Kaitlin goes to college

2009-10-13T15:59:00.000-07:00

Things that make me incredibly happy:
1. Random Midnight Photo shoots

2. Haunted Worlds

3. Michael Buble

4. My Family

5. The Banana Couch

6. Sparkling Cider

7. Gum

8. Fanny Packs (sorry the pic is sideways)

9. Paint Fights

10. My Ewok Hat

11. Nicole's amazing Stop sign!

12. My Godson Noah

13. My old apartment cat Stephen (who was pink and a girl)

14. Playing Football

15. Family Friends

(The Torres Family)

(Kylee Williams + twins)

( Doug and Jody!)

16. Food

17. Sleep

18. Books

...

(These are not placed in any particular order. And this list is continually growing.)

My Humble Abode

2009-05-06T17:19:00.000-07:00

This is my apartments front entrance.

(Above our kitchen sink)
(Reason for the above quote... one day there was a girl, lets just call her 'Kaitlin'. Kaitlin really liked to eat and her roommates noticed this. So they thought eventually she would gain weight... yet she did not. So roommate #1, lets call her Nicole, gave the above backwards compliment.)

(my front room.)

(Another portion of our wall)

(Our hallway leading to the bathrooms and back bedrooms.)

(More hallway)
(Is it a bad thing that were ever I look I see dots?! ha ha)

(Another Quote... Along with Carli or Brianna's poster.)

The place I lay my head down at night, or when i need a nap.

2009-05-06T17:01:00.000-07:00

Hi I'm tour guide barbie.... haha jk. Well in a way I am going to give you a tour of my bedroom. Basically all this blog post consists of is a bunch of pictures... sorry I cant think of anything to say. Because I doubt anyone would like to here me say, 'and over there on my shelve is my shoes. and right below that is my books...' etc, etc.

Magical Bathroom

2009-05-04T05:47:00.000-07:00

Okay so when I first got up here at school I started decorating. I was so excited! My roommates were not excited cause I volunteered them to help. But look how it turned out!! I love love love it! You can't tell but on the dragonfly's, that are on the wall, my mom crystallized them. My roommates refer to this bathroom as the Magical or Buh-dazzled bathroom now. Nicole also claims there are to many eyes in there watching her, and it kinda freaks her out. ha ha oh well. I love it and that's all that matters :p

One of a kind 'Genes'

2009-05-04T05:45:00.000-07:00

My passion/ inspiration board for my Fundamental of Fashion Design class.

I thought I was pretty clever.

The many styles of Kaitlin...

2009-05-02T16:22:00.000-07:00

So this past week I have had multiple... dress up moments.

The picture above has kind of an embarrassing story with it. So I was cleaning my room the other day and got sick of hanging my clothes up, so I started to just put clothes on. Eventually this is all I had on. Next thing I know my roommate is yelling for me to come out in the front room. I thought nothing of it and went out there, to my dismay she was not alone. Two guys from our ward, who were not to bad looking, stopped by to introduce themselves. I could have killed her. She totally knew I looked the way I did. She thought she was so funny. I have to admit I kind of dug my own hole and fell in it.

This outfit is a combination of my roommates Melissa's and Meredith's clothes. We were going to make a video and this is the outfit I got to wear.... lucky me!

Meredith's swimsuit top that I am super jealous of! I think I am going to make one like it for my sewing project in my class!

This is a dress Meredith made. Isn't it super cute?!

Biker chick! Need i say more?!

Arabian or Quarter

2009-03-05T20:26:00.000-08:00

Blonde moment! (if you can call it that!)

Okay so I was texting a friend last night and I was just asking random questions like:

-Chocolate or vanilla?

-Pumpkin pie or cheese cake?

And he would respond. Finally he asked me a question:

-Arabian or Quarter?

I was so confused so instead of just keeping what I thought he meant to myself I asked:

I don't know what you mean. Like as in a coin or a person?

His response:

-horses. they are kinds of horse.

I couldn't of felt any dumber! Yup I sure did impress him with my knowledge! :p

Cindy Lou Who

2009-02-07T14:00:00.000-08:00

For all of you who don't know I had to have surgery. Nothing to serious but needless to say it is not something I ever want to go through again.

Reason why I had to have surgery (besides the fact that my mouth is dumb):

I had an infection that was eating away at my bone. I then had to go to a specialist and see what my options were. He gave me three:

1. ignore the problem and in a few years the infection would eat away more bone until eventually my teeth fell out.

