Camo & Soap

On Monday we had FHE and we threw a birthday party for our friend Kyle. The highlight of the night was 'pin the camo on the kyle'. I drew a big cartoon picture of Kyle wearing camo and then made a bunch of hats and everyone decorate their version of kyle's camo cat and you get the picture. it was a ton of fun! I laughed for almost an hour straight! which i'm sure was really annoying to everyone else, but i loved it!

kyle the 1st, Doug, and Kyle the 2nd 

modeling their creations

 playing the actual game was fun too, but way easier than i imagined.

we played some other quick fun games before the guys left. they're the best.

 we sang to Kyle and gave him an ice cream sandwich with a piece of cardboard stuck in it as his birthday cake and candle. woo! poor college students, holla!

and for kicks, here's a picture of me and Mallorie that she made me take off facebook:

real cute. 

next.

I went on a group date last night with a boy named Doug. I liked it a lot. except 2 things:

1) a Canadian

2) a fence

1) while we were carving each other's faces out of soap bars, an old Canadian man came up to the table wondering what we were doing. We told him and talked to him for a few minutes, he was actually really nice and his story was pretty cool. But then he told me, "you know young lady, you're dating a good, well to do young man". My face took on it's brightest shade of red possible, and my feet became incredibly compelling. i glanced up at my supposed boyfriend, who was smirking, and decided that he wasn't appalled. So I sheepishly replied that this was only a first date and we weren't dating dating, and the man asked if we were planning on going on further dates and making it romantic. 

i was wondering the same thing myself, haha.

but i would never DREAM of saying it out loud! on a first date? are you crazy Mr.Canada? there were several awkward glances and chuckles going across the table. finally our friend Chad ...

*a brief round of applause for Chad before we continue the story*

we literally JUST met him on Sunday. he's the roommate of one our friends, nik. and Chad came into our house to escape the cold while waiting for the girls next door to come home from church. so we talked for like 7 minutes, gave him a brownie, and told him we were going to become best friends. he was visibly overwhelmed by our friendship. oh well. 

Then, Jaylene's date (Nik) fell through, and we didn't know who else to ask.

"CHAD!" i randomly yelled. why not? He's handsome, and from out brief conversation a few days ago, he seems nice. Jay agreed, so Mal and I ran over to his house to find him. 

oddly enough, he was walking over to our complex (with his Ukrainian roommate, Larry, who is hilarious.) already, so we ambushed him. literally. we yelled his name, he looked confused, but we went on talking. we asked him to go on a date with our roommate the next night, and he happily agreed. what a trooper. let's remind everyone that he didn't even know our names, and we had one 7 minute conversation prior to this. 

Go Chad.

*done*

...laughs and says, "well, this is definitely friendship for me, i just met these girls." which let the rest of us burst with pent up awkward laughs. the tension was gone and after a few more minutes, the Canadian man left us and we finished our date. 

Doug's soap carving of me:

my very unfinished carving of Doug. He thought it was creepy. i agree. haha

2) After we carved soap and did a few other things on campus, we went geocaching! ever heard of it? it's way fun, i was way into it like the summer before my sophomore year of high school. 

we looked up several different caches and decided on one about a mile away because it held things to disguise a person, which intrigued us. we walked and talked, and finally we got to about 100 feet from the cache when...a fence. and may i add, an entirely unnecessary fence. it separated a church parking lot from an empty field, and the fence was like 8 feet high, half a mile long, no gates.

 i was angry, because we had just walked a mile, (i hate walking in the cold) and the little anticipation and excitement that had built was deflated out of all of us. i really didn't want the boys to get bored. but chad came to the rescue again, and offered to climb the fence, find the cache and bring it back. seriously, what a champ! so he did, and we had fun going through the items and taking goofy pictures that didn't even really turn out because it was so dark. turned out fine.

besides the man and the fence, i had fun and we made a new friend in Chad! and we became better friends with a boy named Doug. and Mallorie's Kyle, too. (Mallorie's date was so successful that they're going ou again tonight! you go, gurl!)

My camera was being weird and my arm wasn't long enough to fit everyone in the picture, so Doug took over for me!

p.s. my hand is in a tiny black glove, so that's the bit of skin you see by my shoulder. ha.

the walk back to our apartment was the best part, because no body was uncomfortable anymore. and i enjoy it when boys' cheeks are rosy from the cold, it's real cute. 

ALSO. loving Broadway musicals? 5 points up on the attractive scale.

loving my newest favorite musical, which happens to be really obscure? a BILLION points up.

knowing my father, and respecting the heck out of him,

loving Banksy (maybe more than i do), knowing tons about art and theatre and my hometown, loving his sisters, having a dad with the same job as my dad, liking math, having read Harry Potter, blushing over his middle name, and loving Nauvoo? those things were all big pluses as well.

so basically, a boy named Doug has officially gained my favor.

don't worry mom, we're just friends.