My freshman year for Halloween a group of us went to a couple of parties and haunted houses . Friday night was the 30th and we needed something fun to do . One of our friends was taking the beginning engineering classes and so he had some classes in the Clyde building . He saw some posters in the building advertising a haunted house in one of the labs there and we decided it would be fun to go . I wanted to go because I really like haunted houses because I don 't get scared easily and it is hilarious to watch people scream and freak out . There wasn 't too long of a line so we only waited a few minutes before going in . When we went in they took us through some various rooms . I guess it wasn 't thrilling enough for me because when we got to one room I had the weirdest idea . This room had a Frankenstein in the middle of it . The Frankenstein was some guy in a really funny outfit and green makeup all over his face but the best part of his outfit was that he was barefoot . Why was his barefootedness my favorite part ? It inspired weird thoughts . I decided that it would be a good idea to tickle his feet . During a haunted house . Sadly he stood up to do his part before I got around to doing it . He became alive and he chased us out of the room . Leaving was not the end of this idea . We decided the next night to go back to the haunted house since we all had a good time . The second night , Halloween , was very busy . As we waited in line I told my roommates and friends and they all thought it was hilarious but that I was crazy . But I told them that I would tickle him this time . A concern I had was that I didn 't really want to tickle a stranger 's feet with my fingers . The solution was to use the stick on a lollipop that they gave each person as they walked in . Sadly once we got to the Frankenstein , he was wearing shoes ! How ridiculous is that ? ! So I did not tickle his toes , instead I got this weird story . A second weird idea I have had is more of an impulse . In my dad 's car when you drive it does not automatically lock you in like most cars . There have been a few times where I have really wanted to just fling the door open when we are on the highway . I am a little smarter though and I do not let myself do that . Although I did once when I was 6ish and really angry . As much fun as it seems , it really is scarier than anything else . We played tag and it also happened to be called Zombie Tag . Our FHE dad made up how to play it . At the start everyone was told whether they were a zombie or a human . There were only 2 zombies to begin with and their goal was to tag everyone and make them turn into a zombie . The humans had to run to the garage of the house FHE was at which was the safe zone . The humans started at a park a couple blocks away and the zombies started at the house . For the first round I was a human . I started at the park and ran with Anna and a few other girls . We decided to cut through different apartment complexes instead of going straight on the sidewalks . It worked fine until we were a block and a half away . Nobody had followed us through the complexes and nobody knew where we were . Our problem was that the last block and a half was straight and we would have to cross the street to where they would more easily see us . We ventured out to see if anyone was in that area . And yes there was . A guy saw us and immediately came running . One of the girls and I ran through the parking garage and into the main complex . The guy was following us and was rapidly catching up . We both ran to the end of the complex and down some stairs . I turned quickly at this point and saw our pursuer running towards the perpendicular set of stairs . He was far enough away that I thought we were fine . I told the girl and we slowed down a little to catch our breath . I again turned and instead of running , he was putting his leg over the stair rail . We started running again but his huge leap off the railing and his very quick pace gave him an advantage and he caught us . I 've played tag hundreds of times over the years but I 'm pretty sure that I have not had any games as intense as this one . Another point of this story , never let your guard down . You may think that catching your breath is good , but in the long run not so much ; never lull yourself into a false sense of security . A couple weeks ago I almost fainted . I was on a field trip for Food Commodities ( I just call it my field trip class ) . They gave us pizza for lunch but for drinks they only had sodas , no water . I was smart and knew I was a little dehydrated so I didn 't take a soda . After lunch we went on a tour through the plant at Welfare Square which produced different dairy products . I walked through 90 % of the plant without any problems . I was thirsty but not too terribly , or so I thought . We got into the second to last room and I felt significantly warmer in it . I thought it had to do with the heat from some sort of heat treatment to the product but nope , just me . I felt the blood rush from my face and my vision started fading . I had fainted before so I knew that I needed to sit down and I did . Everyone turned to look at me noticed and how pale I looked . Apparently I looked paler than I usually do . The group moved from the room and decided the tour should end because of me . There was one last machine before the tour was over . We went up to it and stood in a semi - circle around it . I was standing about thirty seconds when I thought I was going to pass out again . I crouched on the ground and although I don 't think so I may have fainted at that point for a couple seconds and didn 't realize it . My teacher came up and pulled me up then had me sit on a set of stairs leading up to some equipment . They gave me water and I sat there for a few minutes . The rest of the class went around the machine to see all the parts . After that everyone went back to get samples of some of their products . I had to continue sitting and drinking water . Then I was taken to the lobby and sat on a chair . I didn 't have to wait too long when the rest of the class came to where I was . Luckily someone was thoughtful enough to bring me one of the products they were giving out which was BYU chocolate milk ! The sad part of that is because someone else picked I missed out on BYU Cookies ' n Cream milk which I think is even better than regular chocolate milk . Although chocolate milk does hydrate , it is not the best since it has protein and isn 't straight water . That meant that I also got BYU orange juice . Since oj is just water with sugar and citric acid it does help to hydrate easily . After that no more problems . The next Monday I skipped that class because I slept in . I then ran into my teacher a couple hours later and I felt really awkward about the situation . I told him that I was sorry I skipped his class my alarm just