Leap for Leap Year

February 29, 2012. Leap Day! I don't really know why I think this day is so awesome but...I do!
Here's some sweet facts about Leap Year:
     1)  Julius Caesar introduced Leap Year around 45 b.c.
     2) Women are allowed to romantically pursue men on this day
     3) The chances of being born on Leap  Day is 1.461
     4) People born on Leap Day are called Leaplings

Happy Happy Leap Day!

Party Weekend

Birthdays=parties. And that is just what we did for my sister's birthday.  We got a motel in downtown Salt Lake and had a party weekend.  

We first hit up Buca de Bepos...and I really was happy to be
there, even if the picture says otherwise. 

A party isn't a party unless it has Martinelli's

My mom is a genius and brought strawberries and chocolate
and sugar cookies.

This is what the Martinelli can do to ya....

Kiva!

A couple of birthdays ago my brother bought me a Kiva gift card.  It's a website where you lend money to people who are trying to start up a new business or some kind of project. Once their business is up and going, they pay you back, and then you can use that money to help out someone else. I've lent money out a couple of times and saw today that my loan had been repaid! So....I was off on the adventure of finding another person so give a hand to. And I found this awesome guy from Kenya who provided transportation by motorcycle. You're welcome Mangale....and you better always wear you helmet. So...check Kiva out!  

     http://www.kiva.org/

:]...That's the only way to describe it

Yesterday one of my very best friends got baptized. I seriously am so sooo happy for this girl! I kinda cried a lot at this thing because I was just so happy and excited for it all to be happening! 

This is more like it...

and yes that is the men's bathroom behind us...Love this girl! 

We Owned The Night

Lady A came to Salt Lake on Valentines Day and I was a lucky duck and was able to go! It was so awesome! 

Darius Rucker was there and so was Thompson Square...Darius is quite the looker in real life.

LADY A...I was seriously screaming like a crazy lady at this point...

And of course we had to hit up Denny's afterwards

Anti might not even begin to cover it

Today is Valentines Day. Yayyy. ( Imagine that in a sarcastic tone) I'm not a fan. Even when I had someone to spoil me with presents I still didn't really get the point. You give someone flowers and chocolate on a random day in February because you think someone is pretty awesome? Weirrrrd...and expensive.

Amen.

But...there is one good thing about February 14th. It's this girl's Birthday!  

I'm pretty frickin glad she was born! She's the best! 

Follow Up

So not going to lie...I was hoping for a more awesome result from all this plasma business. But I guess these couple bruises will have to do.  

This one made me feel like I had a worm crawling in my arm... 

Poor

I'm poor. And because of this I have started selling my plasma. It had been going along so smooth...until today. They insert into my left arm, and after three workers coming over, they cannot not find a good enough vein. So they pull the needle out and move on to my right arm. The worker is about to insert the needle and I hear "Oh this vein looks nice!" and then I hear "Oh....I'll be right back." I look down at my arm and see a bubble forming. The worker came back and informed me he had nicked my vein. Just great. But no big deal. I still got paid and now I'll have a frickin awesome bruise! 

Left arm with a minor bandage

Right arm with the whole shebang. Bandage, Ice Pack, etc.  

Once the bruises start to surface, I'll for sure be posting those pics! 

The Quarry

Sister time. That's what this weekend consisted of. And I loved it. One of the things that we did while she was down was we went to the Quarry. It is an indoor rock climbing place here in Provo and I fell in love. I'll definitely be hitting this place up fairly often. 

I feel like my butt does not look this big in real  life.  Well... at least I hope it doesn't

My fabulous sister getting ready to conquer the wall

Calluses starting to form...yesssss.  

& he's going to....

Yesterday I went over to Craig and Kevin's place to watch Craig open his mission call. Everyone has been getting their calls and I think it's so awesome to see where they are going! Here is where he is headed...

The video is not the best quality....but he's headed to the Texas McAllen Mission, Spanish speaking.

Yayyy Craig. 

I'm a Coug

BYU basketball...I. Love. It. I love it so much that I missed my intramural game just so I could stand in line in the bitter cold waiting for the doors to open so I could get a front row seat. And then wait another two hours for the game to even begin. It was worth it. The Cougs played  Gonzaga and it was quite the game. Of course I forgot my camera...but you can see how awesome it was by this: