Happy (Late) St. Patrick's Day

I know, I know...technically it's not St. Patrick's day anymore. But I still hope you had a good one! This is going to be a very short post since it is past my bedtime ;)

Tonight the SHE Club hosted an off the hook St. Patrick's Day Party at Rebel Creek, and it was so fun just hanging out with the girls, meeting cute new boys and dancing! One of my favorite parts of St. Patty's is busting on the people who didn't wear green...it's so funny when they forget all about it and you get to pinch them! I haven't laughed that hard in FOREVER! One of my good friends from high school, Megan, walked up to me and started poking me at school that morning. I was wearing a necklace that had green in it, and she didn't pinch me, just poked so it was just an odd way of saying hello I guess! Here are some more pics from our crazy good time:

Hope you had a very green day!

*AmAnDa*

Spring Breakdown!

What a day! First off, I am happy to say that spring break has finally arrived and I am loving every minute of it! Well, except for one exception...but i'll get to that momentarily. I will start at the beginning of the story, because I've heard that is always the best place to start...

My best friend Chris and I decided we needed to get out of the house on this lovely evening. You may recognize him from the Madonna Party photos in my January post. But anyway, being the shopaholic that I am, a brilliant idea came to mind. After watching "The Mallpisode" in Season 2 of The OC (our favorite show, only 2nd of course to The Simpsons) we decided to go shopping. We were having fun, despite the fact that there was no good sales. So we decided to leave the mall (after our modeling session in the dressing room at American Eagle, pictured below)

Chris and I lookin' fierce (our new favorite word) and Me and my triplet sisters takin photos of our bad selves

So we skip the car and start driving to Kohls, another favorite store of ours. So we were stopped at the light, singing our favorite song "Tattoo" by Jordin Sparks when all of a sudden, we look over at the guy to our right in a REALLY old chevy car that is rusted with red and blue paint splotches all over it and he is giving us the dirtiest look (like we were the scum of the earth!) I couldn't figure out why, until I looked forward...

A scream escaped my throat, and then, I don't know what happened. Maybe we went crazy. Maybe the smoke was toxic and we inhaled too much. But that's when everything broke loose: Chris and I just started laughing and couldn't stop. There was smoke everywhere! And you know its gotta be bad when a crazy guy with a rusted chevy is giving YOU the dirty looks. So we pulled over, and lucky me, I have a mechanic for a daddy so I just called him and he took care of everything. I'm sure if I was the one paying the mechanic bill I wouldn't have been laughing! Until next time,

Amanda :)

SHE Club Bonfire

Tonight was such a blast! Us S.H.E. club members hosted a bonfire social for us and The X Club. It was so much fun catching up with the girls, making hot dogs and S'mores and just being carefree.

My friend Emily kept having disastrous results trying to make S'Mores, she ended up lighting a grand total of 6 marshmallows on fire! It was hard to keep a straight face about it :D It was so fun meeting all the guys in The X Club, they are a REALLY funny and goofy bunch! Honestly, I'm so gladwe get to do stuff like this. It was a nice stress release too since this week is Midterms! I swear, this week and finals week are the busiest of the year. But at least next week (March 8-17) is SPRING BREAK! I'm so excited to just have fun around town with friends and hopefully there will be some good sales because I got my taxes back ($cha-ching!) I am such a shopaholic, we shouldn't even go there cause we will be there ALL DAY! I was hoping to go out of town with a friend to Provo but it might not work out, but that's what the summer is for right? Speaking of summer, I found out today that after Spring Break there is only 5 weeks of classes left! Woohoo! I'll have another post for you later this week to make up for the lack of one last week...I was sick, again! Until Next Time!!
Amanda



The SHE Club of Dixie State College

Happy Birthday to Me!

I am officially 19 years old and excited that the day finally came! I will give you a quick rundown of my birthday celebration since I have to work in a few minutes. Ok, on Thursday (2/21) the day before my actual birthday, after I came home from school my mom had a surprise for me and she made me stay in the living room FOREVER and I couldn't figure out what the heck was going on! So finally she revealed her surprise to me:

She redecorated my room as a surprise for me! She is the best mom ever, and i was shocked! i love my new glam pink room :) Later that day, we had family and my best friend Chris (who is like family) over to unwrap gifts and have a mini-party. Here is a sneak peek at some of my presents:

Top from left: Juicy Couture Clutch, Marc Jacobs Star Watch Necklace, and Marilyn Monroe Artwork. I was so happy and grateful that my friends and family care so much about me! It was a fun day. And on Friday, my actual birthday (2/22) I had a midtern (yuck!) but it wasn't actually too hard. Afterwards, my Mom and I headed to Mesquite, NV for a girls night of beauty and shopping! It was so fun, and we even got to eat a fancy restaurant (I had filet mignon and creme brulee...mmm!) I felt so special! It was a great birthday. Well, I'm off to work! Until next time...

