Late Night Karaoke!

Saturday night everyone was looking for something to do.  So we decided to try out this little karaoke place in Garden Grove.  Basically you pay per hour and you and your group have your own room (you can choose the small, medium, or large room).  Well we ended up having a pretty large group so we had the largest room they had.  It was SOO fun!  For an hour we all sung and danced.  I am so glad we found this place...  

Me and Ashlee picking out our next song!  (ignore the crazy who jumped in the way, I stole these from some girls camera so ya... we got what we got)
Some of us on the couches...  (again with the crazy)  I think Jason was about to go...  he LOVES karaoke.

Team Party Christmas Party

On friday night our Huntington group of friends (team party) had a Christmas party.  We had dinner (tacos) and had a white elephant gift exchange then made "awards" for each other.  but mainly we all hung out and talked.  It was a lot of fun to say the least.

Me, Ashlee, David, Becky, and Andy hanging out after all the games.
The whole group.  I have a stupid face cuz I am of course laughing at something no one else is... typical.

Jason and me not paying attention.  Ashlee and Todd White
Me, Todd White, and Ashlee.   Becky, Ashlee and me went to the store earlier to get stuff for italian cream soda's then settled with shirley temples.  Todd then started drinking straight grenadine.... soo gross.

Blanket!

So yesterday Jason texted me telling me had made me something, luckily I was able to get it last night cuz he was soo excited to give it to me.  I guess it took him hours to make me this blanket.  It turned out soo cute!  one side is bright green and the other side is pink with monkeys on it and SUPER soft.  I seriously love it and its Super warm.  He also made it a little bigger then normal so I can totally wrap myself up into it!

HM

So everyone at work makes fun of me for being 22 and liking Hannah Montana.  So I will randomly get Hannah Montana stuff at work...  balloon, pen, candy with hannah montana's face on it.  Well here is the most recent...  I just think its soo funny.  (and my hannah montana pen writes better then any other pen thank you very much!!)

O Christmas Tree!!

Our Finished Christmas Tree!  It looks really pretty when the lights are on.  Also we all need to gather our personal ornaments to put on it!
Me next to Jason and all the branches we trimmed off!
Jason dealing with the base and the tree.  
Trisha keeping it steady, Jason tighting the base and me.....??  helping?? 

Last night Jason and I went and visited with Grandma Snowball and helped her with some decorations.  After we were looking for something to and decided to get a tree,  Jason has been wanting to get one for our apartment for awhile now and everyone (ashlee trisha and errissa) were home so it was the perfect time!  I am bummed I didnt take any pictures of the finished tree, but by the time we finished I was soo tried!  We turned Elf on while we decoarted and made hot chocolate.  Trisha's parents donated some pretty ribbon (which Trisha and I made into bows!) and a set of 86 ornaments.  They are pretty all red, green, silver and gold.  and some are a cool glittered design.  Then we will also add whatever little ornaments we have from our house.  

Gingerbread Houses Round 2

Todd and Wendy....  I had to post this cuz Todd's house makes ours look a lot better!!  There was a contest between the 6 houses.  Mine and Jason's tied for 1st!!  
One side of the house.
Other side of the house!

Sunday night we got a group together and made gingerbread houses.  It was a lot of fun.  There was probably about 12 of us over there and 6 houses were made.  We put them all together and made a gingerbread village.  As soon as I get pictures of those I will prob post them.  Anyway Ashlee and Sterling couldnt come so they want to make them again which I am totally down! I am finally starting to get into the christmas spirit,  We even decorated in the office!  So fun! 

Magic Mountain!!

Jason's brother was in town this past weekend with some friends and made plans to go to 6 Flags, so me and Jason went with them along with our friends Erin and Andy.  It was soo fun!  and not at all crowded!  We were able to go on pretty much every ride and even some twice!  My favorite was Tatsu and X2.  Those two had the longest lines but even that was only 45 mins at the most and luckily enough of us had cool games on our phones to keep us entertained.  :)  I was so tired from the night before then waking up early but still managed to make it from opening to closing!  

Me and Jason on our first ride of the day!  Dont worry the kid you see in front of us started throwing up towards the end.  SO GROSS!!  I had to RUN off the ride.
Andy, Erin, me and Jason on Tatsu....  So fun!!

