It Snowed Today. I Love Snow.

So lately my dad is all into sustainable living....
like really into it....
 it cracks me up.
Then something happened... now i'm kinda diggin it. 

You know what else happened? 

It snowed today. 

I love snow, it brings over EVERY childlike emotion inside of me that their possibly can be. 

Then I saw this video.....

Lets just go ahead and stop global warming.....

No Snow=Cranky Kailey
and well it is no secret that  Cranky Kailey is never a good Kailey 

Watch it. Ittzzz good.

PSSSS HAPPY LEAP YEAR. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv6dMFF_yts

The Big 23

Happy Birthday Nicholas!!! 

(ok, yesterday I didn't realize this didn't post)

There is not one single day that goes by that I don't miss that boy like crazy. 

He was quite the man.

Quite. 

My family makes me giggle

So.... my siblings and i drew names for gifts for one another. 

Matt got Sharice.

What does a 16 year old get his sister in law?

A classy picture of himself with words, "Best Friends Forever"'

He really is one of the funniest human beings you will meet. 

Ever. 

If you are ever struck with the chance to meet Matthew Harris Larsen,

Take. It. 

Then..... Christmas Eve hits

Christmas Eve in the Larsen home in somewhat chaos.

We play bingo

and we get feisty

Top prize of the year?

Forever lazy's of course. 

look at the twin brothers sporting those so hot.

they come complete with a butt zipper for potty breaks and all

(yep that's my dad on the right, good man)

Oh and it of course wouldn't be Christmas Eve without some new jammies!

here are the gems my mom picked this year.

Footies

Penguin and bunny

Good job mom.

Best jammies yet

I really love Christmas.

My mom was so lucky to be blessed with a birthday on December 29th 

lucky lady (not)

For her birthday we went to dinner

this was Matt's attire for the evening

take a look at the shoes?

They're $12 comfy wear from wal-mart

velcro straps included.

What a trend setter he is!

Just in case you were wondering what i've been up to this Christmas Break...

well,..... pretty exciting isn't it?

P.S. pray for snow.

I'm much more than postive i would give back every single Christmas present for 10 ft of snow.

every.single.one.

There are a lot of good people in this world.

Do you know what today is?

Well, today happens to be a big day ladies and gentlemen. It's thee LAST day of school for the semester.
LAST DAY. nbd.

and well, for a last day it was quite a pleasant one at that.
#1- My teacher brought us cookies (I can never get enough sugar and chocolate in class)

#2- Why am I such a grinch?
Everyone is talking about shopping, let's be honest i've been THINKING about Christmas shopping.  Have I done any yet? No. Not a single present, for not a single person. T-minus 17 days until Christmas... i'm so out of the spirit.
Then this happened.... my cute friend who i've been in a couple of classes with and we've become really good friends with, gave me a Christmas present! She is such a sweetheart and it completely caught me off guard.
Reality check #1 for the day. Be a good friend. Some people on this are just downright good people. Jordan Anderson is one of them.

#3- I love teachers that care, really really really care.
I have a marketing professor, Eric Schulz, he is one of the most excellent teachers I have had throughout my whole college experience. You know those teachers who, can just teach? (sounds stupid I know) But he can. He just has a way of engaging and sucking you in, making you believe in what he is teaching. He's incredibly successful yet passionate. Well, because of his success and somewhat bold, hilarious, personality I always thought of him as a tough guy type. Well, he surprised me today, he told us this, "success comes from love. Passion can be FAKED. Love CANNOT"
He is passionate about what he does, heck even when he said this he started tearing up. The man who is not afraid to throw shit and hell around in class and tells funny stories.
He really cares.
Thank you Eric, you really taught me not only marketing but how to pursue my dreams and be passionate about what it is I am pursuing.

So, that was my last day of class.
Let's just hope I can be as passionate of a teacher as they are.

(p.s. I so far have 2 for sure A's. YEssss)

The Holidays sure are HAPPY!

I have been looking forward to Christmas since about oooh January? I wasn't in America for Christmas last year and well... while it was really fabulous in Taiwan it just wasn't the same....

Here are some reasons that have made the Holidays FABULOUS for me so far....

#1- Bowling
It's a Thanksgiving tradition to go bowling on Thanksgiving in the Larsen family. Let me tell ya it is always quite the adventure. We're a family of real bowlers.... especially myself....
Let's just say my Grandma (82 years young mind you) won me by 40 points....
I know where my talent lies..

#2- Christmas Tree!

