Kenzie

Don't Forget to Write!

2010-06-15T14:45:00.001-07:00

Here is my address for the MTC ladies and gents.

Sister Kenzie Nicole Roney
MTC Mailbox # 310
GUA-RET 0817
2005 N 900 E
Provo, UT 84604-1793

Follow my mommas blog

deniceroney.blogspot.com

for updates and address changes.

See you in 18 months!

xoxo

Hermana Roney

My Last Days

2010-06-14T22:28:00.000-07:00

I know you all have been missing me in the blogging world and have been dying to know what I have been doing with my last days.

I am giving you a bit of everything. Out of order. Cause it's too hard to switch it.
Sunday I had my farewell. It was so great to see all my friends and family come and show their love and support. There were two youth speakers. Keely and a boy who seriously took five minutes all together. Somehow I was able to fill up all the time. Who knew I could talk that long? When I got to church the primary sang me a song and the tears started flowing. Luckily they were able to stop the second before I stood up to speak.

My besties came of course

Me and my momma

even Mark was able to make an appearance

Earlier this year we did a day of service and got free tickets to Disneyland so last minute we decided to take a trip down to California for a few days. It was so much fun!

My brother packed his stuff in this cool treasure chest. Wish I thought of that.

My Mom was very scared of the rides.

We rode the teacups

Karson tried with all his might to pull out the sword in the stone, but to his disappointment he could not.

One of the days my mom had taken Karson in for a nap so I stayed at Disneyland with the rest of the kids but is started to get crowded and they were tired so we headed back to the hotel and stopped at the concierge for some snacks. We were in there for a while when I came to realize what I was doing. I was eating goldfish, drinking an apple juice box, coloring a Sleeping Beauty coloring page, and watching Wall E. No wonder people ask me if I am still in high school. Preschool?The new toy story ride rocks

and we got to end the day with a trip to the beach

I was able to go to the temple with my lovely friend Julianne

For FHE we did a little surfing. Even the parentals got in on the action!

Bambi came for a visit

Hung out with Jeff Hornacek

Got to see this cute girl graduate. Congrats Kort!

Guatemala or bust!!

It looks like a tornado went through my room.
and those two suitcases that have been sitting on my floor are now full.

Well I've got less than 2 days before I report to the MTC and tomorrow I will be a missionary! Is this real? I think so!

The hardest part will be saying goodbye.

Wish me luck.

These are a few of my favorite things

2010-06-05T19:09:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite things to do is paint my nails fun, bright colors. I was trying to figure out what color to paint my nails the other day when it donned on me this could be one of the last times I paint my nails. Because of this I came to the conclusion to paint all my nails different colors. Every time I look down I can't help but smile. Oh nail polish how I will miss you...

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Fortune Teller

2010-06-03T08:00:00.000-07:00

When I was at P.F. Changs the other day I got this fortune:

something USUAL will happen. Really?

too bad I don't have a job

or go to school...

Bijou Market

2010-06-02T14:34:00.001-07:00

Saturdays the day. I will be here with my headbands as well as these cute skirts.
Stop by and see us as well as all the other awesome vendors!

so...

2010-05-31T07:47:00.000-07:00

I haven't been blogging much these days

but I've got a suitcase full of:

nylons and knee highs

gma shoes

mid-calf length skirts

blouses

microfiber towels

a microfiber blanket

bug spray

and much much more.

and so what if my roots are two inches thick. WT for me.

I've got two more weeks.

Adios Amigos!

Farr Better

2010-05-26T15:39:00.000-07:00

One of our favorite outings these days is Farr's.

It's good.

Trust me.

Mine usually ends up looking like throw up (too many options):

Bryns looks WAY good:

And I guess Julianne likes to keep hers organized:

I hope to see you soon.

Elder Roney

2010-05-22T11:13:00.000-07:00

My Brother kept telling us he got to play basketball with a couple of all stars while on his mission and then he would laugh. That's all he would tell us and then say I will send a picture soon. Well he finally sent it and here they are.

I hope I get to meet people as cool as this on my mission.

Kort

2010-05-21T08:52:00.000-07:00

Today I was reading my sisters blog who never updates and found

THIS

It's pretty accurate except that she got all her skill from me.

Love you Kort!

♥♥♥

Hola

2010-05-18T08:31:00.000-07:00

I dedicate this post to Julianne Burr who was been complaining that I haven't updated.

First of all I would like to congratulate her on her call to:
EL SALVADOR SAN SALVADOR EAST MISSION

I am so excited for her and glad we get to be neighbors!
I also can't leave out that she just informed me the only word she knows in Spanish is aloha.
hahaha love you Julianne!

Since the only think I think and talk about these days is my mission here are some things I am really looking forward to:

rainstorms walking through water up to my ankles.

My hair being a fro every single day because of the humidity.

eating crickets for dinner, yum.

and showering with a bucket.

I can't wait!
♥ Hermana Roney

18 Month Club

2010-05-05T21:46:00.000-07:00

Yes. It's true! I have joined the 18 month club! Now I know what many of you are going to say. I didn't know you were going on a mission, I had no idea. Well I guess that just means you are a bad friend. Jk.