Decorating the Tree

The final product!
The top of the tree turned out really cute! 

Me and some of the bows I made!

Wednesday night was so nice!  I went to my parents house and right when I walked through the door it smelt soo good! (my dad made up some new pasta recipe) and John Denver and the Muppets was playing.  Me and my parents had dinner together then after everything was cleaned up me and my mom worked on decorating the Christmas tree.  My mom was really excited because she bought some new ribbon to make new bows and some new fun ornaments for the tree.  She taught me how to make bows... I was really excited to learn how too.  and I must say our tree turned out really cute!  I cant wait to get a tree for the apartment!  Jason told me yesterday he is going to get us one!  Trisha's parents gave us a bunch of ornaments since they changed their tree theme this year.  So out tree will be all silver gold and light pink, which I think is appropriate for a girls apartment!  :)  I will post pictures will that happens.

Breaking all my Rules....

Ok so I absolutely LOVE Christmas!  But I have weird thing about starting Christmas before Thanksgiving.  I refuse to put in my Christmas CD's of turn on any radio stations that listen to Christmas music until the Friday after.   Then its game on.  Well Saturday Jason suggested we make a gingerbread house (I had mentioned I wanted to do it)  I know we will have other opportunities to make them with a couple different groups of friends but I still couldnt help myself I said yes.  So we got candy, frosting, graham crackers and went to town.  Jason's sister Lisa and her friend Chelsea stopped by and helped.  Our friend Austin also popped in a helped a little.  It was so much fun and I was so proud of our house!

This is the christmas tree in the backyard.... made all our of frosting.  Jason made that since me and Chelsea both tried to squeeze that stupid green frosting out but it was too hard.
This picture doesn't even do it justice.  This house was soo good.  Two story.  graham cracker entry way, open door, noo glue completely edible.  amazing.

Zippy

Me and Ashlee got a fish last Saturday... well two.  Zippy and Poppy!  They were soo cute and we loved them  (enough to spend over 5 bucks on them plus food and water!!)  anyway i was doing the dishes yesterday and there was Poppy swimming around Zippy's floating upside body....  SOO SAD!!!  We had a little memorial service for him.  He was a good pet.

Fire! Fire! Fire!

This weekend was soo weird, mainly because of all of the Southern California fires.  Saturday there was one in Brea and Yorba Linda which caused for a lot of smoke and ash in Fullerton.  It continued into Sunday and Monday.  The fires have moved through Carbon canyon (still there) and into Chino Hills and Diamond Bar.  Saturday Night we were suppose to go to an Austism Benefit in Chino Hills that Ashlee's family puts on every year.  She left at 4:30 to try and find a way to get over there...  at 7:30 she gave up after only making it 10 miles.  Then Sunday we only had sacrament meeting since there were many people in our ward who were evacuated from their houses.  That night Jason and Austin came over for dinner, and after dinner we decided to drive around to see if we can see any of the fires still.  We went to Yorba Linda and I was driving through a random neighborhood just trying to get to the top of a hill and suddenly we noticed random houses burnt to the ground.  It was so crazy how one house would be completely destroyed and then the one next to it was fine.  Anyways I hope the fires start to slow down and that everyone is staying safe.  I am pretty sure everyone in our area is pretty much good now...

Picture from the 91 freeway....

I stole this picture from my friend Ryan.  He took this from his backyard in Yorba Linda

Jason

I dont really like to talk about boys so much on here cuz they usually come and go so fast but me and Jason decided that we are exclusively dating.  It wont get too serious since he is turning in his papers to go on a mission in the next couple weeks (he is 21).  Anyway he is a really fun guy, his roommates or old roommates are always asking us to go on double dates with them and whatever new girl they are interested in.  So thats basically the scoop if you hear the name Jason often now.  

On that note last night Jason, his old roommate Taylor, Trisha and me went on a double date.  Way back in September Taylor told me he thought Trisha was cute but nothing was ever done about it.  Well finally we set up a double date.  They took us to this nice resturant at Belmount Shores right on the water.  We ate outside right by a fire so it was still nice and warm.  It was really nice until the end of the dinner when me and trisha saw a cockroach on the floor.  It kept coming towards us.  I dont know why the server didnt just kill it but instead she chased it away.  Anyway like 5 or 10 mins went by and we were all talking and suddenly i saw it under trisha's feet so I jumped which made trisha spaz out and spill water all over Taylor.  I dont know why were are so retarded.   

