You make me touch your hands for stupid reasons!

so last night while i was in preston, Idaho stargazing betsy and melissa mentioned these funny youtube videos.

this first one is a dramatic reading of a breakup letter. sorry, there a few swear bear words and normally i wouldn't post it but it's hilarious! I hope if i ever write a breakup letter that i will at least be able to spell. No, actually i hope that if i ever write a breakup letter they will be as good as the one Ash wrote. Anyways, go watch it. i love the line where she says, "you make me touch your hands for stupid reasons!" hhah.

the other one they mentioned has been all over facebook but i've never made the time to watch it. but i did last night and nearly peed my pants. haha. This video cracks me up. she sounds like a robot, her friends in the back of the car with braces can't dance, she's super awkward on stage, and they tell us what days come before and after friday. It's like a sesame street song. haha. it takes some pretty good "talent" to get that many dislikes on youtube. haha. poor girl, she'll probably have bad self esteem. It's said that she's going to be the new Justin Bieber. I am going to call it right now that they will end up together in a little month-long relationship! haha.

Last night while we were having our little bon fire melissa and betsy get the brilliant idea to jump into the lake..... so me being the good friend i am.... just took pictures. :P

{this is them before.}

So they took their shirts off (just went in their camis) so i edited the pictures so they were modest. you're welcome you two.

{getting into the water}

{in the water}

{getting out of the water and running to the fire}

{high fives for being so dumb :P}

the guys at the campfire next to ours came over and asked us if we wanted more beer.... Greg said, "we don't drink." to which they replied with a stuned, "you mean those two weren't drunk?" haha. umm.... who says you can't do stupid things when you're sober??

and then i wished i would have gone too. but i didn't. :D

Anywho, it was funny to see the steam coming off of them when they were standing next to fire after that. hahaha!

here are the girls that came. :D

Melissa, Me, Ashley, Betsy, and Tara

and then the drunk guys thought it would be funny to jump in too.

{only they were going to jump in from a tree....}

And now go here to watch general conference. :D

can we say RANDOM?!

long time no blog......

Ashleigh is married!!!!

is we not a cute two?

in other news- my boogers are no longer purple. repeat- NO LONGER purple. :D

from the festival of colors ya psycho paths! i wouldn't normally post about purple boogers.... okay i probably would..... :P

and now you know why i would mention this. right? next year we are buying the real indian chalk because it is much brighter. :D When you are in the middle of the crowd during a power throw you can a- hardly breathe. b-can't see even 2 feet in front of your face. c- get claustrophobic. d- have the time of your little life! :D

it's fine i just felt like i was running down the streets of new york after 9/11 happened. that's kinda the best analogy i can come up with. except... that probably wouldn't be fun.

nest item of ward business- my BFA (bachelor of fine art) photography review is TUESDAY!!!! nope, not the end of April like my professor originally told me. so i come to class on monday (late because i felt like letting my body rest an extra 45 minutes) {i looked like a man. don't worry about it} and there are big signs all over the art building telling me that it is tuesday!!!! as if i don't have enough to worry about right now.

So i ordered my digital prints from all the shoots i've done this semester. And now i am in the process of moving my bed into the wet dark room. Because i'm living there. (in fact right now i am waiting for my prints to be done getting their archival bubble bath. :D)

But because i have to get so much of my portfolio done for the review i will have much less to do for the final portfolio due the first monday of May. :D

i took my second midterm for early photo history today. and good news- i'm pretty sure i got at least a b+. but i'm not gonna say that because then i'll fail. So i'm gonna use reverse psychology and say i failed. (and i should end up with an A) RIGHT?!

bahahahhahaha!!!! so the maintenance guy (he's hispanic) is singing really loudly to his mariachi music while sweeping the photo lab floor. I love life.

Next item stake (because it doesn't involve me) business- my dear friend Laurenita Leigh is applying to the interior design program and her application and stuffs are due on friday. and pretty dang certain that she will get in. Even though it is ridiculously hard. Like probably harder than getting into the photo program. GO LAURENITA!!!!

okay i'm bored of this. Actually my prints are just done so bye bye. :D

just for your enjoyment. cause i love you. all two of you that read this. :P

All this about weddings...

So it seems like everyone is getting married right now. With ashleigh getting married and all her plans with the reception and everything has made think about what i want at my wedding!

I decided that i don't want a really formal wedding. That's not my personality. i want a fun wedding!

so here's what i am thinking for the way far future-

Colors- purple green and yellow OR Orange, green and yellow. :D

You know how i like pictures? (DUH) well there will be a photo booth at my wedding. and each group of guests that come will take their pictures in the photo booth and get to keep one strip and then one strip will go in my guest book and they will sign next to their photo strip. :D That's me, right? i can't think of a single thing that is more "me" that i could do at my wedding than that!

