all i want for christmas...

IS YOUUU.

you should probably listen to this right now.

but for reals,

i am craving christmas like no one's business.

it might be due to the fact that:

-i am far from starting my fall semester, but am already looking forward to coming home.

-knowing that christmas means less than six months left.

-i have a weird love for snow.

-shopping for other people and giving them awesome gifts is one of my all-time favorite things.

-i will hopefully have left idaho for the last time when christmas rolls around.

-my whole family will be together for christmas this year, as opposed to last year when it was just my parents and i and christmas lasted a whole 3 minutes. 

-christmas music plays constantly in my house and my whole family sings along while dancing like the crazy fools we are.

i could probably go on forever. winter is my favorite season, so christmas is obviously my favorite holiday. 

stop judging me for listening to christmas music in the middle of june.

randomness/some ranting:

-waiting patiently for a very special package coming to me all the way from belgium is horrendously awful. i've been stalking my poor mailman.

-we recently got one of those blood pressure taker things.  i decided i would try it out for kicks and giggles. this is what popped up on the screen:

my brother is a lifeguard so he had to take classes all about cpr and blood pressures and things. so when he saw this he freaked out. "ANNE! you are dead! oh my gosh. don't get up. you're going to faint!!" we took it a few more times and it was even lower the other times. apparently i have the blood pressure of a half-dead person.

-i recently read the book the fault in our stars recently, and cried the entire way through. i highly recommend it.

-i have had an awesome summer with my brother home. we go on sonic runs together, watch at least one redbox a week, hang out and talk together, etc. the only downside is the constant battle for the amazing parking spot outside of our house. the deal is whoever gets there first gets to use it. this is a problem when we get home at the exact same time some days.

the face-off of lyle and bernard.

we stayed like this for at least a half hour. i was in the beloved spot, but i was parked backwards so i could not stay. i finally had to give in and move because i really had to pee.

-i have to write a paper for one of my classes on a crisis that my family went through and how we dealt with it and how it brought us closer and such. problem is, my family has never been through a crisis and i have nothing to write on. my family is too stable. first world problems.

-i went to the dark side, guys. the dark side of phones that is. siri and i are going to be great friends.

halfway.

this time last year i was a horrendous wreck.

i was saying goodbye to my best friend for two whole years.
my partner in crime, my biggest supporter, my everything.
i cried for 24 hours straight, and ate a lethal amount of unhealthy foods.
i was not a pretty sight.

you know how super heroes have to get dumped in a vat of toxic sludge or something awful like that to become super?
i'm pretty sure that is how this fella's mission is for us.
this past year has been the toxic sludge year. not super fun.
but now, because of all of that toxic sludge, we are super heroes.
so this next year will be full of a lot of awesomeness,
and a lot of saving old ladies from burning buildings and cats from trees.
(hey, comes in the job description.)

i'll see you soon, my dallin pete.


lovely randoms:

-i had to go on bus runs for my work today (picking up children from school). while on the bus on of the children said "don't touch that! if you do... i'm... gonna... have... an... EXORCISM." i'm not sure he knows what that word means.

-remember how i was real sick? yeah, my doctors weren't a fan of me being sick so often so they decided i need my tonsils out. i'll be accepting donations in the form of popsicles.

-i was eating lunch in the three year-old room one day at work. the teacher in that room had told her kids that they should eat all of their food because "a clean plate is a happy plate!". i sat next to a little girl who was scarfing her food down as fast as she could. when i asked her why she was eating so fast she said very seriously "my plate is going to be SO happy."

-can we just talk about how awesome may has been? my brother came home from his mission, i got employee of the month (heyoo, 50 dolla gift card!), i got to have my whole family in the same place two weekends in a row and i got to the halfway mark with that crazy fool pictured above. three cheers for may.

-today at work i was put in the school-age kids classroom, and it just so happened to be the day of a field trip. the park we were going to was really close, so we walked there. we passed by a ravine with a nast waterfall thing in the middle of it. the kids were oohing and ahhing at this waterfall when one of the oldest kids lost it and started yelling at everyone else telling them "there are so many better things life! this will not be the greatest you have seen! AUGH." it was really hard to not laugh.

-before the above mentioned field trip, i put lots of sunscreen on, spf 50 to be exact. we were out for less than four hours. it was overcast at least 75% of the time. i still got sunburnt. woof.

random dancing!

that title goes out to you, elder!

i am uber sick at the moment (heyo, strep round deux!),
so forming a long and cohesive post is just not going to happen.
so here are random snippets from my life as of late.

