Jordan

There were so many things going through my mind when I got the news that Jordan had died. But now that the funeral and everything is over and we are supposed to get back to "normal" life without him, I can't help but think of all of the things that I am going to miss about Jord.

- I am going to miss the game nights with Jordan and the Whitesides. I don't think that I ever went over there without playing some sort of game. Five Crowns, Mow, Apples to Apples, and many more.

- I am going to miss the random texts that I would get from Jordan. Picures, clips of his guitar skills, family guy videos, pictures of his Rock Band score, videos of him twirling Molly around, and other odd things. And they usually always came after 2 in the morning. I'm pretty sure that I told him that the 3 in the morning texts had to stop cause they'd always wake me up. Now I'd give anything to get a random text at 3 in the morning from Jordan.

- I will miss the phone calls that always started the same way, "Brit! What the fetch? Where have you been?" Even if I had just talked to him the day before. And whenever Jordan would call I could talk about anything and he would at least pretend like he was interested.
- I will miss the hearing: "What the fetch?" No one can say it quite like Jordan.
- I will miss having Jordan ask me a billion times if I am going up to Swiss Days even though I have told him a billion times that I am not.
- I will miss how Jordan always forgot that I hate the game Halo and how he would continually invite me over and try to teach me how to not get my guy turned upside down in the corner of the screen.
- I will miss how Jordan always talked about how much he loved Hobbitville.
- I will miss Jordan laughing with me at Lynsie's version of what high school is like.

- I will miss, even though it drove me crazy, how he would smell my hair.
- I will miss Jordan sending me pictures of a very pregnant Jill and having him tell me how excited he was to be an uncle. - I will miss hearing Jordan tell me stories about putting the vaseline all over his body and walking out to show Chris and her company that she had over. He would tell me random, weird, off the wall stories of things that he had done when he was little and then he would always be so shocked that I didn't have any stories to tell him about things that I had done like that.
- I will miss how even if I had been onery all day long, if I went over to the Whiteside's house I would forget all about it because Jordan would make me laugh and his good moods were always infectious.
-I will miss Jordan.

Jordan was always such a good friend to me. I loved how random that he was and how he could make anything fun. I am so grateful to know that I will see him again. When I return to Heaven he will definitely be one of the first people that I find. I know that he will be standing there with his arm stretched out saying, "Brit! What the fetch? Where have you been?" I know that he is very busy teaching and helping all of the spanish people that he loved so much.

Jordan I love you and I miss you so much already! I can't wait until we will see each other again!

Top 13!

I have never been a fan of American Idol.... until now! I love it so much! It has totally consumed my Tuesday nights and thank goodness for DVR so I can watch it on Wednesdays! I picked some favorites during the auditions and most of them are still on thanks to the wild card night! Yay!

These two have been my favorites since their auditions! I am so glad they were picked as wild cards!


The rest of these I have come to love these last few weeks! I can't even decide who I want to win!

And while this may sound heartless to some people, I hate Scott! aka: "The blind one." I am really hoping that America will come to their senses and get him off asap! He would be much more of an inspiration to me if I never had to hear/see him sing again.

That being said, I can't wait for Tuesday night!

The Fazookie!

One night when Dave, Steph, Alyssa, Lynsie, and I went out for dinner, Steph decided to introduce us to this dessert that her and Dave had told me about. It is called a Fazookie. I was excited because I love dessert, but figured that it couldn't be any better than other desserts that I had tried. Boy was I wrong! It was almost life changing it is so delicious. Well since its in Bountiful at the Firehouse Pizza, we hadn't been back since that night almost 2 months ago. When Alyssa and I bought our Rascal Flatts tickets we both knew instantly that we would be eating at the Firehouse on the way to the concert. I was a little nervous that it wouldn't be as good as I remember, but it didn't disappoint! It is a little bit of heaven in every bite. I decided that this dessert is so delicious that it deserved its own post. So here are some pictures of it but try to refrain from licking the computer screen.

Here is a picture of it before we have touched it. One half is chocolate chunk and the other side is the heath kind. Mmm!

Our waitress probably thought that we were a little bit crazy that we wanted out picture taken with our fazookie.

Unfortunatlely all good things have to come to an end. But we will be back soon! Thanks Steph for introducing us to this life changing dessert!

Bob That Head!

That's right, another concert! Alyssa and I went and "bobbed our heads" at the Rascal Flatt's concert last Thursday. It was way fun! The first time that I went to Rascal Flatts I thought that their concert was lame. But I gave them another chance and they totally redeemed themselves! It was a blast. Jessica Simpson was another story though. She totally lip synced! She messed up in the middle and stopped singing but her voice kept on a going. She just laughed and said she does that everytime. It sounds like the Simpson Sisters have something in common. But I can't help but love her.

