So, funny story. UPDATED

My life hasn't been as un-enventful lately. You can probably tell because I haven't blogged in over a week. Very unlike me.

I learned last week at church in my home ward just how many people read my blog. So that was interesting. Made me hope I haven't put anything too embarrassing on here. :P

This post will be about a few funny stories of the last week.

first one was at work.

I was giving the person on the express lane a break {as in I took over their register so they could go chill in the break room or do whatever} and I ring this lady up and then she pulls out 5 100 dollar bills. and she gave them to me!!! JOKE! she totally didn't. that would have been cool though. No, she asked me if I could give her 500 1 dollar bills for them. I literally laughed out loud because lets be honest, I thought she was joking! But she got mad at me for laughing at her! And then she was upset when I told her I didn't have that many.

I have a question for you.

How many 1 dollar bills do you think I have in my till?

A- 13
B-25
C- 56
D- 70

Okay, if you answered B or C you'd be closest. I usually don't ever have more than 56. most of the time it's probably around 30.
I don't know why she thought I had 500 1's.... but, no, I don't. It was slightly entertaining.

After Betsy's bridal shower, chowing down. 

Next- the story of Lauren putting oil in her car. so it's not really that funny of a story, but kind of. We were in Logan, for Betsy's bridal shower and her car says 15% oil. Or something like that. So we end up going to walmart and getting oil to put in it. the best part was that she wanted me to photograph the whole thing. So I did. Sara was helpful in holding the lid of the oil. It was a success too. At least I think. I mean, we made it home fine. So obviously the oil went in the right place.




Man, sometimes we do such manly things! We rock!
Also, this one time I totally changed my blinker light bulb all by myself with my dad's instructions. But that was a random side note.

Next story- Last night, Glen {remember this, and this, and this? yeah, that same Glen.} and I went out on a little date to Salt Lake. It was a blast and a half. I'm not blogging about that whole thing, at least right now {because we did a lot of stuffs}, just a particularly funny story from it.







As part of the night we went to this concert. I enjoyed it, I think he did to. We were going out of the building and were taking a picture of ourselves and then he asked this lady if she'd take our picture for us. So this lady takes one

{flash on, because its dark} and she looks at it and says "oh, you guys need a better one. So you can see the temple in the back" So she proceeds to turn the flash off. {in my head I'm thinking, that's not going to work, it's too dark} so she takes another one after I help her turn the flash off, playing along.

Called it, blurry. lady says, "Oh! I can't hold still enough I guess. Do you have a night time mode? You guys are so cute, you need a good one!" {I think to myself, night time mode still isn't going to work, but this is funny, most people aren't this dedicated to getting a picture for a random couple.} So she takes another one in night mode.

still blurry. she says, "Let me try that one, one more time." So Glen and I smile again, but they were like real real smiles cause we were kind of laughing. Too bad you can't see them very well.

you can kind of see our extra reals smiles...

So that one was blurry too. And then she decides that the flash was the best option after all {which is why I had it on that setting in the first place hahahaha.} and she decides that even though she already did one on flash, she'd do one more.

So we got our last and final picture. i'm pretty sure she would have taken another one, but I reassured her I knew how to use photoshop so I could lighten the temple to make it work. {which i wasn't really planning on,} but just to make the series complete, I did a quick job of it. So, the final product of a few minutes of Glen and I getting our pictures taken from this really nice and concerned lady-

It doesn't look good lightened.... but, at least you
can see the temple more like the lady was so concerned about!

It was kind of awesome. Glen and I walked away smiling and laughing about the situation. I enjoyed it immensely.

Next, and final. Tonight at dinner, we had chocolate milk. Gemma kept reaching for the food and dad dipped his finger in the chocolate milk and let her try it! Ash says that everything else they've let her just take a taste of she didn't like at all. No, she LOVED the chocolate milk! she pretty much attacked it! So he gave her a little more. and a little more. and she kept grabbing his cup and was sucking on the cup! Ash finally said no more and she cried when she couldn't get anymore. Nathan said they're going to start putting nesquick powder in her formula. haha. Ash didn't think it was funny though. So, Dad was right, Gemma's going to love chocolate milk.
She recorded it on her phone, but I don't have that video. But, I do have a video of another darling thing Gemma is doing now.

