charlie+alex=lisa+ally

We decided to do visiting teaching.

Our teachees received a pack of Tree Top fruit snacks.

How domestic. But at least we put bows around them.

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cami didn't go to skyline

We've been doing, like, a bunch of stuff lately.

It's nuts, really.

We went to St. George with the roommate crew, securing their spots as "friends" instead of just "people we live with," even though Ally neglected to introduce them as such at her house this past Sunday. Oops.

It's a good thing there wasn't a marathon of wedding shows on TLC that Friday night or we probably would have watched them all. JK. There was and we did.
Shout out to Mad-Dawg, who's recently engaged.

(Cami, Maddi, Ally, Kelsey, Lauren, Lisa)



We hung out with our main man Justin Bieber on Valentine's Day since our boyfriends extended their camping trips indefinitely.
#NSN3D

Accidentally loved it.


We up and went to Disneyland over President's Day.
It was pretty last minute.
Nonetheless, we rounded up some fellow enthusiasts (Christine, Heather, Abby), got some NPR Sound Trek CD's from the Provo City Library, asked Lisa's brother Jeff if we could crash at his crazy bachelor pad, and hit the road.









Highlights:

-Seeing Kelsey, Trevor, and Molly in St. George
-Baker, California
-Seeing Jeff's hip cool advertising work place
-Fine dining at Costco, Albertson's, Ralph's, Yogurt Land
-Rainy Venice Beach

-Ally lying to get a "1st Time to Disneyland" pin
-Losing our voices the first ride we went on: The Matterhorn

-Riding California Screamin' in a 100% hurricane
-Captain E.O. We're finally sad Michael Jackson is dead.
-Rainy Venice Beach
-Santa Monica 2nd Ward (aka: tHe PaRTy WaRD)
-Lisa being all domestic and cooking and stuff
-"President's Day Weekend! No regrets! No parents!"
-Realizing that parents at Disneyland means rain ponchos, dry clothes, snacks, and people to buy things for you.

We'll leave you with that for now.
kbye!

Happy Birthday Dear Ally.
May all your wishes come true


everything down to working on Jungle Cruze
(or should I say up to).

But maybe Clair said it best
ALLY'S BIRTHDAY!!! Cake!?
Moms know best.


Their idea.

Happy Day.

Fine, I'll see Gnomeo and Juliet with you.

This is Late Night Library Thursday.

Second week in a row.

Call us dedicated.

It's a good group of kids in the HBLL right now.

Good group.

Did you guys see that Super Bowl?

So did we.

We almost got invited to a smoothie party next door, too.

But then it turned out they just wanted to borrow our ice tray.

Maybe next year.

We went Classic Skating, so we're officially back at school now.

It was for another ward's FHE.

Thanks to the 182nd ward's activities committee.

You guys know what you're doing.

Last weekend we got honor-coded at a Freshman 80's dance

for wearing shorts over leggings.

It happens.

Ally accidentally told some people we were in high school.

It's cooler to be younger than older, right?

We can still raise the roof with the teens.

And we keep it, like, way real all the time.

{That's Lisa's "Hi Mom!" face.}

Oh well. Back to learning.

FBDO

Ally beat Lisa in bowling.
Twice, actually.

Lisa is upset.

investment banking

Hey, you.

We're back in the New World. All cultured and every thing.

We had a good Christmas, a great New Year's, and a lovely MLK day.

Love the holidays.

What have we been up to specifically?

Some of this:

Reunited @ da airport.

And this:

Welcome back dinner with our DJ GuRlZ. 2 sweet!

And this:

Christmas-ing with the Standard at Country Glen. Tea is cool looking, but hot chocolate tastes better.

And this:

Starting real school again with a self-timer pic. When we got to the top of the hill on the way to class we coordinated saying, "Booyeah. We're back." We're guaranteed to have a good semester now.

And this:

We tried to go snowshoeing in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., but failed. It's okay, though. We went to Park City for a minute. Don't worry, it was before the Sundance Film Festival, so we missed the crowd, celebrities, and fun.

And this:

We waited until we felt like we knew our roommates well enough, and then helped redecorate our living room. We think those posters give it more of an urban feel. See those guitars? They're not ours.

These are two of our new roommates, Cami and Kelsey. Lauren and Maddi aren't in the room right now. We're putting this picture on because we just found out we're under "Favorites" in Kelsey's phone. Congratulations to us.

Bye!

H8rs Better Recognize

Hey, Ally.
I almost forgot how good we are at having fun.

Look out Liberty.

this is where the magic happens

Lisa,

Remember that time we went to Walmart around midnight to buy jump ropes, but we bought bubbles and a puppy poster instead?

I found the same puppy poster in India.

What does this mean??

I don't know.

Bye!

-Ally

Hey Ally.

I remember that.
Nothing like lifting milk to the tune of Cribs.

Do you remember this?
Who would schedule a group meeting at 8 in the morning???

Hey Lisa.

Remember this?

I do, too.

And to those who are interested:

lisadickson.posterous.com

ally-has-a-blog.blogspot.com

Keep in touch.

