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Change of Heart

2012-01-24T16:58:00.003-07:00

Life is full of ups and downs.
Accomplishments and disappointments.
It is always unexpected and exciting.

Lately I have been feeling really down. I don't even know how to explain it. I have lost all motivation to do anything at all. I just go to work and come home and do absolutely nothing. What a bum!!

I have been in such a rut. I started writing this blog and then I left for institute and it was amazing. The teacher of the class is Sister Sheri Dew, can you believe that? She was fantastic! The entire lesson was just for me. All of the concerns and disappointments I had are gone. I know that I am still going to feel down sometimes but I am so grateful that I have the gospel in my life.

I love knowing that I have a Heavenly Father that loves me and is looking out for me. I know that he knows what is best for me and I need to have faith and rely on him.

Till We Meet Again

2011-12-18T20:09:00.003-07:00

My Grandpa passed away November 27, 2011. My mom asked me to write what I thought of my Grandpa, this is what I came up with.

A few months ago I decided to visit my Grandparent's after work, little did I know that would be the last time I would see my Grandpa before he got sick. During this visit I was fortunate enough to have some one on one time with my grandparents. My Grandpa kept telling me how much he loved my Grandma and how amazing she is. I want to find a Man that loves me as much as my Grandpa loved my Grandma.

I remember going to lunch, Chinese-it was his favorite, with my grandpa shortly after I graduated high school. The entire meal he told me how proud he was of me and my siblings for our accomplishments but mostly for our desire to be good members of the church.

My Grandpa called me Veronica Lake after an actress he had loved, he thought that I looked like her. Every time he saw me he would say the same thing. "Chandra, I can't wait for tomorrow" I would respond, "Why is that Grandpa?" He would smile and say, "because you get prettier everyday!" He had a way of always making me feel loved and important.

He was an amazing man, I learned so much from him. I will miss him but am so grateful for the knowledge that our family can be together again.

R. Allen Taylor Jr.

"Loving Husband and Father"
Robert Allen Taylor Jr., 77, passed away November 27, 2011, at home with his loving wife by his side, in West Valley City, Utah.
Born March 12, 1934 in Richfield, Utah, son of Robert Allen Taylor Sr. and Myrtle Elizabeth Peterson. Married his high school sweetheart, Pharise Louise Christensen, August 20, 1955; solemnized January, 1965 in the Manti LDS Temple. A veteran of the US Army serving in the Korean Conflict. Retired from Hercules (ATK) after 34 years. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, camping, road trips with his wife, and spending time with family. He had a special bond with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He held various church callings including membership clerk, a two year work mission, and years of temple service.
Survived by wife, Louise; children: Bruce (Tammy) Taylor; Cindy (Dennis) Hauser, Craig (Lisa) Taylor, Sheila (Charles) Moore; 14 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; sisters: Shirley Oldroyd, Betty Anderson and Bobby Hooper. Preceded in death by parents; son, Tony Allen; eight sisters.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, December 1, 2011, 11:00 a.m. at the Jordan North 4th Ward, 4270 South Falcon Street (4145 W.). Viewings will be held Wednesday, 6-8 p.m. at McDougal Funeral Home, 4330 South Redwood Road and Thursday at the church, 10-10:45 a.m. Interment, Redwood Memorial Estates.

Petrified?!

2011-07-20T21:42:00.002-07:00

Let me just tell you about the most scary night of my entire life!!!

...... Well a little background first.....

I am now living in a house with one roommate (super fun? YES!)

And we live in a little bit older house so sometimes it makes scary noises.

...... And back to the story.......

Last week on Sunday night I watched an extremely scary movie (I am not going to say the name of said movie) with two of my guy friends, Brady and Tyler. I was super scared and jumpy the entire movie and had a terrible time falling asleep when I got home but being the genius that I am I jumped at the opportunity to watch the second movie on Monday night. I got home around 12:30 and fell right asleep. I was sleeping peacefully when a loud crashing sound woke me up. I sat in bed listening to the scary sounds for a few minutes and then my door slowly opened... my first thought was that my roommate heard the noise too and was checking to see if I was in my room... so I whispered, "Jill?" No answer. "Jill?" Nothing... "Jill? Jill? Jill? Jill? Jill?" Each time I said her name it was a little faster, louder and higher pitched. By now I was petrified. I decided to look down the hall and see if I could see anything. So I turned on my cellphone flashlight and stood looking down the hall for a few minutes trying to decide what to do. I decided the best thing to do was shut my door, climb in bed, text Brady for help and pretend like nothing had happened. I was trying to fall asleep when my door slowly opened again. I turned the flashlight on and pointed at the door while screaming bloody murder... to my relief Brady, Jill and Tyler stood there laughing.

I guess Brady and Tyler were so entertained by my fear that they decided to play a little prank on me and had to get Jill involved too. Needless to say I didn't really sleep that night or the following night... but it was well worth it! Great prank but ya know what they say pay back is. ;)

Being an Aunt

2011-01-20T22:41:00.002-07:00

I have been pretty busy lately! Mostly just work and church stuff. Have I mentioned how much I love my ward??? Well, let me just tell you! It is FANTASTIC! I am soo glad that I decided to give it a shot. It has been such a great experience. I have met so many wonderful, new friends. My Bishop is amazing and has been such a blessing in my life. My ward is always doing fun stuff! Sunday we always have something and end up playing games for hours! Monday is always FHE. This week we played Rockband and Just Dance at my house. It was a blast!!! Tuesday is institute and an activity. I have absolutely adored it. I am most excited though because my Bishop just announced that we are going to.... NAUVOO!!!!! How freakin' cool is that?! I am stoked!

Another thing that has been consuming my life is....
Being an Aunt!!!! I just got another new niece! She is such a chunk! Her name is Seja. She is too fun. I have been able to see my family so much lately! It has been a blast! A couple weekends ago I went to Smithfield to see Ciera and Stewart... Keags and Hayden, of course. It was such a great weekend! I always love spending time with them. Hayden is so fun right now, he is always doing such funny things. Here are a couple videos of him... don't mind my annoying talking and obnoxious laugh....

Dustin and Kerri (and Libby and Toby) came up this past weekend. Libby came with us to Tyson's basketball game. She was so fun! We went to the bathroom and Libby was so funny about the hand blowdryer.

Anyway, to sum it all up, my ward is awesome and I love being an Auntie.

Well...

2010-11-22T00:40:00.003-07:00

Hello blog! I haven't been on here in AGES!
And once again... my life has COMPLETELY changed!
First things first... SCHOOL.

