Weekly Review (3/29-4/5)

Monday: MAKING MEMORIES WAREHOUSE SALE. Warehouse sales are one of my favorite things. You get good scrapbooking stuff for super cheap! Audrey P, Danielle, Natasha, Stacie, and I went together. I love my Pebbles girls. The super buy of the day was...... some REALLY REALLY sparkly blue and pink paper!!!! It was only a quarter a sheet. And the best news is, I only spent $13!! Okay, so my limit was $10, but still.

Tuesday: Snowy. American Idol--top download week. I'm still in love with Matt G's voice. So hot.
Wednesday: April Fool's!! Elise's birthday. School, work.

Thursday: MEGHAN GOT HER MISSION CALL!!! I drove home from work to see her open it. She is going to Boise, ID. So exciting. If you want to see a video of it all, click on the link to Lorina's blog. Also, on this very same day, Anisa Bennet got her mission call--- to Washington, D.C. South!!! She is going to be in the field while I am still there doing my internship!! Yay yay yay!

Friday: How do I not remember what we did on Friday??? I remember that I supposed to scrapbook with Audrey P, but it didn't happen. Why??? Oh wait, I remember. There was a bridal shower for Ashley that night. A very good, well organized bridal shower, by the way. And one thing to add- I TOTALLY should have won that game. There were cheaters in our midst.

Saturday: General Conference, work at Pebbles, and then the best game ever. I got, in my kids' meal at Arby's, THE BEST GAME EVER! The improv version is my sisters' favorite game, but I got an official one. It's called... "Would you rather..." In my family, the questions go something like this: "Would you rather go roller blading with Nick Jonas, or Jump rope with Joe Jonas??" The answer is always immediately, "JOE!!!!" Why do we even ask??? Or recently I asked Stephanie, "Would you rather play a regular role on 'Boy Meets World,' or co-star in a movie with Christian Bale?" She practically screamed at the idea. The answer was emphatically a movie with Christian. Anyway, the game that I got at Arby's had questions like. " Would you rather have a giant eyebrow that goes in a big circle all around your face and is un-pluckable, or ear and nose hair that is very long and cannot be trimmed??" Oh gosh, both such horrible options! They were really funny to talk about. I said, that if you were a boy, neither of these options would be as bad because your giant eyebrow could look kind of like a beard, and your long nose hair could possibly mistaken for a mustache- if you comb it right. And the ear hair could be sideburns. Too bad we aren't male.

Sunday: General conference. I watched the first session at home, and then the second at Grandma Colleen's house. Steph and I drove up to Ogden between sessions, and she made us THE BEST DINNER. The problem with eating at Grandma's is that she makes a ton of food, and then she expects you to eat it all, and tried to give you more. We has salad, mashed potatoes and gravy, a roast, broccoli, army rice, pineapple and cottage cheese, lemonade, strawberry shortcake, and ice cream cones. I ate enought to nourish me for a week. But it was yummy.

By the way, I had a dream that Meghan was going to Bora Bora in her mission. That did not come true. I'm losing my psychic powers.

Also, make sure you check out the post below this one. It's got some great stuff in it. :)

More pictures of the other events are yet to come.

And last, I am DYING to see "17 Again." It comes out on Friday. YAY!!!! Here is a picture from the movie, just to motivate you all to go see it.

FINALLY!!!! I GET TO BRAG ABOUT THIS!!!

It is entirely official. I am going to be an intern in the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. this summer. I will be working in the Archives Center on the first floor, specifically working on a special collection of photographs from a photography studio in D.C. that dates back about 100 years. So, I'll see some pretty cool things!

Can I just say that the Smithsonian Institution is one of the most famous museums in the world??? You can not get much more prestigious- unless your are talking about the Louvre or something. Anyway, I'm excited.

So, I leave for D.C. on April 25th, and my blog will be filled with news and pictures about everything- so keep checking! It's about to get very exciting.