After turning my papers in I would check the mail everyday. Now let me tell you this is one of my favorite things to do, it is my job at home and I am the only one who ever gets the mail. I know the mail mans schedule. He comes up and does the other side of the street then goes all the way around and finally arrives on our side usually around 4. The past week has taken especially long usually not arriving until five. Because I was not only anxious to check earlier and it was coming later this caused me several extra bike/golf cart/car/ walking trips up to the mailbox.

After probably my 300th day of disappointment checking the mailbox my Dad said Kenzie the mail is going to come early tomorrow at 3 so I will come home from work early and we can open it at 4. I told my dad there was NO way because I know the mailmans schedule and he hasn't been coming until 5. So my mom and I laughed at him and decided he didn't know what he was talking about.

So after waiting PATIENTLY for two and a half weeks my call finally arrived May 5th. AND my Dad was definitely right. I checked the mailbox at 3 and it was already in there just waiting for me.

My family and friends gathered around and made their guesses.

Me ready to open up my call (no I was not red/hot/sweaty/nervous to open my call at all)
My brother was so kind to count down EVERY minute until I was to open my call. When I asked him to stop talking he then sent it in a text message. Thanks.

Oh hey guys. What? You are waiting for me? Just let me send a text message real quick.

I was trying not to cheat by reading the name first but I will admit I saw a long word that started with a G.

I have been called to serve in the Guatemala Retalhuleu Mission!!! I will be speaking Spanish. I report June 16th and I have a feeling these next six weeks will fly by real quick! I am super excited and I couldn't be happier! I can't wait to serve the people of Guatemala.

Not a single soul ended up guessing right (except for Karter of course who you can see drawing a line from his guess in India to Guatemala. It was like that the whole time right?)

♥ Hermana Roney

Tom & Lucy's Art Shoppe

2010-04-22T14:05:00.000-07:00

I have been very busy making new things!

Ready and waiting.

Please come visit at:

Click for more info

♥♥♥

Finals Shminals

2010-04-19T13:41:00.000-07:00

Why am I doing this...

When I should be looking a little more like this?

Cause that's how I roll!

Whoever invented finals week is the worst person I know.

who needs headband?

4-year-olds ROCK

2010-04-13T14:54:00.000-07:00

At church I am lucky enough to teach the CTR 4 class. I learn so much from these kids every week. Sometimes they can be a challenge but most of the time they are hilarious.

A couple of weeks ago one of the cute boys in my class asked me if I was married. I told him I wasn't. After hearing this the whole class chimed in with suggestions on who I could marry. First with a finger pointed in the air and utter excitement he mentioned Max B (a 4-year-old in my class). I told them that probably would not work out. Then one of the other kids mentioned Max D (the boy who asked the question) so I informed them that they were probably a little young for me. After that they sat there completely stumped. Max D looked around in complete silence for a minute then as serious as could be said well... I guess you will have to marry the table.

Hello future husband...

♥ Z

Work Hard Now Play Later

2010-03-30T18:11:00.000-07:00

I have so much to do before I can be in the sun!

Which I can not wait for after this yucky day.

I need to:

do 6 bio reading quizzes
do 3 bio assignments
sew a dress
make a sewing portfolio
do a hand stitching sample
do 2 stats assignments
make an intern portfolio
write a 7 page paper
answer 43 emails

I can do it right?

thanks for the spring break BYU

z

Dear Future Husband

2010-03-30T09:21:00.000-07:00

When you propose to me I would like to be one of the first to know. Please don't tell everyone you are proposing to me that night. I would like it to be a surprise. You can tell my family but please leave it at that. Do not plan a big get together for afterward. We can call and tell people after it happens.

Sincerely,

Kenzie

March

2010-03-28T15:02:00.000-07:00

In like a....

Out like a....

Let's hope so!

♥ Z

That Time Again

2010-03-25T14:59:00.000-07:00

You know it is time to do laundry and you
ABSOLUTELY
can
NOT
put it off any longer when you run out of these...

Have You Heard?

2010-03-19T21:38:00.000-07:00

(yes Sallee I stole that title from you)

As many of you know I have been interning at Shabby Apple, which I have had a blast doing. Next Saturday March 27th Shabby Apple will be holding an event at the Riverwoods Mall. There will be an Easter Egg hunt at 10 am which will not only have candy for the kiddos but coups for the adults as well! You can come and try on dresses to make sure it fits just right before you make your big purchase for Easter (while the kids are being entertained in the kids corner). If you haven't seen Shabby Apple dresses they are very lovely and the little girls dresses are to DIE for.

Candy and discounted dresses.

What more could you need?

Now for the exciting part.

If you write a post about this event and post this cute little button on your blog then...

You will be entered into a drawing to win this FREE dress!

Make your post and for more details and to enter the drawing head on over here:

http://www.shabbyapple.com/blog/2010/03/have-you-heard.html

Everyone can enter.

You wont be disappointed.

