Don't we all need a fairy princess dress up game?

yes. yes we do.

Lucky for us, my brilliant brother Troy created an app for itouches and iphones called "My Fairy Princess". For $1.99 you get to pick out a princesses hair, crown, shoes, dress, wings, and ethnicity. The princesses can dance and pose.

"But you don't have to take MY word for it."

(I forgot Lavar's name for a second and ended up having to google "black guy off of reading rainbow"...is that bad?)

While talking about music we liked 12 years ago...

Me: "I loved the Spice Girls so much in 6th grade. I used to dress up as Sporty Spice, go into Troy's room, and lip sync to every song on their CD in front of the mirror."

Jordan: "You are such a NERD!....I did the same thing."


Can you believe in our 1 1/3 years of marriage, I am only NOW finding out my husby previously owned a Spice Girls CD??? AND knew all the words?? If he told me that when we were dating, it would have sealed the deal much more quickly.

"I really really REALLY wanna zigga-zig AH!"

Because I am proud.

HAPPY NATIONAL LEFT-HANDED DAY!

Happy Birthday, Richard

August 13th is one busy day of the year!

It is ALSO my father-in-law's birthday.

Richard is a great FIL. I can see that so many of Jordan's great qualities come from him. For example....

*Richard is very funny. He has a subtle sense of humor. He's had some awesome quips and one-liners.
* He is very generous. He's helped us out in many ways and is always willing to help others.
* He's very welcoming. Some people feel uncomfortable around their stern father-in-laws, but mine has been as sweet as cherry pie!
* He's a hard worker
*He's a great father. He's very supportive of his children.
* He always calls me sweety :)

Happy Birthday, Richard! Thanks for letting me use your last name.

Happy 34th Anniversary!

Mom and Dad,
Thank you for getting married 34 years ago. Thank you for choosing a celestial marriage so we can be together forever. Thank you for being such awesome parents. I'm so lucky to have parents who have stuck together and have raised such an incredible family.


Here's to another 34 years!!

Sister, Sister

Although I certainly do not have a favorite sibling, I DO have an all time favorite sister....


...and it's Molly!

And it's her birthday today, and like all my other family member's birthdays (except Nancee's) I am 1000's of miles away. So instead I shall give a post.


With Molly being my only sister and the closest sibling to me, Molly and I were pretty much forced to be best friends.

We have gone on several sister vacations (Washington DC, California (twice), Utah (many many times))


We roomed together in college


We even had a list of boys that we both went on at least one date with. It was never a goal of ours, it just worked out that way.


We were each other's maid/matron of honor


And we practiced our Helen Hunt impressions together.

Molly and I also have several movies that we have watched countess times together and have memorized. We have alot of songs that we've made up, "dances" that we have choreographed, and about 1,000,000 inside jokes. (Like, Molly- remember "No. No. No. No.", our child, "WAAAAYNE! What are you doing October 24th....")

Molly is great because she is very funny. She is very nice to others and talented. She served a challenging mission. She's a science smarty pants. And she and her husband Brad are going to grant me yet another niece for me to love like crazy!

But most importantly, I love Molly because she hates all the same actresses as I do.

(shudder)

Happy Birthday, Molly. Wish you were here! :(

Picture overload: Graduation Edition

Now that I FINALLY have my camera (*Jim Gaffigan voice* "Enough with the camera already") I have been reunited with pictures from my graduation and our church history trip. Woohoo! I am going to channel this giddiness into a severe picture overload. SO heeeeeere we go!

GRADUATION

My rockin' hood
What was with those SLEEVES??


My studly husband


My sweet mom


My Awkward Hands
My Penguin Skills
(too lazy to turn it up-right. Sorry.)

Eureka!

Remember how I repeatedly complained about how I lost my camera on our trip to Seattle from two months ago? Well, guess what I found last night!!!

C'mon, guess.

My camera! It was in JORDAN'S DUFFLEBAG....from the Seattle trip (yes, it had yet to be unpacked in two months....not that I blame him. Isn't unpacking the worst?) I decided last night that I had enough of the big ol' sports bag in the corner of our room and started rummaging through it. Next thing I know I pulled out my lovely camera! I was so excited I started dancing all over our apartment and forced Jordan to accompany me. I was also too excited to get frustrated at the fact that the camera was a mere few feet from our bed this whole time, waiting to be discovered. How sad.

So Jordan thinks I put it there, which of course I deny. I accused Jordan of putting it in his bag, which he claims to be untrue. Our only other conclusion is that one of our little photographers who were playing with it at Andy's house thought it would make sense to put the camera away in Uncle Jordan's bag. Whoever did it (*cough* JORDAN *cough*), it really doesn't matter. I'm just happy to have it back.

Say it with me. Soooooo.....

Dear Oklahomans
CC: The Universe

Overall, you have made me feel at home in your state. I appreciate your friendliness and your plethora of Dollar Trees. However, there is one issue that remains unresolved between us, and it is driving me craaaaazy...

Please learn how to pronounce my name correctly. I am starting to believe that this is a practical joke played on me. I've heard you all say phone and home correctly, so what is so difficult about Sone-ya? I can accept you thinking it's SAWN-ya when you first read it (although I don't know why), but I don't understand why you immediately call me Sawn-ya RIGHT AFTER I introduce myself as Sone-ya. Furthermore, I can't wrap my head around how even after I politely correct your pronunciation of my name you still insist its Sawn-ya, as if my pronunciation is was an optional suggestion. No, really.....why do you do that?

For example, at my MSW graduation, when I handed one of you my name card and whispered, "it's SONE-ya". Did you say it right? Nope, you simply announced in the microphone "SAWN-ya Jo ..." You said Jo correctly....why not my name? WHY?

Hollywood does not seem to help at all. In State of Play, most of the characters pronounced the murder's victim's name as SONE-ya, yet Rachel McAdam's called the poor girl SAWN-ya throughout the entire show. And no one in the movie corrected her once! It was as though she was saying the same name as everyone else. Not cool, McAdams. Not cool...(or should I say Maac-Odams. How do ya like THEM apples?)

So in conclusion, I beg you to take the microscopic amount of effort to move the shape of your mouth into an "o" and call me by my actual name, please. If this behavior persists, you leave me no choice but to begin referring to your state as "AWk-la-HAWM-a".

Sincerely,
SONE-YA!

p.s. Thank you to those who do say it correctly. Keep up the good work!

Poor boy...or girl?

Remember two posts ago where I wished that Jordan was a woman (for conversational purposed ONLY!....yeah...) Well, my wish almost came true today!

I was filling out paperwork for my job with an HR representative this morning when she came across my benefits packet.

HR lady: "Ok, so your dependent is Alma...is that your daughter?"

Me: "Uh, no. That's my husband."

HR lady: *confused* "OH!...ok"

Me: "Yeah...he goes by Jordan."

That reminds me of a doctors appointment I had several months ago. The receptionist took my insurance card (which read that I was a dependent of Alma Jordan at the time) and asked, "Is Alma your mother?"

Poor boy. In Mormon culture his namesake is a courageous hero. To everyone else, it's just a girl's name.