goodbye

brittany and kirsten moved out. right before they did, they left this surprise on my bed:D it made me laugh so hard because i was very surprised, and they're funny!!!

today has been amazing

poem:

there once was a sunny day

i thought it would go away

but when i woke up

at next sunup

the sun was still bright and ama(zing).

i went for a drive, opened my sunroof and rolled the windows down.

today's soundtrack:

3x5 - john mayer

today was a fairytale - taylor swift

the space between - dave matthews band

solo - iyaz

and...

all music from OWL CITY.. which is significant and exciting because i'm GOING TO THE OWL CITY, LIGHTS, and PAPER ROUTE concert on monday!!!

(disclaimer: i was perfectly safe when i took this picture. don't worry, friend.)

then i went to the mall to find some summer clothes..

then i went outside to kiwannis park. i took a nap in the sun on my cute blanket.

AAAAAND, i read this book and found some answers:

other things i've done:

- ate a bowl of chocolate ice cream (i mean, seriously, how could this day get any better?)

- talked to a good friend for an hour, he is coming to town this weekend

- blog stalked photographers i adore

- i wore jeans ALL DAY! this is noteworthy because i live in sweats unless other clothes are an absolute necessity. i am in sweats now, but please forgive. it's evening now!

what an amazing day! it's not even over yet. it's still light outside, and it's after 6pm. what?! it's spring! oh my, i made it.. i didn't think i was going to but i did.

this is what spring should look like

these aren't from today, but today is just as amazing.. it's WARM!!!!!!! the sun is out. ahhhhh. this past week has been cold and snow and miserable. yesterday and today have been absolutely glorious. go outside and enjoy it too!!!!!!!

BIRTHDAY = 21 (not 20 anymore. no no.) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this collage is the documentation of my birthday yesterday, taken with my cell phone (because i don't have a normal point-and-shoot camera, just my huge nikons). by the way, i apologize for the second picture, this is when i was going to bed at 1:30am on the 12th. first ugly picture as a 21 year old. i need to mature.

my day began at 3:30 when i got this txt from my good friend heather hall: "you have a half hour before i kidnap you! dress warmly. very warmly. (& respond if you get this message... either way you're going to be napped." thus began my morning: kiwannis park w/hot chocolate on the Ring of Joy, talking, Iron Man at her apartment, coloring, and delicious breakfast:

later, my love janey took me to Zuppas for lunch, which we took up to a little overlook on the mountain (looking over the valley). we talked, then she gave me an awesome present: my favorite picture of Christ, EVER. she knows how much i love it, how i've wanted it soo bad! ahhh! i was so excited/happy about it. it's hard to express how much that means to me:

all my loves. we went to sub zero for ice cream and then they blindfolded me and then took me to one of our apartments for a party. it was SO fun. it was a perfect birthday. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

i was a bit overwhelmed by this point because i felt so loved. SO LOVED. i can't imagine better best friends than those God blessed me with. i can't say what i wished for when i blew these candles out, but honestly in that moment i had no idea what to wish for, i have absolutely everything i could ever need or want.

of course there was an addition to the quote board, how could there NOT be on a night like this?!

my love, ashley.

other loves, brittney, amie, kirsten:

i just liked kirsten's face:

my friend alyssa came to party for a while too!!!!!! AHHH:D

also a bonus, 55 loves on my wall:

walmart

i went to walmart and saw this SUV:

only at walmart.

beginning to blog again + taco bell = 5am

the plan was to go to sleep at 10.

i lost my keys, successfully locking myself out of my apartment.

found keys.

went to sleep at 11 instead, but

woke up at 1:30

still can't sleep. it's 5 freaking o-clock in the morning.

boo.

i decided to waste time online.

i just realized i could have spent the past 3.5 hours actually doing something productive, like writing an essay for a test i have on wednesday but of course i didn't even think about it. at this point i'd rather smash my teeth with a hammer.

i have decided to start blogging again. i have my photo blog and now am updating my personal blog!

since i'm up, i'll tell you a pointless story. it's called "The Drive Home From Taco Bell."

"The Drive Home From Taco Bell"

i went to Taco Bell last week and ordered a crunchy taco. the anticipation was too great- i started eating it in the car. eating in the car should be illegal. not because it turns me into a hazard but because it turns me into a public disgrace. it usually takes me longer to clean myself up afterward than to eat the darn thing in the first place. anyway, as i was driving and eating, a bit of shell went down my throat before i could chew it because a girl cut me off and therefore distracted me. i was so annoyed that i tried to yell at her inside my car, and then i realized that i could not do that because i had taco shell logged in my esophagus. oh the agony!!! not only was i mad, but i had a knife working it's way towards my stomach. when i finally got home, people walked in front of the entrance to my parking lot and were there just long enough for me to miss the light. by the time i parked, the taco shell bit had finally worked it's way to my digestive system leaving the inside of my throat gashed and bleeding i'm sure.

The End.

BYU vs. WYO

yesterday i went to a women's soccer game: BYU (go cougs!) vs. WYOMING. It was glorious!!! i have two soccer guru cousins, auna and shalayne. auna plays for BYU, shalayne plays for wyoming. yesterday, halloween, was a face off between the teams. BYU won 2-0. it was so much fun because a ton of family (everyone who could make it) came to the game. there were probably more than 30 janis fans. we yelled SO loud and cheered so much!!! so much support. it was AWESOME!!! i love my family:) anyway i was sitting next to my cousin daniel and we were trying to come up with a cheer that was supportive of both but without taking sides. we finally decided that when something good happened we would yell "yeeeeeeoooooo" and if something bad happened we would yell "neeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh" (combinations of "yes" and "no") because no matter what happened it was both good and bad- it's tough work supporting both teams;) so that is the description of what is happening in this picture. by the way, this was taken with my cell phone. thus the pixelation and poor quality.