Jasmine's Life

Yet again.....

2009-03-10T01:49:00.000-07:00

MORE PHOTOS... yes it is true, I did a couple more shots, and i have some more on the horizon... There are a couple crazzzy abstract ones, just a warning!

Here is some photography done by Brenton Nielson... he is needed the practice as I did, so we made a pretty good team.. we are gonna give it another try soon, so expect to see more!

photoshoot with Gav + a few other randoms

2009-02-24T22:44:00.000-08:00

Well... britt and i needed some more photography practice, so I got my FRIEND gavin to help us out a little:) NO, Gavin and i aren't together, but we do look good together! ha

2009-02-20T01:21:00.000-08:00

wow, good ol' Valentines. . . it provided some prime entertainment this year! The week of this sometimes dreaded holiday was one filled with the most outrageous pick up line and the most INCREDIBLY awkward moments! Do boys really think those work? Maybe some do, but most days i feel like i am a magnet for the cheesiest lines of all time! (i can only write these on my blog because some of these boys would see them on my facebook, and i dont think they realize EVEN NOW how silly they sounded)

Example numbero uno:
I have a boy that is infactuated with me.. which would be all fine and dandy, except i have none of those same feelings for him :) I do not lead this boy on in any sort of way, infact i have flat out told this boy that i will not kiss him, probably not ever. So the other day i was over at his place, and we were talking about how we were such great friends when all of a sudden he starts kissing my neck... ok pause- kissing on the neck isn't that wierd when one likes someone, and you are involved, but who kisses there when they haven't even touched the lips?- So i have no idea what to say to this kid at this moment in time( at this moment i literally have my head turned in the opposite direction and i have this look of utmost surprise and discust across my face, but he can't see it), so i say the first thing that comes out of my mouth "i have a really long neck" hahaha ok i will be FIRST to admit that that may not have been the smartest thing to say, but i didn't say it in a seductive way or anything, just in a matter-of-fact sort of way... and his response was very serious and in an I-am-trying-to-seduce-you tone, "i know. . . i could spend DAYS here" WHO SAYS THAT? I couldn't help myself, i laughed, outloud! which he took as -oh she is into this- and so he started getting close to my ear and breathing really heavy-ok pause again, did i mention that I am not into this kid AT ALL? even if i was, him breathing really heavy in my ear would NEVER turn me on, that is just rediculous- on top of the fact that he is breathing in my ear, his breathing has a whistle to it. i lost it, i just bursted out in laughter! He once again thought i was all into it, and i had to pull away, and he asked me what i was laughing at, and i seriously replied "YOU! what happened to just being friends, friends don't breath heavy in other friends ears, that is just wierd."

Example number two:
I was going to be set up with a friend of a friend on a blind date, so we added eachother on facebook and what not, and we were chatting it up getting along real well. After talking for a while he appologizes for being boring becuase he is doing homework or something. . . my reply to that is just 'oh you are fine" he replies "no, you're fine" . . . it took me like FIVE minutes to figure out what the heck he was talking about hahaha so i didn't actually reply. . . but then he says "you are hott" Do boys really think that this stuff works? it puts me in an awkward position because what do i say to that?

Example number three:
Everyone knows that i have a super long tongue... i am a freak of nature, i know. I dont really think of it in a kissing way, and i forget that boys do, but i was quickly reminded the other day when i was with the boy from example number one. He was whining that i wouldn't kiss him, and i asked him why he would want to(mostly because i wanted to prove that it wasn't because he liked me) and he replied "well my room mate says that your tongue something to experience, and something every man should experience, and i want to be a man" i literally laughed in his face. . . once again WHO SAYS THAT? i promise this kid really isn't a totally freak i think that valentine's just got to his head a little or something because where does he think of these terrible lines? and he says them in a very serious tone almost like he thinks they are seductive. HA

All in all i had a fabulous Valentine's day being perfectly single. I had all the entertainment of men that i needed for a while, but something tells me i will get plenty more of the superb pick up lines not to far of in my future :)

2009-02-15T23:05:00.000-08:00

WE ARE AT IT AGAIN! SISTA DANCE FEST! WHOOP WHOOP! It has turned into a tradition. . . everytime i come home to visit, we make a dance video. This time to shake things up we played dress ups. As most of you know, my sisters and i have taken dance since we were tiny tots... meaning-we have collected a LOT of dance costumes ranging in size and color. Here we sample a few for you. . . .
This first one is my tap dance costume from when i was like five... it was a christmas recital, so naturally my costume is red, and no costume is ever complete without matching sequins! I have NO idea how i managed to get the thing on, but really the trick wasn't getting it on, it was getting it off!

