When we were young...

Remember this?

This is the product from one of the many rediculous and sleepless sleep-overs that I shared with Gabrielle Murphy. I found it going through old files in my computer... Of course when you're friends you have to lay down the line of who claims who... these were ours...

I would just like to bare my testimony... I know this church is true... and I really love my roommates... *sniff sniff*

But no seriously...

I have the greatest roommates ever. Ever.

I recently moved my new record player (a vintage MAGNAVOX! ... you have to say it with a booming voice) into the livingroom. We don't have a TV so I thought it was close enough. But my roommates love it. We listen to it all the time, especially Beatles or Coldplay's Viva la Vida. We get a lot of compliments on it and a lot of wandering men asking if it actually works. I'm not gonna lie but it totally throws the whole apartment together. We've got this whole, moody artsy love-dungeon feel going on and I think it fits us well.

But tonight after I came home from the gym with my cute little Ecuadorian gym-buddy (she's barely four foot and MAN can she make you run faster... need inspiration to work out? Get a feisty Ecuadorian girl! She's adorable), anyways, I come home and I'm sweaty and shaky but I fall on the floor to do my crunches before I take a shower. Suddenly my roommate Allison (Aka: Fresh... I don't know why we call her that) turns on the record player, only I don't recognize the album. So I stop, sit up.... "wait... what is this?! Who's is this?! This isn't mine!" And they all yell "SURPRISE!.. Happy late birthday!!" I was SO excited! It was totally unexpected but they went online and found my favorite Regina Spektor album in an LP.

It was so awesome. We're totally listening to it now, but I can't put off a shower anymore. I love late birthday presents! They're not even family and they gave me a gift, I don't even care it's late. It's just nice to know they care. I was feeling a little down because close friends and family members didn't even send me a card. But hey, I'm older now. So birthdays aren't as important right? Ok, I'm rambling, time to hit the showers!

My Crazy 21st

I'm SO tired because it's really late and it took forever for my pictures to load so please forgive me for not going into too much detail here. It was kind of a stressful week with things going on and then school starting. I was totally looking forward to heading out of Rexburg and down to Provo for the weekend. My really good friend and Disney roommate Alyssa and I headed out friday evening after finishing a majority of our homework. The drive was long but relatively smooth. Over the weekend we were staying with my Disney room-roommate Trysten. She and her sister live in their grandparent's basement and they were out of town for the weekend so it was all us!

Saturday, we woke up and went to breakfast at Kneaders where they have the worlds best french toast! We met up with some of the other Disney girls for a short while. It was fun but we all agreed that it was weird seeing each other outside of Disney. After a while, we went our sepparate ways for some to do homework and others to get errands done. Alyssa and I went to a mall and got our nails done... then of COURSE we HAD to go to the Disney Store!!! It was SO heartbreaking!!! We got very homesick for Disney World. Afterwards we all met up at Trysten's to formulate a plan. We decided we were hungry again so we would go out and grab something to eat at Panda Express. As we were driving down there we saw this big banner across Center St. that said there was an Indian Festival going on in Spanish Fork. We were feeling adventurous so we decided to head over there.

Trysten and her sister Kalen had lived in India before so they had all of these gorgeous clothes. We convinced them to wear their Sari's and they even gave us some authentic "Puffy pants" and everyone got a jewel to wear on our brow. We felt pretty legit. The festival was held at the temple where they have Harri Krishna or the festival of colors. It was sweet! They had Llamas roaming around that you could pet. There were dancers to watch, henna tattoos (although crazy expensive), food, shopping and dancing inside the temple. We looked around, and went in to the temple and danced. It was crazy fun! And a LOT of weird people. Trysten and Kalen bought some henna stuff. They knew how do to it themselves and we figured it would be cheaper and we'd get bigger designs that way. After hanging around for about an hour and a half we headed back to Trysten's place.

