Lauren Mickelsen

I never knew a girl like her could become one of my best friends! She is happy all the time, super bubbly, outgoing, loud and peppy! She makes for a perfect host at chilis because anyone would be lucky to see her big smiling face when they walk into hell! hahahaha! I am so super grateful to have her in my life! She was the one person that constantly called me and text me when I was at bear lake to let me know I was missed. She makes work bearable and I love how she sends me texts telling me she missed me at work or to just tell me to have a good day! She is such a good friend! Love you Lauren! I DON'T WANT YOU TO GO TO IDAHO!!!

Shopping!

A girls favorite thing to do, right? Go to the mall with a group of friends, try on clothes, buy things!!! Not for me! Don't get me wrong...I love shopping for clothes just as much as the next girl but not usually with the girl friends. Its hard shopping with a bunch of girls with different styles than you, that won't give you honest opinions on your clothing and will talk you into buying something that you know you will never wear. We don't realize we are being pure pressured into buying certain things until we get home and realize we will never wear what we have boughten. Maybe this isn't how other girls feel but this is how I feel. My favorite shopping buddy is my husband. He tells me when he doesn't like something, he knows my style very well so he is very helpful at picking out clothes and he understands my anxiety of spending money so he understands when I like something but don't buy it and understands I will return it a day later if I do. This isn't the case on all things but there have been very little times that I have gone with my husband and came home regretting anything I have bought. He is the perfect shopping buddy(except for the fact that he hates malls and has turned into quite the complainer.
Anyway, back to the point of this whole thing. I found a girl who I actually enjoy shopping with! This has only happened a couple of time in my lifetime. Donna, my sisters, caroline, mary and my mom are all actually very good shopping buddies. Well, now I have to add Lauren to that list! We shopped for a couple of hours yesterday and I found it actually enjoyable! Lauren respects my fashion sense and gives me her true opinion when I try things on! It was a good way to start off my day off! There are some things I bought and actually won't be returning :)

summertime sensations!

Summertime sensations....you know what I am talking about...the things that make summer so great...the things that make summer..well, summer. Like eating an ice cream cone as it drips from the summer heat melting it. Walking around a carnival with that pink sugary, cottony, stuff that melts in your mouth and not from the sun. Laying out in the sun as you can feel yourself burning like bread in a toaster but you don't care because you like your body how you like your toast, a little on the brown side :).Well I discovered summertime sensations that I didn't quite knew existed.
Sushi! Now I am not talking about the amazing occasion where you save up your money and you and your fabulous husband go on a special night out and get expensive sushi. I am talking about when you are driving in your car with your little sister and cousin and you have all intentions of going chili's until spur of the moment at 4:35 in the daytime you turn the car around and spontaneously decide to go to sushi. See on a normal occasion this couldn't happen but because of Kate's extra time to do summertime chores and Caroline's extra time to have a summertime job...we had money and we wanted to go crazy! Which we did! We spent two and a half hours stuffing our faces until we literally couldn't eat anymore. We even got tempted to throw the last roll of sushi in the decorated tree behind us so we wouldn't get charged for leftovers. We didn't but I sure was full enough that I wanted to.
Ok for the best summertime sensation at all! Going tubing in the rain! The wind is cold so the water on your feet seems so warm. The choppy waters gives you that intense feel, almost on the dangerous side but still laughing and screaming. I wanted to do it all day but my arms only allowed me to last for a couple of hours before staying on became life or death. For those couple of hours it was just me, my amazing tube buddy, the wake and the large waves. No work, no stress, no cleaning, no bills to pay...just one focus...staying on the tube! Tons of screams, tons of laughs, tons of thrills...now that is my type of summertime sensation!

I love fashion. I like modeling for fun. but I hate fashion models.Girls who wear clothes that barely can be considered clothes,have long(fake) hair and weigh a buck-o-five. I look in the mirror in disgust and then try to remember what I am comparing myself to...a play boy model.
You look all over Utah and you see all these girls baking their skin until they look orange, starving themselves till they are the size of my "happy holiday" barbie that I got for christmas last year. Their blonde hair nearly falling out because of all the bleaching. When did being beautiful mean being sick. When did being beautiful mean looking like everyone else? When did beautiful go from looking like Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn to Britney Spears and Megan Fox?
To me being beautiful is being being caring of other people. Being someone that people can trust and someone that people can consider a best friend. Being true to who you are and not trying to be like everyone else. Uniqueness is beautiful. Love is beautiful. Classiness is beautiful. Glamour is beautiful. Being smart is beautiful. But one of the beautiful things of all is self confidence and selflessness. I am gonna work on being just those things!

What beauty looks like to me:

Recent addictions

Law and Order SVU

(He is my favorite)

Dollhouse


Eminem


Pickles..we call it the pregnancy graving...but im not pregnant. weird.


Making Friendship Bracelets


Mae