okay sooooo

Who wants to buy me this skirt?

Found here

I will be nice to you and love you forever!

Kidding of course, but seriously. Love. This. Skirt.

The end.

jazz nation

 So... basically around these parts we love us some Utah Jazz basketball. It's been a little rough lately, mourning the retirement of the studliest stud of all studs, Jerry Sloan,  but we still love our boys.

A month or so ago, we went to a Jazz game with my bestie Kaci, and her now fiancee Jake. Boo ya. Aaand here are the pictures.


Stockton and Malone. Gotta represent it old school. And naturally I would take on the role of giant black man, while Cam gets to be the skinny white dude.



And of course, no Jazz game would be complete without a trip to...



Yep. The Pie. The GLORIOUS Pie.



Cute little love birds :)





Pretty sure this means the husband likes it.

i heart gmail...and d-will

How CUTE is this new gmail theme?! 

 

I'm basically obsessed with it. 

If you don't use Gmail, you should. For real.

Aaand on another note, how studly is D-Will? I really missed this guy last night. It's just not the same watching a game without him. (But at least they finally WON one. Even if it was against the worst team in the western conference...)

photo shoot

So this Christmas I was going back and forth on whether or not we should do a Christmas card. It sounds like a fun idea, right? Get all cutesified, take some pictures with the husband, and create a precious little card and send it out to friends and family and such. Yeah, no. It really sounded great in theory, but with school and those blessed things known as finals, my Christmas card fantasies somehow fell by the wayside.

So it's two weeks before Christmas I didn't feel too bad about not getting cards out, but I did wish that we had some pictures...

Enter Kayla.

My sweet sister-in-law who just happens to want to take pictures of  happy, smiling people to fill up her photography blog. And WE are those people!

To make a long story short, we took a little ride to Gardner Village (after discovering that you have to have snow tires to venture up Big Cottonwood Canyon this time of year,  not to mention a lack of drivers licenses in the vehicle...ha) and got these fun pictures! 

Thanks Kayla!! We love the pictures. They are so us. :)

Merry (super late) Christmas!

happiness in a bottle

Today was a wonderful day. Shopping, Zupas with my lovely husband, and buy one get one half off OPI?! Did I indulge myself? You bet I did. And, being the dork that I am, I even took pictures to document.

First up:

 You Don't Know Jacques! (Don't you just love the names they come up with?!)

 Which I tried first. Me gusta. This is me giving in to the grayish-y nail polish trend. Which to be quite honest, I'm really digging it.

Next:

 Bring on the Bling. I love this bad boy. It's from their Burlesque line, which is all so spaaaarkly!

And third,  but not least:

OPI Ink. I've gotta admit, I'm a little disappointed by the name, but It's a lot more shimmery and awesome in real life.

fuh-reedom.

Finals. Are. Over.

I have never studied so much in all of my twenty years. For real. And when I say "for real" I mean it  the bed intruder dude on YouTube. If you haven't seen that yet, you must NOW. Even though it is so last month. But that is okay.

Now that finals are over, I have this abundance of glorious free time. Some things on my to-do list include:

1. Paint my nails. I love nail polish. Especially when it's on my nails. I have probably painted them once this semester. Who am I and what have I done with myself??

2. Clean the apartment. It is bad. Our poor, poor apartment has been badly effected by the ugly face of finals.

3. Experiment with my hair. I am in a hair rut. I rotate three different styles (down and straight, and down and curly) that I occasionally pop a headband in. Bo-ring.

4. Christmas shop. I'm about 60% done. That's okay though, cause I like to drag Christmas shopping out. Because I think it's fun. 

5. Cuddle, cuddle CUDDLE! With my cute husband, of course! Our school schedules have been pretty much opposite which has cut down on cuddle time. NO good. We need some catch up. :)

6. Attempt some crafty stuff. Ah, I have become one of those people. I'm obsessed with craft blogs right now, and I have a list of fun Christmas crafts I want to try. Too bad I didn't have time earlier, since it's pretty much Christmas already. Oh well.

7. Re-vamp my closet. As much as I would like to go shopping for clothes, the sad reality is that we are college students with no such money for fun things like that. So I am learning to be creative, with the help of some blog inspiration.

And so much more! It is time to finally enjoy the Christmas season. :)

i am a time waster

There. I admitted it. It's the first step right? Now I need to break this terrible habit. It's funny how when there is something important to do (aka study for finals) I avoid it like the plague. That is, until It's the day before the final and I am freaking out. For example, today I got off work super early so I could get some good, quality study time in. I left work at 11, drove around North Orem for about 20 minutes to kill some time, (it's pretty much unexplored land to me, I mean really when does anyone have the need to go there?)

BUT

I found a gem there in North Orem :)

This little cul-de-sac, otherwise known as Windsor Court. SO cute. The houses are designed in this old European style, and are absolutely gorgeous. PLUS, they have adorable little street clocks on the sidewalks like this!

Unfortunately there aren't a lot of pictures on the website to really do it justice. I just might have to go back and take a few myself. :)

The rest of the day consisted of grocery shopping at Costco (which really did need to be done), RE-decorating the Christmas tree, making brownies for Cam's work Christmas party, reading blogs, and wrapping presents.

Okay, putting off studying for my math final stops HERE. Goodbye comfy couch, hello math lab.

Math final: Monday. 5:30 PM. Study, Marissa, STUDY!