Lately I have been struggling with school SO much. I hate going. I hate doing my homework. I hate sitting in class. I hate studying. I just hate everything to do with it. I have been so confused because I still don't know what I want to go into. I feel like I am wasting my time and my money. I started trying to figure out what classes to take next semester... and the thought kept coming to my mind, "what if I don't go at all?" But I kept pushing it aside, I mean I went through all of this during the summer! But the thought wouldn't go away! So I finally told my mom that I was struggling and didn't know what to do. I expected her to tell me that I had to go and act the same as she had during the summer but to my surprise she said simply said that maybe a break wasn't a bad idea. So I kinda started thinking about that a lot. I started praying about it and guess what!!! I am not going to school next semester!!! :) As soon as I decided I just had this amazing feeling! I know it is what I need to do! I am seriously sooo happy about it!

Next! I got a new job!!! Yay! :)
Here is the story. Ciera got to be on Good Things Utah so I got to go with her. We went to lunch after and while we were sitting there we over heard this guy talking about how his work needs to hire a new receptionist... so I went up and talked to the guy and asked how to apply. :) An emailed resume, phone interview, and 2 in person interviews later I have a new job! It is at Western States Calibrations. It is amazing and it made my decision to not go to school make more sense!

And I have a new nephew!
He was born today and is SOOO adorable! :) He was 8 lbs 10 oz. and 19 inches long. He has a ton of hair and is absolutely perfect!!

Well that is pretty much all that is going on. :) I'll write more later!

Lite Brite!

2010-10-03T20:45:00.006-07:00

This weekend was FANTASTIC!!!
I went to Price on Saturday after work! It was Lite Brite a neon, glow in the dark, paint fight!
Ash, Emilee and I decided to wear something matching.....This is what we chose! Pretenders aka nerd glasses!They also convinced me to wear the dress that I got at DI for Lite Brite last year.
We took lots of fun pictures!
And were covered in paint by the end of the night!

Also, conference was AMAZING! I loved being able to listen to the Prophet and hear the words of the Lord. :)

Yes... I am 20.

2010-09-23T21:02:00.005-07:00

Right now I really should be studying for 4 tests... but blogging sounds SO much better!
On Monday I turned 20... and it was an awesome day! I had SO many people call, text or write on my facebook wall. It was so nice to see how many great friends I have! I went with my mom and Ciera shopping and to dinner. It was a really nice day... but at the same time I couldn't help but look back at my life and realize how different my life is than I had ever planned. Two years ago I was a senior in high school. I thought I knew exactly what was going to happen. I had a plan and I thought it was perfect. Little did I know how wrong I was! I would never have guessed that I would be going to Weber and that for the first time in my life I wouldn't have a plan. I am still as clueless about what I want to do as I was when school started. I am just taking it day by day and relying on the Lord.

Lately I have been looking for another job. I love working at Sorenson and I don't want to quit but I feel like I am slightly lazy. I have SO much free time that I don't even know what to do with myself. I applied at a daycare and I got offered a job! I was extremely stoked... until I realized some of the stipulations. I have to sign a contract to work there for an entire year and it only starts out paying minimum wage. I am unsure of whether to take the job. I know that I would LOVE working there but I also know that it is possible that I would find another job that would pay me better that I would love as well. So right now I am just trying to decide what to do there.

I have also been going to school. And of course having fun! :)
I went with Ciera and Stewart to the State Fair. It was a blast!
Hayden LOVES riding horses!
He had so much fun!

Every day I am reminded of how blessed I am to have a sister that is my best friend (and did I mention how talented she is?! She made me a skirt for my birthday, she completely made up the pattern and everything! It is SO cute, pics to come in my next update). Recently I had an experience that just made me feel so grateful to have her in my life. I have always been told that friends come and go but family is forever. This past week I realized how true that is! It is crazy how quickly things can change and over such ridiculous things. It is during these times that your true friends stick by your side. I have seen this over and over again and every time I have a trail I look around and my family is always there waiting to help me. I am so blessed!
Well it is getting late and I still need to study! So thanks for reading! :)

Foam Party!

2010-09-11T23:06:00.003-07:00

Last night Ashlie and I went to the Foam Dance Party at Weber State.
When we first got there people were standing around and it was kinda boring.
I was a little disappointed because I had been soo stoked to go.
We were also trying to decide if we really wanted to go into the foam pit or not.
We were worried about being cold... but after a few minutes decided that we just had to experience it, so we went in! And oh my gosh!!!! It was SO much fun! We met some new friends and just played in what was pretty much just like a giant bathtub! So much fun and we weren't even cold (until we got out). If you ever have the opportunity to play in a foam pit I highly suggest you take advantage of it.
After playing in the pit we were pretty much freezing and hungry. So we went to Denny's to get some food and hot chocolate. So we are sitting there eating and these boys walk past our table and I see one of them drop something, the he stops and picks it up and looks at Ashlie and says, "hey I think you dropped your dollar." And Ashlie looks at him and says, "uh no, I don't think I did." He says, "maybe you should have" and hands her the dollar and then walks out.
So we looked at the dollar, and that guy left Ashlie his number!!! (Pretty brave, right?!)
So today Ashlie decided to call him, just to see what he was like. And guess what.... she is going on a date with him this Saturday!!! Crazy how things happen, right?!

Today was fantastic! I had a fun day with my family. We went out to dinner at Chili's and decided to celebrate my birthday again!

Changes.

2010-09-07T23:38:00.004-07:00

I have learned recently that life is constantly changing!
These past few weeks have been very interesting.
I started school at Weber, which is a HUGE change. My classes are all pretty good. But it is just so different than CEU.
Also, this past Sunday I was told that I can no longer go to the ward I have been going to. :( They are sending all of us to wards closer to home. This is definitely a downer. But I have decided to just have a good attitude. I learned a lot while I was going to that ward and really felt the Spirit. I now have the opportunity to meet many new friends and have a lot of new experiences.
I have been working a lot, and going to school but I have also been having a lot of fun!
On Saturday I went to work and then came home to a party! My family had a big BYU game party! We had homemade rootbeer, caramel apples and navajo tacos. I didn't really watch much of the game. But I still had a lot of fun!I got to hang out with Ciera and my mom and all the babies.They are growing so fast I can't even believe it!For Labor Day we decided to just play all day! We went and test drove cars. It was a blast! :) We also went to Texas Road House. We decided to celebrate my birthday a little...Yes I was embarrassed.
And... just kind of a random thought.
I just thought I would write a little about my sister. :)I have so many random memories with her. She has always been there for me and taken care of me. I am so grateful for her and the relationship I have with her.
I love you Ciera! :) Thank you for everything you do for me. :)

My Decision.

2010-08-18T18:19:00.006-07:00

I have been trying to decide what I want to do with school... but I haven't let that stop me from enjoying my summer! :) This has been a really fun summer! I have been able to go out with my friends a lot. It has been nice to not have to stress and worry about school.
Steph highlighted my hair.Before:

After:And Jess got married so we went to her reception! :) She looked gorgeous! It is hard to believe that the first of our group of friends just got married!!! :)And this cute little guy turned 2!I can't even believe it! I love him so much! He is so smart and so good. He is definitely a blessing in my life. Highlights of the week....
On Monday I went to Lagoon with Steph! It was a BLAST!
Yesterday Steph and I were hanging out with some of our friends at their house when we realized we were hungry. It was 11pm and we wanted Pizza so we decided to go to Winco and buy some. We ended up ditching the boys and made them think we had abandoned them at the grocery store. It was totally immature but so funny!

