Hawaii!

This will probably be a little disappointing after all the anticipation of this blog, but here it is anyway. We stayed at the Turtle Bay Resort, which was beautiful! When I got in my room I went straight to see my view. This is what I saw:

Since there is like a three or four hour time difference from Hawaii I woke up around 6:00 Hawaii time and went outside to see the sunrise. It was beautiful. It was my first time watching a sunrise, so to be in Hawaii it was perfect.

It was also great to be able to see my good friend Camille who goes to BYU Hawaii. She came to my game and then I got to hang out with her for a while. She took me around campus and showed me where see lives. To was so much fun to be able to see and spend time with her.

Another great part of the trip was surf lessons. I wish I had some pictures, but I don't right now. They make it as easy as possible for you, so it was pretty easy to get up, but I still had lots of fun. I also really enjoyed just sitting on the balcony to read and having the balcony door open to hear the ocean. It was so much fun to be there. Oh yeah, and we won both of our games, so that always makes traveling a lot better.

I am a Horrible Person

I know I should be posting about Hawaii, but that will happen until I am done with finals. I just wanted to quickly post about what a bad person I am. In practice today I broke someone's nose, but not just anyone's nose. I broke the nose of the girl who is getting married next week! Yeah, like I said, I'm a horrible person.

Sorry I haven't posted about Hawaii yet but...

I've been a little busy doing this.

Luckily, my two hardest finals are done with. Just 3 more to go now. So now you can look forward to my Hawaii post and seeing all my Christmas decorations. But until then I will be doing more of this.

Pumpkins

On Friday I went over to my sister Melissa's house to carve pumpkins. Here are all of the wonderful creations. (P.S. My pumpkin is Sally, but don't be to impressed I cheated and used an pattern.)

Look for Me on TV!

College gameday is coming to Provo for the big TCU vs. BYU game. I will be there at 7 am to pass out juice boxes. Then at 9:30 I will be in the homecoming parade. Finally, the day will end with being at the game and being announced at half time with the basketball team. So watch for me on ESPN for college gameday and then in the crowd for the football game. I'm excited. Should be a fun to be at such a big game!

I survived

This morning was rough. At 6:15am I had to run every single stair of this building.


Literally, every stair in the Marriott Center was touched by my foot, some even multiple times. Including the ones in the nose bleeds section that you can barely even see in this picture.
However, a little while after that tough battle, I had a wonderful experience in that same building. I was able to be in the same room as the prophet. It was awesome. I loving hearing his stories and talks. I especially love how funny his is. Today really reaffirmed my love for the prophet.

The best moment of the day is sitting in a packed Marriott Center with about 30,000 people talking. Then what seems all at once it falls silent and everyone stands up while President Monson walks in. It was one of the coolest experiences of my life and I feel so lucky to have the opportunity to be so close to a prophet of God.

Zip Line

Sorry I haven't been blogging, but here are a few pictures of me going on a zip line. It was pretty cool.

WARNING: Graphic Material May Be Included

So for anyone who has seen me recently you may have also seen my black toe nail. Well, my toe nail finally fell off. Actually, it was barely hanging on, so Camille kindly snapped it off for me. Here is what my toe looks like now.

Birthday Celebration Part 2

On my birthday Jessica and Camille took me out to celebrate and they definitely know how to make me happy. We went to Cold Stones and had a fun time chatting and eating ice cream. Then we decided to go to Rock Canyon Trials. We had a fun and amusing time exploring that area. It is so beautiful there.

Then I came home to one of my favorite dinners with of course more ice cream after dinner. Thank you so much Jordan and Michelle.

A few days later my wonderful mom sent me a birthday card with a Seven Peaks pass. You're awesome mommy, thanks!

Thank you so much to everyone who helped make my birthday special. Love you all!

Birthday Celebration Part 1

This past Sunday my sister made me a birthday dinner and it was so delicious! I requested chicken alfredo and she went above and beyond for me. She made homemade alfredo sauce, Parmesan chicken, and homemade bread sticks that beat out Olive Garden's! It was the perfect dinner. Thank you so much Mel!