didn 't go off ( there is no way I can wake up for an 8am class without one ) . As I was telling this my teacher said that he worried about me that weekend . Since we were talking about different things I tried to tie my situation back into what he was saying . I responded saying the reason I missed class did not have to do with my fainting , and that I was fine that weekend . Moments like these make me think I should listen better and not blurt out things . Freshman year I had a small set of silverware . I got it from my choir teacher right before I graduated High School . It had four pairs of forks , knives and spoons . They weren 't super expensive , they were college ones from Target . They had a metal top and the handle was made of plastic . Over my freshman year , they proved to be as cheaply made as the cost . I 'm pretty sure that of the 12 utensils , 7 or 8 were broken by Kara and about 2 or 3 more were broken by others . After Kara had already broken a number of my utensils it became a running joke in the apartment . Up until this point , I don 't think I had ever witnessed her breaking them . The first I saw of one dying was once in the kitchen when Kara used a knife to cut her dinner . We were both sitting at the table eating when I heard a weird cracking noise . I looked around for the noise and thought it came from Kara . When I turned to look at her she told me to " Look out the window . " Even though I knew what she was up to , I humored her and briefly looked out the window . Then I turned to her and asked her , " Kara , did you just break my knife ? " I remember looking back at her and she had this funny expression on her face . She was frowning and tried to look innocent but instead looking 100 % guilty . That was just one time she broke my utensils . She broke plenty more over the year . I think she may have even broken a few by eating soft things like cereal or soup . When I moved into Sparks my sophomore year , I was the first person in the apartment . This was really fun because I got first choice for everything . I picked my room , bed , which shelf my toiletries were on , and I got to set up the kitchen all before anyone even got there . It was great for those reasons , but not so much with the things in the kitchen . I had about 2 or 3 utensils left of which none were spoons . In case you didn 't know , spoons are pretty irreplaceable . I had basically no food , and some of the few foods I had were cereal and soup which both need spoons . I used teaspoons , tablespoons and the tops of some of the broken spoons ( still not sure why I kept those ) . Luckily , my roommates moved in and I was able to eat cereal normally again . This past year at the Brittany , Anna and I had the same problem . The funny thing is that Anna also has utensils but none of her spoons made it to this year . The first week , our roommates had no utensils so we had to make due with our minimum assortment of utensils . I had one fork that survived two years of college and Anna had about 3 or 4 of everything so not much . We ended up using a pack of plastic red utensils to supplement for a couple weeks until we had enough utensils to actually last us a dishwasher load . On Monday , we got to drive for FHE . Of course , before we got in the car I reminded them of the last time our car almost killed people when the breaks didn 't work . That scare tactic didn 't work , they just laughed and said that it was such a funny story . Driving to our Bishop 's house was mostly fine . As we were driving the GPS on our friend 's phone froze . We were a little panicked , but another guy had GPS on his phone so he pulled it up . The car was pretty tense for awhile as we hoped we didn 't miss our turn . We asked again if it was working , and the response was that the second phone was dying . Then Anna told them to shut up because it was freaking her out . A second later , the first GPS unfroze and worked again . We got the rest of the way there with only one minor wrong turn . FHE was super hilarious and everyone enjoyed the telephone pictionary game . It works by one person writing a sentence , and the second person draws it and a third writes what they think the sentence is supposed to show . It keeps going until it goes all the way around or you run out of paper . I only mention this because this is the one time I cry on a regular basis . Every stinking time I play this game I am in the corner laughing so hard I cry . And that is awkward . Everyone got in the car perfectly fine , however it did not stay like that . The back door of our car would not shut . The people kept pulling until the door of our car popped off its hinges . This problem with our car door has happened to our cousins . We knew that if it is pulled open too hard it can get off the track but only partially . Usually when the door doesn 't shut , someone can slightly lift the door back into the track and it will work again . When the door was pulled too hard it completely pulled off the tracks . When the door fell off , luckily Tyler was trying to get in the car parked next to us . Tyler was able to hold up the door while we tried to put it back in . It was super late so it was completely dark outside and we couldn 't really see what we were doing . It took us like 7 or 8 minutes to realize that we should tell the bishop to turn on his light outside . Tyler held the door during all 7 or 8 minutes . I 'm not even sure how he lasted so long , but only after that time did he tell us how the car door was super heavy . Eventually , they were able to maneuver the door back into the tracks and we got to leave . It was actually kind of funny because everyone was too scared to open the door again . Instead of going out of their door , the people went out through the passenger door . We still haven 't opened the door so we 'll see if it falls off again . One time in High School I left the school for something and then I had to be back for an after school activity . The thing to do in high school was to have smoothies , much like here at BYU ( Jamba anyone ? ) . Well I came back up to the parking lot and was about to go inside . I was talking to friends and something weird happened and my friend punched my smoothie . It seems I have forgotten the reasoning behind this . . . Why on earth would someone punch a smoothie ? Jealous much ? Regardless , my smoothie was slowly melting onto the ground through the newly formed holes at the bottom of the crushed container . I had to find a way to solve my smoothie dilemma so I went inside to the cafeteria . The only people around were cafeteria workers who were cleaning everything so I went to talk to them . They thought I was trying to buy something but no I wasn 't , I just needed a cup to save my poor smoothie . They looked at me funny but gave me a plastic cup anyways . I was able to pour a fragment from my smoothie into the