The Yellow House

2011-12-12T16:23:00.001-07:00

first off i wanted to say:

i this the only picture we have of all six of us without other people in it?

if not, please direct me to another one because i can't think of one.

also. today i was just following joslin's lead and looking through photos of our ward activity at that cabin and couldn't help but post a few pictures that i feel might have never made their way on here? and if they have? well it is time for them to be on here again.

BEST

was d in taiwan? i feel sad she wasn't here this day.

i really like this photo minus the book ends!

i guess i could have cropped them out but this seemed like a funner option.

okay i love you girfs bye!

Look at these!

2011-11-13T21:18:00.000-07:00

Dave and I have been doing a lot of sorting through our pics and tonight I came across the entire folder of pics from Nate and Annelisa's wedding reception! I can't believe that was 3.5 years ago!

"We'll always be together!"

2011-10-17T10:56:00.002-06:00

dot chon's life be like

2011-10-16T19:07:00.006-06:00

really brynne, this was such a good idea. i love hearing about how everyone is doing and i'm so happy for you all. i really wish everyone could've been at the reunion, but this will not be the last time...promise. we really missed you though :(

so i am sorry i've been such a terrible blogger. it's taken me a little while to get back in touch with technology and the real world. i think i had a sensory overload when i came back from the mish and i kinda became a hermit, but now all is good and i am back in the game.

so here's my update...

back from the mission: 4 months, 1 day

what i've done since i've been back: after taking some time to recover from the trauma of being released as a full time missionary, i finally got my old job back at the fed. i'm working in the same unit, under the same boss, but in a different office and with some different projects. do i like it? yes. it's nice to be busy again and to feel apart of something. do i still miss the mission? yes - every day of my life.

in addition to re-entering the work world, i've been super active in the church (yay for not going less-active post-mish). i've been very busy with my callings, but i love it. when i first got home, i went out with the missionaries a lot (since i had so much free time, esp. during the day). i have really came to love all missionaries. i love slipping them some cash whenever i see them on the street or buying them food or giving them back rubs (okay, not really the last one), but i just get so happy when i see them working hard and bringing souls unto Christ.

i have also really enjoyed working with the people in my ward. since coming back, i have felt this desire to help my fellow members reach their fullest potential. so i've decided to do it in the most unique way possible. how? well, they call me the ward "yenta". i basically find ways to match people together so they can fulfill the commandment to "multiply and replenish the earth". this was spurred on by a video i saw a couple months back, some conference talks that i had heard, and the realization that i and my peers weren't getting any younger. how's it going? we just had our first ward date this past weekend - it was basically a three-course meal where you had a date with a different person for each course (so 3 dates in one night). i think it was a success. everyone seemed to have had a lot of fun and some digits were exchanged that night.^^ what qualifies me to be the ward matchmaker? um, nothing. i am no expert on dating as i don't do a lot of it. but i do love to see people come together. if you have any ideas for matchmaking, please feel free to share.

and in my free time, i make trips out to utah to see friends and fam. this past visit was so much fun. i just wish utah wasn't so far away or that i could teleport. it was so fun to catch up with everyone and see your beautiful faces (which i must say everyone looked so good). plus i got to watch conference at the former yellowhouse, now blue house. funny story - i was staying at my friend's house in provo and she lives in the same ward as the former yellowhouse. since she didn't have a tv to watch it on we went to the yellowhouse and it was a surreal experience. they repainted the inside and it feels a little cleaner than when we lived there, but they don't have fun parties or climb on the roof or have a trampoline on their lawn or have barbecues or have a couch on the porch that they sit on and greet people coming back from class or have goats coming to visit or have yard sales and visits from the ice cream man or have mattresses in the living room where they have sleepovers or have the memories that we did...it just wasn't the same. but the creeper that i am, i took some now pictures of our former house.

the living room - with the heater that grace used to always lay on top of :(

our old dining room where we shared so many meals together :(

i feel blue when i see this :(

i think i scared those little boys that lived there, just going on and on about the house and the good ole days. and then taking pictures and maybe mentioning that we had a blog dedicated to the house. oh well, it wasn't the first time i ever scared someone and it won't be the last.

oh girfs, i love this house because it brought us all together. when megan and i were driving around when i came out, we were reminiscing about how times at the yellowhouse were bliss. i don't really remember any bad times because i always had my girlfriends. i am glad that everyone is doing so well now and living good lives, but i miss you all. i hope we can have another reunion soon, or at least a big skype fest in the meantime. i'm going to start saving my money so i can buy that house and paint it yellow again and then it can be our summer home.

i look forward to reading and writing more posts on this blog!! until then, 사랑해 (i love you)!

Did you see this?

2011-10-10T16:47:00.000-06:00

Oh yeah and sorry I didn't include my biggest update in my life update!

yh reunion yh reunion yh reunion

2011-10-10T12:02:00.001-06:00

so i blogged about it and then realized it was on my other blog? but i'm going to try to copy and paste. yes it worked! but the pictures have to be real small so maybe the other one looks nicer?

like conference, i need this to happen every weekend too.

finally met in real life outside of the mtc! and in the mhs parking lot of all places haha

this moment makes me tear up a bit. three whole years!

we had a reunion with the yellow house girls (so sad b and grace couldn't make it!) last weekend and it was the best.

it was especially great when we got to joslin's new place and found out that by some coincidence she not only lived in brynne's old house but also brynne's room hahha

we tried to take some self timed photos inside and it just didn't work out at all.

so we went outside..and on the way found some letters to spell grfs. (girfs..there wasn't an i)

and thanks to joslin's little sister and friend were able to have ourselves a real nice girfs photoshoot

we took a photo in grace's honor

(pelvic thrust)

and one for brynnie

(why am i the only one that remembers her childhood go-to dance move?)

it was a really really really nice time.

i have no idea why God liked us so much to let us all live together but i'm way grateful for it.

i love you girfs!

Grace's life be like

2011-10-06T21:40:00.000-06:00

I figured I better do this now or I will just keep putting it off. I think those Oprah questions are hilarious (business goals, words to describe you, etc) so I'll just do a word update.

So I live in Cambridge, MA right on the border of Somerville (this lady told me to not admit that I live anywhere near Somerville. I guess I need to be more snotty) I think Somerville is kind of cool but yeah, not as nice as Cambridge. We live in a tiny 1 bedroom that is northeast of Harvard Yard. So I just walk along with Harvard students and feel like I'm really smart even though I'm just going to buy hot chocolate or ice-cream at Harvard square. I feel like 125% happier here for some reason. The Bronx was a great experience but living here and being surrounded by schools is my favorite. Fun fact - I realized that I have lived by schools every since I graduated from high school! Provo (BYU), SLC (UofU), NY (FIT then NYU), Bronx (Einstein - but I didn't know anyone in those buildings and I always felt lame and it wasn't really a school neighborhood), and then now. I think college towns = lots of fun places to eat and old houses turned into college houses and just all sorts of fun stuff. Sadly, we'll only be here for 9 months to a year but when we move back to NY - maybe it will be to some place nice?

I'm just working it up at home everyday for this great blog. Lately I've been getting lots of free office supplies and doing fun stuff with them so that's pretty fun. I really like it because I can wake up and work in 5 minutes (which means I get up at 9am everyday) and I can decide to be done as soon as I feel done (but I really do work at least 30hrs a week). Sometimes it's sad to work by myself all day but Dave is usually in and out and Brynne is my best co-worker and I get to talk to her on g chat all day. (you can talk to me too! I'm seriously on all day most days) Maybe someday I'll do something different? I tried that all last year and got sick of that ( fashion school, a million internships, etc) and decided to be happy with my job and not try to make my random passions my new career goals.

We've only been here for a month so we haven't done that much but we've wandered around our area a lot and I've been making quilts and going to this cool looking Harvard gym, plus Dantzel and her parents came, and there are lots of nice people that live by us. I also feel sad that I can't just bring my college/ growing up friends with me everywhere I go. The instant best friend just doesn't really happen, especially when you are trying to work really hard and you don't just have kids to play with their kids and hang out all day.

Dave is doing a Masters in Public Health at Harvard. He still has one more year of medical school so that is why we are moving back to new york in a year. His program is so cool! I'm really jealous. He's learning so much about the healthcare system and economics and all sorts of great stuff. Masters degrees are very expensive but I think this one has really brought a whole new perspective to his life.

I'm not sure what else to say about life but I hope that was a good update. I guess I could mention that I watch funny cat videos and listen to Taylor Swift all the time.

I can't wait to read dantzel, beth, and jos updates! Way to go Megan and Brynne for keeping this blog alive.

megan's life be like.

2011-10-06T17:20:00.003-06:00

because i too have a job where i sit at a computer all day i will take the brynne/oprah challenge.

Who was your favorite celebrity as a child? my mind is drawing a blank. buuut i was pretty obsessed with jennifer garner from the age of 14 to about 16. then she went and married ben affleck and ruined EVERYTHING. i had to stop watching alias, i couldn't enjoy 13 going on 30 anymore or even dare devil. it was awful.

What type of pets do you have? go look here and you will find out.

What is your favorite color? i've never had one but lately i really like that light pink color that i always wear but don't actually know what it is called. if anyone knows the name of it, feel free to shout it out

What is most memorable about your high school years? when i think of highschool i think of sluffing yearbook with ryan brown, JSSR (dantz do you remember that? hahaha), school dances, dressing up like a shrimp, parks and slurpees, waking ashland concerts, guys discount, dantzel's house, temple wednesdays and fazolis, parking in teaching parking and getting a million tickets, making way stupid spartan vision specials, and that one time brynne and i rode down a hill on a trash can and died a little bit

What word describes you best? awkward.