We decided that for the night, we would hang around, eat junk food (of course) and watch a movie. Trysten was such a sweetheart and bought this awesome chocolate cake and TONS of sugar! But of course, since it was my big 21st birthday we HAD to play a drinking game! No worries, there was no alcohol involved. But since we were all Disney nerds we decided that every time someone said anything Disney related or any inside joke from our time in Disney World, we all had a chug a dixie cup or liquid. We started with the easy stuff; water, apple juice, lemonade, etc. But when that ran out we moved on to the harder stuff; coke, sprite, orange soda, or milk. It got to be a lot harder than we thought. But we decided that the end result would be that whomever peed first had to streak outside in their bra and underwear. The game continued on for most of the night until Katie was about to burst! Only she had just gotten her Henna tattoo done and it wasn't dry, so Trysten's sister Kalen sacrificed herself for Katie. Katie changed into a robe and Trysten put on this Sleeping Beauty wig she got in DW so none of their neighbors would notice. We lined up on the side of the road and Kalen BOOKED IT! There were no cars as she was running out, but then as she was heading back in, a car came toward us! That made her run even faster! She grabbed her robe and ran straight into the house! We were all so shocked we just kind of stood there. The car stopped and we saw there was a guy inside it! He was looking at us so we RAN into the house and he kept honking at us and then sped away! What a rush!

After that, we all totally crashed, after a scramble for everyone to empty their bladders, we turned on the movie Juno and we all fell asleep watching it. Alyssa and I had to leave in the morning around 930 and everyone else had early church but we all crashed around 1.

It was a great night and I had such a wonderful time with those girls. I had missed them terribly. We always had good times in Florida and I'm so lucky that I was able to have them with me on my birthday.

Alyssa, myself and Trysten will our "Bindi's", the jewels on the forehead

Spanish Fork Indian Temple

The Llamas!!

Trysten really liked the Llama

Alyssa and Trysten

Trysten and I

Alyssa and I... Karen called me and I'm actually on the phone while she took this photo

Puffy Pants!! Best, most comfortable pants ever!!

Katie, Kendall, Alyssa, Me, (unknown), and Kristy

The Disney girls!! Kristy, Me, Katie, Kendall, Alyssa, and Trysten

Dancing in the Temple

Alyssa- "What the freak is he doing?!"

This picture has a lot of meaning, we used to take these kind of pictures when we were bored and stuck in line at the parks, but we never got one with all 6 of us, here we succeeded

Alyssa and I in our Aladin puffy pants

Katie and I

Kendall and I

Kristy and I

The Llama refused to let me get close to it

Kendall photo-bombing the Llama

Alyssa not liking the Llama, she was sure it was going to spit on her

Giving out "The Vibe", no man can resist it

The Cake

The Plethora of Sugar!!!

21 Candles baby!!

Waiting for them all to be lit

I hate when people sing Happy Birthday to me, I always feel so awkward

Am I supposed to cheer for myself when the song's over?

Big breath in...

and out...

Losing it...

Almost... and got it

Writing our stripper names on our "shot glasses", take the name of your first pet plus the name of your street... mine was Ebony 106, pretty bad but the others had some good ones

Alyssa and Mei Mei (trysten's dog)

Shot # 56

Shot #57

Shot #58

The Wet Bar

Hahaha! She didn't know this was happening, she was looking at my henna

Too much laughing!!

Kalen the Henna Expert, she incorporated a Mickey in each of our designs

I think here Kendall and I were sharing a secret moment haha

That dog loved Kristy

The only time when pugs are cute, sorry Mei Mei

Preparing for the Streak

My henna design, it turned out to be really really dark brown, here it's still young and my arm is slimy from Baby oil

Birthday Wish List

So I know my birthday is only in 3 days but I was just wishing. Plus I'm not expecting anything from this list. Especially since I already know what both of my parents are giving me (some already gave...) and they are pretty much the only gift-givers. Not that I'm complaining, birthdays and presents have become slightly over-rated in my age. So this is probably just a list of things I'll probably end up buying for myself through a period of time haha!

The iPad... ok, I caved. At first I thought it was useless because it was just like a giant iTouch, but I don't like the Kindle's as much and I'm totally in love with the Calendar feature which is what I use on my iPhone... I want

Sookie Stackhouse Series... I got adicted and I have no way to get them!! Dang you, sheltered BYU-Idaho students and your stingy library!

External Hard drive for my plethora of photos which are taking over my computer!!

I can always use one of these!

Film for my Diana F+... available online or at Urban Outfitters

A Nikon FM!!! They are surprisingly cheap online since they're so old and ghetto... But I love them!

A Plane ticket to Orlando so I can go back and work in Disney World for a weekend or something... I miss it SO badly!... At least I love my job right?

The new iPhone 4!!! I probably wont be getting this for YEARS but this is just a dream

600 film for my Polaroid... I'm completely out :(

This is actually a Diaper bag, but with all of the space and removable compartments I can use it for a camera bag!! I want it SOOOO bad! (Here's the link to the website)