You made Algebra 2 a blast!

HAGS.

A Goode Day

Twenty years ago, Lisa of Country Glen was born.
And we're all glad she was.

A year ago, we were Classic Skating together in our finest threads.

This year, that wasn't possible.

Lisa is in London.

I'm in India.

Alliterations are fun.

This is late, I know.

But, after Lisa's FHE experience with an Indian family in Fiji, she told me she's a little bit afraid of Indian people.

And so, my birthday gift to you, Lisa, is to cast aside those fears for good.

With this collection of pictures I'm calling "Go Lisa," I hope to show you that India is just a country of a billion people cheering for you.

HBD, kid.

I can't wait until we're camping out in Provo this winter.

-Alstie

P.S. I, like, really need yo address.

Pile of Broken Wood

Hey Ally.


It's funny to think that this one isn't that bad.
Hahahahahaharsrsrsrsrsrsrsrsrsrsrsr.

crazy like an ape

Here we are. We're in the Dickson's kitchen, snacking on green giant sugar snap peas, Go-Gurt and blonde brownies, ready to get this blog going again.

Where do we start? It seems like we've had a lot going on, but now we can't really think of anything. So we'll start with today.

We went down to this little bistro called Zupa's in Orem and met up with these hunnies, who we have greatly missed.


They're all doing great. Gap, Humanities, Miss Utah, an "off" room mate. Everything is as it should be.

After our lunch, we ran some errands together. We had to drop off a bunch of rocks at McGee's to be engraved for the Olympus Stake's upcoming pioneer trek, and we saw this from across State street.

Nickel City was calling our name, and there is no place else we would rather be on a Tuesday afternoon. It seems were are about the only people in the world who feel this way, but we enjoyed having the place almost to ourselves.


Ally won 46 tickets, Lisa didn't. That's why Ally is making it rain in that picture.

After we got our prizes - fake fangs, a toy turtle, and frooties - we headed home. On the way, we saw a sign for the Lamb and Wool festival at Thanksgiving point, so we pulled over. Turns out its on Saturday if you're interested. We forgot to say we named the turtle 2-D. Cool, huh.

As far as the rest of our summer goes, it's been greatish. Ally works here:


It's called Millcreek Garden, and as we say, "It's a great day at Millcreek Garden!" It's a great day today, and the next day, and the next day, and the next day. Get it? She's mostly illegal immigrant/migrant worker status, but she's moving up. And by moving up we mean they wrote her name on a pair of scissors yesterday. Within five years she'll be running that place.

As for Lisa, she's been doing a lot of things around the house. Ally brings home the bacon, and Lisa cooks it. She didn't end up getting a job in the Beehive state, but it worked out splendidly. This is perfect opportunity to make an announcement of sorts. Lisa is going to nanny in Boston for eight weeks this summer! She just has to learn how to drive a stick shift and she's set. No cooking, no cleaning, just one on one time with the children. It will be like The Sound of Music meets Super Nanny.

And this is also the time to make another couple of announcements. Beginning June 4th, we won't see each other for more than six months. That's sad. But long live We Have A Blog. We will always have a blog. Let's face it.

It's also exciting though, because we're having adventures. We're going global, even more than that time some Chinese girls came to our grilled cheese party. We're going to do some studying abroad. Lisa is going to London, and Ally is going to India. Hare Krishna, tea. Cheers!

We keep it, like, way real.

Forget about this place.

It's gone. It can't exist without us. And if you think the girls who inherit our dorm room next year are going to put as much care into it as we did you're dreaming.

The last few days in the dorms were some of the best and worst of our short lives. It had the feeling of a refugee camp. We had a small shanty town in the floor lounge set up where the remaining survivors would tough it out together for the night, not knowing what the following day would bring.

Yeah, how dramatic does that sound.

Mostly we just had a few mattresses together, but there were definitely not enough beds for how many girls there were. Ally woke up on the couch one night. Personal space.

We didn't stop our picture taking with all the girls who were checking out. That was something that really kept us going. It gave us a reason to wake up in the morning.

Not only are there a lot of pictures, there are a lot of really really ugly pictures.

We've talked about making a album full of all the ugly pictures we've taken together over the years. Let's just say, all of these pictures with our floor mates would make that album in a second.

We kept going back and forth about whether to put them on da blog at all.

Ultimately, we decided it's not fair to let these girls miss out on the opportunity to be featured on the web just because we hadn't showered for a while and Ally is wearing the Soulja' Boy shirt in 90% of the pictures.

But we're not about to make them normal size.

Here's this collage just to prove that they're there.

We know you can barely see them.

Hey, here's something fun and only semi-related.

That's us and our suitemates in August,

and this is us with our suitemates just a few days ago.

You'd hardly recognize us with how much we've grown, huh.

Next time the two of us (Lisa and Ally) are reunited we'll probably bust out a good year-end-wrap-up post, since our blogging is strongest when we're sitting back to back at opposite desks.

Yep, we'll leave it at that for now. Keeps 'em coming back.