.lindsey.taylor.walker.

This girl FINALLY made it to India and I am stoked to have her here!!!! 

.BFF.dance.

How lucky am I to be able to dance with my best friend?

Pretty darn lucky.

I really don't think I've laughed that hard in a while.

Aub's favorite thing to do in life is to laugh.

Not only is she good at laughing but she is also good at making people laugh.

I mean really... some of the things she says...HILAR!

So ya. I get to dance with my BFF again and boy does it feel good!

p.s. Megan (teacher) put Aub and I together as partners for this one part of the dance...what was she thinking?!...Guess she loves us!

.life.is.complete.

I had an amazing opportunity to go up to Sundance and help make food for a dinner/concert up at the film festival. I was hoping to meet someone famous...preferably Ryan Gosling or Bradley Cooper...and get a picture with them. I have never really met anyone famous so I wasn't sure how I would handle that kind of situation. Would I be so starstruck that I wouldn't be able to talk? Would it feel normal? I didn't know what to expect. Well an hour or so had gone by and I was ready to go home. A headache was coming and I just needed to get to bed. This older guys comes up to me and says, "Harry Potter is downstairs."...I say, "Harry Potter?...Like Daniel Radcliffe?" As luck would have it, Daniel Radcliffe was downstairs. He was taking pictures with some fans so I decided to get one myself. He asked my name and shook my hand. He told me his name was Daniel *DUH*. He was really nice and charming. I feel like I held myself together pretty well. Now I'm not a Harry Potter fanatic. I will be the first to admit that. I do love the movies though. It was on my bucket list to meet someone extremely famous and welp...there ya have it! I had the honor to hug and meet THE Daniel Radcliffe! He is a lot shorter than I imagined him to be and there was no scar on his forehead. But he was nice!

 The rest of the night was amazing. I met some incredible people and was able to reconnect with some old friends. I loved helping my friend Jory out in the kitchen. He is an INCREDIBLE cook so it was fun to watch him an action and to be apart of his pasta masterpiece. I loved the concert and the amazing talent that was shared. This is a night I will never forget. Thank you Jory and cousin Kim for making it possible! 

Me with Jory (chef) and my new friend Seffy!

Music was amazing!

Me and new friend Seffy! We bonded over frosting cupcakes! Love her!

               

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K wow...
It's been too long since my last blog post.
My apologies to those who read my blog.
So much has been going on.
Here are some quicky updates...

1. I am in the process of selling my contract here at Village and to be honest....I really don't like it. I hate the fact that I have to pack up and move. Worst part is not being able to live with Aubrey and my other amazing roommates anymore. I am excited to start classes at BYU and get into my major...moving is just hard right now.

2. I've spent a lot of time in Salt Lake over the last week. My sweet grandfather is old and in need of love. I will blog about that later.

3. I love doing Ultimate Harmony with Clayton. I love singing Christmas songs and being with good friends.

4. My best friends, Aub Jo, is the best.

5. I auditioned for the Nauvoo young performing mission. More updates on that and a neat story in a later blog post.

6. Christmas is coming and I couldn't be happier. I love the feeling I get around this time of year. Aub and I go all out, so be prepared for some rad pictures.

Yep...That's all I can think of right now. More posts to come!!

Lost.

I was driving home by myself last night.
I love driving by myself.
It gives me time to turn on music that I want to listen to.
I put my phone on silent.
I usually ignore texts or phone calls.
It's Annie time.
Not anyone else's time.
I found myself lost in the lyrics of a song.
I found myself being the story of the song.
Being a musician and someone who has grown up loving music,
I find this to be a regular occurrence.
I love it.
I love taking the time to listen to the lyrics.
I love putting myself in the song writer's shoes.
I get lost in their story.
I don't even realize that I have now pulled into my apartment parking lot.
It's when the music shuts off that I come to reality and know that
there is a world out there.
That there is other noise out there besides the sound of a voice, piano and guitar.
It sometimes breaks my heart.
I wish my life was a constant song that never ended.
I love being lost in the lyrics.
I love not caring about the outside world.
I love music.
I love the power it has in my life.
The influence.
The emotion.
The passion.

