i need YOU....

to buy my contract!

... please?
pretty please?

or at least someone you know?

I am trying to study for finals and I just cannot with this looming over my head.
so, help a sista out. :] grazio!

for all who contest mikelle's status in a-krew...

i give you....
halloween 2010.

(just p.s. this was the night i had LEGIT Ariel bangs. this is the best picture and i doesn't even  do them justice:






and additionally....

totally impromptu beatnik night before the grocery store one night in early fall semester.
i'm telling you, guys... it just happened. like magic.

BLAST the video is apparently not working. please visit the following link: http://mikelledionne.blogspot.com/2010/10/ol-blue-eyes-wouldve-loved-us.html

hahah there you go kelle. a lovely post all for you! MUAH!

picture this...

I have to act out the part of 'King Claudius' from Hamlet for my Shakespeare class.
This class is kind of a beast, so I have to memorize his whole praying speech.

So, last night, I am in my room. On my knees. Reading "O wretched state! O bosom black as death!" complete with despair and hand actions.
I look up and who should be standing in my doorway (unbeknown to me) but my roommate Jenna? Just watching. From the doorway. Trying really hard not to laugh, from the looks of it.
 "I have to do this."
The words are out of my panicked mouth before I realize it. Seriously. It was a total knee jerk reaction. I had to make sure Jenna knew I didn't just act out Shakespeare on my knees in my bedroom for fun.

We then spent the next ten minutes straight laughing so hard that we couldn't talk.

we wish you a merry christmas...

....and a happy new year!

"At this time of Christmas, this season when gifts are given, let us not forget that God gave his Son, and his Son gave his life, that each of us might have the gift of eternal life." - Gordon B. Hinckley

Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision.
Muhammad Ali

We watch American Ninja Warrior pretty religiously now a days.... (see below)

I think that Jenna's Sam should train for it. I would mos def by a ticket to Mount Midoriyama to see that.

since these men are the greatest athletes ever of all time (obviously) please enjoy some quotes by famous athletes/Vince Lombardi. I LOVE sports quotes, they are raddest.




Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Vincent Lombardi
American NFL football coach.


I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
Shaquille O'Neal
American basketball player.

This is Brian. I picked him from the very first time I saw him. Because hello! He's a ginger with the world's best mustache (and I hate mustaches, so this is a big achievement).

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog!
Archie Griffin
American football player and two time Heisman Trophy winner.


The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
American football coach.

Just so you know, American Ninja Warrior does not even hold a candle to the original Ninja Warrior. The original is just that cool. 

first week

I have been in Provo for a week. It has been a great week! I love my major (debating going for my MFA... hold the phones!), love the roommates, and LOVE my London pals.

First of all, here's a before and after of me and mom's summer project this year:

start with four canvases and a can of blackboard spray paint

and end with the cutes message boards for my lovey's to leave notes on. Cute, no??

Next we will talk about my room. Cause I have my own one. It's rad. 

let me point out some important things in this room.

1. I made that quilt. Well... me and madre made that quilt. Last summer. I will always love it.

2. My built in bookshelves. yeahyeah! I love them.

3. My guitar.... my fingers hurt. 

4. Catching Fire - there, on the bed. I haven't finished yet, don' ruin it for me! But know that I LOVE IT SO MUCH. And Peeta. Since teams are all the rage now-a-days, I am def team Peeta.

Tuesday we had our first LONDON reunion cause KATE was in from Chicago/LA/New York. She and Tyler are such travelers. Anyway, it was the most fun. I love you all. And we miss you if you're not here in P-town, guaranteed. 

Since we were all running around, yelling and eating (basically how London itself went, come to think of it) I have few pictures. Here are the ones I do have. From the end of the night.

(I never was good at the taking-pictures-that-I'm-supposed-to-be-in-also thing.)

(awesome.)

  (LOOOOOVE you guys.)

Also, go UTES!!!! That was one freaking intense game, yeah?

Loving it. I'm going to have a boom-diggety weekend. 

hello goodbye

Hello, Hello
to...

• Provo Take 3
• University Avenue Condos conveniently located right across from Provo Library!
• These lovely ladies, Mikelle, Jenna, and Kimmy

(minus matthew)

(there are almost 0 pictures of all of us together. please believe this was a last resort.)

• Last years summer project - aka College Quilt
• Work. Ugh. I miss Bryson already!
• Escuela!!
• London friends!! You are the reason I am way more excited to come back to Ptown

• Fall

I don't know why you say Goodbye
to...

• Mi familia :[ I will never be happy about this.

• My(almost finished) beautiful home

• My bed
• My shower (this is a BIG DEAL. I hope the UAC shower is more than a drizzle, please?)
• Walks with my Mom and Wilson (we went on two yesterday)

I say Hello

• To the best year of BYU yet! I have a major that's going to stick (cross your fingers), good friends to live with, good friends from the UK, and... a handy bus pass in case I need my mother!