And end result....
I am now an official WildCat. I decided that I wont know what I want to be unless I experience different things. So as of right now I am going into Communications because I love communications and the emphasis is family and interpersonal relations. I think that it seems like a pretty good major but we will see as time goes on.
So I have to say goodbye to my fun and stress free summer... and hello to school. I start on Monday! I am a little excited though because I was able to make it so that I go to school on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and I work on Tuesday and Thursdays and Saturdays.
I guess we will see how it goes! Thanks for the advice it helped! :)

Ugh... Life.

2010-08-09T00:26:00.003-07:00

Beware, the following is me babbling about random thoughts that I have had recently....

Lately I have been struggling a lot. I haven't really told anyone because I don't really like to tell people when I'm having a hard time... I would rather just be happy and fun all the time.
It is nothing serious or anything, I just don't really know what I want to do with my life. I just feel so unsure of EVERYTHING. In the Spring I felt so certain that I needed to go to Weber. I knew that I needed to go home and be with my family. I am the kind of person that loves to plan everything. Spontaneous is fun and I like that too... but when it comes to my life I have to plan it out. I measure the pro's and con's of everything and try to be logical. When I was in Jr. High I wanted to be a lawyer. I thought that would be awesome but when I was a sophomore in High School I looked into it more and realized that there were a lot of things about being a lawyer that were not exactly ideal for me. I loved the idea of public speaking and getting to "argue" my point. But I realized that I would get too attached to the situations and this just wouldn't work for me. So then I was back at square one... trying to decide what I wanted to be "when I grew up..." and then my mom suggested a News Reporter.
I remembered back when I was a little girl and my cousin Kelsi and I would sit in my basement and make up news stories. I always thought that would be the coolest job ever! I decided that was the perfect career for me and started preparing for that... but now it makes me a little nervous. I have finished my associates degree and I am actually supposed to make a decision. I have to decide what I want to major in... and if I decide I don't like it and change my major then I waste a lot of time and money. 2 things I really hate wasting...
Lately I have been trying to think of all my options. I even went and talked to an adviser at Weber but I always end up even more confused. I feel so unsure of what to do right now. I don't know what I want my major to be... I don't know what I want to be when I grow up... I have no clue where to go from here.
I have been praying like crazy, reading my patriarchal blessing, reading my scriptures... and I'm still lost. I guess growing up is difficult. I feel like I am being torn into a pieces. Part of me says to take a semester off, find another job and just work and save money, and really try to decide what I want to do and then go back to school in the Spring. Another part of me says to just keep the same plan I've had for a long time and go into broadcast journalism. Another part of me says to go into family relations or something with kids. All of these choices have benefits and downfalls... and I just can't figure out what the best choice is for me... and even more stressful is that I am running out of time to decide!
HOWEVER, that being said, I just have to say, I have some of the best friends ever. Tonight I went and played Volleyball (well I actually didn't play, I'm not athletic like that, I watched... and tossed around a football a little.) with a bunch of people from my new ward (which I love, by the way.). I have met a lot of friends there. Steph and I were just sitting there watching everyone play and she asked me about school... and I told her exactly how I had been feeling. It was SO nice to actually voice my concerns. I am so lucky that we are best friends, most girls can't say that they have been best friends since 5th grade, but we can. We have had our fall outs and fights but we have pulled through it. I have no clue what I would do with out her. She was great and listened to me, then some of our new friends came and talked to me as well and told me that they went through the same thing.
I am also very blessed because I have a great family. I know that they are there for me all the time and are willing to help me anytime I need it.
Well, I think that this post is long enough and I have rambled a ton but thanks for reading if you have any advice, I'd love it! :)

Gratitude.

2010-08-01T23:00:00.004-07:00

I have always heard stories about people that have terrible, awful trials and how people come together to help them. I loved hearing the stories but that was all they were, stories. They were not my reality.
I am sure most people know about the struggles that my family has had the last 2 years. But if not I will just give a little overview. My sister, Ciera is married to Stewart and they have 2 amazing little boys, Hayden (almost 2) and Keagan (just over 4 months). Stewart has heart problems and has had 5 heart surgeries in the past 2 years. Obviously this has been very hard on the entire family but mostly on Ciera. Stewart has been unable to work because he passes out 20-40 times a day. This has made Ciera become the sole provider and nurturer of their family. Recently Stewart's doctor told them that he really can't do anymore for him and told them they need to go to Minnesota to the Mayo Clinic.
When Ciera first told me I thought it sounded impossible. They obviously can't afford that and I had no clue how they were going to be able to raise all that money. I tried to be positive for her but logically it just didn't seem probable. But I have been proved wrong.
I know that the Lord gives us trials and he also gives us a way to get through them. Sometimes that way is through other people. Ciera and Stewart are very blessed to have friends that love them. As soon as some of their neighbors found out about Ciera and Stewart's latest goal they decided to make it a reality and went right to work. They set up a dinner and auction. They got local places to donate items, gift cards, and services. They also got the radio and newspaper to help advertise it.
The event took place last night. I cannot even express how blown away I was. I love my sister very much. It has been so hard for me to watch her go through these trials. I know I haven't been able to help her much. I try to watch her kids and be there for her but I wish I could do more. Last night I was holding her baby and just looked around the room. I saw tables full of items that people had donated. I saw tables full of people, some that I knew, some that I didn't but all of them were there to help my sister and her family. All of them were willing to sacrifice their time and money just for my sister's family.
I talked to the girls that organized it and I thanked them for helping my sister so much. They responded by thanking me! Can you believe that?! I was so impressed with how Christ-like they were. Everyone came had the same attitude as those girls. They were all so willing to help and do what they could.Not only was it a beneficial night but it was also a very fun night! I was able to spend a lot of time with Hayden and Keagan. I love them both so it was fun to be able to play with them. I also bought a lot of GREAT stuff at the auction! :)
I have always wanted a Christus Statue and last night I was able to get one and have all the money go to my sister! :)
I was also able to get a super cute bag, it is supposed to be a diaper bag, so I'll just keep it in storage until that time comes.
I also got a cute little home decoration for my future house.

Today was testimony meeting and I wanted to get up and share my experience so badly but for the first time in my life, I was speechless! I had no clue how to express how I felt and how grateful I was. Last night was such an eye opener for me. I learned that we really do have a Father in Heaven that loves us. That we are given trials so that we can learn and that he has sent people here to bless our lives. I know that the Church is true and that if we listen to the promptings of the Holy Ghost we will be blessed. I love my family so much and I am so grateful that if we live righteously we can be together forever.
If anyone wants to know more about Ciera and Stewart you can check out their blog

www.sendstewarttomayoclinic.blogspot.com

Camping!