Enjoy.

UPDATED!!! Ash sent me the video and pictures.

a few funny stories.

Good news, you guys! I get to go to church tomorrow in Berlin! I'm so excited!

Also, i bought a new shirt today because I'm incredibly sick of wearing the same few every week. And good news again!- it has lace on it. :D it's pretty. But simple. Not that you even care about my shopping adventures in Berlin.


I have a few funny stories though...

1- lost in berlin-

so first night we were in berlin. we had just eaten {some delicious indian food} and were freezing because no one told us it was going to go from sweltering heat to -20 degrees in 30 minutes. so we get on the underground and are going going going and then Carsten yells all of a sudden "this is our stop, home slices!" {so maybe not the home slices part.... but the likes.} and everyone waddles off the train.... except stacey and sylvia... and then a few people cussed and then we laughed cause it was slightly funny..... And whitney decided to record us on her iphone pretending to be scared. But don't even worry because they got off on the next stop and came right back. It was funny... unless it would have been me. then i would have been worried. Carsten's face was priceless though.


2- Lindy and the shutting doors while German lady yells at her.

So Lindy and steve were in charge of getting us to and fro the shopping places. well, we get to the bottom of the stairs in one of the stations and were trying to figure out if the train that was there was the right one... well the German lady working there started yelling & waiving this paddle thing around. me thinks, "hurry and get on if you're going to get on!" we just sit there trying to figure out if it's the one. then the alarm beeping thing starts and the lights flash.  meaning- the doors will slam closed at any given second. And so, naturally Lindy thinks this is the ideal time to jump on while everyone is still standing on the side. So i lunge forward and block the doors from closing behind her otherwise Lindy would go bye bye while we all sit and can't do anything. This all happening while the angry german lady is waiving her paddle signaling the train driver to go at us while yelling and I was slightly concerned that she was going to beat me from jamming the doors open so Lindy could get off...

and then we stand their awkwardly while the german lady lectures us in a language we don't know. When she was done, we tell her we don't know German. :D heh heh.

Anyways, Berlin is a weird place. There are some seriously strange people here. I saw a mullet on a 2 year old today too.


and here I am at the Berlin wall.

my bangs are always having a trial these days. 

Adventures of Finals week round 4- Betsy takes a break by singing spanish songs

Elizabeth has always had a talent for singing; opera in the shower, opera at church, made up songs, girls camp songs, song of the day, mariachi on the radio, and now, spanish love songs. YES! It was great. 

p.s. this is my 300th post! Party!

Break-up letter

I saw this video for the first time last year. And It cracks me up. Thought I'd share. 

But, i do have to mention a few naughty words towards the end I believe. 

i know, I shouldn't think it's funny. but I do. 

So, if you choose to listen/read it, beware. 

It brightens my day to know that there are such smart people on Earth. 

If I ever write a break-up letter, i'll have someone read it dramatically and post it for you to see. 

or maybe I'll write one just for fun with horrible punctuation and English. But, this will have to wait because I'm just doing this blog to take a break from studying. 

I have some good news and some bad news and some more good news.

G.N. The lilac bushes are in nearly full bloom!!! 

B.N. old farm doesn't own one. psh. LaMe!

G.N. I spotted one on my home a few days ago and I stopped the car, parked illegally, and literally ran and smelt them!

B.N. Betsy thought i was a psycho and took a picture of me smelling them.

G.N. I'm posting the picture for you because I'm that good of a blogger. :)

This picture made me realize how long my hairs are getting! And once again, it looks auburn. Weird. I swear every picture taken of me lately it looks red. Maybe it's changing color again. It was blonde when i was little. Maybe it'll turn green next. *crosses fingers ;)*

Moral of the story:

Take time to stop and smell the lilacs. Cause they only last a short amount of time and they smell sooooo good! 

