Monday, March 30, 2009

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.

Friday, March 27, 2009

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.

























Wednesday, March 25, 2009

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!

Monday, March 23, 2009

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?

Saturday, March 21, 2009

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!!!

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

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.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

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!