i don't like sweet potatoes but...

i  love thanksgiving!

 i really can't stand it when people skip over it in a hurry to rush right in to christmas because it's my #1 holiday!

this year was a special one spent in the city with some of my besties... 

H+J+i put on our martha faces and made it real fancy. 

props to J who handmade feather headbands to wrap around her gold flatware and then worn on our indian heads while we ate. so pretty! we sprinkled acorns and berries sprinkled on the runner for a little extra wow and everyone got their own assigned seat and personalized indian name.

oh and we made these little guys. which A got dared to eat in one bite; and he did. shout out to him, it was really a hilarious and stomach churning feat!

H was in charge of the turkey and gravy and she even homemade bread for the stuffing. it was in-credible. we had cranberry crunch and green bean casserole and rolls and corn and salad and mashed potatoes (fav.) and on and on and into nap time and games and then pumpkin pie and lemon meringue. i had a really mature food baby for the rest of the night... and well into  the following day. it was so worth it.i am still convinced i am the most blessed girl alive and that makes me grateful for so much. if i started it would just never end. so i guess you'll just have to believe me!  

my obsessions. as of late.

i nominate heytell the best invention of 2010. especially when it gets dangerous. like when you heytell your friend "i hope you're making out with him!" and she plays it while she's sitting right next to "him." so good.

my job has always been awesome. for a little it felt like such a job but lately, i am in love. in love with it.

my friends are the best the best the best. life just would not be the same without girlfriends. padded bra dates. couch farting. inappropriate women commercials. boy talk. eyelashes. birth. boob jobs. nose jobs. annie. and lots and lots and lots of gut laughter. i am pretty sure these are the types friends you have forever.

i accidentally bumped into nola+paul on skype- (in poland) made my whole sunday.

the ensign conference edition. it's my half-yearly favorite thing.

my roommate went home for a week, a few weeks ago, and decided to stay... living solo in my apartment has been, surprisingly awesome.

shopping online and filling my cart up with everything i wish i could have just to see the total is an obsession that will never get old. one day i am convinced i'll be rich enough to click CHECKOUT.

laughing so hard i almost pee. that's been happening a lot the past few days.

i have never been a chocolate girl. but lately, it's taken over my guilty pleasure list and i've consumed the most ridiculous amount of it lately, it's really quite a feat.

rihanna + gorillaz couldn't be more un-alike in the music world and are also on the two top played CDs on my iphone this past week. oh nah nah...

they have been re-modeling the apartment RIGHT next to mine, so i wake up to them banging on my wall. every morning the past few weeks. don't worry in retaliation i  have been BLASTing taylor swift as loud as i can back. this. is. war.

normas brunch+too many donuts

my mom and garett came for a fall visit <3

too much candy+keeping up mark

oh october... scrollll dowwwwn...

halloween this year was the best year yet. i was pocahontas and was in costume ALL day. we dressed up @work on saturday and with everyone's creative brains exploding all over the salon it made for so much chaos and so much fun. then the hummus place with friends for dinner and off to party! the stake dance will never be cool. the party outside in the courtyard was fun until the neighbors starting pouring water on us and the cops showed up. we made our way up to the after party and danced in the dark until it got late late late and then put on a scary movie

pumpkins+confused fuscia

the week before a group of us went to THE BLAZE in a little town upstate. they all get together and carve hundreds and hundreds of pumpkins and make crazy creatures out of them. it's quite the spectacle. pictures really do not do it justice but here's one anyways.