-my all-time favorite show, the office, ended this week.
it was seriously one of the saddest days of my life.
a little ridiculous? perhaps. oh well.
there was no way i was letting this amazing show go out without a bang,
so one of my best friends and i threw an office finale party.

pigs in a blanket in a blanket, miiiiint chocolate chip, beets and a stapler in green jello. classic. 

the whole gang. office attire was required.

jim&pam and dwight.

my thursday nights are now full of sadness.

-while getting ready for the party, casey (jim) and i were driving around getting supplies and jazz when along came a lovely song on the radio. i believe the lyrics were "you feel my love as i wrap my fingers around your throat". yeesh. someone has a hard time distinguishing between love and strangulation. (which i thought was very easily distinguishable.)

-my mom and i were talking about people losing weight, and how when some people lose 40 pounds it is hard to tell but when others lose 40 pounds it is very obvious. her exact words were "exactly! if i lost 40 pounds i would look emancipated!". i then told her that she looks pretty free all the time, not just if she lost 40 pounds. it took her a little while to get it. 

-a little girl in my young toddler class always says "seeeeeee" when she wants me to come look at something. so the other morning when she shouted out "seeeeee" to me i walked over to her to see what she wanted me to look at. she held out her hand to show me a giant writhing spider. oh my awfulness. i don't think i have ever screamed so loud.

-i was talking to some of the kids in the after school program at work. they were talking about how bad smoking was. one of the little boys said "they're really addictive! it's because of all of the nickel-teen." i was laughing too hard to correct him. 

-it was pajama day at work on friday. obviously, with my love of pajamas, i embraced it with open arms and showed up to work like this:

i'm even wearing spider-man socks.

i got a lot of compliments. 

i'd say my blog url is pretty fitting, eh?

-like i mentioned earlier, i am heinously sick. can't talk at all, barely moving, not sleeping well, you get the picture. well yesterday night (saturday) my family decided they would all stay in and watch hunger games with me. i sure am grateful for the family i have.  

they're kinda my favorite people.

home.

it's pretty crazy when you have been waiting for something to happen for two years...
and then it actually happens.

we're really attractive people.

my brother is (finally) home from his mission in frankfurt germany.
our family is whole and complete for the first time in two years
and it feels absolutely amazing.

it feels so good to have everyone home.


randoms:

-we went to see iron man three today. it was wonderful. i highly recommend it.

-less than 13 months left till i get my other missionary back. almost halfway done.

-we went to outback steakhouse for aaron's first meal back in america. the waiter forgot to put my order in and spilled water on my leg. on a better note, the steak was delicious and i ate an alarming amount of an awesome blossom. (extra awesome please.)

-we went to tmobile to get aaron a phone when he came home. being the lazy children we are, we waited on the chairs in the store while my parents figured things out. i got really excited because i thought that my chair was special because it reclined. nope, i had just broken it. oops.

-i keep seeing all of these prom pictures on Facebook and it makes me slightly sad that i am not going this year. really i'm just in it for the dresses... and the cute date.

the good 'ol days.

introduction.

i am on my third online class right now.
(family foundations, heyooo)
in all of these classes they make you introduce yourself.
you know the classic
"tell us about yourself, include a picture, and say something interesting about yourself!"
i never really realize how boring i am until i have to do these introductions.
i normally say something like
"i'm anne, i'm from colorado springs and i work at a daycare and this is my picture."

classy, right?

but what i really want to say is...

WASSSSUP. da name is spider-anne, and one day i will be spider-man. just wait and see. i really wanna be a mommy and i will be someday, daggumit. if you leave me alone with a bag of chips for 3 minutes those chips will no longer exist. i also consume alarming amounts of dark chocolate. i am really sarcastic and synical and there is a large chance you do not like me but that's alright because i don't like people as a whole so i probably will never talk to you. this also has to do with the fact that i am painfully shy around people i do not know. i am much smaller than the average person, and yes my driver's seat is pulled all the way up in my car. i can't eat most foods that the general population can eat and it really sucks lemons. i have the immune system of a drug-abused fetus and it is not the most handy thing in the whole world. here is my picture. bask in it.

i feel like my colleagues would know me much better this way.

my life as of late:

-sometimes i start out my mornings really grumpy. (not a fan of waking up at 6 am everyday). but then i get to work and these little chubby children run up to me grinning their four tooth smile from ear to ear with their arms outstretched, just wanting to be cuddled. my attitude changes in about .00358 seconds.