2010-07-26T16:18:00.003-07:00

This weekend was pretty fun!
My family (mom, dad and Ty) left to go camping on Wednesday. My original plan was to meet up with them after work on Thursday. But my plans changed when I had another offer and ended up having to work on Friday morning. So on Friday I got off work at 10:30am and made the short drive to Coalville. The entire way there I thought my car was driving strange so when I arrived my dad checked it out and one back tire was a little flat so he put more air in it for me.
Then I just spent time with my family. It was my mom's birthday so we celebrated that.Ciera made her this cake, my mom is the assistant on the bus for the special needs kids. :)
When it got a little later I got nervous about my car. I had planned to stay over night but had to leave early in the morning for work and I didn't want to have to worry about my car because the tire was still losing air. So my brother and sister in law (Cameron and Heather) saved the day! They offered to go home that night as well and let me drive their car to work AND get my car fixed while I was at work! So this was what we did!! :)
When I got home Travis came to see me! Which was awesome! Saturday I went to work, came home and hung out with Katie. :) Then Ciera and Stewart came over with their boys. Then Travis came over again. :)
On Sunday Steph and I went camping after church! It was great! Steph and I haven't had a sleepover in YEARS and it was so great to be able to spend time with her! :) We made smores and roasted starbursts! :)
We helped make the fire.I am so glad that we have been friends for so long! It was a great weekend! :)

Recent Developments!

2010-07-22T10:15:00.004-07:00

This summer has been awesome!! I have had so much fun just hanging out and relaxing. Of course I am still working but it has been nice to have some downtime.
I have been able to hang out with a lot of my friends!!!This is Jenn. She was my best friend in Jr. High then she moved to Cali and I haven't seen her since! But she came to Utah to visit some family so we were able to go to lunch!! It was awesome to see her! :)Steph and I have been able to hang out a lot again. :)And I've hung out with Katie TONS! :)I've played with my nephews too!And I had a cast for 3 weeks. I had/have a ganglion cyst on my right wrist. It was hurting so bad that I couldn't even move my wrist so my mom took me to the doctor and he sucked all the fluids out of it and put a cast on me in hopes that it would prevent it from coming back. It didn't work because it didn't even go away! Oh well, the cast was waterproof and pink so it was manageable!
That is just an update on what has been going on.

Lately I have been so happy! I have just been taking things one day at a time and been meeting new people and making new friends. I have loved it! I was so happy just dating around and doing what I wanted.... and then I met a guy....He is so cute, sweet, spiritual, smart, hardworking and he treats me well. He is such a great guy. The only problem is he is moving to Arizona for Medical School in a week. I have no clue what is going to happen when that time comes. But I guess that is life and I will continue to just take it a day at a time and see where life takes me! :)

In Vegas!

2010-06-28T10:05:00.011-07:00

Okay, so once again I have been meaning to update this for a while and I just haven't gotten around to it.
When we first arrived in Vegas we went to the Mall, it was a lot like the Gateway! :) We got a picture with the DQ Ice Cream Guy (I love Dairy Queen!)Emilee got some lemonade.And we got free ice cream!!! YUM!!!
So, while Em and I were in Vegas we went to the Strip! It was disgusting and dirty but we had fun!! There were a lot of impersonators that we got our picture taken with. :)Em and I tried on SUPER expensive glasses.This picture cracks me up, the guy told Em that she could just stay with him so she busted up laughing and couldn't stop. These guys were soo much fun!!Michael Jackson!

Please excuse how fat I look in this picture... and the ridiculous look on my face.
Napoleon Dynamite!! And the reason we went to the Strip... not as cool as I remember it...
And yes... Emilee did consider leaving the house like this for about... 2.158 seconds... :)This was our ride home... check out the size of those cups!! They didn't have a smaller size that was plastic!!
And that was our trip to VEGAS!! :)

Drive to "Hell"

2010-06-14T12:11:00.012-07:00

Aka Las Vegas, Nevada... or Henderson.
This weekend was a BLAST!!! Sara Conrad and Jacob Mantz (they both went to CEU and Emilee grew up with Sara) got married, Em wanted to go to the reception, so guess who was forced to go along? That is right, me! Just kidding :) I just went with Em so she didn't have to drive alone. It was a blast.We left Price at about 11 on Friday morning.We knew that it would be an adventurous trip because before we even got out of Price this is what we saw!!
When we were in Emery County there was some construction (of course) and cars pulled off to the side of the road. We were pretty confused about what was going on, so I unrolled the window and asked. Apparently the driver of one of the other cars had rear ended the car in front of them so they were exchanging insurance (there was no damage to either car so this seemed quite pointless to us) so Emilee and I pulled forward to the guy holding the stop sign. Then this old guy walked over to my window and said, "Ya know, you're going to hell right now, this is Heaven. Where are you going?" And we said, "Las Vegas!" He replied, "Yep, definitely going to hell." So I guess we spent a weekend in Hell but don't worry because we are back in "Heaven" now.
We passed the polygamist town, Joseph. This is really close to where my family goes camping! :)
We stopped in Cedar City to get gas and drinks. (The funny thing on this sign is the banner at the bottom... What's up? Text 'Happenings" to 83043. haha) There was a cute boy outside of the Maverick selling hot dogs. He offered us a sample but we declined... I think he would have given them to us for free.The bathrooms had the best sign!! :) Nature Calls!! :)Emilee and I in the bathroom.This was painted on the wall outside the bathroom. Pretty cool decorations for a Maverick if you ask me! :)
We decided to play that really dumb and childish game, ya know, the one where you try to get semis to honk for you... yeah we were pretty successful.
Next we played the license plate game... well more like we listed all of the different license plates we saw........ Pretty good right??
It was a fun but long drive!! I think my favorite part would have to be when Emilee and I did the Cupid Shuffle. I'm sure people were looking at us like we were crazy!!
I don't want to make this post SUPER long so this is all I'll write today. Tomorrow I'll try to write about what we did in Vegas! :)