2. pull out my two teeth that were causing the problem.

3. have surgery.

Naturally I went with option 3.

After going through option 3 I regretted jumping to a decision so quickly. This is what i had to go through. (For those of you who don't want to know the details skip to the end.)

What they did was cut my gum and flip it up so that it exposed the bone underneath. They then had to scrap the bone to get the infection out, then stitch me back up. Sounds easy enough. But let me tell you sitting in a chair for two hours, with no headphones or anything to distract me was less then pleasant. In the middle of the surgery I made the mistake of opening my eyes. To my shock I saw the doctors hands covered in blood. MY BLOOD! yeah I didn't open my eyes again. Then at the end of the procedure he pressed on my gums really hard to get the excess blood out of my gums. There is nothing more terrifying in my mind then tasting your own blood. I broke down as soon as I left the doctors office. Honestly that was about the worst of it. On the first day every time i smiled my mouth would start to bleed a little but it wasn't to bad.

So why name this post Cindy Lou Who? Well after the surgery my face swelled, as was to be expected, since all the work was done on my front upper teeth my top lip swelled. upon looking at myself I realised had i lived in Who ville ( How the Grinch stole Christmas) I would have fit right in!

McDonald's

2009-01-24T17:06:00.001-08:00

Today Sommer, my mom, and I took Kayden and Kyah out for the day. Eventually we all got hungry. So naturally we went to McDonald's. I'm pretty sure we spent over an Hour there just letting Kayden play. He hardly sat still. Then Kyah got up enough courage to go play with all the kids. Of course she couldn't climb very well so me being the youngest adult (whatever that means :p) got the responsibility to help her. Let me tell you... it was not very easy maneuvering my 5'10 145lb body around a million kids and in a very small space. To say the least i had a blast watching the kids play and have fun. I also enjoyed being able to be a kid for just a few minutes, playing once again on the toys at McDonald's.

UPDATE!

2008-10-01T16:48:00.000-07:00

Okay it is official i am by far the worst blogger in the history of blogging. I just cant seem to keep up. So here is the last month in fast forward... and backward.

So last week we got really bored. My roommate simple said this statement that instantly cured our boredom for awhile...

"Cowboys and Indians anyone?"

Nicole and I, of course, choose to be Indians while ....
Poor Alan and Allyse had to be cowboys :)
We spend the rest of the night making noise and trying to kill one another!

So yet again here we were bored, but my mom told me that i was no longer allowed to allow my roommates to cut my hair, so we had to come up with something else. This is what we came up with...

Bike Jousting! I of course had to put on a fat suit get on a bike and allow my roommates to whack me off the bike...
needless to say we thoroughly enjoyed this game.

Meredith got a hold of a marker... and my feet :)

Okay so the picture above is of me eating a kiwi.... or actually about to eat a kiwi. For one of my classes we have to make goals and achieve them. My goal for this day was to try something new. Kiwi was that days item.... it took awhile to finally eat but it wasn't as bad as i thought. i might have another one... next year.

(Nicole, Allyse, Meredith, Me)

(sitting on a dumpster...)

Our Tye Dye Party!

We got a little carried away... but we decided one can never have to much Tye dye!

I woke up this morning sat on the couch, and began to eat breakfast to try and wake up. My two roommates quickly then proceeded to grab spoons sit next to me and steal my breakfast! I was helpless and could do nothing but let them.

~Ill try and be better about keeping you all updated. ~

Poem

2008-10-01T07:34:00.000-07:00

This poem was written by my FHE Brother Alan and my roommate Nicole:

Grilled Cheese

Into the current, merciless violence

Ebbing flows of hunger from below

Breaking through the deep sounds of silence

Escaping from its grasp i cannot go

Cheese on the grill, divine words from above

Wonderful servant seeks my relief

Floating to me like a sweet little dove

Reinforcing the principles of my belief

To my rescue she selflessly runs

Wonderful butter, sweet slices of cheese

Wedged between the most beautiful buns

Brings me helplessly to my knees

Such divinity will surely be blessed

It flows over the edges like a water fountain.

My appreciation i have truly confessed

On the worlds tallest vast mountain.

~If you couldn't tell they were extremely bored. Plus Alyssa was actually making us all grilled cheese. They were so grateful they wrote her a poem.~

Dress me up Kait.

