Happy Birthday Ron!!!/Constellations

So last night was pretty much the best night ever. 

You know you've done robin egg lipstick before ;) I think everyone has :D

Beautiful 

Oh dear... 

Hailee fell up the stairs... twice... in one trip... we pretty much balled our eyes out from laugher because her, Ash, and I were all trying to run up the stairs so we could see Karlys' expression as she looked into her room because... 

Gavin asked her to prom last night!

Here is how he did it- 

He bought the glow in the dark stars you put on your celling and glow in the dark tape. His idea- to write "they will see us waving from such great heights" on her celling with the tape and stars. So cute right?! No. You don't even get why it's so cute. Karly is in love with constellations, astronomy, and stars. She also loves her music as we all know, so the song lyrics were a perfect idea. I think the song has some meaning to them behind it as well... 

I'm not done with the cuteness yet guys! 

The theme to prom this year is- SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS. 

No. I'm totally not kidding. 

Plus- Gavin thought of this all on his own! What a champ! 

He knows her way too well, don't cha think? 

So he came over while Karly was at her dress rehearsal (which lasted 4 hours... so we had plenty of time). At first we were going really slow. We put the stars on first and then connected the dots with the tape. So we had one star at every point in the letter. It was taking forever. We would measure how far away the stars were with our tape, then cut the tape, the unstick the tape (it was kind of two sided so it took a while to get even a little bit off), then stick it on the celling. Sadly, it was only about halfway through that I figured out it was much easier to just pull the tape apart and put it directly on... this probably makes no sense... you know that tape where it is kind of like a sticker? You have to pulling it off and then there is a wrapper.... ok... this still probably makes no sense.... haha never mind. 

So after 2 hours (this is so not an exaggeration) we finally got it done! It took 4 people and still took that long. I'm so glad Gavin didn't do it by himself! He was so happy about it though. You could tell. He was just beaming the whole time. :) they kind of like each other ;) 

Then he also put rose petals all over her bed and then one rose. He wrote something on a paper (I'm too lazy to go and get it) about her finishing it... hahaha I can't remember. Oh well! It was really cute and it was fun to see how personal he made it, and how excited he was to make her happy. 

This is the celling in the light... 

Here it is in the dark. I wish a camera could actually capture what you see. This looks nothing like it... 

We waited and waited and waited for her to get home. 

While we waited we made this amazing cake for Ron Weasly's birthday! We were planning on making it for Hailee as a birthday cake before I left (even though her birthday is in June) and we thought yesterday would be perfect because it actaully was his birthday and she was sleeping over :) 

The beauty 

How cute :)

All of us blowing out the candles... we did this 3 times... until the candles had melted completely. And sang Happy Birthday every time. :)

 So now we are at the part where Hailee falls up the stairs. When Karl got home we waited for her to go upstairs. She took a while... but when she did we didn't notice at first so we ran up the stairs. We have a gate so our dog won't go upstairs. It's not too high...  for most people ha. Hailee didn't quite make it... hahahahaha we almost peed our pants laughing. Karly didn't even suspect anything. Probably because we were already acting like we were on crack... haha we videoed (is that a word.... I don't think so... oh well!) it as she walked in. But it's not that interesting so I didn't take the time to post it. She walked in and saw the rose petals on her bed and just gasped. We laughed and she tried to shut the door. She wasn't noticing the celling so we turned off the lights. She was still like... what the heck guys? The we yelled, "look up!" She looked up and was speechless. She loved it! We giggled and then ran in and laid on her bed gazing at it. We loved it so much. Hahaha. She was completely surprised and didn't suspect a thing!
We heard her say 30 minutes later, I don't even want to get into the shower because I'm so happy. That is true happiness right there people!

Look at her face:)

 You know how we have issues with fire... we left this candle burning when we chased Karly up the stairs. Good thing we didn't burn our house down! My mom sent us all a text saying- "do you want me to blow this out?" we freaked out and laughed pretty hard ;) 

In fact.. we have so many issues with fire, I had to make a label for it.