What is your greatest accomplishment? serving a mission in a foreign land for surrrrrrre

What drives you every day? ryan?

What is your favorite food? humpday treats

Where do you want to retire? yellow house with all my girfs!

What is your business goal this year? to go corporate

Where do you like to vacation? to brynne's house

Who do you admire? jos, dantz, grace, beth, and brynne

What is your mission? what is your quest?

If you were invisible, where would you go? the set of modern family

What traits in others are you attracted to? all the traits my girfs have

What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you? ryan made me a mission book which was really the nicest.

How do you want to be remembered? i just want people to like my jokes

What would you do with a million dollars? build a nice circle of homes for each humpday and their spouse so we can all live right next to each other.

If you were on an island, who would you want to be with? WHY MY GIRFS OF COURSE

You have a 10 minute speech to give at a high school, what is it about? enjoy your life now because it is going to be way dumb in like five years. hahaha jk.

your life be like.

2011-10-06T15:19:00.002-06:00

i realize not everyone has the time to sit in front of a computer all day and think about every aspect of their life as they work sooo if you don't want to write out like me...answer this questionnaire from oprah!

Who was your favorite celebrity as a child?
What type of pets do you have?
What is your favorite color?
What is most memorable about your high school years?
What word describes you best?
What is your greatest accomplishment?
What drives you every day?
What is your favorite food?
Where do you want to retire?
What is your business goal this year?
Where do you like to vacation?
Who do you admire?
What is your mission?
If you were invisible, where would you go?
What traits in others are you attracted to?
What is the kindest thing anyone has done for you?
How do you want to be remembered?
What would you do with a million dollars?
If you were on an island, who would you want to be with? Why?
You have a 10 minute speech to give at a high school, what is it about?

my life be like..

2011-10-06T15:18:00.000-06:00

hi! my name is brynne. brynne frei. i currently live in west la, california. i'm 24 years old and am originally from murray, utah. i'm the youngest of 6 and newly married as of january this year. i graduated from UVU with a degree in psychology and spent a semester in seoul, korea.

that's a basic introduction that i give almost every day. boring.

we're going to play a game called catch me and grace up on everything that was discussed at YHR 2011! we feel sad and left out and feel like that shouldn't be the case. no one wants to be sad and left out, right? right. we're always right.

so here's what a detailed catch up would look like:

i'm currently working as a receptionist and enjoying it. i work regular business hours, pretty much only answer phones with a couple projects to do on the side throughout the week but it's pretty basic. i reeeally like that i get full benefits and a pretty flexible schedule and everyone is really nice!

tanner is a nice husband and studies all all all the time but still makes time to hang out with me so i appreciate that. law school = definitely his thing and we're happy about that. beaches are really fun to go to and we also like all the museums and plan to visit them lots more. LA weather is preeetty unreal to us at this moment because it's rained twice and pretty much sticks around 70 degrees all the time. what?

sometimes i feel real sad because i live away from everyone and making friends is scary and hard but we're working on it and go to dinners and game nights with people. i just need to remember that someone doesn't become your best friend overnight - though i wish that were the case. but i will say that moving away from home with a husband is muuuch better than moving away by yourself. built in best friend, support system and everything you could ask for.

things i'm into right now: spotify and making playlists. except i'm not really into it because it stresses me out a lot but i have a lot of time to do it. listening to programs on the mormon channel. home decorating. cooking and baking. trying to get myself back into knitting and teaching myself the ukulele. oh and let's not forget cleaning - i'm really good at that too. i'm trying to improve my photo taking skills but then get scared because i don't feel comfortable taking photos around new people so i just take sneak pictures with my iphone. oh! and the nike training app on my phone. i really like doing the work outs from that and my body always hurts after.

today is warm with clear blue skies. i'm looking at a mini pumpkin my co-worker gave me and wearing socks with my oxfords and feeling great about it. people are filming a portion of a new movie in our parking lot and i keep obsessing over this man's deep, husky voice. i'm excited for the weekend to come when we'll hang out with our friend's tyler and clare and probably go to a pumpkin patch and play games. and have stake conference this week.

which reminds me! i'm in young womens and i like it. the first time i went to an acitivity two girls jumped into my car and said "we're riding with you!" and got into the backseat. i quickly let them know one of them could sit in the front and received the response of, "oh. we're going to be talking." and the first day of school gossip commenced. i tried not to laugh, felt uncomfortable and slowly pulled out of the parking lot and headed to the temple.

too long? nope. this was a mini g-chat. catch me up! that's my life unedited. really. i didn't read over any of it so please excuse typos and grammatical errors. anyway, enough about my life - let's hear about yours.

i would appreciate it if you guys joined us next time.

2011-09-25T00:37:00.000-06:00

thank you.

in effort to keep this alive...

2011-08-23T09:23:00.001-06:00

whenever our reunion really does end up happening..can we ride longboards down provo canyon?

slowly and carefully?

miss you all lots.

Reunion Reunion!

2011-06-14T20:04:00.000-06:00

Hi,

Can we have a reunion sometime during the period of July 23 - Aug 4? (Ideally July 26 or 27 because other days may be difficult but I will make it work) Who's in? I really think all of us are in the US right now. Even Beth although there is no evidence of her yet.

Maybe we can have a picnic on the grass of our old house? I bet they would like that.

while we're on a posting spree...

2011-05-20T10:47:00.000-06:00

maybe we were just needing inspiration?

here's a playlist from madewell i haven't listened to yet but i browsed it and the tunes seemed pretty okay!

happy friday!

!!!

2011-05-19T20:19:00.004-06:00

i just feel so thrilled i finally have something to say i don't even know what to do with myself.

gals. i biked past the yellow/blue house today and

i HAD to show you how gross it looks.

boo.

i was just so upset about all of this,

but then looked over and who is in the front lawn of yellow house?!

oh just these fellows!

SO happy to see these guys. such a miracle since only david lives there!

such a great blast from the past.

i wish i would have known we were pelvic thrusting!

david eff looooved cortina!

the first pictures didn't really do it justice so i took some more.

sick.

(sidenote: even though they look gross all together

i think they look nice individually.

why do i like weeds?)

these are NOT weeds

(but they are of course at david eff's, NOT at the pirate ship)

and last but definitely not least.

hey-o!

cat in the hat just came out of our house! with gf!

he lives there!

so these are my thoughts

1. what. has. happened. to. our. house. ?

2. i'm happy i saw our old friends

3. can't wait for reunion at the end of july?

4. beth gets home so soooon

5. miss you

6. the end i think.

oh the days

2011-05-18T21:25:00.000-06:00

when i was so good about writing on this blog. crazy how long it's been! And Beth gets home any day now! I can't wait for her update post. It's not official, but let's plan a tentative end of July reunion. Before Brynne moves.

Where I've Been...

2011-04-07T23:23:00.014-06:00

So I feel like every time I post I say I'm sorry for being a terrible blogger/slash friend and I vow to be better, but I never am. So this time I'll just say here's my one blog post for any potential number of months. I'm a horrible blogger as far as timeliness...something I've just grown to accept. On that note, here are things I've been happy about lately.

1--Jos is home!! So sorry that I was a working bum all weekend when you were here and couldn't get away from work/sleeping to play with you. If it makes you feel better, you are definitely not the only person in my life who got forgotten while I was working night shift.

2--Disneyland. I don't care how many times I have gone or how old I get or how it probably shouldn't be one of my favorite things anymore, but Disneyland still makes me feel like a giddy 12 year old. Couldn't get enough of everything there--all the rides, characters, but mostly spending some quality time with my sisters and watching madie's cheer squad take first at nationals.

After the big performance/before the great news.

Early morning on Alice in Wonderland. We are so adventurous.
Definitely stalked these two down until they stopped so we could take a pic with them.
3--Las Vegas. Reunion time with Jess and Kim who are living it up in the bay area. Our official reason for going was a friend's wedding...but really it was just an excuse to party/shop/see Jimmer. The trip involved a lot of dancing and jumping on the bed, getting upgraded for free, spending full days shopping, basketball, dancing, and singing at the top of our lungs to pop songs in the car. Basically, everything that I love.

Father time meets dumbledore meets merlin from the sword and the stone. I apologize for the way my face looks but this man is too great to keep to myself.

Free upgrade. Travel tip: always be really chatty with the maintenance man who fixes your t.v. He might tell the front desk he can't fix it just so you can have a better room for free.
4--Denver. Nephews. I'm obsessed with them. Ricky and Tisha were such great hosts and I always love to spend time with them. Denver is my official vacation spot as long as their family is there. Activities included the butterfly pavilion, outings at the park, and the lovely drive from colorado to utah so the boys could visit everyone else out here slash meet doug's fiancee.

Really though. Just look at his bald head. Love him.Snuggle time in Utah. I think we were watching a show about the Titanic. When they learned that some people died in the wreck Finlay turned to me and said "but it's okay because they will be resurrected!" That kid knows his stuff.

His cheeks. I always want to squish them.
Also, we taught Merrick how to Jimmer. He's great at it. Too bad he'll mostly likely be a shorty because he's got an early start.
5--Atlantis. I wish I was exaggerating when I say this is the best vacation I can remember going on in a long long time. Mostly I have a lot to say about this one so it's getting it's own post.