cup , much of my smoothie was lost on the floor . Another time was at Sam 's Club when we lived in Texas when I was younger . At the end of every Sam 's trip , our family would head over to the pharmacist 's area because our mom 's friend was the pharmacist . She would talk and talk and everyone there would get bored . We usually would bug her and instead of leaving she would give us some quarters to go buy a smoothie or a icee ( most likely an icee , but smoothie goes with the title ) . One time , we got sick of this waiting game and we played our own game . We stuck the smoothie cup into the machine that detects your heart rate . We put it inside and pressed the button , and the machine started to slowly constrict on the cup until it broke and we pulled it out . We ran to our mom to show her the broken cup and the adults looked at it and us and laughed because the cup was so mangled on the bottom . They told us to go back and get a new cup to contain our mess . When we got there , the guy behind the counter didn 't really ask what happened so we were willing to just go with the idea that it just broke , we did nothing . It was quite exciting because instead of just putting another cup underneath it , the employee gave us a whole new smoothie that was completely full . That day we got 1 . 5 smoothies all for breaking it on purpose . So sometimes there can be benefits for ruining your smoothie . When I was younger , about seven or so in Texas we had some neighbors move in next door that were pretty fun . We would play at their house sometimes or they would come to ours . The longer they lived there , the more things they added to play with . Their backyard started out with just a plastic playground with a slide and climbing wall . Then they added a shed that was really cool to look at with fun toys inside and finally they added a pool . We would often hang out because we were selfish and wanted to play with their stuff . One specific incident was one of the boy 's birthday party , specifically the younger one who was like 5 and the one we didn 't really play with . We were getting back from grocery shopping or something and we saw a clown car in front of their house , and it specifically belonged to a clown named Doodlebug . She was a clown that we saw a few times every summer downtown at this carnival . We actually got to know Doodlebug a little , and she recognized us and would talk to us and our mom . We just loved Doodlebug , she was so cool because she face painted and did some fun magic tricks for the kids . After we saw the car , Anna and I were slightly angered because we were not invited to this party . How dare they not invite their neighbors who obviously loved Doodlebug , and didn 't care so much for the them , just their toys ! ! We decided to do something about it , we just HAD to get to that party . Anna and I came up with a plan , we would make an excuse to go over there and then they would invite us to the party . Our plan was simple , we threw a frisbee into their yard and rang the doorbell then explained about the frisbee . Luckily , the mom told us to come on in and that surprise , they were having a birthday party ! We got to see Doodlebug and it was a pretty fun party . Surprisingly , there was a lot of throwing things into their backyard as we grew up . Another incident involved a cat . See we weren 't allowed to have animals growing up ( until they got one last month after Anna and I left for college because they 're hypocrites ) and when we found any wandering around we would take to them very easily . A stray cat came into our backyard and was interested in what was going on because we were playing outside . We tried to pet the cat and play with it , but our mom wouldn 't have it . She just wanted the cat to leave us alone , so she took the cat and threw it over the fence into our neighbors yard . All of the kids were so scared for that cat , we yelled at our mom about how horrible it was but she just shrugged it off . The third incident started when we got an advertisement in the mail . Gatorade wanted us to buy things and so they gave us an incentive in the form of a small gatorade man . He looks like that , except he didn 't look that smiley , and had a green body . You put him into water for a few days and he was supposed to grow bigger . We did just that , he was in a bowl for a few days and he grew , but only like 1 . 5 times bigger , and he was only like two inches to begin with so it was not as cool as we thought . It made us mad , this toy looked so cool in the pictures but in real life , not so much . Instead of just throwing him away , we threw Gatorade man into their backyard where we never saw it again . " Have you ever given someone a puppy ? " - Anna " Is that like a whale booty call ? " - Anna " Jacob Marshmallow is a person not a marshmallow ! " - Kara Prestwich " I don 't even hate that ! ! " - Anna " Did you buy this hippie bread ? ? " - Anna Posted by Last year for Anna 's birthday she turned 21 and her roommates decided to throw her a surprise party . Since her birthday is at the end of August , her roommates had just moved in and knew nothing about her . They asked me and her roommate from the summer what she liked . It was suggested that since Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was one of her favorite movies we could use that as a theme . Her new roommates planned a cake that looked like pancakes which is a scene from the movie . They made it in a neighbor 's apartment and I was supposed to have Anna elsewhere for the set up . We went to her old roommate Stephanie 's apartment and watched The Proposal , a very funny movie . After the movie ended we went back to the apartment , and everyone yelled surprise ! Anna was not expecting it at all and it was great . The cake turned out a little weird though . Her roommates asked if she knew what it was and she was completely stumped ! Everyone ate cake , and had snacks and it was really fun . We also had music playing and people were talking and all that jazz . When everyone was finished eating and mostly talking I announced that there were games in the living room that we could all play . And that 's the point where I am a ruiner . Every guest , besides the roommates left . There were lots of excuses given out , " I have lots of homework . . . " ( at that point it was the weekend before school , so homework really ? Although that one we might have exaggerated during each telling of this story ) . " I have to meet a friend . Sorry ! " Anna and I have inherited a car this year ! Yes , that sounds all good and dandy but it has really been a little ridiculous . . . . This one time , tonight , our car tried to kill us ! However it does not start there , it started in August . We made it from Provo all the way to Ikea , and we were getting off of the freeway . The car was perfect on the freeway , but as we