Weekend at USU

I had such a fun time with Zach up at USU for the weekend! I left around 9:00pm on Thursday. I was nervous driving up the canyon in the dark, but everything went great! I stayed with my wonderful Aunt Kathryn and got settled in that night. I then met up with Zach and we talked with him roommates and watched The Office. The next day we did some of the same things. I wanted to go to the temple while I was down there, but my temple dress zipper broke.... so that sucked. I ended up just reading my scriptures outside the temple for about 45min and then going to lunch with my aunt and cousin. 

I had a lot of fun especially because Zach and his friend drove home with me in the snow storm and his friend drove. It made me so much more comfortable. :) 

Sitting in front of the temple :)

Ate good dove chocolate :) 

The place we were going to eat... that was not... there.

We went to the Pepperidge Farms factory and got all of this stuff super cheep! 

I want to do this one day! 

One of my new favorite missionary scriptures :) 34-35

Eating lunch with my aunt and cousin ;) this was some of the best pizza I've ever had! 

Amanda's Engaged!

One of my bestest and longest friends is ENGAGED!!! I almost feel like I got engaged myself ;) I am beyond happy for her! She is my first really close friend that is getting married... I will be missing the wedding on August 10th in the Salt Lake Temple :( it is very sad; but I couldn't be more happy for her! :D like, it is almost weird how happy it makes me! But I feel like that really is what true happiness is :) Being so happy for someone else that you can hardly stand it, and you feel like you couldn't even be as happy on the day you get engaged as you were when you found out she found her true love ;) 

I love you Amanda and I can't wait till you get to start your forever family with your prince charming :) 

Unagi

*WARNING- boring, blabbing alert...

I am so writing about this again. I am in the state of Unagi again.

My life is just complete bliss right now.
I can't tell you how happy I am every day. I love my life and everything about it!
I love my family.
I love my calling.
I love my friends.
I love my job...............
I love the gospel.
I love church.
I love... everything really!

My mission is only 87 days away and in a weird way, it actually feels like it's getting close!
My mom is now sort of off her crazy work schedule and we can start preparing a little more.
Sister Arnold gave a fabulous testimony today in church about priorities that I really needed. Now that I am "officially off break" I need to start doing productive things with my day; especially because I am leaving for a mission soon, and I don't have a ton to do (at least that's what it feels like) because I am not going to school. I still have work to occupy a little bit of my time, but I still have a lot more to do to prepare. But so far- everything is going smoothly.
They say you can feel Satan working overtime on you the second you have your mission call. I think he has been slamming me since I made the actual firm choice that I was going to serve a mission. But lately, it's been harder than ever. And like I have kind of mentioned, it's not even really with "bad sins" but more like time wasters and selfish acts. But I have the determination and faith that if I am preparing how I should, and doing what I should, my Heavenly Father will help me to overcome the power of Satan. The temple has been a great strength for me. I feel at home, and at peace. I can talk to my Heavenly Father on a deeper, more personal level, and feel his endless love for me. Even just surrounding myself with people that are kind of on the same boat has helped. Today we had a temple prep class after church for the people who are soon to be leaving on their missions or turning in their papers. Being around these young men strengthens me and makes me even more excited to be on my mission and be able to interact with so many wonderful people. I can't even express to you how happy and anxious all of this makes me feel! :)

Call from Austin!

I was sitting on my couch on Christmas being a bum watching movies or something, and I didn't have my phone. It had fallen in the little crack of the couch. My grandma had called Ashley so I figured that I should probably check my phone. I looked and I had a missed call from my grandma (of course) and 4 missed called from Alabama... I was like what the... then I listen to my voice mail from them and the second Austin started talking I almost started crying. I know. I am seriously dramatic. But I was just so upset that I had missed his call! The voice mail said that he needed his dads number. I called him back, and it was just the best ever. It made me so happy! I don't even know why! Ok- I do. He's my best friend and I have REALLY been missing him lately and again I'm going to be totally dramatic, but I think in a way his phone call could have been answer to my prayers. It calmed me and literally just made my Christmas complete. 