The World is Our Campus

2010-03-15T17:00:00.000-07:00

I stumbled across this blog the other day and these girls are hilarious! They write about all the different personality types at BYU and everything that goes on there. All you other zoobs will be sure to appreciate this. It gave me a giggle or two and I hope it gives you one too :)

The World Is Our Campus

Embrace the Day

2010-03-08T21:11:00.000-08:00

Now Accepting

2010-03-04T07:18:00.000-08:00

Last Friday night we decided we would attend a party at UVU. When we got there we immediately knew it was going to be a quality night. What gave us that hunch you might be asking? Probably the group of college students smoking cigarettes out front. Um are we in Provo anymore? Nope. Orem. We proceeded to go inside but only after getting yelled at by the guy at the door for 10 minutes for not having our I.D.'s.

First things first we headed to the karaeoke room. We discovered the karaeoke room was being shared with bull riding (not sure who thought up that combo but it wasn't really working together) and we saw a girl riding it with her but crack hangin out and everyone laughing. Me next? We think looked over to the corner at the karaeoke just in time to see one of our fellow t-birds (a boy might I add) stick in lady gaga and proceed to do the whole dance in all seriousness. No one was clapping, a few people were laughing, but most were just staring in shock.

We then met some boys in the hall and talked to them for a while only to hear one of the boys lean over the another and not so quietly whisper "I guess they are cute enough". Thanks guys thats so nice of you! Peace.

To our pleasure we then sat down for speed dating. What's your favorite color? Do you like Jello or pudding? What's your major? Where are you from? Can I look you up on facebook? Scuse me sir you have been sitting at my table for three rounds. You are SUPPOSED to switch.

After this night my friend Julianne was kind enough to make me a dating application. Thanks girl! You're the best. It is perfect. You did not leave a thing out. Nope. So boys start sending em in. I'm ready.

Well ladies and gents here it is the moment you have been waiting for:

KENZIE RONEY NEEDS A HUSBAND
Must be 22 years of age and up.

Name:

Are you 22 yrs or older: yes no

Are you a return missionary?

If so, how long have you been home?

Do you go to UVU dances?

Where do you live?

How many girls have you kissed?

Do you own any necklaces?

If so, what do they look like?

Do you have a legit job?

Would you consider yourself a “provo all star”?

Do you have a criminal history?

Are you on any medications?

If so, what is it for?

Do you have a porn problem?

Do you attend the temple?

Do you still wear shirts that you wore in 9th grade?

Do you like school?

What are you going to major in?

Would you rather call or text?

Do you text & drive?

Are you in the military?

Do you have colorful tinted sunglasses?

Are you into “signs”? (ex. Zodiac, cander, etc.)

Do you cheat at school?

How many hrs do you spend on facebook?

Could you do the lady gaga dance if her song came on?

What were you for Halloween last year?

How many hours do you spend at the gym/tanning salon daily? Weekly?

Do you own a lasso?

Are you capable of calling and asking me out on a PLANNED date?

Have you ever been on 2 dates in one night?

Are you going to pack up camp and make any surprise moves anytime soon?

Do you know how many days, hours, minutes, & seconds your last breakup was?

Do you think you’re better than everyone else?

If we dated, and after we dated my friend started to like you, would you pursue my friend?

Do you like country music?

Are you into 2-week flings?

If I asked you to talk about your mission, could we openly talk about it?

Do you meet girls, somehow find out their names, and then secretly/creepily add them on facebook to get their numbers?

Do you have the guts to ask a girl for her number in person?

How many different ”kenzie”s do you have in your phone at the moment?

Are you a dancer?

Do you wear cologne of any kind?

Do you wear axe/bod for deodorant?

Sports player?

Do you like to watch some type of sport over others?

Do you even like sports? Any type?

Does your mom’s dad still have hair, or is he bald?

Are you the life of the party or the dud in the corner?

Do you dance nastily at “kik the block”?

Do you have edited music on your ipod?

Do you watch r-rated movies?

Do you swear?

Reference 1:

Reference 2:

Reference 3:

Thank you for your want and desire to date/marry kenzie. For your information..she likes bigger diamonds.

Congratulations

2010-03-02T22:17:00.000-08:00

TO ME!

Go to my headband blog to enter a giveaway!

zoonyszippers.blogspot.com

Hey Laaadies

2010-02-28T20:05:00.000-08:00

I have had a recent interest in doing a bike race. I am not an intense cyclist but I just think it would be a fun experience. The only problem is every time I see a race everyone participating looks so hard core and I would probably get last place... Until now. The other day I stumbled across Goldilocks a women only bike race. It is a non-competitive bike race for all ages. Some ladies are riding beach cruisers with their daughters while others are using it as a practice for bigger races.

I'm in.

who wants to do it with me?

please

ZZ

Procrastination

2010-02-22T23:03:00.000-08:00

Procrastination is my sin it brings me endless sorrow. I simply must stop doing it, I think I'll start tomorrow!

Yep, just finished doing five biology assignments.

The worst part about it is that they are all online so I stare at my computer for hours listening to Eric Simon.

