My Christmas Present to Myself :)

Merry Christmas!! 

Thank you Kate Spade for making such cute bags 

Christmas Break iPhone Pictures

my christmas break has been such a blast... it has been fun being home and not having to worry about much.. .that is except for grades. I have been in a PANIC for the last two weeks if I got the grades I needed to keep my acceptance into dental hygiene school. Today, I got good news.. I'm safe! Just TWO more classes to go at BYU. That is crazy.
Anyways, here are some fun pictures to look at taken off my iphone...

this is the christmas present I got for my parents. I got pictures of our family developed (thanks to my awesome roommate anna gleave)

my cute shoes jana gave me for christmas

this was our christmas tree after jana, nate and I wrapped all my mom's gifts... she had to open 2 for every 1 we got to open hah

vans I got for Dan... they are tennis ball color, pretty sweet.

jana modeling her new shoes, and shirt that she got for christmas

my cute puppy dog hanging out amongst all my christmas loot 

Jana's friend Karlee braided my hair and jana's hair together

Nate fell asleep like this on the couch... he was snoring. 

we went to Portillo's!! My FAV place, and of course, I got a chocolate cake shake... mmmhm

nate got an electric guitar with his christmas money!

toque and my dad... today toque snapped at nate, so my dad got mad at toque. for the rest of the day, toque was scared of my dad

for christmas nate got the Cabelas Big Game Hunter Wii Game... it was very fun

toque wanted to hunt the bear too haha

toque and me!

Pictures Being Home

First night home * Shoveling * Cookie Making

It is fun being home for Christmas!!!

It's Been TOO long!!

Wow... it has been a while since I last posted. It hasn't helped that we didn't have internet in our apartment for the last two weeks. in addition to that there was last week of classes, and finals... and traveling home... so much. Anyways, here are some pics from my iphone... a little something something to look at. help give me inspiration for what to write about..

mom texted me this picture to get me all excited to come home! the house looks AWESOME.. more pictures to come of our Christmas house!

i made stuffed peppers for dinner one night. yum. so easy. sauteed mushrooms, onions, Italian stewed tomatoes, added in cooked quinoa and put into a hallowed out mushroom. cook till done.

gingerbread house competition... mine looks super classy and cute. it is the one on the left in case you couldn't tell

santa came early to my apartment!! my new printer. love it.

SOOOOOOOOOOOO bored at work. this might not look like much, but those little things role and it is impossible to get them all going the same direction. 

ah yes... ripped my nail off on my slippery car door. very very very painful... finally got my nail growing back

amanda got a lucky, doubled yoked egg!

Anna gave the Rupper brothers a Jacob (from Twilight) action figure. Looks just like him, right??

just got home, looking for mama's cookie stash and what do we find instead??? a shake weight!!! hahaha, this is jana in her sexy pose 

last night we made sugar cookies! this little guy is rockin some attitude (hence the hand on the hip)

there is much more to report. but for now, this is good!

Am I Racist?

It is well known that people don't always 'speak their minds', and it is suspected that people don't always 'know their minds'. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology.


Click on the following link and take the test for yourself- https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/Study?tid=-1
click where it says 'click here to begin'
just scroll to the bottom and click, ok, ok, ok till you get to the test, dont bother filling out the questions


After I first took the implicit test, I was disappointed and slightly angry at the results. “Strong automatic preference for EUROPEAN AMERICAN compared to AFRICAN AMERICA”?! What does that even mean? I have never thought of myself as a racist, nor have I ever been prejudice toward the African American race. I was convinced that it was the order of which the questions appeared that cause me to score that way, so I took the test again.


When I took the test a second time, the positive words were with the African American pictures first. And yes, it was easier for me to affiliate the positive words with the European Americans than it was the African Americans. Why was that? Does that make me a bad person? In an article I read describing these implicit tests, it says that we can all be a bit subconsciously racist no matter how colorblind we claim to be.


“There are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind”. 


Something to think about!!

Moment of Nostalgia

I am going to be on campus late today so I knew I should drive so I wouldn't have to walk home in the dark. I parked up at the dorms, in my old spot by my old building.

As I was walking up freshman hill, my iPod shuffled strait to 'Photofinnish'-3oh3... followed by 'So Rich, So Pretty'- Mickey Avalon.......instantly I was thrown back to freshman year. This time of year, with the snow, and finals... it almost made me want to go get a subway sandwhich for lunch and then hit up Legend's for dinner.

I wish I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't haven taken econ the next semester, I wouldn't have taken math 119, my life could be so different.

Anyways... i just want to give sutherland aka Barnes a shout out... thanks girl for all the good times, and the great music. if i ever need a moment of nostalgia all i need to do is rock out with Mickey Avalon, 3oh!3, and Fixxers. Can u werk wit dat???