I'm going to have at least 6 lilac bushes in my future home. 

and I'm going to have them all over my house when they're in bloom in cute white porcelain vases and containers. I can't wait. 

Also, if I ever got to choose the time I got married, it'd be beginning of May because of this flower. Random true fact of the day. 

8.5 days till the largest adventure {thus far}of my life............. shnikes! 

seriously missing

I'm seriously missing this face right now.

Ash sent me this one a few days ago. She looks
SO SO much like pictures of Ash as a baby.
Stinkin' cute.

how could anyone not love her?? She's beautiful! 

I don't know if you know this or not, but i kind of sorta love her.... just a little. ;)

I have some good news for you guys. {and girls}

I'm all the way done with going to classes this semester!!! 

All that's left till i leave for europe-

• 11 days
• art history final {most un-looked forward to event of the semester}
• Take home photo history final {which was going to be the hardest final until my professor decided he loved us and didn't want to kill us with a non-take home one}
• A photo shoot I have yet to start for half of my altered optics photo class...... yikes. I'm going to do this as soon as I'm done blogging.... I promise....
• the printing of all the images for my 2 photo classes. {luckily their all digital other wise i'd be living in the darkroom for the next 72 hours straight}
• a dumb dumb dumb public speaking quiz that I don't want to take because she's making us go to class during our final time {the LAST day of finals week} to get a stupid code to take a 12 question quiz that has to be done on our own time. Which is absolutely ridiculous seeing as how it's only open for a few hours on the LAST day of finals week. If we have to take the quiz online, why can't she let us do it whenever we have time during finals week. *end rant* I might just not take it. 
• Put my portfolios together
• study a ton for art history final. So glad to be done with both halves of the survey after tuesday!
• edit a wedding {i'm nearly done editing the reception}
• shoot a wedding
• go to Gemma Petrea's baby blessing. :D
• pack for Europe and fit all of my stuff for 2 months into a carry-on size bag.... this will be interesante....Because everyone knows how bad I am at packing light.
• write a project outline and description for what I plan on doing in Europe. 
• make my hands look and feel like a woman's again. They hurt so bad. I should have worn gloves the whole time mixing chemicals on Monday. On wednesday, 3 of my fingers started bleeding from being so dry and damaged. {I didn't notice it until i saw a big red blob on my shirt. :( and then I went to a bathroom to try and wash it out and I noticed it was on my face too. I guess i touched my hand with it and blood was on my cheek! Then I wanted to crawl into a dark corner hoping no one saw my embarrassing moment of life. my life is filled with highly awkward situations.} regardless, my hands have trials. We need to work on loving each other more.
• pack my life up and move it home to Orem.
• dreaded clean checks.
• party hearty
• party like a rock star
• party like it's 1999
• party like there's no tomorrow
• party all night long
• ride in the dryers. {because i haven't done this the whole year!!!}
• oh, and laundry. {which is similar to partying like a rock star, right?}

In other news, I'm the proud owner of this super hot swimsuit. I'm stoked beyond belief. I have always wanted a 1 strap {so it's technically 2, but the one is super skinny and can come off if i want it to} swimsuit with frills! I'm going to look stylin' on the beaches of italy and greece! :D

Also, in case you were wondering,
 this is not me modeling the swimsuit.... :P

And now..... I shall go miraculously start and finish my altered optics photo portfolio in a one hour photo shoot....hahahahahahaha.....don't tell my professor....

but first, a funny story. Ash called me yesterday while I was taking a nap {it was a miracle! I haven't taken a nap in eons.} and So I called her back when I woke up. She answered and said, "I'm making out with my husband. I'll call you back." hahahaha. It was hilarious!

Just so you know, if I'm ever making out and someone calls me, rest assured that I wouldn't answer. 

XOxo

I almost forgot!! 9 months from today is my birthday!!! 

