Awkward and Awesome

It’s baaaaack!! That’s right. Awkward and awesome is back!! I know you are all sooo excited.  Well, at least I am.  So, without further ado, I give you:
AWKWARD AND AWESOME March 2014
Awkward:
1. Having two consecutive days of work off, and feeling like everything has changed since you were there last.
2. Talking to people you don’t want to talk to about things you don’t want to talk about.
3. Spending your Tuesday night reading all the texts from your mom since the beginning of time.
4. Having someone explain to you that the reason he has lost weight is because his “girlfriend is in town.” We’re just going to say “Increased exercise.” Ya, that’s good.
5. Fantasy Football and Macrh Madness Brackets.  I just don’t get it.
6. Spending your 45 minute lunch break just trying to find a McDonalds.  You live in Phoenix.  How hard can this be?!
7. Having to go to McDonald’s after you dropped your Costa Vida birthday dinner leftovers on the floor.
8. Having a male and a female of the only two fish on the planet earth that have live births.  I’m a grandma!
9. Admitting to your husband of 4 years that you have the social personality of a crazy cat lady. MEOW!
10. When you have oily skin and even though your mascara is supposed to be waterproof, it smudges up under your eyebrows anyways.  “No, I wasn’t going for that look.”
AWESOME:
1. When I come home from work and the dishes are done!  Thanks, hubby!
2. Game nights with the hubs, working on our Settlers skills.
3. Those nights that I make AWESOME dinners.
4. Successfully recreating one of my mother-in-law’s dishes. If you want to commit a murder and make it look like heart failure, I’ll give you the recipe.
5. Jamberry Nails.  They’re like stickers. For your nails.
6. Listening to the Book of Mormon on my phone while folding laundry.  I made it through Alma in 4 days! That’s a lotta laundry!
7. Hemp Golden Glow Bronzing Moisturizer.  I’m one sunburn away from skin cancer, so this stuff is a lifesaver!—literally.
8. Illegal Lengths mascara.  I cut my eyelashes in 7th grade (WHY?!?).  Again, a lifesaver.
9. Finally choosing a mirror for my dining room wall! Now to just figure out a way to hang it…
10. Autocorrect Fails.  And Cake Fails.  If you Instagram, search the hashtag #cakefail. Find the Belle and Cinderella one.  You won’t be sorry.
Ah, Awkward and Awesome.  You never fail to disappoint. Thanks for helping me relive some of my most awkward moments of the week.

FUN FACT FRIDAY

So, I realize I have never done anything remotely like a FFF, you know, telling you about us and what makes us tick.  I guess I just thought we were way to boring. Well, we may be boring, but we're unique and individual too, so I thought I'd try to showcase that a little. Where should I start?

Brennen:  Brennen is one of theeee most CREATIVE people I have ever met in my life.  Like seriously, he will forever be infinitely more creative than me.  I wish I could show you all of the mugs and bowls and figurines he made in ceramics back in high school.  He practically made the Christmas wreath for our front door, and he's always giving his input with the interior decorating (which i sometimes hate because I wanna do what I wanna do!). He is always thinking up creative and effective ways to fix things or make things.  Like how he used tie-downs to hitch his hammock to the railing on our porch.  He also started this thing where we take the stickers off our fruit and put them on the electric can opener???  I dont know where that idea came from but we still do it.

Grace: I HATE HATE HATE having greasy things on my hands!! I can't stand it.  I stay away from contact with oil, grease, butter, even baby oil.  I can do lotion as long as it soaks in, but after putting baby oil on my legs, I have to wash my hands.  Whenever I make snickerdoodles, I have to wash my hands after rolling like 5 dough balls in the cinnamon sugar because my hands get too oily from the butter in the dough.  A massage with oil? Fo-get about it! (said in a Brooklyn accent).  Even lathering soap on my hands is bad. I can deal with wet and I can deal with sticky, but not oily/greasy.

There you go.  The Larsen's first Fun Fact Friday! Now you know a little more about our boring selves!

Lately...

Why, hello! Long time, no see.  This is partially because I have to hook my phone up to my computer to get the internet and posting from my phone app sucks, thus, no posts for a while.  What has been happening you might ask? Well, probably the most exciting thing for me was the dedication of the temple! WOOHOO! If you know me, there is a tender spot in my heart the size of Texas for the temple.

Sorry for any Insta-repeats, my phone is my camera too, so all these pics have probably been seen before.  I went to the Gilbert Temple for the first time today, and it's huge! the ordinance rooms seat probably 100 people and there are three ordinance rooms! The weird thing is that you stay in one room throughout the entire presentation, where in Idaho Falls and Rexburg you get to move to different rooms.  It definitely makes it harder not to fall asleep, but for now, I just focus on taking in every detail of that room.  

Most recently though, probably the most fun thing we have done is go down to Tucson (about 1.5 hour drive) to hang out with our friends Nathan and Holly.  A few weeks ago, they wanted to go hiking up a nearby mountain.  I don't think I've been on a hike since...uh....girls camp, and this was super crazy.  Nathan had us climbing like a 45 degree angle up this mountainside.  But let me tell you, it was worth it.  (Again, sorry for the Instagram repeats)

We all thought Nathan was crazy for making us hike all the way up here.  And then we saw the view.  And that made it all worth it. It felt like we were back in Idaho just cruising through the mountains.  Definitely a reprieve from the every-day life of working and studying. Well, that's all for now I guess.  I will try not to be so lazy and post more, even if our lives are painfully boring to read about.  Hoping to bring back some Awkward&Awesome, and going to start working on a FFF (that's Fun Fact Friday for all you non-bloggin folk) for tomorrow so maybe you can get to know a little more about us, so keep an eye out!