And this is why

And this is why i love coming home-


I'm sorry i didn't rotate the pictures to the correct orientation. this is still something i haven't figured out how to do in blogger and was too lazy to do it before i uploaded them. {and then you wonder why i like cooking, i get it from my mom. and then you wonder why i'm not tooth pick skinny}
one day, i'm going to be like my mom. Im going to have warm cookies waiting for my kids when they come home from school, and teach them how to make delicious treats that can heal any situation. Even if you're emotionally exhausted and have had a poopy week. There is nothing quite like coming home. I miss my family. And i've missed orem too.

Cute sugar cookies

and more cute cookies!

even our piano has decoration on it.

seriously, every spot in the house has decorations for fall and halloween. I love it!

my daddy has a billboard on state street here in orem!  

and on that note... i also filled out my absentee ballot form tonight. of course, i only voted for my dad. :D

And this is a rosa sauce with chicken and sausage and fresh parmesan. 

and this is what i made :D

the table. does this not look absolutely amazing??

My posts lately have been very picture-less. I have been too lazy to put  them up. so, here they are. 

did you know this?

a sign hanging on our wall of our apartment. allison made it, i drew the border.

Annie and I play tic tac toe together during class.
{We also watch Hitch}
the reason why the B is so big, because i won and didn't know it. so i
got really excited because i had no idea i had won!

this is a chemical in the photo lab. If i die, it might be because i was poisoned. 

my temple picture is framed and on my wall of religiousness. :D

the mustache party. maybe i'll try to grow a big mustache, i think i could pull it off. especially with my bangs looking like they do in this picture.... 

this is my 3 d design sculpture. and guess what? it made it in the display case!!
which kind of is a big deal! Go look in the FAV and you shall see it! 

this is billy. my pumpkin.

here's my shoe for 3d. and the shoe i modeled it off of is in the
middle so you can see how big the shoe actually is. those durn rhinestones took
FOREVER and a day to hot glue on. 

finished! I added the bow. 

my first worm at wendy's! with Lauren. I love that girl SO much. She is such a wonderful friend. :D i wish she was one of my roommates.

I just wanted to give a little shout out to my friend, Taylor. Last night I was having a girls night with Betsy, Anna {and her husband Brian....haha}, Tara, Annie, and Melissa, and Ashley. I walked into my house and there they all were. I was not in a particular happy or excited mood, but i was happy to see them there. Because i hadn't seen most of them in ages! Most of the time, girls night and ice cream does the trick. Not last night. Melissa was telling us all about her engagement story, and everyone had all these cool things to talk about and then everyone was youtubing these cute love songs that normally i would be "aww!" ing over but i just was not feeling it. I was leaning my head on betsy's shoulder and she was playing with me hair. She knew what was wrong and i was thinking to myself, "I can't do this anymore. I am going to go to bed." when i get a call. From Taylor. There is absolutely nothing in the entire world that could have made me feel more better than what he said right after i gave a week greeting of "hey". He said, "Brianna!! Did you know that you are a wonderful and beautiful daughter of God and that he loves you?" It was a good thing that before i answered i had begun to walk up the stairs because i lost it. There was absolutely no stopping the waterworks this time and i really didn't feel like explaining to all the girls downstairs what the problem was when they were all having fun telling their cute stories. He let me cry for a minute and then he said "for some reason i've been worried about you all day! what's wrong?" I told him i just needed to laugh and he promptly told me a pretty funny thing that happened to him the day before. And then we sang the mickey mouse club house song together like old times and he gave me some good advice. So, thanks Taylor. You're one pretty great friend! I hope i get to see him this weekend. 

p.s. i feel as if i should mention that i usually don't cry this much in one week. I don't know what is wrong with me.... okay so i do. But still, i'm not usually this emotional. and next week- i PROMISE i'll be back to my normal happy blogging self. :D

Here is we from the summer. the ONE picture i finally convinced him to let me take.