Who is Eric Simon you might ask? Do let me share...

and yes he reads every question out loud.

Goodnight.

Free 99

2010-02-19T06:39:00.000-08:00

My lovely friend Bryn is doing a month of giveaways! This is something you will not want to miss!

batemanheadbands.blogspot.com

See's Chocolate

2010-02-16T18:04:00.000-08:00

This is how I eat my chocolates:

A bite out of each.
Always have.
Always will.
I have to know what is inside.

I had to take a picture of the pretty sky the other day.
How did all that snow already melt?

Love Z

Happy Valentines Day!

2010-02-14T16:25:00.001-08:00

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!
XOXOX
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

2010-02-09T15:56:00.001-08:00

LOVE this.

You have to be brave with your life in order for others to be brave with theirs.

What would we do without moms?

Love you MOM

♥♥♥

WWW

2010-02-07T18:56:00.000-08:00

It's very unfortunate when you need to internet to:

do homework

turn in homework

work

email

blog

facebook

pay tuition

register for a class

watch your fave episode of a TV show

check your bank account

LIVE

AND THE INTERNET IS DOWN!
Welcome back internet.

Kody always knows how to fix everything.

Shabby Apple

2010-02-04T19:08:00.000-08:00

This semester I am interning at Shabby Apple.
Shabby Apple is a dress company and they have many lovely women's dresses.
Girls dresses.
Exercise clothes.
We are coming out with a new line in a couple of weeks with some darling things.
I really like it there and I have lots of fun.
Tomorrow I will be on TV.
Yes, you heard right I will have my modeling debut tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock on KJZZ.
I will be wearing this lovely dress.
And I am required to wear nylons.
I hate nylons with a passion.
Whats a girl to do.

One of my favorite dresses.
I hope to own you one day.
loooove.

Happy Groundhog Day!

2010-02-02T21:11:00.000-08:00

Six more weeks of winter... sigh

Apparently Groundhog day is a BIG deal. This video made me laugh.

shhhh

2010-01-30T09:51:00.000-08:00

It's not often my house is this quiet. Or even quiet at all.

Probably cause this crazy guy is not here.

What would we do without him?

Ireland I ♥ You

2010-01-28T09:01:00.000-08:00

Last weekend I went to see the movie Leap Year with the lovely Jayci, and I fell in love with Ireland all over again. They made it absolutely perfect from there never being any outlets, the outlets exploding, to the pub, to the cows in the middle of the road, and last but not least the handsome Irish men. Irish men definitely do not fit their stereotype, they are not fat redheads. They are tall, dark, and handsome. Plus they have a nice accent as a bonus. Maybe my future husband is in Ireland? I guess I better go find him! Who wants to come??

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Decisions.

2010-01-25T21:28:00.000-08:00

If you know me then you probably know that making a decision has never been something I have been good at. Whether it is something big such as my career choices or something small like which flavor of ice cream I should get. For some reason I just can't do it. A lot of times I ask my mom what to do but she loves to torture me and force me to decide on my own. I wish I could have someone to make all my decisions for me. I think I have too many what ifs going through my head and I think way too hard about it when most of the time it really isn't even necessary. I mean come on cookie dough or mint chocolate chip flavor ice cream is not a life or death decision. I find it easier to make decisions on a whim and put no thought to it, like at a restaurant if I don't know what to get I just wait for the waiter to take our order and I will just hurry and say something. Sometimes I know the right choice but find it hard to bring myself to commit to it so I keep pushing the thought out of my head. Other times there is no right or wrong choice and it's all up to me. I need to stop thinking about things so much and just take a leap of faith. I don't really like new years resolution type of goals becuase they never seem to be very realistic, but I think this is something I want to work on this year.

This doesn't really have anything to do with anything but here is some inspiration for you from one of my favorite bloggers /artist:

Magic Curtain from katie sokoler on Vimeo.

xoxo z

Crazy Blog Mommies

2010-01-23T19:20:00.000-08:00

At my internship I do a whole lot of blog stalking as part of my job. I have learned a lot about blog mommies in the few weeks I have been there. My supervisor warned me of these things but I didn't believe her until I witnessed it myself.

#1 First off they use a ton of acronyms whenever and wherever they can, most of the time I don't even know what they mean. LH, NP, IDK, LOL, SH... don't ask me!

#2 Second of all I'm almost positive they camp out on their computers all day long. If you send them an email they are sure to send you one right back within minutes and then if you don't email them back immediately they email you (usually more than once) asking if you got their last email until you finally answer.

#3 They love getting things for free and they scheme to find ways to get free things.

#4 They are very defensive toward their blog and can get vicious if you don't give them what they want or do something they don't like.

These are just a few of my favorite things about mommy bloggers. I also run into a lot of crazy/ weird posts that keep me quite entertained. I have brought a few of my favorites to share with you.

These little guys are husband and wife finger puppets sold on Etsy. They are intended to be used for solving marital spats when talking gets too difficult. I can only imagine...

"When things become difficult between you an your husband/wife...
just put these cute finger puppets and let them talk through you!"