The picture is of me by a the Museum of Native American History- so not the one I will be working with, but still a Smithsonian. :) I'm so cool!

Last, I just want to say that this whole battle to get an internship has been very stressful. I just hope that in a couple of months I will say that it was all worth it. During this process, I checked my email probably 600 times, and I'm not exaggerating. At least 12 times a day for at least a month, and on days when I actually thought I was going to get an email, the checking increased to probably 40 times a day. It was ridiculous. But the good news is, I finally scored!! And in a major way. :) Yay me!

Sunday is the busiest day of the week.

I have taken WAY to0 long to finally write this post. I don't even remember all of the details of what I was going to write about. I will try.

Here is the schedule of the Sunday in question (the one before General Conference)
9:00am-12:00pm---Church
1:00-2:00---Visiting Teaching
3:00-4:00---Break the Fast. Yum.
4:00-5:00---Temple Prep class
5:15-5:30---My visiting teachers came
6:00---Stephanie came to make dinner with me
7:00-8:00--- I swear, there was some sort of fireside.
9:00-9:30--- Ward prayer and linger longer
9:30-1:00am--- movie and sleep. :)

Isn't the Sabbath supposed to be a day of rest???? By the way, I did take advantage of the hours in between some things. I took naps.

An Indian Palace, Colors, Purple Snot, and Traffic

The Color festival at the Indian Temple in Salem, Utah. Amazing. Pretty much, there were just thousands of people, and lots and lots of colored chalk being thrown around all over the place. The holiday is to celebrate the coming of spring and the return of colors (because winter is made of GRAY).

We had planned to leave at 4. The official color throw was supposed to occur at 5:40. Plenty of time, right? No. We did not anticipate the THOUSANDS of people that would be trying to get to the tiny town of Salem at the exact time that we were. Traffic was bad. And it took forever to get there. By the time we did, they were out of chalk to sell. So, we didn't get our own colors to throw at people. But, we did make it in time for the countdown and mass chaos. Once everyone started to throw their chalk powder all around, the sky was COMPLETELY FILLED with chalk dust, and there was no way to see or breathe. The air was suddenly entirely opaque, and a breath immediately filled one's lungs with chalk powder. That was not a pleasant feeling or taste. The after affects of inhaling all the chalk included colored snot for like a week. Mine was purple. It was oddly disconcerting to blow my nose and see a whole bunch of purple stuff in the tissue. So weird.

So we got covered in chalk, and once the sky cleared, we began our search for Paul, who had the camera. I forgot to mention that I drove up with Dani, Lorina, Meghan, and Jon. They are great. Anyway, after like twenty minutes of trying to get to the Northwest corner, which was not the same northwest corner that Paul was talking about, we found Rachelle, who led us to other friends and outside of the crowd that was very loud. Communication with Paul finally occurred and we met up, snapped some pictures, and promptly made our way to the mosh pits by the stage. It was totally crowd surfing time. On the way down the hill, we noticed that several people had climbed onto the roofs of some awnings. There were official looking people trying to make them get down. And then Meghan said, "Oh my gosh! That's Rachelle!!" "What???" came my reply, "No, it's not... holy cow! It is!!!!" She was on the roof, running around like a mad woman! It was hilarious!

Down in the crowd both Meghan and Lorina crowd surfed, and I was very proud. Nobody could ever convince me to participate, however. That is just simply a bad idea. :) Below is a picture of Meghan, above the crowds...
All in all, it was a blast. A super huge party with lots of colors, and I love colors. Is that a good enough explanation, Moe?