Family

2010-06-09T08:48:00.004-07:00

Lately, as well all know, my life consists of school, work and going home every weekend. Last week was slightly different.
I was able to hang out with Emilee everyday! I actually stayed in her apartment every night. It was really nice! I have missed being able to hang out with her 24/7! One night we even went to a friends house and played Pepsi Pong. I don't think I can even describe how much I hate regular pepsi! Yuck!! It was a lot of fun but I highly doubt that I will be playing that game again anytime soon.
On Thursday I made my regular trip home. Friday morning I woke up and went with Carson to babysit his nephews. It was a blast! They are such cute little boys. I can definitely tell they are related to Carson and have been brainwashed well (just ask what their favorite car is) Enough said.
That night Ty and I got slurpees (yum!) and watched Zoolander (yes, I did watch it again.) It was really good to just relax at home.
Saturday was kind of stressful for me. I had to write a paper for my biology class. I had no clue what to write about or anything. Normally I can write essays without a problem but this one took me AGES to write! On top of that I had promised Ciera that I would make snickerdoodles for Keagan's baby blessing.I eventually finished my essay (I wrote it on genetic engineering, yeah, I got the idea from the movie, My Sister's Keeper) and the cookies, I had to make a double batch because my dad loves to eat them straight from the oven! I think that is a compliment though... :)
While I was writing my essay I was also chatting with friends on Facebook (of course, maybe that is why it took me so long to write it...) I was chatting with my old debate coach, Todd Hammond. Him and his wife just finished a theater in their basement so they invited me to go over and watch a movie. So Katie and I did! That probably sounds kind of weird, but it really isn't! haha It was fun and made me miss debate a lot!
Sunday was a great day! I went to Logan for Keagan's baby blessing. He was so cute! I was really upset with myself because I forgot my camera! So I will have to steal some pictures from Ciera to put up.
That is pretty much all that is going on... well besides a ton of homework and studying for math tests! It is okay though because next week is my last week of summer school! :)

Memorial Weekend!

2010-05-31T22:37:00.005-07:00

Okay, so I decided that I wanted to post some pictures so here ya go! :)
This is our bathroom all decorated....And this is it after....This is my room in the process of being packed! What a pain!This is all of my stuff packed up... can you tell that I love pink?!

Dustin and I after graduation.

This week was awesome! School was boring like always. It was midterm so it was a little busy!
I decided that I needed a break and took work off for the entire weekend! So on Thursday I went home after my history class!
When I got home I went to lunch with Chirelle! We went to The Pizza Factory, which was DELISH! It was a lot of fun to be able to catch up with her! Then I went home and Carson was waiting for me. :) Tyson had to do an interview for his history class. He decided to interview our neighbor, when I lived at home I used to take them cookies ALL the time. Tyson thanked them for their help and promised to bring cookies, so guess who got to make them? ME! (with Carson's help, of course!) :). Then Ty, Carson and I delivered them after that Tyson had homework so I helped him finish it up. I'm sure it wasn't very much fun for Carson, but he was a good sport and just hung out with us.
Friday morning I woke up to my cellphone ringing at 7:30! Who calls people that early?! It was a number I didn't know so I didn't answer. I started to fall back asleep and my phone starts ringing again! I figured if someone was calling back it must be important, so I answered. It was my dad. He is such a nerd! He forgot his cellphone and was calling me from a payphone. I had to save him and take him his phone. Then I went to lunch with Cameron and my mom. Then I went to Logan! I loved spending time with my sister. We had a lot of fun just talking, shopping and watching movies.
Saturday I woke up, did some biology (thanks Ciera) ate lunch and Zoolander, which everyone knows is my favorite! It was so funny because I got Hayden to do Blue Steel.Hayden's original Blue Steel.Hayden's new Blue Steel. He is so funny! Now whenever you say, "Hayden, do Blue Steel," this is what he does. I guess he knows what it is like to be really, ridiculously good looking!
Then I went home. When I got home one of my best friends, Katie, came over! I don't get to see her much and it was really nice to be able to visit. Then Carson came and got me, I have been telling him for weeks that I wanted to go to the park and feed the ducks, it was finally warm enough that we could! :) After he got me a slurpee! Yum!! :)
Sunday was interesting that is for sure! I decided to go to the singles branch(mostly because my family was out of town and I didn't know who I would sit with in their ward). I am not quite sure how I feel about it. It is so tiny and no one really talks. Also, it was interesting... I went to Sunday school and all of the boys sat on one side and all of the girls on the other. Part of me thinks I should go to that ward because it needs more members... I think I am going to try the College ward and see how I feel about that and then make my decision.
Ciera, Stewart, Hayden and Keagan all came over on Sunday. I had been sitting around doing absolutely nothing for a couple hours so I was excited to have the company. I just spent time with them and then went to bed.
This morning I woke up at 6am to meet up with my parents and spend the day camping with them. Carson came over at 6:30 to say goodbye to me! He is the best! :) I got to hold Keagan pretty much all day. I loved it!!!And now I am in Price... again... procrastinating my math homework, which I really shouldn't be doing because I have a test in the morning! Yuck, thank goodness I have Emilee to teach me!

Summer?

2010-05-27T08:27:00.004-07:00

After today I am officially half way done with summer school!! I am SO ready to be done!
I don't really have much to write about...
Last week the highlights of my week were:
I worked Friday, Saturday and Sunday so I couldn't go home. :( I only worked Friday morning so I decided that I would go to Springville and babysit my neice, Libby, so that Dustin and Kerri could go on a date. I haven't spent too much time with Libby so it was a lot of fun to have that one on one time.She is such a cute little girl! She is not a very cuddly baby but she was so tired that for a long time she just wanted me to hold her. I loved it!

I slept over at their house and came back to Price on Saturday morning. I worked 10+ hours that day. Then I worked again Sunday.
That was my weekend.
This week has been pretty much been normal and boring. The only thing out of the ordinary is that Emilee is back so I have been able to hang out with her a lot and my roommate, Melissa, and I went and watched a movie with some friends. That is pretty much it!
I am going home today! YAY!!! It is going to be a long and fun weekend! I am so stoked! Today I am going to go to dinner with Chirelle, we have been friends since I was in 7th grade! We haven't really hung out much lately so it will be a lot of fun to get together and catch up!
Tyson asked me to help him make snickerdoodles for our neighbor "brother Bill" and then Carson is going to come over. It will be a fun night! I am excited.
Tomorrow I am going to go and visit my sister! I love being able to hang out with her. I think it is so funny because growing up we did not get a long at all! We would fight all the time but now she is one of my best friends and I don't know what I would do without her.
Saturday I am going to hang out with Carson. We are still trying to decide what we want to do. My parents are going camping and they want us to go with them. So we will see if we decide to do that or not.
Sorry my blog is so boring my life just really isn't very exciting. Hopefully that will change soon! :)
Have a fun Memorial Weekend! :)

Long time!

