A Creep, Baby Shower, Blokus, Bowling, and Fiesta

Here's Stephanie's facebook status this morning:
"I woke up this morning to find my brother Cody setting up a card board cut out of a man at the foot of my bed. Creep."
I about died laughing, especially since Cody stole my Legolas card board cut out from under my bed.

In other random news, it's been a pretty busy few days since this past weekend. Saturday Stacy and I got up early to go wait in line for cheap summer housing. Sadly that was a fail. The place we wanted to live filled up, so we wasted an hour and a half of our lives and still have no where to live this summer. The apartment hunt continues. That afternoon I got to go to Aubree's baby shower. I can't believe he's going to be here in 9 weeks! Crazy! I swear we're not old enough for her to have a baby ;) That evening we went to my Dad's ward guitar concert. It was pretty fun, and I got to see a couple of friends I don't see often. After that we went over to Elina's brother's house because apparently one of his mission buddies thought I was cute. We talked a for a little while and then played a couple of games. Then Steph and Paula ditched us to go see a movie with our neighbors. We played a game a little longer, then just kinda sat around. There were about three conversations going on, and it just wasn't a super good way to get to know someone. He seemed like a nice guy, but I didn't really get to know him very well. Funny thing though, aparently for the whole night Stacy thought I was supposed to be meeting his other friend that I actually went to high school with :) Stacy and I then left after not doing anything for a little while and went and got Zeppes.

Sunday night we went over to Mitch's apartment to play games. We first played blokus on teams because we had 8 people. It's a really fun game, but it takes a lot longer when you have to consult with someone before you make a move. Later we played speed blokus, and all of us did pretty badly, but it was lots of fun. There ended up being a ton more guys than girls over, which is pretty typical of that apartment. The guys turned on a basketball game and then played Nintendo while we did speed blokus. I was quite glad that Paula, Stacy and Stephanie (not my sister) were there, because last time they played Nintendo it ended up being me and 8 guys, hahaha. We also met a new guy in our ward name Conner who seems super nice. It's amazing how you can go to church with people for months and never actually meet them.

Monday night our Stake had a fiesta. There was tacos and Latin Dancing. We didn't do any dancing, but we did enjoy watching it. The tacos were pretty good, but they were a bit messy because they fell apart. What was the best part of FHE? The text one of our Bishopric Counselors sent us about the activity: "Stake home evening @7 at church. Fiesta nigjt. Latin dancing and tacos. Come. dressed. if you want." Hahahah, apparently clothes are optional for this activity ;) After that we went to Charlie's to get ice cream because there weren't treats at FHE. After that we went Cosmic bowling for free, courtesy of Stacey :)

Last night was pretty chill. Elina, Steph and I sat around my bedroom and sang and played guitar. Steph wants to have a guitar/talent show over spring break, and I think we found a song we might do.

Reasons why Paula and Steve are really the Same Person

So, Stacy and I have decided that Paula and Steve are really the same person. This basically stems from the fact that they're both super nice people, who both apologize a lot :) The other night we made a list of all the reasons why, and I must say, it seems even more true now.

* Both have honey wheat colored hair
* Both say sorry all the time
* Both have done community service
* Both have lived with a grandparent
* Both are swimmers
* They have similar cars now and in the past
* Both have blue eyes
* They're the same height (if Paula wears heels :D)
* Both are the youngest
* Both hate cats
* Both feel bad
* They like complimentary colors
* Both have 5 letters in their first names
* Both of their middle names start with an 'A'
* Both have 6 letters in their last names
* Both annoyed when told they're similar
* Both ski
* Both were born out of state
* Both have ancestors from England, Sweden, and Germany
* They have the same facial expressions
* Both protest this list
* Both are in administrative majors
* Both have had 8 jobs
* Both dislike marshmallows in hot chocolate
* Both dislike Taylor Swift
* Both are rebels at heart
* Both have had freak accidents
* Both ran track
* Both did Drama
* Both like ketchup more than fry sauce
* Both think ranch on pizza is gross
* Both dislike the smell of the flowering trees on campus

See?! They're like the same person! hahahaha

I didn't have a picture of just Steve and Paula, so you get one with Stacy in between them.  And don't even get me started on why Steve and Stacy are actually twins :)

Can't you just see the resemblance?!

