30 Day Challenge

Day 5: A Photo Of Myself Today

[Becca took these yesterday so it counts.]

Golden birthday celebrations

call for really yellow

thrift store

blouses.

& thrift store gold belts.

& awesome green polka dotted skirts from golden parents.

thank you!

30 Day Challenge

Day 4: A Photo of Myself 10 Years Ago

...or 3 photos...

The average age range should be 10 years ago

Daddy ~ Leah ~ Me

Jessica McCord ~ Carly White ~ Alyssa Jones ~ Shelley Mauss

Yeah, not much has changed.

I still love boxers

blankets

and parties with dress up clothes.

30 Day Challenge

Day 3: Most Embarrassing Moment

With a history like mine,

it's hard to pick just one.

One experience of horrifying embarrassment

that surpasses all the others.

I had to call my friend Becca,

to think back upon my clumsy life

for the one.

I believe the summer of 2010 takes the cake.

I wanted to go on a weekend trip to Utah

and a wonderful guy from my ward let me ride in his car

with several other people needing rides.

On the trip back to Rexburg....

I was on my period.

And I tend to fall asleep during long car rides.

[Every car ride over 20 minutes.]

This was during the time I was wearing pads

and you really have to change those.

And I slept through the time when I should have changed mine.

In fact I didn't wake up until we arrived back in Rexburg.

4 Hours Later.

I was dropped off first.

I got up out of his cloth passenger seat,

collected my things

and,

 as my mother always taught me,

I looked back at my seat.

I'd left something.

Red

Big

Ingrained.

I can't remember what shape it was,

maybe a butterfly,

but I do remember the horrifying realization

that I had to tell the guy.

Who was currently carrying all of my bags up to my apartment. 

Because he was top notch nice, nakies. 

He wouldn't even let me clean it up myself.

Which made me feel even worse.

Don't bleed on other peoples vehicles Nakies.

30 Day Challenge

Day 2: Five Favorite Things

[in no particular order]

1. Indoor Plumbing. 

Especially hot showers

and good toilets.

2. Taking naps & snuggling Tommy.

Oh let's be honest, ANYTHING with Tommy is my favorite.

3. Feeling inspired by all sorts of things in life to write.

4. Traveling to places I could never walk to.

5. Photographs of people.

Especially those I know and love.

30 Day Challenge - Day 1

[Lauren Lytle Inspired ~]

Day 1: Five Facts About Me Most People Don't Know


1. I am generally a very content person, but I have these obsessive surges of desire to do things I don't know how to do every once in a while that drive me insane. Because well, I don't know how to do them. 


examples:
- write a children's book
- be a clothing designer
- be a blogger/writer that random people know about
- paint portraits
- have a master's degree worth of knowledge in my head


I get overwhelmed by these surges and for a while I feel like I'm starving to do this thing I've never done before! I have yet to feel satisfied by the time the surge leaves me. Sometimes it lasts days, sometimes months.


2. I love having things on the walls of my home that are too high for me to reach on my own. It means my amazing husband took extra time to decorate using our belongings. And it makes our temporary apartments feel like home. 


3. I am a terrible swimmer. But if given the chance, I'd become a mermaid in an instant. [of course the transformation would come with dolphin-like swimming skills.]There are few things I love more in nature than the ocean. I want to be a part of it.


4. I am excited to get really old. My skin has been in the "rosy-fire engine spectrum" since the stinking puberty thing happened. I am excited to have pasty white skin and actually have a use for blush. 


5. I starred in a movie during college that was made for some kind of film festival. I think it's smoldering remains have been buried in the heart of Russia. At least I hope so. 






Over the next month, you can expect bits o' this:


1. Five facts about me most people don't know
2. Five favorite things
3. Most embarrassing moment
4. A photo of myself 10 years ago
5. A photo of myself today
6. Favorite YouTube video
7. My dream house
8. What's in my closet
9. What's in my makeup bag
10. Picture of my shoes
11. Favorite recipe
12. Favorite animal
13. Favorite song
14. Something I made recently
15. Favorite scripture
16. Picture of the place I work
17. Three things I'm grateful for
18. Picture of my day
19. Picture of a good friend
20. Favorite city
21. Favorite quote
22. Something I could never get tired of doing
23. Picture of my family
24. Favorite movie
25. Dream vacation
26. Favorite game
27. A piece of art I made
28. Picture of my home
29. Something I'm saving up for
30.  A dream for my future

p.s. the first ice cream cone of the season was made in this house, this night. 

"My Momma's So Awesome...." Day

It always creeps up on me.

But the ads for 

flowers and chocolate covered strawberries 

spring up like warning bells

and remind me every year about 7 days in advance.

This mothers day I am married, 

(a.k.a. "stuck in an adult ward")

but haven't started growing any people yet.

And yet I still get chocolate at church!

Score!

Tommy made me mashed potatoes

(consumed too quickly to snatch a picture, Nakies you understand).

And cream of celery soup from scratch.

Apes, you may be thinking "Ew, Tommy, celery?"

But it was delicious. 

I was supremely impressed. 

I ate so much I got unbelievably full and fell into a food coma

like unto thanksgiving.

SO GOOD.

Then I decided I wanted cake.

I wanted to bake a cake.

From scratch.

Nakies,

 Once upon another time,

Carly baked a cake from scratch

and it turned out so dense

that she could have killed someone with it

if she'd dropped it off her balcony.

She, and all the fair maidens,

had to eat it by putting each piece in a glass of milk

to coax it down their throats.

This time was much better.

: )

I even invented a topping.

Involving banana slices and brown sugar goodness.

Sweet sweet sweet.

Then Tommy and I rebuilt the Capital Building.

No big deal.

Except it has a lot of windows.

Check out that smile!

Under belly work, almost done....

Ta da!

Yeah, this is just me. 

Proof Nakies, proof.

I helped. 

Plus, that's my leg up there.

And then I stole the pictures off of Tommy's camera 

and blogged so much I think I'm good for 3 months.

Maybe?

No?

Well, Happy Mother's Day to me, I have the best husband ever : )

Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful Ladies!!

Take a Hike...Finally!

Most of you 

have heard of hiking "the Y" at BYU.

Well, there is in existence, 

an "R" at BYU-I.

And after living here five years,

Becca, Odie, Tommy, and I

finally hiked it!

It's on the side of a butte. 

Which is basically a mashed potato mountain

with a huge spoonful scooped out of the middle/top.

These things happen when mountains explode.

This is the view from halfway up

Becca, Odie, Carly, & Tommy = 1

Butte = 0

Victory!

There were lots of amazing caves all over the ridge top.

The bunnies have perfect houses up here. 

Every cave has a billion pockets and openings.

We sat in one cave that was right on the edge.

Becca's new "someone's taking a picture of me" face,

involves major facial excitement

and the sign language symbol for "more!".

You can't tell because I am so tall,

but that is a 50-90ft drop off behind my head.

It slops pretty steeply so we couldn't get an exact estimate.

Tommy was poking around a random cave at the top,

touched a natural rock shelf,

broke it with his amazing accidental strength,

and found a geocache!

We signed our names in its log book

and left a couple things inside.

A clothes pin that says "Jared"

and a joker card from Tommy's deck.

We're famous!