2008-06-20T22:26:00.000-07:00

My rommates decided i needed to dress a little more girly... so they dressed me up in Meredith's dress, Alyssa's boots, and Melissa's hat. Meredith is 5'6 . i am 5'10 ! Hence why the dress is a little short. But i decided i love sun dresses! (just a little longer ones.)

Wierd Cravings

2008-06-20T19:47:00.002-07:00

So last weekend i bet a friend of mine that i could go from Tuesday through Friday with no sugar. Well it is now Friday, only a few more hours to go... and i think i might continue this a little longer... yes my heart breaks every time i have to turn down chocolate especially when it's free! but .. I'm still alive. So since I'm allowed no sugar i have had to be reduced to trying fruits! well i have found that i love Bananas! I bought a bushel yesterday and it is now gone. ( can you die from to much Bananas?!)

well anyways tonight i was trying to find a snack that wasn't sugar, and i had a sudden craving for this:

It was sooooo Good!

Since i can not have bananas and peanut butter every night i need a few more ideas, for sugar free snacks... I'm willing to try almost anything... so if you have any ideas please let me know.

Water Fight!

2008-06-15T15:14:00.000-07:00

(Melissa, Chay, Me, Christine, Nicole, and Meredith.)

(We can never get a picture without one person making a really wierd face.)

I can not begin to tell everyone how many water fights i have been in within the last week! randomly someone will start it and we don't quit until over half our apartment is soaking wet. Oops!

Us girls after the boys left!

...sewing projects...

2008-05-15T16:09:00.000-07:00

This was the first project that we made in my children's sewing class. I thought that they were absolutely adorable! It so much fun to make miniature clothing. I love going to that class. Almost everyone in there is married and expecting a child. Its so much fun to watch there faces as they make all these things for there baby.

So this is my bib. Yeah it is huge! I decided i was going to put it in my purse and pull it out every now and then to use on myself! I'm not saying I'm messy when i eat but every time i eat an old man comes and throws food on me! Talk about bad luck... i think ill stick with just buying bibs at the store when the time comes.

This is by far my favorite thing we've made so far. Its a baby sleeper! Talk about cute! I still cant believe that i actually made it. I even embroidered the little feet on there. ( sorry about the camera cord in the pic :p )

This is the entire sleeper. Don't look to close you'll see all my mistakes...

Curly...

2008-05-15T15:57:00.000-07:00

I finally learned what and how to use a diffuser! i know my mom is probably grinding her teeth thinking " I've tried. She just doesn't listen to anything i say." Well i do and i did. While my roommate was at class i borrowed her diffuser and... Voila! Curly! Yeah i know how shockingly curly my hair is! Everyday i do my hair and think to myself " If only i lived in the 80's!"

Anyone have a time-traveling machine?!

wal*mart

2008-03-05T00:22:00.000-08:00

It's official i am now a Wal*mart employee! Stay tuned for updates of Kaitlin in a hairnet! Yeah I'm working in the deli and have to wear a goofy hair net and i don't even get to sample the food! how unfair!

Have you ever noticed how some of the Wal*mart employees name is all crooked and pushed to one side of the card? Does it bother you like it bothers me? Well when i made my name tag i took extra time to make sure my name was centered and straight.... i dunno maybe that scrapbooking gene my mom gave me is coming out a little.

feed us we are starving students...

2007-11-27T05:21:00.000-08:00

The night before we all left for Thanksgiving break, my roommates and i got really bored, so naturally they make me do something stupid.... like put on all my sweatshirts and make my very own fat suit! So I did... Then my roommate Nicole did the same thing... we made the sign above and walked around our dorm complex... no one thought we were very funny but we had more fun just laughing at ourselves.

Do you trust your roommates?

2007-10-26T17:54:00.000-07:00

Evidently Liz does! Once again we were really bored! (it happens a lot and that is not always a good thing) In this case we decided to cut each others hair. So Alyssa started cutting Liz's hair... I tried to help but when i cut the back of her hair crooked she banned me from ever cutting her hair again! ha ha I do have to say that had i had a better pair of scissors... we were using Alyssa's sewing scissors... i could have done a better job! at least that's what i tell myself.

Here is Alyssa trying to correct my mistake...

