Haven't heard of it? It's the next dessert trend. Invented by this 6 year old who happens to be my cousin and who should be famous and adored all over the world one day, along with the rest of his talented siblings.
Had escargot for the first time in honor of Erica's b-day. Went to the Paris Bistro in SLC which was super delicious.
Attended a fake wedding b-day party for a friend's daughter, at which her father dressed up as Macho Man and stayed in character the entire time.
At the last minute JD got us tickets to the Postsecret event at USU. Lucky day, though it turned a bit too group therapy-ish at the end.
My brother Matt and soon-to-be sister-in-law Randi had some early wedding photos taken last week. You can see some here and help them out with a comment there--if their post gets the most comments they win free prints.
I'm a bad blogger these weeks is because I've been spending my busy days here.
Spent the weekend with the fam including my freaking adorable little niece. At age 2 she is already a perfectionistic Virgo like me. She lines up her teddy grahams on the high chair tray and meticulously puts her crayons in the box, over and over.
The fam is all in the homeland. This is what we did Saturday, and yesterday, what we are doing today, what we will be doing tomorrow, and every other day here.
Tomorrow I leave for NYC for almost a week and I probably won't be posting much while I'm gone. But I've still got to tell you about my Saturday adventure with Ams, so I'll push out a bunch of posts on that to tide you over.
There's a soft but constant buzz about everything that's going on in Utah County these days, so Amber and I took a day trip to check it all out. First stop, Highland Gardens.
Gave my lil sissy an impromptu haircut last night. There wasn't really a plan but once we decided we were done, it reminded me an awful lot of that chick in the video for "My Friend Dario." I think it turned out pretty rad.
I finally got my laptop back! I actually had to stop myself from kissing it as I was leaving the Apple store. Now things can go back to normal.
Back when I dropped if off to be fixed there was this awesome guy with the thickest glasses ever next to me at the genius bar with his old school desktop. I loved the image of crazy genius old man sitting there with his old but space-agey computer under those florescent lights, so I had to surreptitiously snap his photo with my iphone.
Other things that happened while I was computerless:
I reunited with Alison, an old college roommate and the kind of friend who will always feel like family. I hadn't seen her in a couple years but now she lives just a few blocks away, and by a lucky turn of events I got to go to the blessing of her new baby.
I dug out my dad's old trunk of memorabilia from the LDS mission he served in Australia many years ago, for reasons I'll discuss in a later post, and dressed my sister in a kangaroo pelt.
Let's catch up on the last few weeks. I...
watched BYU win by a fingertip in Vegas, then celebrated,
Too bad she doesn't have her own blog or she could have told you all about it herself.
So here's a funny thing I found out about over Thanksgiving weekend. A member of my family is a partner in a Southern California law firm who has a case with Dina Lohan, Lindsay Lohan's mother, named as a witness. They try and try to subpoena her but she's quite evasive. So finally, on Halloween, the firm's process server (the guy who delivers the papers) dresses up along with his little daughter and they go trick-or-treating to the Lohan residence in L.A. When Dina's at the door giving out candy to his daughter he asks, "Oh, are you Mrs. Lohan?" and shakes her hand. When she answers yes he gives her the papers and says "You've been served!" Ha! I wanted to know what they dressed up as, but my informant didn't know. Nor did he tell me what the case was all about. But still a good story.
{edit} I couldn't find it at the time of post, but here is a video of said law firm's other brush with fame. (click on photo)
Wasn't she a cute baby? My mother is pretty rad. She is the most patient, fun, smart, stylish mom. I'm pretty lucky. Hopefully she'll have a lovely birthday of Christmas decorating and pumpkin pie.
During the holidays I especially miss my little brother Andy even though I'm incredibly proud of him for working hard as an LDS missionary in South Korea. Just a few more months till he comes home! I've been watching some of the videos he's sent. Here he is (on the left with the guitar) with his missionary companion at the time performing A-Ha's "Take On Me" at some sort of church function last December.
I'm back to boring accents and plenty of internets! Amy, Emily and I spent a grand week in the UK, first Glasgow for the wedding of dear friends, then London for a little fun. It's been a couple days home now and I think I'm almost unpacked and almost dejetlagged.
If wasn't for jetlag, though, I wouldn't have had so much fun Friday night. I couldn't sleep early that morning, so I got up and chanced to see some America's Most Smartest Model on tv. Somehow, so had Libbie and JD, and that night when I was deliriously sleepy we actually reenacted the contest where they had to name as many items as possible in a certain category while walking the runway. Everything is so funny when you're tired! We styled ourselves in blankets and challenged each other to catwalk while naming things in the categories of: crayola color names, things that shimmer, and varieties of eggs. I really must have no pride that I'm telling you about our juvenile, sober, fun. But when was the last time you really played like a kid with no worries? It's a pretty good feeling. But I don't endorse the show.
Another good thing about traveling, every time I get home there's a package from another country waiting at home for me. How does this happen? Last time it was the gift of a vintage ring from Mitch & Niall in London. This time it was cartoon socks and candy from my adorable brother Andy who is currently an LDS missionary in Korea. That's him with the robot that he gave no explanation of.
Anyway, Ima try to get back to semi-regular posting. Maybe more about the trip, maybe I'll not hate music enough to post some. (But really, it's not getting less overwhelming--did you see the ridiculous amount of supposed to be good that was released this week? I'm boycotting all new music.)
Oddly this past week I spent a lot of time with young kids not at all having to do with work. While I could go days without even noticing a child, lately there's been the niece, friends' kidzes, and lil cousins all over. I even got to play with two of my lil cuz's superhero personas, Ood and Tood. Well, sometimes they are Ev and Tev. Or Little Guy and Big Guy, who's powers are getting littler and getting bigger, respectively. The best was when they honored me with a name too. They offered Cood, Toia, Quibbus, and Medium Guy, but I think we settled on Peb. I'm not yet sure what Peb's power is though.
Also my mom suggests there's a resemblance between Kewpie and Benjamin. Think?
