I want it!!

Alright. This weekend at our Regional Conference/ CES Fireside I was 

fortunate enough to hear from:

President Boyd K. Packer

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

Elder Richard G. Scott

Sister Julie B. Beck

Elder Steven E. Snow

and Elder Glen L. Rudd

Oh! And on Tuesday I'll hear from:

Elder Robert D. Hales

Brad & I were able to sit on the third row for Regional Conference. Normally I really don't care where I sit for things like this, just so long as I'm there- but sitting that close to such amazing and powerful people was a really great experience. I loved watching them off the camera. I absolutely love how the prophets and apostles treat their wives. You can just see how dear they are to them. I know the apostles and prophets are inspired by God to bring us certain messages but Sister Beck's talk wasn't a talk at all- it was her straight up telling us what Heavenly Father wanted us to hear. Soo cool. Elder Scott's talk was my favorite though. First of all I was with a really fun date. But the icing on the cake or whatever was when he just walked over to a little set up on the left side of the microphone where his grandson and new wife sat on sofas with a nice little coffee table and plants. It was the best. I think you'd have to see it to understand how strange and funny it was. Here's the link if you care. He mostly talked about his wife who died twelve years ago. He told us of their family life and every story he told about his wife and children made me tear up. I can't wait to have kids to love. He mentioned that him and his wife would leave little notes all around the house for each other to find. He still has one in the kitchen that says something like "Its time to say I love you". Yep. Wonderful. Basically, even though I felt pretty down on Sunday- My day/weekend was too amazing to not be uplifted. Our church is true. It just IS!

My first antique!

my project for the day:

...let the sky be grey.

Its a liiittle bit hard for me to get out of bed in the morning when 1. It has been raining for two days straight 2. Its my day off and 3. Small lakes are forming in my garden that I planted earlier this week. And since I finished my first book on my summer reading list (Jane Eyre), I figure I can get away with a good session of browsing the internet! Right? This is what I found:

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Film Camera- Trial Roll

I took these with my grandpa's old Canon film camera but I don't know how to use the settings yet!

Yesterday at work I got to work the store by my self for six hours and things got a liiiitle bit boring stocking shelves and such, so I tried to make my day better by putting some music on that I actually enjoy. Instead of the up-tempo country/Taylor Swift/We Shot the Moon playlist that gets played over and over again, I turned on Chicago! I love this band I think, mainly because my dad would play the greatest hits cd in our old house in california along with Natalie Cole on occasion and would teach us kids how to dance. So as my Chicago playlist is playing and I'm stocking, Saturday in the Park (my ultimate favorite) came on and as soon as it did, I could hear this man humming and whistling along as he waited for his wife while she was trying some stuff on. He slowly made his way over to me and commented on my choice of music. I love talking to older people (not the grumpy ones) that come into the store. They're usually so witty, clever and polite! So the point of this story is that this man and I started talking about how unique the classics are like Chicago and Pink Floyd. All in all we agreed that the majority of popular music today lacks talent and class. (Side note- he was originally from London so it made the conversation that much better). As soon as he left I went through my ipod to kind of analyze the kind of music I've been listening to lately and found that some of my favorite artists really are talented and unique. My number one- She & Him. Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward got together a couple of years ago and made an almost anonymous album simply titled Volume One, then later a Volume Two. They wanted their music to speak for itself. I love it! Zooey writes the songs and M. Ward produces and arranges them. To me, their music is the epitome of springtime.

She & Him - In The Sun 

While I was unpacking my room last week I ran into a problem. Where should I hang my jewelry?! Back in my Utah apartment I did this:

However, now that I've moved back home to my lovely room that was dry-walled only about 2 years ago--I can't nail a ton of holes in my wall.

Solution:

I hardly EVER wear jewelry (earrings=never), so this is more just for looks and a way to get my jewelry out of a box. Idea inspired by this.

Alright ya'll. I made the pizza crust! When all was said and done, I really liked it. During the process, however, I was a bit skeptical. It seemed too easy- just a tablespoon of yeast and a tablespoon of sugar? The weird combination of ingredients also threw me off, but the end product was sooo soft and yummy. The sea salt definitely did its thing! I over cooked mine a tad but still good! Lou Lou- give it a shot, its extremely easy.

Sunshine!

 

Last week my best friend and I road tripped it down to Thousand Oaks! I haven't been back there for about 2 years and it felt AMAZING to have my car down there. I moved when I was fifteen so I never got the chance to drive around. It was the best feeling to know exactly where everything was even though I had never driven there before!

Of course, the first day we got there it was raining, so we just went to my favorite beach El Matador to cuddle up in some blankets and listen to the ocean (below) but the next day the skies were clear so we headed to Zuma all morning and soaked up as much sun as we could!

Unfortunately, we over-did the sun-soaking and got ridiculously burned. And now I am peeling like crazy...Ooops?

Driving in the canyons with only our swimsuits on and the windows down, listening to Vampire Weekend and the 500 Days of Summer soundtrack made the trip for me.

And these are some of the things I LOVE about California:

protraro, nordic nursery, the 101freeway, green everything, flowers, palmgrove avenue, squirrels, lynn road, the oaks, Greenmeadow park, el matador, Zuma, NPHS, lizards, seagulls, home, orange trees, in n out, the sun, cleanness, Longs, Baja Fresh, strawberries, good drivers (ha)!