got off and were at a stop light we felt it shaking a little . This was also when the car was named . I was sitting there thinking she ( yes she was already a girl ) needed a name , and that she was super old and shaking but still holding out , so I decided that the car should be named Minerva , after Professor McGonagall of course . Simultaneously , I mentioned to Anna that I had named her and the car would not speed up after the stop light . We yelled a little , and quickly turned off the engine which luckily seemed to work . The same technique followed each stop light , we would freak out , turn off the engine and the go again . It was kind of ridiculous , it happened over and over for like 4 or 5 lights . There was once in there where we managed to make it to the next light without the car being restarted but it kept going on like that . Eventually we pulled into the Target parking lot and were picked up by our grandparents so we could go to dinner . It stayed in the lot during dinner , and then seemed to work after . The diagnosis ? It had accidentally gone into 2nd gear and started overheating , however we had no idea since the temperature gauge is broken ! We got our car back the next week with nothing wrong . The third Monday we went to a member of our bishopric 's house for FHE . Anna drove our van , and everything was great ! It worked the 30 minutes there and back , no problem . The problem was the Friday I tried to take the car out , it was completely dead . Anna had specifically checked to make sure the lights were off and so we 're still puzzled about that one . They are pretty obvious when they 're on , especially since we got back at like 9 : 30 or 10 . Luckily our FHE dad was able to jump start the car and we could drive it like normal . Two weeks ago , we were driving to different friend 's houses when we noticed that one of the tires was losing air . That meant we had to go get it looked at . Luckily it was just a nuisance and not a huge problem , we were able to drive it to a tire shop and get it looked at in about half an hour . This month our car had to go in for inspection . It went in this past Thursday and apparently there were a few things that had to be fixed before it could pass . There was a gas leak in our car , and we could tell , it smelled very bad when we drove more than 5 miles . The mechanics said that if the leak was not fixed our car could have caught on fire , which would have been an interesting experience to say the least . Now this is the good part . Today we went to the recycling maze for FHE . It was pretty fun , a huge maze that we went through a couple times , then we decided to go through it as a race and then eventually as freeze tag . It was lots of fun but sadly we had to leave . One of the cars ( er couple in a truck . . . ) left their other passenger ( how awkward to be the third wheel ! ! ) so we had an extra person in the car . Kaitlyn decided it was a good idea to sit in the trunk as her seat . The first time it was shut , it hit her head because there is only like 6 inches with the seat pushed back as far as it was . After that everyone settled into the car , and I started the car , even though I didn 't really want to drive . I pulled the car out of park , and instead of the breaks working , they didn 't . We started rolling backwards , and luckily it was really slowly and everyone started freaking out . A few people yelled at me , telling me to brake , but then they realized I had my foot on the brake pedal . I was kind of freaked out but also I was just trying to be calm and assess the situation . I wasn 't sure what I should do but I knew we were in a parking lot with few people around so not much could happen . We were pretty close to the curb so I just waited for us to hit it and stop . It was actually really interesting , we were going like 7 mph but everyone was yelling and scared for their lives . There was another car that was about to leave but they started watching as we were rolling down the parking lot . Everyone was so freaked out for us , and our van . We restarted the car a couple times and the brakes worked each time so it must have just been that time . They figured we were safe getting home , and that 's when I told them that the car was inspected last week . Everyone kind of laughed and a couple people said something about having little faith in our government with cars like Minerva on the road . Before we left , I forced Kaitlyn out of the trunk . If we were going to crash it would probably be bad in the trunk , she would hit her head because of the little space . At least she can now cross that off her bucket list , she has definitely always wanted to be in a car with broken brakes while sitting in the trunk . . . . We left the parking lot , and that 's when more weird stuff happened . I got a phone call from a food science friend , and everyone was yelling and stuff and then Anna was backseat driving . So it was a great combination , Anna was yelling at me so I was yelling at her , and then other people were yelling to be louder than us . When we tried to get into the Brittany parking lot it was full , both the lot behind our building and the one across the street . We had to do a 7 million point turn at the other Brittany because there were a ton of cars , plus I could not see anything because I was driving an excessively full van with already dark tinted windows . This is when yelling about my driving started . We left the lot and then various passengers in the car were yelling to tell us where to park , and so I got confused . There is a bright blue house on our street that people told me to park at , except I thought they meant in front of the front door but they meant the side door , so I went the wrong direction and we had to do a u - turn in the middle of the street . We decided Kaitlyn and Hannah had to be dropped off so we didn 't even use the parking spot . We went to campus and to their apartment , and found a spot on the street in front of the Brittany . We have had some really interesting times with our car in the short 2 months we have had her . Anna thinks she will last awhile longer , but I am under the impression that she could go down in smoke at any moment . We 'll see who is right in the next year I 'm sure . This always starts with me going to my grandma 's house . Anna and I go each fourth Sunday for a family dinner with our extended family in South Jordan . Usually everyone talks for the whole time , but there are times when I wander and find the weird things around the house . . . And that also doesn 't make sense because we always seem to find weirder and weirder things , why haven 't we discovered them all ? If you can 't tell from the pictures , I often create a lot of . . . laughter at family dinners . But that 's okay right ? So without further ado , my weird collection of " dress - up " clothes , if you