President's Day Weekend

This past weekend was pretty chill, which was so nice. Here's a rundown of what we did:

Friday: My Dad's Stake rented out the Sport's Academy, so we got to go swimming for free! Good times, except for the idiot who chucked an exercise ball off the the balcony and nailed Steph in the head. She really is cursed.

Saturday: I went shopping with my Mom and Steph. I also started making a skirt. Pictures to come when it's closer to being done.

Sunday: Mckenna, David, Elina, Jess and Michael (who were up from Provo) came over for crepes. We then went to Steph and Mckenna's Stake Conference. After that went to Mckenna's and had lunch with everyone. We made soup, grilled cheese sandwiches and a beautiful salad. I also have a new favorite grilled cheese ingredient - ranch powder. It may sound strange, but it will change your life, seriously. That night we watched the season two finale of Downton Abbey. How in the world are we going to be able to wait for the next season?!

Don't you just love David in Mckenna's apron?

Monday: It was a pretty chill day with the family. We had breakfast, started sewing a shirt, and then went to town. We went bowling an I won! I actually beat everyone in my family, including my Dad. It's a miracle. I got four strikes! Of course I'd get two strikes and then a gutter ball, but still four strikes! Megan even beat Cody :) We went to our favorite Mexican restaurant for lunch, and then went shopping. After that my mom helped me finish sewing my shirt. Pictures to come :)

Overall it was a pretty good weekend. Nothing too exciting, but sometimes that's just what you need :)

PS

What's the best thing about wearing these boots to church?

Wearing these socks under them and know one knowing :)

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day!

While I don't have a boyfriend, I'm not a hater of Valentine's Day. In my family, my mom's always tried to make Valentine's Day special for all of us, not just her and my Dad. Every year she gives us a heart shaped balloon and a bag of goodies. This year She delivered a balloon and a bag of candy to my office. She even went all out this year and put in Valentine socks and emery boards. (We have a slight nail obsession :D). I love the fact that my mom takes to time to think of each of us and make us all feel special on Valentine's Day

Tonight, instead of man hating, Steph, Stacy, Paula and I are getting heart shaped pizza's from Papa Murphy's and going to see The Vow. Sounds likes a pretty fabulous evening to me :)

The delicious treat my Visiting Teachers brought me

Our heart shaped pizza - I guess it's kind of a heart :)

The traditional balloon and goodies from my mom :)

The adorable card from Paula

Valentines from my Mom and Steph

The Rose from my Dad

Random adventure of the day:
Today there was a job fair on campus, and Jessica (a girl I work with) and I were in charge of putting up signs all over campus for it. so, at 8 this morning we had to walk all over campus in the freezing cold and bitter wind (I thought my ears were going to fall off) and attempt to stick the signs into the frozen ground. It was actually quite laughable :) By the end of our trip around campus we were pros at knowing what kind of ground would be less frozen. That my friends, is a valuable life skill ;)

Dating

My dad is currently the 1st Counselor in a YSA Bishopric. Yesterday I went to his ward because they were having a really cool Q&A panel in a combined Priesthood and Relief Society Meeting. They had the kids in the ward submit questions the week before and then they answered them yesterday. As expected many of the questions were about dating and marriage. During the discussion one of the girls in the ward brought up a point about dating that I agree with 100%. She said she has talked a lot with both guys and girls about dating, and their concerns about it. She said that guys don't like to take girls out, because they're worried about the girls thinking that they're in love with them, and then they become really clingy. While this can sometimes be true of girls, there is a reason they act like that. If a guy hasn't asked out a girl for six months, when he finally does ask a girl out, of course she's going to think he likes her a lot. If guys asked out girls on a more frequent dates, they wouldn't seem like such a big deal. So guys, ask girls out on dates! They don't have to be serious or expensive. Dating more frequently gives everyone more opportunities to find out what they like, and will also make it not such a big deal.  Along with the great dating advice, they also gave us a list of dating activities. Please enjoy almost 200 ideas conveniently sorted into seasonal categories.
There are no excuses to not date now :)

