I Break Rules on Sundays

Do you like dressing up on Sundays? I think I do. There's something about going through your skirts and dresses and shirts and mixing and matching that I just find a lot of joy out of. I've had an idea for a few weeks that I didn't think i'd have the guts to pull off...let me get to the point. Today I wore a polka dot shirt with a floral patterned skirt. Fashion rule broken? Perhaps. Awkward because it's a mirror shot? Absolutely. I'm breaking all sorts of rules. All of a sudden i'm posting outfit pictures, taken with a camera phone, in my messy room all while not knowing if you smile in these sort of pictures or not. I make fun of those kind of girls. Eh, sue me.

I just wanted to ask you if you think it works. Do you think it does? Do you think i'd get kicked off the mish if I made such a bold fashion statement? haha Am I the only person in the world without a smart phone?

P Town Lovin

I spent Sunday-Thursday in Provo staying with Taryn & Ariel. We did what most college students do...

Tried on wedding dresses, Say Yes To The Dress style

Didn't shave for a while and grew moustaches

Played Mario Bros all night long

Ate out way too often and visited the classy BYU art museum

That structure we're standing in front of--BOOKS. stacks and stacks of books!

Now I miss them and want to go back.
not the books...tar & ariel.

Dallas Meets Las Vegas

This weekend was one for the books. Taryn and her roommate Ariel came down to celebrate Ariel's 21st birthday. We took her to Vegas, ate dinner at Cheesecake Factory inside Caesars Palace, walked the strip and watched the Bellagio's water show. Ending the night with a walk through the new Cosmopolitan hotel (holy hanging chandeliers!) and took classic pictures by the Vegas sign.

Let me tell you a little bit about Ariel: We were roommates at BYUI winter semester 2010. We never really talked much or hung out until I decided to text her in February when she left for the airport to go back to home to Dallas for Valentines Day. It was history from there! We become the best of friends and I convinced her to live with Taryn when she transferred to BYU. So now I get to have my two favorite people in one visit to Provo! It's just the shiz.

Saturday we took her to the Moapa Valley's finest restaurants. Inside Scoop for lunch, Tiffany's for dinner! Have you ever been to both those places in one day? ....interersting.

That night we gathered up some friends and went riding at Red Rock.

My finest line of the night, "Guys, if we die tonight, I want you to know you're my best friends!"

I traveled back up with them on Sunday to Provo for a few days. We have made many plans. Stay tuned!

A Run-Into & My Homies

Yet another picture of Toronto

I had a very funny and cool experience happen to me on Saturday. I was in St. George, UT and decided to go into Christensen's and do some mission shopping. I overheard a girl talking to a sales guy about different kinds of shoes for warm weather that are comfortable blah blah so I decided I should probably listen in because the shoes she was asking questions about was the typical sister missionary (gross) shoes. (i.e. Clarks & Dansko...what other ones are good yet a little more stylish? anybody know?) Because she was leaving on a mission soon. The man leaves for a  minute to grab her some shoes to try on and my mom asks her, "Where are you going?" Our conversation went a little something like this:
Her: Canada
Me: ME TOO!
Her: Really? Where at?
Me: Toronto
Her: ME TOO!
Me: (shut upppp!)
Turns out she leaves in 3 weeks but is learning Spanish so she stays in the MTC 2 months. She'll still be there when I get there in November. To make matters even crazier, we're related. Ya, we have the same great grandmother or something like that.
Weird things happen. Right place, right time...must have happened for a reason!

On a downer subject, my homies are starting our their 3rd year with the design program at BYUI. I can't believe they'll be graduated when I get back in 2 years! Oh how that's gonna be so hard! I'll be rooting for you guys to kick Passive Solar's butt. Boooyah

Our road trip last Oct. to the moon & Sun Valley, ID

Ok, but really. Tell me what brand produces cute, sensible & comfortable missionary shoes?

A Full Week

It's been a full week since i've blogged.

and by "full" I don't mean full as in busy...I mean full as in an entire week.

In fact, nothing really leading-edge happened.

So this is what i've been thinkin...

Brown envelopes are the shiz. But seriously, stick with me on this one. How cool do you feel when you get a letter in the mail? How much cooler do you feel when you get a letter with a BROWN envelope? Maybe it's something to do with The Sound of Music "brown paper packages tied up with strings" or maybe because they're usually recycled paper so it makes you feel green, maybe i'm just weird. But i'm pretty sure it's a billion times better in a brown envelope. And while on the subject of the color brown, I *dyed my hair brown. And I always took my lunches to school in a brown paper bag, I never had a legit lunch box, did you?

*i lied. no dying occurred.

Let's talk about my future plans. It involves the old Gubler house on Gubler Street. Taryn & I will some day own a floral shoppe. Our floral shoppe will be in this old house. The top floor will be our wedding planning business and TLC will host a show all about it. (think DC Cupcakes except cooler people) Our show will be a hit! Why aren't there any shows about floral or wedding shoppes? Cuz they're saving it for us!

This house doesn't tilt. There was a man in the ditch in front of it so I felt really dumb slowing down to take the picture. So I did not, resulting in a tilt.

It just needs some sprucin' up. This house has gotta stay in the fam! (My Grandma's maiden name was Gubler)

Let's hope September starts to bring less blistering temperature steering wheels, less sticky bangs on the forehead (although honestly I haven't much of that issue, phew!) and maybe allow us to start wearing cute cardigans without sweating? We'll see.