Now these little treasures are clip on bangs. I guess if you wanted to add a splash of color to your bangs you can just clip these puppies right on and you're good to go. Great invention.

If you would like the links to either of these products so you can invest in a pair let me know.

♥ Z

Pretty Things

2010-01-20T15:04:00.000-08:00

Head on over to my other blog to check out my new headbands!

2010-01-16T08:43:00.000-08:00

This post it for my mom. It's pretty self explanatory.

You're welcome MOM.

ZZ

Really?

2010-01-15T22:14:00.000-08:00

I was driving in my car the other day not really paying attention to the radio and then a commercial caught my attention. I kept hearing it say "that's so gay" so I turned it up and listened and it was an add against people saying things are "gay" because it is offensive. I tried to find the commercial online but instead I found these other lovely videos. Has anyone else seen these? Is it just me or are these commercials gay? Haha Jk. I do think they went about this in the wrong way. Judge for yourself...

Zoobies

2010-01-13T10:26:00.000-08:00

For those of you who don't know a Zooby is a BYU student. If you need further information let me know and I will educate you.

I am on campus pretty much every day and I have the privilege of overhearing many wonderful conversations. I thought I would share a few of my favorites.

Last semester when the swine flu was big while in class I heard this conversation from a couple of girls:

"what are you doing after class?

well I am going to go to the library so that I can
use the internet, just so that I can check my facebook and
then I am going to go home and take a nap so that
I don't get swine flu and then I will call you.

Ok call me."

This girl was dead serious. I'm glad you could plan out a time to check your facebook, and a nap will definitely prevent you from getting the swine flu. I also love how the other girl was just serious about it too. No laugh or anything just an ok call me.

Today I was lucky enough to overhear this conversation from two boys:

"So we're not officially dating until we put it as our relationship status on facebook?

No it's not legit until it is on facebook.

So what if I trick her into it and just send her an invite and she accepts?

That might work."

No relationship is complete or official without it being posted for the world to see on FB! All of you who don't have your relationship status declared you may want to rethink if you are really dating your significant other or not.

Last but not least BYU would not be complete without the POLICE BEAT and I would say this post from January 5th is pretty good:

Enjoy
♥ ZZ

hmmmm...

2010-01-09T18:44:00.000-08:00

I wish I lived here:

or here...

How perfect.
Z.

Dreams do Come True

2010-01-06T13:16:00.000-08:00

For quite some time now I have been watching this new hotel spring up at Deer Valley. It particularly caught my eye when I saw the tram they built to get to the hotel. When we went to get our ski passes it looked like this:After seeing it that day I really started to dream about riding the thing. I know you wish you could ride it too now that you see it. One day over Christmas break while skiing with my family to my delight my dad skied right up to the hotel and said we were going to look inside. He started to walk in with my uncle and I got a little distracted by some fire that was coming out of the ground at the entrance. I sped up to catch up to them and the first thing I saw was my uncle pushing the button for the tram. YES!! I started telling my sister and everyone with us "YOU GUYS THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!" They all just laughed at me and I don't think anyone even believed me besides Kortni because I have been telling her about doing this forever. While on the ride of course I had to get a picture, thank goodness Kody had his Iphone. Do you see the joy on my face?

While riding on the tram people were thinking we were crazy. One man in particular got on and we informed him that we were just riding the tram and we didn't want to get off. The first thing he said to us was "I told them they shouldn't have made this free". He didn't seem very pleased but my uncle cleared things up by telling him we were white trash. It was everything I had hoped for it to be.

Dreams of London

2009-12-28T20:22:00.000-08:00

Today was the best day of my life. (You will probably eventually discover that I have many best days of my life's) While in the UK over the summer I came to love many new things, one of these things were caramel digestives. Caramel digestives are a "biscuit with caramel covered in milk chocolate"... so good. I will admit that that name "digestives" is not too appealing especially for a cookie, but do not let this small detail scare you away. Once you try them you will be hooked, I promise. No matter where we were in a hostel, on a bus, a walk in Hyde Park, or in our flat we seemed to have a pack handy. In London my roomies Mandie, Jenny, and I would eat approximately a pack a day. Seriously. I don't know why I didn't come home larger than I did. I brought a pack home and shared some with my family and then put the rest in my room in a safe place. One day I decided I would savor one of these sacred cookies and I came to find that there was only one left. I immediately knew the culprit who had eaten several on the car ride home from the airport... KORTNI! I went into her room and accused her of eating all my cookies. She responded very calmly with "what? I left one for you!". Unbelievable. I finished of the last one before anyone else could get their hands on it. Ever since that day I searched high and low for these cookies but have only come across the plain chocolate ones which are not comparable to the caramel ones. Today while in Salt Lake I was pulling out of a parking lot and eyed a little shop called The London Market, I immediately headed in that direction. To my greatest surprise they had them! In the UK they usually cost around one pound which is a little less than two dollars. Here they were seven dollars but that didn't stop me, I still bought them. I am very satisfied with my purchase and I can't wait to eat them! If you ever come across a pack of these buy them and don't forget to pick up a pack for me!

xoxo z

Headband Party!

