Alex and Courtney's Proposal Video

So my cousin Alex is almost exactly a year younger me and seriously one of my best friends. We were always really close when we were younger and then his family moved to Boston (the aunt and uncle I stayed with while I was there are his parents!) and we didn't get to see each other as much. But after he got back from his mission he moved to Provo so it's been way fun to reconnect and hang out more!

I was so excited when Alex told me he was proposing to his girlfriend Courtney (who I'm also pretty good friends with because I got to know her well while I was out in Boston) and let me film it all!

I seriously love Alex and Courtney SO much and couldn't be more excited for their engagement! They've dated on and off since they were in high school, so its kind of already felt like Courtney's been part of the family. It'll be great for it to finally be official in May. :)

Here's the proposal story if you wanna hear it:
Alex and Courtney had gone ring shopping and were going to get the ring custom designed, but it wouldn't be in for about 5 weeks, so Courtney didn't think the proposal would be happening for a while. But Alex decided to get another ring from a local shop so that he could surprise her in proposing and get the ring sooner. Alex wanted Courtney to be completely surprised for the proposal, so he told her they were going up the canyon because one of his roommates had a big surprise for his fiance, and that I was there because I was going to film the whole thing (which I did..haha!). So we got up to the place where the fire was at and no one was there (as was the plan) and Courtney was super confused because she thought people should have been there. Then, as her back was turned, Alex's friends started walking up holding black posterboards in front of them that said "Marry Me" in glowsticks. As soon as she saw it, he got down on one knee and asked her to marry him. And she of course said yes! It was all really cute and she had absolutely NO idea so it was perfect.

Anyway, if that was all too long for you to read, the video is below, as well as some pictures that were taken by Alex's roommate Jae. I've never actually been a part of a proposal but it was so fun and I'm already excited for their wedding in May (which means I'm going to Boston!).

I LOVE My Job

I recently got hired as a videographer for the BYU Alumni Association and I'm just loving it all. The people I work with are great, the job location is great, and obviously the job itself is GREAT. Basically all I do is shoot and edit videos in my own little cubicle on a great desktop mac and it's a dream.

I feel super lucky to have gotten this job and it excites me every day!

Recently we've started a series on car care tips to promote BYU license plates and below is our first video. I had a great time shooting and putting it together so feel free to watch, it'll only take two minutes of your time. :)

MLK Day 2015

Two weeks ago for Martin Luther King day, my family came down to Provo and we went to the service day BYU holds every year! We had a great time on campus making and stuffing (until they ran out of it) fleece heart pillows for kids with heart transplants.

My brother decided to put a pre-stuffed heart on his head ;)

After heart-stuffing we went to eat a Brassas (a delicious Mexican street taco place in Provo) and then they went home. :(

It was a pretty good day off and that night for FHE a bunch of us in the ward went on campus and made a music video to "Shake It Off" for the upcoming ward talent show. I'm currently putting the video together and will post it here when its all done! I guarantee it's gonna be pretty great to watch!

Freshpet Video Shoot

December was such a fun month for many reasons, one of them being this awesome video shoot I got to be a part of! One of my best friends Alyne, and her husband Cameron (who was just chosen as one of the Forbes 30 under 30!) were working on a video for Freshpet, a pet food company, and they hired me to be the costume designer! The concept the whole idea was dogs eating with hands at a Christmas feast. It was a very ambitious idea, but we were totally able to pull it off!

You may have already seen the video, but if you haven't here it is. It racked up to over 15 million views on facebook and youtube combined!


This really was one of the most fun projects I've ever gotten to be a part of. I'm sure you can imagine the craziness of trying to get 13 dogs and a cat to all sit down at a table together, and it was nuts. For the most part though, all the dogs were really well-behaved (that was done on purpose) and it turned out so cute. I'm not even a huge dog person and I loved it.

I got to find all the costumes and put all the outfits together. I went thrift shopping for a lot and also found stuff at the mall and other places. It was really fun to be able to accessorize, like finding fun hats or getting together glasses for some of the dogs. The day of the shoot I was there to help dress dogs, fix any last minute things, and help with anything else needed. I never realized how much work often goes into making a video like this, but it takes a lot of time and effort!

If you want to see how we did it and see me a few times, you can watch this behind the scenes video:


Let me know what you think! I had so much fun getting to be involved in this, and I love how fun it all turned out.

Last Semester

Let me just say, this has been such a year! And last semester was such a school semester! It was so good, and really the best way to describe it was that it was filled with growth. Not growth from life is hard, but just so much growth from new experiences and learning! I meant to write this post at the end of last semester, and now we're at the middle of January, but I felt like it needed to be written, because there are things in life I want to remember, and one of them is all of last semester.

first day of schoooool!! I was so psyched :)

I already wrote a lot about it, like the first week of school, how going back to school was kind of new and different, and about taking my public speaking class. It was all so GOOD. So good, that I can't seem to put into words what last semester was for me. I learned something from every one of my classes, even my Research Methods class that I really didn't like and had a terrible professor in, and I met a lot of great people and made many friends.

It was a semester of expressing myself, whether that meant moving to my emotions in my contemporary dance class, giving a speech on something I care about in public speaking, or even getting a 93% (yeah dude!) on my stats test, because it showed me that maybe I do have some smarts still in me. ;)

I'm so grateful that I took a break off of school, for many reasons, one of them now being that I got to experience last semester. And I think another one being that I get to have this coming semester.

It was so good and it ended on a good note. In my contemporary dance class, I showed my solo I'd been working on, incorporating my the two energy qualities I was assigned: heavy and grow--two qualities that also interesting described much of my life.

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Public Speaking ended with a lot of great friendships made and speeches. We had to do a news report in a group for one of our assignments, and I had so much fun doing it with the other girls in my group (there were only 6 girls in the class, and five of us formed a group. It was definitely a hoot :)). We got to know everyone pretty well in that class, because most of it was giving speeches (aka talking about ourselves or something we cared about) and it was definitely one of my favorite classes of my college career.


Sewing for Children brought the first kid's clothes I've ever made, and got me thinking that maybe I wouldn't mind designing and making more of them.

Stats made me feel smart again, and I loved the logic and end results that math brings and makes me happy with. I bonded with some fun girls in Research Methods, and even though our commonality was that we were forced to take a class with a terrible professor, we still bonded! Doctrine and Covenants was more than just studying the scriptures. I learned life lessons and how to apply the scriptures into my spiritual life.

Besides school, it was a good time in all other aspects of my life. Somehow, I stayed stable with money, picking up odd jobs and face painting gigs, all without needing to find a job. (definitely a miracle) Church and my ward was awesome, and I fell in love with both my callings--Communications co-chair (making the program every week for church and in charge of making ward directory) and Relief Society Activities Coordinator. I did Provo Fashion Week again, and I really started to question whether fashion was something I wanted to do or not--it's a struggle I've been having with myself for a while. I had an amazing, wayyyyy good birthday and I started riding my new bike! I loved my roommates, and the times when we were all home laughing, or just home at night to say a quick roommate prayer before going to bed (and the fact that they rented me a puppy for my birthday!).

So yes, last semester was really really good. I'm so grateful for it, and really, there's not much more that needs to be said about it than that. :)

(If you want to see a conglomeration of all of these things and more, you can watch my 2014 video. It's one of my favorite videos I've made, and I think it's because it makes me all sorts of happy when I watch it!)