can even call it that . . . . At least I think this was October . I definitely did not fit this outfit , I 'm pretty sure I had to pull and tug just to get it over my calves . PS - the tights I 'm wearing totally make this outfit . Again , not dress - up but definitely worth putting up . . . This was a pair of maternity pants . Now these were huge even for maternity clothes , plus they were stretchy , so of course we decided to put it on ! Yes maternity clothes are supposed to be made for two ( awww ) but I 'm not thinking this was right . . . One time after swimming , Audrey wanted a snack . Audrey eats way too much for her size . She has food envy where anytime anyone else is eating she has to eat what they are eating , and she 's been this way since she was a baby . Since she is a bit large for her size , her family makes her eat better snacks . Audrey asked for fruit snacks to eat but we were pushing her to eat actual fruit . I tried to use her food envy to get her to eat some of my orange , but she complained that the orange was too big for her , and she wanted a clementine instead . I bugged her a few times to eat it but she wouldn 't do it . Then I told Audrey to close her eyes , and put out her hand . She was nervous and I could tell she knew what was coming but did it anyways . When she did it , I put a piece of the orange in her hand . Then she opened her eyes again and told me no ! And threw it back into my lap . I tried to convince her to close her eyes again but she couldn 't be fooled ! ! So I ate that orange all by myself . Usually we would just stand there and dance but she would occasionally demand that we should have music . Audrey enlisted Anna as our singer , and told her to sing a Cinderella song . Anna started singing " So This is Love " which is in Cinderella , but Audrey did not think it was from Cinderella and told her to sing a different one . The other Cinderella songs are not really danceable , so Anna started singing " Belle Notte " instead . We danced for all of the song that we actually knew the words to . As soon as we finished Audrey told us , " That 's from Lady and the Tramp ! ! " Sadly we could not convince her that it was Cinderella the next time we did princess dancing , she knew we had tried to fool her . Princess dancing became a routine game at the pool , because it sure beat out Mermaid Hair Salon ( I just love when 3 year olds try to do my hair ! ! ) . She knew exactly what to do when she was Cinderella . Towards the end of the song , she moved her hands from my waist and took her hand out of mine and wrapped them around my neck and she put her head on my shoulder . Basically , Audrey is the epitome of a princess . She knows all the stories and sometimes she thinks she is one . She told us about how she needed a wedding veil because all princesses have one , and it was not just a suggestion , it was basically a demand . So I made her a veil . One time I had a fun size packet of Skittles . I was sitting on the computer at home just facebooking probably . As I was looking at the different things online , something excited me and I threw my hands up in the air . Yes , usually I have weird reactions when I hear good news or anything fun and it has actually increased more since coming to college , specifically living with Kara . Well , throwing my hands in the air meant that I also threw my skittles into the air . As it was happening , I realized how silly it was of me to throw it in the air , and I just sat there watching the rainbow candy fall down . It even looked awesome in the air . A similar incident happened my freshman year . Kara gave me a packet of M & M 's and I opened it and started to eat it . Halfway through the packet , I again became excited , but this time it was because Kara was giving me another packet . Because I don 't think sometimes , instead of putting the packet down to catch the second , I held it in my palm . I am really bad at catching things usually , and this was no exception . A little bit too enthusiastically , I threw my hands to where I thought the bag was headed . I threw the whole bag of M & M 's in the air that I already had , and completely missed the bag Kara threw at me . It was pretty sad , but at least I picked up the unopened one from off the ground and could still eat it . Incidentally , this same thing happened hours after I posted this . Anna and I were making some Mexican food and it called for chicken broth in the rice . I got the water boiling but when I went to put the chicken bullion into the water it exploded out and overflowed onto the floor and ground . I had only put in half the bullion , and in my stupidity , I threw the rest of the bullion still in the teaspoon on the ground when I of course threw my hands in the air . During my freshman year of college I had this phase that I went through that my roommates ( Kara ) teased me about for awhile . It involved me only eating wraps for like two weeks . Granted they were different types , sometimes I had turkey , other times chicken with different veggies inside . But seriously , I ate wraps for two meals a day for two weeks . Recently , I have had a similar situation but with paninis . They are delicious ! I have had them at least three times a week , ever since coming to college this year . It doesn 't really matter what is in them , just that they are crunchy , golden and warm with melted cheese . I could just live off of them , and so I have started to , as they are currently my go to food . Even though it is exactly a sandwich ( except with a fancy garlic bread we buy ) it tastes 10 times better ! ! We 've looked at recipes and they just all sound amazing . . . . Someone help me ! Well , it all started with a food science field trip . We drove an hour and a half up to Kaysville to see the church welfare milling . Our car had less people than usual , only five in a twelve passenger van whereas we usually have eight . Plus the car ride was an hour and a half each way . Since there were fewer people talking and it was a longer drive , a few people decided to take naps . The guy I sat next to napped with his head just in front of him so he looked like a bobble head . It was pretty funny because if we had some larger bumps in the road , his head would pop back up . I decided that telling them about the guy 's bobblehead was a good idea . Well it was pretty funny , then I demonstrated right when someone walked behind me . It was really funny , I actually did it pretty hard so I like rammed my head into his stomach . He looked at me and was like , " I didn 't realize I needed to let anyone know I was passing . " It was too perfect that he walked past when I was demonstrating throwing my head back . The next time he passed behind me , he made sure I knew not to injure him . Basically you should always beware when you walk past me . So to turn it on , I have to unlock my phone