{twenty-one}

Well, it happened... I turned 21.  I realize I haven't written in awhile, but honestly, turning 21 may be the only important and exciting thing that has happened since Christmas!

This is the lovely view I woke up to!! A pantless wonder she is :) 

So the first thing that I did on my birthday, is go and take my Chemistry exam.  I know, not your ideal birthday activity, but alas, it had to be done!!  Afterwards I just went to class.  A woman named Ginger in my '7 Habits of Highly Effective People' class, brought me a pack of mini reeses!  It made my day because I told everyone in my presentation on Friday that I would love whomever brought me mini reeses for my Birthday!  She is such a sweetheart! 

After school, Alexa picked me up and took me to Yogurtland and then I went on a shopping spree to Playdough's Closet and got a TON of pants... which were much needed.  Then I came home and got ready to go to Spark in Provo to continue my Birthday festivities! 

Shop 'til you drop! 

At Spark we got non-alcoholic beverages and I got these weird pork things on sticks... but they were good and I got full really fast!! Then I opened my presents! 

Tasha even brought me a cupcake so  I could blow out a candle on my Birthday! :)



Next we all went to see the movie "Identity Thief", it was WAY funny.  I liked it.

This is my loot at the end of the day!! I got soooo many good presents and I am blessed with great friends and roommates!  I ended up getting about 7 total bags of mini reeses for my birthday... it was FANTASTIC!! :D 

So that was my ACTUAL DAY OF BIRTH... I will now tell you about my chocolate birthday party at home!  It was AWESOME!  I kind of had a chocolate overload that week I think! 

Here is a sexy picture of me blowing out my candles!! 

My Aunt Wilma makes THEE best chocolate cake in the entire world!! My family literally has it gone by breakfast the day after a birthday because we all eat a piece in a bowl with milk poured over it.... MMMMM :P

We dipped strawberries, pretzels, cinnamon bears and rice crispies in chocolate!

All of the same pictures from above except the bottom right is of me and my BCF DPW (best cousin forever dr. pepper whore), he made it to my birthday party!! 

I absolutely love this picture of my Gramps, it is so funny!! 

I think this photo explains a lot about the relationship I have with my family....

We played charades for a good hour!!

'tis the season

Wow, sorry I have neglected my blog.  I feel like I have to be in the mood to write on it and I just haven't been in the mood!  It's kind of like my journal, I need to catch up!! Does anyone even read my blog?  Or am I just too boring of a person?! 

In this picture Alexa & I made Christmas cupcakes for our girls that we visit teach, it was really hard not to eat them! Also this is our beautiful tree :)  The letters 'C,A,T' are not spelling CAT, they stand for Chana, Alexa & Tasha.

We decorated the TV stand, it looks super classy! 

Our sweet mantle we made.  There was this board in the hallway for a month that said 'BEWARE' for Halloween and so we took it and nailed it to the wall! We also made a fire made out of tissue paper, it was WAY flipin' cute.

I may have molested Santa at work! 

Me, Garett and Alexa at Temple Square!

We had such a fun time going to Temple Square, riding the tracks, and eating dinner at the Cheesecake Factory at the new City Creek Mall :) Good times with the roomies! 

Me and my roommate!  I love the girl and our beautiful red faces.

The sunset on my drive home for Christmas! 

When I got home on Saturday night, we went to Ft. Green and waited at the church to go on a ride to a live nativity.  Trailers with hay stacks on them connected to tractors picked us up and brought us to some sheep sheds on the outskirts of Ft. Green, we watched a short 4 minutes clip where one of the wise men had a creeper look on his face and me, Sade and Aubri started to crack up.  You should watch it... I'll put a link.  He's the wise men on the left hand side!
http://www.lds.org/bible-videos/videos/glad-tidings-of-great-joy-the-birth-of-jesus-christ?lang=eng

If the link doesn't work, the video is called:  'Good Tiding of Great Joy, The Birth of Jesus Christ.'

Just watch it, you'll see it.

My Mommy & Daddy 

Me, Sade and Bobs all bundled up! 

The beautiful tree! 

Christmas Eve at my house was so much fun!! We went to the annual Christmas Eve program at the church and it included little dance crew dances, caroling, santa, bags of nasty authentic Christmas treats... the works.  Then we invited DJ's new renters to eat dinner with us and we had sweet and sour meatballs.  Next we played Just Dance and I read everyone a Christmas article from the December Ensign.  We opened Christmas jammies and then watched 'Elf' while drinking Sade's delicious hot cocoa.

Discovered a new app called Face Juggler and laughed until we cried all Christmas Eve.
This picture is what it would look like if my Dad and I swapped faces!  

This is Aubri and my Dad if they swapped faces!  My Dad looks like a major stoner.

Scraping Tony Stark to go pick up a Dr. Pepper at the soda machine on Christmas Eve.

Christmas morning Mom made breakfast cookie muffins and bacon!  Mmmm, then we opened presents.  The family loved the gifts I gave to them.  After presents we watched the other half of 'Elf' and then I made Dad watch 'Holes', because I told him our family is cursed like that movie with bad luck and we need to sing a song to some mystery person and carry them up a hill on our back and let them drink from the stream so we can break the curse! Lol, after the movie we had cheese ball and grilled cheese for lunch, it was awesome!  Then I had to go because I had to work :/ Bleh! 

Marissa loves Polly Pockets! 

I made my Dad a Steelers blanket & Raymond bought me one so we matched!! :)

Merry Christmas from the Thompson's and I have a super fat face! 

