Ally is Brushing Her Teeth Right Now

Day 4

In celebration of Black History month for today we 'hooped'.

That means played basketball. You know like, ballin'.

This is what it felt like.



Except instead of being The Professor, Lisa was finally able to be Spyda.

Most importantly, our team won.

But not without the help of the wonderful fan base that Ally rounded up.

After Lisa's game the Dickson family went over to watch her brother 'hoop'.

And since Lisa's Grandma and Grandpa made a surprise visit to watch the games,


they treated themselves to Frosties.

Holla at a balla'

I am My Own Doppelganger

Day 3

Ally sat in the same row as black person in her biology class today.

Lisa waited in the same line as a black person in the testing center.

We love that.

Tickle Bin Elmo

Day 2

We found this picture on our door today.

It's Stevie Wonder.

The halls are decorated with water-colored images of people–Oprah, Halle Berry, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosa Parks, Morgan Freeman, Jackie Robinson, etc.

We appreciate the spirit of the girls in our hall in celebrating Black History month.

Oh. Happy Ground Hog's Day.

Llama Mama

Oh, hey.

It's Black History month, and we couldn't be more thrilled. We love Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and the rest of the greats. We will still talk of them and think of them often, but we'd like to spice up this month long holiday by celebrating some current black culture. So today, we bring you:

DeAndre Cortez Way. Better known as Soulja Boy Tell 'Em.
Did you know he's writing a book? We did. Teenage Millionaire. According to our sources it's coming out July 28, 2010. Happy Birthday, Joyce. We hope it's something we can camp out for.

Thank you, DeAndre. For the music. For the style. For the heart. But mostly, for the clever answering machine message we hear when we call your number from Kiss Me Through The Phone.


In closing, here is Soulja Boy's most recent Facebook status update:

Did yall enjoy the Grammy Awards Hopefully I'll win one, one day in my life

We think you will. We know you will. Even if you can't use proper punctuation.


In other news, Ally went snowshoeing with her mom and sister. It was actually easier to take the snow shoes off and walk, so that's what we did. There were pictures, but putting the camera card in her computer resulted in an unexpected trip to the Geek Squad at Best Buy. They sorted everything out, but it will be a while before she works up the courage to try again.

We received a tip from Avery, and joined the 20th ward for a party at Classic Skating on Friday. That's really a place we can be the best versions of ourselves. The fourteen year old DJ seemed to read our hearts, finding the perfect balance between Kesha, Michael Jackson, and The Gap Band. We tried to get tagged in some pictures, but the 20th ward isn't as camera happy as ours is. Oh well.

On Saturday we had an ecclesiastical endorsement party. We've found that people here at BYU like to add the word "party" to the end of lots of things, and we're okay with that. Our ward decided to slash it with a basketball tailgating party. Ecclesiastical endorsement/tailgating party. Yes! Some highlights of this event included:

-agreeing to follow the Honor Code forever.
-Lisa making a sign that says "Go Lisa!" A girl very genuinely asked her, "Oh, which Lisa?!" Bless her heart.
-Looking over in a corner to notice a few young men drawing fake six packs on their stomachs with Crayola Washable Markers


On Sunday, we drove to Salt Sleezy to hear Elder Wagstaff address the congregation. See you in two, man. Later that day, after the rest of church, we went to the Hare Krishna temple in Spanish Fork. It was nuts. There was singing, chanting, a lesson from the Bhagavagita, more singing and chanting, some dancing, and then they put these red dots on our foreheads. I guess you could call us devotees if you wanted to. But don't.

Babies Gaga

We want this.

Billie Jean Is Not My Mom

We know.

We know our blogging hiatus is unacceptable.

Here's the thing, though. We've done so many great things, but we haven't taken pictures of them because we were busy. Ergo, here are some pictures of other people doing great things representing us doing the great things we've also done.

We celebrated a simple Christmas

We celebrated New Year's Eve

Ally went to St. Geezy with the family.

We both went rock climbing, but not together

We started school again. We're still trying to get used to that fact.

Lisa wakes up every morning to this beautiful face, courtesy of Natalie Allen.

On a related note, our Soulja Boy t-shirts are all we hoped they would be and more. In fact, they might be the only reason we survived our first day back from Christmas break.

Most recently, we packed our bags and headed south to a town that's right for us: Las Vegas. That's in Nevada. Many thanks to our hall mate Andrea and the entire Wise Family.



While in "Vegas," (that's what we, the locals, call it) we pretty much hung out with these two people the whole time.

That's Andre Agasi

This is Cher. Or Sister Cher, as we call her.

We're tight. Like dreadlocks.

Other noteworthy things that won't have a Google Images picture attached to them:

-The show Ninja Warrior was on a lot during Christmas Break. Ally got addicted to that and rollerblades again.

-We haven't improved at Da Stanky leg, yet.

-We planned our schedules so we never have to see each other, so that's a relief.

-The job search isn't going so well for either of us. For once we can actually blame the recession and have it kind of apply. Turns out that blaming the economy for our mediocre academic performance only made us feel better for a second. It's like treating the symptoms, not the disease.

-Joyce came down for lunch one day.

-Clair and Terry came down for dinner one night.

-We a little bit loved the movie Leap Year. Sorry.

Future Mrs. Dumbledore

We don't want to speak too soon but we've had a good finals week thus far. In fact, it might be better than normal, non-finals weeks.

Let us give you the reasons:

We have an excuse to do one of our favorite things–sit in our room.

No classes.

Sure we study, but we have a music session every 30 minutes.

Between that we make sure to watch this video.

(the beginning is our favorite)

And have been attempting to learn the stanky leg. . .Thanks to our suitemates we've got a good start.

We also bought each other Christmas presents.

Here they are.

Extra large.

Some hall mates made everyone cinnamon rolls because of all the hard studying that's been going on. Hot dog.

We remembered photo booth.

We also received a surprise today. Clair and Terry sent us a package in the mail. Complete with treats and Lammy. This Lammy has really taken our hearts.

Our friend Laura had us over for dinner. She's real sweet to do that. It reminded us that we don't know how to cook.

Oh, and we took some finals. Which have been fine.