if it is in my pocket by pressing ' unlock ' then ' ok ' . The other way is if I go onto the music player right before I put it in my pocket and then the keypad doesn 't lock so if I hit my pocket I start the music playing . The funny thing is that I have to push the left button like three times in a row to get into the music player so I 'm not really sure how it 's happening either way . These incidents started happening last winter semester . One time I remember being in the bookstore and right when I came in I was like ' ' oh , I like this song ! ' ' I kept walking towards Jamba Juice and stood there talking to a friend for a few minutes . Then I was really confused because I heard two songs playing , one from Jamba and one from somewhere unknown . Unfortunately , the music was coming from my pocket , and it was loud , turned up all the way . After a minute I figured out it was my pocket blaring . Then I thought about how I had a whole conversation with a friend while my phone was blaring . I 'm sure they realized it was actually me and thought I was stupid for not noticing and turning it off . During my freshman year of college I had an interesting assortment of roommates . We all did weird things together . The list included posting pictures from Twilight on our FHE brother 's doors , trying to put a giant snowball down the stairs to their apartment , running around with a roaring stuffed dinosaur and some even weirder things I didn 't mention / forgot about . One of the more interesting things that went on throughout our freshman year was the ever present " hacking " of our facebooks from Kara . Whenever anyone would leave their computers open , Kara would immediately go to it and get on their facebooks . Then she would post things to every roommate 's facebook wall . During Christmas break our freshman year , Amelia gave Kara her password so that Kara could continue to post weird things . So we get this one , " Hey , if you get back to the appartment before me , you might want to throw the pumpkin I left under my bed out . Thanks a big ton " ( Kara wrote to Madeline on Amelia 's wall ) . That one confused our RA , so that was pretty funny because usually people could tell that the posts were totally made up . During one of these hacks of my facebook , Kara decided to do a little more than post weird things . She decided to change my name ! Luckily , my name change was only added in parentheses . I became Laura Johnson ( Laura Birdie Conrad ) . Kara then changed my status to say that I was going by Birdie . Our first day in the ward we did a ward FHE in the park , playing kickball . Some of the people knew we were new to the ward and asked our names . As promised I introduced myself as Birdie , which people thought was funny , although nobody legitimately wanted to call me that , they would much rather call me Laura . Well , except for one guy in our ward , Dan - o ( I 'm not sure how he spells his name but that 's how it 's pronounced ) . He was a weird kid . Anyone that goes by a name like that has some interesting quirks for sure . Anytime he would see me would call me Birdie . Except that it was more of a yell , BIRD - ie . Then I would look away embarrassed because by this time , everyone had forgotten I had ever told them about being called Birdie . One specific time , he came by my apartment to tell people about a movie his apartment was watching or some event . He didn 't come in the apartment , but stayed right at our doorstep . I was sitting behind the door , at our table eating lunch , and was completely hidden from view . But clever Dan - o looked through the small vertical space in between the door and the wall and saw me . Then yelled BIRD - ie , probably one of the loudest he ever had . At that instant , I looked shocked and had on a terrified face . The whole situation was ridiculous and absurd and I couldn 't figure out why he had to yell my weird nickname everytime he saw me . Luckily we moved out of the ward , and I never saw Dan - o again . In our new ward at Sparks , Kara decided that she was jealous of my nickname and so before the semester started we decided that hers could be Bunny . People would ask her why she wanted to be called Bunny . I explained that she gave me a nickname and then was jealous so I gave her one . So for a couple months , she went by Bunny before people too thought it was too weird and called her Kara . My extended family has a tradition of going to the restaurant Johnny Carinos every time we go to Utah . It kind of started because when my family lived in Texas we loved to go there but when we moved to Virginia we didn 't have any close by . There just happened to be one a few minutes away from where my grandparents lived so we could all meet up and go to lunch or dinner . It is really good because almost everyone in my family loves it , including the really picky cousins . As it turns out , having around twenty people at one table to eat is really interesting . Don 't get me wrong , it is always fun but sometimes it doesn 't turn out as planned . One of the best things about Johnny Carinos is their bread . It is made at the restaurant and they have delicious olive oil with herbs and garlic in it to dip the bread in . When you have so many people , that bread goes FAST . They give us two or three baskets with a couple of small loaves at a time . Basically as soon as the baskets touch the table they are emptied . Even when we have our dinner everyone still takes bread . I don 't know how many loaves we end up getting , but it turns out to be like thirteen or fourteen baskets . That means the adults end up eating almost one basket a piece , I know I eat that maybe even more , which is a whole lot of bread . Another amazing thing about Johnny Carinos is their Italian sodas . They are delicious ! They are mostly fruit flavors and they have cream at the top and are carbonated . They aren 't like orange or grape soda though ; I think they have the actual fruit in it instead of a flavoring . I guess they are like cream sodas with the various flavors added or something like that . We end up having multiple waiters to be able to cover the whole table to refill drinks , bring bread and grab anything else we need . One time these waiters were really on top of things . One came by and asked me if I needed a refill . One minute later a different waiter came by and asked the same question . I had said yes to the first , and yes to the second not realizing I would be brought a second refill I didn 't need yet . Instead of telling him my mistake , or just having an extra drink I made up a plan . As soon as the first came I drank it in like ten seconds flat . It was ridiculous , but I just wanted to avoid anything awkward . Anna , and my cousins watched me do this , and they too thought I was insane . As soon as the waiter came with my second refill all of us started giggling