But of course a birthday isn't complete without ice cream. So my sister made a ice cream cake that is amazing. It is the best ice cream cake in the world because there isn't any cake in it.

As a gift she made me peanut butter cups, which I love. My sister, Marci, and her husband Kenny gave me two pairs of shorts. And my nephew Ammon was so sweet and gave me 11 cents.

It was a great birthday celebration. Thank you so much to everyone who was a part of it!

My Last Day

Today is my last chance to be a teenager. This is also the last of my mother's teenage children. How sad! Tear.

Happy Mother's Day

So I am not very good at being sentimental and expressing my emotions, but I just wanted to give a quick post on a very special day. I have great examples all around me and I just want to give a special thanks to the mothers who have had a huge impact on my life.

I am so luckily to be close enough to watch Melissa raise such a wonderful family and to be apart of everything. My grandma has always been so supportive to all of her grandchildren and I am grateful to have such an amazing grandma. And of course my mom. I don't even know what to say. She is just the best and has always been there for me. Thank you to all three of you for your wonderful examples and for blessing my life. I love you so much!

My First Day

My first day of spring classes was yesterday. I got up at 8 all ready to go to class at 9. I got the the building and hurried to find my class. It was empty. I was so confused and then I realized that it was Tuesday and my class at 9 is only on Monday, Wednesday. I was so mad! So I had three hours to kill until my next class started. It sucked!

Later I went to class and it was kind of intense. There are only like ten people in the class, so the teacher put us in a semi circle. Then he would stand six inches away from your desk and then stare into your eyes while he talked. It's a little creepy!

Sunday Breakfast

My mom signed up to feed the missionaries on Sunday, but forgot when my grandma invited us over for dinner. So she decided to have the missionaries for breakfast. I know I thought it was kind of weird. To make it even weirder Jessica found out through her mom that one of the missionaries serving in my ward was in my freshman ward last year. When I was told the last name I had no idea who it was. Great, this is going to be an awkward hey you were in my ward, but I have no idea who you are type of thing. Turns out he was in my FHE group, too! So I actually knew who he was. So it wasn't that bad and actually worked out nicely.

Hair Cut

So I actually did it. I thought I would wuss out and not do it. Jeff's girlfriend Kylie was kind enough to cut it for me. I think it came out really good.

Now lets hope it still looks good without the puffy cheeks and bruised mustache.

Bruising

Joanna, you jinxed me! I did get bruising. It might be hard to see in this picture, but it is right along the side of my mouth down to my jaw and then there is more under my jaw. It looks like a green and yellow handlebar mustache.

Chipmunk

Sorry I haven't posted in a really long time, but I think you all will enjoy laughing at my pain in this one. I got my wisdom teeth pulled. I don't know if the picture quiet does it justice, but it tried.

A Night of Kicks

It all started when I threatened to drop kick Jessica in the face. Then the discussion turned into who could kick the highest. This lead four of my roommates and I into the living to kick the wall a mark where they land to see who could get the highest. All of this occurring at 1:00 AM.

After a few tries I decided to practice while Joanna got her turn. Just before Joanna went I stepped to practice on the door and slipped and fell flat on my back. It was so funny! Someone turned of the lights and we all tried, unsuccessful to laugh quietly. After a period of time we felt brave enough to start again. Every time we heard the slightest noise we would turn off the lights in fear of our neighbors below us coming up and telling us to be quite.

It was finally me turn to kick the wall again and I took my socks of to prevent falling, but once again I kicked and fell on my butt. Once again we turned off the lights and pretended we weren't awake. Finally, we decided we had made enough noise and I had fallen enough times that we decided to stop.

This was definitely one of the funniest nights of the year!