2010-05-10T12:09:00.004-07:00

Wow! It has been such a long time since I have written. I'm not really even sure what to write!
So much has changed but at the same time nothing has.
For starters, I graduated from CEU, well kinda. I had commencement and I walked. Dustin walked as well. He has been finished for a LONG time he just never turned in the papers to actually graduate. It was fun walking with him. I was going to post all these pictures of my apartment and how it was before I packed up and came home. But now I feel like it has just been so long and is pointless for me to post them. If you wanted to see them I could post them.
That night I went to Motocross with Carson Haacke. I knew Carson in high school and took him to Sadies my sophomore year but I hadn't really talked to him much since my sophomore year. He just got back from his mission. It was so much fun!! It was freezing cold and rained the entire time. Carson was such a gentleman and gave me his coat. So I was nice and warm and dry and he was freezing! Poor guy. :(
The rest of that week I just worked on moving back into my parents house, hung out with Carson and some other friends and worked. It was nice to be home.
Last week I went back to Price and moved into the new apartment. I am sleeping on an air mattress and freeze all night long. It is miserable. I wake up several times during the night just because I am so cold!
I think that school is pretty much going to be the death of me! I have classes pretty much ALL day, everyday. My summer schedule is:
8am-10:15 Math
10:30-12:15 Life Span
3:30- 5:15 History
and most days 5:30-9 work
From 12:15-3:30 I do my online biology class and other homework.
It is a lot of work and makes me so tired!
I came home this weekend (like always) and spent a lot of time with my family. My sister, her husband and kids are here too. It is so much fun! I love hanging out with them. My nephews are just so cute! I also hung out with Carson this weekend. He was such a trooper and watched the Notebook with me! (Yeah, pretty much he is the best ;P) Then we saw Robin Hood! It was really long but good. I liked it a lot.
Today has been a lot of fun. I was able to go and hear my older brother speak in church. We also had chicken kabobs! Yum! Now I am just wasting time until I have to go back to Price. :S I am really not wanting to go. Well I guess I should get going, I probably wont be updating for a while because they have this new thing at CEU and you can only blog for 10 minutes! Ridiculous, right?! But that is really all I have to say! Sorry there are no pictures, my computer wouldn't load any. I will try again next time! :)

Most EPIC night EVER!

2010-04-24T02:27:00.012-07:00

Today has been such a crazy day! I woke up and went to work at 6 this morning (yuck!) I got off work and came home and started packing. I got all of my kitchen stuff loaded up, I felt pretty good about that! Then I decided to make a video for student government. It was a lot of fun to look at the pictures and remember all the good times I have had this year in student government.
Then we had the student government clean up and we watched my video. When it got over I realized that I am really done... I keep thinking that I have more time here but really I don't. I do still have class for a while but I don't have student government and all of my friends. I can't even believe how fast this year has gone by.When I got done with my student government stuff I went shopping with Ashlie for a little bit. Shockingly I didn't buy anything. :)
Then I came back and I was talking to Bethany and Emilee... and I guess it really hit me that I won't be here next year. I was sitting on the floor in Bethany's room with my CEU blanket and I just started to cry. (Yes, I am a baby.) Which made Emilee cry as well. It is just sad to know that my life is going to change so drastically.I have LOVED living with Emilee. We just sit in our apartment and talk and play stupid games on facebook. She has become one of my closest friends and I can't even imagine not being around her everyday. It makes me so sad to think about it. We decided that we need to take advantage of the time that we have left together. So tonight we decided to do something absolutely crazy and epic!!!We decided to go to Wal*Mart and get some cheap make up and craft items. Then we got Freal shakes from Maverick! :) YUM!! Rocked out in my car to some of our AWESOME music! Got back to our apartment and the adventures began!!!We decided that we wanted to make each other a present but the catch was we could only use the random items we bought at Wal*Mart.
Our supplies were:
Frames, construction paper, ribbon, 3 buttons, and material. We could do whatever we wanted with it.
So we sat at by the doors of our bedrooms and made our crafts while we chatted and once again listened to music! When we finished our presents we gave them to each other! Emilee LOVES sweater vests so I decided I was going to try and make her a mini vest to go in her frame. We also have lots of epic times together so I decided that was the one word that would work best for her present. Emilee made me this cute picture! It has a lot of our memories on it. It will always remind me of the good times we have had.
Our next activity was blind folded make overs!Need I say more?
Needless to say, it was an awesome night and I will not forget it! I am going to miss Emilee so much!
I am going to miss...

Tetris
Family Fued
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
Walks at night
Sleeping on Bean Bags
Laughing at our own jokes
Annoyances
Trips to Wal*Mart
Random humming
Finding awesome music
Hugs
Laughing until we cry
Talking about boys
Marble Line
Facebook
Funny Pictures
Epic Wednesdays
Falling asleep to movies
Chick Flicks
Facial Masks
Ryan Reynolds (sigh)
Phone calls when we are away
Cleaning our apartment
Random Snacks
Wingers
Attempting all nighters

...But most of all I am going to miss having a friend that loves me for me and having a friend that is always there for me. I have been so blessed to room with Emilee and I know that she is the type of friend that is going to last a lifetime! :) We may not live close together, or see each other often but she will always be in my heart. (Yes, I know that is cheesy..)

Mixed Emotions

2010-04-20T21:25:00.002-07:00

This semester has been kind of rough for me. A lot has happened that made me very homesick. I have had a lot of trials this semester and spent almost every weekend at home with my family. I have been looking forward to the end of this semester for so long! I've been counting down for weeks... until this week. Yesterday was my last CEUSA Advisory Meeting. We have had so many great times in Student Government and I have made so many new friends and learned so much. We did our traditional "synergy circle" (we all stand in a circle with our arms around each other and listen to an uplifting song) it sounds really weird but it makes us really focus and feel so much closer as a group. As we were standing there in the circle I started thinking about the past year and all of my memories...

Saying goodbye to my parents
Almost burning down Willy's cabin
Our first dinner in our apartment
My 19th birthday
Our chocolate fondu fight
Ice cream sculptures
Hiking to the CEU in the middle of the night
Midnight Ihop run
Night time walks
Watching She's the Man and Zoolander weekly
The quote wall
Almost burning down Devin's apartment
Shopping Sprees
Homework all-nighters
Fire Alarms
Dances
New Friends
Epic Wednesday

... and I realized that I am really going to miss it here.

When I think back it was such a great year and I can't believe that it is actually ending. I can't believe that in less than 2 months I will be living back at home. I have loved living in Price and having my freedom. I have had so many experiences that I will never forget.
I am so excited for new adventures but I'm a little sad to leave the life that I have built here. I will still be in Price for a while. I am going to be taking the first session of summer school (May 10th-June 19th) but everything will be different. Everyone will be gone for the summer. My life will consist of class, work and homework.
I always think that it is interesting to try and imagine your life in one year... but so much has happened this past year that I don't think I could even come close to guessing what is in store for me. I just have to have faith and rely on my Heavenly Father. I know that he has a plan for me and I can't wait to see what it is but for now I will just continue living my life the best that I can.
This week has been EXTREMELY stressful. I have to finish the End of Year movie, I am pretty excited about it, and then I have a ton of homework I have been doing and next week we have finals. I am pretty lucky because most of mine are take home tests. I am very grateful for that. The rest of this week is filled with Student Government activities and packing up my apartment. It is going to be really sad to see our apartment empty. I am sad to be so near to closing this door but I am so enthusiastic to see what is behind the next door.
Sorry this post wasn't very organized it is really just a bunch of thoughts that are going through my mind right now! Thanks for reading.

Cute Nephews!