This. Is. Halloween.

Halloween is never really my favorite holiday.

Ya, I loved it when I was little.

Getting all dressed up.

Trick or treating.

Eating candy until my belly ached.

Parties at school.

It was all a dream for me.

For a few years, I was not a fan. 

I could do without the holiday.

But ever since I moved down to Orem, 

my feelings of Halloween have softened.

I love dressing up with my roommates and making my own costume.

Makes me feel a little creative.

Happy Halloween everyone! 

I can't get over how lucky I am to have such amazing roommates.

 I love them to death.

Uke life away...

For Christmas, Aubrey got me a Ukulele.
I have 3 cousins that play so we like to jam together whenever I'm in town.
Aub granted me my secret wish.
A uke!
Mine was defected...so she called in and asked for exchange for a new one.
They said, "Oh just keep that one! We'll send you another one for free!"
FREE??? Okay!
We ended up getting mine fixed.
So what was once just one uke...turned into 2!
Aubrey and I have decided to dedicate Friday's to our Uke's.
Zooey and
Joseph Gordon.
After class, we had some time to kill before heading up to Salt Lake.
Why not uke life away for the time being?
It was a sunny day and it was warm!!
We took my laptop outside along with our ukes and sat down on the sidewalk and played.
We made friends and people passed by.
I love Friday's now.
Uke time with Aubs and Synergy!
Thanks for making my Friday afternoon so much fun Aubbie!

Although the night ended a little rough for me,
I have learned to rely on the Savior when times get hard.

Cross your heart...CROSS IT!

I woke up this morning with the hope for a good and productive day.

Afternoon was nothing but miserable and rocky. 

Great.

Then I turned to Aub and said, "Let's hang out tonight. You and me?"

And hang out we did.

We worked on our photography "story".

It's not due until next Friday but we were so excited to get this done!

I can't wait to turn it in and post it!

We are both so happy at how it turned out.

We have more "stories" to shoot.

Aubrey and I decided to drive out to Herriman to see the "UP" house.

*SIGH*

I loved every second of it!

UP is one of my favorite movies and so being in the house made me feel like I was in the movie.

Carl and Ellie have a wonderful sense of architecture and style!

We signed the "Adventure Book"!!

Merry Christmas from Carl and Ellie!!! <3

***22 days until Christmas***

Aubsie and Fann...

Not only am I grateful for "Annie Time"...but I'm also grateful for "Aubrey and Annie Time". After I was done with Annie time...I thought it would be good for me to stop being a loser and hang out with Aubrey. What did we do?...we read books. Who would have thought that reading a book next to your roomie would be so fun?? We sat next to each other on Aubrey's bed...we didn't take a picture because we fell asleep. So nappy time it was for us! I love that Aubs and I take naps at the same time. Bonding. Then we woke up..missed institute...oops..But hurried and got ready for our lady date. That's right people...a lady date! We went to Zupas for dinner. I got the BBQ chicken salad while Aubrey enjoyed her favorite TBA!

We Love Mocks!!

We downed that meal and hurried off to UVU's Synergy Dance Company concert...it was good...we left at intermission...we love dance. Trust me. We LOVE dance. This concert was 100% modern..NOTHING wrong with that...but it's hard to sit through any sort of concert with a throbbing head ache. So we left. I went to bed while Aubrey went up to hang out with her bestie, Addison. I LOVE AUBREY AND ANNIE TIME!

To Sum Up The Week...

This week was pretty good! Some stressful times here and there but I got through them!

So I took my science test on Monday and get a 74%. I was really excited about it because science is a totally different language to me. Then I go to class on Wednesday and found out that with the curve, I got an 87%! Good day!

