movies i love from the last year

Stardust (I own)
Juno (I own)
Ratatouille (soon to own)
Hairspray
Becoming Jane (I own)
Dan in Real Life (I own)
Penelope

I also saw Prom Night. Haha. Good times. Really bad slasher movie though. It wasn't a scary movie. Really just made me laugh a lot. You'd think the crazy guy would have more methods of killing people. Got kind of boring after a while. =D

all moved in

So I moved for the summer to another apartment in Raintree. I am now on the first floor! Yay! I'm so excited! It seems like spring and summer are FINALLY here! I am sooo happy! Sandi is still one of my roommates (who I missed DEARLY when she went to Simi for a week after the end of the semester--but now she's back!! yeah!), and Melissa is squatting for a few weeks with us as well--(I have no idea what I'm going to do without that girl...getting married and all. How dare she?! But it's ok. Daniel is such a good guy and I know that he will treat her well!) Jessamin is my new roommate! She is absolutely adorable. She's from New Mexico and this last semester was her first time at BYU. She's a convert to the church of only a year and a half. And it is so much fun to be living with her! I love life!

holy lands

So this is totally awesome. Holy Lands: A History of the Latter-Day Saints in the Near East is written by LaMar C. Barrett and Blair G. Van Dyke. But the whole book starts out with a story of my great-great-great grandfather Nishan Sherinian when he was first converted to the church by Elder Hintze in Zara, Sivas, Turkey (Armenia). What I love about this is that this book has stories and pictures of my great grandfather that we have never seen before!

I already read everything in the book that pertains to my family in Armenia. But my favorite part is when Elder Ferdinand Hintze (who consequently is considered the father of missionary work in the middle east) recorded in his journal that Elder Lund (an apostle) and he and Nishan's cousin Hagop were waiting for him in another area of Turkey. He stated that: "when we embraced and wept with joy, the most impressive being that meeting of Brother Hagop and his cousin Nishan. They embraced and kissed and cried like children. Brother Hagop particularly gave way and cried until he had to be pacified. For nearly three years they had not met. Brother Hagop had been in Zion and was now returning...and Brother Nishan had closed up hi business to come to meet us two hundred miles and to see an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ...Brother Nishan is a genuine Latter-day saint; for over seven years the Saints in his town have not seen an Elder and all the time God has protected them and let them by His Spirit." I just love it! I love my heritage! I'm so greatful for a man who had a soft enough heart to accept the gospel! Just wanted to share a little bit about my family history. =D

baywood condos

I found somewhere to live in the fall! I'm so excited! Me and Sandi have kind of been slacking. But we finally were getting more stressed out about the fact that we had nowhere to live in the fall. So i looked at a few listings of condos which were in our price range and had private bedrooms! I'm so excited! We are signing the contract on Saturday morning. We absolutely love this cute little condo! 4 roommates. 4 bedrooms. 2 bath. washer/dryer included! (yay! I feel spoiled!) It is on the fourth floor (don't care too much about that) and it's a pretty new condominium complex. The best thing is that it is such a steal! So much cheaper than anything JUST south of campus! I'm on 300 N 72 W in Provo. I'm so EXCITED TO MOVE THERE in August! Yay!

buttprints in the sand (not footprints)

Buttprints in the Sand

One night I had a wondrous dream,
One set of footprints there was seen,
The footprints of my precious Lord,
But mine were not along the shore.

But then some strange prints appeared,
And I asked the Lord, "What have we here?"
Those prints are large and round and neat,
"But Lord, they are too big for feet."

"My child," He said in somber tones,
"For miles I carried you along.
I challenged you to walk in faith,
But you refused and made me wait."

"You disobeyed, you would not grow,
The walk of faith, you would not know,
So I got tired, I got fed up,
And there I dropped you on your butt."

"Because in life, there comes a time,
When one must fight, and one must climb,
When one must rise and take a stand,
Or leave their butt prints in the sand."

imelda marcos

this is my dream...

"If Imelda Marcos changed her shoes three times a day, and never wore the same pair twice, it would take her more than two years and five months to work through her shoe supply--as it existed on the day she fled Manila. Since she undoubtedly would continue to buy new shoes even while trying to do justice to the old supply, it is clear she could never wear all of her shoes." -CNN

Ok, so my mom told me just last year that when I was little she nicknamed me Imelda. I do NOT remember this, but I can understand why she did it. For my whole life, I have had some strange obsession with shoes! I absolutely love them! I love buying them, wearing them, and having more than I could ever wear. Granted, I don't have 1,700 pairs of shoes like Imelda used to, but I do have enough to last me every day for a month. That's probably not something to brag about. I have a problem! Help me! =D

rose marie reid

so i went to this relief society enrichment thing last semester that featured Rose Marie Reid's life. she was a member of the church who was an amazing missionary, but she was also one of the highest fashion designers of the time with bathing suits. i absolutely love all of her styles (which were sewn to flatter every type of body). It's sad that they don't make bathing suits like that very often anymore. But I found Modbe who is absolutely amazing (although expensive!)

Here's an old Rose Marie Reid bathing suit. Way cute. Supposed to be mermaid style.

And then here are some Modbe bathing suits that I thought were great. What's even funnier is that I know the model! Bre was in my ward over the summer, so it kind of caught me off gaurd when I saw her in these pictures.

davina zagury

found this on another blog, but i really like her photography. kind of interesting. kind of creepy sometimes, but i really like this and several other pictures as well. isn't it eerily pretty? makes me kind of feel like she's an orphan or something.

procrastination = me

So I finally got around to actually applying for housing for the fall/winter. I know, I'm the biggest procrastinator ever. Me and my roommate Sandi went and looked at Carriage Cove. We absolutely LOVED it. We applied the next day and wrote out checkes for the deposit. And THEN 4 hours later, their office called me and let me know that they just realized that they have no more spots and that we were automatically put on a waiting list (a rather short one). I'm upset about it! I really want to live there! They said that I still have a pretty good chance of getting in for the fall, but that our chances of being roommates were pretty slim to none. But I guess we'll see! The sad thing is that now we have to keep looking just in case. And because it is now April, its going to be even harder to find somewhere to live that isn't a dump south of campus. But I guess it wouldn't be the end of the world if I ended up staying in Raintree for another year. Well.. it might be. But I could handle it.... I think.

getting ready for good ol' GC

General Conference is one of my favorite weekends of the year. And I especially love it in Utah. Not everyone watches on Saturday, but even then, it's like the city is quiet. I remember that one year, I had to work early in the morning and got off work right as the Saturday morning session started. I walked home, and through all these building complexes, I never missed one second of the session because I could hear what was going on. It was like every TV was tuned into General Conference. I am so excited for tomorrow! We have a new presidency! I will always love Gordon B Hinckley and I will miss him sooo much. But I have a testimony that President Thomas S. Monson was called of God to be our prophet and leader of this church.


I'm sadly working all day tomorrow, so I will miss both sessions. But I am lucky to have a Dad who is a stake president, so I have tickets to the Sunday morning session of Conference! I am taking my good friend Annie and then there is a huge dinner/listening to Sunday afternoon session up in Aspen Grove, so I am going to that as well. I'm glad I get to listen to at least two of the sessions! It's such a great weekend!