Winter
An old fashion taffy pull
Pet the cats at PetSmart
Exercise together
Make dinner at the apartment and then play a game of pool at the Institute
A Jazz game!
Go Caroling
Decorate cookies
With $5 in quarters for each go to the mall arcade
Visit a museum
Play card games - Nerts, Hearts, Scum, Egyptian, 9 down, Idiot, Spades, BS, Pinochle, O'Heck, Phase 10, etc.
Go skiing
Pick out and boil a lobster together
Play tag in the Fine Arts Building
Volunteer somewhere (i.e. Children's house, Boys & Girls Club, Senior Center, etc.)
Build a snowman
"Date Olympics": relays, basketball game, eating competition, ice blocking, etc.
Ping pong & hot chocolate
Lunch date: hot soup and warm bread
Go to the mall; in each store (taking turns) choose an item that reminds you of a story about yourself or childhood memory or family experience. This is better for single dates, and a great way to get to know each other.
Bobsledding
Lean cuisine: with a strict budged go buy an appetizer, main course & dessert, and then prepare it together
Playdoh sculptures
Make and bake cookies together
Racquetball
Make gingerbread houses
Sledding down Old Main
Make s'mores over the electric stove or mini s'mores over candles
Play card games
Dress in formal wear and go out for fast food
Watch a basketball game
Ice Skating
Group date: mystery dinner
Make and decorate cookies and give them to other people
Bowling
Finger painting: choose a location and paint the scenery
Shovel snow to help someone
Picture scavenger hunt (Group date): We made a list of crazy things to do, ie Dance with an elderly person, hug a stranger, etc. and then went out and took pictures of each other doing these random things. Then we went back to one of our apartments an compare pictures with the other couples.
Picnic on the living room floor - it's great to just talk and get to know each other
Baking of some sort together (bread, cookies, doughnuts, etc)
Pool - $2.00 Tuesday night @ the Fun Park
Country dancing @ the Fun Park
Board games and talking
Aggie basketball game or football game
Build a fort in your living room with couch and blankets/sheets
Group date: read a play and assign different parts, make-up weird accents
Make a snowman
Go to a concert
Paint a picture
Game night
Snowshoeing
Rock climbing at the Rock Haus
Do ceramics
Arcade games
Roller blading with a group
Attend a Hockey game
Temple Square to see the Lights
Any spur of the moments things
Sledding with hot chocolate
Snowmobiling
Service date
Backward date: dessert, activity, then dinner
Create portraits of each other using things you find in the fridge
Nostalgia date: do things you enjoyed doing when you were little and eat your favorite foods from your childhood
Go to a comedy club
Dollar dinner: the couple split up and each couple has $1.00 to find part of the meal (Salad, dessert, main course, etc)
Cookie scavenger hunt: go door to door asking for ingredients for cookies. Once you have all the ingredients you need, make the cookies and then leave some on the doorsteps of those who gave you the ingredients.
Snow sculptures (bring bottles of water and food coloring to decorate) an drink hot chocolate
Iron Chef competition
Pick an unusual national holiday to celebrate (national donut day, national you're welcome day, etc)

Spring
Video scavenger hunt
Teach your date how to do something you enjoy: trap shooting, rock climbing, kayaking, fly fishing, etc.
Tie dye T-shirts
Share a bucket of chicken at 2nd dam
Find a new recipe on the Internet; go shopping for the ingredients; make it together; eat it together; and maybe even do the dishes together!
Go on a motorcycle ride
Facials at the beauty college
buy rubber ducks and race them in a creek
Hit a bucket of balls at the driving range
Build marshmallow guns and have a marshmallow fight
Make a bonfire and stargaze!
Sack lunches on the grass at the Tabernacle on a sunny day
Group date: simple dinner and board games
Go feed the ducks
Take a drive up the canyon in a convertible
Go on a walk
Fly a kite and have a picnic
Tennis
Ice blocking
Jump in puddles/play in the rain
Go people watching
Picnic in the rain