Darcy is such the little diva.... here she is in.. who KNOWS what.. its not even a dance costume! pretty sure i would kill for her legs.
Okay, this is a guest appearance by the beautiful Brittany. She is a future room mate of mine at college, and she is a georgia PEACH! gotta love this girl.. she is sporting on of my old jazz costumes. . . i am still in the red costume from when i was five, and darcy's really tiny tutu. i really feel the mismatch stockings are what give this shot its extra something. :)Look what i found! my old Jasmine costume.. i believe it was actually an old ballet costume, but i wore it for halloween a couple of times.. i could't believe it sorta still fits me... wow, i really need a tan, and a gym pass! hahahaha especially when standing next to tinsey little darc-a-bug
britt and i agian.. sporting the purple and blue look. . .
Love her. .
diva much?

And finally the end results + some more awesome costumes!

2009-02-10T23:07:00.000-08:00

Winter here in good ol' Provo is something to experience, that is for sure! I grew up in Kaysville, so I thought i knew what snow was, but they get twice as much down here. I was forced to buy some more snow boots(or atleast thats what i use to justify the purchase) because of all the snow. During the christmas break, my car actually disappeared beneath a good three feet of fresh snow. I love bundling up for the cold, in scarfs gloves and coats.. Provo has been coated in white frosting, and it is truly beautiful.Em and I were having a ball in the snow fall. . . we found random pathways that BYU decided to carve, and we were trying hard not to slip and fall on the sheets of ice that cover campus.
Room mates!!! brooke Emily and i

Ok... i told everyone to make a snow face, and meanwhile emily decided to make my face a snow face... way to be em.anna and i
Video 1.Grocery shoppin at like 3 in the morning... the ground is slush, and i just can't let that kind of excitement pass me by!
Video 2. Fresh snow, so anna and i would run and jump into it. It is deep enough that it doesn't hurt. The bushes are super fun to jump into! They push you right back up!

i'll be whoever you need me to be...

2009-02-10T03:13:00.000-08:00

I have learned a valuable lesson over time, especially working in health care. I have learned that it doesn't really matter who i am, as much as what i am doing. It is the entire concept of service, just looked at from another angle. I have worked with some very sick patients, and even been with them when they have passed from this life to the next, each one needed me to be something else: a daughter, a son, a husband, a friend, a comforter. I get the most joy when helping those people that need me. . . it isn't always a patient, sometimes it is a friend, or a stranger. Tonight, I am needed as a daughter, my hand is needed to comfort and sooth. . . I don't mind helping at all, actually quite the opposite because if it was my loved one, I would want someone to do it for them too. EVERY SINGLE PERSON is someone's loved one. . . I am constantly reminded of that. I also know that if it was me, I would pray that someone would be there to be what i needed. Next time someone asks you to be what they truly need, put yourself aside, and be there for them. . . be whoever they need you to be. Some may call it service, but i call it love.

ups and downs of dating...

2009-02-08T02:34:00.000-08:00

So i went and saw he is just not that into you today in the theaters, and first off it is a fabulous film. The film was incredibly relate-able. I am attending BYU as many of you may know, and the culture shock of the entire "dating" scene has really hit me hard. I have gone out with a few boys, and been completely surprised and thrown off by the actions of some of the boys(return missionaries of course). This movie was exactly what i needed! It makes fun of some of the insanely stupid things us girls do for boys! One of my favorite lines was from one of the girls talking about a boy she went out with is "well he told me he goes out to the [specific] bar after work, maybe i should do a drive by?" WHY WOULD A DRIVE BY HELP HER SITUATION?! hahaha and yet, we have all thought about doing it at some point. After that priceless line, another girl tells a story about something along those lines and ends it with. . . "i am not a stalker" hahaha yes, yes you are, we all are. Men just drive us to that extreme end.... wits end.