2009-12-17T09:42:00.000-08:00

On Saturday we will be having a headband party at Salon K in the Riverwoods mall from 1-5 pm. Come get the perfect Christmas gift that is sure to be loved. I will be selling my headbands which you can view at zoonyszippers.blogspot.com and Bryn will be there as well selling her beautiful crocheted items her website is batemanheadbands.blogspot.com. Salon K will also be offering 20% off their services all day! We will also be having refreshments so stop by for some food!

Winter Blues?!

2009-12-10T09:19:00.000-08:00

It may be freezing outside (yes it was one degree when I went to school this morning) but there are LOTS of reasons to LOVE winter!

You can...

warm up by the fireplace

my favorite part of winter wearing fun colorful tights!

bundle up and go sledding

wear cute hats

and drink yummy hot chocolate. With marshmallows of course!
(If you want to try the best hot chocolate you have ever had in your life go get some from Borders you will never be the same)

How do you stay warm?!

Patina Market

2009-11-15T13:24:00.000-08:00

This week I am very excited to be selling my stuff at Patina Market. Patina is a cute little store that sells handmade things and switches vendors every week. I think this is a great idea and I am so excited for them! The grand opening is this Wednesday the 18th. They will have free cupcakes and a free handmade gift for the first 50 people there!! There will also be free cookies and raffles all week long. Patina is located on 200 South Main Street In Pleasant Grove. For more info click HERE. I hope to see you there! xoxo

2009-11-10T07:28:00.000-08:00

I love love love this video! Now you don't have an excuse to be creative!

Bijou Market

2009-10-24T08:19:00.000-07:00

I will be selling headbands at the Bijou Market. There will be lots of other amazing vendors there as well! Come get some early holiday shopping done or just pick up a little something for your self (even though I doubt you could get out with one thing). I hope to see you all there!!

I'm going there someday.

2009-08-08T13:32:00.000-07:00

This is the first place we were sent to for church I talk about it at the end (I don't know how to move it).

While traveling I have had the opportunity to go see two temples here. The Preston temple was closed for remodeling or cleaning or something but we stopped to see it and take pictures of it when we left London. It was perfect weather we finally got to see the sun. The gardens outside of the temple were beautiful!
Preston Temple

I went to the London temple with some of the other girls in my group and we did baptisms for the dead. When we got there they had to call down everyone to come help up with the baptisms because they are not use to having lots of people there. They brought down the clerk and the sealer. There was also a cute little French family there and the dad baptized some of the girls in French. The old man that baptized us was so cute! He was so excited because he had done sealings that morning and then he got to come down and do baptisms. He baptized about six of us fifteen times and he had a big smile on his face the whole time.
London Temple

This isn't a temple but I thought I would add this in here. While living in London we were all assigned to different wards. The first time we went to church they definitely gave us the wrong directions and when we got to the address is was an old sketchy school that had twenty foot high fences and huge chains around the gate not to mention all the signs in the town were written in Hindi. (see the picture up top). I know I good idea send five white girls in their nice church clothes in the middle of a scary neighborhood. There were few white people in our ward and they would all address us as BYU student. All the people in the ward were very welcoming and so happy to see us, they were so happy every single Sunday.

These are the cute primary children I taught.

Plays, Church, and Meg Ryan

2009-08-02T01:37:00.000-07:00

Oh La La Pareee!

2009-07-26T00:56:00.000-07:00

Last weekend we decided to take a weekend trip to Paris. No big deal right?! I mean in utah you could take a weekend trip to St. George or maybe Las Vegas. But here we can get to Paris in two hours... crazy! Paris was a big adventure and if you go there I highly recommend you bring someone who speaks French. Basically everyone there speaks English but since they all hate the English they refuse to speak it to you and since none of us spoke French sometimes we had a hard time communicating.

This is us waiting at the train station to get on the "chunnel". The chunnel is a high speed train that travels under the ocean. After having to pop our ears several times from the pressure it got us to Paris in about two hours.
We arrived there pretty early in the day and once we got off the train we had no idea where to go. All we knew is that our hotel was right by the Louvre. After struggling to find the right metro train to get on we finally found it. The metro in Paris is nothing like the tube in London. The tube is heavenly compared to that thing. The metro is dirty and there are a lot of creepy men hanging out down there. Also I do not ever suggest taking the metro with all of your luggage. We got off the metro and wandered around in the streets for a while looking for our hotel when finally a French man asked us if we were lost. We all had the same thoughts running through our heads. We don't want to tell him where we live because it is possible we could get "taken" but he is the first person willing to speak English to us. So to play it safe we asked him how to get to the Louvre and after replying "oh la la" he pointed us in the right direction and that was that.
We finally found our hotel. (Timhotel which we decided sounded asian). We got organized and then we decided we wanted to go see the Eiffel tower. We weren't exactly sure where is was but we could definitely see it so we decided we would just start walking towards it. As we walked it kept getting bigger and bigger and we were really excited but it turns out looks can be deceiving and it wasn't as close at it appeared to be. Finally we turned a corner and bam there it was! Naturally we were all freaking out we were way too excited. We decided to save ourselves a pretty big sum of money by walking up the stairs instead of taking the lift. Boy did we walk up a lot of stairs. When we finally made it to the top it was beautiful (picture above). Worth it!!

