T-shirt project: Frozen Dead Guy Days

i love my t-shirts. i don't have a huge collection, though brett might say i have too many, but i really don't. i just have a few that mean a lot to me, maybe its my coheed shirt i bought at my last warped tour, or my cute rainbow bright shirt my friend gave to me in high school, or my AWESOME wolverine T-shirt i wear to every X-men movie. i die. so i found this T-shirt project blog through a friend of a friend and they showcase entries submitted by regular peeps like me who want to show some of their prized t's and the story behind them.

and i had to submit this baby i got in nederland CO.

whenever i wear it people are always asking me, "what the devil is that shirt about??"

here's the story i submitted to the blog...

"My husband (fiance then) and I went to visit my bro in law in CO and they live near nederland, a super small town that celebrates the "Frozen Dead Guy Days." Jist of the story is that in 1989 this Norwegian guy brought his dead grandpa to the US and got his body cryogenically frozen. During the grandson's and his mom's plan to build a cryonics facility the grandson overstayed his visa and got deported back to norway in 1993. His mom, however, kept her father's body frozen in a shack right behind her house keeping him frozen. She was faced with eviction and told a local reporter about her problem being that she doesn't want her father's body to thaw out. The city made an exception for her and built the frozen old man an even better shed for him to rest in. And since 2002 the town celebrates every March their interesting resident. I just had to get the T-shirt."

the website is also having a little bit of a giveaway and the winner gets a T from this sweet website! Threadless

check it out.

les trois tetons

my last major assignment for my photog class was our final project of course. it was to take a series of pics with a theme of some sort. my brain was farting for the last 2 weeks as to what i could do. i thought i had this one really cute idea but the more i thought about it the more i realized how dumb it was. brain fart. i asked brett to help me with some ideas and we talked it out...he came up with the idea of taking pictures of the teton mountains but from many different angles and places. to be honest i thought that was going to be a little boring but brett made me realize that it'll be actually cool cuz there really are many areas that show the tetons amazingly. brett comes up with such good ideas. i did marry him for his brain after all.

we picked a day and seriously woke up at 3.30am in order to make it to the other side of the tetons for the sunrise. how sick to be up at such an ungodly hour. thank freakin goodness i have brett, he actually loves driving really early! here are some of my fav pics of the tetons from our adventure.

during our drive over all creation we were STARVING. and it was about 7am. it was really crazy thinking that i'm usually not up by then. as much as i think mcdonalds is really disgusting i'm in LOVE with their breakfast. we stopped at mcd's in jackson and binged.

and they have the breakfast bagels!!!!!!!!! everything here in rexburg sucks so i guess everywhere else has the good stuff. i really want another one right now.

i was still surprisingly hungry after savoring the bagel and got my ultimate fav, egg mcmuffin...which i ended up regretting after. :S

what a fatty. sorry for my ugliness but for real, it was early.

i couldn't help but think of my darling daddy the whole day. he's in love with the tetons and when he last came out here he wanted to get as many pics as he could up close. but didn't get as much as he'd like. so in a way i dedicate this project to him.

love ya daddy!
and thanks a ton brett for well, everything, esp for being my husband.

holy cheese.

my girl rach and i decided to go on a girl date since our men were either really busy with work or with homework. we felt we were in the mood for a cheesy chick flick and saw "letters to juliet" at the cheap theater and we sure got lotsa cheese. after the movie was over rach and i left laughing. it was just terribly predictable and overall sappy. sure glad i only spent $3 to see it! i learned that the older actors who play claire and lorenzo are actually married in real life! how freakin adorable! they met while making the film, "camelot" which makes me wanna watch camelot instead of watching letters again. despite the cookie cutter layout of the chick flick i fell in love with the location being in sienna, italy. i got really in the mood to eat pasta and when i got home i made brett promise me he would take me to italy.....and he better....

haha thanks rach for the date, it was hilarious.

happy birfday america!!

what a busy 4th of july weekend we just had celebrating America's birthday!

well on thurs. july 1st it was my girl gwen's birthday and what a fab birthday it was!

and steve had a little bit of a birthday party surprise for her, whatta nice guy!

she's such a cute pregnant woman, they're gonna be having a baby girl in oct and she's gonna be a DARLING half tongan baby!

on friday the next day steve and gwen decided to have a little cookout and also invited our other friends sana and marco.

we roasted hot dogs and made smore's.

pretty much a perfect combo.

poor brett can't aim for his mouth though. haha i think he looks adorable.

i also tried roasting peach rings....but ended up tasting like a leftover burnt marshamallow peach ring.
that night was so fun! we came home really late smelling like smoke and the smell permeated throughout the apt. good thing scentsy killed it off!