The view from our window.

6--This is going to sound fake, but honestly I love my job. Even though I have to work all the time and somehow miss out on all the good times. And I'm back on day shift so I am alive again to the world. Success.

reunited

2011-04-05T15:53:00.001-06:00

and it feels so good.

it reminded of us of this moment but maybe we remembered this moment a little differently than how it really happened? but it took me forever to find it so i posted it anyways.

yay for jos being home!

(ps - just read dot chon's blog and she has 9 p-days left.

she comes home next month! whaaaaa?)

YH Reunion

2011-03-23T10:22:00.000-06:00

Remember when Megan went on a mission, then Joslin, then Beth?? And we thought we'd have to have a reunion in like 2012. But turns out that Beth gets home in a couple of months! Megan is home. Jos is now home. We're all here! (in the US i mean) So I'm thinking we'll be in Utah sometime in August. MAYBE. Hopefully. So maybe hopefully everyone else will be there too? Just thought I'd put it in everyone's heads.

More similar than not

2011-03-20T20:25:00.014-06:00

I am way overdue for a post, yet I have so much to share and I'm not sure how I could sum up the best 1.5 years of my life--in Argentina! So I will try. So that yall don't get too bored with an all "my mission" post, I will show you how Argentina really is just like our own Yellow House that we know and love. The things that impressed me many times on my mission were not all the cultural differences and traditions (although there are many), but all the ways that we are the same. We are all heavenly father's children looking for our way back home with him! We all want to feel loved. I love the gospel and Heavenly Father's plan for us! Sharing it with our brothers and sisters is the most important thing we can do! Anyway, I present Argentina-Provo...

The Weather

It is hot in the summer and cold in the winter, as is utah, but maybe even more so. Summer highs - 50 degrees C!; Winter - just snow. I didn't quite as enjoy working in the freezing cold. I don't like to not feel my toes.

Provo Traffic

This is downtown Salta capital. No lines, no rules, no police. In a way it more efficient--if there's space with maybe a few inches on each side of the car, you're good. There's no need to wait for the person in front of you.

Provo thunder shower--when it rains it POURS!

We walked home many times in water up to our knees but it was all good because it meant we didn't have to wash the mud off our shoes. In Palermo, Salta we were caught in the biggest and closest electric storm I have ever imagined. The lightning was right over my head and we saw "rayos" (bolts) striking demasiado cerca. A mother and daughter in the country were struck by lightning that night and killed.

Yellow House Disney Blue Walls

Yo y mi companera de El Salvador en la casa de un converso. Le vimos a el rompiendo 2 palos grandes. He is a martial artes and boxing instructor, he demonstrated for us how to snap 2 2x4 pole things with your shins. He had blue walls like our yellow house. Almost nobody has couches, just one living space with a kitchen table in the middle and very sparse decor.

Dance Parties

Jumping shots are popular all around the world

All you need is love. Everybody is looking for it.

Badminton in the front yard of the YH

Everything is some version of soccer. In the front yard, they play soccer-tennis with 2 teams and a net. Each team member may touch it once before kicking it over the net without the ball hitting the ground. A very fun game.

Not just letters, but whole words written on the mountain sides. Of course it would be religious. "God is Love"

I love Argentina and I love serving our Heavenly King by sharing the gospel with His children. I love you girlfriends and am so glad about the YH blog! Loves!

Coming Back

2011-03-09T15:16:00.000-07:00

Everyone should keep getting married and I will keep coming to visit. This successful setup means I will visit April 23, 2011. I will see all who will see me!

calling all dantzels.

2011-03-04T10:13:00.001-07:00

where did you gooo?!!?

come back to us and i promise we'll do this.

californiaaa

2011-03-02T08:51:00.001-07:00

we're going to visit ucla in a week and maybe move there for law school..

maybe dave will go to school there? (update gracia?)

jos lives there.

d always wants to live there.

meg says she will move there if she is still not married by 25.

beth and sam would love to visit the west coast often i'm sure.

what i'm saying is.. maybe we can make a large scale version of the yellow house happen in ca!

i have something to say

2011-03-01T15:24:00.003-07:00

and it is called i miss you guys!

ps. i think we should change the format so we can have big pictures. small pictures are laaaaaame.

i still can't get over how funny this photo looks!

beth is just bein pocket size and dantz is going to kick her in the face.

hahahah

ps i ran into b money today! i was like "HEYYY" and then he kept turning around and asking if something was wrong haha. maybe i shouldn't get so excited?

anyway. i was loving the weather today and just thinking about some great times with my girfs around this time so many years ago, so i pulled out that external hard drive and pulled out some of my favorites to share with you.

so much love.

and let's all welcome this sister home!!

HEY

2011-02-25T20:19:00.002-07:00

I just wanted to say hey. I've been trying to think of things to post to this blog for days but I have nothing. So hi friends!

how has this photo not made it to the blog yet?

2011-02-01T13:13:00.001-07:00

love and miss every one of you - those included in the photo, and not.

you're all great great.

Scrapbooking

2011-02-01T09:13:00.000-07:00

Dave has really been into scrapbooking lately. This means going through all of our pictures, putting them in specific albums and tagging their location.

Provo is definitely not done yet and the Utah Lake pics were obviously not taken in the middle of the lake so we have some work to do.

Look it's my car! I found me on google maps

Of course, Dave always wins with this pic.

Sorry if i have posted these google maps screen shots before. all the sudden i feel like i have

freis are fun.

2011-01-31T17:50:00.002-07:00

visited b & t！

i loved everything about their quaint home

(especially the part where i creeped through the window, saw pictures of a random guy and his son, then proceeded to run back up the stairs because i thought i was at the wrong place)

winner of my favorite part of the home goes to..

this guy. those candles!

runner up goes to..

these gems. right above the stove.

c.l.a.s.s.y

and what isn't to love about these two?

plus they gave me a weight loss shake, free of charge!

nicest newlyweds this city has seen in a long time.

(and if you were wondering who the guy and his son were, it was definitely frames they had not yet filled and it was the pictures that came with them. they get me every time)

PSSSSS Dantzel i was so happy to see you called! but i was in salt lake.
lets keep trying to be friends!

Boys

2011-01-30T15:43:00.000-07:00

Hello girls. The time has come for my first post on the Yellow House blog! Big big day.

I was over visiting Dave today and I ran into my friend Lee in the street. I asked him if he lived around the neighborhood and he points to good old 490. GASP! Maybe you guys knew that boys lived there. Maybe not. It's possible that this is a huge shock for you. But yes, BOYS live there! I have known for a little while but I always forget.

I had to go inside to see what the house looked like with boy decorations. These photos are not great since I took them on my phone and I felt like a big dork doing it (since Lee and I haven't really talked in a while), but get a load of these:

So there you have it. Pirate flag. New carpet. New couches. Green/blue walls. Boys.

another success

2011-01-19T09:58:00.001-07:00

i half french braided my hair - BY MYSELF - this morning!

big success since i had my mom french braid my hair up until just now.

turns out french braiding lots of layers makes a baby braid but whateva.

so many great things i'm learning these days.

miss you all. really. wish i could have chatted more on wedding day!

but thanks for coming! we love you all a lot a lot.

just as much as we love posing with lions outside the JSMB for jessica.

Success

2011-01-09T22:12:00.000-07:00

I thought the wedding was a definite success. Especially when Brynne and I listened to this song 5 times:

Congratulations Brynnie!

January Hymns

2010-12-30T13:55:00.000-07:00

I just want to share music all the time. This blog has some really nice pics and she posted a really nice mix that you can download here. My favorites from the cd - Mr. Little Jeans - Rescue Song (myspace this girl, she is sooo good!) and Harlen Pepper - Great Lakes (myspace them also). This Great Lakes song makes me so excited visit Dave's parents in Michigan this summer. I've never thought I would want to go to that area but I'm really getting excited. Especially when I read about the Erie Canal.

Happy New Year! Joslin gets home soon I think? Next month?!? For a second I thought Beth got home this month but she doesn't.

merry christmas

2010-12-25T00:11:00.002-07:00

It's time for bed 2+ hours ago but who doesn't love late night present wrapping? So while Dave wraps, I watch videos. Prince of Egypt is my favorite and so is this song and no one ever told me that he performed this at christmas a few years ago! I love you girls, so so very much. Merry Christmas!

i'm crying

2010-12-17T10:10:00.000-07:00

and i stole this photo from alpha.

provo!!

Free Christmas Music

2010-12-14T09:34:00.000-07:00

Well since we all love Christmas music and especially those Gap commercials here are some more christmas music treats (try searching christmas mashups and christmas remix on 8tracks)

Plus, even more exciting, free christmas CD from Target!! Get it girls

Yay Des

2010-12-12T18:30:00.000-07:00

I was very very excited to get this treat in the mail. I swear their invitation paper had rhinestones embedded in it. It was sparkly and magical and so classy.

Can't wait to get your invite Brynne!! I still want to come

remember this?

2010-12-10T18:01:00.001-07:00

d and i loved watching these videos during christmas. let's go back.

christmas love to my girfs!

still miss it.

2010-12-04T22:41:00.000-07:00

i'm sure many more posts of yh christmas will occur.

