the night of girls.

in my family, the children order goes boy, girl, boy, boy.

yes i am the girl

i grew up in a testosterone filled dirty mess.

instead of painting my nails, i played soccer with my brothers.

most of our family nights ended with us wrestling each other.

i didn't always get the girly filled nights.

so when i get invited to one, i'm ecstatic.

most people would think it'd be weird spending a whole night with your ex-boyfriend's sisters,

but it was completely opposite.

they still felt like my sisters.

a dinner filled with some nice girl talk.

walking the mall and hitting every chocolate store.

packing in a ton of chocolate and gummy dinosaurs.

more girl talk.

watching three hours of project runway.

waking up to waffles with whipped cream and strawberries.

even more girl talk.

and confessions of a shopoholic.

once again. another great sleepover.

"oh i forgot about the pouches..."

you see.. lisa, robyn and i
well we're just not normal
we drive around for an hour looking for a house where a party is being held, then once we find it, we declare victory and drive home and watch gilmore girls instead
when we do go to parties, we end up in our own little circle, sometimes a couple people join us but then leave us to our threesome of awesomeness.

last night since there was this hub-bub about a meteor shower
we decided to wild it out and have a sleepover outside in a tent
we finished out pictureka puzzle then outside to put up the tent
sounds easy enough, i am a master of putting up girls camp tents for five, i mean six years
it took us twenty minutes just to figure out how to make the dang thing stand up
and once we did find it
"oh yeah.. now i remember"
thanks robyn you are a lot of help

lisa has a problem, she can't sleep on the ends, she always has to sleep in the middle
we were laid out so one of our friends could squeeze in and robyn and lisa could both sleep in the middle, win-win
however our friend "couldn't make it"
and lisa was left on the edge.
we wouldn't let her in the middle. she left pouting and then jumped back in headfirst
i had her in a headlock for a little while.
she eventually got middle.
what a baby.

by now it was about midnight and we stayed up talking and looking for some meteors.
i saw two.
at approximately one o'clock we hear  some banging on our tent
and then that sweet south african accent
"i've come to read you a bedtime story"
yes indeed, lisa's mom read us the little match girl and then we went to sleep

it was one of my favorite sleepovers.

suit up.

have you noticed in old movies men are always wearing suits?

they're either in their dashing dark suits or in their pajamas.

personally. i adore this.

a man in a suit is much more attractive than one in a t-shirt and jeans

 this might be the reason i love pre 1960 movies so much.

holler.

like your shoes, love your hair.

today i got my hair cut.
four or so inches off
sounds like a lot but my hair was insanely long
so it's not very noticeable. sadly.
i'm a bit.. well possessive of my hair. so when the time comes along for a nice trim, i kind of.. freak.
my mom told me my hair is completely damaged and i really need a good cut.
she told me not to be afraid
so i tried not to be
at first it was only two inches, didn't seem short enough, so i told her to cut off another inch or two.
still not short enough.
another inch or two please?
it's completely healthy, i will miss all my split ends to pick at when i'm bored
people will still consider my hair long, but to me it feels very short.
i would take a cute picture to show you but.. i just spent an hour in a jeep without doors
it's windblown, messy and gross.

oh and i finally saw inception.
insanity.

steamboatttt

i didn't really give a good post on my trip to steamboat, courtesy of my camera happy mommy, here are some pretty cool pictures.
just to let you know, it's hard to for me to give a real serious smile anymore.
i look like i'm scowling but really, i just didn't want to give the true effort to look cute.

we rode the gondola up to the top of the mountain

it was reallyyy pretty up there

most of our time was filled with.. baseball watching

those are my baseball friends, well mostly just jake.

that's my stud little brother chase

sorry ladies. he still thinks girls have cooties.

oh and we saw a bear.

yes a bear.

there was a big hill behind the baseball park and on the side of that hill was this

basically, it was awesome

this is a packed candy store that was on main street

steamboat springs is a pretty cool place i guess (=

it's been a good day

i always like to run to the mailbox everyday (except sunday of course) to see if my dashing brother wrote to me

of course he never does. strange.

most missionaries love to get letters and write back.

geoff likes to get letters. keep them for a month. write back. then send it off a couple weeks later.

coming home from a week vacation i thought for sure there would be a nice envelope with my name on it.

there was but sadly in the top left hand corner were the words "PLEASANT GROVE HIGH SCHOOL"

a little bit of a let down until my mom called me back and handed me a very bulky magazine

could it be??

i could finally put my worn out, torn and cut, water stained 2010 ikea catalog to rest

2011 ikea catalog

needless to say i've already looked through it three times

even while watching design star

emily, casey, and michael.

best top three i could ever imagine.

nah nah nah nah baseball!

all this week i have been in the great state of colorado
steamboat springs to be exact
which is basically like a poor man's park city but still nice
my youngest brother chase and his stud of a baseball team went there for the triple crown world series
to put it simply
it's kind of a big deal for a 13 year old baseball team.

let's just say:
-ball were thrown and hit (one ball even hit the littlest guy on the team right in the hip, poor kid)

-tears were shed

-loud and angry words were exchanged: two of the coaches were thrown out for yelling at the ump too much, as they were leaving one of the mom's from the other team yelled "i thought mormons weren't supposed to fight?" our whole fan section flipped and started yelling back. but of course we beat them and the last words said and i quote from jake barnhart "THAT'S HOW US MORMONS ROLL!!"

-fourth place medals were given out.

go utah hooks (=