Monday, March 19, 2012

In Your Arms

This is AMAZING!!! All of this is done with Jelly Beans and is all done in pictures! It took almost two years to do this entire music video.

Also, I like this song!  Enjoy!

Here is the link to the video because I am incapable of adding it to my post!

But really just think about it, this is all jelly bean pictures put together!!!! Crazy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOu0DuxFAT0&feature=relmfu

Friday, March 16, 2012

"Leaving on a Jet Plane"

A couple weeks ago, my parents decided to fly Thomas and me down to Arizona because they had some free tickets they needed to use up.  So, of course we accepted this offer!

Friday right after my internship, my supervisor drove me and thomas to the airport.  We landed in Arizona around 9 something.  On the way home from the airport, we stopped at an all time favorite place of my parents, yodipity for some frozen yogurt.
In the airplane waiting to take off!

At Yodipity
The next morning, my dad and I had to run eleven miles for our marathon training so my mom and Thomas decided to walk while we did that. We went to the Tempe Town lake and ran around there, which is a very beautiful area of Arizona.  And I did it! I completed the eleven miles with very little walking!!!

After, we took an adventure to the Ghosttown nearby my house. We walked around, took several pictures and then the smell of waffle cones made us get some ice cream! We couldn't resist after smelling the deliciousness of freshly made waffle cones!

Mom and Dad at the Ghost town

Thomas and I with Superstition Springs Mountain

Whoops, Guess someone was in there

In the mine cart

The amazing waffle cones!

The pretty Desert
After that, we went to Joes BBQ which is this amazing BBQ place in Gilbert.  Then Thomas and I watched a movie while my parents went to their stake conference. We ended the night with a relaxing time in the Hot Tub.

Sunday, we went to church and then walked around the Mesa Temple! What better Sunday activity then that?
Monday we went for a hike in the morning. Then Thomas and I went swimming and then it was off the airport to return back to good old Utah again.

It was a great trip! Loved it all!

Thanks Mom and Dad!

Sunday, March 11, 2012

"Don't believe me, ask the dishes"... or see the picture

What is wrong with this picture:



Yes, that is a car parked right in front of the parking garage entrance/exit..... 

One night when it was time to take Thomas home, we got in the car like any other time. Except this time we pulled up to an unexpected blockage.  You don't normally think that there will be a car parked right in front of the driveway, but this night was different. 

So, Thomas and I headed back up to my place hoping that the police would get it fixed in no time and I could drive Thomas home. An hour later, back down to the garage just to find the car in the same spot and the policemen just standing around staring at the car. At this point, it was midnight so Thomas walked home,  in the rain at midnight. 

L is for the way you Look at me

Oh man, has it really been over a month since I last posted!!! Wow time flies! Things have gotten crazy around here! So, I will just do multiple posts on what has been happening in the life of  Tiare Curtis!!

Valentines day.  I actually had a special someone on this holiday, which is a first for me.  This is also when I learned that Thomas is horrible with surprises! The night before we were chatting about our favorite show, Once upon a time (tangent: If you don't watch that show, you should!!!) and he mentioned how he talked to my roommate that day and she told him something about the show. Confused, I asked him when he talked to my roommate and he suddenly got very quiet and tried making up a reason for why he was talking to her. Yeah, it failed. So, I knew he was going to do something in my apartment while I was at my internship.

Sure enough, when I arrived to my apartment, I found this lovely scene:

So even though I completely knew something like this was going to happen, it was still a lovely surprise! And look at those flowers! They are gorgeous! And the picture is pretty dang cute too!

We went to The Chocoate and get the most delicious desert ever, the Cazookie!!! Before we went in, Thomas was getting a little funny and I could tell he had something up his sleeve. He pulled out a little present from his glove box for me. And he had also gotten me this:

This is a necklace of a Tiare Flower
I love it so much! I think it is the sweetest gift anyone has gotten me because there is a little bit of meaning behind it! He got me a necklace of the flower that got me my name!

After our Cazookie, we were driving home and decided to top by the blockbuster that was going out of business.  Everything was about 80% off!!! So, looking around we found that we could buy a whole season of 24 for 5 dollars!!! Unfortunately, one disc was missing, so we got almost a whole season for $4.27. Then we bought the other disc at the other blockbuster for $5 making it a total of $9.27 for a whole season of 24! Still, an amazing deal!

So, all in all, it was a wonderful holiday!

Monday, January 30, 2012

"That's Amore"

About a week ago, my roommates and I participated in a cook off.  It was my apartment with Seth and Mike versus the apartment five girls and Robbie and Drake.  It was funny seeing how my team was filled up with people who don't really cook versus the team that was filled with practically professional cooks. Of course we had to have legit judges for this cookoff, so we asked the Willhites and Edward to be our judges. Boy oh boy were they legit.  

It was a four course meal: Appetizer, Soup/Salad, Main Course and Dessert

For our appetizer we made artichoke egg rolls which ended up being the hit of the night.  They even were compared to the ones at Cheesecake factory. Thanks Seth for that contribution!

Our Soup and Salad was a Chilled Strawberry soup and a spinach salad with Mandarin Oranges.

Main course was a stuff pork tenderloin, with almond asparagus, and cheesy ranch mashed potatoes.

Dessert, Chocolate Crepes with Bananas on the inside and a scoop of ice cream on the side.  To top it off a drizzle of homemade chocolate sauce.

It was a tough battle but sadly my team lost. :( Only by a point or two though, so I feel pretty good about it since the skill levels were so different.   

Jane and Seth

Stacey, Tiare and Thomas

Michelle and Mike

All of us in my kitchen trying to get everything ready!

The Judges

Opposite teams!

Both teams and the judges

The score sheets

Team Utopia in your mouth- minus Michelle

Unknown to us, the crepes were called Tiare and Thomas
Love Crepes. 
In other news, my official training for the Marathon starts TODAY!!! I made the schedule and I plan on following it EXACTLY. And of course with my luck, I have a 19 mile run when I am on a cruise and a 20 mile run on my BIRTHDAY! I sure know how to plan it! Oh well, it is what needs to be done to make sure I don't die in this Marathon.  Happy Training!

Sunday, January 22, 2012

"Celebrate Good Times!"

I love being a little kid.  There I said it! I am not ashamed of it either.  Yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr. day and even though it didn't change anything for me since my internship schedule is Tuesday through Saturday but it did mean that everyone else was home as well!

So, I decided that I wanted to celebrate the holiday by building a fort, luckily Thomas seemed pretty okay with that idea as well... and so were his roommates! After lots of yelling, screaming, laughing, blankets falling, lamps falling, laughing, chairs getting put on tables to be used just to never end up getting used, couches being flip over, laughing, and many different renovations, we finally had our fort built! Boy oh boy was it a great fort!

To make things even better, we watched The Help inside the fort! Of course after watching The Help, we had to go get Fried Chicken... or just chicken nuggets from Chic-fil-A. What a great Holiday!

Building our Masterpiece

The guys chillin the in the Fort

The Final production! What a great Fort! Only lived for a few short hours.

Monday, January 9, 2012

"Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down"

Well, this past weekend I have been pretty sick and that for sure has not been fun.  I pretty much just slept and laid on the couch all day Saturday and Sunday.  I am finally starting to feel better today! I think by tomorrow I should be good! Even though it made for not the best weekend, at least I didn't have to worry about missing my internship or not feeling so well at my internship.

Taken with my lovely cell phone....
On the plus side, I had this guy all weekend taking care of me! He brought me chicken noodle soup, watched chick flick movies with me, and just sat around with me all day.  I don't think I could ask for anything more!

In other news, I started my internship.  It definitely is going to be a really good learning experience for me and I feel by the end I will be ready to enter the real world and get a job! It also will be very hard and I am nervous about that but I think it will be great! I have already learned a lot just being there for the past three days.  I am excited to see what the rest of the semester has for me! It is crazy to think that in just four months, I will be a college graduate!