sweet release

I AM FINALLY DONE WITH FINALS! my life is care free for the next four months...glorious. my plans for this summer include getting tan (graduating from pasty to pale), working at shade, trips home to colorado, having a lemonade stand, driving the pch (pacific coast highway), picnics up provo canyon, sewing dresses, re-decorating my apartment, eating strawberries and cream pie for every meal, hanging out with the milnes, eating crepes on my balcony with sarah while listening to french music, refining my photography skills, and the list goes on. it's pretty much going to be the most precious/greatest summer ever.

i have been so busy with finals and such that i haven't been able to write about last week's episode of the office. JIM IS GOING TO PROPOSE TO PAM???!!!!! and not to me? oh, if only life were that perfect. anywho, i can't believe it. i'm not gonna lie, i almost fell for his little fake-out on the sidewalk. i sat there in the fetal position and screamed at least twice--wow, that sounds quite pathetic. oh jim, why must you have this effect over me?

to ramble on even more, i watched the movie lars and the real girl, i am still not quite sure what to make of it. i also saw the movie nancy drew. can i just say that emma roberts is precious? she is too cute. the movie made me wish i dressed in 50s clothes, had a precious boyfriend named ned, drove a cute little roadster and went around sleuthing, all at the age of 16. oh to be a teenager again. lindsey and i thought it was so good we watched it two nights in a row. we are so cool.

a little jackson pollock anyone?

for our humanities class, sarah and i had to make jackson pollock-esque paintings. we decided to get colors that would match our apartment so we could display them after we turned them in. this is what we came up with, we were pretty pleased. mine is on the left and sarah's is on the right.

back in business

well, the office came back on thursday. i loved it. i have really felt a void in my life without any new episodes over the past few months and my roommates and i have been watching the past seasons' episodes over and over--luckily they never get old. anywho, the new episode was hilarious and filled with awkward moments and as usual, i felt bad for michael the entire time. now i know what i'm doing every thursday night for the next little while.

good clean fun

i saw the movie be kind rewind this weekend and it was HILARIOUS. there were points in the movie i laughed so hard, i cried. not only was it funny, but it was also a clean, feel good movie. it was in our dollar theater, so you better go see it before it goes out of theaters...i highly recommend it!

flashback to my childhood

my friend jason bet me i couldn't sit in this box for 10 minutes and i foolishly said i could. he then tortured me for 10 minutes straight...pretty much the most terrifying experience of my life.

more of my photography

i was going through some of my work and decided to scan and share some of my contact sheets from high school.


these were taken at the hospital when my niece, rheagan, was born. she is going to be 5 in may, so these are a little old.


for an assignment in one of my photo classes in high school, i made a book with these pictures of my gorgeous cousin, mckenzie. i am pretty proud of the book i made. in the photos on the first contact sheet she doesn't have any makeup on and in the second she does.


spring break of my senior year in high school we went to california. i took these pictures in newport beach.


click to enlarge. also, i have a really "nice" scanner, so ignore the lines and unfortunately there is also a little dust.

the milnes are coming to town

my oldest sister, brooke's family is moving here (to draper) in april. i can't wait for them to get here! we have a lot of fun together and my niece (afton) and nephew (grayson) are so precious. this is going to be the greatest summer ever filled with strawberries and cream pie, crazy babies, shopping...perfection.

summer no more

rachel bilson is featured in nylon magazine this month. i became obsessed with the oc and her character in the second season. while the oc's presence has faded in my life and the lives of young people in america, she has not. she is just so precious. i want to be her. here are some of the photos from the article.

the love of my life

if you know anything about me, you know that i am in love with the office. this tv show is literally the greatest thing to ever happen to me and i am also in love with jim halpert (aka john krasinski), we have a relationship in my dreams...that sounds really creepy, but take it for what it is. okay, the whole point of this is that the office hasn't been on for about 3 or 4 months and it has been the worst 3 or 4 months of my life, but it is coming back on april 10th. only 32 days...32 long, hard days.

spring has (almost) sprung!

i work for shade clothing in their american fork store and we just got some of the new spring styles in. one of the girls i work with, diane, and i were up until the wee (sp?) hours of the morning on friday night putting out the new styles and rearranging the floor--needless to say, it was a good time. the new styles are so cute and i want them all...this is when that 40% off comes in handy. now if only the weather would catch up and finally be over 40 degrees.


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