Alyssa's scissors were just not working very well. This is what turned out from using them. Don't worry we fixed it, or rather Alyssa fixed it.

(Liz's and my hair)

Okay i will admit i too trusted my roommates to cut my hair! Ahhhhhh... That's probably what you all are thinking. Well don't have a heart attach. It turned out alright. All they did , meaning Liz and Alyssa, was cut my mullet off in the back and give me some layers. I think it looks alright but you be the judge.

This is what it looks like. Not a very good picture but you get the point of what they did.

(The back of my hair)

So what did i learn from this? Simply this... Have someone hide all the scissors in case we ever get bored again... i wouldn't want to end up bald!

how bored can i get?!

2007-10-26T17:41:00.000-07:00

So bored that i'll put nylons over my head for my own and my roommates entertainment...

So here's the story... well the truth is there isn't really one. I was really bored and everyone was being really boring. So in order to spice things up a little bit i pulled the whole, nylon over the head thing. lol you can't tell me you have never done this before.

I have nothing to say besides.... i look hideous! haha

(i am not planning on reliving this anytime soon so have a good laugh)

(No one will ever let me live this down they show everyone these pictures of me)

Tennis

2007-09-22T15:53:00.000-07:00

Saturday Alyssa, Elise, Meredeth, Melissa, Dan, Austin, Antonio, and i played tennis.

Austin and i were on a team. We played against Alyssa and Dan. And TOTALLY BEAT THEM!! Very rare have i ever beat Alyssa so i was ecstatic!

Then Austin and I played against Dan and Elise. And once again we won! I'm telling you we were unstoppable!
The four of us being dorks!

When Austin and i played against Alyssa and Dan, Austin was hitting the ball over the net and Alyssa got hit in the leg really hard by the ball. She has a huge bruise. The rest of the time he kept apologizing. Elise also got hurt. She fell and scraped up her thigh and has a bigger bruise then Alyssa. Austin and Dan thought it was there fault so they continued to apologize to both Alyssa and Elise the rest of the day.

Bigger and Better

2007-09-22T15:39:00.001-07:00

Oh what do you do on a Friday night when there is nothing to do?!

You Play Bigger Or Better!

The rules of the game (for those of you who don't know): You start off with a penny and you go to different houses, and ask do you have anything bigger or better and trade with them... And so on until the time limit, which you set before hand, is up. Then you meet up and see who has the biggest and best thing.

It was Ashley, Elise, and me on a team against Alyssa, Nicole, and Lizzy.

This is my team starting out with a penny.

We traded the penny for a empty cereal box...

The cereal box for a broken fan...

The broken fan for this picture a girl made...

(We had a really hard time giving it up. We liked it a lot!)

The picture for a ... actually I'm not quite sure what this is... Oh well...

The paper Lennon thing for a Cosmo Girl magazine...

The magazine for these AWESOME sunglasses!...

Sunglasses for Ice Cream ... A bucket of Ice cream!...

(Which in case you didn't know is "by farr the best" Ice Cream!)

These guys didn't have anything bigger of better but they sure where cute!

And they gave the Root beer to us not even wanting the ice cream!

So we started off with a penny and ended up with rootbeer floats! The other team ended up with a guy. Personally i think we won! Ice Cream is way better! Ha Ha!

Midnight Cleaning

2007-09-21T14:01:00.000-07:00

My roommates and i stayed up tell like three in the morning cleaning our dorm for inspections. We got a lot done we made Brownies... ate the Brownies... and laughed a ton. We also did laundry, our curtains had mold growing on them, it was so gross.

Our couches were so gross we tried to be all creative and make then look better, but this is how it turned out. lol. We laughed so hard.

More of our attemt at making it look better.

Once again trying to make our prison of a dorm look... less like a prison .

Yeah we are officially not creative!

(P.S. We did not keep the couches like that. When we woke up and realized how horribly bad it looked we immediately fixed it.)

The Boys

2007-09-21T13:52:00.000-07:00

So we (realize when i say we i normally mean me, my roommates, Alyssa, and her roommates.) met these guys in our igroup , which is something for our orientation, and we immediately got along with them. So we planned a Friday night game night. Well actually it was more a Jello and pudding party but we played a lot of games

This is Austin. He is super funny! The best part is he wears his socks almost up to his knees while wearing shorts. lol.

At the game night we played Apples to Apples and Moose Moose, and a bunch of mind games. It was really fun.

