Day 9 of the 365 Day Challenge.... Big Girl You are Beautiful!!

I saw this girl tonight at Sammy's Karaoke. I also saw her last week as well. Turns out Chazzkah is a regular when it comes to Karaoke at Sammy's. And I believe that she has every reason to be. It isn't necessarily her voice that brings the crowd, it is the fact that she mentioned to me in a frantic panic type of excitement, "I even have an outfit change for the 3rd song!" Her enthusiasm for Karaoke is unmatched with any that I have ever seen. I guess that isn't saying too much given that I am not a Karaoke expertise, however, her ability to entertain was fantastic.

When I first saw her last week, well actually, it began when I first heard her singing last week. I was in one room of Sammy's and she began to sing "Big girls (you are beautiful)" by MIKA. I really enjoy that song and I don't feel that too many people know that song and are aware of the amazing lyrics and so it took me by surprise to even hear it being sung by someone. Anywho, I heard her singing it and to my surprise she blew it out of the water!!! She did such a great job not only singing it, but belting it and rocking as a woman should!! She was not ashamed but embraced all that she was and all that this song was. My natural instinct was to be proud of her for respecting herself and demanding respect from every person in that room. Immediately I fell in love with her. So when I saw her tonight, I knew that I needed to post a video of her singing. Remember, it isn't necessarily the voice. It's the ambiance!!! It's her sassy attitude, it's her make-up, costume, and style that just brings it!

* Disclaimer: This video doesn't even cut it. She was so much better than this video can portray! Sorry it doesn't do her justice!

Day 8 of the 365 Day Challenge...Bumps and Bruises...

So I think that the idea of this photo was better than what it turned out to be. So I apologize if it startles you a little more than the usual.

Today I was considerably aware of how many times I hit my knees on pretty much everything! You see, a few months ago it was brought to my attention that I have daggers for knees. Or knives as they have been referred to as. They bang on things and jab John in the ribs. They are seriously daggers and I am just realizing what my best weapon is!! So WATCH OUT!!!!

(also, there is like 6 bruises on my knees and a little scab. I took this picture to show the battle proof)

Don't mess with me or I will dag you with my knees!

One more thing....

So remember how I mentioned that John and I have been watching Grey's Anatomy like it was going out of style?? Well, we watched the last two episodes of Season 6 last night. We are about to begin Season 7 (which is the season that Grey's Anatomy is currently on) which means, we will soon be caught up with reality. This has to be some of the saddest news of my life. And the reason that I don't want to be caught up is because then what would happen is I would actually have to begin watching commercials. I hate commercials.

Anyway, also.. the last two episodes of Season 6 are the most intense episodes EVER! John and I both agreed that it made watching the other 5 Seasons totally worth it! I know we are crazy. At one point during the intense episodes I looked at John and totally girled on him by saying that I was happy that we were sharing these moments together and he was so into it that he couldn't even comment back to me other than to say "keep watching!" really, really, really fast! I definitely had myself a good laugh. We are serious about Grey's. Serious.

K well- go watch Grey's now. I know you want to. :)

Day 7 of the 365 Day Challenge...

So this is the interesting thing I mentioned that I had experienced that I am not sure I may ever experience again in my life. If you look at it, you may see a cookie. Don't worry, that is what I see too.

But if you look closer... you see CANDIED BACON!!!!!!! Yep, that is right. That is a cookie made with chocolate chips and candied bacon. My boss brought it into work and gave one to me. I was so fascinated with it. You could actually taste the bacon. It was actually really good. It scared me while I was eating it, and I was completely surprised at how much of the bacon I could taste but how sweet and good it was. You should totally try it someday and tell me how you like it.

.... and Whitney, I challenge you to make these and tell me what you think. k? deal? Great. Glad you agreed. :)

Day 6 of the 365 Day Challenge...

So on Sunday (my day 6 of the challenge), John and I were invited to go eat dinner over at my cousins Heather and James' house. She was so great to invite us, especially since she made all the food. And it was extremely delicious. :) So thanks Heather, if you are reading this, we loved eating your food :).

While we were at dinner, my soon-to-be SIL Jordyn was there and she brought me these little mustardy yellow beauties for me to have to potentially wear to her wedding. I am excited to be a bridesmaid! Aren't they so fun!

We also finished cutting, gluing and putting together her really adorable bridal party/ family invites to dress in the colors and be a part of their wedding day. It was so fun!

Day 5 of the 365 Day Challenge...

So on Saturday (day 5 of both march and of my challenge) I decided to work out. It was ridiculous because as it turns out, I am actually out of shape. Surprissssssseeeee!!!! Well, at least surprise to me. I guess if I were to be diagnosed by a doctor of sorts, he would give me "denial" as my disease. I think I was/ am in denial about how out of shape I am. I have usually kept a fair amount of workouts up my sleeve during the week, but since I moved here I do not have a gym pass and it is snowing and white all the time and so I feel I am a little limited on my ability to get some sort of cardio in my days. However, I decided I was going to do something more like pilates and yoga combined to work out this body I have. So I did. And it was painful.

