Dear Santa

Things I want for Christmas....
I would love this Kate Spade "Upstate Fillipa" Cross-Body bag in Eggplant.

Lush is Lush is Lush is the best!

Essie nail polish, especially J.Crew's colors for this season.


Will I get Flowerbomb in my stocking this year???

Leopard print Sammie flats from Banana Republic. Love them.

What do YOU want for Christmas???

P.S. Thank you Heidi for the inspiration!

Sundance

It is time once again for us Utah locals to register for tickets to the Sundance Film Festival. Do it here.

I know this is unrelated, but I also need to mention that Stephen took the GRE yesterday and got a great score! I am proud of him. He will be applying to 7 grad schools over the next month and a half. Good luck Stev-O.

My Guilty Pleasures

Ever since I graduated from the U I have had a lot more time on my hands. It has been fun to pursue things that I previously had no time for. I have picked up some good and useful habits and hobbies and some that are a little more embarrassing. Here's a list.

1. I have re-arranged my apartment several times since graduating. I have only shifted the furniture once but I have moved around picture frames and accessories dozens of times.
2. The Real Housewives-- I have become a fan of the show The Real Housewives-- I will watch any season from any location. I know it is kind of a ridiculous show, but that is why i like it.
3. Target-- I get gift cards to target when I meet my sales goals. This has led to quite frequent trips to Target which has become my second favorite store behind Costco. I have created a need for many and more things I never thought i needed before.
4. Sister Wives--I have come to love the show Sister Wives, I have watched every episode. I don't know why I like it so much... I think it is just interesting to see the daily life of a polygamist family.
5. The LSAT-- I keep changing my mind about whether or not I want to go to graduate school, so over the course of the summer I have resumed study of the LSAT and quit several times... I still have not yet made up my mind...
6. FOOD--We planted a garden in the spring which means we have had an abundance of veggies all summer--mostly tomatoes (or are they fruits????) This means I have cooked quite a bit. I love to cook and since I worked at Pottery Barn I made good use of my employee discount and stocked up on almost every cooking utensil known to man at Williams Sonoma.
7. The New Yorker-- Stephen got me a subscription to the New Yorker for Christmas last year. While I was in school I didn't have much time to read it, I mostly just read the New York Times, but since graduation I have been able to spend the time reading the serious as well as the more light-hearted articles in the New Yorker.

I managed to compile a list of things i have been doing since graduation, but I have an even longer list of things I wish I would have done with my extra time... But I guess I can save those until January and just make them New Years resolutions!

end of summer fun

the past two and a half months have been really draining on me. since i started working at wells fargo full-time while keeping my part-time job at pottery barn kids i have had no time for rest and relaxation. i was pretty sad thinking that summer was almost over and i will be working full-time the rest of my life. so we decided it was time to take a mini-vacation.

stephen's grandparents have a cabin in bear lake that he hasn't been to since before his mission. (about seven years.) i'll be honest, i was kind of scared to go after hearing stories of an indoor hot-tub, dead animals found around the house, and strange scents. but for me, any vacation is a good vacation. and all the hype about the cabin turned out to be over-exaggerated.

we spent most of our trip outdoors. we went on a couple of hikes, went swimming, and laid out on the beach. at night time we sat on the deck and saw millions of stars, way more than i have seen anywhere else. although we weren't too far from home, it was just the break i needed.

here are some pictures.
here is the view of the lake from the deck of the cabin.


here we are on the deck. i am trying to get stephen to throw away this Schmit house shirt, i hate it!
beautiful bloomington lake. the water was so clear, so fresh.

stephen walking past some wild flowers. they were soooo beautiful and colorful.
"take a picture of me with the wild flowers!"

Mullet and Handle Bars?

Stephen surprised me with this facial hair and this haircut a few weeks ago. It lasted a day, thank goodness.

Stephen is in LA and I am...

...working on my Senior thesis