Summer
Make homemade ice cream
Play "redneck" croquet
Take a bike ride
Picnic dinner in a park
Watch a sunrise together
Amazing Race: each couple has to make up a clue; race to see which car gets to the "pit stop" first.
Go golfing
Jump on a trampoline with soap and water
Rollerblading progressive dinner (eat different courses at different locations)
"Geo Cashing"
Play hopscotch
Grill salmon and corn on the cob; make lemonade; sit outside; eat, and enjoy!
Frisbee
Campfire up the canyon - dinner & fun!
Play sand volleyball with several couples
USU's Moonlight & Music
Walk down Main Street and have a list of items you have to take pictures of
Duct tape spoons to your hands; then prepare and eat a whole meal with "spoon hands"
Ice cream sculpting
Hike the Wind Caves or Green Canyon
Go get an ice cream cone
Go karts
Concert in the park
Go to the Willow Park or Hogle Zoo
Boating
Float the Onieta Narrows
Run through sprinklers
Build cardboard canoes!
Go Cliff Jumping
Play night games with a few couples
Fishing with a picnic
Go to a county fair or rodeo
Carve bars of soap into sculptures
Tin foil dinners
Play and talk at a playground
Attend a play
Test drive cars
Make wooden boats and get them to float, sail or race
Cornflakes by candlelight!
A glow in the dark baseball game
Watch the Cruise In
Evening Picnics
Trap shooting
Fishing
Being taught to throw a football perfectly or to hit a home run in the batting cage
Put a picnic together and play guitar
Washing cars
Horseback ride
Go for a drive up Logan Canyon
Walk around the cemetery
Tandem bike ride
Walk down Main Street and go in random stores to check them out
Go to the beach (or any body of water) and skip rocks
Get ice cream and then go to a park and swing and talk
Canoeing
Fly a kite
Kickball
4-wheeling
Get in a food fight at the park and play other food games ie eat pudding through tights!
Dress up in hideous clothes/hair/makeup and take pictures at all the famous landmarks in the area
Laser tag
Visit a nursing home
Double our Group date: For the first part of the date we drive to a parking lot. Turn up the music in the car and leave the doors open. Take turns and make up four count dances. Warning: make sure the battery doesn't die!
Frisbee golf
Star gazing
Make a delux cardboard box house
Watch a movie in the back of a truck outside
Eat dinner without using any plates, bowls, or utensils (put it on a tarp and use your hands)
Mud Volleyball

Fall
Play jacks
Miniature golf
Fruit carving.designing: watermelon, pineapple, melons, etc
Buy groceries together
Go to a dance
Make a crazy fun dessert together
Shoot a 22
Long board in the football stadium parking lot
Rake leaves and jump in them
Buy a couple of sub sandwiches, go to a playground, and play tag
Roller skating
Got to a baseball game
Dinner and a movie
Carve pumpkins
USU's Poetry and Beverage
Make homemade pizza
Haunted corn maze
Watch a sunset together
Water bottle bowling
Go to a university or community program or event
Doorbell ditch neighbors
Prank someone
Build a fort and play nintendo
Indoor camping
Chair soccer
Barbarian dinner
Play basketball
Sardines in the Fine Arts Building
Go miniature golfing inside
Group date game night: swedish twister, 3D twister, Smurf, Psychiatrist, Animal Sounds, Human knot, Celebrity, etc.
Make a movie

Dear Phillip, The Beatles, Petey and other Boys

So this was basically going to just be a blog about the first three things in the title, but then it kinda morphed into an entire dear boys post . . . hehehe . . . they may be my favorite thing to blog about :)

Dear Phillip:

I would seriously love it if you would PLEASE work! Since last summer you've now gotten a new engine, air compressor, pulleys, alternator, crank shaft sensor, and tie rods. There really isn't much left to go wrong. If your transmission dies I may just blow you up . . . This month alone you've basically cost me the same as a new mac computer :(. Please just work for realsies!!!

- Your frustrated owner

Dear the Beatles:

Why does every song I want to play contain a bm chord? I really suck at them! I would really like to play one all the way through without failing.

Sincerely, 

My fingers are killing me

Dear Petey:

I knew I heard you in my room last week, but now it's official since you chewed on Stacy's granola bar all night. She went and bought mouse traps last night, so you'd better watch yourself. If you leave peacefully and quickly we can pretend this whole incident never happened.

Cordially, 

The Girl in the back room

Dear Owl City,

Pretty sure I'm addicted to the song Deer in the Headlights. It's just so darn catchy. I'm currently dancing around my room lip syncing to it :)

Love, 

I promise I'm not a crazy fan girl

Dear Ward Boy,

I really enjoyed having an actual conversation with you. Hopefully I wasn't super awkward . . .

Love,

Michelle

PS I still think you're pretty darn attractive

Dear Neighbor,

Thanks for reading my blog! Hope you enjoy it :)

Sincerely,

The Girl Next Door

Dear HC,

Thanks for always making me smile :)

Love,

Michelle

Hacked

I believe I'd like to thank my roommates Stacy and Paula for my last post. I suppose this is what I get for leaving my computer unattended and my blog signed in, hahaha.