3 down 4 to go

Here are bits and pieces of a beautiful wedding day with my best friends!

I'm into competitive eating for a living.

I've had these epiphanies over the past couple of weeks about my future.

1. I'm going to be a ranch hand. I'll live in this little shack and sleep on a cot with one of those Indian blankets, when I'm not sleeping out in the wild of course, and ride a horse everywhere. I'll drive an old S-10 and spend my nights serenading the stars with my guitar. It will be in Montana of course. My ranch family will be so great and I'll go hang out with them, play Boggle or swing on their porch swing. It will look like this.

2. I'm going to marry a bearded man. Named Reggie.

3. I'm growing my hair out so I can have dreadlocks like this. That wasn't really an epiphany, I just am.

4. Now that we're off the epiphanies, I'll just keep throwing in random things. Yesterday I jumped out of a plane 13,000 feet above the ground. Its a rush I tell you, especially with this 50 year old guy named JVC hooked to my back. He kept fixing the harness which he called the push up bra from hell, as it was right under my boobs, and told me about people who barfed all over him or passed out while falling from the sky! I got his number.

5. This weekend Casey and I bought hammocks, went up the canyon, hooked them in between some trees, and I'll tell you what I had the best sleep of my life!! We're going to tie dye them. Now its in my backyard and I read books in it.

6. Speaking of books, you guys should read The Help. It is such a great book.

I love you!

Rachie

The Adventure

So I am married now. My name is now Aubrey Veva Smith, I was married on a beautiful saturday morning on June 5th 2010. I married a young man named BJ Smith or as some of you girls may know as JP. I will give you brief story of how MR. and Mrs. Smith came to be. (Sorry I got kind of carried away so it got kind of long oops ha ha)

So this dashing young boy moved in to my home ward my sophomore year in high school. I saw him for the first time at church and I couldn't keep my eyes off him. All threw high school I always had the biggest crush in the world on him but there was no way I would ever get my nerves up to tell him so. We had a few in counters back in those days which I will never forget like the time I got his cell phone number from Brittany Johnson and texted him good game after a friday night football game but I never said it was me who texted him cause I was way embarrased. Or the time I got to dance with him at the stake pioneer dance and he said I had a nice tan line. Or the time me and kenz went to a church activity with our favorite sunday school teacher and we all got to go paint ball shooting and I nailed BJ in the shoulder. Those were some good times back in the day and then he left for a mission to Alaska while I was attending Snow College. I wrote him for the whole two years, the letters started out as short little get to know you letters with many questions in each. One of his letters he asked something like what is something about Aubrey Bushman that I dont really know about and I told him I got a tatoo of my middle name on my left shoulder when I graduated high school. Ha ha I let that one go for about 4 letters and I was known in BJs mission as tatoo girl for awhile. But as the months went by the letters turned in to more than just letters and I couldnt wait to see him when he got home.

Last summer was quite a summer he took me out to all sorts of places out to movies and dinners, hikes, his families cabin. I returned the same favor as I brought him to family parties, Lake Powell, Spanish Fork Rodeo and from there on out we were both infatuated with each other. We grew to love and care for each other threw the good and bad. He became my best friend who I turned to for everything. Last fall I attended most of his home games as he played football at snow college, and he came up and visited me at Utah state and I would serve him his favorite food steak at Texas Road house. But this wasnt enough for us seeing each other on weekends or even every other weekend so next semester he followed me up here at Utah State and our love for each other grew even stronger.

He proposed to me on March 27, 2010 which then 3 months later we were married in the Oquirrh Moutain Temple. And now the adventure begins after a fabulous Honeymoon in Pureto Varrata Mexico we came home unwrapped all our gifts, exchanged gifts, and packed up for a 14 hour drive to st. louis missouri.

This has been quite an adventure, a summer I will never forget. Bj is doing very well as he goes for 10 hours a day to door to door selling for pinnacle security. But he does a fabulous job and brings home quite a bit of bacon ha ha. And as for me dont worry my days out here so far go as this I wake up around 10 go to a work out class if I feel like it, come home watch a movie, then read cause Im finding a new love for it, I go to the pool and lay out with my new friend Jaquie, then come back watch my favorite show at the moment the hills online. Then me and Jaquie make headbands and have girl talk for several hours. Then I make BJ a very delicous dinner I usually find something new in my cook book cause I just have too much time on my hands. The days are long and quite with out my friends and family around so feel free to call or text me whenever. I love love love the married life, BJ is my better half, my best friend, and my eternal companion. I feel like this summer is always a summer I can never forget so it is going to be called the adventure.

