CHANGES:)

Ashley and I have some pretty big news to share. Well, maybe not too big... but exciting news! It involves change. Lots and lots of change!!!!!! Here's what we've decided to trade and transfer.

We're handing in our ---->

For these little lovelies --->

We're gladly trading in this

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For THIS!!! ---->

We'll hopefully turn these faces ---->

Into happy &beautiful faces--->

We're giving up our DEAR friends...

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For some more, uh Christ-like ones.

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We're willingly leaving behind these days

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For what we're hoping will be our ------->

AND FINALLY,

We are handing over our -------->

To become MONSTERS

Yes folks. We are transferring to Eastern Arizona College. And ya know what? We are uber excited!!! After a year of hating everything about NAU and Flagstaff, we are thrilled to move to Thatcher and be around normal, calm, happy people. Me and Ash are both hoping to get back into the choir and possibly the plays. We're excited to have a much larger institute. We're very much looking forward to attending a school with good teachers, who don't use cuss words and naughty things and ideas every class period. Mostly, we're ready for the SUN! We hate snow! Oh golly winters are going to be absolutely wonderful down there! So there's our news. Oh and by the way, that picture above of the christ-like people... yey that's actually EAC's student council presidency. Cool, eh? And one more thing. We are currently looking for housing down there. If any of you happen to know of hear of anything, we would more than appreciate you informing us! Thankyou all! Love from Tawni <3

WHAT THE..... HOW THE?!?!?!?!?!?!

I just got done watching a comedy festival hosted by Ellen Degeneres and golly I am just stunned! And flabberghasted!! And amazed!!! And in shock!!!! If you have an extra hour or so I highly suggest you watch this! YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!!!!!!



http://www.tbs.com/video/0,,162280%7C338591%7C,00.html?eref=sharethisUrl





Ellen starts out the show by talking and joking a bit. I love Ellen!! Not in a lesbian way, nothing gross like that. I just highly enjoy her humor! So be patient cuz in part 2 all these crazy talented people come on and perform and it gets amazing! OH I'm just so speechless by everything!!!! Enjoy it and comment so we can discuss this craziness! <3>

............ : ) ............ {tawni}

It's been a darn good while since I've updated but I just haven't had anything exciting to blog about!!! Arg don't you hate when that happens? So quick catch up of the last 3 months. Let's see I had a sinus infection, then an ear infection, then pneumonia. Yep that's about it for my life. Sick and school, sick and school. No worries, I think I'm finally better (if any of you were wondering...) In other news, I just watched the "Happiest Millionaire" for the very first time. My thoughts: I approve. I enjoyed it quite a lot. I still don't understand the fascination of having alligators as pets.... who would ever really do that? That's insane!!! And then that crazy, pshyco butler dude goes and dances in the alligator water tank pond thingy! But other than the alligators, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

On to the next subject! I've been thinking about what I could blog about and I had this brilliant idea. So here's what I did. I went to each of my roommates and asked them to pick a number between 1 and 169. What are these numbers you may ask? Well, let me tell ya. That's how many pictures are saved on my phone. So here's the plan. I'll post the pictures of the number that they each picked and tell about them. Simple enough, yet it will bring me great joy to remember back to those days...

Carissa's pick: number 103

Alright, so Cars here picked a lovely picture of my gerber daisies!!! My favorite flower of all time! This picture is from December 18th 2007 aka my 18th birthday. I had just gotten home from school when there came a knock at the door. I opened it to find my good buddy Stephan Kuhse and lo and behold there were flowers in his hands. What's this? Steph give me flowers? Were you dating? No you were dating Brock at that time! DId you two have a secret love affair? Oh no....... Here's the story. Yes I was dating Brock. No, there was no scandalous affair involved. Brock was living in Thatcher at that time and working. So he couldn't take off a Tuesday to come see me on my birthday. Being the kind and awesome kid that he is, he asked his best bud (Steph) to go buy me some gerber daisies and deliver them to me. I was so pleasantly surprised! Probably one of the sweetest things that's been done for me. Both Brock and Steph made my day!