Treevor in the Bronx

2010-12-01T15:27:00.000-07:00

We have our own Treevor. Or I guess I can just say tree, i just immediately thought treevor when i started writing this post. Wish we could have a holiday party and hang stockings and do lots of fun holiday things together. Maybe another year? Hope everyone is having a nice holiday season! Share all the things you see and do with me. And Dantzel, give us a picture of your new room. I want to see it all Dantzelfied.

My nephew is benjamin button

2010-11-21T21:03:00.009-07:00

Here's the thing. My new nephew Merrick is just about the cutest thing to happen to this world since Emerson and Finlay. Plus in an adorable way he looks like a grandpa/yoda which makes me love him even more. Maybe you can tell from the picture above. I keep thinking about that weird benjamin button movie that Brad Pitt was in. Anyway, my fam got to go out a couple weeks ago to help Ricky and Tisha move into their new house and see Merrick get blessed. I got to go a day ahead of everyone which meant more snuggle time for me=happy happy dantzel. Here are some more pics of the little tyke.

He love love loves his dad. For sure a daddy's boy.

And these ones are really just because I can never ever ever get enough of Emerson and Finlay. They are so dang fun.

Emerson and Me before church.
Try ever getting sick of looking at that smile.
Pretty much being an aunt is the best thing ever.

speaking of...

2010-11-17T07:41:00.000-07:00

how have we never talked about this?

rudd on the mormon bachelorette!!!

2010-11-16T16:34:00.000-07:00

so, i've been realizing that my last holidays spent in the united states were in 2007. that sounds so long ago and makes me feel weird inside. but anyway i've been obsessed with it and i've been looking through all my photos of that time and it brought back such great memories! so i thought i would share some of our november moments.

anticipating kevin's arrival, good thing he got married and invited all of us to it.

such a good slash sad day when his iphone got stolen so we could make him an ibrownie

the day the mirror broke

haha grace and dave!

???

love him.

when our love for joslin became real.

our tree!!!!

this makes me want to cry

joslin's students in some crazy play

sigur rossss

maybe the only picture dave and i have together? glad he is still a part of the fam.

maybe i creeped brynne's blog to see what she was doing in november.

koreaaaa

me and d just lovin our walks to the library. and brynne's backpack

eeeeeee

hahhaha

some more korean moments

aaaand this one. haha. i can't really remember the story but i think the picture says enough.

gosh i miss yh days so much!! i just love you and i hope you enjoyed this walk down memory lane as much as i did. more to come for december i'm sure.

i like sam.

2010-11-10T07:47:00.000-07:00

she's hip and cool.

and tanner and i still talk about your winter/summer debate with dave.

way funny.

keep up the good work, gf.

New YH friend

2010-11-09T19:50:00.000-07:00

Hi. I thought we should invite Sam because she is a nice YH friend! I've always wanted to be her good friend but we've never lived in the same space. Bummer. But Brynne and Dantzel are! And she lived in dot chon's room for awhilE so that's nice. I'm writing this from my phone in class so this is hard. Welcome Sam!

hi.

2010-11-09T19:30:00.002-07:00

i was going to make a post on here today but i don't want to take any glory away from b's great post below so i decided to just post it here for now.

but to stay with the theme i will give you a sneak peak:

love you love you.

extra extra sneak peek.

2010-11-09T08:41:00.002-07:00

jessica emailed me these photos last night just in case i was getting antsy to see our engagements.

i just think she's the greatest photographer eva.

and wanted to share the extras with my favorite girfs.

bring the blog back to life again!

love to love you all.

new house theme song

2010-10-21T09:12:00.000-06:00

Remember how we listened to High School Musical and Moulin Rouge everyday of our lives? Well. I have a new one.

Dantzel. I think of you every time I listen to this song. I just want us to get together in the living room and sing and dance to this song.

And remember how sometimes I did Kathy Smith? Now it's all about Marie from Crunch Cardio Dance Blast. My abs are getting awesome and why is the girl in the back wearing jeans?? I'm still really confused.

still having a rough time focusing.

2010-10-21T08:12:00.000-06:00

but really - watch this video and you'll get it! (it won't let me post the code here)

http://www.latimesmagazine.com/2010/06/video-jerkin-jeneration.html

but this one will!

Build Anything from Studiocanoe on Vimeo.

okay i'm working again. love to love you all.

you all already know this.

2010-10-16T12:09:00.000-06:00

not going to post my story twice and preeetty sure you read it already.

but just in case you didn't, don't worry. you can still go to my blog and read about mine and tan's ENGAGEMENT!

so nuts.

but just wanted to show you how much more fun driving is now.

just get to look at a pretty ring and feel nice remembering that i have it because i'm going to marry tan!

really. life = so great.

things don't change

2010-10-12T21:52:00.000-06:00

Remember how I hugged Megan and it didn't even click that I hadn't seen her for 2.5 years. I love how things are just the same even when we haven't seen each other in years! Oh I love it so much. Sorry I forgot but it was so nice to see everyone! Even though Brynne went babysitting the night we left and Dantzel forgot and stayed in Provo and instead I surprised her little sisters and got a nice Laurie Marsh visit. Let's be friends again soon!

I don't even remember this next one happening. Was i there?

deseret book.

2010-10-12T10:11:00.000-06:00

look who we sat in front of at conference.

sheri dew!

we had a hard time not eavesdropping before the meeting started.

and don't mind our faces.

we were obviously just doing out best to take a picture of sheri without her knowing

and unfortunately tanner forgot to even fake smile.

you can't win them all.

buuuut you can when you're baby tanner with fuzzy white hair!!!

lady's free!

2010-10-11T16:21:00.001-06:00

ryan and i decided to walk around center street a few days ago

(because it is just so nice)

when i saw this i felt excited and yelled "grace would have loved this!"

and then i felt sad you had already left our life again.

but it was great seeing you girls! love love love you three so much.

(love the others too but heck they aren't reading this so i didn't feel it was necessary to include them)

told you i would.

2010-09-22T09:32:00.002-06:00

glimpses of what life will look like starting oct 1.

ps it's my friday off!!! can't wait.

i'm coming at you

2010-09-18T17:15:00.001-06:00

The first thing I realized when I booked our tickets for UT was driving the alpine loop! No one could be more excited about that. And then I thought of Utah Lake. Why do I love that place so much??

So, don't get too excited but Dave and I are coming Oct 1 - 6. These are the things I've thought about so far. Sleepover at Megan's house. Come and hangout at my parent's house. Going to the DI on 45th south. Eating at places that Brynne and tan the man know about. Dave wants to go to Cafe Rio, Bajios, and Panda Express and some random place called Ze Tajas at Gateway that has the best apple crisp in the world ( i didn't even try to spell it right.) Brooke having a second ice cream party to help us feel like we didn't miss out. So tell me what you are doing! Can we be friends?? Wow I'm way too excited. I would like you to comment and tell me all your plans for those days so you can be my friend every second. Jk

P.s. I love that everyone is keeping this blog alive!! I feel like such nice friends with everyone because i know kind of what you are doing. So thanks

i thought it was over.

2010-09-17T13:58:00.001-06:00

so as i was driving home from school today i saw that the flag on the porch was gone and i felt such happiness!

but then i looked up..

..and the other one was still there. and i was sad.

and then i saw how the next door neighbors tried to match them in ridiculousness. and i was sad again.

but then i walked into my house and i saw this sweet ace parlor! and felt somewhat happier.
maybe you guys can come sit in it with me?

and thanks fb for notifying me of things like this. just keepin us yh girls together.

Mayday

2010-09-12T19:43:00.002-06:00

So here's the thing. I tried to come up with some sort of catchy sea phrase for the title but really all that came to my mind was "houston we have a problem," "all hands on deck," and "walk the plank." At least two of the three have something to do with a ship. Anyway, Sam sent me a picture the other day of the latest decor at the once yellow house. Just a brief reminder, the new girls want it called the pirate ship now. . We thought it was bad before with a new paint job, but they really took it to the next level with these flags.

One on the porch, one in grace's old room, and one even on the roof. Way to go ladies, you've outdone yourselves.

guess what i found

2010-09-12T15:10:00.000-06:00

I always get excited when I find pictures that I have not looked at millions of times. I feel like all my Yellow House pictures I've seen lots of times. These are some quality web cam pics from my HP laptop. Sorry that I'm in most of them, that's lame. But please remember the green room next to the kitchen and how much I loved hearing everyone get up in the morning and have late night conversations and feeling like I was apart of everything even if i was falling asleep.

haha got you

happy friday from brynne and yelle.

2010-09-10T11:34:00.001-06:00

i can't post the real video but you should watch that one for sure for sure.

quite entertaining.

hurrrrr

and also listen to her other songs.

i just think she's great.
oh and maybe she's saying bad things but i don't speak french and don't know.
sorry.

job.

2010-09-08T21:32:00.001-06:00

gals. girfs. ladies.

my job is such a good time and i wish you could all sit in this cubicle with me. let me share with you one of the gems from today:

Welcome to Mormon.org chat.

A representative will be with you shortly.
Me: hey bob
Bob: Hello
Me: What brings you to Mormon.org?
Bob: I have a question
Me: okay go ahead
Bob: Is having over 17 wives...frowned upon?
Me: Yes
Bob: Oh okay
Bob: Gotta go make some phonecalls
Bob: Thanks so much
Bob: Bye Megan!
Bob: (The visitor has left this chat.)
The chat session is disconnected.