Here are Lyss and I waiting to bob our heads to Rascal Flatts.

The a little bit crazy, but oh so beautiful, lip syncing Jessica Simpson. I couldn't get a very good picture of her for some reason.

The floor was set up so that their stage went all around the whole floor! They were right in front of us at some parts! Who knew you could get this great of seats when you wait until they go on discount a week before the concert?

Thanks for a really fun night Lyss! I'm real glad that you are one of my consistent concert buddies!

Happy Birthday Grandma!

It is my sweet Grandma Smith's birthday today. I don't know exactly how old she is but I'm pretty sure she is finally over 29. My grandma is one of the nicest, funniest people that I know and she would do anything for our family. She and my grandpa are the reason that all of our cousins are all so close. So I just wanted to take some time and tell her how thankful I am for her and how much I love her. Oh and Happy Birthday!

Here is Levi helping Grandma open her presents. What a good helper!

Here she is holding up one of her gifts. She is one of the best dressed ladies i know! And I'm pretty sure that she single handedly keeps the Christopher & Banks store in business.

Grandma is blowing out her candle with the aid of her helper again.

Here is my cute sister Morgan, my grandma, and I. We sure love you grandma!

Happy Birthday!

A Dream Come True!

I pretty much had a life changing experience this weekend! After buying tickets in October of 2007 and having the concert postponed due to laryngitis, I was finally able to see Celine Dion live in concert! I have been waiting my whole life for this. Celine is one of the very first cd's that I remember getting when I was a little girl. I remember listening to her cd for hours with Stephanie. I was expecting a lot from this concert and she totally exceeded my expectations and I didn't know that was possible. One of my best friends Kallee and I bought our tickets together and we were lucky enough to be able to switch seats around to have Steph and Dave sit next to us. It was so great!

We started the night off at the always delicious California Pizza Kitchen at the Gateway. It was so yummy!

As you can probably see... we bought Celine t-shirts and I couldn't be more happy about them! And I don't know if you can tell, but on the back of the shirt is the list of the stops she made during her tour and the top country listed is South Africa! How cute! Also notice another cool feature of the shirt, on the front you can see the front of Celine and on the back you can only see her back. So cool!

Here we all are waiting for Celine to start!

Here are some of my favorite pictures of Celine that I took that night. She is so beautiful! And she has such energy! I wish that I could have that type of energy now at age 22 let alone when I'm late 30's early 40's! The outfit in the middle is my favorite one that she wore during the concert.

One other really great thing that happened that night was that we totally met and got our picture taken with a "big" Utah celebrity! Who knew that Big Buddha would be at Celine? He was so nice! It was a great end to the night!

So obviously I had a great night! I have been waiting so long to see her and now that it is over it feels like there is nothing to look forward to in life... Except oh wait, I have like a bazillion concerts coming up that I am going to. So there is a reason to go on!

Welcome back Kenny!

I am so excited that I just had to blog about this! I bought my tickets to Kenny Chesney today and I can't even wait! The concert is on July 23 so I still have to wait a few months but actually purchasing the tickets made it seem so close! I have so many fun memories of the Kenny Chesney concerts that I have been to. I thought I'd post some pictures of the past concerts...

This is the picture of kenny giving me a private concert back on some private island. We've been to so many that I forget which island we were on for this particular concert.

We have had some interesting experiences at the Kenny concerts. This particular year started out with Pearl breaking down in the middle of Salt Lake. We HAD to get there asap to get our spot in line so Ty and Paige had to hitch hike to the concert while Jaron and I waited for my dad to come pick us up.

Once we made it to Usana we had to find things to do to entertain us for the next 7 hours while we waited for the concert to start. While exploring we found Kenny and though we all have some weird ways of showing it, we are so excited to be touching Kenny's chest!

Kenny also has a way of bringing people together like nothing else. These are some cute, young girls that we met a few years ago at a concert and we were lucky enough to find them and sit by them again at the next one! I don't even know their names but hopefully we'll see them again this year!

Kenny also has a way of bringing out the emotions. I have to admit that I usually shed a few tears when he comes out as well!

Here is a picture of all of us Kenny fans after a long, fun day of being in the Kenny spirit.

So obviously I am really excited about seeing Kenny again but the reason that I am so so so excited is because Tyler will have just barely gotten home and will be able to go to Kenny with us! Yay! I just hope that he will be able to handle that level of excitement so soon!