So here i am finding myself at BYU dating men, thinking i had them pretty much figured out by now. . . .after seeing this show, i am back at square one - I got nothin'! I know the show spoke 100 % truth. . . that i cannot deny, but now i have to rethink entirely my dating processes. awhhh theater... bringing me to the real world once again!

Foosties!!!!!!!

2009-02-08T01:29:00.000-08:00

While partying it up at a friends house we needed a change of clothes.. Anna and i asked for Pj's just to borrow, and this is what we got.....

good times at work. . .

2009-02-08T00:45:00.000-08:00

I work in the Neuro Trauma Rehab at UVMC. I love my job! Reason one why i love my job- the crazy patients. Reason two - my coworkers. Reason three - the love and life lessons i see and experience through my work.

I don't have pictures of reasons one and three, but oh do i ever have pictures of reason two!

Co worker number one. . . . the beautiful Kaitlin Hale... this night she was strutting the infamous in-N-out hat...
This would be Julie(and christine).. some would argue this is her better side.. hahahaha i like both sides :)
This is Shay and her famous "duck" face... i think she looks like a fish off of finding nemo.. can't place which one... One night we discovered that NO ONE else can make this face quite like shay can.. she is a special one!
This- is KATE- aka the BOMB(as rodney would say). She is the prettiest girl i know who can make the ugliest faces for pictures.. it is a true gift
One night we decided to tape our noses up.. Chelsey's taped her eyebrows too, and she looks like plastic surgery gone wrong! hahahaha

This is Kate and I.. Fenise(another coworker) can NEVER keep us straight.. i think that still to this day Fenise has never actually called me by my name. I actually answer to KATE now.

shay works the hospital corner on her breaks...

The Three retards.. ahhhhh

WE eat ALOT at work. . . some days we order in.. others we are on pickle diets. The fries at the hospital are amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We all have nick names at work... one day i came in to say goodbye to someone and i had been out with some friends... all my coworkers have never seen me outside of scrubs and i came in hooker heels and spandex.. i quickly got the nick names "street-walker barbie" , and "hooker barbie" I couldn't handle the teasing, so i put XXXL scrub bottoms on over the top!
We had a voiding competition one night... shay CREAMED us all.... i dont remember the total, but i believe it was like 2 and a half liters.. hahaha this is darcy doing a bladder scan on Shay

more pictures . . .

2009-02-08T00:03:00.000-08:00

Here is some more Photography. . . done again by britt :)

Bucket List

2009-02-07T23:34:00.000-08:00

Be swept off my feet by a man
swim with sharks
scuba dive
sky dive
travel to Asia
have children(at least one vaginally)
learn to love
go to the temple
buy lingerie with husband
have a recipe that people call mine and that i am known for.. ex. "ooh will aunt Jasmine's _____ be at the party?"
own a dog
learn the meaning of true humility
go on date with famous person
model for a company
touch one persons life
see my children become a parent
visit Egypt and the pyramids
Go on a date in a foreign country
raise one eyebrow
learn another language
go skinny dipping
live alone
sleep in late with my husband and kids in my bed with me
watch cartoons with my kids
know the true meaning of happiness
work in health care
save a life
laugh til i pee my pants
cry with my husband
bake with my husband
read scriptures with my husband
pray with my husband
be a senile grandma
go streaking
rollerblading at age 70

Christmas and New years

2009-02-07T21:54:00.000-08:00

I had a pretty great Christmas back home with the family. I love my family so much more that I have spent some time away! Going home was quite an adventure!
We spent some quality sister-bonding time in curlers and Pj's. . .
My mom decided to join in on the PJ fest. . .
hahah yes, my foot is a FOOT long! whoop whoop! my mom was pretty excited about that.
aw.. who doesn't love fuzzy socks? my mother and i were sporting them all Christmas break!
Camille and I cooked together.. yeah thats right-I helped cook-AND i didn't ruin anything.. atleast not that i remember. . .
For Christmas break we had my Aunt Helen's dog-tiki- she was a ball! here we are together bright and early Christmas morning. . .
After opening gifts, we had our traditional Tanner Christmas breakfast, featuring the Christmas crackers. Here is darcy and i sporting our crowns. . .
And here is dad and mom(covered by candles) Doesn't he look Jolly...?
On my drive back from good ol' Kaysville, the freeways were a little slick. I tapped my break and went spinning across FIVE lanes of freeway traffic! i stared one car after another in the face, but fortunately i didn't hit any of them. I was stopped by the snow buil up on the side of the road, and faced with another problem...
Yes, i was facing the wrong direction on the freeway! With no help from my father, i decided to wait until a highway patrol man came to my rescue. The cop was amazed that my car and i made it across the freeway unscathed. . . can't say i wasn't surprised either!