On Thursday, Aub Dob and I went out to shoot some pictures for our photography class. We spotted a piece of land and decided to shoot there. Aubs noticed a tree house off to the side and so we stopped there and took some amazing pictures! It was like Neverland! We thought it was so cute!

Photo taken by me!

Photo taken by Aubs!

Then off to institute....you can never go wrong with institute. We love our teacher and he loves us! :) He knew my grandpa Hugh. It's always fun meeting people like that.

After institute, my sister Bethany and I went out for sushi! We get dinner every Thursday! I love my sister!

Friday came. TGIF! Work. Then off to photography lab! Me and Aubrey were really proud of ourselves for shooting some pretty awesome pictures! Our lab instructor liked them too...especially Aubrey's! When we got home, we put on some sweet eye-liner and made ourselves some awesome Egyptian snake type head bands. IT'S NATIONAL KING TUT DAY!! Aubrey has this sweet calendar with random holidays and today was King Tut day! Here's to King Tut!!

My friend Todd came and picked me up and we headed off to Salt Lake for the Olympus-Bountiful football game. His brother is on the team. Unfortunately, Olympus didn't win...BUT it was a good game. Todd, Andrew, Maddie and I headed up to Emigration canyon for dinner at Ruth's Diner and then to their old boss' house. His name is Rich. NICEST man I will ever meet.

Aubrey left early this morning to head up to Sandy. I was glad I was kind of awake when she left because I was able to give her a big hug good bye. Woke up late this morning...I needed it. Went grocery shopping...spent a good amount on food..but after 2 months of no good food, it was needed. Came home and watched "Eclipse"...by myself. Wasn't having a very good day so it was nice to have some Annie time. Then we had some friends over for the Alabama-LSU game! There were only a few LSU fans present. I was one of them. My roomie Hoa is an LSU fan...so I supported her tonight!

Me and Hoa!! Love this girl!

It was really fun! A good game with good food and friends! It was a good way to end a lousy day. We all missed Aubrey tonight....we always miss Aubrey when she is away.

The Bama-LSU crew!

The LSU fans in the house!!!

So happy they won!!

Then Carlos and I went in my room to talk about some stuff. He is such a good friend! He was able to give me some good advice. He brings such a sweet spirit to this apartment!

Then Kib joined us and we talked for a bit. I love my new friends down here!

Yep today was kind of lousy...but it ended with a good time with good friends...and good food :)

Tis the season...to be a MINION!

I was at the hospital on a delivery one day.

Saw a pumpkin that was painted as a Minion

from despicable me...

I sent a picture of it to aubrey..."Costume?"

She didn't hesitate to say "YES!"

Off to walmart I went that night.

After a few trips to different stores,

our costume was completed.

We went to a party in Salt Lake

last saturday.

It was so much fun!

Some people thought we were bumble bees...

We would just say, "Whaaa??"

Then they knew exactly who we were.

Elsa and her roomie Jace came toward the end.

Their costumes were fan-freaking-tastic!

Hoops and Yoyo!

Els and I LOVE Hoops and Yoyo!

It was fun to see her and Jace in their creative costumes!

Go on facebook onto my profile and "LIKE" their picture!

They are in a Sammy's Costume Contest for $200!

Anyhoo...

Aubs and I went to another Halloween party here at our apartment complex!

Our roomie, Kat, won most creative costume...

Heck ya she did!

She was charmander!

Our other roomie, Hoa, dressed up as little Agnis from Despicable Me.

She was sooo cute! She even had a little unicorn!

We had a blast!

An Amazing Weekend of Love....

This past week was really lousy due to

work, school and other stuff...

Started off my Friday with a hope for a good day.

Did I get that good day?

Not at the beginning...

Came home from work in tears to my roomie Aubs.

She did nothing but comfort me and hug me.

Much needed.

She is amazing!

We went to our photography lab which was great!

