Two things that I love:

Morning Glory (the movie)

and the Weepies (a band)

check them out here (this is their christmas song... it's delightful)

imagine my excitement when i realized the weepies did a song for the movie

here's the music video.

enjoy!

meet me under the mistletoe

Last weekend, we had our ugly christmas sweater party!

There were lots of fun activities including hot cocoa drinking, christmas cookie eating, dancing to become "christmas king", learning the dougie, and kissing under the mistletoe ;)

We also had a special visitor come......

Everyone got to take pictures with santa and tell him what they wanted for christmas. Preston's boss let him borrow this enormous santa. He had to bring santa home in his very small car, having to decapitate santa for the ride home.

King of Christmas

(Josh and Tiffany under the mistletoe!)

dance off for King of Christmas

Thanks to everyone who came and spread christmas cheer!

sweater preview

christmas party tomorrow at 9.

come get your christmas cheer on

be there or be square

don't forget a rockin sweater!

(more sweater previews at my roommate's blog here)

thanksgiving ode

on thanksgiving, I was able to experience some things off my 100 list. I was a happy girl!

ate maple butter twists for a nutritious breakfast

(made by yours truly)

went to Sundance with entire Dyer side of family

and ate unhealthy amounts of pie

(I made these two-- oatmeal maple and chocolate pecan)

yum

I hope you all were able to enjoy some of the things you are grateful for

:)

not for the weak in stomach

this one time, a piece of metal did this to my foot....

my friends drew a smiley face on it to cheer me up

My flip flop caught on a piece of metal while I was walking to the first BYU football game of the season. I went to the ER and got 13 stitches instead of being at the game.

a few months later...

I went to the last BYU football game. I walked home through the very site the accident scene, and the piece of metal was still there! I'm not lying, it's at least three inches of rusty metal sticking out of the ground.

beware of this jagged piece of metal

but on the upside, BYU won!

it was a killer game, even in the cold

(don't mind the guy creepin in the background)

100 things

In my women's health class, our teacher gave an extra credit assignment.
To earn extra credit, all we had to do was.....

make a list of 100 things we are grateful for

a girl in my class raised her had and commented on the assignment.
she said she had told people about it and challenged them to do it.
She mentioned that after she had told her sister, her sister gave a

talk in church and challenged everyone in the congregation to do it as well .

it has turned into a "pay-it-forward" kind of a deal.

I challenged the girls I visit teach to do it,

and you should do it too!

(Pass this on)

here are a few of my favorites from my list:

wonderful memories with family and friends

my grandparents who have started an amazing family legacy

the future and everything that is yet to come

peace, hope, faith

God's love

my mom's coconut bread

my grandma's abelskivers

my favorite jeans

Clinique make up

mountains, snow, beautiful autumn leaves

my mom and her wisdom and love

my dad and everything he does for me

my journal

the plan of salvation

Preston and his sweet and tender heart

my best friends who have always been there

"I believe in pink.

I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.

I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.

I believe in being strong

when everything seems to be going wrong.

I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.

I believe that tomorrow is another day

and I believe in miracles."

I found a part of this quote yesterday while browsing through a

Martha Stewart wedding magazine

(yes, I'm a typical girl and I anything weddings...blogs, magazines, billboards, you name it).

don't you just love those?!

she believes in kissing a lot. and that happy girls are the prettiest.

what girl can disagree with that????

not me! she's a pretty smart lady if you ask me.