Super Bowl XLIV

This year we partied it up watching the Super Bowl at Zach and Cristi Benedict's house. Saturday night, Michelle, Cristi and I stayed up late designing and making our own Saint's T-shirts. We were excited that the Saints and the Colts were going to play because we LOVE Reggie Bush and we LOVE the fact that the Saints would have a shot at winning their very FIRST SUPER BOWL!

Zach and Cristi hosted about twenty of us, friends and family, we had yummy Super Bowl Day food. Little smokies drenched in BBQ sauce, bean dip and chips, apples an caramel dip, chicken, cheese, pizza, and lots of drinks! YUM!

Here we are watching the 3rd quarter of the Super Bowl, Saints are down. 

Saints finished it up with an incredible 74 yard interception return from Porter cinched the game up. 

FINAL SCORE: 31-17 SAINTS

Bourbon Street, New Orleans

Lately, I DO SCHOOL!

15 Credits

Right here, at the NEW and IMPROVED UVU

Actually I kind of love it

I have school MWF from 9'ish til 3'ish

and it keeps me busy, but also I like the fact I am learning.

I am finally in the home stretch of my major. Although after one more class and  a few electives I am eligible for my Associates I can bypass that and go right on to my Bachelors. So I am hoping a year and a half from now I will be FINALLY graduating with my Bachelors in Behavioral Science emphasis in Psychology. My goal is to go on to get a masters and either work as a counselor in a JR. High school or in a treatment center for youth, or continue on and become certified as a therapist and work from my own office or potentially through LDS family services.

It feels kind of crazy that I will soon be able to work at a "real" job, like a career... instead of just the part-time/temp jobs I have had on and off since I was sixteen! Yay for seeing the end in sight! 

I can't wait!

Spring 2010 Fashion: HATE IT OR HAVE IT?

Garden Party Collection by H&M appearing March 2010, for me some of these pieces are a must have! I love the dress on the far left.

Watercolor prints are going to be hot this spring, which is great for me, I bought two watercolor tops last summer and I am glad to get more wear out of them!

(Above are images from Victoria Beckham's spring line)

Black nail polish for Autumn and Winter will be replaced as a staple by electric blues! HAVE TO HAVE IT!

How do I feel about Rhianna's fashion forward Gladiator meets the Future style?

I personally like it!  A LOT but lets be real, I most likely won't be wearing gladiator leotards around campus.

I will however be wearings something like this, $24.50 from Forever21 (gush) love that place! Cheap enough to be trendy, then toss it when it goes out of style!

(below)

Peep toed boots will be hot this spring, worn with tights/leggings until the weather warms up more than worn with bare legs these won't be going out style soon.

For a girly take on these boots check out something with more ribbons, frills and bows.

HAVE TO HAVE IT!

This girly-girl meets Victorian era has been in since 2008 and should have a good year or so more before its a no-go! Some hot new trends from this style though have been introduced. Here are some over the top new fashions sure to be seen this spring.

Will I wear them, probably not. I don't hate it, but I will need a toned down version of this!

Appreciate it for what it is, a risk.

Super cute over the top girly fashion, hair bows, bunny ears and tiny top hats.

Jewelry will continue to be a juxtaposition of soft and hard. Pearls and metal. Grommets and diamonds. Studs and jewels. This trend goes in conjunction with Victorians of the future as well as futuristic warrior princesses!

So excited for springs eclectic looks! Hope you can derive some inspiration from what will be hot trends for 2010!

Glamorous Inspiration

As most of you know I have a healthy obsession with fashion, the models, campaigns and the photographers. One of my FAVORITE and most INFLUENTIAL photographers Karl Lagerfeld.  He has worked on campaigns with Chanel, Fendi, Dior and more. His work is glamorous, ethereal, edgy and romantic.

Some day I would love to be abel to shoot like him. Not to mention have some of the gorgeous clothes, models and locations he gets to work in.

Karl himself.

A SWEET OBSESSION

So I  just had to blog about my latest find because it is a rare occasion that I come across a lipgloss so fabulous that everyone I know should own one!