(Us just talking while waiting for Alyssa to make pudding and Jello)

So ever since i went over to Sarah's house for a cousin sleepover i have been dying to re-inact the whip cream toss. So I did...

(Starting on the far left is Austin, then Dan, Chris, Antonio, and Meredeth.)

I want to put the video i got of it but I'm not quite sure how to yet . But one day i will put it up. It's great.

We made a huge mess and no one escaped without whip cream on them.

(Antonio and Dan)

So after Friday night we decided that we should thank the guys for coming over. So we bought two cans of whip cream and made a really cute card, and dropped it off at there house. The next night they called us and invited us over for brownies. They were really good! We played the game I never... So we got to know a little more about each other. It was fun and all the guys were great!

Poor Tang-a-lang-a-tash-a-gama

2007-09-21T13:48:00.000-07:00

Okay here is a sad sad story... So me being the perfect roommate (he he) decided that i would clean the apartment and vacuum, since we had dorm room inspections, well while cleaning I decided to move the couch and stuff. Well when i leaned back against the desk to look at the beautiful job i did i heard a huge CRASH! And felt water run all down my back. Well turned out when i leaned back i pushed the fish bowl, which i forgot was there, against the wall and broke it. I jumped up looking for my fish. There he was lying next to the desk flopping. So i hurried up and picked him up! (Yes i pick up a fish in my Hand!!!! Gross.) I ran into the kitchen and...

Grabbed one of my roommates cups and filled it with water, dumped the fish in and made sure he was still alive. And Guess What He was! Yes Tang... Is still alive. So after i made sure he was alive i went and evaluated the mess. Then i realized i had glass down my shirt. Me being the dork i am, immediately started to take off my shirts. While in the process of that i realized my blinds we're open! Ahhhh... So with my shirt half off i tried too close my binds... But everything is good... tang... is still alive, and no one saw me. The only thing i was afraid off was my roommates walking in and seeing me half naked with a huge mess around me and a vacuum. They probably would have thought i had this weird ritual of vacuuming naked... lol

(This is my foot. I smashed it and it really hurt. All because i was trying to clean. This only confirms that i should not move stuff while cleaning or that i should just not clean:)

This day was a very bad day. But very funny now that i look back.

The Face Game

2007-09-21T13:34:00.000-07:00

I can't help it... now that i have learned the face game i make everyone i meet play it. So here are just a few pictures of people playing the face game.

Alyssa and Meredith Not really playing the face game but hey they could be :)

Liz! She's good at the face game!

Alyssa

Ashley (Her attempt at the face game, She couldn't quit laughing. She's so cute!)

Roommates

2007-09-21T13:12:00.000-07:00

So i forgot to tell you about who i am living with. I am rooming with a girl named Nicole she is really cute, does her own thing but gets along with everyone. Then in the other room there is Meredeth and Melissa. Meredeth and Melissa are good friends. They played water polo together there senior year of high school. There super nice. Alyssa, my best friend from Nampa lives right next door. Her roommates are super cute too. They names are Ashley, Elise, and Liz. Both mine and Alyssa's roommates are super good friends now. We are continually doing things together.

(Melissa, Meredeth, Liz, Alyssa, And Elise.) (Don't ask what they were doing.)

{ Playing jumbo twister at i-night (dance and activities for orientation)}

Flying away

2007-09-12T16:27:00.000-07:00

As most of you know i am now at college! Crazy i know... it still doesn't feel real to me. The whole first week i felt like i was at EFY. But as soon as classes started and i cooked my first real meal, reality hit me. The taste of overly salty potatoes just made me realize that i definitely am on my own. I am really enjoying it here. The people are great and the classes are amazing. Who would ever have thought that i would actually want to study! Well now that I'm moved in I'll show you what it's like to live like a college student with 3 other girls.

This is my kitchen but to the side. (I couldn't figure out how to flip it :~*) This is what a kitchen looks like to have four girls with totally different eating styles!

Yes i do have a junk drawer! Don't freak out to much mom :)

This is my cute bedroom! My wonderful mom made the pillow case and the quilt!

My front room. The quotes on the wall i made at work before moving up to rexburge.
When i first pulled them out to put on the wall my roommate Nicole thought that they were young women quotes. (she was none the less overly relieved when she saw that it was in fact not young women quotes.)