happy christmas day.

{happy christmas day!}

i hope you are all having a spectacular day, and enjoying each other.

did you get everything you wanted?

did you help someone who may not have had a christmas otherwise?

my christmas has been magically magical.

i hope yours has been too.

may your days be jolly and bright,


{pic found here after searching here first.}

dresses, & dresses, & dresses oh my!

stumbled on a {fantastic} website today.

its called modcloth.

they have the most {amazing} dresses i have ever seen.

for example:

{rose dress}

{beachcomber beauty dress}

{dress went down to georgia}

{frock & roll party queen in rizzo}

{kew gardens}

{the christine dress}

{wedding singer}

their shoes aren't shabby either:

{achilles heel}

{a-cute triangles in teal blue}

{empowerment shoes in third wave}

{happy feet t-straps in waverly}

{spinning jenny heels in mule}

and then the accessories, apartment, bottoms etc...

ugh!

i literally had to make myself stop. i couldn't get enough!

these are a few of my favorite things,


{all pics courtesy of modcloth.}

i miss you. :'(

with all the hustle and bustle of christmastime lingering in the air,

i have been thinking about the past,

and the fun stuff i did.

this week i have been missing so much of my "old life".

love my "new life" too. but sometimes, i just miss the good ole' days.

so.

{st. george}

 ♥ 100 south house

♥ going home for sunday dinner

♥ playing with kim & cole

(^watching amntm, eating out, samantha nibbles etc.)

♥ midnight runs to scone cutter/dennys

♥ orange peel, spoon me, & pizza/pasta factory

♥ the olive garden crew

♥ red rocks & sunshine

♥ ashes (& nats & sissykins hangouts)

♥ super smash brothers w/ group

♥ tagging wars

♥ jetting to vegas for the day

♥ and group smore's nights

{provo}

♥ aunt luar laur & uncle bruce

♥ eating at noodles and zuppas

♥ midnight wal mart runs

♥ blasting michael jackson & demi lovato every where we went

♥ forever 21

{kimberly}

♥ velveeta, shells, & martinelies

♥ quote wall

♥ jersy & eddie puppies

♥ grey's anatomy, veronica mars, the office, the big bang theory, ugly betty, friends, will & grace, freaks & geeks, & sytycd

♥ disneylanding

♥ conventions

♥ maggie days

♥ new york

♥ midnight movies

♥ group

♥ us

for everything i miss though, i have something else that i wouldn't have, had i not moved and started this new chapter. i'm grateful for all the fun times and all the friends!

let the good times roll,

seven days of {smiles}.

seven days of smiles this week.

it was a long week for me, and looking back,

i realize i had so many tiny miracles going on around me,

that i want to reflect on what made me smile.

1. {monday} -- i got my hair done. that was a major smile. and then i had a blast at f.h.e. afterwards! 

2. {tuesday} -- watched t.v. with some darling little kids all five of them wanting to sit on my lap.

3. {wednesday} -- attended not one but two christmas parties. loved spending time with my relief society girls, and then laughing with sissykins' co-workers at her work party.

4. {thursday} -- boo's first piano recital ever. and then, my visiting teachers spent 2 hours at my house. we sat on the floor and ate tater tots with sissykins' a-maz-ing fry sauce, they gave us pez dispensers for christmas!

5. {friday} -- went visiting teaching (for 2+ hours) and made some incredible new friends. we're talking incredible. played twilight scene it for the first time ever (and won might i add! - although i would have had fun no matter what.)

6. {saturday} -- drank some hot cocoa after a very long day, and then watched an episode of ugly betty with sissykins.

7. {sunday} -- woke up to find one of my out-of-town cousins at my house (always a joy.) and then after church and dinner we watched i'll be home for christmas which was an early christmas present to me!

so grateful for such awesome blessings in my life.

thank you to everyone who has made me smile this week.

here comes the sun,

got my hair did. {part 1}

uh-hu.

and it looks great too.

if i do say so myself.

thanks.

pics to come soon. dang computer is going

waaaaaaayyyyyyy toooooooo slooooooooowwwwwww

to edit right now.

♥

high ho the dairy-o,

{weekly} smiles. #3

i received this note last week from a {sweet} sister in my parentals ward.

i almost cried.

it made me smile and it made my week.

thank you {sister}. {i love you.}

there is beauty all around,

"i want to be a good person".

while out in town today, little m found $0.28 in sissykins car,

and {pocketed} it to keep for himself.

when we pulled in to the walmart parking lot,

little m saw the salvation army bell ringer standing outside {ringing} her bell.

he said "i want to give my money. i want to be a good person."

and so now, the {salvation army} is $0.28 richer because of little m's kind heart.

i'm glad he understands the real reason for the season.

so greatful for such {awesome} siblings!

they're such good examples!

god bless us, everyone,


{snapped the pic meself with my little sidekick teley.}

my shoes.

awhile ago i wrote about my shoe obsession right?

well, lets take a look at these {beauties}:

the thing i love so much about shoes is, they have a history.

each and every pair.

i always look at people's shoes and wonder:

what were they {thinking} when they bought those?

how much were they?

were they a gift?

were have they been worn?

(some of my shoes have been alllllllll the way across the world.)

and if shoes could talk, what kind of {story} would they tell?

(besides complaining immensly about stinky feet!)

well, the history of the shoes you see above goes like this:

my friend and i went shopping in vegas, she's obsessed with camo print things.

we went into {charlotte russe} (love that store!) and found these shoes.

she tried them on, they didn't fit, she made me try them on, they fit.

then, to live vicariously through me she made me buy them.

i didn't really even like them that much.

that was like 4 years ago.

now, i love them. and i wear them all the time.

so thanks kim. for making me buy them!

{and sorry they didn't fit you}.

shoes and ships and ceiling wax,


{pic by me. on my sidekick phone. uh-hu.}

let us give thanks.

{thanksgiving} this year was different for us.

usually we get together with all our cousins, grandparents, aunts&uncles.

but this year, we decided to stay in our {cozy} little house.

so it was just the 8 of us.

it gave me a different outlook on {thanksgiving},

yes i cried once cause i missed all my cousins,

but i soon realized that my holiday could have been a lot worse.

i could have:

no home.

no family.

no food.

some people didn't even have those things, and so my {heart} went out to those who were alone, and hungry, and cold on this holiday.

so i was (as I always am) so grateful to be surrounded by family that loves me, and whom i love.

i hope you all had a wonderful {thanksgiving}. because you all deserved it.

as for what we did this year:

we had {delicious} food, played games, and made a dent in our annual christmas movie list.

it was a great day, and i'm so grateful for such a wonderful {holiday} where we can celebrate being grateful.

life is beautiful,


{pictures by moi. i'm beginning to think i should be a professional food photographer... cause that's all i ever snap it seems like. :)}

atten hut!

happy veterans day!

and thank you to all those {brave} men and women who have {fought} for us.

land of the free because of the brave,


{awesome pic found here. because of this.}