The good reasons why I haven't blogged in forever

So since the last time i blogged, lots has happened and gone on. :D

let me go get my journal so i can make a list of everything i've done....

• provo temple baptisms
• a wedding reception
• did 3 photo shoots
• edited lots of pictures
• bought an awesome dress from the 90's.
• and some striped pants that come up past my belly button. cause they're awesome!
• created a wedding registry at Target...... pretty sure this was one of the funnest things i've done this summer.
• ice cream at cold stone.
• having a jacket as a blind fold over my head being taken to a "secret" place that couldn't be found that night.
• but then the next day i was given a lavender scented, zebra print, sleep mask as a blind fold and was lead to
• discover park. and played hide and seek {i kinda rocked more at this than taylor did. :P}, tic tac toe, a really scary swing thing that was connected to another one that i think i almost died on.
• nielson's grove swinging. and we never really got to go on the circle ones.
• chasing ducks
• 20 questions
• had my first batch of Animal fries from In N Out.
• k mart fun.
• laughed really hard at the ball that was kicked across an aisle.
• sat in cute paris looking chairs
• had a fight with water aerobic weight things.
• went on an interesting blind date.
• was told i shouldn't go on the blind date. haha
• had a lot of phone conversations
• rock climbing.
• 

• did my laundry {just once in the past 2 weeks..... it's fine}
• had more animals fries
• and spilt my water. hahah
• and then taylor spilt my water too. hahahahahahaha
• FINALLY got to go inside my dream home {the somewhere inn time in Lindon} it kinda smelt weird. and the outside is a lot prettier.
• went to trafalga
• saw 4 4-D movies.
• played mini golf. Taylor beat me by ONE point. i think he cheated.... okay, so did i, but he probably cheated more. :P
• drove go carts. like real fast.
• had like 15 mcdonald's dollar dr peppers.
• updated our wedding registry. haha. and saw people i know while doing it. who probably now think i'm really engaged.
• soft serve ice cream at maceys
• broke the law..... {we j walked okay. give me a break! it's hard to walk to the cross walk}
• sent some funny texts. "did you just copy and paste my text?" "well you were the certain situation that sucked." i'll never ever forget these. :D
• bought Whisk, a new tank
• got whisk a girl friend. her name is Teaspoon. :D she's a babe. and whisk needs to start building a bubble nest so they can have baby beta's. {p.s. who wants a baby beta after they're born. cause apparently they have 100+ offspring...}
• learned about Beta reproduction. hahaha
• got more animal fries.
• played Uno for the first time in a long time
• awkward pictures
• talking till 3 am
• gas station run at 330 am.
• went to Logan and Brigham City
• decades dance
• 
• betsy ratted my hair.
• rocked at guitar in rock band... sorta....
• had the coolest experience in my life at a 4 way stop. seriously. i'm still trying to wrap my head around it.
• made blueberry pancakes.
• 
• cliff jumping
• swimming across the lake
• broke my cute flip flops. Now i only have cheap plastic ones left. good thing i have other sandals still.
• saw the largest spider i've ever seen.
• screamed till i was horse over this.
• tara killed it with MY shoe!
• sang a message instead of speaking
• was really happy about some information that i found out while i was in Logan. that made me re think some things. that i am still really happy about. like really. :D :)
• was sad because a certain person could NOT come to Logan.
• was sad because certain people DID come to logan.
• gave a tour of USU
• cleaned the sink
• 
• 4 men/{& women} on a couch.
• dryer riding.
• talking with my girl friends till way late
• a quote i really wish i could write on here. hahahahahaha oh lauren.
• the toilet incidents in P4. bahaha.
• had money stolen out of my wallet.
• said good bye to my niece, Caitlin. :'(

