ASIA

Earlier this month, I had the awesome opportunity to travel to Asia!

I spent one week in Japan and one week in China, and had the time of my life.

Here are a couple iphone pics from the trip.

(many, many more pictures coming soon).



*all pictures edited with vsco cam. check out my viso grid here.

in case you've been wondering what i've been up to lately...

many, many more posts coming soon. :)

 

Weekend

my weekend consisted of sleepovers, making oreo truffles with my family, meeting up with friends at a pioneer activity, winning cupcake eating contests, learning how to square dance, shoe shopping, and lots of eating. ;)

"you'll shoot your eye out!"*

 in between morning and afternoon conference yesterday,

erik and hunter taught laura and i how to shoot a gun.

 it was terrifying, and my arm is hating me for it today, but i ended up having a TON of fun. :) 

{and, i'm not going to lie, i felt pretty hardcore.}

 "i think everyone is just automatically more attractive when holding a gun. seriously. you could give a gun to anyone and they would be good looking."

"this sounds like something i could interpretive dance to."

"you don't have to say yes...yet. but you cant say no."

"consider this scenario: if there was a bomb scare at your school, and there were dinosaurs and fog surrounding the outside, and you knew i had a helicopter, what would you do?"

*{quick! name that movie!}

a few of my favorite things

in honor of president's uchtdorf's message about turning the mundane into the majestic,

 i would like to list off a few little things that have made me very happy this week.

being the oldest kids at skate world.

making brownies in a mug.

cute handouts from young womens.

 the weirdos i see walking down the street. :)

my handsome little brother.

my friend Tristin, who wears bow ties to school.

"ode to CasiDee" {written by the wonderful Whitney.},

 a pola of me from efy,

a letter from my favorite missionary,

 the most awkward photo booth strip of Laura and i from OMSI,

 and my favorite poem called "In Life."   

 this hunky man.

and this beautiful quote from Gordon B. Hinckley.

life according to my iphone, the bachelorette, music, and other stuff.

I love hanging with friends and babysitting cutie patooties.

So, here's the dealio. I told myself I wouldn't watch The Bachelorette this season. I promised myself. But I was sick today...and there was nothing better to do...

and now I'm hooked. there's no stopping me now.

I'm pretty much head over heels in love with William. And i really, really do not like the wine making guy. or the bald guy. And there's just something about Bentley...

And seriously? What is up with Batman? And the guy that got drunk?

Oh boy...

In other news, I just discovered some great songs. I've been listening to them non-stop today.

1: Fix You-Coldplay

2:Colours-Grouplove

3:Big Jet Plane-Angus and Julia Stone

4:Skinny Love-Birdy

5:Holding a Heart-Girl Named Toby

Oh, and guess what? This is my 100th post! WOO HOO! My mom said that I should do a "100 things about me" post. And I said: "Ha. Right. I'm not that interesting."

So how about a 10 things about me post?

Okay, here we go...

1: I once got chased by a llama. Two of them, actually. They chased me and my mom and my mom hopped a fence and left me there to die. But don't worry. I used the force to make them back off. No harm was done.  

2: I can some what play the guitar. But you will never hear me play! Never!

3: I can some what play the piano. I pretty much kick behind at "Let it Be" and "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" but I cant really play anything else.

4: I once met Lebron James. He gave my brother a T-shirt.

5: I also met The Fonz. He was pretty much awesome.

(My brother and the Fonz)

6: I once woke up with a black eye. Just...woke up. I didn't do anything. If you wanna see pictures, click here. But just a warning, those pictures were taken back before I plucked my eyebrows...

7: I almost died in a mosh pit at a Vampire Weekend concert. (and seriously? who moshes to Vampire Weekend?!) I also punched a drunk teenager at a Dashboard Confessional concert.

(My mom and I at the Dashboard concert.)

(Ezra, the lead singer from Vampire Weekend.)

8: I've ridden a camel in the desert.

9: I went to the 25th anniversary of the goonies in Astoria, Oregon. (where they filmed it!) I got to meet some of the cast, and even got "arrested" in the jail!

10. I modeled once. Which is crazy because I am soooooo awkward in front of a camera.

Well...that's it! Holy cow that was a long post...

What time is it?

(summer time!)

I only have 8 A-days and 9 B-days left of my freshman year.

Can I get a "HALLELUJAH"?

haha, just kidding.

I love school, (mostly) but I love summer even more.

I cant wait for EFY and Europe and Girls Camp and sleeping in and staying up late and getting tan and OH MY GOSH.

I am so excited.

:)

over spring break i...

grew a mustache,

made cookies with my little sister,

had a photoshoot with my beautiful friend whitney,

and had a sleep over with her too!

and then i hung out with this cutie patootie and helped her make some youtube videos of her singing.

spring break was so much fun, and now i'm even more antsy for summer to come! how was your spring break?