Ricky got a new bed and a new hedgehog toy! 

I had to come home and work on Christmas, blah! 

I went sledding with Jake, Jess, and Brian!  Brian and I went off a huge jump and then my butt slid out and I was being dragged backwards and was holding onto his legs for dear life!  It was way fun :)  Then we went hot tubbing at Rain Tree!  Good times! 

NS Times

Oh this newspaper.  Good good good good memories.  I think it deserved a blog post.

http://www.nstimes.us
(link to the website)

I have a personal photographer who captures moments when I'm flipping my hair
 and his name is Jeremy Zabriskie, a boy I truly love and admire.

Me and the Katie cakes sluffing class to take some magnificent newspaper pics.

Oh you know.  Just having some Hawk pride, appreciating my mascot like everyone should ;)

Me and Shelsie takin' pics on the Journalism camera!

Some of my fondest high school memories were in journalism.  The asimov quiz in the SL Trib, James Dean lifesize poster, Joanna Newsom, creepy mooing cows, basically tackling Mr. Cox's metal podium when racing him to the phone, creepy family dinner in the back room, Rick Astley... Journalism boot camp at UVU.  I could go on forever!!

I wouldn't trade the experience for anything.

Turkey day in good ol' turkey town!! :D

I actually had to work on Thanksgiving day from 10-2 so my fam bam waited for me to have Thanksgiving dinner :) We had it at my house this year and my family never fails to entertain me.  My Grandmother was talking about when they went to the theatre to see Sky Fall (I should mention that she  is paranoid...) she said their was a guy that looked like a "fruit-cake"(her words not mine), and that he was wearing a hood behind them talking to himself.  She proceeded to say that he reminded her of the shooter in Colorado at Batman and she was afraid he was going to pull out his tommy and shoot 'em all!! She cracks me up!!

My grandparents just recently returned from a trip to the East Coast for like 3 months and were showing us all of their pictures from the trip... I think they went to some aeronautical museum or something because a picture of a mannequin inside an airplane came up on the screen and my grandpa was like, "That's me!!"  Haha oh how I've missed my grandparents :)

Me & the Ricksters 

Advanced shooting course....

Instead of a backstabber.... a back shooter..... :)

During the break Sade & I got out the BB gun and shot some cans with it.  It was pretty sweet I hit the Dr. Pepper can and it ricocheted into the Pepsi can my very first shot... but then after that I just sucked.

Oh and by the way... I GOT A GYM MEMBERSHIP!! It is only a year long contract and adds out to about $15 a month.  I am really hoping I can make some life changes and get into shape... who knows when I'm getting married!! I'll start the (as Tashi calls it) LGN diet, look good naked :P

Newest addition to my key chain!! 

I have a real problem

 Yogurtland.  You rule.

First of all.... I really hope Raymond doesn't read my blog because I chewed him out WHILE I was eating Yogurtland, I'll explain.

So, Alexa and I probably go to Yogurtland at least once a week... and trust me, I've been really trying to eat healthy.  I have a fitness log.  My 7 day pass at Golds Gym just expired on Monday and I really really really loved the cycling class (if I could afford a pass, I'd totally get one... maybe in the near future), I buy whole grain breads and skim milk and part skim mozzarella, fruits... salad... THE WORKS, you get the idea.  BUT, a girl has got to get her fix somehow.  Don't judge me because I'm confessing.... last night I went to In-n-out and got a burger after work, then today before I went to drop off Alexa to go home to St. George for Thanksgiving, we went to Yogurtland and possibly THEE COOLEST THING EVER may have happened.  The employee that works there is there EVERY TIME we go... I swear, so, when we went to check out, he gave us our delicious frozen yogurt..... FOR FREEEEEEE!!  Which is awesome, but also embarrassing.  I was going to make it my facebook status that I got free Yogurtland but as I sat in my car eating it with Alexa, I texted Raymond to see what he was doing tonight so I don't have to chill alone, but he had to work.  He said that when he got off work he could bring home some pizza (he works at Domino's), and I told him, "You know I'm trying to eat healthier."  And he replied something about how I went and got snacks last night and I replied that just because I eat bad one night doesn't mean I'm throwing it all away (as I'm eating Yogurtland).... Don't get me wrong, I love pizza, but there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.  And I seem to always be eating pizza now-a-days.  So, making it my facebook status that I had gotten free yogurtand was not going to happen... I can't have Raymond judging me!!

I now have no secrets.  I am coming out of my Yogurtland denial closet and letting you know that I am a Yogurtland whore, despite my healthy aspirations.  Sorry boys, I will never be that skinny twig you were hoping for!  The moral of the story is, everyone deserves themselves a good cup of frozen yogurt, preferably with cheese cake bites and recess on top!!!

I hope you took something away from this.  It is okay to pity me lol.

Someday I will post some sweet before and after pics of my hot body and I can be Yogurtlands spokesperson (like Jared is for Subway) and I will prove to the world that it is still possible to lose 30 pounds WHILE consuming frozen yogurtland.

You bet your bottom dollar you'll see me next time ;)

RaNdOm**(street-art)

Hahaha I couldn't help myself... I had to put this up.  Obey is a product of Sheppard Fairey that apparently ended up on this Simpsons episode... which by the way I kind of want to find it and watch it....

This one is a piece done by Banksy, I found it funny that the boy is writing... "I must not copy what I see on the Simpsons", well, Banksy is for sure not copying Sheppard Fairey but I still found it funny that I found these two pieces on the internet.  Call me lame, but I love street art.