Sister Love

Happy Birthday to my best friend and little sister McCall. McCall is such a hard worker and I am so proud of her and everything she has accomplished. She currently plays tennis at UCLA and they are ranked #1 in the nation! Not only is she an awesome tennis player, she is a gorgeous girl inside and out. Love you McCall! Wish I could be there with you!

I took these pics of her on her wedding day back in September!

Creative outlet

I love browsing other blogs and getting inspired. I will have to admit that my own blog is pretty boring... for the following reasons: I am dressed in sweats EVERY DAY. My job as a tennis coach means Nike sweats every day on a pretty steady rotation. No fashion/cute outfit posts for me... I spend most of my time on the tennis court coaching. Tennis tips may not make for the most exciting content (unless you are an aspiring tennis player)... I do not have kids, I have a cat. Enough said... I do love design but I do not do enough creative projects/design to warrant an original content design blog.

Between my Nike sweat wearing, tennis coaching, cat loving, my purpose for this blog is just to be a creative outlet from here on out.

A Perfect Picnic in Paris

As I have been going through my pictures of Europe and Paris, I stumbled upon this picture. A picnic in Paris. In front of the Eiffel Tower. I absolutely loved my time in Paris and cannot wait to go back.

Au Revoir!

I am off to Paris today to meet up with the family... Soooo excited!!

Kierstin's 30th and the Fourth!

I had almost given up on this blog but figured I would give it another go... For the fourth Kirk and I decided to be spontaneous and drive down to CA last minute to celebrate with my family. Kirk, my brother, and future brother in law were determined to get a fire pit at the beach and went at 12:30 am to reserve a spot... they ended up getting kicked out and then eventually slept on the beach. It was a loonnng beach day with a lot of sunburns but still a great way to spend the fourth... Yesterday Kirk and I celebrated my cousin Kierstin's bday up in PC at the alpine slide and coaster. Since my uncle owns PCTV we had an awesome hook up with unlimited rides and fun! My favorite is def. the alpine coaster

Now for the fourth of July pics...

A Month Later...

I have been a horrible blogger and have many things to blog about so I will now play catch up. Over the past month I have spent three weekends in CA... One with the tennis team (we played Fresno State and UCI) ... One for McCall's 21st Bday ... One for Mayci's Sweet 16 Birthday Party. Here are some pictures from my trip down with the tennis team...

I took the team to the Santa Monica Pier and met up with this lady

Then took the team to the BYU vs. USC Men's Volleyball game... My parents also were in attendance :)

Je t'aime!

Ever since I decided to take French in middle school over the popular and "practical" choice of taking Spanish, (growing up in Southern CA, everyone speaks Spanish) I have been dreaming of going to Paris. I am beyond excited to say that I will be going to PARIS THIS SUMMER! I have been wanting to go for too long.

I. cannot. wait.

Home Match and Sundance

Saturday was our first home match of the year vs. Washington. We had a great match against the Huskies and then I jetted up to Sundance for the festival. My awesome Uncle Stanton owns PCTV and always invites us up to see a few movies during the festival. Although it was freeeezing and we decided to walk to our movies it was a blast. I am just looking forward to our next tennis trip... (we leave tomorrow for Hawaii!!) Hopefully my face will see the sun because I am looking pretty white!

Doing what I do

Aren't our new uniforms cute?

My cousin Kierstin and I having fun while freezing

Ps. If any of you are interested our tennis team also has a blog of all of our trips and matches! check it out... byuwomenstennis.blogspot.com

Need your help...

So I have been thinking lately that it is time to get a new sofa... problem is I do not know which one I want to get and yes, both of these sofas look very similar yet they are very different... so I need your help... which one do you like better??

Photoboother

Recently I went to dinner with my dear friend Amy Wiseman. We ate at BJ's pizzeria and walked around a weird mall. As we were walking around we spotted a photobooth and decided we wanted to try it out.. but we forgot... Luckily, I remembered that my REALLY creative cousin Stanton created a website that can turn your pictures in to a photobooth picture strip (I know, really cool)... So before I said goodbye I snapped a few silly shots of Amy and I in the car and turned it into this!

