AZ Lovin.

For those of you who don't know, Arizona has its 101st birthday last week - Valentine's day to be exact. And since then I have thought a lot about good ol' AZ and how much I miss it. I miss the sunsets. I miss the warm, and the sun, and the wedding clouds. I miss my tan. I miss sandals and sun dresses. I miss the clear blue sky. I miss palm trees, and cactuses, and rocks. I miss hot asphalt and running through the sprinklers to cool down. I miss the flat.I miss monsoons and lightning storms and always being a little bit scared the world was ending. My heart shall forever be in Arizona. Desert girl through and through. 

And I love this etsy find! [hint hint mother ;)]

A, You're Adorable

So this valentine post is a little belated, but it's not very focused on the holiday, so bear with me. 

The night before, my roommate was talking about a cute valentines present idea from Pinterest, which was a alphabet flip book of sweet compliments. And I said, "Oh, like the A, you're adorable song." And none of my roommates new it so I sang the whole thing from memory, with the sign language letters like Mrs. Hubbard taught us for the Grandmother's Tea 15 years ago (I feel old that I can say something happened 15 years ago). Then I thought about memorizing The Night Before Christmas, and how I can still recite ALL the colors in Joseph's technicolor dream coat, and about how everything in her room was Mary Englibright, and how special we felt when we got to take a handful of Jolly Ranchers (which for our little five-year-old hands, couldn't have been more than about 8 pieces), and how we loved to visit her classroom as a helper when we were older. Mrs. Hubbard was an amazing teacher and I am so grateful for her influence in my life. 

Gotta love Mary Englbright. 

V-Day

Happy Valentine's week everybody! To celebrate, they have been playing lovey-dovey music in the Wilk, and today was jazz standards. They played Don't Get Around Much Anymore and I found myself singing along. It took me right back to the good old days in Premiere. I miss singing, especially jazz. So here's a tribute to some great girls and one super awesome bearded guy :)

 

Now Don't Get Around Much Anymore has been stuck in my head all day so I looked it up to listen to it and rid it from my brian, and I found this super cool music video from the 40's. Enjoy!

Digital Nativity.

Happy Christmas Eve everybody! Hope this holiday season has been just as merry and bright as you have always wished! And that all the hype and anticipation will be fulfilled tomorrow by the presents and fun. In the meantime, here is a Christmas video that I enjoyed.

I love the ending message: though the times have changed, the feelings remain the same. Have a Merry Christmas!

College is Busy.

So I have been busy as you can tell by the lack of posting... Sorry. So back to where I last left off:  my parents came!! It was so good to see them! Then over the saturday that they were here, I took some friends up to stay with us in Park City. We went shopping, made cookies and ate delicious food cooked by my Dad. It was a great weekend.

Then the next week we got new bed frames! Woo Hoo!! I know we shouldn't be this excited for a new bed frame but it was the most excitement I have ever seen on our floor! They are way nicer now because 1) we can fit way more stuff under our beds and 2) the 30 year old jagged metal doesn't cut me any more! The unfortunate thing about getting the new bed frames was that we had to move everything out from under our beds. And that's a lot of stuff

The new and improved bed!!

Then it was HALLOWEEN!!! They gave us bonus visiting hours for trick-or-treating. This girl named Carolyn who lives down the hall decided to dress up as a sexy bearded bachelor and Nikki was her cat.

She was playing Kenny G and that is her fireplace app a'burning!!

Trick-or-treating in the boy's hall! So fun!

Then we got to hear from the Prophet at Devotional last week! That was supper cool

This is my picture of President Monson. We were is the dead center in row K. very close. He is the big white flash.

Here is a good picture from the devotional. It was amazing. 

Then Nikki got coerced into going on a date with our crazy RA's cousin so we decided to stalk them to the MOA! 

Here is a cool picture of a book sculpture.

And this is Ashley, Sadie and Carolyn planking in the weird Nazi strobe light movie room.

Then we had to deal with the Modesty Nazis!! The building advisor goes of town for one weekend and they plaster posters all over all the halls and the bathrooms and the lobby!

Everyone was really peeved by these and decided to rebel against the signs. They were ripped down from everywhere by the end of the week. Someone wrote on the skirt posters "so an inch determines my salvation". And Carolyn taped these posters all over our hall: 

Then you know that awkward moment when you walk out into the hall and your crazy RA is skipping down the hall in her wedding dress????? If you don't you are lucky.

Yes this was a creepy sneak attack picture.

Then we had a Bridal Shower for two girls on our floor getting married. We used this funny panty poem as our present to them:

Bridal Shower Panty Poem

The Stover girls have a secret to share 

About our little brides

They are obsessed with underwear 

And that we cannot hide

So for our little panty queens

We gathered up some twine
And working as a friendly team
We made a panty line.

Sarah & Merissa, these undies are to last you
All throughout your life
And Edgar & Adam will be pleased to say
They have a sexy wife!

So listen up to hear about
Your lifelong panty plan
These underwear, we have no doubt
Will last your whole life span 

The first are for your wedding day
Of course they are pure white
We know Edgar & Adam will shout, "Hooray!"
When he sees you on that night

The next are for your honeymoon
They're sexy and all lace
We hope you'll leave your hotel room
'Cause California’s a gorgeous place!

On Valentine's you'll wear this pair
Before you hit the bed
Cuz Cupid's arrow in the air
Shoots tushies that are red

After a year has passed you'll face
Anniversary number one
With these you'll surely have a blast
'Cuz leopard's so much fun!

Then when the time is right for you
And don't be saying, "Maybe"
You'll wear your little pink or blue
In honor of your baby

And when your years of wedding bliss
Become the big 2-5
Don't worry - you'll just slip this on
To keep the sparks alive

When finally you're old and gray
With these you can't go wrong
'Cuz sorry Sarah & Merissa but at that age
You just can't wear a thong!!!

Our present doubled as decorations!

 

Sarah's line

Merissa's Line

We love bridal showers!

How do we relax after such a busy couple of weeks??

Make fun of Kass!!! But the face masks help too :)

Labor Day!

Labor day = no class. So what do we do? Go shopping. But hold your horses:  we are responsible college kids so not even the fun kind of shopping.... we went grocery shopping. It was quite an ordeal because we had to walk 5 blocks which is a new experience for me because 1) it's almost always too hot to walk anywhere is Mesa 2) everything is very spread out and 3) I had a car at home (sigh. cucstruk, I miss you). Getting there wasn't a problem. We got directions from the very multi-functional iPhone and it was a cool, breezy 78. Once we were done shopping we were faced with the predicament of getting our heavy (it included multiple flats of caffeinated contraband) cart full of grocery's back to our dorm. Is it against the honor code to steal a shopping cart?

We took it back..... Ok it was too far so we donated it to the Wendy's across from campus.