Weekly Review (3/22-3/28)

Monday through Thursday: nothing exciting except American Idol- Motown week. I am sincerely in love with Motown music. I actually purchased a Motown #1's album on iTunes. I love it.
Friday: Something exciting that I will tell about in a future post, and RACHELLE'S BIRTHDAY! Yay yay yay! She turned the big 21, and that means that I AM NEXT! I am not prepared to be that old! For her birthday, she decided that she wanted to cook everyone dinner, which was fine by me! She made some amazing spaghetti sauce. Yum. And we opened presents, then went Stephanie Abraham's. It was her birthday too, and Megan Knell threw her a surprise party! The night was complete with a movie- "Breakfast at Tiffany's." Love it. I bought Rachelle some books for her birthday. I love buying books, and I love going in book stores. It's totally a win-win.
Saturday: baptisms at the Provo temple, the gym, then THE COLOR FESTIVAL!!! See the next post for this one... I'm building anticipation, see? We had caramel apples for dinner, and then went bowling! I am like the worse bowler in the history of China. I totally lost. Like by far. Sad day.
Sunday: see another post for this one too.

The weekly review idea has grown a little old for me, but it's kind of nice still because I can lay everything out, and I won't forget what I wanted to write about. I can just look at the reviews and see what I am missing! It's really quite handy.

Also, make sure that you scroll down and read the next two posts. They are new, but I did so many right in a row that they might get lost a little. Don't let it happen! They are good ones. Especially the one about Kaitlin's bridal shower. :)
Loves!

Randomness of last week that I need to catch up on.

I swear, I always have way too much to say. Okay, here goes:
1. Remember when I said I had to go back on campus to study for a test last Tuesday?? Well, I barely studied at all, and I didn't do like ANY of the reading. In fact, most of my study session consisted of the girl who I studied with summarizing the chapter we were supposed to read for me. Luckily she did that, because the next day, when I took the test, one of the essay questions was all about one of those chapters. So, I simply wrote down what she told me. And I ESCAPED NOT STUDYING AGAIN! I got the test back, and guess what I got??? AN A-!!!!! Not an A, but still, that doesn't happen to people! I was SUPER DUPER excited. But it is also like REALLY bad, because now I have no motivation to study for the final. Don't worry, though, I will anyway. I am going to stop being such a bad student. It was so unlike me.

2. American Idol: country night. Again, this was not okay. I hate country. It was seriously like the most boring episode of American Idol that I have ever seen, and I hate admitting that. But the highlight to the retchedness: Matt Giraud. He is definitely my declared favorite. I mean, I like Danny Gokey and Adam Lambert as well, they are totally awesome, but seriously, it's all about Matt. Let's look at his past comments from Simon: One week, Simon said he was a little bit like Justin Timberlake. This is ALWAYS a good thing. Another week, Simon told him he was reminiscent of Michael Buble, another comparison that CAN NEVER BE BAD. To add to this, HE SANG A MICHAEL JACKSON SONG BETTER THAN MICHAEL JACKSON! (At least I liked it better, and let's all agree and remember that THAT is saying something). To summarize the phenomenon that is Matt Giraud, he is a mixture of Justin Timberlake and Michael Buble, but he has a little bit of Michael Jackson flare. The only thing he is missing is Rob Thomas, and he would be the most amazing singer in the known world. Just kidding, I wouldn't go that far, but STILL!!!!
3. I am psychic. Seriously, though, I predict things all the time! It's getting a little bit creepy. Here is a list of the things I have guess recently (of what I can remember, anyway).

• The BYUSA election: Somehow, the moment I saw the posters on campus, I knew who was going to win. It's not like I just guessed, I saw the candidates, and immediately just knew. I didn't know any of them or anything. So, I went to the ballots and voted for them. Why vote for anyone else? There's no use resisting fate. That team of candidates made it past the primaries with one other group, and they were not even the frontrunners. And yet, I knew they would win. And guess what? They did.
  
• The Stadium of Fire: the day before the headliner act was announced, I said, "I think the Jonas Brothers are going to be at the Stadium of Fire this year." Bam.
  
• American Idol: It was surprising to a lot of people that Alexis Grace got kicked off. When I was doing my weekly run-down predictions, for no reason in particular (I was actually a fan of hers), I picked her to get kicked off. And guess what? She did.
  
