Happy Angry Birdsday To You!

Clear back in January, Devin decided he wanted to have an Angry Birds party for his birthday. So after months of planning and preparation, November came and we finally threw Devin his party.

First there was an Angry Birds photo booth set up on the front porch equipped with pig ears, pig noses, angry eyebrows, feathers, and beaks.

Everyone got to wear an Angry Bird party hat.

That I made by adding feathers and faces to some plain colored party hats

We decorated with birds, block towers, and nests all in red, yellow, green, and blue like the Angry Birds themselves.

We had a variety of "Bird" and "Pig" food for everyone to eat.

With pig tails and feathers on the name tags to match.

Birds Food: Sour worms, chocolate eggs, TNT popcorn bags, and fruit skewers

Pigs Food: Ham sandwiches, pigs in a blanket, chocolate pig snouts, mud cake, and cheeto twisted puffs pig tails

As everyone arrived they filled out a "Do You Know The Birthday Bird" questionnaire about Devin.

Points were awarded for closest and funniest answers. 

Next was the building game. We split the group up into teams and gave each team a stack of newspapers and a roll of masking tape.

Then they had 15 minutes to try and build the tallest freestanding tower out of the materials.

The winning team with their tower.

And for the grand finale of the party we headed to the backyard for the life size Angry Birds game. 

The teams took turns setting up the boxes and firing the slingshot. 

Here's a video clip that Devin got of one of the best shots of the day.

We finished off the party with singing Happy Birthday to Devin and eating cupcakes that were decorated to look like Angry Birds.

As the guests left the party we gave them their photo booth picture and a party favor of seeds and a slingshot. To thank them for "crashing" Devin's party. 

What made this party the best was everyone who took time out of their busy holiday weekend to came celebrate Devin! 
I know that he is loved by so many people! 

Love you Devin! Happy 22nd!

21

I must say I had quite the 21st birthday festivities!! 

I had my very first birthday number pizza! 

It was quite exciting for me, too bad it only took me 21 years to finally get!

We tried out the St. George carousel! 

I'm a sucker for these kind of things so I was quite excited! Plus we had the whole thing to ourselves!

 Then I was surprised with a mustache birthday party! 
Mustache banners, "Name that Stache" game, balloons drawn with mustaches, a birthday cake decorated with 21 mustaches, chocolate mustache suckers, milkshake mustaches; this party was all mustached out! 

And to end off the fun day we made our own little BBgun shooting range by shooting the party balloons off of the back fence from our balcony.
The only bad part is we wish that there was more balloons to shoot!

I know it may sound cliche but the honest truth is that the very best part of my day was just having a good time with people who mean so much to me.

Roos N' More

Who knew that such a random zoo in such a random town would turn into such a fantastic adventure!! Animals of every kind that you are able to touch and hold. 

Just to name a few: I got to check seeing a living/breathing armadillo off of my bucket list, got to meet a friendly bearcat named Frito, got beaten by a monkey wielding half a carrot, got to hold a baby kangaroo, and got to have an otter climb into my lap. 

Since I'm not so good with words and describing all the details I'll just let the pictures do the rest of the talking. Enjoy.

And if you are interested in seeing video of my monkey beatings check out my sister's post of the day's events here.

Go ahead. Laugh at my pain. 

Happy List

• Bright homemade pillows that match my quilt
• Baseball games with sunflower seeds
• Finding long lost Jasmine friends
• Snow cones
• 80 degree weather
• Accidental spray paint Yoda

Colorful snow cone tongues

Presenting the class of 2011:

We had to meet early at the college to line up and make our way down to the Burns Arena. I was excited and nervous! It didn't feel like I was really graduating.

Being that it was Dixie State College's centennial year, the graduation ceremony was extra special!

The President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints {Thomas S. Monson} was the graduation speaker. 

It was really neat to hear the prophet speak in person! He did such a great job! He really is such a cute and funny guy! However it was kinda weird to clap after the prophet's speech.

I had several of my family come to the ceremony to support me! It was great to know that as I walked through the 'D' they were in the stands cheering me on!

I can't believe that I'm already done with my associates agree! It's crazy!! Now to decide what's next....

Congratulations to all of the other 2011 graduates!

Friday, May 6th, 2011

I'm going to be doing this again:

Except in red robes this time.

Dixie State College

Associates of Science

Honors Graduate

Jasmine Marie Day

See this beautiful woman. She is my bestest friend! {However, she might beat me up for stealing her picture off of facebook. But it's a risk I'm willing to take!} She's truly the best! Besides being a total babe she's the greatest person to be around too!

We became friends back in sophomore year of high school when she asked me to share a ceramics locker with her. Ever since it's been great!!

We're quite silly. We like going on adventures and trying new things. We like to have dance parties and sing together in the car. We love to quote movies and have a million inside jokes. We love food and cooking/baking. We shop til we drop and then shop some more. But mostly we just have fun. 

We're really lucky to have had the opportunity to travel to several great places together. I'll never forget these fabulous trips with her.

This picture probably depicts our friendship the best. We have a way of making each other laugh. A lot. And very loudly. There's not many people who can make me laugh harder. 

I found this sweet note from her on my car the other day. It's what inspired me to write this post.It made me quite happy inside. Because I love this woman. A lot.

But, it made me a bit sad too.

Life has been so crazy since Christmas that I haven't really been able to see my dear friend. And I miss her. A lot.

So. My dear Jasmine,

 If you happen to be blog stalking me one day and come across this post... Please give me a call! I miss you! And for some reason I can't find you these days! I don't think you are getting my texts.