The War...oh, and new bedroom furniture!

Since I've been at home every day this week, I've been in the kitchen much more than usual. I noticed yesterday that my roommates and I have some friends who won't go home. About 1,000 of them to be exact and they are all over the place. I've been doing everything I can to clean the kitchen and I've wiped out the cupboards a dozen times and sprayed oven off all over the ants more times than I can count. Seriously, why don't they get the idea??

I'd take some pictures of the mass homicides that have been happening in my kitchen every few hours, but I'm sure that you can imagine something just as gruesome in your head without the effort on my part. :) Tiffany bought some ant traps that don't really work and I think that the ants are building an immunity to windex that they didn't have a few months ago. Blast!

Other than waging a battle against the ants in the kitchen, today was pretty cool. My dad and mom bought me new bedroom furniture as my Christmas present and since my dad travels so much during most of the year, he drove it out for me from Utah yesterday and he arrived at about 10am today.

Check it out. I LOVE IT!

I finally finished hanging the pictures on my wall and I think it turned out very well.

And please excuse my lack of skillz using Paint, but here's a shot of what my room looks like from the side. Isn't she beautiful?

Ok so now that most of my room is clean and put away, I am running off to Silvia's bachelorette party. Pictures from that to come tomorrow.

A Post Dedicated to Roommate

My roommate whom I affectionately call Roommate is really named Rebecca, but she hates my nickname for her. She says it is too generic. She'd much rather go by Madeline. Maybe I'll just start calling her Maddy or something like that.

But I digress.

The real reason that this post is dedicated to her is because she's not only an amazing Relief Society President, teacher, friend, roommate, etc., but she is an amazing artist. Did you know that about her? For those who know her, you probably did, but did you also know that she recently published a book? That's right. My roommate is a published Children's Book Illustrator. She took the words to the Children's Hymn "Whenever I hear..." and turned it into the most adorable book!

You can see her online portfolio if you click here. If you click here, you can buy prints from her book and if you click here, you can buy the book for yourself or someone you love. Only $15.25 at Deseretbook.com!

Support a good cause and support Roommate. Buy yours today!

The funniest Christmas present I've ever received.

Last night, me, Silvia, Kristy, & Laura had Christmas together before we all left. We all got really awesome gifts and the one that Kristy got me got the most laughs for sure. I'm not sure if I should be disturbed or flattered.


More pictures to come this afternoon.