..hope you guys enjoyed that as much as i did. loves all around.

welp.

2010-09-01T08:14:00.000-06:00

i'm going to pretend like i didn't post anything yesterday.

and that i'm not posting these pictures for any reason besides trying to let you guys feel like you've been a real part of my life in the past 12 hours.

minus pictures from when tanner and i went rock climbing last night.

guess i just bought a month trial pass. heyooo.

this = part of my breakfast.

i already ate the orange and bagel.

just bein' back on that prednisone so i can run again.

cut and colored my hair saturday

growin out the bangs and trying a middle part?

scrapbook fest.

brought all that stuff out last week to our shop up front.

and this is the file room that i'm supposed to take care of

but haven't had time to in the past 6 weeks.

sort of unbelievable but totally true.

saw brooke at institute last night!

the boys in front of us thought she was turning around to look at them.

that was real funny when the all perked up and started waving back.

and this is just what i see outside every day?

and my left hand.

just because.

2010-08-31T18:40:00.000-06:00

so maybe i should have posted this here? i don't know. love all around.

..foreshadowing?

i was just being an idiot.

2010-08-30T12:32:00.002-06:00

remember when i read fast and skip important phrases?

like "click compose"

whoops. problems solved and i'm back from my photo posting hiatus.

since that happened - i moved back in with craig p and lin!

who doesn't love those cuties.

miss this gal, bkb, and roommate fest with her.

but something no one from the wilshire duplex misses = being charged millions of dollars for water bill.

don't think both sides of our house reaaaally used 130,000 gallons of water, utah.

thanks for the fun times with facebook photos and comments such as:

"130,000 x 2 gallons per month....You are invited to our party! The water runs all day every day. We keep it going til 6 in the morning...What's that your hot tub only uses 250 gallons to fill up? We use that in 10 minutes....Pushing so much water..we should be pablo escobar"

and

"attention come home and take 145 showers so we can earn our 130,000

gallons of water that we are paying for"

what would we do without those boys next door to fight our battles for us.

in other news - you missed tan the man during face chat, gracia.

this is what he looked like last night.

and how much megan likes being his friend.

remember when you used to not talk to him, or anyone for that matter, when you first got home?

hahahahaha

love you girrrrrl

and i love everyone else.

beth in koreaaaaa.

jos in argentina,

grace in NY.

dantzel wherever she chooses to be at the moment.

meg holding down the fort in prov.

and myself at craig and lin's.

grace! you come in october, no?

we won't be frozen friends then!!

Frozen Friends

2010-08-30T11:15:00.000-06:00

I like being frozen friends with everyone.

What if we all live different places and we all have to be frozen friends with each other forever?? That makes me feel stressed.

test test test test

2010-08-30T11:12:00.000-06:00

Dear fellow posters. I think you just need to click on Compose at the top and it will give you the upload picture option? If not we can switch back to the old posting settings. IDK but I think that's what happened! Post away!

Grace

what the.

2010-08-21T16:54:00.000-06:00

i can't post pictures anymore. guess no one is ever going to know about my life. i'm outta hurrrr.

Pacha Mama

2010-08-13T15:41:00.022-06:00

That's the name of the most popular cultural song in Peru. And we l-0-v-e-d it. If i can get it to work, I'll post a video of a band singing it while we were at dinner one night. Anyway...this is a long overdue post all about Peru. I promise lots of pictures and probably not a lot of words hopefully. Sooooo here we go.

First thing's first, Macchu Picchu. What an incredible place! We visited this place probably about halfway through our trip, so we'd seen a ton of other ruins and were nervous it would be more of the same, but honestly this was one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen in my life. Got up suuuuper early to go hike Wayna Picchu as well, which is the mountain behind the ruins. Real hot because was in normal clothes, but so worth it. Here's a picture of me in front of the ruins. I was standing on some of the terraces used for farming, obviously excited to be there.

Good story. Right before this picture Jessie and I were tired so we decided to lay down and take a nap on the terrace. We woke up to some french couple standing over us and talking, so what do I do? Continue to pretend to be asleep. Naturally. Next there's a group of men speaking arabic or something and I'm feeling really awkard, so I just kept "sleeping." They finally went away when Jessie woke up and just looked at them weird.

Another group, who got a more spiritual tour of Macchu Picchu. They were kind of weird.

Just wanted you to see the outfits McDonald's employees wear down there.
Touring what is known as the Sistine Chapel of South America. Tons and tons of pretty gold and cool paintings, but we couldn't take any pictures inside.
Little cutie we found on the streets in Aguas Calientes, the city where you get on the bus to go up to Macchu Picchu. Sorry the lighting is so bad.
So guinea pig is apparently a big deal in Peru. They eat it for special occasions like holidays, weddings, etc. Our tour guide talked us into trying it, so we stopped at some small house on the side of the road. Kind of weirded me out, but was actually pretty good.
This is an old Incan ruin that was taken over by the Spaniards. It was really cool to see both of the cultures in one building.
This lady is just working real hard to get that hay up the hill. Thought it was a great pic.
Baby llama time. For cute. Just singing the theme song from Emperor's New Groove all week long. my life is complete.
A roadside stand on the bus ride between Cusco and Puno. Really I just like the baby tot in front.
The view from the lake as we came up on the floating Uros islands. These are so cool! They build the islands from reeds and anchor them to the bottom of the lake and then just live a simple life on the islands. Cool fact: the missionaries tract out there, and there's a small branch for the islands.
Traditional clothes worn on the Uros islands, and the governor of the island we visited. Each island typically consists of a few families, probably 10 max. There's one man who functions as the governor/island leader.
These are the natives of Taquile island, which is super far away from the mainland, but so cool. They all wear these traditional clothes, and different colors and items indicate whether men are married or single or leadership. Pretty cool. Their main source of income is handmaking sweaters and hats similar to the ones they wear.Life changing trout. Freshly caught and made by one of the local ladies. I don't think there was a meal for the rest of the trip where I didn't eat fish.Yep, this pose happened. On our way down the bajillion steps to get off of the island.
Great big ancient towers. Just cool because they are so huge.
In front of the city palace in Lima. Cool building but we couldn't go inside.
Weird, but funny. Apparently Peru has a problem with people dropping off their cats in public parks. Loved this sign.And to finish off the trip, we stopped at Universal Studios to go to Harry Potter land. Turns out it wasn't going to open for another 3 weeks. So here's my sad face in front of Hogwarts. Sorry about my nakes. It was hot.

So there you have it. Short and sweet, but a fairly okay summary of my trip to Peru.

Psych

2010-08-13T14:08:00.006-06:00

Remember the time I had big plans to move to California? Well, not anymore. I was lucky enough to get a call from the ICU where I did my capstone and they offered me a position there! So, even though I was really excited to move to Palo Alto, it looks like the California plans have been put on hold. I decided this is an amazing opportunity that I can't really afford to pass up. The ICU is exactly the type of nursing I want to be doing, and I'm so excited to get started there!

Because no blog post is complete without a picture, here's a random one. This may or may not be one of the only pictures I have of myself in nursing school. You get the idea.

I'm never growing up

2010-08-09T21:04:00.011-06:00

So here's the thing. Everyone hates me because I'm the worst blogger ever and I can't even blame you. And the worst part is this is what happens to me every time. Kind of like my journal writing stints. Anyway...basically what happened is I've been suuuuuuuper bored today, so here's an update with the pictures on my mom's computer in murray. This is going to be real random, and you'll get better posts about adventures like peru, lake powell, and cancun, but here's a bit of what's been going on lately.

Mostly this first picture has nothing to do with anything, except for how great I think my dad is. You probably don't even care, but this hat has become his most favorite summer fashion piece. True or false? He looks fierce (I may or may not have watched an America's Next Top Model marathon with my sisters today. I'm moderately embarrassed).

One holiday and I can't even really remember which one...maybe 4th of July? We decided to go up to Snowbird and play up there all day on the alpine slide and hiking around and such, here's a pic of some of the fam doing that. Again...notice the hat.

After that I turned 23, and Mike, Allie's husband, turned 24 the next day, so we had a joint celebration and even shared a birthday cake. For presh. It's a good thing I like Mike a lot and he's fun to share a birthday celebration with! I'm thinking 23 is going to be a big year.

Me, my dad, and my Grandfather on my birthday. Love these guys.

Nelson got married, hooray for that! It was a good excuse to have a Murray reunion, since the 5 year reunion never happened (ahem....grace...). Even though really I'm not even mad about it. Anyway, here's Nelson and Lauren coming out of the temple.

Let's talk about how obsessed I am with her dress. Sorry Nelson, that my mom cut you out of this shot, but really her dress was fantastic.

She is also great, in case you were wondering. Here's a pic of Melissa, Kimberly, baby Emma, and me. Love that baby tot and loved seeing those ringwoods/glovers.

I'm realizing now that I don't actually have any pictures of people from Murray, so maybe B, with that new iphone 4 could fill in the blanks for us here.

The Marsh girls.

And last but certainly not least, a little taste of what else is to come in future blog entries. A trip to Lake Powell, when Henry Marsh is the primary planner and facilitator.

P.S. I'm pretty sure you all know by now, but I've decided I'm moving to Palo Alto, California in September...middle/endish probably. It may only last a few months because I don't have a job and I don't have that much money. But I love an adventure, and I'm pretty sure moving to a new state without any employment prospects counts as an adventure.

i have lots of pics on my comp at home that are cooler than these.