April Fool's Day

So I am not one to try to pull April Fool's jokes, but this year Jessica and I decided we wanted to get your friend Esther. Jessica comes up with a great idea of telling her that Jessica is dating someone. Right when I get to the class I have with Esther, I start telling her all about Jessica's new boyfriend and how it happened. She was totally buying it. The best part was that literally no less then a minute after I tell her she tell me, "Happy April Fool's Day!" I was great! I respond with, "Oh, yeah, I totally forgot. Thanks for telling me so I can watch my back." It was so funny.

On Esther's way home she said she would stop by Jessica's work to talk to her about it, but Jessica wasn't there. We were hoping she would call, but later that night Jessica gave in and called her. She told her all the same stories I did and Esther was so excited. About ten minutes before midnight, we broke the new to Esther that it was a joke.

Today when I saw her, she had to ask me to make sure it was a joke. She was so upset that we got her. It was pretty fun. I can't wait until Jessica really does get a boyfriend and Esther doesn't believe us.

Weekend Highlights

This weekend was a pretty good and busy one. It started Friday by going to see Macbeth at BYU. I had to see it for one of my classes. When I got there I noticed a lady sitting in front of me with the typical homemade Mormon-mom jumpers on, but it looked really familiar. Then I realized that it was made form the exact same fabric pattern as the quilt I made with my mom when I was 12 years old. I was pretty funny. Then throughout the performance I'm pretty sure I saw up a few men's skirts while they were on stage.



On Saturday I went to a gym were we would be teaching downsyndrome kids how to play basketball. I was kind of nervous, but it turned out to be really fun. All the kids were really sweet. One of the best was the boy, Kevin who kept grabbing mine and Coriann's (another girls on the basketball teams) hand and then putting them together so we would hold hands. Another great kid was Princess Penny who went around calling everyone different types of food.



After that I went with Jessica to our ward's fellowship Olympics. It turned out to be really fun. We got there a little late so Jessica and I had to split up on two teams. One was the orange team and the other the pink team. Jessica being the mean friend she is and knowing how much I dislike the color pink, refused to let me be on the orange team. We had a pudding eating contest, games with skittles and flour, and a four-legged race. And of course my team won.



Finally we head straight over to the senior flute recital of one the girls in our ward. We were a little under dressed and had a little flour on us, so we went straight to the back of the room before anyone noticed. The recital was pretty good. The best part was "The Train Song." It was way cool. Supposedly towards the end she was singing and playing in the flute at the same time, but I didn't really hear it. Anyway, that song was really cool.



So it was a pretty good weekend.

Easter Eggs!

Easter time is almost here! This year Michelle had the great idea of making paper mache Easter eggs. It was so much fun helping the kids and then doing my own. Here are some pictures of the big three part event. My creative masterpiece is currently adorning my living room for all of my roommates and I to enjoy.

I'm Still a Child Inside

Yesterday I walked to school with Jessica and we noticed that someone had put up a tire swing in a near by tree. Later that night at about 10:30 we decide to go test it out. So at 10:30 at night there was me and Jessica playing on a tire swing. We were only there for about ten minutes, but it was still pretty fun, ecspecially watching Jessica struggle and scream. It reminded me of the good old days of being a carefree kid. I've always wished I could be a little kid forever!

24

Monday nights are definitely one of the best nights of the week. Why you ask, because 24 is on. I love this show! It is so suspenseful and it leaves me dieing for the next episode every week. Jack Bauer is freaking awesome and once again I am dieing to know what happens next.

I also love this show because I have an awesome family who is also watches it. We often talk about what's going on and make predictions or talk about who we hate or love on the show. Every week Jordan and Michelle are kind enough to let me come over for dinner and 24. I love going over there to watch it.

Tonight was extra fun because Kenny, Marci, and Levi came over. We had pizza and root beer floats. Before I came out to Utah I would hear about the 24 parties that all my sibling would have together every week. But since last year 24 was cancelled and now Jason and Jaime are in Ogden and Marci and Kenny are in Spanish Fork we haven't had one. So thank you very much to Jordan and Michelle for tonight. Another awesome episode of 24, good company, and ice cream, what more could you ask for?