My husband will be wearing a brown suit. or gray. or tan. NOT black.

love that paisley tie! and the boutonnière

I don't want a ton of flowers at the reception. Instead for center pieces and such i think it would be super cute to have a bunch of larger mason canning jars filled with salt water taffy in my colors or other kinds of candy in my colors (instead of the glass marble pebble thingys) and put large lollipops in them instead of flowers. :D cool right?! I can't find a picture of exactly like that but here's kind of an idea.

I'm not sure what kind of flowers i want.

i really like sunflowers though.

I really like those yellow round ones too. (does anybody know what they are called?)

i don't think i want a traditional wedding cake. (not for sure though) maybe something fun like this.

i actually think this is SUPER cute.

(what do you think??)

as for food- We're having a nacho bar, and cotton candy (in my colors) and popcorn and Spokandy mints. (they are heaven in a little square.)

as for what everyone will wear. the girls in the fam will probably have knee length jean skirts with a cute top in one of my colors. i don't want it really matchy matchy. the guys will have tan pants and maybe a polo or white short sleeve shirt and suspenders. ooh!! and maybe cowboy/girl boots! ;D

although those dresses are CUTE!

hopefully by then i will have some nieces and nephews. :D (hint hint- ash and nathan!) :P

other random stuff i think are kinda cool

So that's pretty much what i have planned thus far. lol

AND this is the photographer that i would die and go to heaven to get!!!! You don't even realize how much i love her work. I'm saving my money now (not for the reception) but for this photographer. Isn't she like the Ansel Adams of wedding photography??! can i just obsess over her a little longer? Rebekah Westover, i aspire to take as pretty of pictures as you one day. :D

(the all time most important part of the even) this is where i will get married- salt lake temple, logan temple, timpanogas temple, or the brigham city temple.

so that's my wedding. (not for a long while though) :D

loving life because

• i can now say that i have traveled in a car at more than 100 MPH. in fact is was more than 125 MPH. And i thought i was going to die. Funny thing is, Greg, (Melissa's friend who's now all of our friend) passed a police officer right when we got back down to the normal speed limit. He thinks it's hilarious to scare us. I can only handle driving with him once a month i've decided. my poor heart.

• We went the entire year (again) at the spectrum with ZERO loses. :D that's right. It's good to be an Aggie. 4 years WAC champions.

• But even better was that i got to meet (and he touched me :D) Matthew Formisano. It was MORE than a big deal. I've been drooling over him all season. and good news number two! i got a picture with him. It's fine, he's like 18 inches taller than me. i told my mom this and this was her reply, "well at least you could check for lint in his belly button." thanks mom, way to be positive there. :D if only he knew how much i loved him. :'(

• I finally got all my mat board for the semester. It's only like 3 dollars every picture. There's something about the photo department thinking i am rich or something. News flash, because of you i'm not even close to it!
• I got ash's wedding announcement in the mail today.

• i finished another wedding announcement file today. I can whip those bad boys out like it's nobodies business!
• Anna get's married this week and i get to do some temple pictures for her!
• I get to go home on saturday!!
• and get to hang out with Taylor again! woot! Probably one of the funnest guys i know. :D
• In exactly 1 week i will be in California. and going to the beach, and to the Price is Right, and to Hollywood, and to the Getty Museum of Art. and staying in Beverly Hills. :D it will be a party in California.
• Taco tuesday is. TONIGHT! wooohooo! i just love taco tuesday! :D
• I'm taking ash's bridals at this place. isn't it awesome!!!?! (jealous much) i would be if i were you.

• My painting class was canceled all but an hour on thursday.

and drawing 2 was completely canceled! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D Cannot even explain to you how exciting this is to me.

My name is Brianna and I'm just kinda feelin good about life right now. :D

Ashleigh's Engaged!

Fun Facts about Ashleigh-

• she's my big sister by 14 months
• i once carved her initials into her little wooden jewelry box cause i was mad at her..... i didn't do my own initials cause then she would know it was me that did it... she still knew though. i was 5...
• we would play bride and she would always get to be the bride. ALWAYS. i was either the groom or the preacher guy. She was super bossy to say the least.
• we had a "club house" (just a little patch of nothingness by our house) and it had a wild strawberry bush in it that grew 2 strawberries the entire time we lived there. She ate both of them. I didn't get any. haha
• to get into our "club house" we had a serious of branches on the dead tress we had to touch/pull/twist and a piece of flappy bark we would remove and "punch in" our code. She always changed the password so it took me forever to get in.
• we once had a "circus" performance on our swing set and charged a 5 cent admission fee. we made 5 cents. and the people didn't even show up. They just took pity on us.
• we had a lemonade stand and didn't sell a thing. it was a bad day.
• we started a newspaper for our street... and had a questionnaire in it. and we went to pick them up and one guy put on his interests "watching the grass grow." haha. i don't know why i remembered this...

