11.17.2009

i got this email today:

((CLICK PICTURE TO READ))


and my heart smiled:) i'm starting to get really excited!!

11.13.2009

my new favorite show- modern family



Thanks to my sister Chelsea for recommending this show to me! Actually she kept texting me to ask if I had watched an episode yet so i just wanted to get her off my back! haha. I ended up watching all of the episodes and laughing my butt off! It's serioulsly so funny! Watch the most recent episode HERE.

Enjoy:) (i know you will!)

most recent playlist


Along with Carrie Underwood, I've been listening to this fun playlist recently:)

11.12.2009

Play On


I knew it was a smart idea to buy Carrie Underwood's new album, Play On, without hearing any songs first. It's amazing! I've been listening to it non-stop for days:) My favorites (so hard to pick!) are: #6 "Someday When I Stop Loving You" & #7 "Songs Like This". 

11.11.2009

cma's


11.09.2009

mom, this is your birthday post


I love this picture of kati and my mom. It's so fun and cute AND it shows off her nearly perfect skin! Today she turned 51 and she has almost no wrinkles. I hope I look that good when I'm 51. Happy birthday mother bear:) You're a good great mom!

funniest.trip.ever.


me + kate


kate + ghetto tv. ( my mom is rolling her eyes saying, "who cares, it's a tv!")

*In September my mom and i took my little sister, kate, to college at San Diego State! i think that we all 3 would agree that it was the funnest/funniest trips we've ever been on. there are things that we will be laughing about for YEARS and some things that will never be talked about again.  oh my gosh where to start?!

Top 5 moments:

1-my mom confessing that she thinks i'm so passive that i would choose to drive into a car crash and be killed then swerve and avoid a collison! {all based on the fact that i cried, when i was 16, when my drill team uniform got dyed pink! she says that i should have just got up and washed it. i say, let me have some tears! i'm not a robot! and that has NOTHING to do with fighting for my life!}

2-the girl at burger king starts a fight with me because i came back after she messed up our order. {my mom and kate side with divilicious-burger-king-girl because i, apparently, "sounded really snotty". whatever.}

3-mom realizing that even though the plural for mouse is mice, that does not mean the plural for moose is meece. kati and i repeadedly said, "we don't know why, that is just the way it goes." mom was frustrated.* added by kati: "and the plural thing was...mom said "the plural of goose is geese, so therefore the plural of moose is meese" and i used the mouse example to explain that the plural of house isnt hice. haha. and it was all because of the stupid "fishes".

4-mom pushing both kati and i (see pic) from the dorms back to the car on a cart while people giggled at us. then kati dropped her grocery bag full of candy and leaped after the gobstoppers. good first impressions. haha:)

5-me passing on words of wisdom to kati. my mom was pressuring her to go to her "MANDATORY" dorm room floor meeting and she didn't want to. this is when i said: "you know what i think whenever i get told to go to something that is MANDATORY? I think, what are you going to do to me if i don't go?! are they going to kick you out of school? no. are they going to fine you? no. it's not mandatory it's a misuse of words. at this point my mom was rolling her eyes and making her disappointed face because i didn't go to my dorm meetings. haha.





dorm

san diego temple


leave it to becky...


*she doesn't even know austin! haha!

11.07.2009

26 tomorrow


happy birthday kevin!

my itunes library is now perfect


that's right! every song has the correct album, genre, artist & artwork. no duplicate songs, no unwanted songs, it's all organized. wow! [i have less than 900 songs so i'm not that crazy!]

 *TIP: organizing your itunes library is surprisingly unrewarding and takes far more time that initially expected.

11.03.2009

i spent the weekend in san fran and i:

-had a great time
-didn't take enough pictures
-looked at art for 4 days straight...
-spent too much time being a tourist in a (semi)familiar city
-laughed with new people
-became best friends with my ipod
-couldn't understand why the girl sitting behind me in the van had to yell everything (!)
-was frustrated with the aforementioned girl for 95% of the trip
-saw lots of drag queens (san fran + halloween = expected)
-napped under the sun
-listened to an argument in the van which ended in my teacher pulling over so the girls fighting could cool off.
-went to an lame comedy show for about 5 minutes
-chatted with mr. bushman
-danced on the hotel beds to my new favorite tune
-saw paintings by my favorite artist


golden gate bridge

Sailboats on the Seine by Monet

marilyn monroe by richard avedon

10.21.2009

the magic mouse


this looks so cool!

10.20.2009

Engaged!