My Busy Day

Yesterday was a pretty busy day, between the hours of 7:30am and 11:30pm I was home for like ten minutes. It started with a classes homework and a test. Then I met up with Jessica at the International Cinema to watch "Hennry Poole is Here." It was a pretty weird move, but I liked it. It was all about this water stain that looked like Jesus.

After the movie I came home to get something to eat and then left to meet Esther st the Mariott Center. We met up to go to a gymnastics meet. I never seen gymnastics in person and I love watching it in the olympics, so I thought I should check it out. It was pretty cool.

Right after the meet we went over to the school for Humor U. It was great! I went for the first time last Feburary because one of the guys in my family home evening group is in it. We really enjoyed it last time, so we decided to go again. It was really funny. But there was one joke that really hurt me. One of the guys was talking about how he's been trying to find quite place, with not very many people around, and that he finally found one. The women's basketball games! Can you believe that! How rude!!!

Rex Lee Run

On Saturday I volunteered at BYU's annual Rex Lee Run. Jessica and I went and arrived at the track at 7 am. It was early and cold. First, I started out sitting at a table doing registration. Then one of the workers in charged asked for one of us to come help with something else. So I followed some people around for a little having no idea what I was going to do.

I then got into a back of a truck and we drove around laying down cones to mark the path for the runners. It was freezing cold driving around in the back. We were frantically driving about and I still didn't know what we were doing half the time. And the guy driving was in a hurry, so he was driving pretty crazy with us in the back. Then we drove down rape hill. For those of you who don't know what rape hill is, it is a walking path up to campus. So we were driving down this hill went is only meant for bikes and pedestrians and he wasn't taking it very slow either. It was pretty fun and probably something I will never be able to do again.

After setting up tons of cones I got dropped off at a water station. This water station was the only one that both the 5K and 10K run come past, so it was really busy. We filled up tons of cups before anyone came but they ran out fast. I had to hurriedly fill up tons of cups. My back and thumb were both hurting. Before the rush I was able to stand in front of the table and hand cups off to people. The first cup I had out spilled all other the runner. I felt pretty bad, but it was also funny. I had to learn the finesse of handing off a cup of water to someone running by.

It was really fun and hectic. I was really glad I went.

Sacrament Meeting

Today I participated in the weirdest sacrament meeting ever. First of all, the subject is marriage and dating, which has been a VERY popular topic recently. So if the subject wasn't awkward enough, the high councilor decided to get us started right away.


He made everyone stand up and situate themselves so that they were boy, girl, boy, girl.etc. Once everyone moved he told us to introduce ourselves and then tell two likes and one dislike. WEIRD, right?


Then he proceed to talk and make awkward comments. For example, "you could be sitting next to your eternal companion." He also gave us some date ideas like, going the devotional or a date to sacrament meeting.


He was killing me up there and I couldn't even sit next to Jessica to laugh and joke about everything. So today was definitely the weirdest sacrament meeting. Only at a BYU singles ward!

Viva Las Vegas! Day Two

Things didn't quiet go as planned. We lost our first game 58-66. It pretty much sucked!!! Big time. I am actually already back in Provo, so I am really upset about that. Our game was at 7 last night and we left at 10 the next morning. I really don't want to go to any of my classes since I wasn't planning on it and none of my teachers are expecting me there.

I did go to In-N-Out yesterday, which was pretty sweet. Melissa, you can tell Adam and make him jealous. To get into the gym you had to have a credential and id, so it was pretty intense. The two times we went to the gym I had problems getting in. The first time they forgot to print off my credential and then the second time I wasn't on the list.

One highlight from the day before that I forgot about. On the way home from eating dinner some girls sang primary songs all the way back to the hotel. Only at BYU!!

We did get a backpack and headphones from the tournament, so that is pretty nice I guess.

Viva Las Vegas! Day One

This week I am down in Vegas for the conference tournament. I'm really excited and I hope we do well so we can stay all week.