2010-08-03T10:37:00.002-06:00

i'm at work and alive.

doing my best to keep the scrapbooking world together.

luckily we get notes from crazy scrappers like this woman

who is apparently obsessed with stickers

and my company at the same time so that's really nice.

mostly i look forward to not being at work so i can hang with tanner.

and his roommate brandon has joined us the last couple days.

last night we all sat on tanner's bed and had a read-a-thon.

yellow house reunion at meg's house in prov?

okay. great idea. can't wait.

love and miss you all!

news.

2010-08-01T12:51:00.001-06:00

dear best friends-
i finally found a place to live.

now this was hard because i couldn't fathom not living in the yellow house with all you lovelies. but since one of you is married, one of you lives in salt lake, two of you are outside of the country bein missionaries, and the last one was indecisive- i had to do it because school starts in five seconds.

so by some stroke of luck we found this guy-

yes. it is a real good second place winner to old yellow. the inside is full of antiques and i think you would all be obsessed with it. it is two blocks down from our old house so if anyone still wants to sabotage the pirate ship with me, i'm down.

please everyone stop having real lives and come back and live the provo all-star dream with me.

love,

meg

post script- efy ends soon so maybe we can all be friends again? just a suggestion.

I like your faces

2010-07-24T22:28:00.000-06:00

Haha Saturday night entertainment. At first I was really confirming everyones pictures but it just got to be too much clicking and too much work. I'll do it eventually.

Click on them and see them bigger.

Dot chon success! besides some nephews, hayleys, brad rays, jacintas, and mes mixed in there

It found some nice ones of Jos including a picture of me with wet hair and ashley opening her mouth really big.

A lot of people that look like Dantzel....including Connie, dave's sister, tori amos, dave's other sister, etc.

This is when it got Dantzel right! Only a few megans and other randoms in there.

I don't even remember who this one was for.

Success for Brynne! A random girl from a quiditch picture taken in highschool and dave's nephew connor mixed in.

Not as much Brynne success. Lots of randoms mixed in,

It had a really hard time with Megan. I guess everyone looks like Megan.


More people that look like Megan.


There was a lot of Dave success which means that I don't have enough pictures of everyone else! My comp has learned his face.

I can't wait until the day that I have more pictures of everyone besides what I have in the Yellow House album on my comp. Love to you all!

miss you back.

2010-07-17T13:46:00.003-06:00

first off.

miss you all and love you so much.

i'm not even mad that you don't get mad at me

but i do feel loved that you were worried about it.

nothing in my life is very different. i actually am loving efy and

i feel so sad that it will be over in three weeks.

i was somewhat embarrassed about doing it again but in actuality

i'm really lucky and grateful for the opportunity.

sadly it hasn't done much for the social life and since i'm there all the time i dont really have anything to tell you about that wont bore you to death.

but i did think of two things. actually..four.

#1 - this is how it makes me feel to be told by my eye specialist that i have to wear

glasses for at least 5 weeks because of my stupid virus.

hopefully it clears up by then because i dont know if i can handle

wearing clip on sunglasses for the rest of my life.

#2 - definitely screamed with joy when i saw that burbidge would be a teacher at efy

last week. aaaaand he definitely had my nasty 11th grade photo on

his computer still. luckily, i think i've thinned out a little.

(ps i tried to bring up the whole hey remember the time you and brynne had a falling out thing and that got super awkward. haha. whoops)

#3 - went to a little mish reunion last saturday night and definitely came out to find bertha

was MISSING. i felt so stressed and confused and then realized i was

at carriage cove and they tow at 9 in the pm.

of course they towed it. not even surprised, story of my provo parking life.

so $121.00 later i had her safe and sound.

aaaand made this creeper who stole her take a photo with me.

you know, all is well as long as it is documented.

#4 - i just had to find this little number on my external hard drive but i think it was worth it.

D, i hope that you have been dreaming and thinking of your 23rd

birthday just as much as your 21st.

haha. i havent thought of that conversation for awhile and it just made my day.

well its not much but its good enough.

love you girls.

i got a letter from hayley (i wrote her one awhile back) and she is doing great! she extended so she wont be home till the first of august.

three words.

shoot. the. tube.

anyways, i need to unpack, do some laundry, re-pack, and then go on a little

date with my nieces. i'm living the life ladies. i really am.

love you long time!

don't feel left out, meg

2010-07-16T08:18:00.002-06:00

just realized all these posts for d might make you think we don't care about you.

but we do.

what's not to love about this photo?

pujee, peace signs, 74th ward, asia, cut off shorts, mega, jos strikin' a pose for t moyes, etc

so many good things.

i hope efy is being good to you because we (i) miss you in slc.

Yeah Dantzel

2010-07-11T13:53:00.000-06:00

I wanted to write a "I'm mad at you dantzel post" too but Brynne beat me to it! So dantzel I'm mad too. Tell us what is happening right now. Tell us about summer in Provo, tell us about where you are working, tell us what you are doing when you work, tell us and SHOW us peru, and just tell us everything else okay?

Happy 4th of July from us! Last week. This is with the front-facing camera and we didn't even know where to look. It's grainy because it was dark.

And this is my niece Kyra! (Keeera) In case if you haven't seen her yet. I haven't seen her in person yet but hopefully will soon!

Love all you girls, wherever you are. One day we will all be posting on this blog because we will all be home from our missions and care about the blog (DANTZEL). just kidding dannnntsslll. I said it just like that this morning for you girl.

d-a-n-t-z-e-l. come onnnnnnnn.

2010-07-08T13:44:00.002-06:00

i hiked mt olympus

and brought craig p back to america

because it has taken you so long to write a freaking blog post.

love you and loved your text about missing me during fireworks.

missed you too.

update update update update update.

It's a New Game You Can Play

2010-06-21T21:36:00.000-06:00

I agree with Brynne. We are keeping this blog alive. No thanks to you Dantzel and your lack of posting Peru pictures. Yes, I'm going to get personal and call you out. POST THEM NOW.

This is a nice game you can play. It's called balance on one foot and don't touch with anything else and bite a cup and stand up. You have to put on things under it otherwise it is too hard. And that is Casey and Jamar. They are both nice and that is our apt.

Next time hopefully I'll have something more exciting to say but not something like a dying fish

in the meantime

2010-06-17T14:48:00.005-06:00

since no one else is posting anything...

i'll take over.

poor jags the fish died yesterday.

kitchen window was left open during the windstorm yesterday while everyone was at work and blew his bowl off the shelf!

roommate ali walked into this disaster and sent me the pic to let me know.

saddest sight ever. poor jags just suffocated to death without anything/anyone around.

see him - farthest thing to the left.

my heart is literally broken.

he will be missed.

washington square park performers to the max.

2010-06-08T21:54:00.006-06:00

das ist for thee, gracia.

this is from drum circle night at liberty park.

and for everyone else to enjoy.

and it's also a call to action.

i know megan is at efy.

and beth and jos are on missions.

but really d? you just got home from peru.

update. update. update.

oh and this one because it's funny.

Too short.

2010-05-31T22:41:00.000-06:00

The amount of time that Brynne was here was too short just like this dress. (I just remembered when I wore this dress to Nate and Annelisa's reception and Megan told me I wouldn't be able to wear dresses like this after I started wearing temple attire.) Show you! I still can but I can't let them ride up awkwardly or sit awkwardly like I used to. At least I try harder not too. Wearing temple items is actually pretty nice. It's like you're wearing comfy pajamas under all your clothes (that sometimes make you really hot)

Anyways, I often dream of the days when we used to hang out all the time and drink slurpees and sit on the couch on the front porch and talk about guys and all the funny things that happened to us. That time at the YH was too short. Life is too short. Sorry for the awkward picture of me and random post.

Come to New York and I'll take you to see Barbie. And I promise to be more dedicated to this blog. Love you all! Dantzel be safe, and Beth and Jos be safe.

i'm going to see graaaace!!

2010-05-10T00:00:00.002-06:00

and dream of weather that doesn't consist of rain.

but i'll get over it and still enjoy hanging with my best girf.

while having a nice time (as always) with this new best girf.

and wishing these two best girfs could come join all the fun and girl talk seshes?

wow. if only that abbreviation was close to being nice.

while trying to maintain friendships with these two cuties.

jelissa is going to costa rica.

and that's tanner.

okay byyyyye

2010-05-01T14:45:00.002-06:00

the picture says it all.

my ladies.

2010-04-22T16:43:00.006-06:00

i feel like its time for an update from this girl.

so here it is.

sometimes i like to have really bad luck with vehicles slash the law. i'm holding my second ticket in two weeks and big thunder decided to go crazy so my brother in law came and got us from provo the other day. who knew that you couldnt park too close to a sidewalk (that would be the reason for the ticket, not the tow haha)?? not me.

but here is something on a more lucky note..well depending on how you look at it and how your feelings are towards especially for youth. i know we all thought i had put my efy-ness away for good back in 2008 (where this picture came from and i actually took from this blog) but God has a different plan and i'm going to be a BC for the summer. i didnt think i would do efy again and never ever wanted to be anything other than a counselor but it kind of just fell in my lap. i feel really good about it and i know it is what Heavenly Father wants me to do for the summer. i never intended to be an efy all star but it looks like it is out of my control. it will be kind of intense but if D can do it so can i! so if anyone wants to visit, i will be living at byu campus from the end of may till the begining of august, with a trip to seattle in between.

other than that, nothing too new. oh! i mowed our lawn today. haven't done that in like 7 years. in the words of grace, "i just had a flashback of highschool!" also, even though i currently am not making money i felt it wise to buy a brand new imac and a canon rebel. it's fine. who needs savings these days right?

love you girls. so so much.