Stanton's website is called photoboother.com and is free! You upload the pictures and voila! you're done and then can download the image, email, or buy prints. Check it out and spread the word!

NYC Storyboard

These last few months I have slacked on the blogging front to say the least... so this is my attempt to do a little bit of catch up via storyboard since I have wayy too many pictures from my trip to New York City!(this is about 2 months late)

01. This is where it all started... Amy came to town to visit Jessie and I, we decided we needed to have a girls trip... 02. We took the redeye into NYC, this shows how fab we look once we landed... 03. It rained all day and was super cold so we strolled around until we could check in but one highlight was getting tickets to Letterman that night to see Steve Martin!... 04. Day 2 began with our venture out to Soho to get some delicious pizza and... 05. Hot chocolate. 06. In Soho we shopped til we dropped and then some.
07. We ventured to Serendipity but stopped in Dylan's candy shop while we waited for our table... 08. Serendipity post meal and post frozen hot chocolate... 09. Day 3 took the red bus tour around to see the statue of liberty... 10. Warmed up inside the Plaza hotel, so beautiful!... 11. Met Connor (my cousin) to ride bikes through Central Park but ended up walking the bikes... 12. Jumping in Central Park
13. Thank goodness Connor was there and patient enough to take a lot of pictures of us in Central Park!... 14. At the fountain in Central Park... 15. Connor and I left the gals to meet up with Stanton and Rubi (my cousin and his wife)... Love stantons face in this one... 16. Decided to go to the Brooklyn bridge to see the city lights (freeezing) but stopped by Dayna's work to surprise her on our way!... 17. Freezing on the bridge... 18. Then took the subway to Stanton and Rubi's place in Harlem
19. Actually putting the bikes into use Connor gave me a tour of Columbia, the Hudson and a few of his favorite spots at 12 am or so which happened to be my favorite part of the day... 20. Camera timed posers...21. Connor the tour guide once again coming to the rescue to take us to Brooklyn's Egg and the Brooklyn flea market... 22. On the way to brunch at Egg we ran into the NYC Marathon and ran through it(so fun!) ... 23. Ladies in the subway... 24. Finished off the trip/day by walking from Brooklyn back to Manhattan over the bridge...

We had a busy and fun few days in NYC... even though it was freezing I loved being in the big city!

Lately...

Lately I have been pretty crazy busy with the fall tennis season. We just finished up our last tournament of the fall and so things will start to slow down again! Here is where I have been for the past month or so...

Saw Amy while I was out in San Francisco for the Berkeley invitational

Hung out with A.C. Slater at the Grove

This lady come to visit me in Santa Barbara and watch the girls play

Hanging out in the hot Vegas heat (in the shade of course) during out 13 hour days at the tennis courts!

The good ol' days

I was looking at some old pictures on my computer and found these gems. I believe these photos are circa 2006 or something? I miss the good ol' days hanging out with these ladies doing nothing but taking silly pictures and being totally entertained! Too bad these two live in AZ and Im still here in provo! I miss you guys!!

The Big 2-5

Last weekend I turned the big 2-5. The night before (friday night) I took the team on a traveling practice up to Sundance. We spent the night and had fun playing games all night. The next day we went on the chair lift at the resort which was beautiful! From there Kirk took me to Salt Lake shopping and for some yummy lunch and dinner. He had me pick out a new dress for a surprise which ended up being going to see the Lion King at the Capitol theater! I was so surprised and had so much fun!

At the top of the Sundance chair lift with some of the team

In front of the theater before the Lion King

(video below is the team playing the fruit game

...you have to play the game to understand)

Labor Day Weekend

For the Labor day weekend some special people came up to visit. We had such a fun weekend with a lift ride in sundance to celebrating grandpa brown's bday!

We couldn't put little Brighton down all night

The Bday boy!

Sundance!