Our instructor is HILAR!...as Aubsie would say.

Aub was the class model for "awkward, distorted face" pictures.

She still looked beautiful!

Met up with our friend Sarah Howard.

Off to Salt Lake!

Best part of the drive was talking on the phone with our dear friend.

Carlos.

He is a new friend of me and Aubrey.

Upon our arrival, Brian Wilder came over.

He treated me and Aubrey to Zupas!

Aubs got the TBA and I got a salad.

Oh ya...I can really only have salads from there now...

This darn Celiac disease!

Stories were shared and tears were shed...

K no tears...but good/okay stories were told.

We love Brian!

Last year Aubrey and I went to Freaky Fridays.

It's a Halloween show that Clayton puts on every Friday in October.

Highly recommend it!

Before Freaky Fridays last year, we visited our beautiful friend Sophie at her grave.

She passed away last summer and will never be forgotten.

To keep this tradition living, Aubs and I decided to go to Freaky Fridays.

It gets better and better every year! We saw Aubrey's brother Austin!

He did amazing!

I also saw 2 of my old dance students I taught last year!

Mikala and Shanay! They were good looking zombies!

Before we went to the show, we visited Sophie.

It was such a sweet experience to have with Aubrey.

They have dozens of roses set up.

An angel statue.

And a garden sign with her name in it along with a laminated picture of Sophie and a scripture from Proverbs.

Aubrey and I just stood there in the rain.

Hugging each other.

Crying.

And telling memories of Sophie.

It's moments like that where you learn to appreciate life and loved ones.

I've never been more grateful for my best friend Aubrey.

Sharing that moment with her was life changing for us.

"Feel the fear and do it anyways."

-Sophie Rose Barton

After dropping Aubrey off at her house, I headed over to visit my dear friend Trent.

On the way over there, I talked with my best friend Elsa on the phone!

I miss her.

She goes to BYU-I.

It was good to just talk to her and catch up!

Trent treated me to Cafe Rio.

Thank goodness I can still eat that!

Then off to Target!

We got some food for Trent for his Saturday meal.

I saw Boo Berries...Brian's favorite cereal.

I couldn't help but throw a box in the basket.

We went back to Trent's and watched a food TV show with his fam.

It was great!

Gotta love the English family.

Then Trent got me into Modern Family.

Never seen it.

Loved it?

YES!

Trent and I enjoyed a fun talk full of random questions and laughs.

Good day!

Woke up Saturday morning to a busy busy day!

Ran errands for my mom. (She was out of town)

Stephen had homecoming that night so I had to get his shoes, tie and flowers!

Stephen and I before Homecoming

He looked so handsome!

My mom is a rock star.

I don't know how she does it!

Then off to the temple to watch my best friend Megan Brock walk out after getting sealed.

Steph Dowse and I drove together and had an amazing talk!

I love her!!

Then Megan and Garret came out!

Megan and Garret were glowing!

Stephanie Dowse and I were "unofficial bridesmaids"

What an honor??

We were able to spend the whole day with a beautiful bride!

Her reception was amazing!

Greg Dowse was my date!

We were early so we stopped by a pizza place and got a pizza!

Did I eat some?

You betcha!

Did I feel sick after?

You betcha!

A photobooth+yummy treats+dancing+Jordan & Denise Sinquefield=an amazing night!

!

Good ol' Clayton friends!

Catching up with childhood friend-Brynnie Bug!

Me, Steph and Camille!

So happy for Megs and Garret!

Our best friend's wedding!

Steph, Greg, Garret's friends and I had the honor to decorate the car!

Window markers, oreos, TP, balloons and streamers were our weapons!

Came home and got some laundry done while I had a visit with Trent!

Family came home from Arizona!

So happy to see them!

Aubs came over and we headed back down to Orem.

Was it was lousy, busy week?

Yep.

Was is an amazing weekend??

Oh ya!