2010-04-18T23:07:00.009-07:00

Every single Sunday I go back to Price and tell myself that I am going to stay the next weekend... but by every Wednesday I have already decided that I am going home. I'm not quite sure why but for some reason I ALWAYS have the desire to go home. This week was another one of those weeks.Friday was the Inaugural Ball. We were required to go and take a date. I wasn't really excited for that because I haven't really dated anyone in Price so I wasn't sure who I was going to ask to go with me. If I was at home I would feel a lot more comfortable asking someone... but Price was a different story! I thought about it a lot and finally decided to ask my friend Pokey. (His name is actually David Potter but everyone calls him Pokey) He is a really nice guy and I had a lot of fun with him.Pokey and I after the dance! :)Emilee, Ashlie and I at the dance.On Saturday I got off work and headed home. I stopped at the Gateway to pick up Ryan and then we hung out the rest of the day. We saw Date Night with my parent's, Cameron, Heather and Tyson. It was super funny, dirty at parts but still great! :) Then we watched the Jazz game at Cam's house. It was a bit of a let down but that is alright.
Today was awesome! Ciera and Stewart invited us over for dinner. It was their mother's day present. :) Dinner was delicious but my favorite part was getting to spend time with my family. I got to hold Keagan for a LONG time. It was the most time I had been able to spend with him. He is such a good baby and so cute. I love him!Keagan is so adorable. I love him! :)Hayden was so much fun as well. We took him to the park to go down the slide but it was too hot for his little legs so we resorted to playing in the wood chips. He had so much fun playing with the shovel and giving everyone some wood chips.
He is such a good brother and is so proud of Keagan.Hayden is so cute and always giving his brother kisses.My beautiful sister, Ciera and Keagan.
I am so grateful to have such great friends and family! :) It was an awesome weekend! :)

Camping and Epic Wednesday!

2010-04-14T21:51:00.011-07:00

On Thursday after work I left Price to meet Cameron and Heather to go camping! I am not exactly the biggest fan of camping but this year I was actually looking forward to the trip. I had a pretty rough week and really just wanted to be with my family. We met up with my parents, Dustin, Kerri, Libby and Tyson in Redmond at almost 11 at night. We pretty much just went to bed. Friday we woke up bright and early and had breakfast and mom and I went on a 4 wheel ride. :) It was great! The rest of the day was spent eating, spending time with my family, playing with my niece and sleeping. Saturday my Great Uncle Junior brought a horse to us for me to ride. It was a lot of fun. :) I love horses. Saturday was filled with the same activities as Friday. Sunday we just packed up and headed home and I came back to Price.This week has been a pretty normal week, just busy finishing up projects for the end of the semester. I can't believe that my first year of college is almost over! It makes me so happy!
Today was another Epic Wednesday, we only have 2 left, so we decided that this one had to be good. We started off by going to Wingers, it was delish! :) Then we came back to our apartment and did the Sprite Challenge. I made a movie but my blog wont show it so that is pretty lame, I'm sorry! :(

Easter! :)

2010-04-07T23:21:00.005-07:00

Last Thursday was April 1st, which means a couple of things in my family.
1)Heather's Birthday.2) Watch your back because we like pranks! :) (April Fool's Day)
I was a bit bummed that I wasn't able to spend the day with my family and partake in the pranks that I was sure they would pull. We are pretty crazy in my family and have always played great pranks. Well, I guess I shouldn't take the credit because it is normally Dustin and Cameron, but still, one year they stole all the cars and put them at the church parking lot, Cameron took the tires off my mom's car one year, basically we like doing harmless little pranks on each other. I thought that this year would be the year that I would miss out on the pranks, but I was wrong.I'm not going into detail because I don't really think that is a good idea, but basically some one pulled a prank on me and it went bad. I hate how sometimes something that you think is harmless can turn into such a big deal and involve people in ways you would never even guess. But I guess that is life. Sometimes things do not turn out the way you would ever plan.
Any that was my April Fool's day. On Friday, Emilee, Bethany, Brandon and I left Price. We were super excited to go home for the holiday but it wasn't as smooth of a drive as we had hoped for. There was a wreck in the canyon and it was closed. Terrible, right?? So we were stuck in the middle of the canyon for quite some time! We didn't let that ruin our trip though. :) We stopped at a little store in the canyon and got some treats. It took us over 4 hours to get to SLC, normally it would have taken an hour and a half. It was insane!!We dropped Bethany off in Provo so she could go to a mission reunion and Brandon's mom met up with us and picked him up. Emilee and I went to the Gateway. I had made plans to meet up with a friend from EFY that I hadn't seen in 5 years! I was super excited to see her. It was a short visit because of the wreck but it was just awesome to see her. We then went to the Apple store and visited Ryan. Then the 3 of us got pizza and just hung out. We went to my parent's house and watched the Jazz game. Sadly we lost. :( Stupid Lakers!
Saturday we had planned on going to Conference, we had tickets and were soo excited to go but I didn't really plan well and we weren't able to make it on time. It was a day full of drama (resulting from the April Fool's joke I mentioned) I had to go to the doctor, what a pain! Yes, I am okay. :) While the guys were at conference Bethany, Emilee, my mom, Heather and I went to dinner at Lucky China! I have not been there in AGES! I loved it. :) Then we made muddy buddies, delish! :) Then we went to Ryan's house.
It was just really relaxed and we all just hung out. I love just being chill and hanging out!
Sunday was such a good day!! :) It was conference, which is ALWAYS amazing, but even better I was able to be home with my family. I think I have taken my family for granted so much in my life. So I am just going to take a minute to express how much I love my family and how grateful for them I am.
Dad- my dad is the most amazing guy! I am going to be SO lucky if he guy I marry is even half as good as my dad is. He is such a nice guy and so easy going. He has always been there for me. I have been lucky because I have an open relationship with my dad. I can tell him anything and not be embarrassed. My Grandpa was the most amazing person I have ever met, and my dad is following in his footsteps, I know that Grandpa is so proud of my dad. I love my dad's sense of humor and how fun and energetic he is.
Mom- wow. My mom is just the greatest. She really is my best friend. I have no clue where I would be without her. She is anything I need her to be. Sometimes she is a pillow for me to cry on and other times she is a punching bag and lets me let out all of my anger and frustrations. She is so caring and is always thinking about other people. She is so accepting and invites people into her house and welcomes them. She listens to me ramble about everything. I am so lucky to be as close to her as I am.
Dustin & Kerri- Dustin has always been such a joker and it used to frustrate me so much but now I am so grateful for his ability to lighten the load and make a tough situation seem so much easier. Kerri is perfect for Dustin. :) She can handle all of his dorky habits and loves him because of them. They have both been great examples to me. They are great parents and have been blessed with my beautiful niece, Libby, who is such a fun and good baby.Cameron & Heather- Cameron is my protective brother. He isn't afraid of getting in other people's face if he thinks it is the right thing to do. I am so grateful to know that I have him there to watch out and help take care of me. Heather has taught me the value of hard work. She knows what she wants and is working so hard to get there. I get so sick of school, but I know that if Heather can do it, I can too. I love being able to just go to their house and spend time with them and know that I am welcome in their home.
Ciera & Stewart- Ciera and I are soo opposite but she is my other best friend. I find myself calling or texting her when I am having a hard day. I know that she is always there for me. Her and Stewart have been through so much since they got married and I am so impressed by their strength and faith. They always believe that things will get better. I have no clue how they are so strong. They have been blessed with 2 little boys, Hayden and Keagan, that I absolutely adore and would do anything for. They invite me to their house and include me in their little family. I am so grateful for them and their example.
Tyson- I'm not even where to start with him. He has been such a comfort and example in my life. He will never realize how big of an impact he has had on me. He has been the one to comfort me during the hardest points in my life. He is such a good kid and is always doing the right thing. I wish I was as obedient and kind as he is. He is going to be such a great husband sometime. His future wife is in for a treat because he is the sweetest, thoughtful person I have ever met. :)This weekend was just such a great reminder for me of how lucky I am. It was awesome to be able to spend the Easter with my family and to be able to see some of my siblings and my nephews and my grandma. My mom was so sweet and made Emilee and I both an Easter Basket, I got some new shoes! I was super excited about that. :)
I think this was the hardest time for me to go back to Price. I really loved being home and was not looking forward to coming back. I really just wanted to freeze time and stay in that moment. Watching my family and feeling so wanted and loved, but life must go on, of course. So Emilee and I made the trip back to Price.School has been normal and kind of dragging. Today Emilee and I spent all of our free time on my computer looking up music. We were pretty successful :) check out:

