Trina Stories

I'm SO glad I can finally write Trina stories now that I'm home from BYU. There have been so many...it's incredible.

Last night, as we ate cake: Trina- "I have saved over one thousand dollars. I'm planning on becoming a millionaire." I believe her total savings comes to about 98.75. :)

On the way to church, Trina drawing intently in the backseat of the car. Dad- "What are you drawing, Tree?" Trina- "A zombie." Startled, I look over and indeed see a spindly black figure with staring red eyes and blood dripping from it's mouth. I immediately began cracking up. Dad- "Oh no, Trina! Don't draw a zombie, draw a princess or something." Trina-(rolling her eyes) "Daaaaaaad.!!"

Last night Trina came into my room to show me her "special things box." Sarah said she had one, too, and showed me. Trina looked put out and left, but came back a minute later with a little box that she told me only I could see. I looked. Trina- "It's a Melinda feather!" I laughed outright. What a topper.

On the way home I played with Trina's hair. I make an effort to compliment her because she's the youngest, so I told her she had beautiful golden hair. Her brow furrowed. "It's not GOLDEN." she told me plainly. "Golden brown, then." I offered. She pondered, then decided it was "brown sapphire brown."

You Know You're in College When...

You realize you poured way too much milk on your cereal but don't want to throw the excess milk away so you dunk a couple oreos in it. Aah frugality.

FHE Fun

I was the Ma of our FHE group at college this year, and our tiny budget gave rise to some very...well, creative activities! I thought I would post them in case anyone gets tired of fruit basket. Or cleaning the garage.

-Jello Sculpting Contest
-Cake in a cup-microwaveable yumminess!
-Shaving cream wiffleball-fill the ball with cream and it splatters all over everyone when you hit it
-Shaving cream fights that ensue
-Indoor camping- complete with marshmallow roasting over a gas stove and a crackling fire laptop screensaver for EFFECT!
-Scripture pictionary cookie baking
-Breaking into an apartment and cleaning it as an act of service
-The thimble game...classic
-The drawing game
-Photo scavenger hunt

And more!

Make-up Woes

I don't like makeup. Really, I detest it. Firstly, because it is SO expensive- a decent mascara from a pharmacy costs anything from six to twelve dollars. A nice foundation is usually eight dollars. Secondly, I don't like how much of it people apply! I look around and see girls with plastic-looking orange faces, full red lips and heavily powdered eyes. My makeup routine takes me about five minutes and consists of a bit of concealer (for the trouble spots!), some mascara and a bit of eyeshadow. So imagine my chagrin at learning I have to go out and buy MORE makeup for Women's Chorus because our final concert is being filmed for TV.

I mean, it's awesome that our concert is being broadcast on PBS and I am really excited to see the final project, but I'm pretty sad that I need to get special makeup. It makes sense, we need to have particular face powders so we don't get washed out under the camera lights, but still! I wish I could make do with what I have already. Maybe I'll try to get away with that...haha. :) We took a whole hour in women's chorus to have a TV make-up artist come in and show us appropriate TV makeup procedures. It was interesting. Some of the members of the Men's Chorus (who meet right after us) came in early and laughed heartily at the sight of 180 girls intently taking notes on the exact location of the browbone. I hope that they will have to dab on some face powder too!!!

I Met Elder Calhoun!!!

Kirby Heyborne came to Wyview and did a ward FHE. It was pretty cool to see him so close after watching movies like the "RM" and "Singles Ward." While he was giving his testimony on Joseph Smith, I could not stop thinking of "And I know that Joseph Smith was a pamphlet." I definitely had to stifle a laugh or two. When we talked with him afterwards, I was tempted to say "Hogar oog van hook van daan. Guda my oog." (My favorite dutch line from "The Best Two Years.") He sang us some of his songs, and they were really very good. He seems like a funny and nice guy.

I've been thinking about all the controversy over Kirby's beer commercial scandal thing. Sure I was disappointed that he chose to represent that product, but I feel like the hype about it is a little much...I think people should move on and let him do so as well.

Below is a fun pic of some friends and I with dear Elder Calhoun.

Guda my oog.