WE COULDN'T TAKE A GOOD PICTURE IF OUR LIVES DEPENDED ON IT.

Well, it's official:

I am getting old.

All of my friends are leaving on missions. This kid left 3 months ago. He got out of the MTC Tuesday and is now in Ukraine! Speaking Russian! In Ukraine! This is so crazy.

And now with the new age change, many of my friends will be leaving within this next year.

Sometimes I can't help but think how fast my life is going.

I leave for college in one year. I leave for my mission in two. This is so crazy.

Good luck to you, Elder Knighton! Ukraine wont know what hit 'em. ;)



YOU DONT KNOW YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL

The other day I got to help out my friend Whitney make this video.
You guys, Whitney is honestly the best. She's so creative and cute.
I mean, this video! It is awesome, am I right?
I was basically just there to yell at the boys and get them to pay attention.
I also interviewed them, obnoxiously ate a cookie, and provided comic relief (which you can see in the bloopers.)
There's no need to congratulate me. I did it out of the kindness of my heart. Really.
Okay, onward.
Ladies and gentlemen, I now present to you...
the priests and laurels of the council creek ward! At their finest!
(ps, you should really watch this in HD. So much better.)

 

 

ROSIE THE RIVETER

I've been working on a really fun photography project lately where i re-create portraits of iconic women.

 This one is of me, posing as Rosie The Riveter.

I've also done one of Twiggy, Marilyn Monroe, and Lucille Ball.

Check them out at my photography blog, if you want to!

 

A PLAYLIST FOR YOU

coconut skies//damien rice

such great hights//iron & wine

outside villanova (live)//eric hutchinson

all the pretty girls//fun.

the last time//taylor swift feat. gary lightbody

re:stacks//bon iver

hey ya//obadiah parker

by and by//brett dennen

what i wouldn't do//a fine frenzy

bulletproof weeks//matt nathanson

THAT TIME I CRASHED A HALLOWEEN PARTY AND IT WAS THE BEST DECISION I'VE EVER MADE.

We dressed up as robbers.
Everyone thought I was a French girl.
We helped out at the ward dinner and then crashed a halloween party.
It sounds a lot cooler than it actually was.

LAURA'S A BABE SAY WHAT.

Here's an instax that I took of Laura the other day.

You can see more pictures I took of her at my photography blog!

JOSHUA RADIN & A FINE FRENZY

a super cool parking garage. the best named restaurant in all of portland. a waitress with an adorable accent. crazy men holding fake babies on the side of the street. attractive men that look just like james dean. trying to take a picture of that man without getting caught and failing miserably. getting front row seats. the lady that threatened to sue rockelle for talking to her. waiting and waiting and waiting. taking obnoxious and unattractive pictures to past the time. the weird girls behind us that kept trying to take pictures of my shoes. making new friends. namely, the guy standing next to us that said, "okay girls, you gotta hold your ground. because this sexy (points at his face) can only hold back so many people from trying to take our spots." also, emerald! the adorable girl standing right next to us. it was her first concert and joshua dedicated a song to her. she was bawling and kept looking at us saying, "DID YOU JUST SEE THAT?" alison sudol, the lead singer of a fine frenzy. newest girl crush, no questions asked. she's stinking adorable. and when she sang almost lover? AMAZING. i have no words. it was beautiful and emotional and you could've heard a pen drop in there. gave me chills. listen to it here, would ya? (i didn't take the video, but i was standing really close to the person that did.) the amount of times joshua looked right at me. all of us buying the same t-shirt. meeting him!!! how he remembered us from last year, and told us that we looked so cute and beautiful and all grown up. (!!!) telling him that i play guitar and then getting his picks. and he signed them, too!

basically, best concert of my life. 

On to the pictures!  

funny story: the lady that took pictures before us was really crazy. she put her hand on joshua radin's stomach for the picture and it was kind of... weird. cassidy, laura and cerena were appalled. "disgusting! who would ever do that?" they said. "are you guys kidding me?" i asked. "it's joshua radin! i would do it!" they didn't believe me. they told me i would never do something like that. and being myself, i had to prove them wrong.

by the way, rock. solid. you're welcome. (i know you were all wondering.) 

also, this is now my facebook profile picture (but my mom is cropped out of it.) (sorry mom) and we totally look like couple. isn't that just the greatest thing you've ever heard?



listen to some of my favorite joshua radin songs here here here and here.