my brush with fame and fortune

so the other day i was in the slc airport. calling matt. when all of a sudden a i see a very familiar person walking towards me.

elder dallin h. oaks. he is just as regal and handsome in real person as he is via satellite. we didn't talk. he just passed by. all i could do was stare. we made eye contact. he smiled. and i think i was so stunned i just kept staring.

on friday, i got back from my first, official business trip. i was in houston for a client conference, attended by foreign and national business leaders and dignitaries. we stayed at the houstonian hotel. this is how posh it is.

when you walk in the lobby

when you walk in my room after two crazy days

after a beautiful, beautiful five-hour night's sleep that i wish could have lasted forever. it felt like i was sleeping on a cloud.

when you walk out of the hotel room.

really though. thank goodness i'm a simple, midwestern girl at heart.

grabbing a hot dog with matt at kojak's.

Eat Me Daily

Presently, I am at my desk in my office at work. Eating a slice of delicious Lou Manati's vegetable deep dish pizza leftover from a client visit yesterday. The goal was to write a few e-mails in between taking some of bites of bliss, but instead I procrastinated the e-mails and decided to surf the net. I started by checking my gmail, glancing through my friend's g-chat statuses. One friend always has great statuses complete with a funny/interesting news link. So naturally I checked his out first. And oh boy am I glad I did. You see, I have never had the privilege of seeing a Japanese Water Noodle Slide before. Please note how happy this cute family looks in the picture below. If this noodle slide can bring a smile like that to a face, I wouldn't be surprised if these are the hot ticket item this holiday season. Only $118 USD according to www.eatmedaily.com.

What has been going on

Whirlwind. Are you ready?

Labor Day weekend. Went to Utah to visit my boy-f Matt, my BF Mel and her cute little girls London and Brea. Please see the cutest pictures below for evidence.

Matt and I spent most of the weekend at his aunt and uncle's cabin in Brianhead, UT. Mountain biking, watching movies, eating and hiking in Zion's National Park. It was my first time mountain biking and like a pro I ate it going 30 miles an hour. I have bruises and scrapes to prove it. So fun.

And then this past Friday. We had a Cousin's Party at my place. Rock Band was the main highlight of the evening. So was fitting seven of us in my Toyota Camry.

Saturday night I went to an ice skating show. With my sisters and mom. Skate for the Heart. Sasha Cohen is in the picture below. I LOVE her. Love. The show will actually air on NBC January 31. Please look for me. I am the girl at the very back, top row in the dark.

A Tribute to Summer 2009.

I know, I know, I know.

A little MIA in the blogging world as of late.

My summer has been SO, SO, SO jam packed.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So a video must be worth what - a million.

I am sad to see summer come to an end. It was such a fun one.

Here is my tribute.To both summer and LFO.

Enjoy.

News

This is Matt.

We're dating.

He is great. 

We have fun.

More to follow soon!

Can you find us?

My old mission comp, Emily Eland, who I will always and forever refer to as Sister Eland, visited me this weekend. We had a blast. We went down to Nauvoo, saw the pageant, went to the temple, toured Chicago, ate pizza at Uno's, got a hot dog at Millennium Park, tried Asian Nachos at Grand Lux Cafe, had Sunday dinner with my family in the burbs and of course did what we do best....Lot's and lot's of shopping.

Here we are trying on hats in Nordstrom's. Can you find us? Hint: Look in the mirror.

Today I learned I am Epic

I turned 25 two weeks ago. Below is the cake my family used to celebrate.

You may think they did this as a joke. My family is not that funny. Actually, my mom didn't have a #2 candle. So, she said, "You know that 1+1=2, right?" So please keep this formula in mind when you stare at this picture. I am not 115 years old. Yet.

That evening Amanda threw me a surprise birthday party. It was so nice. Best friends are the best. And the cake was so good with exactly 25 candles on it.

Despite all of this. I still felt a tad...well quarter of a century. Because of my career in PR, I am very conscious of the fact that retailers, marketers and advertisers now lump me in the demographic of - single female between ages of 25-30.

Today, however, I learned something that changed my whole mindset of my age.

Today I learned my age is Epic. Just so we're all on the same page as to the definition of Epic, dictionary.com attaches the following synonyms to the word: Heroic, Majestic, Impressively Great.

Today, I attended a Web Writing Seminar on behalf of my firm.

Great seminar. Very useful.

The instructor shared the following stats in regards to generations and how marketers, advertisers and retailers like to clump them:

Baby boomers

People between ages of 45-62. There are 80 million of them.

Gen X

Ages 30-43. There are 44 million in the world today.

Gen Y
Ages 10-29. 77 million of us going strong. (love this demographic)

And do you know what marketers, advertisers, retailers think of us Gen Yers? According to my Web Writing Seminar they think we are: Epic, Awesome and Technological. And they think everyone wants to be us because we are Epic, Awesome and Technological. Everyone is basing what they do on the Web to revolve around US. So when your mother told you the world does not revolve around you. She was wrong. It really does. Why? Because you're Epic, or in other words Heroic, Majestic, Impressively Great. That's why.

Whatever gets me through it.