• Ann's injury: Just this last Friday night, I had a dream that Ann would injure her foot while running. I told her about it that morning. We laughed, and she went on her run. A couple hours later, Ann cam limping home with an injured foot. Creepy, right?
  
• In conclusion, I have super powers.
  

The end.

Breakfast at Kaitlin's

Me and Kait

Kaitlin and her Mama.

Okay, so it wasn't breakfast, and it wasn't at Kaitlin's apartment. It was a "Breakfast at Tiffany's" themed bridal shower! BEST BRIDAL SHOWER EVER (except for the other two that I threw... Uh, I still love you BSC!).

We all wore black and white and pearls, and it was so fancy! We drank sparkling grape juice in tiny champagne glasses that we bought at the party store for $9. Kind of pricey, but so worth it! And Meghan, Lorina, and I made cupcakes- I made black-bottomed cream cheese (thanks for the recipe, Ash, it's my new fave!), Meg made strawberry shortcake cupcakes (that were ADORABLE, by the way), and Lorina attempted to make red velvet, and they would have been amazing, we just ran out of time to finish them before the shower started. Anyway, it was great. We decorated with black, white, a little bit of silver, and a little bit of Tiffany blue. We had pretty table clothes, and Audrey Hepburn posters, and balloons, and all sorts of festive things.

As for as activities for the shower went, Meg made a movie of Spencer answering questions about himself, and Kaitlin had to guess that answers. She actually did a really good job. :) Props. We also played a new game called, "Name that body part!" We took pictures of bunch of boys' arms, hands, feet, eyes, lips, butts, etc., and then we all guessed which ones were Spencer. Kaitlin, incidentally, was the only one who got them all right. It was a fun game, but a little hard to prepare. It was slightly awkward asking the boys if we could take pictures of their butts. We have cooperating friends, fortunately. I also made a little book for everyone to sign notes to Kaitlin in.

To sum up, it was really fun, but TOTALLY stressful. I forgot until just now how crazy it was that morning before the shower. When we woke up in the morning, we still had to take pictures of boys, print off the said pictures, clean the apartment, grocery shop for our cupcake ingredients, make the cupcakes, decorate the house, go the Pebbles to put together the advice book for Kaitlin, go to the party store to get dishes and such, buy balloons, AND shower and get ourselves ready for the extravaganza. The shower was at 2, and we didn't get to the store in the morning until about ten. To put it lightly, I WAS FREAKING OUT. I think I'm a pretty good party planner, I make things fun, right? But for some reason, this all just fell through until the last minutes. Part of the problem was my burnt hand because it made me do everything ten times slower than normal, and the other part was that I was totally out of party-preparing commission on Friday because my family was in town (which was great, by the way). I also have to say that NOTHING would have worked out if I had been doing it all myself. Meghan, Lorina, and Elise helped A LOT, and Ashley, Rachelle, and Ann did a lot too. Thanks, guys. (Also, I don't want to make this sound like it was my shower to throw- we were all kind of in it together- well, mostly Meghan and me). So, back to me freaking out. I was rushing around trying to do everything, making the cupcakes and throwing pots around, and Ann finally said, "Audrey, how about we put on some relaxing music. That usually seems to help you." So sweet, Annie Bananie. She knows that I can't live without my music. The problem, was, though, that the speakers that would have made the music worth playing were IN THE WAY, and we were trying to clear everything out of the living room, so music was not an option. Sad day.


All of the craziness is a success story, though. We were all totally ready by like 2:15 (so a little late, but everyone arrived late anyway). Miracle of Miracles. And Kaitlin, we love you, and all the stress was totally worth it to throw you an awesome shower. I hope you loved it, because it was pretty dang amazing. :) And Hannah, Dani, and Lauren, I'm so sorry you couldn't make it. :(