SEAT BELTS EVERYONE!

Throwback to The Magic School Bus! How long has it been?

Watching this gives me nostalgia for a simpler time... Eating goldfish, watching cartoons, living life in fantasy.

Everyone who is anyone watched this show and can sing along to the theme song.

Moms Piggies.

Hello mommies. This is for you.

I am not going to stand here on my soapbox and say I know everything about style and have the right to judge, but when it comes to something as HEINOUS as this... I do. I see it as a lesson more than a hot-seat smack-down.

I am just going to say it plain and simple... PIGTAILS ARE NOT FOR MOMMIES. They are for your darling little girls. And if you don't have any girls, adopt. Do not put yourself through this public humiliation, sweetie. It's classless, tacky, and childish.

I found this picture of a lady on a blog and even she knows it's wrong. She didn't want to be seen, so she blacked out her eyes.

If you're super into pigtails, hopefully your husband likes them as well, and in that case you can save it for the accepting walls of your home. Otherwise, ixnay the pigtails ladies.

That's all.

Good Stories and Children.

Movie that made me cry #5: The Help

The crying movie list just keeps on getting bigger. Kami told me recently that she thinks I'm turning into a softie again... Which may not be such a bad thing.

This movie was wonderful. As my mom said, "That is the best wholesome movie I have seen in a long time." ...and I completely agree.

I am one of those people that can't read the book after I watch the movie. It's like all I can picture is the people in the movie. Therefore my mind goes berserk and my imagination crumbles to pieces. I am really wishing I had read the book first right about now..................

Snowbird Secrets.

So this one time, I went to Snowbird with Courtney Holmes, Kami Rosen, Kortni Roney, Kyler Roney, Stehly Reden, and Colby Jorgensen. The night we got there, time was passing slowly, so someone had the idea to start watching YouTube videos, like any young adult would. THANK HEAVENS we didn't have anything else to do, or I would not have found my favorite video slash song. "The Duck Song" is now on my iPod, and I enjoy singing along with it in the car. When I really listen to the words, and think of the magnificent video... I giggle to myself. If you are completely clueless right now and want to join the club of waddles and grapes, please press play below.

I am obsessed.

Vegas baby.

I just recently returned from a girls trip to the one and only Las Vegas. While most people are gambling, getting drunk, or smoking cigs like they're candy... this is what a group of 5 mormon girls do..

I'm Going Ape.

Guess what ya'll??? I'm a nerd. Or at least that's what my brother, John, classified me as the second I stepped into the midnight showing of The Rise of the Planet of the Apes. But if that's nerdiness... BRING IT ON. That movie is amazing. If you've ever been to a midnight showing, you know you always worry about possibly falling asleep and fighting it the whole time. That was me tonight... worrying about the possibility. I had no reason to be such a worry wart.... because I was completely awake and attentive the entire time. Want to know why? I'll tell you.

1. I was utterly amazed at how a movie could make you fall in love with a chimp and care about it as you would a person. As my dad would say, "Who needs actors anymore? You can feel the same thing for a computerized animal."

2. The profound idea of apes literally taking over the planet flooded my brain. What if... what if... what if...

3. I went home wanting a chimpanzee as a pet... Preferably one with the name Caesar. I told my daddy and he told me wild tales about chimps ripping their owners faces off. Way to put a downer on that idea.

4. The storyline is captivating and actually explains how the apes got in a position to take over the world... Good thing hollywood is now answering that 43 year old question.

5. James Franco is beautiful.

Summer Day.

So you know how I'm working for my mom this summer? Well if you didn't, I am. It has been a FANTASTIC job... except for when it comes up in conversation and they ask me where I'm working. When I say for my mom, it sounds like a complete cop-out, like I'm just saying it and I know what they are thinking... there is NO way she buckles down and actually works. She probably just says that. The thing is, I have worked for my mom almost every day this summer. But when I wake up on days like today when my mom has meetings until 3 in the afternoon, I have to find ways to entertain myself until she's done. Today I dove into a new job: Hunting down affordable materials and making bracelets. I am so pleased with the results.

I LOVE THE INTERNET!

It is the best thing that has ever happened to my craft-obsessed self.

I got these wonderful ideas from Pinterest, which then linked me to another website. I love them so much that I am going to provide the link so you can make them on your own!

Ball and chain bracelet

Twine hex nut bracelet

Daddy.

Today I have been rocking out to Haley Reinhart's version of "Bennie and the Jets." I was dancing and singing around the kitchen (if you don't believe me, ask my mom) during its third time on repeat when I thought to myself, "Who are Bennie and the Jets?" So naturally, I called upon my dad, as I normally do when puzzling questions arise.

I popped my head into his den and said, "Dad, who are Bennie and the Jets?"

He sang back to me, "Ba ba ba ba ba Bennie and the Jets!!! Elton John."

I said, "No dad, I know that Elton John sings the song... but who ARE Bennie and the Jets?"

My dad then replied, "Ohhhhh. Hahaha. Well no one knows that! He was probably on drugs when he came up with that."

Thanks dad.

Click here to hear Haley Reinhart's version of "Bennie and the Jets"

Scrumptious.

There's nothing like the taste of a mint chocolate chip ice cream cone on a hot summer day. If you are as obsessed with the mint chocolate chip flavor as I am, I am about to tell you a BIG secret...

BYU creamery sells the best mint chocolate chip ice cream you have ever tasted.

It is creamy with the perfect amount of mint flavoring, and the correct dose of impeccably sized chips. Once you are addicted, I might tell you I feel bad... but I really won't.