Ashley's pick: number 72

Ashley's pick was an awesome choice!!! Here you see Carissa, Ashley, and I relaxing in our apartment with our feet propped up on a horse., but not just any horse. Her name is Zelda and she's a super COOL horse! Back in September I went on a date with Lee Dowell. We went to the carnival up here in Flag. We stopped at a booth where you throw these balls into a bucket to win a prize. After 15 throws and $9 dollars later we were rewarded with this huge horse. Lee named her Zelda (I thought it was a boy, WOOPS!). There was a ride down the way and it was about 5 or 6 miniature horses on ropes and walking in circles giving youngsters rides. Well, Lee decided that Zelda needed a picture with the real horses. SO he asked the carnee to stick her in the cage by the other horses and that sweet old man did. Lee got a sweet picture of Zelda and her friends but sadly, I don't have that picture. Golly I'm getting sidetracked. SO the above picture was about a month after I had Zelda and Lee was off to school and BYU Business college. We dedided to take a picture of Zelda's role in our apartment and send it to him. She really made a good foot rest. Now she has a new role. She sits in front of our balcony door and blocks out the cold air that trys to come in.... she is also our guard dog. We love her dearly!

Melissa's pick: number 112

I think that Melissa made the best pick of the night. Ladies and gentlemen I give you the Hawaii Temple!!!!!! Oh goodness it is soooo beautiful don't ya think!? I would love to tell you that I took this picture, but that would be a lie and that's not what I stand for. My dearest, bestest friend Ashley was so fortunate enough to go to Hawaii this past summer with her familia. She sent me this picture via the cell phone and then proceeded to rub it in that she was in Hawaii and I was in Joseph City, Arizona. Yeah, you can say I was more than a little jealous. Oh and super bored without her. I absolutely love temples! They are such a symbol of purity and righteousness. Every time I see a temple my motivation is refreshed to someday go inside and recieve all those wonderful temple ordinances and blessings. This picture also gives me great motivation to someday go to Hawaii!!! It will happen, it must happen. I have to see the beauty of the place in person.

SO there you go folks!!! Hopefully that was somewhat fun.... I'll try to update more often. Ashley and I have some big changes coming up in our lives that we will be sure to blog about sometime in the near future!

twenty twenty twenty five. (A)

Ok, so i already did this once on facebook, but kourtney tagged me, so i decided to do it again! i'm even going to try and think of new stuff.



1. I don't chew gum. My jaw pops a lot, so i decided to lay off the gum. it doesn't bother me as much. go figure, eh?


2. My favorite show is the office. oh goodness i owe lee dowell so much! he introduced tawni and me to it way back when we first moved to flag. we've been addicted ever since. in fact, we're watching it right now. that's what she said.


3. it really bothers me that my conditioner is always gone before my shampoo. how does that happen? i even try to use lots more shampoo than conditioner, but alas, my shampoo is always in surplus.


4. Carissa made me a heat baby. i love it. it keeps me oh so warm.


5. it snowed today. i was very upset because the snow from the last storm was finally going away and then it just had to go and get all yucky and white again! AHHH!


6. I find it almost imposible to sleep with socks on. i just can't stand it. even if i do somehow fall asleep while wearing them, they never stay on the whole night. the weird thing is, i never remember taking them off when i wake up...


7. i like crunchy peanut butter WAY better than creamy. that little extra peanutty zest just makes my day. except for on oreos. then creamy is the way to go.


8. dr. seuss is one of my favorite authors. seriously. i did a research paper on him my junior year.

9. i'm always cold. i tell people it's because my internal heating is broken. i think that that just might be true.

10. sometimes i feel like i don't fit in at NAU. maybe cuz it's just so dang hippie and liberal and snowy.



11. i wish i knew how to snowboard. zach was supposed to take me... still hasn't happened...



12. i think mcdonald's would get a lot more business if they served breakfast all day long.



13. i want to learn the single ladies dance that beyonce does. how awesome would that be?



14. right now i hope it keeps snowing so we have a snow day tomorrow. super? i think yes.


15. i wish life was like a musical. i think it would be so awesome if everybody could just randomly burst into song with no rehearsals and perfect harmony. if only, if only.

16. it really bothers me when people wear black shoes with brown outfits or the other way around. does matching mean nothing to these people?

17. melissa and i made an awesome graph in our math class. we got 15/15 points. and our teacher wrote "nice!!" on it. it's on our bulletin board.

18. we have no chocolate in our apartment right now. i'm craving chocolate.

19. i always wanted to pop all of the keys off of the laptops that were in ms. bowler's room in high school. i also wanted to see how far back i could bend the screen before the whole thing busted into two pieces. i don't have those urges now that i have my own laptop.

20. i don't watch scary movies now that i don't live with my parents anymore. see, my daddy could always scare off the ghosties and crazies for me, and now that i'm forever and a half away, that wouldn't be so easy. thus, i steer clear of the scary flicks.

21. i got to serve the italian olympic swim team dinner a couple weeks ago at the sizz.

