Hot Date

I had a hot date on Saturday with Millie. She came and picked me up at Alta apartments and then we went to have a delicious dinner prepared by Colton at P712.
See how lovely we are?

If you look closely in the background you can see Colton and Joseph... I didn't take the picture with a flash so as not to disturb the customers and chefs.

Our feet had a great time!

Then we drove to go see a movie at the International Cinema. On the drive over there we had a very engaging and delightful conversation!


We saw the German film, "The Lives of Others." I LOVED this movie and would recommend it to anyone... well almost anyone...

It really got us thinking about life in Germany in the 1980's and the coming down of the Berlin Wall.

Thank you Millie for being one of the best dates I've ever been on!

For Maren

New Digs

Apt. 214 as in Valentines Day

Living Room view of balcony

The T.V. with the art gallery behind it

The couches

The kitchen with view of the hallway

View of the kitchen from the hall

Bathroom vanity... have you ever seen so much crap in your life? 6 girls definitely live here.

Allison's bed

My desk that was purchased at Ikea and assembled by David and Myself...

Us putting it together a week before it moved into my bedroom

My bed, please notice the wonderful Hobbit poster painted by Tolkien himself!

This is my new apartment. Maren has been asking to see pictures, so here they are. I hope you all will agree that the Leopard Print theme is classy and fabulous!

Copy Center Girls Night

Perhaps if you have spent any kind of time with me, you have heard me talk about my job. I know I complain a lot about silly missionaries that want their Preach My Gospels laminated, their dictionaries bound, pictures of their girlfriends enlarged and laminated and so on... I complain because I think that these are ridiculous jobs. So why do I remain working in this minimum wage, tedious job? Number one I have the words greatest boss and number two, I work with some of the most amazing, fun and wonderful women I have ever met! Last week, we joined together not as copy center employees, but as girls in need of some good food and fun! We met at Meagan Brandley's nice apartment and had a homemade spaghetti dinner with salad, bread, fruit and a delicious ice-cream sandwich cake made by Stacie! After dinner there was more visiting followed by a feature presentation of "Step Up 2: The Streets." Talk about quality film... (Well if you actually want to talk about quality, I can suggest some other ones... but if you want to talk about amazing dance moves, compelling teen drama, and mediocre acting then we can talk about Step Up 2.) Thank you everyone who came and contributed to the fun evening. For those that couldn't come, we hope to see you the next time we get together!

Marissa, Megan, Carrie

Bri, Stacie, Meagan

Bri, McKay,Meagan, Bethany?, Carston, Megan, Stacie, Carrie, Marissa, Me

Marissa and Carrie making their best yummy faces while they enjoy the scrumptious dessert that Stacie made.

Carrie really enjoying dessert

The start of the silly picture taking portion of the evening... if you hate silly pictures quit reading this post...

Me and Megan

Carrie please don't be angry with me for posting these pictures, they are just some of the best awkward faces I've ever seen!



I think that Megan looks amazing in this picture

If I had to give this picture a title, I think I would call it... Distressed



I love you copy center girls!

Action-Reaction

I am taking a physical science class this semester and in the last lecture we discussed Newton's laws of motion. I'm sure you are all familiar with them, but for those of you who can't recite them by heart, I will refresh your memories by listing his first and third laws: Every object remains in uniform motion unless compelled to change by forces acting on it; To every action there is an opposite and equal reaction." That Newton knew his stuff... What better way to learn these laws than by personal application?
While riding my bike home from work on Tuesday, I tried to jump the curb. I had seen Carrie do this a number of times; she had given me some tips on how to successfully pull off this "stunt." Perhaps you can tell where this story is headed... As I was approaching the ginormous curb, I chickend out! I ended up hitting the curb at a slight angle and was not successful in pulling up the front wheel and consequently, the object that was at rest (me) was compelled to fly forward by the sudden change in velocity of the bike. This makes perfect sense when remembering Newtons third law of motion. Because the bike flew backwards, I flew forwards and felt the earths gravitational pull at work. I landed on my nose and forhead and somehow managed to hit my knee somewhere along the way. Because of my pride and vanity, I wasn't wearing a helmet, and consequently felt the full effects of the electromagnetic force of the pavement pushing back against my body. Now I have a lovely red spot between my eyes for the first week of school. The good news is that I still have all of my teeth and I will get an A when I am tested on Newton's laws of motion.


Could be worse... could be raining!

My deep tissue bruise... its starting to turn different shades of purple these days.

My signature white leg, now available in a lovely shade of violet.

The Dark Knight

I can't believe I haven't blogged about this movie yet! I had it marked in my calendar months in advance, and went to the first showing the day it came out! I have seen it twice now and am seriously considering a third time go around just because I loved it so much! Heath Ledger did an amazing job of playing a psychopath... he was very disturbing, funny, personable, insane and likable. I also enjoyed Maggie Gyllenhaal as the new Rachel, she was much better than Katie Holmes. And lets not forget Christian Bale who is one hunky dude! This movie is intense, suspenseful, and clever. I felt engaged throughout the entire film! The Dark Knight explores many different issues such as the love of money, terrorism, chaos vs. control, and a belief that there is inherent goodness in all people both as a collective group and as individuals and that it is within them to choose to do the right thing. I hope you all love it as much as I do, and if you don't, I think we can still be friends.

Airplane Ride

On my flight home from Texas I was fortunate enough to sit next to some very fun, very chatty women. They were on their way to a girls weekend in Colorado. They belong to a life long group of friends known as the Mothers Club. They have been through thick and thin together and were eager to tell me many mother's club stories. We also talked about religion, they belong to the Methodist and Presbyterian churches. We were able to share our favorite Bible stories with one another and talk about our beliefs and values. I feel like I really know these women now and hope that they had a great time in Colorado, watching movies, visiting, drinking wine, and enjoying nature. We started off as strangers on a journey and ended as good friends... they even hugged me when I got off the plane and wished me luck in my endeavors as a student!


Carol, me, and Sherri from the Mother's club

Demolitin Derby!

Who doesn't love old cars crashing into each other at high speeds, flying dirt, and open flames?! The Demolition Derby put on by the good people of Spanish Fork did not disappoint! We piled into the car (Andy, Tom, Carrie, Lucy, Tucker, Anders) and had ourselves a good old fashioned white trash adventure!

Driving to the event...

Taking dangerous pictures while driving...

The kids seemed excited to be there...

The arena for the much anticipated event...



Some fun crashes early on...

300 was my favorite car and the one I was hoping would win!


The yellow car with the hat on top was the only driver from Provo. I was glad someone was representing!

This car somehow managed to crash on top of the barriers, thus suspending him in mid air and eliminating him from the competition.

Lucy thought it was a little loud at times...

Towards the end of the night all the kids were freezing so we tried squishing together to create some body heat...

Anders was ready to go home and go to bed...

Carrie has some good shots and videos posted on her blog. You can check those out if you want to see some of the live action! It was a lot of fun and Carrie and I are planning on entering the powder puff competition next year in order to fund out trip to Australia and New Zealand. The winner gets 3,000.00 big ones! Pretty sure we've got what it takes to compete! Thanks to everyone who made this night a whole lot of fun!