my girl charlene

HAPPY 22nd BIRTHDAY TO MY BEST BUD CHARLENE!

she and i met when we were 14. our moms' made us hang out even though we thought the other was weird. but we clicked instantly. she's my 1/2 filipina sista from anotha mista.

she's my best friend (besides brett of course)
we've shared so many memories and adventures that i wish i wrote a book about 'em.
she helped me to be more confident in myself, be more outgoing and not take things too serious.

she was with me when we first went to college and helped me to not be scared. cuz i get scared easily...we went latin dancing ALL the time! HOTATATATA
charlene's my WARPED TOUR pal! we went to DC and SLC.
those were some of the most freakin fun times in my life.

we've grown up so much since we've met but we're still little girls at heart.

she can tell you some REALLY EMBARRASSING stories of me!

i think she's the most BEAUTIFUL GIRL.

she's going to make such a great missionary. i'm so proud of her going on a mission.

luv you tonz charlene!

happy birthday again and may you have MANY MORE!!

i hope we still get to make lots more memories in the future!

love, alyssa

bad freakin day

wow, what a horrible day.

so in my photog class we critique each other's pics as a class. and for this assignment we were supposed to take pics of something from our "bucket list" (which for those who don't know what that is, it's a list of stuff you wanna do before you die) and mine is to go down in a sub and see the titanic. weird i know, but i've been obsessed with the titanic since i was younger. so yeah the only way i thought i could capture that was getting a mini titanic and putting it in a vase full of water and rocks.

but my class butchered my photo. they said it was confusing and that i didn't follow any rules blah blah blah, how the heck am i supposed to portray something that was pretty difficult to even convey? i mean, yeah i could be cliche like half the class and take pics of random little kids to show that i want kids someday or whatever. at first i brushed it off but after thinking about it the whole day i felt so defeated and that i'm not creative at all.

WHATEVER

HATERZZZ

another thing thats been making me miserable is my lack of sleep due to ALLERGIES!!! i'm pretty much allergic to pollen, hay, dust, and cats (brett's allergic to cats too so we're def not having any dumb cats in our house) i feel like my face is swollen, my nose is always red from blowing in tissues and i sound like i have a cold b/c of my stuffy nose. don't get me wrong, i LOVE the hot summer better than the crappy freezing winter but my allergies come back and slaughter my head. so work sucked, i had to be on the register for 6 hrs while rubbing my nose and sniffling. ughhhhh i felt so gross. i didn't want customers thinking i sneeze in their jambas or something. but working with rach helped me to not be completely miserable at work...

reaching into the past

brett and i got to go to the Temple today and brought some of our ancestors' names with us to do baptisms. i brought some of my filipino family's names. it's so much personal when you are doing ordinances for your own family. of course doing other people's names are just as great a blessing, but when its your own family, it just feels even more amazing. i felt the spirit strongly in the Temple, knowing i'm helping out my filipino ancestors. i want to be with my family forever, ALL OF THEM. i LOVE going to the temple with my husband. we're so blessed to have the rexburg temple just 5 mins away and try to take advantage of being so close.

so for my photog class our first assignment was to take pics of something we love. and for this assignment we haven't learned really anything about how to take better pics, so not bad for not knowing jack squat about taking pics huh? i decided to take pictures of my french horn. little known fact about me, i played the french horn for 8 years! seriously. and i still wasn't anywhere near being a pro. i stopped ever since i got married, (you can thank brett for that, jkjk) but when i took out my horn for photographing it was like seeing an old friend again. and surprisingly it still worked! i'm thinking of starting up again but i don't know, we'll see......

my mumzy

happy mother's day mommy!

thanks for being AMAZING.

i l♥ve you!