Calvin's {my car} Family

Everyone has a family. Even my handsome car, Calvin. {a toyota corolla}

The redneck grandpa

the one born in 2013

His white brother

His weird uncle "Teddy"

His tatooed uncle

His girly sister

the daredevil nephew

the ice sculptor brother

The dumped uncle

the one with nature aunt.

the newly married cousin

the fast runner brother

the outdoorsman son

the lazy daughter

the hurt niece on her way to the hospital.

P.s. you know your roommate was tired when she didn't even notice what you did to her bed for april fools day. that or it was an epic failure of a prank....

Makes me.....

You know how I have a little itty bitty cute niece? I'm not sure if I've talked about her much.... :P

All this about babies makes me want one.  Not that I could have one. Because you sort of need a husband, and last time I checked I didn't have one of those. Yep, I don't.

It makes me want to live closer. I can't get enough of that little girl.

Grandpa Cobb called me last night. Our conversation went as followed-

"Hey, guess what I'm doing?"-gpa

"......throwing a partay?" -me

"I'm babysitting!!"-gpa

"Gemma???1?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?"-Me

"yeah!"-gpa

"jealous!!"-Me

"I knew you would be. That's why I called."-Gpa

*sounds of jealousy*

"Well talk to you later, I'm going to keep holding my great-granddaughter"

"b..."

*hangs up phone*

"...bye...."

Isn't he a bum? haha. 

Today is Easters. and I didn't get to go home. But don't even worry about it because mom let me talk to little Gemma on the phone. She was hungry {is Ash even feeding her?... Cause I swear that child is always hungry when I'm talking to someone around her} and so she was whining and making sounds. And It completely made my day. I reminded her how incredibly beautiful she is. For the record, I'm going to guess that she will have brown eyes. So, let it be known that that's my guess. 

Editing Pictures makes me want a desktop computer. Because my pinky hurst for editing too long on a laptop. I know, random, but that is a true story.

Random story time-

I took a few pictures of my friend, Kyle, {who happens to be the best friend of my best friend's boyfriend's doctor's sister-in-law's cousin from kentucky } cause he won some pretty snazzy award thing and needed a picture for his bio for this black tie dinner {so i made up the black tie part but you get the picture}. Anyway, he was wearing one of those breast cancer awareness bracelets and I had him take it off, put it on my wrist and then forgot to give it back to him. I noticed it, and figured I'd give it back to him later. Well, the day goes on and keep smelling this boy smell. like I'd rub my eye and then this whiff of boy cologne filled my nose, or I'd just put my hand close to my face and smell it too. I could not figure out why all of sudden I went from smelling like fruit and flowers to boy. Well, finally I was talking about it to Betsy and she was pretty smart and recommend I smell the bracelet. And that my friends, is how a girl can smell like a boy without knowing it. And just to clear this up, this boy smell wasn't bad, it just didn't smell like me. It smelt like boy. And as much as I love a good smelling man, I don't {usually} like smelling like one. 

But, do you want to hear another funny story? you kinda do, huh?

before I gave it back, I sprayed girl perfume on it so he'd smell like a girl. bahahahahaha. I'm clever. Laugh, it was funny. 

Well, In case you're not sick of seeing pictures of this little angel, click here and here. 

I took those pictorals on Friday. I didn't want them to leave. I won't see her for nearly 2 weeks! :(

And, just in case any of you {males} that read this would like to know about and attend, some of my girl friends and I are going to put on a class on how women should and should not be treated. ya know, just to better the world and society for the greater good. 

And, when I have sons, {not that I will because girls are kind of what my family is good at producing} They are going to be the most chivalrous individuals ever. 

this is all. :D

XOXOxoxo

funnies.

this is true. Only I hear there were 40,000 people who went this year. 

thanks Allison for showing this to me! 

Happy Color festival 2012! Allison and I are pretty stellar.

Just in case you wanted to know, we had to park 2 miles away from the hare krishna temple. insanity! SOOOO crowded this year! But really fun. :D

Also, go see the Hunger Games movie. And if you haven't read the book, do that first! They are excellent!