A wise man once said...

This morning I realized that I have learned a few new words and phrases from Robison over the years. Boys may make fun of us for the things we say, but they have their fair share of weird wordage.

F.U.P.A.: Fat Upper Pubic Area. You know, the grandma/grandma fat people have to pull their elastic waist pants up and over.
Whirling Dervish: Someone (or something) that is a big ball of energy. For example, chowder cat.
That's Tits: This is a phrase Rob picked up from a mission companion. You'd use this phrase to say that something is extremely cool. Like if you won free concert tickets off the radio, that would be tits.
B.O.D.: Bag Of Douche. Instead of coming right out and saying that someone is a douche bag, you could just say they're a b o d. It sounds better in public... and can be used around small children.
Spootinanny: I don't even know about this one. Rob says it a lot. I'm positive I'll never use this as an expletive, but Rob does.
Hissing Goose: This is what I get called when I'm snippy, sassy, onery, etc...

There are plenty more words, but I can't think of them right now.

I've learned a lot of other things about Rob since getting married. He only sweats when he plays video games. He can fall asleep doing anything, including reading out loud. Any spare time has to be spent watching ESPN, on ESPN.com, or playing with his phone. He resembles a 14 year old boy... especially when he talks Pokemon with his brother Beaker. He is fabulous at not spending money. His sparce little chest hairs are getting darker... I pluck them sometimes. He quotes The Simpsons more than I thought humanly possible. He looks damn good in a suit. He washes his hair putting his face down, facing towards the shower head, and letting the water run over. I would get soap in my eyes and drown if I attempted that. I guess when you're 6'3"-6'4" it's hard to fit in little showers. He puts up with my emotional breakdowns and feeds me otter pops. He loves me and tells me I'm pretty, even when I have zit face.
Basically he's adorably cute and I love him. I keep taking pictures of him playing x-box with chowder kitten sleeping on him. I can't help but swoon.

Who is Dante?

Its finally spring--kind of--and i can go running out side again. So my fav place is going on the path behind raintree also known as the provo river trail. Its so great running by the river and the trees. Anyway when you go on the path there are parts when the trail goes underneath the road so you go in these underpasses. They are kind of scary, long, dark tunnels, that hobos live in. There is this one man that lives down there named Dante. I haven't been lucky enough to meet him but I read his messages every time I run. They are always different. He writes the most profound and clever messages! I love him. I just want to know who he is and what he means??? I know he is a great person. One time i saw this younger boy, Hispanic, riding his bike down there and I wanted to call out, "Dante, is that you?"

One night I was with seth and we were way bored and I wanted to go camp out in the tunnels and capture dante. Or just find him and meet him. It will be my life mission!! (Seth wouldn't let me)

Also I felt like the girl in the movie YES MAN when she has that class that takes pictures while they run! I just had to take my camera so i could show you girls these great pics! my life is crazy

Love you all!!

The Eye of the Tiger

So the other day I almost got my head stuck in my gym locker at school. And then I hit myself in the head with my own racquet while playing racquetball. I tell you what, if I'm not a genius, I don't know who is.

Updates:

1. The Malt Shoppe has the most fantastic apple cobbler shakes in the world. And I don't even like apple cobbler. Get one.

2. I take prenatal vitamins.

3. Reams is the coolest grocery store in the world, mainly the one in Springville. Not only does it sell chocolate covered cinnamon bears, but every holiday eve they mark all the holiday candy down to 99 CENTS!! And I tell you what, its a madhouse at this time, people shoving to get all the peeps (okay not really, peeps are barf) but mainly the good things like reeses and peanut butter M&M's go like free money.

4. I think President Uchdorft is quite a handsome man. Can I say that??

5. My grandpa has baby goats. We feed them out of bottles.

6. Once when I was little I stole a chocolate turtle out of the bulk candy bins. I ate half of it and put the rest back on a shelf. I don't know what I was thinking, I should have just eaten the whole thing and got my shoplifters worth.

Later home dogs.

Rach

risotto

Thank you for calling circlepix, your complete imaging solution. This is Mckenzi, how can I help you?

I say that at least like 500 times a day I think. Every time I utter that first sentence I want to slit my wrists, throat, anywhere that would cause me to bleed out. My job requires me to get yelled at by crazy asian women. It's actually quite funny when they call in because they're furious and trying to yell at me but i can't understand what they're yelling about because it's in Asian/English. Silly asian women.

