Saturday, March 29, 2008

ARIZONA!!!

Where could I even possibly start to begin with this?? I just came back from tuck-son!! Well, Sierra Vista exactly, but I think it's funny the way Tucson is spelt, so I had to add that in. But anyway, it's probably one of my favorite trips I've ever taken. :D It was just totally incredible to chill with my favorite cousins! (and cousins once removed we found out [go google!]). I probably got more inside jokes in these last couple of days with Matt and Lori than I've made with some of my closest friends over like 5 years. We're just that cool! So obviously, I went to Arizona to visit Matt, Lori, Cody, and Elena. It was pretty freaking amazing. I really just didn't want to leave. :) What did we do you may ask? Well, let me explain...

-We met the jean jacket nazi (no jean jacket for you! RECEIPT!!)
-We experienced lucky skin (what's this on my mouth? eww i think it's matts lucky skin!)
-We rode in the small car (good thing we're in the small car and can fit in here. oh i wish we were in the big car so the window wasn't so high! hey were you the girl on the phone?)
-We cranked up the music on the way to coldstone (YEAH TOAST!)
-We forgot money...more than once. ({1}[lori] jenna do you have any extra money? [jenna] no. [lori] could you hold these sandwiches? we'll be right back. i left my money at home. {2} [matt] oh dang it! lori has my credit card and i don't know the pin number for this one!)
-We learned a lot about telling the truth (would you like a twice-as-nice opinion on that one?)
-We discussed the discovery of milk (hmm what are these? let's pull them. hey! white stuff! let's drink it! wow! look how strong my bones are!)
-We ordered pasta (could you just read the whole menu please? now describe that one. I could've sworn there was chicken!)
-We played Guitar Hero ([matt]i just don't get how you strum so fast! [jenna] you don't strum on those notes. [matt] oh.)

Matt beasting it up on Medium!

-We watched Charlie the Unicorn many times (chaaarrlliee!!!! lets go to candy mountain!! [look dad i'm on candy mountain!])
-We stayed up until 3 AM (matt. matt. MATT! pepsi? ice cream? chocoloate? nothing?)
-We got Indian nail polishers (look how shiny my nails are!)
-We made S'more inventions (that's the greatest invention since frankenstein)

chocolate inside the marshmellow. :)

-We learned new words ( [lori] you BEEYO... [manager] why hello ladies how are you? [jenna and lori] oh just great!)
-We earned orange slices (great hopscotch! here's an orange slice!)
-We fell asleep in dirt (i'm just going to lay down right in front of the fire...)

isn't she adorable in the dirt??

-We had a great dinner! (go delios!!!!!!)
-We looked at boogers a whole different way ([cody]mom, a burger. [lori] go get a kleenex then. [cody] no that's alright, i'll just put it back up)
-We wrote fridge messages (jenna, i think your spelling is getting better!)

it's only true :)

-We ate healthy junk food (hey, it's better than peanut butter dipped in chocolate)
-We played Clue! ([lori] DEEHEEHEE!! i know the answer! i'm so excited! AAHAH i can't keep a poker face! [matt] it was pro plum... [lori] INTERESTING choice. [matt] mr. custard?)
-We blamed Elena ([lori] ok, i swear that was elena)
-We deformed ourselves (stay right there cody...)

Matt's expression of my beating him in Guitar Hero

Cody and I doing the pirate face!

-We ate super nachos!! (oh look a french fry! *chomp chomp*)
-We made an amazing fire! (burn baby burn! [go twin!])
-We almost ran people over (why ya'll up in my grill?!)
-We were creative in our breakfast making (oh no there's not enough room!)

Matt with the greatest bowl of cereal in the world...

-We had a water drinking contest ( [jenna] *slurp slurp* i finished! [lori] but you still have ice left! [jenna] you filled it up!)
-We made a Christian Siriano fan club (so fierce!)
-We love words (crankees! befuddle! dookie! holy dang! leoplurodaun! [magical leoplurodaun!])
-We put the neighbors tumbleweeds on fire ([neighbor] hey who took my three tumbleweeds?!)

We made sure it didn't start a fire on the other side of the fence.

