cartwheels to car wheels.

paige {my sweet sweet sister and the love of my life} has a new blog {cartwheels to car wheels}. read it because i love it and she's funny.

oh my goodness, oh my goodness!

my most favoritest person and bestest friend and dearest sister just moved to orem for school.


i miss her so so so so much already.

...i carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me{i carry it in
my heart}i am never without it{anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling}
i fear no fate{for you are my fate,my sweet}
i want no world{for beautiful you are my world, my true}
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart{i carry it in my heart}

...ee cummings

*i love you.

burlington coat factory.

paige and i think the following is pretty much the best thing ever.
















but wait, it's reversible.


















cool.

dreams of my sister {the yarn}.

youarewhatyoulove is proud to announce it's newest feature {ba ba ba ba!}, today is the first installment of dreams of my sister. these little gems will come to you straight from the mouth of paige and will be detailed accounts of the erratic dreams that she experiences on a nightly basis. seriously these are crazy!
enjoy {cause i know i do}.


dreams of my sister {the yarn}.

sometimes, in real life, my knee makes a creeking noise, like an oil thirsty door hinge. my knee was especially noisy one day, so naturally the noise followed me to my dreams. the dream took place in a doctor's office, most likely a knee specialist. i waited on the tissue papered examination table as the doctor pondered my predicament. finally he broke the news, "you have some sort of ring worm twisted around your kneecap," he said somberly, "i'll have to make and incision to grab it and then pull the little guy outta there." he went right into the procedure. oddly enough, the incision was barely noticed but as he began to pull on what looked like yellowed yarn and smelled like the clay in the game cranium, the pain set in. my kneecap was twisting like a dj's turn table when suddenly the lemon-scented-knee-yarn came to a stop. the doctor tugged then came to a conclusion, "i can't pull this out and cutting it off would result in a re-growth. you'll just have to wait till it falls off." i stared at the monster thinking, how am i supposed to live with this three foot long tail trailing behind me?
and then i woke up.

it was the hottest day of the week.

holly took some lovely photos of sister and i a couple of weeks ago ...



isn't she spectacular? see more here.

summer series.

paige and i have begun our 2nd annual summer series {consists of watching an entire series in the summer}. i secretly call it "summer smut" because the series we choose often end up being some gratuitous teen-aged soap opera ... but hey, we love it.

last year it was the o.c. {marry me seth cohen!}.
this year, it's gossip girl. in this delightful series you've got:


blair {aka b}: this girl is seriously beasty, really i'm so frightened by this character. that being said, her style is superb.
serena {aka s}: played by blake lively, who is surprisingly a great little actress.
nathan {aka nate}: who is taking zac efron's place in the remake of footloose. lets just say i'm not completely sold on him playing the role of disgruntled teen ren mccormack {who other than troy bolton could pull off that angry dance?}.
charles {aka chuck}: the nastiest thing on televison ... and i hate that scarf.
dan {aka lonely boy}: pyt. and oddly similar to seth cohen.
jenny {aka little j}: cindy lou who is that you?

however, there's only room for one smutty series in our hearts, and for right now, that's the o.c.

this just happened.

paige: is it friday?
courtney: yeah.
paige: oh.

we need to get jobs.

my new life motto.

this weekend, paige and i decided to come up with our very own life mottoes. paige's is no one said it would be easy. and mine is you won't always be young, but you can be immature forever.
so great.
i'm leaving you with a few ways to accomplish said immaturity {taken from the book "eat dessert first and other ways to take a recess from being a grown-up"}:
~run through the sprinkler with all your clothes on.
~buy yourself a helium balloon.
~squish some mud between your toes.
~help your salt-and-pepper shakers talk to each other in high, squeaky voices.
~take a running jump over a big puddle.
~make cool screeching noises every time you turn a corner.
~do a cartwheel.
~make graham-cracker-and-frosting sandwiches.
~read the funnies. throw away the rest of the paper.
~grow a milk mustache.

conGRADulations.

to all my loves graduating this week:


















{lib}

















{paigey}


"great has been our past,
wonderful is our present,
glorious can be our future."
{gordon b. hinckley}

things i love {march-april}.

i guess with all the hustle and bustle of graduation, i forgot to post my march loves. so here we have a combined list of loves. so much love.
.sharon larsen.
.being with my rockstar of a sister.
.being with my rockstar of a mom.
.dad, you're alright too i guess {jokes}.
.my desk {props to pop for moving it for me}.
.my new camera {yet again, thank you parents of mine for it}.
.the exercise bike.
.seeing movies with shanman.
.mim.
.avery caplin.

peace and love, peace and love.

what a degree in psychology gets you.

since obtaining my degree, i have been less than active. i wake up late, watch the price is right, make delicious lunches, then sit around till paige gets home. then we party. its been fun.

i'm glad to announce that i have been reading {something i never do} and doing lots of organizing {something i always do}. yesterday i cleaned and organized my parent's computer room and came upon this little number.

it was my mother's "wedding suit". when i asked my dad if he remembered what it was he said "of course i do, its the first thing i took off of your mother." which was promptly followed by "ewwww!" from paige and i.

i'm also getting a fair share of shopping in. last weekend i bought a foundation brush {best thing ever} and russian red lipstick from mac. i never knew how liberating a color of lipstick could be. its great.

and today ... i finally cut my hair!



i hope your spring is going as lovely as mine.

i feel bad.

that i haven't blogged for a long long time. below is my chronicled {is that a word?} month:
february 5th: watched boring movie for film class and not so boring the science of sleep.
february 6th: watched another boring movie for film class. had cafe rio to cancel out boringness. also saw he's just not that into you. now hate men.
february 7th: attended ALL DAY training for new job at women's crisis center. did you know that 1 in 3 women in utah will experience some form of sexual violence in their lives? ahh!
february 8th: attended amazing music and the spoken word .
february 9th: began writing letters to the future mr. courtney. {perhaps coming soon to the blog world. i'm not sure i want to share those}
february 10th: realized my holga was broken again! dang camera. also took this amazing picture of shannen that i love so much.

february 11th: partied at cheesecake factory with paige for her 18th. {happy birthday sister girl}

february 12th: wished stevenannie happy wedding, ate the most delish cake i've ever tasted, partied like a rock star, etc.



february 13th: got holga picties back {only 5 turned out, but i love those 5 with all my heart}


february 14th: saw coraline with valentine. {it's super good!}
february 15th: went to lava!


february 16th: came back from lava.
february 17th: laid in bed all day and watched movies because i didn't have class. {i'm so lazy. i need to fix that}
february 18th: wrote a paper about parenting {i'm not a parent so i don't really i know what i wrote about. weird}
today: wrote really long post that probably no one will read.

being bored has it's benefits.

sometimes i do this thing when i'm bored: look at pictures on my computer from a year earlier. it is fun.

here are some {goodies} i found from november of 2007.
enjoy.




loves.

homage to polaroids.

i got a polaroid camera when i was about 7 and took pictures of everything! loved it. i found this same love again last year but was devastated to learn of the discontinuance of the film. why?

here are some of my favs:









as a replacement for polaroids i now want a holga. they're wicked cool.for a preview click here.

loves.