So the other night I decided I needed to make RISOTTO. I recently learned that I love the stuff and have been wanting to try to make it myself.
I made the mistake of making the stuff after a long day at work, and with an achy body because I was sick. Standing over the stove stiring broth into rice for over an hour is not something an ill and achy Kenzi should be doing.
I thought the process would never end. The rice was staying hard and I did not want to stand there and stir any longer. Then finally the rice decided to not be hard any more and I was done. It was delicious. I love risotto. So creamy, such good texture, it makes you feel good to eat it. I just wish I wouldn't have been sick, because I didn't really have an appetite :(.

Sometime if any of you girls want me to make you some, I will.

so my dad's creative and my mom plays the accordion

Lately i just have been loving my parents and their funny quirks. I learned that my dad is real creative and when he had his business -the clothes factory- he used to design clothes and make and alter patterns for different companies. This summer he is going to teach me how to make a pattern. I'm real excited. And my mom got an accordion for Christmas. It has been her goal to learn when she retired so my dad bought one for her. She takes lessons and practices an hour everyday. The other week my whole family was over for dinner and she did a concert for us. It was great! I just think they are the cutest people in their old age. I always wonder what they were like before I was born. My dad calls it BN and AN. He says that they have had two lives. before nicole and after nicole. (like before Christ and After Christ) He's out of control. But I hope they live till their 100 cause i would die without them.

So I am finished student teaching! I can hear you all shouting for joy for me right now. I am so happy to be done! I can't believe i'm going to be a real woman and grown up soon. You are all invited to my graduation. my mom bought invitations so be looking in the mail! I'm going to move to the big SLC this summer to live with brooke! it is going to be a new adventure. even though its not very far. i'm real excited to ride my bike through the city and play every second. You can all come visit our house in sugar house and sleep in our cute backyard!


In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different **Coco Chanel

sup home doggssssssssss

this is your friend Lynzee Jayne Baxter. I am half Indian and half white. I currently live in cedar city utah 84720 but i am with rabid dog sitting on her bed. We are looking into each others eyes. oh how i see my future. leave me alone rachel. glare. anyways, i love tuna melts. so does rabid. anyway, school is really good. Running is getting better, my foot has been giving me problems for weeks now but its ok:) adam and i are officially...broken up:) lets see what else is going on...i have a fun new friend named steve who is cool. im 87% sure im going on a mission in the summer. i love all my roommates soooooo much and i love you guys beaucoup!!! listen to this good song its called until you by david barnes. check it sucka(s).

This New Boy.

There is this new cute boy in my life. His name is Brent. Chelsea set us up on Valentines day and we've been dating ever since. I think he makes me happier than anyone I've ever dated, and I've only known him for a few weeks now. I just wanted you all to know. And also, i'm considering law school. mind you, considering. ha, if I decide to go, i have to take the LSAT this summer so that is why there is current thought. Love you all and wish we could have a party one of these days. Good luck with all your life activities and congrats B on your cute new boy DONALD:)

ha,

love ands.

We Love Exercise Balls

Kenzi look what I found while i was blogging the other day ha ha i thought it was way funny and i just had to post it cause this is kind of how i imagined you at your old work (top right pic) ;) Well girls you guys are kind of bad at writting on this cause the last few are all mine, about my crazy life. Oh and by the way B i really thought you were naming your baby Donald Durfey, til nicoley had to straighten me out haha. Love you all and keep blogging

love veva

Funny Story

K so i did the most profound thing i could ever do in church today! ha ha not really but it was way funny and i just had to share it with you girls! Alright so me, dani, and her boyfriend dustin were headin to stake conference this morning, and it was held at the logan tabernacle. So we pick dust up alittle after 9:30 and were like 15 minutes late opps! So we go in and we can hear the speaker talking so we figured there wouldn't be any seats on the first floor so we go up the stairs to the second level that wraps around the first floor. Well i see like 4 benches that are completely empty but then a group of people in the benches next to the 4 i see. So i was like perfect and i waved dani to follow me. So i sit down in the middle of the bench and she just watched me and didnt follow so i was like whatever. i sat there for like two minutes and i saw rebecca tanner and waved to her from a couple benches away and she kinda laughed and waved, i thought that was kinda weird but whatev. Finally i get up to freakin go get dani and dust after sitting there by myself. I find dani down on the stairs laughing way hard, i was like what are you laughing at? she was like aubrey you just sat up where the choir sits looking out on the congragation, i look back were i was and i literaly was sitting in choir! oh my so embarrassing! no wonder rebecca was laughing at me! i dont even know how i didn't see the speakers i was sitting behind oh it was so funny girls i wish you could of seen it hilarious my life is a joke! anyways love ya much

