Happy Birthday Lyns!

Earlier this week was Lynsie's birthday. She is 17! Holy crap! She is getting so old! The fam went to dinner on her birthday but I wasn't able to. I was so sad. To make up for not being able to go to dinner with my family I decided to plan a night when we could go with her friends.

Here we are at the Mandarin! Lynsie's favorite restaurant. It was so yummy!

Here is Lyns on her actual birthday... I am so grateful to have her as my sister. Even though sometimes we drive each other crazy, I wouldn't have it any other way. I love her and we have gotten a lot closer as she has gotten older. I am so glad that we are good enough friends that she would want me to go to dinner with them and hang out together. Thanks for all of the good times Lynie! I love you!

Britney Spears

When I heard that Britney was coming in concert I was planning on buying tickets until I looked at her ticket prices. Normally I wouldn't really care but there are so many concerts that I want to go to that are coming up that I decided to be smart about it and resist. But as it got closer to the concert I got more and more sad. I would hear her song on the radio and start to cry a little bit. I have loved Britney Spears since the days of Oops I Did It Again. I have always felt so bad for her and have been rooting for her to get back on her feet. But anyways, the day before the concert Haylee called and asked if I wanted to buy last minute tickets with them. Again I was tempted but decided that I wouldn't buy one. But then to my luck, sorry Kallee, Kallee got sick and called and asked if I wanted my ticket. At first I felt bad but then I just decided I might as well enjoy it! I still feel really bad that Kallee couldn't use it but I am so glad I got to go! It was amazing!

Here are Haylee and I getting ready to leave. Gentry's boyfriend bought the tickets as a surprise so Gentry had no idea that we were going! We had to cover our shirts til we told her.

Haylee was brilliant and bought us these sweet ponchos that we could wear on our mile long trek to the Delta Center. Our hair still got a little wet but thank goodness we had them or we would have been soaked!

Here we are waiting for the Pussy Cat Dolls to come out!

Ahh! Here are the Pussy Cat Dolls! We had general admission tickets for the floor and so we were so close! These girls all dressed a little bit scandalous but they were still so cute! They put on a really good show. I can't decide but I think that I liked them better than Britney! They were really fun.

Britney's concert was themed to a circus so they had a mini circus with real life, creepy as ever Carnies. There were a few really cool things that they did though.

Britney changed her clothes for almost every song. These are just a few of my favorites and least scandalous ones. Britney's looks have fluctauted a bit but she looked so dang good at the concert! Britney brought out quite the crowd. At a couple of times during the concert I was scared for my life but it was still really fun! We were really exhausted by the time that it was over though. Haylee and I were so tired that we even sat on the floor of the Delta center while we waited for Gentry to find some stuff that she wanted to buy!

The concert was so fun! Thanks for the invite girls and thanks Kal for the ticket! I am pretty sure that I loved it enough for both of us!

Single's Ward Not So Bad...

So usually I am really against single's wards but not this week! Alyssa called me and told me that West Point's single's ward had free Jazz tickets and there was an extra one if I wanted to go. How great is that? I love the Jazz! The tickets were one row from the top but that's ok, its just fun to be there and have an opportunity to wear one of my jerseys!

Thanks for the fun night guys!

Happy Easter!

Easter was a definite hit at our house. The Easter Bunny knew exactly what to get us!

Here we all are anxiously awaiting to see what is in our baskets...

I think maybe the Easter Bunny should have put some new socks in Lynsie's basket.


Morgan went through her basket first and she took out the normal stuff that we get every year, an outfit, candy, a rolled up piece of paper with a Taylor Swift pin hooked to it... Wait! Thats not normal... What could this be?

Morgan said, "If this is a Taylor Swift ticket I am going to cry!" And then the tears started pouring. She cried for probably a good 5 minutes. She is so cute. And for anyone who doesn't know, Taylor Swift tickets went on sale last week and they sold out in 15 seconds! Much to our disappointment we weren't able to get them. But the Easter Bunny came through! I think this is one of the reasons that emotions ran so high. Well, and that we love Taylor!

Here we all are really excited about our tickets. Lynsie and I didn't show quite the emotion as Morg but we are still super excited!

We found out that Bailley got a ticket in her easter basket as well. Yay! And while I was going through my basket I found another ticket for Steph! The Easter Bunny is great! Taylor Swift here we come!

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!