The first day of the trip was yesterday. It started with practice in the morning before we took off. Practice was at nine, but I had to finish up my paper and turn it in before then. I woke up early to get it down, then drove to campus to print it. Of course, I was 10 cents shy of being able to print all the pages and then it took me like eight tries to put money on my card. Things were starting to get stressful. So finally I got it printed and then did a run-walk to my teacher's office to drop it off. Then I did a run-walk back to my car. Got home packed all the last minute items and my awesome roommate, Rebecca, dropped me off at the Marriott Center. I looked around and it seemed weird because I didn't notice any of my team mates cars. A little worries I went down any way and of course it was dark. Practice got moved back to 10, but everyone forgot to tell me. Luckily, one other girl showed up early so we hung out for an hour until practice.

Next was the six hour bus ride down to Vegas, which wasn't to terrible. Surprisingly, I wasn't able to sleep as much as I usually do. On one of are pit stops at a gas station, I guess Kenny Rogers was there, but I don't really know who this is, so it wasn't that exciting. We watched Drumline and 007 on the way down. We also played Catchphrase, which was the best part of the bus ride. It is fun playing with people who are just as competitive as I am.

When we arrived in Vegas we dropped our stuff off at the Marriott hotel and then went to eat. We ate at Bahama Breeze. It was pretty good. Then we just went back to the hotel to relax until going to sleep. Your first game is today, so hopefully I will post tomorrow with some good news.

Brownies

For one of my classes we have two people bring treats every week since the class is two and a half hours long. This week was my turn, so luckily I had a box of brownie mix that my mom gave me. I decided I would make that. So last night I started making them and went to set the timer on my phone, but couldn't find it. When I went to ask Jessica to set her timer she was on the phone, so I decided I would just have to remember. Not to hard, right?

Actually it is. Jessica distracted me and I brunt my brownies. You would think that I would have learned this from my mother by now, but apparently not. I tried to perform surgery and cut out the middle hoping those would be okay to take. But they were a little too chewy. I was really upset because that meant I would have to go to the store to get something. So not only did I have to get up earlier to go to the store, but then I had to spend money to get the treats. It was a bummer!

By the way I took pictures of them for all of you, but I don't know where the chord to my camera is, but this is about what they looked like. Also just to let you know the brownies didn't go to a complete waste. I will be eating some extra chewy brownies for the next couple of days.

FHE

Last week for family home evening my apartment was in charge of the activity. Of course, I came up with the brilliant idea of playing wallyball and Rebecca was smart enough to reserve us courts. We thought it would be fun to spice things up a little and wear the pink sweet bands I got in New Mexico. It was a lot of fun. I just hope I didn't scare away to many people.

So here we are being as weird as ever.

Happy B-Day Jeffy!

So I really didn't want to post more than once a day, but I just remembered a very important post I was wanting to make that can only be done today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jeffy! I know he probably doesn't look at my blog, but I figured my mom could tell him for me. Jeffrey has been an awesome brother. He is the closest to me in age, so he has probably lived with me the longest. He is such a great big brother and an amazing guy.

Anyway, I am trying to be quick to get this done before midnight. Happy Birthday Jeff. Hope it was great. Love ya!

My Famous Encounter

So this weekend I got to travel with the team again. This time it us up to Salt Lake for the Utah game (long trip I know, but it was over night). Firday night we went out to eat dinner and as the bus was pulling up I noticed and crowd by the door. I was trying to figure out why and realized that Karl Malone was there! Unfortunately, he was in his car by the time got got out of the bus.

Later that night we talked to our head coach and told him that we see Karl (yes, we are on a fist name basis now). Judd said we should have dropped his name to Karl and he would have talked to us.

Anyway the next morning I went done to breakfast and guess who was there. That's right. Karl Malone was sitting there chatting it up with your coach. Later we got to go up to shake his hand. It was pretty awesome. I just wish we got a picture with him or something.

I survived!

Sorry it has been a while since I last posted, but I finally made it through the week. Everything went fairly well. I even got a two hour nap in today. That was pretty sweet! Any way, hopefully I will come up with some good posts for you soon.