My bff emily and her love, alex, got engaged tonight! Congrats guys! I'm so happy for you:)

10.19.2009

Xerophobia

Xerophobia: the fear of dryness...or in my case the fear of dry skin. I can't sleep if I have dry hands which is why there is always lotion on my sidetable. Such a weird phobia. What is yours?

10.15.2009

pictures of heaven

How did i get pictures of heaven, you ask? I have connections! jk. I may have had some help from the Hubble Telescope. These are some of the most amazing images I've ever seen! enjoy:)

10.14.2009

notes...


10.09.2009

best.clip.ever.

10.08.2009

preview



Here is a little preview of the wedding invitation that i just finished:) More to come later...

10.03.2009

This picture melts my heart


Clay fell asleep wearing his new motorcycle helmet. This kid LOVES motorcycles more than anyone I know! So cute:)

9.29.2009

about the post below...

Camryn is referring to the fact that both she and I will become aunts for the first time (!) in April. Chelsea is 3 months pregnant, not me:) We are all thrilled and cannot wait!!

*sorry for the confusion.

this just made my day:)

camryn left a comment on my blog=) so cute!




9.28.2009

Happy Birthday Miss Kati-bugs!


i LOVE you so much!

9.26.2009

epiphany

1998

A few times over the summer i've had the same epiphany, that our family has grown up. Example #1: at our family reunion during the relay i realized that we were the only family that didn't have little grandkids. Advantage, right? WRONG. We lost to Dirk & Lori's family! Haha! Oh well. Example #2: that same day the entire Brinkerhoff family went to 7 peaks water park. It was a little overcast and chilly when the wind blew so by the time lunch was over everyone but us (and some of Dirk's fam) went home so that their babies could be warm.

*sidenote: the best time to go to 7 peaks (if you don't have little kids) is when it's overcast and a little chilly because there are NO lines. It was probably the best time i've had there (and i've been ther a lot!) because we walked right up to every slide! amazing!

Back to the story: As we were walking from ride to ride it hit me that we are all big kids now. As in, our entire family can all go on the big kids rides! Camryn and Clay didn't even take a second look at the kid swim area. Not only that but both Clay and Cams went on the freefall! Twice! I just kept thinking, when did we grow up?!

Example #3: A few weeks ago Ali, Camryn and I decided to rearrange my parent's house. We wanted to change things up a bit. So we boxed up like 200 salt and pepper shakers, used the cabinet that they were being stored in for my mom's china sets and moved the cabniet into the kitchen from the family room. We moved a couch to where the cabinet was. We moved an antique shelf from the kitchen to the piano room, rearranged the whole piano room. Got rid of a sofa, got rid of the computer desk, moved the buffet into the family room. Got a new computer desk in the kitchen....blah blah blah you get the idea!

*side story: Clay walked in as we were finishing the whole project and this conversation ensued:
Clay: Hey dans?

Me: what?
C: I have a suggestion for the rooms.
Me: Ok. Let's hear it.
C: ok, how about you move the buffet and shelf back into the kitchen. then you put the salt and pepper shakers back into the cabinet and move the couch so the cabinet can fit into that little space. Then you can put the computer desk back and bring the other couch back into the piano room....
---ali and i were looking at him in disbelief---
Me: so what you're suggesting is that we change the rooms to EXACTLY HOW THEY WERE?!
C: yeah. (he was dead serious)
Me: you're unbelievable!
-the joke was on us this time because after we told him no, we had to listen the his chants, "back to normal! back to normal!" all afternoon!

Back to the story: So when we were all finished I kept feeling weird about the antique shelf. It was just sitting on the floor, like what a normal shelf would do. Then it hit me, our family has grown up. There hasn't been a shelf on the floor because for so long there were babies that would get into all the nice things. Now we can have a shelf on the floor. weird. I sat there thinking, Camryn is 11 now and I doubt that she is going to come into this room and break/play with the antiques. I mean, she would probably rather do ANYTHING but play with antiques. So weird.

So after this realization I decide that our newly reorganized piano room needs a candy dish. I mean we're all grown ups and surely we can save the candies for guests. I got a crystal dish and filled it with M&M's and i'm not kidding you when i say that within 10 minutes the dish was completely EMPTY! Wishful thinking huh?! I guess we'll have to wait another 10 years to be able to have a full candy dish in the house! Haha!

2007

have you heard?!

This little girlie won HOMECOMING QUEEN last night! Congrats Ali-gali! I knew you'd win!


more pics to come....


My mom made her beautiful dress!
 


ali + ian

classic ali face: the wink.

ali + preston

9.25.2009

wishing i had a letterpress

So I can make lovely things like these. So beautiful!