Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Dinner Conversation


We were sitting at the dinner table, eating "Cream of Everything" soup (i couldn't figure out what to make for dinner, so I made everything). The topic of movies came up and my roommates and I all looked at my brother. We've all been unimpressed by his movie collection. It was suggested to him that he make a goal to improve it. He committed to this goal and even to do it by the end of the month!



Good job Stuart, I know you hated that we brought it up, but you are awesome for putting up with us and for making the goal.

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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Sunday Happenings


I love being home on Sundays, spending time after church enjoying the weather and being with my brothers and roommates. This is what our afternoon was:

Stuart helping with the meal - he makes the best chocolate pudding


Chelsey spent the entire afternoon like this, and enjoyed every minute of it

Gotta make that rice


Our basement dweller #1 - on the phone with family i think?
(I'm basement dweller #2)

Eating - notice the goblets. Mom never really liked me to set the table growing up because I always used the fancy plates and goblets. They just make me happy. My local thrift store supplies me with many of them :)


After a great fireside given by Bronco Mendenhal, BYU's Football coach, we came home and had some ice-cream with chopped up strawberries, chopped with my handy-chopper (we'll call it Barb).


I laugh every time I use this, to think that I've had this since I was sixteen. I dreamt my whole childhood that grandma would get me a barbie doll like she gave all the other granddaughters. I was the youngest granddaughter and apparently was never mature enough to handle a barbie, so I got stuffed animals....I hated stuffed animals. Then one Christmas my dreams finally came unexpectedly true - grandma got me a barbie (the Malibu barbie). Except it was no longer my dream to get a barbie, I was sixteen years old that year and was pretty embarrassed to have gotten a barbie, so I hid it under the couch. Lots of people told me I should keep it, but I was too embarrassed, so I took it back to the store and traded if for my handy-chopper, which has been a faithful sidekick for 11 years now. Unfortunately my sixteen year old embarrassment has turned into a family joke, especially with grandma, who gives me nothing but Barbie related items for birthdays and Christmas now. Even when I left the country for 18 months, she kept a plastic storage bin to store each Christmas and birthday present in. My return home was spent opening up what would be a little girls barbie dream. I keep it in storage for future kids to use.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Saturday is a special day


Today I was Supposed to do the following:
Wash clothes
Fold clothes
Clean room
Plant garden
Go for a run

The sad thing about my lists is that I rarely follow them. This is what I did instead:


Make my favorite breakfast smoothie! You want one? Click here.


Then I went to watch a Rugby game


With my friend Chelsea

Secretly I wish I were a boy and had amazing rugby skills - I would change the world!

Then I went to work, I would have taken pictures but they don't let me. Especially today, it was shaving day. It's the one day a week the juvies are allowed to have a razor blade to shave with. Lets just say I've never seen a bunch of girls so thankful for freshly shaved armpits and legs. And lets just say too that you wouldn't want a picture of it either, they have no privacy and have to be closely supervised, especially while armed with a razor. All went well and I returned home to these:

I've been trying to stop using these for years, but instead I've been using earplugs for years....nightly.....consistently. I'm addicted. You could promise me that my night would be sound free and I still wouldn't be able to fall asleep without them. Tonight, I tried to sleep without them, but I kept hearing my roommate talking in her sleep - it was a bad night to make such an attempt. I popped these babies in and I was off to dream land.