While in Paris we could not resist two things... Gelato and...

Crepes! Might I add we had our fair share.

Top of the Eiffel Tower.
Inside the Louvre. Can anyone name this CD cover??
The Louvre was GIGANTIC. It by far dominates the British Museum and had way cooler stuff. We were there for almost a whole day and we were far from seeing everything but we were sure to see the most famous items. Of course we saw the Mona Lisa (picture above and yes mom those are headphones.) I have learned so much about paintings and artwork at school and so I really enjoyed getting to actually see them in real life!
Just trying to blend in with the locals.
Arc de Triomphe.
From the top of the Arc we could see the Eiffel tower and there was a way cool lightening storm. Once it got dark the Eiffel tower had millions of lights all over it that started flashing. Its hard to tell from the picture above but the Eiffel tower was glittering. It was very cool!
The last night we were here we wanted to ride bikes. We were so excited especially since it was against the rules. Wild I know! But to our dismay you can only ride the bikes there if you have a European credit card because they have a special chip in them. Instead we decided to ride this ferris wheel. It was fun until the creepy carnival man wouldn't let us off and kept spinning it around and around. We were almost in tears (especially Sarah) when he finally let us off.
This is the Sacre Coeur by far my favorite place in all of Paris! It was a cute sort of secluded little place. There were quaint little restaurants and artists painting in the surrounding area. I bought a cute painting from the nicest man named lulu. He was so happy and cute trying to speak english to me. When I left he said I um... maybe see you later? He was the cutest little man. After we gathered on the front steps of the Sacre Coeur to listen to a little concert by Youri and somehow we ended up in the front dancing in front of everyone. It was awesome!! We are now owners of Youri's CD, I highly recommend him!
This is all the people we danced in front of!
Us being sad because we couldn't ride the bikes.
Goodbye Paris! I hope to see you again someday! (perhaps during the Tour de France or on a romantic get away with my hubby... if I ever find one)

Foggy London Towne

2009-07-13T00:43:00.000-07:00

The British Museum. This is like the biggest museum I have ever been to. I'm sure you could spend the whole day there and not see everything. There were tons of ancient things here we spent a lot of time in the Egyptian section. We even saw the Rosetta Stone.

This is inside the British Museum.

St. Pauls

So we went inside St. Pauls and had to be quite because they were holding mass (could you imagine sitting in sacrament meeting or being in the temple and having tourists walking all around you?). First we climbed about 200 steps to the whispering gallery. The whispering gallery is in the dome of St. Pauls. You can whisper something to the wall where you are sitting and the people all the way across the dome on the other side can hear your whisper. This kept us entertained for a while and then we prepared to climb the next flight of stairs to the balcony. We weren't allowed to take pictures inside but the picture above is a little hole in the ground from the top that looked all the way down to the floor. We climbed up more stairs and ended up...

here. With a lovely view of London. If you look closely you can see big ben and the London Eye.

After that we climbed even MORE stairs and ended up here. This is the view from the top. It was a tiny balcony so it was hard to get a good picture cause we were so close to the wall. In the end we climbed up about 500 stairs. We were all a bit sweaty... no joke. Also after joking about jumping off being the only way down we were quickly reassured (not so jokingly) by staff that there was another set of stairs to climb back down. Turns out four people have committed suicide here in the past ten years.
After much anticipation Mandie and I finally convinced the others that we should go here! (I don't know why no one else wanted to). This is the London Eye and the building to the right of it changes colors. It was amazing, I was freaking out. I will be back to ride this thing before I go home, don't worry.

Also to add to the excitement it was Big Ben's 150th birthday! We were really excited because we heard there was a birthday celebration, when we arrived we didnt see anything going on. Mandie asked the hot dog man and the nut man and they didn't know what we were talking about. Then she asked a police man and the celebration was that they were projecting this happy birthday sign on the side of Big Ben... best bday party I've ever been to!

Happy Birthday big guy!

The House of Parliament, these things all look very cool lit up at night. It was pouring rain so I apologize for the rain drops on the lens.

For all you Harry Potter Freaks

2009-07-11T01:43:00.000-07:00

The Great Hall

Sitting on a castle wall in Conwy.

We saw Les Miserables last night. It was amazing!!

Kings Cross.

Waiting for Les Miserables to start.

Inside Kings Cross.

Platform 9 3/4

Christ's Church. We went to mass here.

Flying on our brooms. Duh.

Professor Dumbledore stood here.

We LOVE Harry Potter!

Mom this ones for you. Headphone tour.

The view from the castle wall. You can see the castle on the water.

We watched this beautiful sunset from the castle wall.

I wish you all were here!!

Church History

2009-07-11T01:06:00.000-07:00

Gadfield Elm Chapel. The oldest LDS chapel in the world.