My Dancing Prince & Cliche Phrases

Today I went back to high school. With my dad teaching history & my younger sis in the class, I had to return just to see if it's as cool as it was 3 years ago. PSH of course not! My posse and I aren't there soooo that's just a stupid question.

Graduation night! This photo was in the local newspaper. proud, proud moment ;)

Please please please watch THIS video. I pretty much spit out honeycomb while watching this during breakfast. This kid needs my assistance. Just say the word Harry! I'm there!

I've started The Hunger Games. I can't put it down, have you read them? I just started book one yesterday and I should be done with it tonight...Oh Peeta!

It's the last day of August, now it's probably the 1st day of September! Cliche phrase time: Where the heck did this summer go?! There's no way i've been home for 5 months now.

Santa Monica Pier, Aug '11

There are some magical devices floating around in the schools right now. I went to my dad's classroom tonight and there was this white pen that you could draw with on projected slide shows and what not. I'm not quite sure how it worked, but I drew a beauty mark on my face.

Alright, but I really do need to go read Hunger Games more. I'm torn...I really hope Peeta isn't faking it for the cameras! ah!

Only The Best Movie Ever

Twas a movie night to remember!

A projector shined our movie on the house as we gathered around on lawn chairs.

Amanda made monster cookies.

We sang and danced along with the music.

We laughed, we cried (when it was over)

Have you guessed which movie it ?

Jonas Brothers Concert Experience? yes, yes, you are correct.

It's probably a crime in 49 of the 50 states to mention Justin Bieber and the Jonas Brothers in the same blog post, BUT did you know Justin Bieber's home town is in my mission? He better watch out....! ;)

AZ Was Too Quick

Last weekend's trip to Arizona was over as quick as it started. I would definitely visit AZ again! A-Z has got it goin' on.

Wikieup, AZ

You have a nice variety of Cactus. (said in a British accent)

I hate to admit that I didn't run into Prince Harry. But the Pirates did win the game vs. Show Low! (score: 28-26) It was fun to be in the Cardinals' huge stadium rootin' for my alma mater.



We get to our hotel, my dad walks up to the window (keep in mind we've stayed at like a bazillion and four different hotels in the last month cuz of Nauvoo/LA etc.) and says, "this is the best view we've had the entire summer!" see picture below, on left...and don't let me forget to tell you, the Willard fam was in the house! With their personal filmographer.

See? Too quick I tell you! Too quick. Oh, guess what I found out?! That last post I did about Frank Gehry, well, buckle up...I read today....that he was born in TORONTO! I know, go figure, huh?! 

Ideating

I was browsing Pinterest last night (please tell me you've tried it, love it, are addicted to it as much as i am). I found this:

Basically it's a 30 second scribble. This was just quick ideation Frank Gehry sketched that later became the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. I've really loved this building since I was first introduced to it a couple years ago. I was lucky enough to see it in person last summer. I even designed a light fixture inspired by it...I love that he can envision this amazing structure and scribble it out. It makes me miss my design classes & ideating for my projects. (who would've thought! haha)

It turned into that. Just sooo cool, the design process. sigh. 

I bet Toronto has some sweet architecture.

In Like With Toronto

I can't exactly say i'm "in love" with Toronto yet, right? So for now I guess i'm just madly in like with him. (can we call Toronto a him? alright, thanks.) As you can imagine, some people know a few things about this place. When they hear i'm going there, they're happy to share, and I don't mind! I've collected a few tid bits about this place and i'm welcoming your comments too! When I say i'm going to the Canada Toronto Mission, it actually covers a huge part of Ontario. We're talking like Niagara Falls (Canadian side) all the way up to Hudson Bay area. So when i'm finding out things about Toronto...who knows if it's even remotely the same a few hundred miles away! Hmmm shucks. But let me tell you this, Toronto. Sounds. Awesome.

Remember my want to go to NYC? If you've been reading this blog long enough, you know i'm pretty much obsessed with the place. So when I heard Toronto is like the NYC of Canada, I was happy. It has musical theater, design, architecture and all the goods just like NYC (not like i'll be basking in the musical theater shows...dang.) But the fact that it's part of the lifestyle there makes me excited!

-Someone told me Toronto is uber fashionable, that the fashion meets Toronto from Paris before it even hits NYC. Cool, eh? (throwing in that Canadian "eh" cuz i'm partially allowed to now!) 

-It's also a really clean and relatively safe city

-They calls napkins "serviettes"? uhh alright.

-They call sofas "chesterfields" 

-Someone also told me it's not as cold there as it is in Rexburg. I'm taking that as the truth and rollin' with it.

I don't even know what else to tell you. You're probably like ya, so what? hahaha I'm just excited, that is all.

What do you know about Toronto?

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(i drew a line because this is serious business)

I'm going to Phoenix tomorrow.

You guys knew this, right? That i'm going to AZ?

So i have one question for you!

Why in the world did none of you tell me Prince Harry (in the flesh!) is in AZ doing apache helicopter training as we speak?! (well technically not "as we speak" because i read the he flew home to see London burning? whatevs) He's still there! In Arizona!

Just know that when I meet him, i'm not saying hi for any of you.

But don't worry too much, you'll still all be invited to the wedding.

Pip pip cheerio!