• more phone conversations.
• had some jerky things texted to me.
• saw someone get tackled for shop lifting. haha
• made choc chip zucchini bread.
• ice cream and swings at city center park.
• talking on my couch for hours.
• sold my first ebay item
• took a nap! so wonderful
• bought some jeans.
• first skinny jeans. still unsure of them
• school shopping
• roberts sale. bought supplies to make my journals for the year. :D
• Ikea.
• bought cute picture frames. {all under 4 bucks!}
• said "i like______" a lot in that store. Pretty sure i just like that whole store.
• Nearly ran into a car.
• drove around the draper temple
• "toured" a multi million dollar house with taylor while no one was home..... haha
• more animal fries.
• cute cupcakes from sweet tooth fairy. yum
• Didn't over analyze the only situation i should have.
• stressed over a conversation.
• felt really happy about a certain text.
• nielsen's grove again.
• DTR.... :D
• almost got hit while SOMEONE ;) tried to drive around the round about backwards. haha
• felt sad {when i've been feeling happy} about how little time till i go back to school :'(
• worked 5 shifts in 2 weeks at the outer darkness check stand at work.
• had an ice cream party with my family!!!!
• am super excited!!! :D seriously. my whole life. waiting. ah! happiness. joy. :D
• more exclamation marks sent to me in one text than ever before in my life. i think it was like 20 texts long of JUST exclamation marks. it made me smile and giggle. haha.

anyways, if this list isn't enough to make you tired, i have no idea what is.

i have had more fun the last 3 weeks or so than all the rest of the summer combined. And mainly because of a particularly awesome person.

it's kinda weird that i haven't taken more pictures of the things i've been doing lately. i honestly do not have any of most of these events. :'( i need to work on this i think. i mean, i KNOW!

10 days till moving to logan. :) :( it's fine. I'm just a jumble mess of things right now. Why, as a girl, do i have to have so many dang emotions running at the same time? i'd be perfectly content with a "nothing box" like boys get. jealous. what am i saying!? i don't want to be a boy! lol.

happy 12th of August. have a good weekend. i may not blog again till i move. we shall see.

xoxo.

The long awaited post- my kissing list!

so my friend Tara said that she had made a list of al the places that she wants to kiss at. I had a short mental list, but never wrote it down. So now, whenever i watch a movie, read a book, or hear a story and i like the kiss story, it goes on my list. Some might find this weird or tacky, but i thought it was a good idea. PLUS, i'm a list person. If there is anything that could be made into a bulleted list, i've done it. {i mean, i think half of my blog posts are bulleted lists.....} So here is my kissing list. In all it's glory & dreamy-ness.

i'll save my very favorite 3-4 for the end.... just to keep you anxious.

• underwater with dorky goggles
• at the top of a ferris wheel

{aren't my sister and bro in law cute models for me??}

• on a ski lift
• while dancing in the rain
• in the middle of a cross walk at night in NYC

• under a full moon on the "O Rock"
• under a full moon on the "A" at usu

• on a rooftop
• at the ocean on the West Coast and East Coast
• while horse back riding
• in a pile of leaves

• during a thunderstorm
• while doing the dishes with cute aprons on
• in an elevator while no one else is there

• on an air plane
• under mistletoe
• in a photo booth with crazy costumes
• under an umbrella

• under a waterfall
• during a carriage ride
• in the city of love-paris
• during a picnic while eating on a checkered blanket

• during a snowball fight
• during a water fight while washing the car
• in a horse drawn sleigh while snowing
• 


• in a rowboat on a secluded lake

• in a tree house
• on my front porch
• on a porch swing
• with a cowboy on a ranch

• on a pile of hay

• over the alter of the temple

and....... the one i want the most.....

• i have always wanted to passionately kiss in the library. There's just always been something about the library that was appealing. Ya know, like needing a break from studying... and that break being.. sparking! pitter patter goes my little heart.

anyways, i'd love to hear about your lists. I'm always adding to mine. It's a pretty constantly opened and edited document on my computer. :D

also, one day i hope to photography a couple for each of these! it'll be a photographic goal of mine too. :D (i have the ferris wheel one!}