Dropping out of college to become karaoke stars

You know those times where you think, "self, I'm a super star!" ??.

Tonight, Just happened to be that sort of night. 

Here I was, minding my own business making oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, in the middle of talking to a photography client about her wedding I'm shooting when my dear friend and roommate, Allison, tells me we need to go to Karaoke night at Pizza Pie Cafe.

If that wasn't the best thing my little ears had heard all day, I don't know what was. 

So I talk Betsy into going too, {because lets be hhhonest, Betsy and I have sung karaoke together since..... probably the dawn of the dinosaurs.... or when they started selling bread in the store. either one.} we have a list {extensive} of songs that are "our songs". {not "our song" by T. Swift} We decided tonight if we were a couple getting married, we'd have to have a lot of first dances.

some of them are as followed-

*Hero, Enrique

*My heart will go on, Celine Dion

*Your love is my drug {w/ Laurenita}

*Uptown Girl, Billy Joel

*Total Eclipse of the heart

*No life without wife {from the great movie "Bride and Prejudice}

*All I want for Christmas is you {pop version}

*If you want to be happy for the rest of your life never make a pretty woman your wife

*It's raining men, Weather girls

*a lot more that I can't think of at the moment.

We Try to sing Hero first when doing karaoke because we're really good at it. 

But tonight, they didn't have that song. So we sung my heart will go on. 

worth it?

YES!

Blogger wouldn't upload it cause it's too big so I had to make this youtube account thing, which made me make this "channel" and they didn't have the name I wanted. It was a trial. So i ended up with the channel called "blueyedbrunnetteful" or something like that. Don't judge. Betsy's idea. 

regardless. the video is available for you to see because It's on Youtube. It's a pretty stellar Video. thanks Jake for taking it. 

here's a list of things for you to look for in it-

Our #1 fan videoing us up close and personal {kev, I want to see that video}

Some guy turning the lights off so it added to the ambience of it.

Everyone getting out their cell phones

people singing along.

The crowd standing in the back

Betsy and I's lyrical dancing

the slow clap at the end. {that's what it's called, right?}

The DJ himself videoing us. {he didn't do this for anyone else. heh heh.}

the crowd going wild {well... ish?}

Regardless, I feel bad for the poor guy who sang after us because it was a hard act to follow. I think we were by far the most entertaining. Everyone else just stood timidly and sang. {mostly}

Pretty sure it was the highlight of our karaoke career. 

Sorry ya'll missed out. 

We're available for hire now though.... JOKE! 

so Without me rambling on anymore, Here tis the video {pronouce "video" in that last sentence like "veee day oh" it's funner that way.}

How do you think we did?

Dear future children, 

yes, your mom was cool once. 

"Snailing"-the new "planking"

Thanks Allison for showing this to me.

I seriously hope people start putting pictures up of this now instead of planking. Way funnier. :D

Gold is apparently a bad color.

I like this picture of us. 

This post is going to tell you what I did today with Tay. :)
It'll probably make you jealous so you don't really have to read it.


1- We went to color me mine. I've never been there before but have wanted to go for a long time. I made a large mug and did a lace overlay thing. Did it work?..... Not perfectly.... But it'll be cool still. Taylor did a square handle mug and was a perfectionist with it. His was smaller but he took longer. Maybe I'm just speedy cause i'm an art major.....? JOKE.

obviously he's a little excited to be
drying his mug.

2-He told me we were going to wendy's for dinner. Honestly I was fine with this because Color me mine is an expensive thing, but we didn't really go there. We went to my favorite place. Old Spaghetti Factory. :D We also saw a guy that looked exactly like Gru off of Despicable Me. Taylor thought we should ask him if he gets that a lot. Thank heavens he really didn't!

It's going to be pale pink and purple.