          We decided to leave right after that and go to the queen mary, Trisha had never been and I have really only been on the merry go round on the outside and walked around it a few times with Mel.  This is probably really bad but Jason knew where all the old supposedly haunted rooms were so we went there and Jason picked the locks.  I won't lie... it was WAY creepy.  Trisha didnt get past the first room so most the time it was just me and jason.  I think I got the most scared when we were at the spot were the pool was.  Right when we got back these 3 older people and their little kid were trying to look around so Jason reunlocked the door for them to look around where we had just been (I honestly think its just where they take people on tours) Trisha thought it would be safe with the 3 year old girl there so we went with them and all 8 of us explored.  It was funny.  We decided that was probably enough for one night.  (i have an overactive imagination) So we headed to yogurtland and called it a night!  I sorta hope Trisha likes Taylor... they would be fun to double with.... oh well if not!

Haircut!

Last night Tony came over and we had another hair party.  Mine and Ashlee's roots were outta control so we were excited.  Tyler came over to hang out too since he was friends with Tony in HS.  My plan was to just trim my hair.  But then I realized in 2 weeks it would be longer then I liked.  So I told tony to just cut it like before.  We started talking and decided it was time for something new.  He pretty much gave me bangs and a new style.  I have to blow dry my hair forward for this one... which is easy since my hair just does that.  However with this hair cut I realized I have a huge cowlick in the back of my hair that I now have to deal with,  oh well... thank goodness for product.  Next time we are going to change up the color a little bit!  I love changing my hair (not as much as shannon though!) o0o0 Last night me, Trisha and Tyler had a jump roping contest.... ya I won!  After a lot of smack talk from Tyler.  muwhaha!

I took this at work and didnt want anyone to know I was taking a picture hence the retarded face...
Side view.
other side!

funny randomness

Kevin at work is one of the mormon guys who works here and is always giving me a hard time about my dating life and boys.  I thought it was pretty funny when he sent me this...  

Softball

I made it to first everytime I hit this game!  Whoot Whoot!
I make friends with "blue" each game.  By the end We are BFF
Andrew took a picture of me throwing cuz he said its the funniest thing he's ever seen.  I dont see the humor.
Me, Ashlee and Geoff hanging out in the dugout.  We are the best cheerleaders ever!  Go team Bull Moose!!

Like mentioned before I have joined a co-ed softball team for the city of Tustin.  Nooo I did not join because it was "co-ed"  (mom...)  I just wanted to do something new and fun.  This has been soo fun!  We've had two games so far... I think I have gotten better since our first game.  Which honestly isnt saying much but oh well... This last game we played Andrew took pictures.  Our friend Ryan also videotaped the game but I havent seen it yet and honestly dont care too...   

Sonora High Pride!

So I dont really have anything new to say... I went to Palm Desert this past weekend and stayed at the JW Marriott, It was a lot of fun but everyone either forgot their camera or had no more batteries so sadly not a lot of pictures.  Anyway I got this off of my sisters blog... 

1. Did you date someone from your high school? not really... I few little flings here and there.  My main "high school boyfriend" had already graduated and went to a different school before that.  So my senior year was mostly spent with him and his friends  (who I am still friends with...  haha  funny how that works out)

2. What kind of car did you drive? Red '93 Ford Mustang.  I loved this car... it was pretty much a piece but still had so many funny memories in it since I was usually the driver of my friends.

3. What is your most embarrassing moment in high school? I was helping out with a boys swim invatational so there were tons of cute boys from different schools.  I was walking and not paying attention and walked into the diving board that was leaned back against the wall.  I feel on my butt and had a huge red mark on my forehead.  Most of the guys laughed and a few offered to help me up.  Worst part was when I got up my jeans were covered in water from the ground.  ugh i think i just walked straight home (actually i probably called for a ride... who am i kidding)

4. Were you a party animal? not at all.  I knew people but didnt do the whole party scene.  My senior year me and robin stopped by a couple but everyone made such a big deal that we were actually at a party that we hated doing it.