Amanda

My Celebrity Crush/Love of Comedy

I got to thinking today and I decided every girl needs a celebrity crush so I'm going to tell you all about mine! His name is Andy Samberg and he is a comedian who is on Saturday Night Live (one of my favorite shows, by the way) I'm obsessed with watching his SNL Digital Shorts. Seriously, if you are having a bad day and are in need of a good laugh fest you need to see this. Andy has brought new life back into the show and some people even say he is the new Adam Sandler (also hilarious!). If you haven't seen them, log your butt onto www.NBC.com/Saturday_Night_Live and look them up under videos. He was also in the movie Hot Rod if you want to check that out as well, but I like the digital shorts better!
<----Andy Samberg is so cute...but my 2nd place celebrity crush would have to be James Marsden!

Comedy has such a special place in my heart since I grew up loving to make people laugh and I was always studying actors and their timing. I love comedy so much, a lot of people don't know this about me but it was actually a dream of mine to become a comedian! Who knows, maybe someday I'll give it a shot ;) But for now, I'm getting my education so people don't laugh at me instead of with me haha! I even once had to give a "How-To" report at school and I did mine on "How To Make People Laugh" Bet you can't guess what I got...that's right, an F. Not really, I got an A+! Anyway, I'm off to work on homework since Midterms are coming up :S Wish me luck!
Until Next Time,
Amanda

Adventures In Babysitting

Today was a really fun day to start off the weekend! First off, I was so excited to see the weather is finally warming up since I live for our warm days in St. George :) and finally, THE SUN came out from all the gray and it was the perfect day to play! Lucky for me, I was babysitting for my across the street neighbors, The Jones family, and they always show me a good time! We decided to have a marathon of Spongebob Squarepants and The Simpsons (which are hilarious no matter how old you are!!) and then we decided to go to the park nearby our houses and it was so much fun. We took their ADORABLE dog Cookie along so she could have a walk, and we had swinging contests, played on the jungle gym and even made new friends! It made me realize just how special little kids are to me...I love playing with them since I'm a big kid at heart :D I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and here are some pictures of our fun day for you to enjoy!

February has arrived!

I decided to write in purple today to match the birthstone Amethyst, which is the birthstone for the the month of February! I'm not just a weirdo for knowing that...my birthday is this month! I will be 19 on 2/22/2008, the same birthday as George Washington (formerly...he no longer celebrates. RIP honesty about the cherry tree president) Drew Barrymore (which, ironically enough, has been my favorite actress since I was 10) and Rachel Dratch (of SNL fame...ever heard of Debbie Downer? Haha!) I am excited but to be honest life is flying by! I feel like I just started Kindergarten, not college. I know its still about 3 weeks away but I get so excited about these things. But after I've been posting these past weeks I have forgotten to update you on certain activities and how they went:

• AMBASSADOR RETREAT(1/11) was one of the funnest nights ever...but thinking about it makes me tired! We stayed up playing games (like Werewolf, which is so addicting. I was going to stop after 2 games but played 5) and listening to the guys playing guitar. My friend Doug has an amazing voice! Guess who is crazy and forgot her camera...AGAIN! I'm not used to having one but I'll bum pics from someone, I promise!

• REBEL RETREAT(1/25) was a smashing success. We had a great turnout. Kids from all over UT and the US came to check out DSC. It was so fun! We went to Entertainment Dixie and saw this hilarious improv comedy group called "Mission Improvable" and we also had a bonfire party afterwards. One of our advisors, Pat, left his car running to do something for a minute and was standing talking to someone and noticed a car rolling away. "What an idiot!" He yelled, not realizing it was his own car! It was hilarious, but paying the repair bill won't be...

There is always lots of fun things going on at Dixie. Tonight is the SHE club sleepover and we are also going to the Mr. Dixie pageant, which I have been looking forward to for months. I will update you every last juicy detail, as always, next Friday!

Love Always,

Amanda

p.s. Here is an Update: The Mr. Dixie Pageant was so fun! One kid wanted the title so badly he ate live worms and goldfish...for me, no crown (no matter how diamond encrusted) would be worth it! Congrats to Kadin Allen for taking the crown (Fortunately for him he just played the piano instead eating creepy crawly things)