my FIRST EVER boys choice dance :]

I got asked to Sweethearts yesterday!!! Just watch the video. There's a reason this kid is my best friend :]

WOOOT!!

So, as you can see I have been accepted to SUU!! Yeah Man!! Soo excited to go down there for school! Basically one of the best things that has happened this year :]

a sad day in american fork history

 Parker's Drive In, where I got my first job back in September closed on December 30, 2011. It was pretty much a bummer. I had lots of fun there, and made some awesome friends that I'll never forget :) My boss Tammy gave all the employees hoodies, and they are the warmest ever! Oh you're probably looking at the picture of the wood with the names on it and wondering what it is all about. Well it's the bottom of the counter, It's tradition for all the employees to sign it when they get hired. So I did, and now I'm kind of famous in a way I suppose. If you can figure out which name is mine, good for you, you won.. nothing but bragging rights ;P

it's beginning to feel a lot like... christmas in january?

 I know that it's been like a month since Christmas, but it just started feeling like it. Yeah, it's just beginning to snow and feel like it should of last month. Oh well, at least it's snowing now and not in June. Soo Christmas was pretty awesome this year. It's my last Christmas as a non college student... O.o kind of scary to think about. And if you're wondering what in the heck those red things are in the corner, they are pomegranate seeds, one of the many traditional stocking stuffers in my family. Perhaps a non traditional thing would be the gingerbread star ornament that I made for the tree. As you can see, it is a Hanukkah star. I felt like being rebellious, so I was. Easy as that. I guess you could say that I don't like to conform. Whatever. It was fun :) And now to move onto the gifts :) I got basically awesomeness!

I got a camera, and Santa gave the family a Wii with Just Dance, Mario Kart,Wii Sports and the New Super Mario Bros. How awesome :)

Even with the lack of snow, I rather enjoyed Christmas this year :) 

the wonderfuly confusingly amazing things we call high school dances

So just thought I'd clarify that this is about... PREFERENCE!! Yep! And that also happened to be my very first formal dance... EVER. And it was a BLAST! I loved it, and I had a great date! So the picture on the top left is how I asked my date :) He was in my school's performance of Seussical the Musical, and I had another friend, who was also in the play, hang it up backstage so that it could be seen :) Pretty genius if I do say so myself. And the big blue "yes" is obviously my answer :) He made me a chocolate cake with his mom's awesome sparkly blue icing. I swear, he knows me wayyy to well ;) It was a really really really really good cake. I took it with me to lunch and it was gone in like five minutes. Haha my whole table helped me eat it. YUMMY!! So now on to the actual date and such. We had planned to go ice skating at Seven Peaks, but when we got there the line was wayyy too long, so we went to Nickle City in Orem. Ohhh baby, that was probably the most fun I've ever had at an arcade. Stephen and I spent most of our time getting tickets from this weird game, but hey, we got tons of tickets from it. They also had a giant touch screen t.v. with Fruit Ninja. I felt like a little kid on Christmas I was having so much fun!!

So as for dinner and getting ready and the dance part, it was awesome! My shoes were basically kind of a bad idea, seeing as I was probably a good three inches taller than my date in them, but hey, they were cute, and I got them on sale for nine bucks. I got my dress for $8. I love finding cute cheap stuff :) And my amazing friend Julie made my cute little corsage for me :) Mine is the one connected to the arm in the bottom left corner withe the white roses. :) I absolutely loved it! We went to my friend Alli's for dinner. There was chicken cordon bleu cooked by her dad, soup, rolls, brownies ( made by me :] ), and Martinelli's. It was pretty darn good! Then we went to the dance, and afterwords me, Kara, Laurel, and Amelia plus our dates were needed to stay after and help clean up because some of the men in our group were on drama council. We didn't leave the school until about 12:45 in the morning. Then we went to Annekke's house for a hot chocolate bar. Yeah, I didn't get home until around 2. But it was totally worth it!

 Oh, and we decided, well more Alli did, that it would be funny to get mistletoe and hang it above her door. So that explains the picture on the top right .... Yeah haha. Then the pic on the right is of (top the group, and the one below is me and my date :)

oh the adventures of monday....

So today was basically pretty fricken funny. It started in second period, which was kinda ironic because that is when I have fin. lit. So I was in class and this is the conversation that made me laugh...
Teacher: " any news?"
Student 1: " black Friday is this week."
Student 2: " yeah, it sucks."
Teacher: " what does it suck?"
The whole class burst out laughing. The teacher didn't realize what he said. :p For such a boring class, that was pretty funny.

Then the second awesome event of the day happened at work. So we have this cherry flavoring that we use in coke and stuff, but no one really knew where it came from. So me and my friend London decided to find it..... and we did :) I felt like a ninja detective :)

Today was basically amazing :) And p.s. I'm uploading my Sadies pictures tomorrow and I'll put them up here :)

Funny/sad awkward moment quote if the day...
"that awkward moment when you are in a room of chemotherapy patients and your phone goes off and your ringtone is 'I whip my hair back and forth'."

sadie hawkins dance :)

So Sadie Hawkins was the BEST EVER!!! I had the best time I've had in a very long time :) So the picture on the left is how I asked my date, Jake Fairbourn, to Sadie's on Tuesday night, like two weeks ago, the day after Halloween. We had some extra pumpkins, so I put one to good use. Oh heck, it was such a blast going with Alex Dunn and asking our dates. I had to put ribbons on the pumpkin because apparently Jake had like 5 pumpkins on his porch already... so I didn't want it to blend in. We went at like 11 at night, so I felt so ninja!!!

The picture you see on the right is my answer :) Leave it to Jake to totally make my night :) It was like 10:30 and my dad was like " someone knocked and ran away, so I figured it was for you." And it was. And OH MY HECK that pie was sooooo good :) Jake wastes no time at all, he answered back the night after I asked him :) Haha even though his mom made the pie.... and thank you so much, he told me that he still helped :p

Sooooo explanation time.... The theme was Wild Wild West, so we were all in plaid shirts, and some of us had bandanas. I was wearing one for pictures, but I took it off cuz it was purple and I felt like Barney. But I put it back on at the dance. We went to get pictures at a lady in my ward's house, and it was FREEZING!!! But they turned out sooo stinkin cute!! Then we went to Cabela's and did a picture scavenger hunt that Alex's dad put together for us. After that, we went up and did the little shooting range arcade thing they have... and I totally beat Jake at least once... the other time, it didn't keep my score for me. And so after that we went to Thanksgiving Point to waste some time before dinner. I'm pretty sure the employees at the Emporium hate us now... All we did was play with the toys and take silly pictures. But we turned around and there was a security guy watching us... CREEPY!! Anywhoo, so after that we left, and took some pics around Thanksgiving Point's water tower. That's where this picture came from :) Oh goodness, Jake is one of the funniest kids I've ever been on a date with. So then after we left Thanksgiving Point, we went to Zupas for dinner. I am now addicted to that place, it's sooo flippin GOOD!!! Its crazy! I got the Tomato and Basil soup with the Turkey Spinach Artichoke sandwich. It was pretty good :) Jake was all like " well since you haven't been here before, how about we half sandwiches?" So we did, he go the Mushroom soup and the  Pesto sandwich... which i liked TONS better than what I got. And then we went and danced our hearts out at the dance.
So all in all, Sadie's was a success :) I loved the girls in my group, Dani, Alex and Maddy! And I made friends with their dates too!!! Tall Man (the other Jake), and Kaden and Marcos. And I loved every minute of the date and the dance!!!