 3- FYE for their going out of business sale. But we didn't really look around cause this psycho guy in a long trench coat and scary lookin and acted like he was a) drunk, b) on drugs, c)really angry, but probably d) all of the above. I didn't really want to go in the store with him because i was nervous he'd shoot us. So we decided to follow him around... makes sense, right? in the car. not in the store. It was interesting. I wish I knew what his problem was. 

4-Target. Taylor needed deodorant and tooth paste. Both serious necessities. He messed my hair up several times by trying to put these weird hats on me. he'd say, "this is a Brianna hat." and then thought I should buy these ugly feather earrings. I'm just glad I get to dress myself. ;)

Taylor loving getting his picture taken.

5-we went to our park. Sat at a pic nic table on a sesame street blanket and roasted mini marshmallows over candles and made mini s'mores with the 100 calorie pack mini fudge shoppe cookies. Also tried starbursts. somewhat worked. haha. We then fed our pet ducks the left overs. They realy love us. I think we feed them the most out of anyone. First time they've probably ever gotten marshmallows.

I wish it could have lasted longer. But alas, he has a 5:30 am meeting at work. Darn those people with real jobs.

Obviously it was a really good night.

Thanks Taylor. One of the best dates I've been on.

p.s. I'll never ever forget that your least favorite color is gold. Ever. Again.

Also. You could watch this. Cause it's funny.

lip readings. 

Need a good laugh? Or good pick me up? Look no further.

Sometimes I don't feel very stellar. And I need a good laugh.
and then I found these gems.

For Allison.

this is how all the how to draw books are!

reminds me of Lauren

hehe 

ha

this is soo true! For PAPA anne.

never more true.

I love the salads i make lately!

6 girls in my apartment=six different colors of luffas. 

Conversations on Facebook like this.

LOVE! in case you people are incompetent,
this is photoshop done in a cool way. :P

Clearly it goes over.

Well, i don't really fit that description at all...
but still, facebook thinks i could be a nun!

may or may not be true. Mint and chocolate
go together like the peanut and jelly,
like bert and ernie, like rain and bows. 

this happens to me all the time!

Also, I need a good pick me up.

Here are some quotes i like lately from church, institute, conference talks, margins of my scriptures, and devotionals. {i didn't write down where some of these came from.... :(}



"the best relationships are based on faith and forgiveness" -elder holland

"True change only comes through the atonement of Jesus Christ"

"be okay with who you are no matter the circumstance"

"Be loyal to the best within us regardless to opposition and temptation" -Elder Holland fireside last night.

"Joseph Smith is the supreme witness of Christ in this dispensation." -Elder Holland

"When you feel the Holy Ghost, it means the atonement is working in your life." -Henry B. Eyring

"When we choose to believe a sin is not a sin, it's still a sin." -President Ezra Taft Benson. "Valiant in the Testimony of Jesus."

"Satan is a master of making us forget who we are."

"When you get an answer to a prayer that you can make the decision, it means that God trusts you. God loves all of his children, but he doesn't trust all of them"

"Look for a man that will think of you as the girl of his dreams every day" -President Faust

"Human Nature is to avoid pain at all costs, but, our sprit needs it to grow."

"Faith in God means faith in his timing."- Neil A. Maxwell.

"if you don't live by the letter of the law, you can't live by the spirit of the law."

I love quotes lately. :D

p.s. I'm going home this weekend!! I get to see my family.... And Taylor!! :D I decided I can't wait 3 more weeks for that. 

soo.... 2.5 days till then. 

And another pro- I can do my laundry for freeeeeee :)

Also I think Marjorie is the cutest lil lady there was. I want to be like her. 

President Hinckley chose a great woman. 

p.s. "Marjorie" is now added to my baby names list. I should probably blog about that again one day. And my kissing list needs updated too.

well.... i should probably go memorize my introduction speech for public speaking.

but first- Some good news! My first class was cancelled for tomorrow! Which means i get to procrastinate my homework some more! :D

OH! more good news!!! I get to go to the Frankfurt, Germany temple this summer!!! And I'm crossing my fingers for the London, England one too. :D