And much more! Imagine if I had stayed longer than four days... Wow. We even decided names for my future four kids, two boys and two girls. The girls will be Mallory and Elissa and the boys will be Brigham and Reese. Awesome right? My husband better think so! Dahaha. But really, Matt and Lori are two of the most amazing people I have ever met in my life! I'm so blessed to know them and be related to them. :) I can only WISH that some day I will be such great cousins/ friends/ parents/ PEOPLE as them. I can't wait until summer for our family reunion and I can see them again! Even though I'll be moving in with them shortly. :) If only they knew how much they really meant to me... I love you guys!! I guess you could say that the whole visit was pretty dang FIERCE!!!


Here are some more pictures for your enjoyment. Hehe.

My cousins once removed. :)


My twin. <3


Favorite cousin! (i look so sad. dahah)


I know you're laughing...

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Easter Time!!

So of course today was Easter! The first picture to the right is my favorite one of the whole day. :) So Easter started off with a bang...going to church! The lessons were cool so that was all good. When we got home, we took a bunch of pictures and then went to Grandma's house for dinner and an easter egg hunt. Then when we got back, we decorated our eggs and had our own easter egg hunt and then ate. A lot. Lots and lots of chocolate. Hehe. The pictures actually turned out really well even with my rebellious facemaking. I hate taking serious pictures! It's too hard! But somehow we managed. I was messing around with my camera in the kitchen which is how I got that amazing peep picture down there. I also got a few other cool ones but I'm not posting those. Sorry. :) It was just an all over amazing and chill day that didn't go by too fast or too slow. And I enjoy that of course. I hope everyone else had a great Easter, too!!

I have names for all of these pictures :)
starting from the top it goes...
Looking at Bruiser
The Boys
The Rentals
The Crazy Kids
The Girls
The Life of a Peep

Thursday, March 13, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALLISON!!


Can you believe this amazing girl is 14? I'm so happy! Only my best friend in the world. I got her something, but I haven't sent it yet. :) It's a tradition that our gifts are always belated. Hehe. So what to say about my amazing Allison? I only love her more than anything!! I CANNOT wait until EFY!!! We're going together and we are going to have the absolute most funnest time ever in the entire universe!! Dah I just can't wait. If you haven't met her, you are missing out on life. I have had the greatest times of my life with this girl! From way back when we would spray her trampoline with her hose and jump on it in our swimsuits, to not too long ago going to In-N-Out in California and fast food Italian restaurants in Utah. We made a rock collection when we were about 8 that we both still have!! We also have best friend necklaces. Allison's says BEST and mine says FRIEND. You have no idea how hard it was to choose that. Me going for the blue baseball necklaces and her going for the pink flower necklaces. Miraculously, we came out with one we both like! The laughs we've had are too many to even fathom to count!! (haha, fathom) We are the true example that opposites attract. Just by looking at the picture of Halloween many years ago, you can see that. Not only do we look completely different, but our we act completely different, too. I've always been the tomboy "love sports" and "in your face" competitive girl who would rather dive in the mud than go shopping for jewelry, while Allison has always been the sweet "hate sports" and graceful dancer girl who loves jewelry and would rather go shopping than touch a soccer ball. I just love that so much!! I have so many millions of pictures of Allison and I, but I picked out just a couple of my favorites. If you wanted a true best friend, this girl would be perfect. Trust me, I know. :D I'm so blessed to have her as my bestest buddy ever and i love her to death!! Now if only she didn't live in Utah, everything would be perfect...

Sunday, March 9, 2008

the most amazing tournament...


Ok so yesterday was just an all over amazing day. I had like the funnest tournament ever! It was supposed to be in San Francisco, but it got moved to Valejo. We were going to go shopping in San Francisco, too! But instead we played in some barn thing. :D (ahha) My team is so amazing. Gosh I couldn't play because my back is still healing, but I cheered amazingly! I think my cheering did a lot, too because our team WON FIRST PLACE!!! We didn't even lose one game! Dahah. Be jealous. We had SOOO much fun! We played the most random games during our free time that made me laugh harder than I have laughed in a long time. It all started last night. I slept over at Elissa's (the one in the headband right next to me) house which was incredibly fun. The whole tournament was great and we all played like a team for the first time! After that, Elissa and her mom, Erin and her mom, and I went to Claim Jumpers. We got the Motherload!! (7 layer chocolate cake). Goodness it was so amazing.

one, two, three


Hmmm so of course my first blog ever is about my beautiful Bruiser! I love this picture of him, well, a lot. Isn't it like the most amazing picture you've ever seen?? Dahh so Bruiser is 5 years old now and time is going too fast. I still remember him as a little hampster sized thing! Ahaha. With no fur...ahh the good old days. So yes. I love him [a lot]. :D