So here is why he got to call me-

He was going to Skype his mom at like 4:00, but she hadn't been answering her phone. So the only other number that he had memorized was The Thornleys, because they seriously have the easiest phone number ever. He called them, got my number and then asked me for his dads number. But we got to chat for a few minutes and he told me how awesome he thought that it was that I was going to Tampa and stuff like that. I tried to sound cool and collected, but ya. Then we talked about some other things that I can't even remember because I was in so much shock. It was for sure one of those times that you want to be able to go back and listen to a phone conversation that you had. Hahaha oh man. I sound like a totally pathetic person right now. But guys, you don't get it. It. Was. The. BEST. Thee best. I cannot even explain it! My I got to talk to my best friend in the world on Christmas! :)  

I know... another picture update...

My cousin Riley got his mission to Portugal!!!

Went to Ash's game at Maple Mountain and then hung out with our favorite cousins at McDonald's till 11:00. This was also the coldest we have ever been in our whole entire life. 

I took this amazing picture of my hilarious Primary class. I'm going to send it to Austin ;) 

Went to Zoo lights with these crazy people. 

Made a paper chain for my mission. On this day there were 101 days. Today there are 100. :) 

Cutest money ever at the zoo. He was staring at me and putting his hand up on the glass. 

More zoo lights. Apparently I look like a man.  

Eating cold stone after zoo lights :) 

The sequel to- If you play with fire you will probably burn something (or someone this time)

Here is the sequel to If you play with fire you will probably burn something

We seriously do not know how to jump a car. Here's the story:

Karly is still kind of learning how to drive the stick. My mom has started making her drive it every single day to school. 

She drove the whole way to school with the emergency break all the way on... I don't know how someone could do that, but she said that she was too distracted to even notice. Ashley even had to tell her to turn on her lights... that one is understandable though. Our other car has automatic lights, and I guess you don't have to put on the emergency break hardly ever either. I asked her if she noticed the bright red light that said break on it... she said again that she was too distracted. 

So they made it to school... both of them said that it smelled SO bad... (the tires were like burning of course).

But Karly left the lights on. 

The car died.

We had to come and jump the car for them after Ashley and Katelyn were done with practice (Karl rode the bus home). 

I called Brock because... well... he was a boy and thought that he could help. I had jumped a car before, but I couldn't remember how to do it exactly. He said that he hadn't really done it except for once a while ago, but we could figure it out.

We got there... started hooking chords up, but the last one sparked so bad Brock couldn't even clamp it. 

So then he called his mom and she said that we were doing it right. We had the Mazda on and were hooking them the right way. So- we did it again and it worked. 

Brock's mom said to let it sit for a while. We did before turning on the dead car. But we wanted to sit in the car because it was really cold outside.
30 seconds later I see Lexi, Katelyn, and Ashley just sprinting from the car... I looked and saw that the chords were smoking!!

Here is it smoking... (Yes, we were taking pictures the whole time. Just like the candle incident )

We ran out there but didn't know what to do because they were hot but we needed to get them off! Brock found a sock and got one sort of off... but it burned through right away... I scrambled and found an ace bandage (don't know why that was in the car...) he wrapped it thick and then got the other chords off. 

They had melted all the way down. Almost all the plastic was off the chords... 

We called our mom. She didn't believe us for a while. 

Brock burned his thumb from when it had gone through the sock. It smelled of beef ramen noodles... 

Then we tried to push start it. 

We pushed it up and down the parking lot at least 5 times. We were so tired! It almost worked twice... then as we were about to go up the hill again a nice man (I think he was a principal or something) asked us if we needed help. We asked him if he could jump the car. 

He had a huge truck and all he did was hook the chords up the SAME way Brock did, but he didn't have his truck on. It started right up and was fine.... 

The reason that the chords melted was because our Mazda had too much power with the car on. Plus it had a bran new battery sooooo that's why the chords melted.

Stuff like this always happens when we hangout with Brock ;) 

It worked :) 

If you're wondering how my mom felt about this... it was also the same as the candle incident... she laughed. Hard. She thought it was hilarious that we almost blew up both cars and could have potentially killed ourselves (if we want to go that far ;)) 

We just know how to have fun I guess... haha