The limited edition MAC in Lily Land came out last week and I am obsessed. Brought to us by the lovely designer Lily Pulitzer who designs very "Charlotte from Sex and the City" resort clothes, swim wear and home decor. This collection is bright, sparkly and saturated.

There are four adorable Lipgelee's that have so much pigment and sparkle it makes it worth the 14.00 bucks to buy it because it will last forever and you only need a pea size for your entire lips.

I bought the Lipgelee in preppy which is a bright sparkly fuschia with hints of silver and gold, which make it a hot pick because people with cool and warm tones will look great in it. Like I said there are four colors and all of them are adorable. Check out MAC soon because this Limited Edition collection won't be there for much longer. Unfortunately most of the glosses are sold out at the University Mall location but it is worth getting online or from a store in Salt Lake!

Hope you enjoy your gloss as much as I am enjoying mine!

My Fantastic 23rd Birthday!

My Birthday this year was AMAZING! I absolutely felt so celebrated and I got to enjoy the company of my wonderful friends, my family, and a little one on one with the husband.

Here I am, the birthday girl with my princess tiara from Cody!

We went to my FAVORITE sushi place, Tsunami for dinner and everyone who could make it joined us!

"THE BLONDESHELLS"

Mine and Cody's delicious sushi rolls, the sunshine and the cococabana roll.

"THE CHOCOLATE HOTTIES"

Everyone giving me a birthday toast!

All my gorgeous girl friends

Thanks so much to my best friend Cody, who put this dinner together for me. It was a great night!

For my actual birthday Cody and I wanted to celebrate privately. The first surprise was  dozen white roses and a card on my car when I got out of class. It was so cute because at first I didn't notice but when I looked up there they were on my windshield and I kind of gasped, ya know, it was nice to be surprised and have some old fashioned romance.

The surprises didn't stop there, I got my VERY OWN BRAND NEW MACBOOK! I am thrilled. I have needed a new laptop for SO long and I finally got one, but not just any one I got a Mac. Now I can learn to do even more amazing things with the camera equipment I got for Christmas.

A Candlelit supper was the next surprise!

Starting with drinks and strawberries,

and followed with a ceaser salad and almond crusted salmon filets.

Cody remade a birthday dinner I had at Rococo's in St. George in 2007

Almond crusted salmon filet with raspberry chutney and vegetables. It was SO good. Seriously my man can cook. I felt so pampered all day...sometimes I just know I married the best man in the entire world!

Anyways so my birthday was amazing I got a darling charmlike necklace from my good friend Jenn, a VS bath and body set from Allie and a super cute sweater from my parents. I got one of my favorite gifts from Cody's parents, Steve and Karen- CASH! I will take that any day! So I went to buckle today with Michelle and picked out a really cute new pair of MissMe jeans :) Thanks Steve and Karen!

This birthday was amazing thanks to everyone for making me feel so loved- all year round ;)!

Looking forward to the New Year!!

So the Holidays are pretty much wrapped up. We are the sort of people who packed up our Christmas decor the day after December 26th and got our house back in order and ready for the new year. The next big party happens New Years then it is back to reality. I had a flare up of MONO which I suspect began about three weeks ago and am just waiting it out, sleeping, watching tv, and taking short trips out in public only to return home winded and dizzy. Not my cup of tea. I am looking forward to the New Year for these reasons:
1. I will hopefully overcome MONO and be able to live my life again without taking naps every four hours.
2. My Birthday on the 11th- we are going to celebrate with a big birrthday dinner!!

3. New Nicholas Sparks movie starring my love, Channing Tatum in Dear John

4. Cody's birthday on February 25th

5. Alice in Wonderland by Disney comes out in March

6. 1 year Anniversary celebrating either in Disneyland or sunny Mexico- haven't decided yet- :)

We are very excited for the next three months coming up. It's nice to have things to look forward to as we leave our favorite time of the year behind and get ready for another summer of work  (and play)!!

Happy New Year (ALMOST)

2010 is going to be awesome!!!