When you go visit the chapel it is locked so they have this code on the door with questions that only mormons would know so they can look inside.
Herdfordshire Beacon Where Brigham Young and Wilford Woodruff went to pray and got inspiration to make a new Hymn book.
The Pond at Hill Farm. Wilford Woodruff baptized 300 people here and converted 1200 others.

Goodbye Ireland... Hello Wales!

2009-07-08T00:26:00.000-07:00

K so this post is backwards but I takes forever to load pics so I don't want to reload them. Feel free to start from the bottom.

Wales is beautiful, there are waterfalls everywhere! It kind of reminds me of home with the mountains and everything, minus the castle on the beach. I don't have a picture of the hostel we stayed in but it was quality. It had plugs, an elevator, and a bathroom! Oh the things to be grateful for. Also our bus driver was funny, after figuring out we were LDS he went on to explain that they have missionaries in Wales that are out teaching and people are actually joining our church. He went on to say that he knows where they are and he could take us to meet them, he was really excited about this. We tried to explain to him that we have missionaries every where but he didn't seem to understand. It was so cute!

Careful of these things while in the castle.

Super models.

Some one actually lives in this house.

Hello Wales!

Jacob. He may or may not be really cool.

Goodbye Ireland!

My special friends on a ferry ride from Ireland to Wales.

The convent we stayed in.

The City of Dublin

2009-07-05T07:27:00.000-07:00

Romantic moments.

Michael Jackson lives? Of perhaps just in mourning?

some war monument thing.

Streets of Dublin

Prettiest flower markets all along the street.

Trinity College. We saw the Book of Kells here.

Just in case.

Interesting facts, advice, and stuff about me:
-If all your blow dryers explode... use the hand dryer in the bathroom
-My hair is a fro here (which explains why it is slicked back in all my pics)
-we have been staying in an old convent
-there is a rather large Jesus statue right outside our window
-the cafeteria here is in the church part and we so luckily get to wake up to techno music blasting there at breakfast.
-The telephone booth is in the confessional.
-Once again our leaders told us to walk to church this morning because it was "close"
-I gave a talk at a fireside in Dublin tonight and it was a really cool experience.
-We have been told the weather has been the sunniest here this week than it has been in fifty years... I have yet to see the sun.
-restaurants don't like you here if you don't drink.
-ten completely different girls stuck in one room together every night can get along perfectly fine.
-I'm off to Wales on a ferry tomorrow!

Picture Overload.

2009-07-03T16:57:00.001-07:00

Happy fourth of July everybody! I am sad I am missing it. Unfortunately I have to be in Ireland. Poor me.

Graves at The Rock of Cashel.

Inside the rock of Cashel. It was very cool.

My new store.

The Rock of Cashel.

Kissing the Blarney stone. Good luck for me! (I hope the rumors aren't true that people pee on this thing)

Blarney Castle. Amazing.

Ross Castle. Boring.

A waterfall we hiked to.

We have gone to a ton of sites in the last couple of days you would never even imagine possible. Here is a typical day. Wake up, eat hostel breakfast, get on bus, drive/sleep, stop at sites, walk a thousand miles (our leaders tell us to walk to places that are "close" which aren't at all), eat, bus/sleep, go to hostel, carry our heavy suitcases up hostel stairs, sleep. We have now left the country and are in an actual city (dublin) which is nice for a change. But I am ready to stay in one spot and not be packing and unpacking all the time.

I Made It!!

2009-07-01T10:59:00.000-07:00

"may be slippy" - I love this

After sitting in the airport for hours and sleeping oh so uncomfortably all night on the airplane I finally made it! I am currently sitting in a pub having some crack (fun) eating delicious fish and chips. Internet is kind of a rare find while staying in hostels so we chose to eat here because it had free wifi. Hurray! Yesterday seemed like the longest day ever and a lot of waiting around for everyones flights to make it. Some people were delayed and others all together cancelled (glad it wasn't me). The last person finally made it here today. Anyways Ireland is AMAZING. I think it is one of the prettiest places in existance. Everything is so green here! It is everything you picture Ireland to be. Green fields, old castles, rain, sheep in the roads... you get the point. We have visited several little quaint towns that have the cutest houses here. Unfortunately I don't have all my pictures available to post (I have already taken around 200) but I did load a few pictures on my computer last night. I wish I had more. Sorry this post isn't really in order... I am new to this. I slept in a little hostel last night, there were ten girls in one room. These pictures are just a tiny sample of what I have been up to. The picture of green fields above does not even come close to doing this place justice!
First thing we did was go to a REAL castle. This is Bunratty castle, it was very cool. I'm having lots of fun. More pics to come!

Out of Order

2009-06-26T12:12:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I came home to find this.

My bedroom door had been blocked.

Also my bathroom door looked like this. And was unfortunately...

Out of Order!
Thanks Keaton!
Three more days...

SIX DAYS!

2009-06-23T18:11:00.000-07:00

So I will be leaving six days and this is going to be my new home. It looks like something in a movie... don't be jealous!