The second thing that I did on saturday was photoshopped some pictures for my brother chad's and his beautiful fiance Jordyn's wedding announcements. It was fun to go take pictures of them, however, Chad STRUGGLED to open his eyes. Just look at his eyes in some of the pictures. Struggled, I say. So, if anyone has any good suggestions of how to fix this dilemma that I have, I would love your input. :)

Over all it was a really fun day and I really enjoyed my work out. I could barley get up Sunday morning. It was definitely a chore to get my body moving and out of bed. :)

Day 4 of 365...

So FRIDAY was my day 4 (March 4th) of this wonderful adventure of my 365 photo a day challenge. I felt like the week had been really long and tiring and I came home from work that day around 5:30 PM. I messed around on my computer for about an hour and decided that I wanted to take a nap. Plus, I was waiting for John to finish studying and take his exam. I could have easily gone out and found people to hang out with, but when I walked into my room, it was just TOOO tempting... Don't you think so?

So, I did myself the favor and climbed right on in there, and cozied myself all up and fell asleep around 6:38 PM and woke up at 9:37 PM. I would like to take this time to thank all of you for not calling me and interrupting my beauty rest. :) It was one of the most glorious feelings to fall asleep and not have to worry about when I was waking up. When I did wake up, I laid there for several minutes until my phone began to ring and my Johnald (yes I call him Johnald, and Yes I gave him the nickname, thank you very much!) called me to let me know that he was on his way over to see me. I was so well rested and felt like I could be a normal person again! It was fantastic! I recommend naps to all and to all a good NAP!

I know I haven't been posting

I know I havent been posting, however I have been gathering photos to post for you for that last three days. And my goal is to put them on tomorrow. So stay tuned until then..

As of right now, I am taking advantage of the fact that John went home abnormally early (usually he is here until curfew. I know, BYU's standards) but he had to go home early to do some homework. Anyway, I am going to bed right now. At 10:40 at night. I am absolutely looking forward to it. I know you are jealous, don't lie.

Anyway, again, stay tuned for the pictures to come. The one for today was... well, you could say and interesting experience and I am not sure I will have another one quite like it.

Til next time....

Day 3 of 365... and then there was bowling..

COSMIC BOWLLLLLLIIIINNNGGGGGGGG!!!!!

Today of my day 3 adventures we went bowling with some family and friends and it was a BLAST! I used to hate bowling because it was so dumb. Now I figured out how to like it. The secret to having a good time whilst bowling is to bring along friends. Especially ones that are funny. So here are some of our silly adventures with bowling tonight. And also, you can check out just how cool we really are. ;)

Look Mine and John's ugly bowling shoes glowed. It was cosmic bowling duh.

Love. Love. Love Cassie!

It is Jordan and Cassie's 6 months being married today! Congrats to you guys!

It is also mine and John's 6 month mark for us dating. We met at Jordan and Cassie's wedding! It was so fun!

We. Are. Cool. Amen.

We are John and Stephanie. Nice to meet you.

You are Welcome.

and you can thank me in person for this one....:)

Day 2 of 365..

My day 2 consisted of painting my nails... I love painting my nails. My cousin Cassie invited me over solely so that we could paint our nails together. It was a totally fun excuse to hang out. We were just girls. Not women or wives/ girlfriends. We were girls for 2 whole hours. :) We just chatted our hearts out and talked about life and our men and our nails. It was a blast! Thank you Cassie for thinking to invite me over! I Loved it!!

SEEEEEEEEE!!!!! I know you're jealous!

Also part of our nail painting session, we discussed and contemplated toe surgery for my ugly toes on my right foot only. haha. Something you should know (if you already don't) is that I have two different feet. My left foot is actually nice looking (if you can say that about feet) and then there is my right foot. I am not sure what happened in the process of my feet forming. They just don't look like my each other at all. Let's face it, I am one of those weird people with two different feet. Just accept me. and Love me. and Kiss me. and Hug me. I apologize before hand if they offend you, cause they offend me too.

Also it consisted of some serious planning for the month of April. I have 2 weddings during that month and I also have a retreat during that month too. The traveling and time off of work is a bit stressful, especially since it will all cost money. BUT! I am grateful that I have family getting married and I am looking forward to going and being a part of all the fun, but it really will be stressful. Heather will vouch for me. She's been stressin all day!

I am also soo excited because my cousin Nicole started the 365 photo challenge with me! Feel free to check her site out and comment there! I am excited to have each other to do this together! Everyone who is reading this right now... GO and START your own dang blog because I want to see you and your life already! geez! k? haha

Anyway.. I have had a fantastic day. I really love it up here in rexburg!! and I la la la LOVE my Boyfriend!!! :)

DAY 1 of the 365 challenge...

A dear friend of mine sent me an email today that asked me to be a part of the 365 day challenge. This challenge requires that you take a picture a day and post it on your blog. The picture represents something about your day; maybe what it was like, how it went, how you felt, what you saw... etc. I decided to take the challenge and so here is my day 1 of the 365 photo challenge.

PHOTO 1 Day 1....

I recently just got a job where I feel like I am constantly performing inorder to show that I have what it takes to do what is asked of me. After a long day of this at work, I stopped by at Sammy's Cafe to see local people perform in their venue. And as I did, I felt like this would show how I was feeling at work today... Like I was putting on a show... I'm ready to watch some Grey's.