A New Year's Kiss

Dec. 31st, 2004: We danced at a stake dance

Dec. 31st, 2005-Jan 1st, 2006: We both kissed someone else

Dec. 31st, 2006: He and I went to Salt Lake with our other friends for some sort of celebration. I tried desperately all night to get him to touch me in some way, shape, or form. He never did, so I kissed him on the cheek sometime around midnight.

2007: I kissed someone else at a party (someone else who I don't think I even know his name??) We were hanging out before I left for that party.

2008: This New Year's Eve was just after I had talked to him on the phone. He called from the airport and was headed out to serve. I partied with his friends and missed him a lot.

2009-2010: Celibacy for us both.

2010-2011: We hung out with each other all night.... just me and him... no kiss.

"New year's eve is like the kiss cam. It's only cool if you are dating someone or happen to be next to a cute boy you don't even know."

2011, ready to celebrate the coming of 2012: He's on a freaking cruise!!!!!!!!!

There's always next year....

(or is there?)

Still in the Holiday Spirit?

I couldn't post these before Christmas, or people would see what presents were headed their way. I had to post these gifts eventually though.

My mom did some vinyl lettering Christmas boards for some friends, and family boards for some cousins. I didn't get pictures, but they looked like these.

She also did Guess Who games for some family members and some neighbors.

(Yeah we included Jimmer... bottom right.)

Another fun, personal gift she gave to a few people were these stars. She has saved Christmas cards from close family friends through the years, copied them, and modge podged them onto some metal stars she got from Tai Pan. She also made one for our family, I love it.

Sometimes my mom sets the bar too high! ;)

Coming Home for Christmas

My mom is awesome when it comes to Christmas! I came home to decked halls, homemade gifts in process, and candles burning. I love my house!

This isn't even half,

Merry Christmas!

With She & Him Christmas Background Music

Just because we are devout Mormons doesn't mean we don't want to wear sequins and mix some drinks.

With help from our friends, Brent and I pulled off this:

Due to some recent events, I was surprised how much Mrs. Devey supported us.

She ended up adding a lot of class to the party.

The Girls

The Drinks

(Thanks Gav!)

The Party

Contrary to popular belief, we did not get this idea from my sister.

"Sorry he just had a dream he was going to live in Logan the rest of his life!"

"Hate to break it to you but if those shots don't contain alcohol, all you are doing is taking a little swig of something nasty."

Quotes from Jordan

Cool

Christmas is probably the only thing that ever gets me in the mood to cook,

bake more like it.

A Christmas breakfast back home left my parents with tons of left over bananas,

so I snatched them hoping I could make banana bread at my apartment.

Because I'd made it before under the supervision of my mom and it was pretty easy and turned out delicious, I thought just maybe I could do it by myself.

I followed the recipe and directions perfectly and the dough tasted great.

After the ingredients and mixing instructions, the recipe read:

Bake at 325 for 1 hr, 10 min.

Cook for 10 min in pan, then turn on to rack.

Like a pro, I put the bread in the oven and set the timer for 10 minutes so I would know when to flip the bread on to the rack and cook it outside of the pan.

After 10 minutes the bread was no where near solid enough to take out of the pan and put it on the rack.

After a confused debate with my roommates, we put it in the oven for another 10 minutes... still not solid enough.

I was panicked because I didn't want the edges of the bread to burn.

Gavin, being the creative man that he is, flipped the bread from the pan onto a cookie tray, so we could cook it upside down on the tray instead of the rack.

No, the bread didn't rise.

It looked really funny, but tasted good so we were satisfied.

The next day, I asked my mom what I should have done. I didn't remember how I had gotten the bread from the pan to the rack the last time I made the bread.

She just laughed.

There is a MAJOR typo in that recipe.

COOL for 10 minutes, then turn on to the rack.

After you COOK the bread for 1 hr, 10 min, the bread needs to COOL.

If your banana bread ends up looking like a brick,

you did it wrong.

Creative

Guy: I really like your nails, they are awesome!

Me: Thanks! hehe

Guy: Did you do them yourself?

Me: No, actually my boyfriend did them for me.

Guy: Hmm he must be... creative?

We were attempting this, but in holiday colors

Not bad, eh?

P.S. so what if I have ugly hands?

I Don't Know What All These Lights Are For

Talk about knocking on wood.

When I wrote my post, "Deprived,"

I didn't know I was about to have one of the best nights of my life!

Gavin had the idea.

I had the car.

Patrick had the directions.

Hillary had the courage.

I can't tell you exactly what I did for fear of someone turning us in,

but it was a night full of my favorite things:

Hot springs, stupidity, and not getting caught.

Little looksy...

Sunday Best: A Christmas Story

Take 1-2 minutes to read this.

You won't regret it.

Merry Christmas!

Deprived

It's been a while since I have done something crazy.

Given I spend 60 hours a week with school, homework, work, and lacrosse,

but now I am feeling deprived and the cold weather doesn't help.

I miss swinging on a rope with a Costa Rican I've never talked to before then landing in a waterfall,

getting lost trying to find hot springs,

being the only sober one to jump 50 feet off a bridge,

and blowing all my money.

Maybe it has something to do with maturity.

Nah...

Any suggestions?

For the Sake of Lacrosse

See you in 2 hours!