Happy!

2010-04-20T00:14:00.006-06:00

Probably I should be sleeping right now, but I hate the process of actually going to bed, so here I am instead. Today = greatest day I've had for a long time, and I'll tell you why I'm so happy.

Number one, my team is going to Nationals! We got the invitation to go today. I really wish you could have all been around when I got the text from my coach. Let's just say there was lots of jumping and screaming and just general excitement. We haven't been since my freshman year on the team, so it's a good year to be a cougar, and an even better year to be a senior. We won regionals last week, here's a pic of me lovin the trophy.

P.S...Jessie and I may or may not have taken the trophy out for a night on the town on Saturday night. I'd just like to throw out there that Dr. Pepper tastes absolutely fantastic out of a trophy.

Reason #2--I graduate on Thursday/Friday! Sort of anticlimactic since I've been done with school and tests since last Tuesday, but I've had a fantastic week of soaking up the sun at the pool and park, which makes me sooooo happy. This is a pic from Sam's graduation last year...and although I won't have a trampoline to help me celebrate, I'd like to think I'll be just as excited.

Reason #3--The Jazz pulled off a win tonight! Love me a little D-Will, but I think my vote for MVP for the night goes to Kyle Korver. Didn't have tons of points, but sure drilled the shots when we needed a little shove of momentum. Love him.

Reason #4--I have another nephew on the way! Tisha is pregnant, expecting August 31st and I can't wait to be aunt to a new little tyke! Love Ricky, Tisha, Emerson, and Finlay, and can't wait for the new addition.

Sun+Lacrosse+No School+New Nephew+Good Jazz game=One happy camper.

Entertainment

2010-04-19T20:30:00.002-06:00

Moving glass cup. from Grace Poulsen on Vimeo.

Remember when we used to all live together and weird things happened? Like the time I left Megan's strainer on a burner and it melted, or when we found that puzzle that fell and stuck in the cupboard or when our poster got stolen off our door. (I can't even remember what poster that was. But i think it was a girl scout poster?)

The other night I was doing the dishes and I swear this glass was haunted. There is no slant! I know science can explain it but I was entertained. Sorry for the dumbest video ever

new boyf.

2010-03-25T09:27:00.000-06:00

we're meant to be.

via the sartorialist.

i'm still your number 1 fan.

2010-03-22T15:41:00.005-06:00

hi. sorry this is the first post of after my mission time. i made one on my blog once but then i got real bored of it so it actually never got finished. but brynne has been pretty good at documentation and so has my sister becky at times so check that out.

but i just wanted to say three things.

1. brynne has been such a nice friend during this time of me hating life and wishing i was back in taiwan everyday.
2. d has also been a big support and to prove our friendship we bought matching hats at forever 21.
3. i promised d on my mission that i would make it to her games and somehow the last game came creeping up and in reality i probably didnt have time to go but the time was made and it was the best 10 minutes of my life.
i appreciated this and i hope you noticed the deliberate cut off on the letter "D".
me and richard just watching so intently.
the d stance.
and the fam. i forgot to put in the picture of the crazy tots at the top with their swords but d i'm sure you remember.

ok. i actually have four things to say

4. i havent seen anyone else (i.e. grace) and it makes me feel real sad inside. i blame it on ashley mills.

one more

5. how do i get access to beths secret blog? my invitation expired and i cried a little bit.

this was a way dumb post. probably very closely related to my life as of late. i often think of the yellow house and feel like crying and sometimes i really do. but its ok. i'm sure someday beth will come back from korea and jos will come back from argentina and grace will come back from new york and we will force blue stupid pirate girls out and paint the yellow house yellow again and we will once again be together. and grace i guess you can bring dave along since you are now married and all. that is the end of my thought.

love you girfs.

oh hey, sugarhouse.

2010-03-21T21:02:00.003-06:00

i have lots of pics but these are the ones i choose to share.

meg and ryan let me and danny go to brian regan with them a couple weeks ago.

it was funny.

danny wore his matix jacket and i told him me and grace loved it long ago.

ryan told me and meg he felt funny about walking around campus with two non-byu students after a thursday lunch.

so we decided to look as studious as possible.

truth is - neither of us even miss school one ounce.

i saw how nice sugarhouse park looked on my way home yesterday afternoon and ran inside and made my roommates drive back over with me.

it was so nice.

friday i went to the graphic design program's final show with brooke to see sister gloria pak who served in the kswm.

i was taller than everyone in my heels and thought rolling my ankle and slouching was better than being 3 inches taller.

i thought wrong.

this is my request:

be my friend in sugarhouse everyone.

or we can be friends in provo.

or west valley.

or nyc.

or busan.

or salta.

this friendship can happen via:

web chat

letters

postcards

pictures

blogs

facebook

txt

music

etc

the options are essentially endless.

let's make it happen, kk?

love to each of my girrrrrrls.

oh and ps.

my latest ambition of becoming a florist is coming true!

flowers on vine employee on saturdays and maybe some friday afternoons.

wish me luck.

aaaand floral internship with grace's best florist starts soon too.

thanks life for being so nice.

Miss You Provo Saturdays

2010-03-20T08:54:00.002-06:00

I wish we could all get together and sit on the roof and drink slurpees. Hope everyone has a magical saturday!

I have one.

2010-02-21T17:42:00.002-07:00

Remember how I commanded everyone at the yellow house that they couldn't have a blog? I specifically remember actually demanding that no one else could have their own blog outside of the yellow house one. I still feel the same way. Kind of. I now go back on what I said. I'm a liar. Mine is gracia.me. And this is why. Because I love seeing people that I haven't actually talked to in 3 months and I still know what is happening in their life and I can repeat all the things I read/heard about and we don't even miss a beat.

This blog has now been happening for over 2 YEARS! 2 Years. Seriously. I'm so sorry I missed the anniversary. Love you girls. Only 2 more left to come home! I'm so happy.

megan came home and i took one million pics.

2010-02-07T12:14:00.006-07:00

for all our gfs. hope you feel like you were there. so happy to have sister sorris back and are counting down until the same can happen with beth and jos!

remember when we welcomed your dad home too, d?

wendy was thrilled.

brunette/blonde. cutie pie.

who else missed these faces?

back to the home to wait while she's released.

ryan tried playing the piano to calm his nerves.

meg was real sad to not be wearing her badge.

but clearly happy to be able to do this.

and they wanted to touch so bad.

and then ryan broke the barrier.

and they're back in love.

and we're back to friendship.

listening to the new imogen heap song - earth.

l-o-v-e loooove it.

nice roommate ali solved the blonde/brunette/no haircut for 18 months prob

meg taught lindsey's boyf and ali tawainese warm ups.

and joined the thursday lunch club.

now she's just in disneyland.

i'll post pics soon of house/party/qualts.

love love love.

mini yhr2010 starts now.

2010-02-02T10:32:00.001-07:00

who's excited?

Come Sit

2010-01-30T21:33:00.006-07:00

I love this frequent blog posting that's happening. Dantzel's being in a blonde box ( i don't even get that actually) and brynne's just living in slc. Nice.

This week, I realized that I have filled a void that has been in my life for the past 2 years. The radiator.
(anyone remember when that room used to look like this? this is when I first looked at the yellow house and met joslin! Back in april-ish 2007?) I couldn't find a picture of my favorite kitchen radiator or the radiator by the front window which may be even more favorite. This is my replacement.

So it doesn't look like the classic radiator..it's really just a metal box and we have dave's old couch pushed up next to it. There are downsides to this radiator. It's not really a radiator. I think it's just a giant vent in the shape of a radiator. Also, the yellow house ones were usually in convenient locations - right next to windows where you could stare at people. They were also used as seats during really important discussions, most about boys. Also used to warm us up even when they were so hot I thought I had burned my butt. (and that's when we began wrapping up in a blanket and sitting on the heater - smart.)

Here's the upside.

It's a really bad pic of the view but off to the left you can see manhattan - empire state building, chrysler building etc etc. All that good stuff before there? Well that's the Bronx. Also nice.

Now Dave and I have nice conversations about making websites, what color to paint the walls, and lots of studying - all while i sit myself on that heater. Love it.

In other news, we have an alien living in our house. Meet our antennae. The first night this thing was in our house I really thought we had another human there, watching TV with us, putting up it's arms. Maybe you had to be there?

Love you girrrls. I invite you to come sit on the heater anytime.

Record Setter.

2010-01-25T20:52:00.003-07:00

That's half the reason this post is happening. I'm pretty sure it will set a record for the most posts on the blog in one month, and it definitely sets the record for the most posts I've written in one month. So why not? The other half of the reason is because I'm now at least semi-blonde. The story goes like this. I had highlights, but was ready for more color. I was thinking go blonde by summer, and do an inbetween job right now. Kind of ended up pretty blonde, but I'm not even mad about it one bit.

Me and Allie, the wonderful lady who makes it all happen. Highlight of being blonde so far is having everyone I know on campus having to do a double take to recognize me. Makes me feel a little uncomfortable for 2 seconds, but we do fine once they put two and two together. So there you have it, ladies and gents. I'm officially coming out of my brunette box.

weird or cool? nobody knows.

