Sun Valley!

This weekend a lot of us from the interior design program went to an ASID (American Society of Interior Designers) meeting/ conference/ weekend of partying! and by weekend...I actually just mean really long saturday.It started out at 6am when we left on the bus for Sun Valley. I'm pretty sure the heater didn't work for the whole 3 hour bus drive...in fact..I'm 99% sure they had the A/C on when it was 20 degrees outside...none the less...eventually we made it to the hotel (which was really really nice) where the conference was held, with only mild hypothermia. 

After we checked in and got our name tags we were told to sit at a table about half students and half design professionals. Kariann, Ty, and I selected a table..and it wasn't until later that we realized we had made a horrible error. Turns out the professionals we were sitting with were not very professional at all. The whole time they made super inappropriate jokes and I'm pretty sure they were just there to party...so during two, two hour long presentations we were pretty distracted by them..but I still did learn a lot! Like..how important it is to be professional. 

The presenters were both very good. I really enjoyed one of them about learning to read body language, and how to sell through the way you move and interact with people. I am definitely going to experiment with some of those techniques. 

After the presenters we had a bit of a break. During that break we went to a catholic church that was absolutely gorgeous. The main feature of the church, and the main reason we went, was to see an amazing fiberglass chandelier that they had. It was really interesting talking to the churches representative and hearing her tell us about all the symbolism in all of the design aspects of the church. I honestly don't know very much about the catholic church so it was neat getting to hear about it. 

After we went to the church we had a short 45 minutes to go shopping at all the little shops. For some reason, even though it was 5:00 on a saturday afternoon, the majority of the shops were closed. Also they were all super expensive and chic. I found very few things that were under $100. But it gives me even more motive to become rich and famous because most of the clothes were beautiful. Throughout the town they had lots of little statues...it was a lot of fun. We found a giant chair and took a picture in it...pretty much the only picture I remembered to take the whole day.

After shopping there was a student design competition/ cocktail hour...which of course I didn't participate in. We had 10 people from our school competing. We were able to walk around the room and select our favorite project. The winner of the competition was actually one of the students from BYUI... His project was amazing! After the competition we had dinner. Everyone at my table (which by the way...we had changed tables from earlier that day...it was safer that way) was afraid to eat the salad...it tasted interesting...I figured they couldn't screw up fettucini alfredo...but once they brought out my plate I had a single raisin in it..weird right? I guess I'm just not quite fit for the world of fancy food quite yet. During dinner we had the keynote speaker talk to us about the current trends in kitchen design this year. 

After this was all over we got back on the bus, watched The Sound of Music, studied for my mat and sources test...and eventually made it home at 1 am...Basically...an amazing...and very long day!

This is at..."the table of doom" haha...well..maybe that was a bit dramatic

Going shopping

Then we found a giant chair

"Silly pictures" are always necessary

and then I found a warthog

Here's all the S.W.A.G I got...haha

there was LOTS of it!

GUESS WHAT...

It snowed.

 And I am not happy about it. 

When I woke up and looked out my bedroom window, this is what I saw...

quotes

So I was randomly looking at my myspace that I haven't looked at in forever...and on it was my quote list from long long ago...which I found hilarious..and wanted to blog about it. So even though you might not get it, it's hilarious....trust me. 

Everybody want J-WO, J-WO want Twink-E 
It'd be so fun to be a pinball 
speaker="you are what you eat"(me=some intense thinking) "j-wo IS twinkie" I ATE THEM!!! 
whoever wrote this song is probably the same person who invented peanut butter on cheese crackers 
cheese crackers on peanut butter...hahaha...adam 
If we were any cooler they'd have to THAW US OUT!!! 
"daniel is delicious"..."what?"..."because i tasted him..."- sha-cha cha- BAM 
J-WO want cake AND brownie 
just because Pierre is inanimate does not mean he is unimportant 
"(erin/jennifer" "is" "really/extremely/amazingly" "hot/ugly"...."sike" 
Slow and steady wins the race. / This is your battle Jennifer! 