the next day being sat. the 3rd the cities of rexburg and idaho falls celebrated America's independance day mainly b/c they're such highly populated LDS communities. and i had to work, it wasn't too bad but still...a few of my co-workers and i had to get up early in the morning and get to the store and start making jambas and oatmeal like crazy to sell to the people at the parade and such. and we even enlisted our husbands' help to go up and down main street yelling, "JAMBAS for $1.50!!!!!" yup thats how brett and i spent our time at the parade. and while we were selling the goods we got free hot dogs, free jimmy john sandwiches, little discounted items, and even some candy the floats were throwing. hey we need to enjoy ourselves too at the parade.

after all that we went home and took a freakin long nap.

that evening brett and i didn't have anywhere to go for the firework festivities. we don't really have family around to party with so steve and gwen invited us to go with them to gwen's cousin's house in IF and we were so grateful for that. yeah it wasn't our family but it felt so nice to be with people just hangin out, sharing laughs, and eating good food.

where gwen's cuz lives in IF we just had to walk just a little bit and got an almost perfect view of the fireworks. afterwards going home traffic was so horrible it took us about an hour when the drive from IF to rexburg usually takes 20mins-ish....

sunday the 4th (today) we were so exhausted from the weekend we literally didn't do anything. simple as that.
HAPPY 4th of JULY EVERYONE!!!

and HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!

I LOVE YOU!!!

a delightful sunday

such a BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY today!! the weather has been to die for and thats one of the only reasons why rexburg can be considered great...

today we made it just in time for church. lately we just can't make our 9.30 meeting to save our lives and we seriously live 1 min walking distance away from our chapel. i think we can be considered as "the closer you live to church the more late you'll be" kinda people.

we found out last week that we got released from our family history calling so we are finally done!!!! teaching that class has taught me so much stuff about geneology and gave me motivation to do my own family history work, but geezaloo, it got really tiring teaching the same thing over and over and over. we've been teaching for a little over a year and its nice to be done. we get to go to sunday school now! yay....

so after church brett watched a world cup game (he's obsessed) and i do my usual of just lounging around in my pjs. but we decided to get off our butts and go on a walk.

it felt so amazing taking a walk with my brett and the weather couldn't have gotten any better. it was really sunny and hot with a light breeze. when we got home we were ready for dinner. so we decided to just have a huge breakfast! we haven't had a real breakfast in ages due to school and work so it was a great time for a hearty morning meal in the evening.

so check out my latest photog assignment...we had to make a montage of anything we wanted. and i took pics of a hula outfit. i was very excited on how it turned out! i hope the teach likes it though....

father's day

this is my daddy and i think he's the handsomest and the smartest man (besides brett of course!)

and he's the best dad a girl could ever have

and i love him tons

thanks for being such a great dad and continue to be one!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!

just one of those days

at work yesterday we were selling jambas for a $1 and the WHOLE day felt like this...

it was the most atrocious day of work ever, i really don't think i've felt more stressed and freaked out at a smoothie store.

and the line was seriously ^that looooooooong^ ALL day. i was going nuts, i really wanted to break down and cry. and there were many times i almost did, but there was just no time. no time to sit down for 2 seconds. it was seriously H.E.L.L. when my shift was over i ran to the car where brett was waiting and couldn't believe i wasn't in jamba anymore, i was SAFE. i actually liked working at walmart during black friday better, at least i wasn't having to make anything. it'll be interesting to see how many jambas we made though! so then i get home, turn my scentsy on and brett just held me. and life was great again. also some nice phone calls to my mom and sister, a visit to steve and gwen (they ALWAYS make my day) and lots more big hugs from brett made me completely better!

you know after the horrifying jamba ordeal brett and i talked and we thought that waiting in that big of a line for so long was definitely NOT worth a $1 jamba. not. at. all. but no offense to those who came, it was REALLY refreshing to see smiling faces i knew and said hi to me! thanks.

so at our pca meetings every now and then someone would give a little presentation on one of the polynesian islands. and today my friend marco talked about new zealand and the maori people. and what i found to be really interesting was that the maori people was REALLY into their family history. i find it inspiring that ancient cultures from LOOOOONG ago kept such amazing records of their geneology. and one way the maori tribes kept their records was on their face by a form of tattooing. its called the ta moko and they actually chisled the ink in their faces creating grooves instead of a smooth surface. like so....
i am very glad that we don't really have do that nowadays. can you imagine our family history class? brett and i just tattooing some faces? haha

the maori tribes also preserved their family history through these ancient weapons called the taiaha. its that long pole thing the dude in the pic is holding. it was a way for the warriors to bring their ancestors into battle with them. it reminds me of stories i've heard about past wars where knights would go into battle with the virgin mary or Christ on the back of their shield as though they're with him. so with the maoris they had their ancestors on the their side. i mean, would you want this guy comin at ya?

its just so cool how the ancient people preserved their family history, pretty much like how the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon is. marco also talked about how on some people's faces they would have a circle tattooed, representing eternity and that families are together forever. seriously, how amazing is that?