• Ashleigh had the longest awkward stage known to mankind. not even kidding. i'm sure Nathan is glad you grew out of it.... sorta...
• when i was a baby i would always steal her bopoos (our name for pacifiers) and she would cry and tell mom on me.
• when we were toddlers she would organize her shoes and i would go mess them up just to make her angry. bahaha.
• she painted my nails and i painted her nails once when we were toddlers and to say the least we looked like we got in a knife fight when we were done.
• when i was around 3 i dropped a towel in the toilet and she tattled on me when i clearly had everything under control.
• when she lost her first tooth i cried cause i wanted the tooth fairy to come visit me. but then she dropped her money down the toilet. hehe
• I cried when she left to kindergarten because i was bored at home.
• we watched Arthur together on a daily basis in grade school
• I tagged along with her and her friends in jr high and she hated it.
• We stand up for each other.
• she doesn't let anyone take advantage of me. especially boys. especially that one. And she ripped him to shreds.

• She can't cook. (but she's getting better)
• Even though we have both gone our separate ways we still talk/text everyday.
• she's my muse for photography. she pretends to hate it, but she secretly loves it.
• she's knows everything about me.
• I hated her first 2 boyfriends. And these were the only two times that we ever fought for more than a few minutes without moving on. No boy would ever date my sister without my approval.
• i was the first one she told she had a crush on Nathan.
• I was the first one she told she was going to marry him.
• She showed me her ring in the store before anyone else.
• I knew the date Nathan was going to propose to her.
• i was the first one that she told she was engaged to him too.

Ash and I are best friends. I love her to death. Even though nathan takes most of her time up

now i know we'll be sisters forever.

don't forget about me when you are in wedded bliss.

Congrats to both of you!

To Nathan- I'm SO excited to get the big brother that i've never had but always wanted. Sorry i was a jerk to you in the beginning. you make my sister the happiest i've ever seen her and know that you will continue to do so for the rest of eternity. :D

LOVE,

Brianna

p.s. click here to see Ash's blog and story

and you can see more pictures i took here

and so it goes from 10 to 11

Happy 2011 ya'll!

gooooooood heavens it's been a while. like last year since i posted! woooah!

Is it possible that a ton has happened since the dumb dr pepper can exploded but nothing at all at the same time?

good news! i curled my brother's eyelashes today! haha.

here is a list of not so exciting things i've done this break.... in no particular order of non excitement-

1- i left my journal in logan. :( so i had to write about my life in a separate notebook and then my friend laurenita brought it up when she came. so then i stapled all of my life into my journal. i was gonna glue it.... but then it was taking too long. so don't worry, i still haven't missed a day in 3.5 years. :D

2- my blind date texted me and said sorry for being boring. ummm... boring was not my problem with him. oh did i mention he swore in the text he sent me? so i told him i don't like cuss words. he never responded back. well see ya!

3-ash got us lost. TWICE! she took the wrong freeway and we were headed probably to italy or something. But i'm un-lost now.

4- the award that is above ashleigh's bed. hahahaha. umm... not gonna say what's it's for.

5-when i accidentally said the word that i really didn't want to say.

6-finding out that my roommates aren't the only roommates who try to educate me on things of the world.

7-ash can dance! she's got hips!

8-i read matched. by aly condie. :D

9-Q and Em's band concert..... the most annoying lady was sitting behind me and she kept yelling things like Halverson (the band teacher) for president and halverson's hot. i wanted to strangle her. or something.

10 bridger (Q's friend) saying "i broke my butt over summer.......aren't you gonna ask me how i broke it?"

10- i met david archuleta. okay i really didn't. but i saw him in person. and he is a b a b e. i'm going to see him at the temple one day....

11-finding out my GPA. yeah. 3.85. jealous? Ash is.

12- the USU vs UVU BBgame. we WON! booya!

13- car following. 2 "attractive guys" that turned out to be 1 ugly guy and 1 girl with short hair. I don't succeed at looking. haha

14-learning that my friends and i are the only ones that didn't have a date the car following night.

15- ash being a baby hog at church. here's ash holding a happy baby. happy baby. oh crying baby here bri, you can have him. gee thanks ash. don't worry i rocked said baby to sleep.