5. Were you considered a flirt? Probably. I know I am flirty by nature.  So ya...

6. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? Choir. I did Vocal Ensemble. I lasted two years until i realized I really hated the instructor and quit. 

7. Were you a nerd? yes in my own goofy way.  But in HS i thought I was sooo cool.  I wasnt.  haha  I think i have become more of a nerd through out the years

8. Were you on any varsity teams? yes... but usually played in JV that was a could start.  Oh waterpolo.  Maybe if i played for more then 2 years I would have actually played in Varsity games.

9. Did you get suspended/expelled? nope.  I got a detention once but Mr. Hawkins was dean of attendance so I was able to serve it one day at lunch.  I think i was there a total of 10 mins.

10. Can you still sing the fight song? nope, never could...

11. Who were your favorite teachers? ummm I like mr. rodriquez (my yearbook advisor)  he was such a dork who could debate about american idol for hours and also had a really good taste in music which was nice when we would have to stay all night to meet a deadline.

12. Where did you sit during lunch? upper commons middle block.  Thats if we stayed around for lunch  I usually left.

13. School Mascot? Zapata. It is a Mexican Raider. So we were usually called the Raiders, but the people who dressed up were called Zapatas and they wore flirty, flouncy little Mexican looking dresses and big sombreros. It was pretty lame. Also, they made the school repaint the mascot on the building so you couldn't "tell" it was carrying guns and wearing bullets. LAME. You could totally still tell.... shannon basically said it all.

14. Did you go to homecoming and with who? Junior year I went with Mike Boyd to his schools, it was pretty lame i didnt really know anyone and his friend got all mad that we went together ( i was friends with both of them)  Senior year I went with Blake Luitwieller it was a lot of fun.  but a week or two before it i started crushing on this other guy.  luckily blake was on the homecoming court so I had time to hang out with Nate. :)

15. If you could go back and do it again, would you? no i don't think so.  unless i can go back and do it know with everything i know.  I was WAY too insecure.

16. What do you remember most about graduation? umm it was hot and boring.

17. Where did you go senior skip day? I didnt go on the offical day since all the teachers had speciall assignments.  but i ditched plenty on my own.  Disneyland... Home... Out to lunch...

18. Have you gained weight since then? i think so... 

19. Who was your prom date? i actually never went to prom.  me and jay broke up right before my senior prom, we ended up getting back together but i still had made plans to go to palm desert with my mom that weekend, We hung out at the pool went out to dinner and shopped!  It was more fun then the prom.

20. Are you planning on going to your 10 year reunion? hmmm 2014?!  who knows where i will be then

21. Looking back, what advice would you give yourself? dont be so insecure.  I think i would have enjoyed HS a lot more if i didnt stress about what people thought.

RA Sushi

Me and Jason before dinner
Two of my roomates Ashlee and Errissa!  Trisha had class so had to meet us later

Ok so I have wanted to try this place for awhile.  I saw they were building one in Chino Hills, so I thought we would have my birthday dinner there.  It was a cool place.  We sat outside on the patio/lounge area....  but the food was only ok.  Oh well now I know!  It was still fun hanging out...

Camping pictures

Us eating dinner...  thanks to cheyne for the great dinner!  
me and ashlee attempting to give eskimo kissed with frosting on our noses...  we couldnt do it due to uncontrollable laughter.
Us in the morning... Andrew and Danielle took off before 8 so they didnt make the picture.
The frosting was my favorite part.

Camping!!

Me and Cheyne with my cupcakes...  
This isnt from camping but from the week before... I just love my guy friends.  So heres a cute one with cheyne and kurt.