you owe me a hustle 
caution shana caution 
how is this even possible? (btw...i figured out it's possible because of hydrogen bonds...fyi) 
J-WO says that aint tight 
J-WU? 
Do I entice you? 
"Get your sexy on"=some random lady yelled at us from another car...akward 
what is the 3-dimensional word for oval?...(i still don't know the answer to this one....anyone?) 
do you have any Strauss, or possibly Bach 
"VIOLATED!" 
the pool table hurt me 
Bucket likes Squash, Squash likes Remote, Remote likes Squash... 
it's a love triangle, but no one loves bucket. 
mooooo, RRRAAWWRRR, RIBET, ARGGGKKK ARGGGKKK, MOOOO.... 
those are really easy to choke on
"ahhh....i got dirt in my eye"..."oh I'll get that for you honey"...we have a mother daughter relationship... 
fruitloop lips...captain crunchy 
"I call everybody honey...Adam is sugar lips..."lol...andrea 
What would Donny and Marie do? 
I just don't get it...who seriously needs a 20 foot headphone extender? 
"is that supposed to sound like a german lady?"..."no...it was supposed to sound like a mexican man" 
your ankle should be pointed...like so you could have a pie on it 
I like the warmth 
"You dont find dumb blondes at the beach.."..."oh wait, I guess I go to the beach sometimes" 
LET'S GET READY TO RHUMBA!!!! (in a cool monster truck-esque voice) 
WHOA...too much rubberband... 
Nat Nat Nat Nat Nat ALIE ALIE 
oh j-wo...you silly goose...i call everyone silly goose...except adam... 
INALB...IMHO 
"So pick her up!like Harry Potter!and spin her like a basketball!" 
"There's a chipmunk!and there's a dear!and there's another dear!and there's a hippo!I don't know!Why is he here?" 
It's tizzight...with a capital T...and Z...and ITE 
the samba originates in IS THAT CAKE 
j-wo said "don't talk like a hippo"..what she meant to say was "don't talk like a camel" yet i would still laugh at the camel one too...hmmm 
what does quintessential mean? 
"Are you Drag" "No, I'm a flamingo" 
Juno? 
thank goodness for satan's panties 
if you tilt the cup you can get much more water 
why does P-Dawg get the guest apartment?...I don't even get a toilet! 
What the MEOW 
are those birds or just very large nuts 
"we can't build a relationship on a web of lies"..."we could be spiders" 
I saw a purple festiva 
anything that’s vanilla is a waste of something that could be chocolate 
NOODLE DUTY NOODLE DUTY....Daniel you stink at noodle duty (never again will daniel get noodle duty) 
what the schist! 
I bet you 100 bucks that theres garnet in this rock (btw...brittany owes me $100) 
wanna hear me talk like a mermaid? ah ah ahh ah ah ah ah ahhhh ah ah ah ahh ah ah ah ah ahh ah ah AHHHH!!! (singing like Ariel) 
"weird-o"...."queer-o" 
ahh man....i wish i came up with the "you still wear diapers" comeback quicker 
i'll tell you when your second partner gets here 
this ketchup tastes how beer smells...allright....who spiked the ketchup (andrea thought it tasted pretty good) 
hey jennifer...what if i kidnapped that kid 
what's your name again?...brittany right? 
whoa...this place has good ketchup too 
How is she supposed to read it if she's blind? 
You're an Aquitard!!! 
veer left veer left straight straight straight TURN RIGHT HERE NOW! 
"have kids with her"..."it's his mother"...this is the Dr. Laura game gone wrong 
NOT IT! 
the Vator of doom/destruction/desolation/death/danger/... 
Literally...loetterally 
do you think she is always dressed up like a clown? 
I thought you were a G! 
Sogged-out IS a word..it's what you say when something is completely sogged 
"look a bus to paradise"..."well ya better hurry because pretty soon this is going to be a bus to Longmire" 
I was going to throw a snowball at the ranger...but NOOOOO....i'd get arrrestted... 
Look..it's ranger granger the danger ranger 
I'M THE KING OF THE GLACIAL ERRATIC 

Ice caves and sand dunes

So this Saturday was pretty much a party...it was the day before my friend Kate's birthday, so we decided to all party it up by going to the ice caves and then having a bonfire at the sand dunes. It was my first time going to the ice caves...and there was lots of ice...way more than expected.. there are about a million pictures so..yeah...

once we got there we needed to drive out a couple miles to get to the caves...you NEEDED a four wheel drive, therefore we stuck 10 people into Stephanie's little Ford SUV