Alright, i'm sorry I know this picture is kinda crappy but. you get the jist of it! Can you see why I LOVE Christmas trees?
Well..... while this tree is rather grand and quite the spectacle, it was not always like that.
We cut this baby down at the Kapp tree farm in Mt. Green. Every year we kid around, like man this tree is going to fall off the car. (some years it has come disgustingly close and by the time we get home it's horizontally on the car) Well folks.....
this year, here are the Larsen's driving home with their lovely tree strapped on top, thanks to Dave Larsen. We're in Weber Canyon (this is a FREEWAY mind you) the wind starts picking up, CRACK, BOOM BASH, the tree is OFF THE CAR!
I'm pooping my pants at this point. A car runs over the tree, luckily it was ok and they just keep driving. I got out of the car and booked it as fast as my little legs would go and pulled it out of the road.
Our twine was broken..... uh.... we had nothing to tie it back onto the car with...
being the Larsen's we had a BRILLIANT idea. Shove the TWENTY FOOT tree INSIDE of the car....
So we did. i'm sure it was rather comical to those driving around us.
It was rather comical to me.
But on the bright side at least we didn't cause some 20 car pileup or something, and guess what? The tree wasn't even damaged.

#3- Dave Larsen the newest Christmas "rapper"
My dad is a funny guy.... or so he thinks so.
They went Christmas shopping this morning and my mom is already wrapping the presents.
Dave, the great man he is, thinks he should make up a Christmas rap, while they wrap.
He's been bouncing around the house rapping the most ridiculous Christmas "wrap" i've ever heard.

See why these Holidays are just Happy?
YAHOO

Ohhhhh did I really just do that?

Ya know how sometimes you have those moments where you do something and a split second later you wish nothing less than that you could just take that back?

I did that today....
and ya know, it happens to me all too often. crap.

Here's my story:

I went to the fieldhouse (Utah State's gym) today to get nice and sweaty. Well, it's just a smidge chilly outside now and I don't want to free my thighs off walking up so I put sweats on OVER my workout shorts.
Normal right? I do it all the time.
Well, I don't know if my brain in lacking on remembering how to work because I have 3 (THREE and this is Thanksgiving week. YOU SUCK professors) okay, off my soap box now or if I just am REALLY EXCITED (really) for Thanksgiving and can only think about food but I walk in, go the bathroom, this is my normal routine.
Then I walk upstairs to the little cubbies where you can put your things. Mind you these cubbies are not in private places in the gym... rather they are just on the side wall, so you have view of them from pretty much the whole gym.
I take off my coat, them I take on my pants.....
Well here's where the magic happens.....
Apparently I'm an idiot and didn't realize I had not only grabbed the elastic waistband on my sweat put also my shorts.... Uhhhhh
So there I stood with my pants and shorts to my knees. Yep, I had some pink undies on today and I just really wanted to make sure people saw them!
After it happened I wasn't sure if I should just walk out or workout. I worked out. Obviously keeping my head down and avoided eye contact at all costs!
Yep, I'm that girl that everyone thinks, "oh poor thing I feel so bad for her"
At least I made their day right?
Let's be honest it's rather comical and it made mine too!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Back in Action and FULL of GREAT news.

Uhh.. HELLO?

Want to know something so amazingly fantastic it just tickles me beyond pink?!?!?!?

I. Kailey.Jean.Larsen. Got. Accepted. To. Do. Teach. For. America.

UHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh YYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!

Do you know what this means?!
1) For the next 2 years I will be living in North Carolina
2) I will be Teaching English (possibly secondary education as well if i'm really lucky)
3) It's my first big girl job- retirement, paid-time off, salary, 401k plan, the whole nine yards
4) I will get my Masters in Education
5) This opens up oodles of doors for me for my future career (Harvard for an MBA? Most likely come 2014)
(ok ok ok it's alright for me to live in a dream world right? Ok, I will don't worry)
6) Most importantly it means i'm just really excited to be accepted to be a part of this incredible organization!!

You may be like what in the hail is Teach For America anyway Kailey. Well.... I'll tell you, did you know there is a disgusting achievement gap in America? There is, our education system in low-income communities is downright not ok. A child that does not finish High School is 8 TIMES more like to go to prison, 8 in 10 kids don't graduate from High School in low-income areas where Teach For America goes... America needs to step up their education a notch.

Every child deserves the chance to succeed. I'm going to do my VERY best to give these kids the opportunity to.

Better yet.... Will you PLEASE just watch a movie called Waiting for Superman? It's pretty much explains the missions of Teach For America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKTfaro96dg

it's reeeeaallll good.

I'm reeeeaalll nervous. BUT EVEN MORE EXCITED.

I'll keep you posted.