It was fun while it lasted... On to the search

So... My job in the mortgage industry was fun while it lasted. It made me feel like a grown up. I got my own office, my own phone line, I was a pretty big freaking deal ha ha. I even sat on an exercise ball instead of an office chair.
But...
The office I was working for is finished. Done. Gonzo. All the loan officers will have to work out of home now and take care of everything on their own, supply their own computers, fax machines, scanners, the works. Sucks for them. Now I'm searching for a job.
I've applied at 2 different places and I'd LOVE to work at either one. I applied to be a teller at the Springville Wells Fargo office. I had a lovely phone interview with some African American woman and she said I get to move forward in the interview process. Now I'm just waiting for a phone call. I also applied to work at Dr. Graf's orthodontist office (the place Calee and Mitzi work). I had an interview with him last night and it went pretty well. We basically just chatted it up for 45 minutes. I'm going back on Wednesday morning for a "working interview" where I'll just wander around the clinic and watch over girls shoulders as they do their thing.
Hopefully something will work out so I'm not among the ranks of the unemployed for too long. If anyone knows of any sweet jobs you should let me know!

Hello Chicas! so once again I dont know what my problem is but the last two times i have tried to post a blog i delete it haha im a joke i know! and i dont like to use correct grammar as you can tell when i write blogs so you can just ignore that ha ha! well i miss all you girls i feel so far away from you all i hate it sometimes! and i get jealous when you all but peepers get to live like 15 minutes away from each other at least! dont take advantage of the k. Well anyways im still busy as ever with work, school, and busy having a lover but i love it! life is good i cant complain. Oh and my little brother rhett got his mission call so weird i feel so old girls! he is going to brazil and leaving on june 30th you should all come to the farewell if you can anyways love you all

aubdizzle

I teach in the BYU business school

Dear girls. If you didn't know, somehow I became a professor in the marriott school of management this week. What qualifies me to do such a thing, well let me just tell you. Apparently I have some of the worst conversational skills this university has seen. Confused? Let me explain.

So during a recent episode of my life, I was dating a boy and needed to let him know that i didn't want it to go any further, that i was done. I had to get across the message that I didn't want to date him anymore, but because he was a good friend, I didn't want things to get awkward. You know, i couldn't just do my normal, sorry its not going to work, I'll probably never see you again deal. So i tried an assortment of techniques... aka things that did not work like avoidance, text messages, phone calls that never got to the point, etc. So while all of this was going on, my friend mitch called me one day and i told him what was going on. He said "ange, i've got the solution. Ha, all you've got to do is follow the steps in this book." and so, I did it. And, it worked. I had one of the best "break-up" conversations of my life.

Ok so the book is called crucial conversations. It teaches you how to get across your point while maintaining a safe and mutually beneficial atmosphere for both parties. There is a course in the business core called organization behavior and the book is their text. And Mitch is the TA. Well, just this past Monday, Mitch calls me and tells me that his professor wants me to come share my experience with the class. Oh my goodness. I wanted to die. How embarrassing to share my break up problems with a class of one hundred beautiful business school boys. But, because I LOVE MITCH I of course did it.

Well, after my lecture, the professor says, "that was great, you ready for round two?" i'm like what? and He's like, oh the class really liked the interactive portion of your lecture and I asked Mitch if you'd teach my other class too. Ha, so then I did it again.

Two hundred (mostly single) boys later, I had told basically my whole dating pool at BYU that I was horrible at relationships and had to use a book to handle conversations. It was probably my defining moment of college. Ha, but at least someone got to have a laugh at my ridiculousness.

So, I just thought I would share. Hope you girls have a wonderful Presidents Day WEEKEND!

ands.

Fashion Tip of the Day...

Name one thing that is better than a sleeping bag you wear on your body. Thats right, nothing. Nothing is better than a sleeping bag you wear on your body. Valentine's Day gift for my lover? Check.