16- harmons. i like my new managers a lot better than the old ones.

17- Taylor at work not being able to subtract. hahah. p.s. you better come visit me in logan!

18-the letter we got in the mail that was addressed to "the parents of dean" my dad. hahah. it was like jr high grades coming in the mail all over again.

19-taking our family pics in our living room. Ash and Q acting like their legs hurt from it. as if! haha it was really funny.

20-the picture frame i got for nathan and ash for christmas. kandi jumped on it and it shattered. thanks dog.

21-I met caitlin! she's a doll. and my favorite 7 year old girl.

22-this drunk guy that came into work in a long black coat made of fur. he had pink pj bottoms on underneath it and then said he had a fish in his pocket. he told me his wife was pregnant and she sent him to the store for pop corn kernels. keep in mind he was in his late 50's. weird.

23- the riverwoods with laurenita and papaanne.

24 sitting in santa's chair and eating candy out of his bag

25- getting a ride in a golf cart limo. just for fun

26- dressing up at the toy store

27- riding weird bike things in the toy store.

28-playing yatze with grandma and Q and Em. haha. grandma having the biggest freak out session of life when she got a yatze! haha.

29- Q pretending to be paula dean. "what would paula dean do?" "paula dean is with us tonight!"

30- our annual christmas eve carols. Q's singing. hahah.

31-Q's wrapping of my presents. they take like 5 minutes to open.

32- the quilt that betsy made me. :D it is ALL COWBOY STUFF! :D

33- hangin out with my old pal charlie. We went to his sister, heather's apartment and played harry potter clue and ticket to ride. it was fun. they have good candy too. :D

34-the cool fog photo shoot. :D

35- the countdown till my birthday.

36-taking nathan and caitlin's pictures.

37-making my photography website- wix.com/blueyedbrunnette/brianna-nichole-photography

38- mom making the BEST pancakes i've ever eaten. they were wheat, white chocolate, blueberry, pumpkin. yum! they sound gross but you have no idea!

39- seeing life as we know it. "they said the same thing about taylor swift and that twilight kid too."

40-getting my film camera. Nikon F100

41- mario kart at papa annes' house. i think i got last place in every race except one. video games are not my best point.

42- o my gosh! the night i worked and then entire night the same 20 minutes of music played over and over and over and over and OVER AND OVER again! i've never been so sick of billy joels' uptown girl before. apparently the satellite was covered in snow so the radio signal was blocked. taylor said he didn't think it was playing over and over again. you were wrong. i was right. :P

43- taylor broke the toy car i was playing with too. But he did give me chucky cheese coin back. haha.

44-decoratin Nathan's house with ash. for his bday.

45- falling off his couch and breaking his fern. betsy said, "aww cute! they have a love fern!" yeah, and i broke it. I'm sorry !! it was ashleigh's fault. she's a bad throw.

46- emilie breaking his chair while decorating. hahahahaha.

47-ash texting him and saying that her ding-bat sister broke his legs and another limb. haha

48-SLEEPOVER WITH MY BESTIES!

49- that stupid austin kid that ruined our hot tub plans.

50-"Brianna! this is the first time that you have liked an actual hot guy! I'm so proud of you!"-Betsy. haha. glad you approve.

51-iceberg fries.

51.5 hot tubbing!

52- Betsy falling on the ice pushing melissa's car out of the snow.

53-i WON a game of MARIO KART! yeah, the same girl that lost every game the week before. i almost cried.

54- a special new years eve. Bucket list item checked off! dippin dots. hahahahah. FINALLY! after like 3 years of planning!

55-fitting into jeans 3 sizes smaller than what i fit into at graduation. :D yeah that's right. still have about 3 to go till me goal though.

56-the bird that flew down our chimney and caught on fire.

57- our house smelling SO bad because of the dumb bird on fire.

58-being not a wimp and getting a guys number that i had been wanting to get since summer.

59-MARCOS coming to visit! i love this cousin! he's awesome. "this picture give's me butterflies." "then ask her out!" " i can't. i'm too old for her." "do it!" "i'll ask this guy out if you ask her out." "no! you can't ask him out! he has to ask you out! If he doesn't then he's not worth it." "okay i won't ask this kid out if you do ask her out." good advice marcos. thanks!

60- Melissa my roommate turned 21!

61-THE BACHELOR! it started again! woot woot woot woot!

62-i visited miss tuttle. I just love this teacher! she's amazing!

63-went and saw a dumb movie with betsy.

that's all for now.

gee whiz that took forever to do!

loves and hugs and more loves.

i can't wait to go back to logan!