22. i'm a movie junkie. i love seeing new movies. and old movies. basically any movie. they make me happy.

23. spiders scare me. my mom always tells me not to be afraid of them because they are smaller than me, but i just can't help it. they are frightening.

24. i am addicted to minesweeper. i play it a lot. maybe i just like the challenge of making my winning percentage higher. i don't know. i just like it.

25. i love harry potter, and i'm not ashamed. they are seven of the best books i've ever read. the movies aren't to shabby either. i aslo have harry potter scene it. first and second editions.

guess who came to visit?! (A)

Yogi the Bear came to visit us last night! Tawni thinks he's number one!

He's pretty awesome. He even went outside on our balcony to talk to our neighbor Blair. Hopefully Cory doesn't get too jealous when he sees this one...

Bustin some moves.


Here's Yogi showin off his muscles. grr baby.

He can do the splits! Go Yogi!

AWWW! Tawni and Cars love him!

Melissa was gone somewhere with Lizzie, so we decided to show her how much fun she was missing by letting Yogi try out her bed. I think he found it suitable.

He's a beautiful princess.

I think this is what he felt like by the time he left... Sorry!

I'm bored... so here i go! (A)

1. Do you like blue cheese? I don't think i've ever had it.
2. Have you ever smoked cigarettes? No
3. Do you own a gun? no. sad day!
4. What flavor Kool-Aid was your favorite? all kool-aid! i loved it but mom didn't like to buy it cuz she didn't want carpet stains.
5. Do you get nervous before Dr. appointments? not really.
6. What do you think of hot dogs? i think that they are mmmm good delicious!
7. Favorite Christmas movie? the...the... THE GRINCH!!!
8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? milk. or orange juice.
9. Can you do push-ups? yeah... last time i tried anyways... it's not easy though! i'm a weakling!10. What's your favorite piece of jewelry? the ring my parents got me from colorado a couple years ago. it's the awesomest
11. Your favorite hobby? reading
12. Do you have A.D.D.? no. hey look, a bunny! haha
13. What's one trait you hate about yourself? i am an expert procrastinator. it's horrible.
14. Middle name? Lois
15. Name 2 thoughts at this exact moment? I'm cold. i should get a blanket
16. Current hate right now? cold
17. Favorite place to be? anywhere with my friends and/or family.
18. How did you bring in the new year? i went to tawni's house and watched 21 and the times square party thing.
19. Where would you like to go? europe, australia, new york, florida... i think it would be easier to ask where i wouldn't like to go...
20. Name three people who will complete this? i dunno... anyone who wants to can, but i'm not gonna ask anyone to do it.
21. Do you own slippers? si
22. What shirt are you wearing? a pink long sleeved one.
24. Can you whistle? yes. casey and jaci taught me how to finger whistle my junior year at the softball state trounament. good times!
25. Would you be a pirate? maybe, but i'd be afraid of the kraken. and i'd want will turner to be my first mate! hehe.
26. What songs do you sing in the shower? i don't really sing in the shower too much. which is weird because i sing everywhere else...
27. Favorite girl's name? as of right now i don't really have one. 28. Favorite boy's name? see 27.
29. What's in your pocket right now? lint
30. Last person that made you laugh? well melissa and i laughed pretty hard at something i said when we were leaving math... so i guess i was the last person to make me laugh.
32. Worst injury you've ever had? i burned my arm with a curling iron when i was really little. i can't remember it, but my parents say it was pretty bad.
33. Do you love where you live? eh... sometimes.
34. How many TVs do you have in your house? 1
35. Who is your loudest friend? pretty much all of my friends are loud. they have to be able to talk over me! lol
36. How many dogs do you have? 2. shelby and trixie. they live with my parents.
37. Does someone have a crush on you? i dunno. perhaps. perhaps not.
38. What is your favorite book? twilight series, harry potter, the host, pride and prejudice, ...pretty much any book i read.
39. What is your favorite candy? chocolate!
40. Favorite Sports Team? d-backs, suns, and i guess i can admit that i'm starting to like the cardinals... now that they're going to the SUPER BOWL!

Sociology cuss-count revealed (A)

And the winner is.... Alicia! she guessed 94 and the actual number was 103 (nine of those which were the dreaded f-bomb). in second was jessica, followed by kourtney, then my ma. good race guys! oh and in case you were wondering he did considerably better in tuesday's class. he didn't even make it to 50! is it wishful thinking to believe that the numbers will continue to decrease as the semester continues? probably. but who says a girl can't dream?