I Love my Brick!

I absolutely LOVE my 9 year old brother Brick. You will not meet a more sincere, kind person you will ever meet in your life. He also says the FUNNIEST THINGS! Here are two of the funniest anecdotes lately:

This year, I gave him a call on Election Day to see his perspective.

Allie:"Are you voting today Brick?"
Brick: "No, duh, I'm not old enough!"
Allie: “Oh yeah, that’s right.”
Brick: “But my class voted today”
Allie: “Really, who did you vote for?”
Brick: “I voted for McCain.”
Allie: “Who won?”
Brick(aggravated): “OBAMA!”
Allie: “Why do you think he won?”
Brick: “I think it’s because he has a catchy name ‘OBAMA’, it’s a catchy name”
Allie: “Why did you vote for McCain?”
Brick: “Well, because McCain will lower gas prices, that’s why!”

So here you have it, Presidential Election 2008, why Obama won and why you should have voted for McCain! Hehe...

This Morning...
I called my home this morning just to chat with my family, and see what they are doing this weekend. After talking with my Mom I chatted with Brick for about 20 minutes. He asked me what kind of a student I am (what year in school) and if I was married (funny, you would think I would tell him if I were married!). I told him I am a sophomore in college and that I am not married. Brick then proceeded to give me “dating tips”. Here are his dating tips:
1. Go on dates with boys (as if I needed to know this one)
2. After dating a boy for 5 weeks, then you can go on a date to a movie and have your first kiss.
3. Then after your first kiss you are boyfriend and girlfriend, and you just keep going on dates.
4. But you have to make sure your boyfriends has these specific attributes:
a. He must have a good attitude (this was his biggest concerns because he mentioned it like 5 times!)
b. Be a nice person
c. Be good looking
d. Not bossy
e. Not picky
f. He must love and like me A LOT
g. He can not, under any circumstances be a Goth, unless he’s a recovered Goth
You can’t get better dating advice than this! Brick, I think you should go into publishing and produce a dating tips book. I would definitely buy it!
Well, you’ve got to love that Brick! He’s such a cutie and I love him SO much! I can’t wait to see him when I go home this week for Thanksgiving!!!

My humble abode!

We are the N.E.L.L.'s (a.k.a. the beauties who live in condo #4!) Allie, Mo, Rachel, and Nicole! These are some photos of our humble abode! This is where the mega partying, gilmore-watching and carmel popcorn-making takes place. I love these girlys and living here in our o-so cute and comfortable(yet right now, very chilly) condo! I hope you enjoy these pictures of where I live! Fall semester is going great, I LOVE being at the Y.

HOME SWEET HOME

The Kitchen:

The Family Room:

Our White Board:

Me and Mo's room:

I'm a Pioneer Woman!

So Pioneer day was this week! A few weeks ago the Primary president and one of her counselors of my family ward came up to Rebecca and I. They asked us if we would do the honor of acting out/ telling the story of the two girls who saved the book of commandments manuscripts in Illinois back in pioneer time. This is a popular pioneer story among Latter Day Saints, and we were to do it in front of kids from the ages of 4-11. Of course, Becca and I are far too eager and excited to do corny things like this we excitedly agreed to write a script and dress up in pioneer clothes. Two nights before the performance we started writing the script (being the good procrastinators that we are!), trying to make it as interesting and cheesy as possible, and wondering how we got roped into this in the first place!

I then borrowed some pioneer garb from some church friends in my family ward, and the next night we practiced it less than two times, and preformed it in front of the primary president and the same counselor. We couldn't even get through it all the way without laughing in between every other line! Then we preformed it for Becca's parents and again couldn't make it through without cracking up midway through the script! I spent the night at Becca's, woke up the next morning and threw on our pioneer fashion, and jumped in the car and drove off to the church. When we got to the church, the door which was supposed to be open for us was locked and we proceeded to walk around the outside of the chapel passing by a semi-big street, and lets just say we got some interesting looks, to say the least!

Then we found a way in, and snuck into the time machine, jumped out into the audience. Of course the first thing I heard was "Hi Allie", from Brick in the audience. I have the cutest little brother ever! We told our story complete with horrible attempts to southern broken accents, cheesy lines, over exaggerated expressions, and a few missed lines! But the kids seemed to like it! They were silent throughout our whole performance, and you can tell that some of them really bought into our characters! They were so cute! Then we jumped back into the time machine, not knowing we had to run out the back door. So we were kind of stuck in the time machine for the next twenty five minutes... Finally they let us out and we had a little photo shoot! We were the cutest pioneers EVER!

My mom did a little class for the primary kids too, so she dressed up as well! We were just a little pioneer family!

The rest of the day was spent shopping and watching a movie and so you think you can dance!

What a wonderful, and well spent day off!

My Brother IS Speed Racer!- beat that!

So, pinewood derby rolled around this year- and of course this is a BIG event in the Yost household. My brothers and Dad had been working on the "mok 5" for around three months previous, and I was elected to be in charge of the costumes. They wanted to me to arrange the costumes for our family to be the Racer family from the old kid show, Speed Racer. Now, I had never even seen the show speed racer and regrettably I was not motivated to plan/ prepare the costumes. So, Mom saved the day and somehow we became the Racer family. To my surprise, it was a BLAST! Brick's car tied 2nd place, Topper and I were in charge of managing the "who was up next" list. It was an event to remember!

Also, now I am a big speed racer fan! I saw the movie and am officially in love with speed racer and racer x. If you haven't seen the movie yet- you should! It is SO cute!

CAST:

BRICK as .............. SPEED RACER

ALLIE as ............... TRIXY

MOM as ................ MOM

DAD as ................... POPS

TOPPER as ........... RACER X

TIA as ................... SPARKY

GIR as ................... CHIM CHIM

The Fam

THE YOST FAMILY

I thought since family is most important, I should introduce them.

My Mom, Michelle me and my parents




My Dad, Christopher































My brother, Topper





Me, Allie My sister, Tia




My youngest brother, Brick


Well, this is the gang! We also have two black dogs, a labrador and a 1/2 shitzu 1/2 pomeranian (spelling?). We go on , what Dad likes to call "adventures" all the time! I love these guys a TON and couldn't really imagine life at all without them :)

I'm officially a BLOGGER!

Well, here I go! Into the Blogger-net. Yet another thing to be addicted to :) No, but really I'm excited!! Carrie Martone got me hooked, she has shown me how to make my blog cute, and add fun things! I know there's not alot on my blog yet-- but I'm looking forward to using this as a great application to record my life and the crazy bumps and turns in it! Watch out world! Allie Yost is officially a part of the blogger-net!