My Pathetic Life

Here is a little glance into how pathetic my life can be sometimes. Yesterday, Friday, I was on campus from 8:00am until 9:00pm and then came home to do more homework. Then today, Saturday, I went up to campus after my basketball game and was there until 8:00pm.

What an exciting weekend, huh?! But I guess that is what happens when you miss two days of school and come back to 3 tests, 8 quizzes, and 2 papers on top of my regular homework all due within a week. Fun times.

Another First

So last Tuesday I had weights at 7:00 in the morning. Last semester I would come home and sleep after, but this semester hasn't been so luxurious. Tuesdays are so busy I usually need to work on homework before my class. I came home and started working on homework like usual, but I was just too tired. I feel asleep on the couch and around 8:30 Jessica woke me up and told me to go to my bed. So I did. I was going to tell Jessica to wake me up before she left, but she was in the shower before I got to the room, so I just set my alarm.

Two hours later I woke up, looked at the clock and freaked out. It was around 10:30 and I had class at 10:00. This was the first time I slept in and missed a class. I felt so stupid and ashamed. And it is actually a class I enjoy, so that kind of sucked.

On my phone the alarm is set according to days, so I accidentally changed the Monday, Wednesday, Friday alarm instead of Tuesday, Thursday. This is why I always have to set two alarms for the morning.

Drug Test

Last week after practice our athletic trainer came up and announced random drug testing was that day. And guess who's name was first on the list. Mine, of course. I had to be in the training room at 4:30 to be tested and practice had ended at 2:00.

Talking with the other girls on my team I found out the true horror of drug testing. I was informed that not only was someone going to be in the bathroom with me, but that they would literally have to see the pee come out to know that it was really mine.

This made me super nervous and worried that I wouldn't be able to go, so I decided I needed to prepare really well. So I started drinking right away and by 3:00 I already had to go bad. So I decided that I could go, but I just had to drink a lot again. So I did and by 3:45 I had to go even worse. My stomach was tight and cramping. I was freaking out and didn't know what to do. I called my mom to try to calm down. Then I showed up 15 minutes early hoping I could get it over with early, but they weren't there.

I paced around for another 15 minutes and then had to fill out paper work and wait for a trainer to come to the bathroom with me. Luckily, my teammates were kind enough to let me go first. Needless to say I was able to go with no problem and also the trainer was kind enough to not make it too awkward. She stood with her back to me.

So I filled more the cup and then kept going and going and going. It was getting a little awkward, so I finally cut myself off. Then I went out to do the whole sealing process. Unfortunately, the cups didn't have lids like the one in the picture and I accidentally spilled a little on the table, so that was awkward. But I finally got everything sealed up and was done with it.

I got home around 5:30 or so and went to the bathroom 4 more times by 8:00. I think I might have over prepared a little. No worries though, it has been 10 days already and I didn't get a call. So I passed, not that I was really worried about that part.

New Mexico

On Monday I left For New Mexico with the basketball team. I got to travel with the team to this game and I think I lucked out on a pretty good game to go to. It was the Pink game in support of breast cancer month. As you can see New Mexico is rich enough to actually get pink jerseys while all we got were pink shoe laces.

It kind of sucked because we ended up losing the game, but it was a great experience. The Pit, as they call their arena in New Mexico, actually gets fans to their games, so it was interesting to have it actually be loud enough to not hear each other.

It was a good trip. Free trip away from school, free food, and free pink Nike stuff from New Mexcio. Although I don't really know what to do with the pink stuff since I'm not a big fan of pink, but I'm sure I can find something fun to do with it.

Unfortunately, it is back to reality with school. It's going to be a tough week.

Here I Am

I never thought I would have a blog, ecspecially right now. I guess it is all from peer pressure. I mean some people choose there peer groups to be the scientist who pressure into publishing research because everyone is doing it and no one will read it anyway. However, my peer group pressures into writing blogs that the whole wide world can read!