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have you tried this peach propel?

it is seriously like drinking a peach, it is so delicious. i'm not even exaggerating! it literally tastes like a fresh peach!!! can you tell how excited i am about this???

and no, i'm not getting paid to say this. though i wish i was!

i know you've just been waiting to hear about this.

i turned twenty-four on saturday.

it was just a wonderful, low key day. filled with breakfast at kneaders, my babies' (we've established that this refers to my nieces and nephews, right?) soccer game, a 20 minute laying out attempt before the sky (literally) rained on my parade, lunch, target, a precious little wedding reception and fast 5. you may have noticed that i am pretty much obsessed with my birthday. i just think that it is really cool that we celebrate the days that we come into the world. it doesn't have to be a big, grandiose celebration. just the acknowledgement and going out of your way to make someone feel special on their day is what matters to me. and i certainly felt special on my day. so thank you to everyone that contributed!

now let me tell you about my life as a 24 year old. i had my health screening at work today for my insurance premium discount and i learned that i am shorter (wha???) and fatter than i was at 23. one inch shorter and 6 pounds heavier to be exact. really? isn't it a little early for that. i certainly hope this doesn't mean that i need to start working out because let's just be honest. i get winded walking up the stairs... but at least i have the face and acne of a 17 year old, right? right???

but seriously. other than this health screening - which i think was bogus because i have been 5'5" for a while now and i weighed myself this morning at home and it was the same as what i weighed this time last year - i have high hopes for my 24th year of life. seems to be going pretty well so far.

and let's just talk about fast 5 for a quick second. it was definitely enjoyable and probably the best one they've made so far, but i could have used a little less vin and a lot more paul. good thing they're working on a 6th movie!

sisters, sisters

all of my sisters were in town last weekend (by "in town" i mean utah, brooke and i both live here) and we had a grand old time. eryn flew out from new york for her friend, alexis' wedding on saturday and shea decided to fly out from colorado to make it an official sisters weekend.

one of the benefits of the incredibly slow shutter speed on my iphone camera is that when a person moves their arm in front of another person it makes it look like the stationary person is wearing a half shirt.

twins. grandpa glade is seriously the cutest.

i love my family.

post script: i do have a brother, he is just serving a mission for our church. otherwise we would have had invited him to our sister (sibling) weekend.

post post script: i know that this was probably an overload of iphone app edited photos, but trust me. my iphone doesn't take the best pictures and the apps definitely make the pictures look better. AND MY 24TH BIRTHDAY IS TOMORROW!!! is that enough reminders?

today is may 10th

which means...

my birthday is in 4 days!!!

don't mind if i do

this is what my apartment complex looked like at 6 am saturday morning. so i decided to just take a little weekend trip to vegas to visit the dodsons and some sunshine.

gross, right? bleh.

this is what i like to call sweet perfection.

the dodsons. i like to take credit for their love.

it was so fun to catch up and spend some time in the sun. i just wish that my nemesis, the wind, would have subsided so i could have gotten a tan and that i could have stayed longer, 2 days just isn't very mich time for a vacation.

my first trip to vegas was when we took a little jaunt down our junior year (3 1/2 years ago... yikes) for the byu vs. unlv football game. such a precious little time in our lives.

heaven sent

i never won anything in my life until i started working at opal orthodontics and now i just can't stop. my most recent win is a picture frame from our product focus meeting today.
i am surprised by the amount of people that don't know who paul walker is and have asked me if he is my boyfriend. "yeah, i just keep a topless photo of my boyfriend by my desk and he just happens to be the most attractive man to have ever walked on this planet." no big deal.

in other news, martha found a website to see what your babies will look like with other people. she experimented with the love of her life (her fiance seth) and i did with mine. i think he's kind of creepily pretty but cute. maybe this is a sign...

my baby with jake gyllenhaal... not so much.
baaaaaah!!! terrifying.

so it's monday.

and my flowers are feeling it.

if you would like a song to pick you up from your monday blues, i would recommend searching for the band "the asteroids galaxy tour" on grooveshark and listening to the following songs: the golden age, around the bend, and the sun ain't shining no more. brooke showed them to me last night and seriously...precious.

ALSO

for work we are reading books about sales and mine is called "how to be a giant dbag." oh, i mean "how to say it to sell it." here are some inspiring quotes for your monday:

i found these gems just 2 pages into the book. i wish i could say that i exaggerated how ridiculous these are, but no. they are real. and yes, i did print them out and post them in my cubicle and am pretending i think they are cool. i also wish i could say that was my genius idea, but alas it was not. thanks for the idea drewgle! but i am still going to take credit for it.

done it again

this picture from awkward family photos today is terrifying.

it is hilarious and gives me the jeebies all at the same time.

i'd like to introduce you to my best friend.

i gave this kid a ride home from high school one time and he told me "paige, your car is so weird. it just fits you so well." umm get out of my car.

about a year ago i realized my car is my best friend. we spend at least 80 minutes commuting together everyday. it is so dependable and always there for me. it still loves me even when i wait a year to get the oil changed (i wish that was an exaggeration). and not once has it ever let me down. such amazing loyalty. the hatchback is just so convenient, i don't know how i'd live without one now. and we've just made so many memories. i have come to cherish all those midsummer road trips to colorado, just me and the civic. perfection.

i have also come to the realization that the civic might die soon. it's running okay but i kind of put it through a lot with my commute everyday. since coming to this realization i have been looking at cars. the only ones that i like are suvs from the 1980s/1990s or bmw 3 series.

you know how when women are trying to get pregnant and all they see are babies? well i am apparently trying to get pregnant with a jeep cherokee from the early 1990s. i seriously saw like 100 of them today and i am in love.

they all just scream "paige, love me! we'd be so happy together!" and i'd totally be down with some wood paneling. the boxier the better. i don't like how aerodynamic, 'sleek' and efficient all these new cars are nowadays.

these cars are hardly fuel efficient and i have a 40 minute commute. they are also old and will most likely have problems. but these cars make heart flutter. literally. i get the butterflies and my heart skips when i think about driving them.

all of this has led me to the question:

am i allergic to practicality?

so i colored my hair yesterday

for some reason i think you want to be up-to-date with my hair status and since i feel awkward posting pictures of myself alone i kind of forced my roommates into a photo shoot. we also have zero pictures together and they're all leaving me in a week.

look at these lovely ladies! and it's warm outside!

this one was the best picture until carolyn got cropped out.

precious little outtake

so the style of my hair color is called 'ombre' or 'melt.' if you can't tell in the pictures, it's dark at the roots and gets lighter on the ends. i've liked it for a while and it is pretty trendy but i just figured i might as well go for it. i really like how it turned out.

ps - this was my 300th post!