After hiking down into the depths of the earth we got to the front of the cave and were pretty dang excited

yes...you did have to crawl on your stomach..on the ice...to get through parts of the caves

p.s. it was pitch black

This is the part where you had to hold onto a rope...while leaning on a giant underground iceberg..and pushing off rocks on the other side...to avoid falling into a giant cave

almost there!!! and that huge hill on the right is all ice...sorry...still amazed at how much ice there was..haha...I'm a nerd

Kate trying to get to the sparkle cave (basically all the walls are super sparkly when you 

put light on them..it's awesome) and me trying not to die in the pitch black

This was a really long hallway of ice..stephanie and I were trying to be ice skaters. 

probably my favorite..trying to launch Tory across the ice..it didn't work as well as planned. 

We finally made it to the end!!! the whole group!

and the rear view...things got a little wet. 

Once we were completely frozen we decided to go the sand dunes and have a bonfire

Stephanie and I tried sliding down the dunes on an inflatable mattress...it worked out way better in our heads. Stephanie ended up somersaulting all the way down the hill. 

By the end of the night I looked slightly more than slightly disheveled and had a shoe full of sand...aka it was the best night ever...this week...except for maybe friday night....!!!

Mi Casa...but....in Rexburg

Here are some pictures of my apartment this semester...My mom brought me to school and helped me set everything up. It's pretty dang cute in my opinion!

Here's the front room...

And my bedroom!

rexburg is STILL a constant party!

On my first day of classes all my interior design teachers informed us that we would not be sleeping this semester...at all...so I decided to take advantage of my minimal homework this weekend and party like mad!

It all started with a trip to Idaho Falls with my friend stephanie. We pretty much just went shopping to find some yoga pants for my jazz dance class, but I came back with WAY more. They had a sale at old navy for 47 cent shorts...you just can't say no to such a deal. After Idaho Falls we wanted to do something amazing..so what better thing to do in the little bit of summer we have left than go swimming! Well...we got a big group of about 8 people, put an address in the GPS, and headed out to "St. Anthony".  Stephanie's car was the party car and it was a ton of fun...but after probably about 15 miles on a gravel rode we wondered where the heck we were going. The party car was still a ton of fun...but the other car...well..not quite so much. Apparently the driver was a little frustrated after driving that far in his shiny little car. You see..Stephanie has a nice big four wheel drive..so the rocks were nothing to us..we even went off rode a bit over some sweet hills. Eventually we found a nice couple towing a tractor and asked them where the heck we were. The guy said that the lake was "over by dem sand hulls"...well...just imagine farmer talk. So we turned around and eventually find Egin lake..it probably didn't get deeper than 2 feet throughout the whole lake..but it reminded me of dash point in a strange way so all was well. There was no fires allowed so we decided to start off on our next adventure... a fire at the guys  apartment...but it turned out  all the wood was wet...so...the next stop was applebees! that turned out pretty well. Then it was off to Kate's apartment for a movie and a sweet game of phase 10...I still need to dish out some payback for certain people using the skip card on me! 

So...basically it doesn't sound like it was too exciting...but it was SOOO much fun...I never really leave my apartment..I think I need to get out more. haha. 

The Party Car!

We were afraid that Andrew would get mad at us once we stopped...he did

But it was a party anyways!!!

aww...precious. 

lots to blog!

So I haven't blogged in a long long time...so nothing to blog about in particular..so I'll just give an update of summer!

Playing at the beach

...with ice cream

Going to Medford

...and playing with my cute nephews

the 4th of July

white trash wars

Pie eating contest...BEFORE

...and AFTER

And more fireworks then should ever be legal!

um...yeah....

and of course...picking cherries!

new camera!

For about the past six months I have REALLY wanted to buy myself a camera...and now that I have a job I decided finally to get one. It's a Nikon d40....and I really like it...here are some pictures I took. I honestly have NO idea what I'm doing....so I have a LOT to learn. 

Adrian..this is your cacti that died.

IT'S GONE!

And by that I mean my hair! Today I cut probably about a foot off of my hair and got a short A-line cut. It was a bit nerve wrecking but in the end I liked it a lot! It is the shortest I have ever had my hair so I'm sure this is going to be a fun adventure. This is kind of a crappy picture...but here it is!!!