i love my friends :)

This girl:

is getting married.

This girl:
Brought me delicious cookies that i loved. (see below)

i love them for more reasons than that, but i am soo happy they are my friends. it was great to talk with both of them this past week. congratulations molly! and THANKS savannah! i love you guys.!! can't wait till molly moves back and we can play again! I'm excited for taco tuesdays and sleepovers... well, maybe not sleepovers b/c molly will be married and her husband would miss her. but whatev. :) good times are soon to come!

Shout out to my PADRE!

This is a birthday shout out to mi padre. he is now FIFTY-freaking-THREE. not too shabby eh?
I love his crooked smile in this picture. and the fact that he is not one bit bothered by emma as i would have been.
Also, This is my favorite video of my dad... when he was a good sport and tried our Bertie Botts every flavored beans we got from the Jelly Belly factory that day... as you can see in the video, he really liked the flavor.

One last thing... Dad- i love you because you have gotten our family to where we are today. You made the best decision ever to be converted to the gospel of jesus christ and with that you met mi madre. if you would not have been the stud you were mom might have never said yes to you in the joseph smith building after that american heritage video. So, thanks for making good decisions... for more than just yourself. for all of us. even though i sometimes hate all your questions, i love my hair... which kinda makes up for it. ;) so thanks. thanks for being a wonderful example to me of hard work and unconditional love. i really couldn't have gotten to where i am in my life without you. you're the bestest.

LOVE YA PADRE.

cause of all my tears...

So, if you read my previous post, you’ll know that I went home last weekend to pick up a retainer to straighten up my little chompers… well, I’ve got it! It hasn’t been too bad, but it has cause more tears than it’s allowed to… the little guy puts so much pressure on my teeth in a solid effort to move them, but when I take it off to eat (ahh Relief!) my teeth are sore and it hurts to bite down on my food! ☹ I definitely smile even more crooked than before and am still talking funny (like a baby discovering his/her tongue) and I have more saliva in my mouth than ever before but I’m hoping it will eventually be worth it.

Here are some pictures as promised:

how can something sooo small hurt sooo much?? :/ oh well. no pain, no gain right?
aren't boys or school or movies supposed to be the cause of tears?? not teeth... hmm... oh well. can't win 'em all.

little chompers

does anyone know who this is????

YES. it's chomper from the land before time... (not one of the earlier movies--definitely from numbers 50-100). Well, that was mainly just to get you thinking of the word chomper. Because today, my little chompers aren't working at full capacity... Actually, they've been messed up for a while. ready for this?
STORY: ages 0-12 lost various teeth, got some cavities, one silver cap (ghetto i know) finally got all my permanent teeth in around age 12. SO... on go the braces. braces, tears and rubberbands from age 12-14(ish). got them off-love my life. got my retainers-hate my life. bottom teeth still shifted, got a permanent retainer on the bottom, lost the top one (oops)... so, after taking 4 wisdom teeth out at age 18, and 7 years after the braces were taken off, my teeth are SO BOGUS. this results in a few orthodontist visits (periodically between ages 18-21) and the eventual decision to take my permanent retainer off the bottom and get a new one that they can adjust to fix my teeth. (appt. Nov 24, '09) in the meantime, i FINALLY start seeing the big kid dentist at age 21 (in utah) and he tells me i have 3 cavities on 4 teeth. (no bueno) (Dec 10, '09) then i go home, get molded for my retainer (Dec 22, '09), come back and get my cavities filled (Today! Jan 12, '10) and this weekend i'm flying home to get my retainer... (Jan 18, '10) SO BOGUS. do you know what that means?? as of JANUARY 18th i will have been to the chomper doctors FIVE TIMES in TWO MONTHS!!!! SO CRAZY! just so you guys can see how much discomfort i'm in, i've provided the following picture.
I want you too put your hand up to the screen and cover the left side of my face... normal right?? hahaha if only. now cover the right side... so pitiful. that's my, "why is this guy talking to me, when i have to go pee" face.. :) so yeah. talking is kinda hard, so is eating, drinking and blinking... if you cant tell even my left eye didn't get skinny at the edge.. that means i'm numb from about my eyebrow to my chin... and about 65% of my tongue feels like a dead fish inside my mouth. (GROSS)

but whatev. no big deal. i'm just supposed to go out to eat with some friends in a 2 hours.. and this is supposed to be gone in 3-4 hours... really now? i hope my little chompers can catch up to speed before dinner. otherwise, i should probably take it to-go instead of letting it fall all over my face and lap. (although, that would be hilarious for my friends)

(on the upside... the THREE shots i got to numb me up didn't hurt hardly at all!)

That's all. i'll take a picture with my precious retainer when i get it this weekend :) (christmas and snowboarding pictures are on the way)

guess who?!

Who do i look like in my ugly sweater???

YES... NEIL!!!!! from the Santa Clause! :) love it. shout out to halie who figured out that i looked more like neil than bill cosby. love ya sis.

i look like Neil the psychiatrist and I'm proud of it. :)

hope you have a....

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

Love, ME and my FHE Group! :)

Ugly Sweater Party

Yes. i went to one.

Story behind finding the PERFECT ugly sweater:
G-Pa: "Where are you going?"
Me: "oh, i'm going to go to DI with my friend to look for an ugly sweater."
G-Pa: "Oh, Wait. Don't Bother! I've got an ugly sweater you can use!"
Me: "uh...... ok?!"
This is what he gave me:

This is the party:

Jess and I just chillin.

Tricia and Alejo in his ugly sweater that he borrowed from me. (yes, i own that)

Tricia and IBen and I

Me, Jess, tricia and Alejo in all our ugly sweater glory. :)

Celeste (the girl who threw the party) and I being excited about my matching flipflops! :)

Long live bill cosby and the sweater he let me borrow :)
Shout out to grandpa for letting me use his sweater. Best grandpa I know!