Love, Rachie

S'Mocha

So... Last night me and the Mitz were walking laps around the neighborhood. It was a really pretty night, and not too cold considering it's mid-February. On our last lap, a friendly little cat came slinking out of the oak brush and wanted to visit with us. We stopped and petted the cat, and on a whim I tried to pick it up. If you know me, you know that I try to force myself on cute small creatures (kittens, puppies, small children...) but most of the time they reject me. Well, this little cat let me pick him up and actually liked me. It followed us all the way around the block and stayed right on my heels. Then i got this F to the abulous idea. I'd lure the cat down to where Rob and I park our cars, because I know for a fact there are mice down there. I picked up the cat and knocked on our door... When Rob answered he just stared at me and the cat and told me to take it back to wherever I found it ha ha. Then I made him pour some milk in a dish for the cat.

Now to the naming of the cat... it was kind of matted and mangy but had a cute face and kind of light brownish greyish fur. I told my mom and Rob I'd call it Smokeycause it was a smokey color you see. Then Robi piped up and says "how about, in the honor of the late cat mocha, you name this one Smocha?" Me and the Mitz loved it. So now I pretend I have a stray cat named Smocha. I tried to get Robi to take a picture of me holding it but he wouldn't... I'll try to get a picture if I ever see little Smocha again.

There's a First for everything

I've had many firsts in my life! like the first time I peeled my own orange on our senior trip to california! The first time I put on my own sheets on a bed at efy when I was like fifteen! The first time I kissed a boy who was an argentine. The first time I became an aunt at the age of two! And the first time I swore with my neighbor drew one summer we swore everyday! Well last week something happened to me that was a first and a second! So i had a cold and one morning on my drive to school I coughed and some of that gross stuff came up so I needed to spit it out (sorry for the sick details) So i proceeded to roll down my window and I turned to spit it out and everyone knows my bad talents of spitting in the first place so i should have been more cautious but i continued and instead of it going out the window it landed straight on the door right under the open window. YEAH i know! sick so luckily I had this rag in my car and wiped it up! So I laughed real hard by myself and the next day you'd think i would have learned but the exact same thing happened! How is that even possible!

So my life is going pretty great! I am loving student teaching. those kids are super funny. I wish you guys could meet them cause they are pretty funny. THere are a like four though that I wish i could punch or that they would be absent everyday. This one will never stop talking! She tells me that her dad is a circus clown? yeah what a crazy. anywho I'm excited to see you all hopefully this weekend for rachi's birthday dinner! I love you!

my beautiful life

Life is great. Seriously, I don't know if it could get better. I'm not bragging because that would be rude, but I have it pretty good right now. I have a damn sexy husband who lets me pick his zits (reluctantly however), I love my little basement apartment, I'm basically a chef and make the best meals ever, I don't have school this semester, and i don't have to be at work till 10.

I don't get how I'm so lucky, but I am!

Rob and I have a church calling. We teach the 4 year olds. It's interesting. One of the boys still wears diapers. Remember, these children are 4. I don't see how that is possible to be pooping your pants at age 4. There is another little girl who is basically mute. She's deathly allergic to peanuts and hates men. There is a set of twins; one boy one girl. The girl has all brothers and it shows. When we had them draw a picture about choosing the right she drew an alien. Her brother had me draw a donkey for him that turned out looking like a giant pig.

I just pray we don't get assigned sharing time for a while...

Hello my fellow Pink Ladies! yes it has been quite some time since i wrote on our blog, but my i indeed say that i wrote a way long post last week and i went to publish it and it deleted! just my luck huh, or im just computer aliterate. Any ways im super excited for Kenzi's bridal shower tomorrow thats going to be so fun i cant wait see you all its been too long!

Ok well i have been missing kenzis long lists of things she used to write so im going to write one of my own in hopes she can write one to us all soon

My List OF Christmas Bliss

- i love this time of year with all the christmas cheer

- window shopping with my mom and sisters

-people bustling around in bundles of coats, scarves, and mittens

-hot cocoa with the tiny marshmellows

-having a boyfriend during the holidays ha ha i love him!

-homemade presents

-making cookies and eating so much dough your sick to your stomach to eat any cookies

-being with friends and family laughing together

-helping friends prepare and plan a wedding

-sitting by a crackling fire while reading a good book

-sledding down crazy hills while laughing and crying at the same time cause your so scared

-snowboarding till you can't stand anymore cause your so sore

-wreaths on front doors

and here are just a couple funny things i dislike about this time of year

-crappy drivers that think they own the road in the snow

-random christmas gifts from grandma she found in the back of her closet she insists i need

-helping my mom decorate the tree with christmas lights and when you plug them in only half work!

-driving back to logan 3 times a week to work

anyways i do love christmas and this time of year is my favorite, well ta ta for now see ya on the morrow