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.