I absolutely LOVE beach camping so I was soo excited when my friend Andrew booked a spot and it was on a day when I was able to go!  So Saturday morning I woke up (I was even to sleep in!!) and got ready then headed over to my parents... Joy and the girls were there visiting and then Kathy and Julianne came over and we had a little birthday party.  My mom made these chicken croissant (sp?!) sandwiches that I love and I had funfetti cake!  It was a very nice afternoon!  Then I went home packed a little bag and me and ashlee headed over to my friend Cheyne's house.  From there the 3 of us carpooled to Carlsbad.  When we got there it was freezing.  Too cold to hang out at the beach so while cheyne surfed before it got dark me and ashlee andrew and danielle walked around and set up the camp.  Cheyne got back and got going on dinner for me ashlee and him.  He was put together really good shrimp and chick and steak ka-bobs.  Also made this delicious salad.  We all helped with dinner.  By the time dinner was ready Kurt showed up.  I have so much fun with Kurt so I immediately got really hyper.  When dinner ended me and ashlee were dancing around to some music when suddenly cheyne and kurt came out with some cupcakes with candles on them for my birthday, everyone sang then we all sorta got into a frosting fight.  Then me and kurt wanted to do something so I jumped on kurts bike and he grabbed a longboard and we went for a ride.  When we got back ashlee and cheyne were MIA (they had gone for a walk) and Andrew and Danielle were ready for bed (it was WAYY too early for bed) so me and kurt played on longboards (i am getting SOO much better)  then left the camp to adventure out we visited downtown Carlsbad which was lame.  By the time we got back to camp ashlee and cheyne were back and we all went to In N OUt.  I know... we are such lame campers.  Anyway in the morning it was still too cold to do the beach thing so me and ashlee practiced our softball skills by playing catch while cheyne surfed then we basically packed up and went home... 

Softball

My friend Cheyne called me a couple days ago and said he had two openings for his co-ed softball team.  Me and Ashlee thought it would be sooo much fun, who cares if we didnt know how to play!  So we joined the team!  Our games start in 2 weeks.  They will be either Monday or Friday nights.  I am soo excited.  I think it will just be fun to play a game of softball once a week and be on a team.  Ashlee's brother played baseball for UCLA so Sunday he is going to give us lessons, we are just hoping we are not the worst on the team.  I will keep you posted!

Priceline!!

I have had the BEST luck with Priceline!  Ok... So maybe I have only tried it twice.  But still.  I wanted to go to Palm Springs the weekend after my birthday (its on a monday).  I really wanted to stay at the JW Marriott in Palm Desert but when I looked up rooms they were WAYY too expensive, even after spliting it 3 ways (between me trisha and ashlee) So I thought I would just gamble with Priceline for a nice hotel for cheap and hope for the best.  So I put in palm springs/palm desert, 4 star hotels and 100 since they said the median price was 170.  I was hoping it would go through.  Sure enough it went through AND we got a room at the JW marriott!!!  What are the odds!!  I was sooo excited!  So we will be staying 2 nights there each night only 100 bucks... after you split that 3 ways its super cheap!  Last time I used Priceline I not only had good luck getting a room, but once we got there we were upgraded.... I am not holding my breath for that BUT who knows!!  yayy!

going out!

This is actually us getting ready for a 90's party... but same thing!

Getting ready with my roommates is one of my favorite things to do.  It reminds me of getting ready with my sisters.  The other day me and Ashlee both had dates so we both took 2 hours prepping.  Both of our dates were a lot of fun, but the getting ready is also soo fun.  Sometimes its just fun prepping!  

Weekend Fun

All five of us at the tea party!!
Dad, Mimi, Lizzie, and Becca playing in the water.
Lizzie was SOO brave in the water!
All of the "scavengers"
Figuring our the next clue...

This past weekend was a lot of fun. Friday night a big group of us went to a karaoke place.  It was something different for us, we had a blast!  We want to do it like once a month,  and get a huge group.... like whoever wants to come.  Me, Ashlee and Errissa were the only ones who got up and sang though! oh well maybe next we will have more people in our group go up!

Saturday morning I got up early (then got a phone call basically saying i could have slept in an hour and a half, oh well...) and went to my parents house for a tea party with lizzie, mimi, my mom and joy.  We had lemonade and fruit punch instead of tea so there was no confusion with Lizzie.  We also had yummy sandwhiches, cookies, veggies, grapes, candies, and cheese and crackers.  It was very fun.

Saturday afternoon/evening was the Olson family beach party.  I love this beach party so much every year.  This year the Oversons were here and the Henshaws so we had plenty of younger kids which makes it even more fun.  Especially the scavenger hunt.  Aunt leeDean put together a really cute scavenger hunt for the kids, the boys were pirates and the girls were princesses.  The adults had a good time visiting with each other!