornado did touch down several places around us although the only damage done in the entire metro area that I know of was a few headstones were knocked down way south of us. Us Kansas Citians had a crazy little adventure this morning that was both amazing and terrifing, and I think I can speak for a lot of people when I say how grateful I am that all my loved ones are safe and to be safe myself. Oh, and don't be afraid to visit!! :-)

MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON

Spa-ring, spa-ring!

Wow, it's been a long time since I have written anything... I go through periods where I want to do things like make my own magnets or scrapbook or write on my blog about what's going on in our lives, but those times are sometimes (read: often) few and far between. However, you can't share much in 160 characters nor should you.
We are very excited about it being spring here in Kansas. It's so nice that the world is green again. I love flowers and seeing trees all puffy with blooms. Joe is a total snow bunny which is weird since he is from cali/arizona, but I hate the snow since I hate being wet and cold, so I am happy to say, "GOODBYE, SNOW!"
Joe and I are moving about 30 minutes from where we live now in order to go back to school. We can't wait to have a new start... although our old one wasn't that long ago. We will definitely miss our friends and family, but the good news is that we won't be too far so don't forget about us!