at him . Every time we go out to dinner there , Anna and I always remember this and start uncontrollably laughing . It 's not even hard to bring up this memory , all we have to say is " remember that one time at Johnny Carinos ? " This experience just shows how I can turn anything normal into something ridiculous and completely laughable . Two years ago when we went , it was pretty hilarious because my cousin Jayben brought in a suction cup and started putting it on people 's foreheads . Luckily nobody had any permanent impressions on their heads from this but it was pretty funny . Another funny thing was some random creepy joke involving Clue . Anna , my cousins Tye and Brittany , and I kept giving each other secret signals of some sort . We kept doing weird eyebrow raising and staring until the person looked at us . At one point I wrote " Mrs . Peacock , the dining room , the knife " on a napkin and put it under Tye 's plate . He saw me doing something weird but didn 't know what , so after awhile I gave him another telling him to look under his plate . When he read it , he was pretty creeped out that I did that in the first place , and secondly that I had done it under his nose . Sadly , nothing of interest happened last year that I can really remember . This past time , there was some random things that went on . Tye had a mad libs app on his phone and we did some before our food came . Now that was interesting . We had some crazy words going in there that sounded hilarious in the stories . There was something about a beautiful gordita ( fat woman ) , and turning urine into blood that was somehow indistinguishable . Eww . Another interesting thing was Jayben sitting with Anna . Usually he can be contained , at least a little , but not that night . He was laughing up a storm and could not stop ! He sat in Anna 's lap giggling over absolutely nothing for ten minutes . Well , I think it might have been less than that , because we started tickling him . It was ridiculous how loud and crazy the scene was . Jayben was flailing and laughing and our whole table was chatting , which was too bad for all the people around us . With my school I volunteered for Beta Club , a national club that does service . Everyone was supposed to do so many hours and have good grades to be in it so yay , it was a great club . It was the end of the year and I needed my last few hours to fulfill the requirement . So I went to sign up to volunteer at the River 's Edge Carnival . We weren 't given anything specific to do until everything was set up . I was with my friend Ryan and we set up some of the stuff behind the track . Then we were set up specifically with the football throw . The kids had three tries from a line to throw the football through an inflatable football player where there was a mesh to hold the ball . The football player was about six feet away so that most of the younger kids could get it in . So the game was pretty easy . A few kids noticed this and decided to take advantage of our game . They started out wanting to play and threw the ball a few times . After that , they got pretty bored and wanted to do something else . Instead of just throwing the ball they threw the ball and ran up to tackle the inflatable football player . We let it happen a couple of times but when it kept going I decided it was a problem that needed to be stopped I think that it scared the kids , and they were a little freaked out . They decided at that point that it would be best for them to leave and started to walk away . I followed them and started chasing them away , so we were all running . Halfway across the field I stopped and yelled at them that I would find and tell their parents if they came to do it again . On a similar note , I can make little kids cry . I am a very scary person , I don 't even have to beat people up before they cry . The cause is my sneezing . Now my sneezes are a little bit loud . The first time people hear my sneezes they often have a sudden start then wonder about where the noise come from . Kara almost fell off her bed the first time I sneezed . Well , this was a particularly loud sneeze . And I sneezed twice in a row . There was a little two or three year old who freaked out during the minute in between my sneezes . He looked all around for the source of the noise . Then I sneezed again and he started crying . It 's a cat from McDonald 's when they were doing toys for the movie Babe . Somehow the cat from the movie translated to the ugliest stuffed cat that I have ever seen . It has a flat face , and you can barely even see the eyes or nose . It 's ridiculously weird looking . Plus the eyes are kind of lop sided . Well this feud started at McDonald 's , when we were four years old ( how do I even still have it ? ? ? ) . Tye had a little brother Trevor , and when kids are young , they shouldn 't play with small things because they are choking hazards . Tye originally got the cat with his toy , and I don 't even remember what I got but it was something less cool . My mom saw the cat as a choking hazard , plus I 'm pretty sure I wanted that cat , so a trade was done . This was not what Tye wanted and was done against his will . I am not really sure why both of us really wanted the cat , did we not notice it looked like a mutant cat ? We must have overlooked it to focus on the fact we were fighting over it and that each of us wanted it more . Every time we get together , the cat is brought up at least once . It is a very interesting subject to talk about . Tye always claims that it is rightfully his . I say that it was given to me by our parents and it 's too bad because I have it regardless of what he says . For some reason the cat has survived many clean outs in spite of the fact that it is super ugly to look at , and despite the fact that I 've had it for sixteen years . When I was thirteen I remember that when our grandparents came to visit . The cat was of course brought up . I decided that I needed to send Tye blackmail pictures of the cat . My grandma helped me take pictures of the cat in various places , mostly on top of a safe I had for money . Then we sent the pictures in an email to Tye and I wrote a nefarious email about how evil I was for having the cat . Yes I was a cool thirteen year old . I don 't remember the response , but it boiled down to him saying " what the heck ? ? " The cat is still with me and I have it in college as my prize - winning trophy . I am sure that I will have this cat for years to come so the feud will continue on . Posted by I know that this is not a romper but this is what I automatically picture when I hear the word romper . But what is that anyways ? ? ? It is basically an adult onesie . Last spring when they first started becoming trendy I couldn 't remember the word romper . I still can barely remember it half the time so I started saying " those onsie things " . Apparently people thought it was hilarious . Well maybe these aren 't normal , but that 's only because they 're made out of terry cloth . But for real , now that you have heard my version , can you look at these and not think of an adult climbing out of an adult crib wearing this ? Or at the very least someone wearing these to bed ? Sure these look good , or the top two do anyways . The bottom left ? It 's like a mixture of suspenders and overalls and neither of those are in style . Ever . Plus as Anna pointed out , the point of rompers is so you have one piece of clothing , you don 't need a shirt underneath . So uh , what is with that one ? Now to the one on the right . Besides the really boring neutral , she looks like either a janitor or a zoo keeper . Basically if you wear one , it looks like it should be a really stupid looking uniform . I 'm pretty sure that 's one reason why most rompers are sleeveless or strapless . " They can be cute i think , but it definately depends on the print . To be perfectly honest , they make me think of 1910 - 1920 women 's swimsuits . " - Kaitlyn Audrey strapped her Belle figurine to her shoe . She wore it around for a couple hours . I 'm not sure why she put it there when she had pockets , after a couple parents were confused I did take it off at least . This is from Busch Gardens in May when I went with Emily 's choir . It 's kind of sad that even though I make faces in a lot of my pictures on rides I can 't keep them or even take pictures of the pictures . But I did sneak this one in . Trying on helmets at Target . Anna is a bunny , my dad is a shark , and I am a cat . I think writing that out looks stupid but I 'm sure you really can 't tell what they are anyways . This was not when I babysat Audrey , this was from Anna . The story here is that Audrey was drinking from a water bottle with a straw and was leaning forward to do it . Then Anna went over a speed bump and Audrey leaned the water bottle back at just the right time and it flew into her hair . I have no idea what we were playing . I think it had something to do with princesses , and she took a ride on Kelsey , the monster or something like that . But I 'm pretty sure Audrey would make a good nun . Anyways , I said I would do the grandma cross stitch , but when we went to Michael 's today I looked at it and it was not a counted cross stitch , it was a stamped cross stitch . That basically meant that it was on cloth that had some of the words and colors stamped on . So it was basically cheating . But I took a picture to show how fun it was . Back to me being a liar . When you work with a three year old you lie a lot . She asks questions and if I 'm not paying attention then I just say yes to go along with it . Like this , " Is this Cinderella 's wedding necklace ? " " Yes , sure . " And she believes it , and yes that was an actual conversation . My favorite is her version of stores we go to . I 'm sure you can catch on , but it is a simple formula , we are buying ___ so it is the ___ store . Some favorites are : The Sweater StoreThe Ice Cream StoreThe Hair Cut StoreThe Food StoreThe Juice Store This past semester Anna and I played Apples to Apples . Unfortunately for everyone else , we came in late after they had already made up the rules . The rules were that the person with the winning card got to judge the next round . Incidentally , Anna and I can read each others minds , and we have the same sense of humor , making it so we could easily play to the other . We played a couple rounds and then Anna 's card won . When she picked the green card , the adjective was violent . As I looked through my cards there was one that I thought was funny but was a little unsure about . I put it down anyway , and all the cards were revealed . When mine came up everyone laughed in surprise because it was a little shocking . My card was " going to grandma 's " . Yes , I put down that going to grandma 's is violent . Since it got the biggest reaction and was the funniest , my card won . Then I said that I had put the card down , and said that I had hoped Anna would pick it . Everyone just looked at us like we were crazy , then someone asked , " What goes on at your grandma 's house . . . ? " During holidays Anna and I like to cross stitch while we watch movies and TV . I have done a few small ones but we went to Ben Franklin and I got one with hummingbirds . The next week we went to Michael 's so Anna could buy yarn for a scarf . While there , we went looking through the cross stitches . I first saw a cupcake one that would be cute , but the next one I picked up was hilarious , it said " What happens at grandma 's stays at grandma 's . " Anna and I laughed and immediately thought of that game of Apples to Apples and violence . The cross stitch had lots of desserts on it , so I don 't think it was talking about the supposed " violence " at grandma 's house . After I finish the cross stitch I am currently working on , I think I will go get that one just because it makes me laugh . Audrey is very much into princesses at the moment . Every book from the library has to be about princesses and most of the toys she plays with are somehow made out to be princesses and their princes . One of the key parts of every princess story is their marriage and the happily ever after . Audrey is obsessed with weddings , and coming from Provo , I think it is hilarious . This week my family received the Richmond bridal magazine . Audrey noticed it and went looking through it . She looked at a few of the dresses and said she really liked one for her mom . She didn 't understand that her mom didn 't need another one . On the pages with dresses on them , she would yell out , " I LOVE this dress . " As this is an all too similar occurrence in Provo , I think she is growing up well . Audrey has this funny thing where she hides whenever she knows someone is coming into a room to look for her . Well today , she went and hid in the bathroom , behind the toilet . When I came to look for her she popped out from behind it , ramming herself into the toilet paper dispenser . Her actions actually broke our toilet paper dispenser , she tore it out from the wall . Anna and I took Emily , Audrey and Allyson to the pet store today to go look at the different animals . We went and looked at the cats , which were behind glass . The cats rubbed up against the glass and since Audrey couldn 't touch them , she patted the glass which was adorable . There was a dog training session in the front of the store that I took Audrey to watch . While in the dog section , Audrey loved looking at all the dog toys and the dog clothes . She even found a dog house and decided it was her size . One time during church , Kara wrote a poem for me . I found it last night and am now sharing it with the world . Pretty much if you say or write something for me , it may find its way onto my blog .