For New Years Eve my BEST friends from High school and i got together to party. We went out for dinner at the Pizza Factory and then to a party at UVU hosted by ashley tisdale and David Archuletta(or however you spell his name) we had a blast, and it was fun to get dressed up and be together again.

2009-02-07T21:39:00.000-08:00

I have a dream.... to do some modeling. There are three things people ask me when they meet me, and they go like this, "Do you play volleyball?" and when i reply no they ask, "well how about basketball?" and when i still reply no they say... "well of course you model then?" I hate letting people down, and without fail after this conversation they are let down. This is almost ALWAYS my first conversation with people! I don't like the impression it gives off, and they always have the tone of well-isn't-she-a-waste-of-height. . . I have also had a lot of people tell me that I should give modeling a try, and I found that i really enjoy doing the photoshoots. They are so much fun, but hard work(yeah, i know, go figure). Here are some of my pictures from my first photoshoot with Brittany. . . see what you think

2009-02-07T20:04:00.000-08:00

well.. i have some serious catching up to do... i am just gonna do some brief info of the last month and a half since i slacked off! first on the list is the fabulous St. George trip with one of my best friends, Brittany.
Our First adventure was at the gas station just pass Lehi. Apparently Britt has never washed a car window before, because i had to teach her how to properly do so :) We were getting a little silly with the window-washing wands(not sure the exactly technical name for those) but we had a great time.While stopped we grabbed a snack- salt and vinegar chips. I came across a discovery. . . if one licks the chip a little and then smells it through their nose, it will NEARLY knock you out! It is a crazy sensation! Not sure if it is consider hazardous or not. . . . but at any rate brit took a picture of the pototoe chip-sniffWe surprised Britt's family by arriving at their new house in St. George, and we settles right in. They have an odd crack between the bed and the wall, so naturally i fell into it and got STUCK! Brittany is a great friend, so naturally instead of helping out the tight spot, she grabbed the camera. . . great idea! :)

Then we roasted marshmallows in this tiny little stove thing, but it was really quite fun, and it got the job done! Of course they made fun of the way i cook one layer at a time and peel it of the marshmallow. . . hahaa i guess it is a bit odd. Normally i like it a golden brown, but mine kept cathing on fire!

Attention ALL shoppers! incase you haven't heard, they have a new monopoly out. . . it is electronic banking, with credit cards and everything! IT. IS. THE. BOMB. AND... i kicked trash at it! Wahahahahahahhaa! i beat the whole family!
So then we hit Vegas of course! we had an absolute ball there, including eating at the cheescake factory, shopping, checking out the wierdos, and being the wierdos. We stopped in Swartz toys(is that what is called, i forget) and we found giant lolipops and the giant floor piano(check out video at bottom) I made a giant purchase for my mother, and it was too heavy for me to carry so they put this lovely sign on it(below) and when i took the bag with me later, and out onto the strip people kept giving me funny looks.. hahaha finally we figured out why.
All in all it was a fabulous trip and a great gettaway. We had almost as much in the car then on the whole trip i think! I can see a few more St. Geezy trips in the near future :)

2008-12-18T10:31:00.000-08:00

well its finals week! woot woot! hahaha and finals week in our dorm isn't very pretty..... I am pretty sure finals has pushed poor Brooke over the edge. Emily and I don't know what to do for her! She has kinda become a hermit, see for yourself. . . .. . .

As for Emily... well she is on the phone with Collin as usual, but she looks a little too excited to see me... finals has her pretty wired if you couldn't tell!Emily's room is usually a mess, but with finals week none of us have been able to get our laundry done, so she piled hers up behind the door.... soon we wont be able to open the door!
The is not an uncommon site.... I come home and bombard poor Collin and Emily's lover convo.. I usually tackle Emily and steal all the covers, and precede to talk about boys while she tries to ingore me and talk to Collin(it never works).
Not only is it finals week, but we also have our cleaning check :( No one likes to clean, but we have a good ol' time doin' it together! check out or amazing dancing skills!