-my friends are starting to finally come home from college and it is so awesome to have interaction with people my own age. on saturday i got to go to chick fil a, watch parks and rec, help his little brother figure out something to do with a girl and have elegant conversations like classy old people with one of my best friends. the same kid who also gave me this for my birthday:

THAT is a genuine little sebastian. beautiful. 

-we were learning about adam and eve in my sunbeams class. one of the ladies i teach with said "eve was a woman, the first woman actually!" and one of my brilliant three year-olds said very matter-of-factly, "ah, yes. she had boobs."

-9 DAYS PEOPLE. SINGLE DIGITS. i am freaking out.

DALBEAR.

i might have stolen that name from the ever beautiful amy.
she mixes most two-syllable names with the word bear.
and you know what?
it sticks, dagummit.
here, enjoy this picture of amy and i in the seventh grade.

WOOF.
let's all take a moment to be glad we aren't in seventh grade anymore.

anne, is this post about amy?
i thought it was about a half dallin-half bear?
well world,
CONGRATS.
on account of you are correct.
except its about a whole dallin,
not a half dallin.
because it is this whole dallin's birthday on tuesday:

i'd smooch that.

this certain dallin is my favorite dallin in the whole world.

anne, what's so great about this guy?

he looks a little odd to me.

well world, that was rude.

let me tell you about this crazy fool. 

this studly fella is my best friend and my better half. he makes me laugh harder and smile bigger than anyone else. he makes me do hard things that i do not think i am capable of. he always believes in me and tells me that if i am trying my best i am making him proud. he has an incredible testimony and is sharing it with the people of france. he orders things that i can eat when we go to restaurants so that we can share even though the boy bleeds cheese. he gives me all things spider-man even though he hates him. he never gives up on me. he works hard in everything he does. he challenges me to continually strive to be better. he is a gentleman. he always reminds me that he loves me. he makes me the best me i can be. 

our birthdays are only three days apart so we have gotten into a habit of celebrating together. this year (and next) we are a little too far apart to celebrate together, and it's turned out to be a lot harder than i thought it would be. although some times i really wish he was home i am so proud of him for taking two years out of his life to serve the lord, and i know he is right where he is supposed to be.

happy birthday my dallin pete!
see you soon.


AS OF LATE:

-remember when i said that dallin gives me everything spider-man even though he hates him? he did not disappoint this year.

spider-man, spider-man, irons on where ever he can!

i haven't decided what should be permanently graced with spidey's presence yet.

i also got this:

just call me elder smith.

how did he know that i secretly really wanted his name tag? no idea.

-i got to watch (kinda, mainly listen) as one of my very best friends opened his mission call.

we were some good lookin' six year-olds.

the piracicaba, brazil mission is gettin' a good one. 

proud of you, caseface.  

-i also got this AWESOME shirt from my not-so-sister-in-law jenah.

i love me some ron swanson. also some jenah. 

letters.

so apparently there is this huge new crazy blogging craze.
you write all of these letters to random things and people.
i keep reading them on pretty much every blog ever invented.
so i decided
"shoot. i could do that."
so here i am.
doing that.

dear sinus infection,
i am considering cutting off my nose because of you. you have caused me to kill an entire rainforest in the amount of tissues i have used.
all my hate,
killer of trees.

dear feel-good music,
you make me feel good. continue that.
rock on,
smiles and mush.

dear missionary,
10 MONTHS DOWN. see you in fourteen.
love and rockets,
missing you.

dear best friend lost in rexburg,
did you get that reference i just used? i can't wait till we can hang out and eat copious amounts of popcorn and talk until the wee hours of the morning again.
come visit me,
carpet.

dear medicine,
you always say your side effects only apply to 3% of people. why am i always the three percent? how many times must i switch medicines??
you almost killed me,
still sick.

dear brother,
34 days. i'm stoked. you better be too.
see you soon,
sista.

dear advil pm,
you are a gift from the heavens. keep making me sleep.
large amounts of love,
too tired.

dear belgium,
i loathe you. quit hoarding my letters you selfish beast.
your worst enemy,
new hater of waffles.

dear other bloggers,
this whole letters thing is not fun. you should probably stop doing it.
never doing this again,
hateful of hipster bloggers.