Lately...

I don't like the depressing title of my last post staying at the top for so long. So here's an update of some of the things I have been doing the past few days.

Skirt making: 

I can't take this on my mission, but I had the fabric, and I really like maxi skirts, so I made it anyways. It was fun. It didn't turn out quite how I wanted but it worked.

Sister bonding time ;) 

 This was during a Sunday evening family planning session. We obviously love those :)

Country dancing with these fabulous people: 

James, Me, Whitney, and Peter

We went two nights in a row and it was awesome :) We learned several dips, and I kind of forgot about the drs orders about not bending over. Being upside down and flipped around isn't that bad for me, right? Whoops! 

Pretending to be an elivish princess aka bow and arrow shooting with Trijsten:

 This was my second time and it was super fun. Even more fun than the first time. I think I want a bow :) I think the guy at the archery place thought me and Trijsten were married because he kept trying to convince Trijsten to buy me a bow haha.

 Having farewells at work: 

 I have worked at this job for 3.5 years. Crazy, huh? My coworkers were planning on giving me a gift at the last monthly luncheon I was going to be at, but because BYU thinks they can just change Tuesday into Monday I had class and wasn't able to go :/ However, they saved me a delicious plate of food, made me that lovely sign, and left me this gift on my desk. It is a pink, beautiful, leather journal. And each of them wrote a page in it. It was so sweet. These people have pretty much watched me grow up during my college years. Watched me go through my first relationship, get accepted into the nursing program, break off an engagement, waffle between life plans, and everything else you do during college. I am going to miss them.

 Studying Spanish! 

I haven't studied nearly as much as I should. And I have tons more to do before I take my finals on Monday (yikes!) but tonight Amelia helped me figure this much out. Pretty much saved my life. If I can memorize these tenses and verb endings I am definitely going to have a much greater chance of passing this class...


I've been doing lots more stuff. Like shopping for and buying luggage, a cute raincoat, and many clothes, having pizza making parties, doing lovely nasal rinses everyday (sorry that one's gross), spending time talking with friends, and experiencing a very broad spectrum of emotions. It has been an adventure. And the next few days will be as well. More Spanish studying tomorrow, lunch with Brittany (I love her!), dinner at Brick Oven and shooting with James (I'm super excited), farewell talk writing, more shopping, cleaning and dejunking and packing up all my stuff, giving a farewell talk, saying painful goodbyes, taking finals (ugh), reading Preach my Gospel and Scriptures, probably some crying, and getting set apart as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

I am so excited to serve. I can't wait to wear a name tag. It's going to be hard. And things might happen while I'm gone that I will miss. And I still cannot grasp at all the fact that I'm going to be gone for the next 18 months. But it is going to be fabulous.

Finally Finished!

Last Christmas (as in 2011) I drew my brother Quincy in our sibling gift drawing. One of the things he wanted was pajama pants. Being ambitious I decided that on top of the other gift I got him, I would make him a new pair of pajama pants. 

I started them and worked faithfully on them until I ran into lots of problems with the fly. Holy cow it was hard. Mom thankfully saved me, but by the time we got that part figured out it was after Christmas.  

Since I was busy and I was going to go up to Alaska that summer, I decided I'd finish them then. 

The months past and I didn't work on them. 

When I flew to Alaska I was still pantless. No! Pajama pantless! You knew what I meant....  

I came home and still didn't finish them. 

Another Christmas rolled around and I drew someone else for Christmas. Quincy and Jen were coming to Utah right after Christmas so I decided to try to finish them before they got here. 

I got sick and they didn't get done before they came. 

Finally, the day before they were about to leave I gathered the pieces and the pattern instructions from our "unfinished projects" pile (which is way to big, btw) and spent the 2 hrs finishing up the pants. Only 2 hrs! Quince came over and tried them on, I adjusted them, and finished them off in time to give them to him that night. 

Procrastinator anyone? Nah, not at all...

Anyways, here is the finished product :) 

I hope you like 'em Quince! 

DIY

So I need lots of new skirts for my mission. However, skirts that are cute and long enough are kind of pricey. And I don't really have the money to pay $30+ for every new skirt. So. I'm trying to find easy skirt patterns that I can make. I've found a couple so far that I think I like. Which one is better? 

This one:

Or this one- 

Except I don't know if I love the pockets. Probably would make it without. 

Or this one-

I can't really decide how much I actually like this one...

Or this one-

I'm not sure if this would be too sloppy looking. What do you think? 

Or this one-

I rather like this one :)

Fabric is another issue. I have some jersey knit solid yellow fabric that I think I will make a dress out of. But I need to find some other good stuff. 

And, since I love this video and it kind of relates... :) 

Shopping...

Today I went shopping. I'm happy to say that, unlike usual, this trip was moderately successful. I bought a navy blue scrub top for my clinical, black heals since my previous pair have big holes in them, a really cute shirt, and a white cardigan. I wanted to buy jeans, jean capris, cute sandals, and a white blouse (plus the scrub top and the black heals). I went to Buckle looking for jeans, but it is waaaayyy too expensive for a poor college student like me. I really really liked them, but there's no way I'm paying $80 for a singe item of clothing. And I didn't like any of the jeans at papaya. Darn. I'm kinda sick of all the bling. I just want regular ones, k?

I'm hate not being able to find exactly what I want. It sounds silly, but really, shopping is so tiring when you already have in mind what you want. I really want cute summer dresses but I can never find the modest, cute, within-my-price-range ones. I want cute summer skirts (I have to dress up for work, so I am a big fan of comfortable, casual, summer skirts and dresses) but I can never bring myself to pay the exorbitant price they ask when I know that if I took an afternoon I could make a skirt for about $8, and one that would be much better quality than any I could buy.

So.... another goal this summer is to SEW! I used to sew all the time and I really enjoy it and the more I do it the faster I become. So now, to help fulfill this goal, I am going to go finish a skirt I started about 8 months ago....

see ya!

p.s. it is always such a bummer when I meet boys that I think are dang cute and super attractive and then I find out that I'm about a year and a half older than them. That age difference wouldn't bother me except the fact that they still have to go on missions. Sad day....