2010-01-25T14:38:00.002-07:00

guess they really love that ring, eh?

via UO

my life is a nice life.

2010-01-24T10:17:00.002-07:00

i get to eat lunch with D on thursdays.

i get to receive pics like this from my parents.

i'm learning how to sew.

i won best actress at work on friday.

or one of my coworkers found this in the trash and put it on my cubicle.

and my parents met beth at the airport!!!!!!!!!!!

she looks SO good.

gosh, i miss her.

was that a lame update.

love everyone with all my sugarhouse heart.

Dear Samantha

2010-01-13T17:21:00.009-07:00

I apologize. I'm sorry for not including you in my last post. It was a bad moment for me, one where I was caught off guard by the amount of life I had to catch up on this blog. I'd like to say that thus far, the best moment of 2010 was the one when Sam moved into the apartment at Foxwood! Aka...Sam and I have been reunited and it feels so good! The mean girls, hot rod, baby mama, and every other type of movie quotes have been going ever since. It's like we never left. Who would've thought two random roommates could become such great friends? I guess that's the beauty of the yellow house. Once it's brought you together, there's no going back.

So without further adieu, and with a sincere apology, I'd like to pay tribute to my favorite current roomate, Samantha Lynn Hunter, and I'll be using a lot of pictures for fond memories.

She has a most impressive sense of style, as evidenced by my attempts to copy her outfits. Not once, but twice mind you.

Sam's also got a fantastic love for all things HSM, but particularly Sharpay. This is Halloween last year, when she borrowed my dress and wore a rockin wig and head mic. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you sharpay.
Don't worry about me being dressed as a troll. Here's Sharpay just getting caught up on the "scuttle butt" as she would say...

Reason number 1203981-293712-0938-12319283019238 I love Sam. She, along with Dave and Jeff, drove all the way up to Logan this summer on my birthday just to visit! Gems. You can't ask for better friends. Also, they helped me "clean the sink" and Angies...which was fantastic.
And here's a picture from when Sam came back to me from a short stint in Virgina, when I missed her like a fat kid on a diet misses chocolate cake. Welcome back to me Sammy, and can't wait to have lots more great memories!

And....just because Manti requested it via facebook status comment, here's a shout out to my boy Manti. Aka...Dragon. One of the greatest. So glad we found this friend through old ward slash days when he used to play rugby at BYU with my brother Ricky. Here's one of my favorite memories of Manti. This night he, Jarom, and Derek decided to have a sleepover on our trampoline, despite the fact that it was definitely NOT warm enough to do that. Love them.

Again, Sam. Sorry. Love you long time girf!

Dear Everyone

2010-01-12T16:00:00.013-07:00

First of all, I apologize for the lack of blogging. I'd like to thank Grace for the blog, facebook, and phone messages reminding me to be better. I can't even remember the last time I updated on this blog, so pretty much I'm just going to turn this into a facebook album...because let's face it everyone wants to see pictures more than they want to read stories. Sooooooo here are the highlights from last semester, the break, and what's going on in 2010 so far. Also, if there is a new facebook album in the future with very similar or all of the same pictures, don't be mad for the repeat. Since everyone, but specifically Brynne and Megan, have left me in Provo all by myself....there has been a serious decline in the documentation of my life.

First, I'd like you to meet these lovelies. These people take up most of the time in my life, when I'm not at the hospital or playing lacrosse. From the back left it goes Aubrey, me, Jimmy, Dan, Olivia. This is at the beginning of our new friendship, when it wasn't too cold to all squish into my car and drive around with the top down...but don't tell my mom that I substituted Aubrey and Jimmy for a seatbelt. Anyway, most of these stories will probably include them, so I figured you should probably have faces for names.
Pictured next is something you may recognize from our cabin trips. We took a weekend off and headed up to Midway. This is Aubrey and I looking like hobos on the see-saw at the cow farm which we all love so much! Sad to be doing these things without my girfs, but glad that the love and tradition can be carried on even with new friends.

This picture is from the First Presidency Christmas Devotional. Jessie, Olivia, Me, and Aubrey had a delightful time at the conference center and only froze a little bit on our way to and from the car.

One of the highlights of last semester: the day we stole a duck from the duck pond! Jimmy, Olivia, and I were bored one afternoon, and decided a good way to fix that problem was to go abduct a duck from the pond south of campus to have as a pet for a few hours. We baited that duck towards the car with bread, when Olivia picked it up and put it in a garbage can. We kept it in our shower and named him pato. Thennnn the management company knocked on our door and told us to get rid of the duck. About 45 minutes later, we had a visit from the Provo police asking about the duck, which, luckily, we had already returned so they couldn't really get mad at us. All in all, a successful afternoon if you ask me. Anyone else thinking of the time when I brought a dog home for a day in 5th grade? Hope my mom reads this story just for that connection. Here's a picture of pato in our tub.
This next picture is from another weekend at the cabin, which was a bit more out of control than the first, but also a lot of fun. We had a bunch of people up there, just after there was a big snow storm. We spent the night playing capture the flag in the snow, some people went to the hot pots. But I'd say the highlight of the night was riding the surrey bike around Midway, serenading the residents with Christmas Carols from the luxury of that beauty. In this picture is Jake, Kim, Jessie, myself, and Dave. If I'm not with the others mentioned, I'm with these gems.
This picture is from the night that Brynne and I decided to go on a drive...and oddly ended up in front of the now blue house. This is us being creeps right outside. I'd like to mention the night I saw someone dancing in the window and threw a snowball at them and ran away. Brynne was on a date with a boy later that week...turns out it was him I threw the snowball at...which they established while she was telling him the story on her date. Sorry B.

The next few pictures are coming from my family vacation to Washington DC and Ocean City, Maryland over the break. We went back to visit Ricky and his family there, and it was a super fun trip despite the fact that it was freezing!

Jumping picture on the beach....

This is me teaching Emerson to wait for the waves to come in and then run away when they get close. Just look at his face!

Swimming in the pool of the clubhouse where we stayed in Maryland. First is Emerson and me, second is most of the fam.

Outside of the Lincoln monument, in front of the Washington monument.

And lastly, just because I think Finlay is so cute.

He and Emerson have learned great words like despicable and disgusting from Thomas and Friends. And I love it when they say them!

Of honorable mention:
1. Grace's wedding...which Brynne has already posted about, so I'll go ahead and leave that out. But that doesn't mean I'm any less thrilled for Grace and Dave or love you any less. You guys are fantastic and I'm so happy for you!
2. Las Vegas Bowl. I went down with Dan, Doug, and a friend of Doug's. But it turns out all the pictures are on Dan's camera, and I haven't gotten them yet....so you'll just have to believe me when I tell you it was both freezing and fun.
3. Black Friday and Post Christmas shopping. I have a problem. I love to shop. At least I can justify it by saying I only buy things that are reasonably priced or a good deal. I blame Melissa, because before I lived with her, I didn't even care to shop or take naps, and now look at me.
4. Snow caving. Last weekend, Jessie and I were invited by Robert Gilbert to go snow caving! It was so so cold! We burrowed caves into the snow and tried to sleep there. But it turns out it's a good idea to have really good sleeping bags if you want to do that. After about an hour of sleep, Jessie and I called it quits and slept at her parents house until noon the next day. Fantastic weekend.

I'm sick of waiting for this blogger to upload my pictures, and I think that pretty well sums up my life right about now. I'm just waiting to get this semester going. I meet with my preceptor tomorrow, at which point I can start chipping away at my 210 hospital hours until I graduate! Hooray! I'm going to be pretty busy between that, lacrosse, and working as a TA for the psychiatric nursing class. I'd like to tell you now that I'll be better at blogging this semester, because playing catch up is dumb. That's all.

Dear Dantzel

2010-01-11T22:27:00.002-07:00

You owe us a blog post. I'm serious. And seriously mad about it okay? I want to see pictures right now. Until then please entertain yourself with my new favorite band:

I'm on Virgin.

2009-12-28T01:06:00.002-07:00

I just thought I'd brag and write a post since I have free Google Wi-Fi on my Virgin America flight. The internet is a little spotty and my laptop is almost dead (they really should include plugs on these things) but some internet is better than none - maybe.

Today everything clicked when we were taking off from San Francisco. My job totally has meaning. I've always wanted to help people, work for a non-profit or something like that but that's never quite worked out. Today I connected it. Airplanes are good because they help apostles get all over the world and missionaries all over the world for that matter. That's good because we can bring more people to the gospel. Airline companies need office supplies right? They need to buy printers, they need paper, pens, tape, etc etc. And while they could do without all that it just makes things more efficient (actually they probably couldn't do it without all that stuff.)

Anyways, my point is we are all doing good things! Dantzel is a nurse (or going to be) and she directly helps people! She is right there with them. Joslin, Beth, and Megan are directly teaching people the gospel, saving lives or saving souls really. And Brynne, well she sells people surveys. Just kidding Brynne. I will connect. Brynne sells people surveys that help us better understand people. I bet BYU has discovered lots of nice things to help strengthen student's testimonies. I don't even know if that makes sense. It's past midnight on our flight. So anyways, we all directly/indirectly help people which is nice right?

I hope everyone had a nice holiday! (and by everyone I mean Dantzel and Brynne. Since no one else is even here. Megan gets home so soon though!! Wow.) Love you both and love to all who are far away!