Alkaline Trio
Anarbor
A Day Away
Hawk Nelson
Story of the Year
The Summer Set
The Downtown Fiction
Dropout Year
FM Static
School Boy Humor
Stereo Skyline
The Secret Handshake
The Sophomore Attempt
This Century
The Rocket Summer
Ronnie Day

I hope you enjoy the as much as we have! :) And if you have any ideas, let me know! I would love to expand my music collection. :) I am way too mainstream, and that needs to change.
It was also Epic Wednesday, we did Fondu! YUM!
We had a HUGE chocolate bar (thanks to my parent's) that needed to be eaten. So we melted it and dipped bananas, pretzels, strawberries and shortcake. SOO good! :)
Tomorrow I am going camping with my family! I will be sure to take pictures. :)
Thanks for reading my ramblings! :)

Just Life

2010-03-31T17:18:00.007-07:00

Last Epic Wednesday started with a trip to Wal*Mart to get the supplies that we needed to do a heart attack (like Aubre suggested, thank you!). Before we began we all put on Ring Pops! :) YUM!Then we started baking our cupcakes and trying to decide who we wanted to attack! Well there is a girl that goes to school here that is such a nice girl and always helping others out, we decided she was the perfect person for us to attack! :) We wrote a poem:
There is a lovely girl whose name is Noelle
Being nice is something she definitely does well
Though always so busy and always on the go
She still finds the time to let her love show
Never expecting the kindness to return
From this sweet example we could all learn
We wanted a chance to show her we care
Because finding another like her is rare
Let it be known that we truly love you
So here is a heart-attack and cupcakes too!
We wrote her name with mini M&Ms, cut out hearts, wrote our poem on a heart and left them in front of her apartment. :) It was a fun Epic Wednesday!
Thursday was just a normal day.
Friday I was so excited because I was able to go home. It was kind of a crazy night! I got home and went to Weber State to hear my friends from Double or Nothing. They had an excellent show and it was fun to hang out with Aubre. I had to leave the show early to go home for a date. I was excited for it because I had gone on a date with the guy before (he will remain nameless) and had fun with him. I thought that it would be a great night but I was wrong. We ended up hanging out with him and 8 of his other guy friends. So it was me, a girl I didn't know, and 9 guys. He didn't introduce me to his friends and spent the entire night competing with his friends and talking about when they were in high school. We went to part of some random hockey game and then to Dairy Queen. The night progressively got worse as the guys began to talk about topics that are not appropriate and I felt very uncomfortable. Then the guys wanted to watch Family Guy. The entire night I was wondering why I was even there! I was so glad to finally go back to my parent's house. I guess that was my last date with him.
Saturday was a MUCH better day! :)
I was able to see my cute little niece, Libby, and nephew, Hayden.I was holding both of them! Holy cow they are heavy! :) But so cute. I love Libby's hair. :)
And I got to meet my new nephew Keagan. :) He is so little and cute. I just love him! :) I can't wait to see him again.
When I got home we celebrated Dustin's birthday. Dustin wanted to have homemade ice cream, it was delish! :) Ryan, one of my friends from home, came over and hung out with us. He was so much fun! We ended up watching Fantastic Mr. Fox I love that movie! Then we watched Hot Rod, another one of my favorites! It was awesome! He is such a fun kid.
On Sunday I went to church with Cameron, Heather and Ryan. After I went to Ryan's house and we played pool, which I embarrassed myself majorly at, then we watched Brother Bear and The Office. I love just being able to hang out with a friend and talk about anything. It was a great weekend.
This week has been pretty normal. Tonight is the Election Stomp so for Epic Wednesday I will be taking pictures and dancing there. It should be a good time. I am also excited to go home for Easter! :)

Spring Break and Keagan!

2010-03-23T22:18:00.004-07:00

Last week was Spring break. I didn't really do a whole lot... but I'll give you a run down.
Friday- I went home after work and then went with my parent's to Tyson's basketball game! :)
Saturday- I just spent time with my family and went to another game of Tyson's.
Sunday- I went to church at the homeward and then we made muddy buddies, rice krispy's and cookies to take to Cameron and Heather's house to watch 2012.
Monday- I slept in until 11:30! It was amazing, totally lazy, yes, but amazing! Then my mom and I made soup and chocolate chip peanut butter cookies. We took it to the neighbors for dinner. They are such a nice older couple and it was really nice to be able to help out. Then I went and hung out with Aubre, Nick, Derek and Matt. We watched Zoolander (one of my favorite movies!). It was a fun night.
Tuesday- I decided that I didn't think it was the best idea to live with my parents after CEU and so Katie and I started looking for apartments. It was a lot of fun.
Wednesday- I went to Logan with my parents to visit Ciera, Stewart and Hayden. I had really missed them.
Thursday- I worked and went to Heather and Andrew's wedding reception.
Friday- I worked and went on a date with Tyler, one of Ciera's friends from high school.
Saturday- I worked and just got ready to head back to Price and watched New Moon with my mom. I also realized how great of a guy my dad is. My mom and I said we were hungry and wanted him to make us some pasta, so he did... but when he finished we realized that we really wanted grilled cheese sandwiches instead, so he made those for us too. How great is he?!
Sunday- We just spent time together as a family and then Elder Bumby, a missionary that used to be in our area but is off his mission now, came to visit. Then I came back to Price. I hung out with Emilee! I had missed her lots! I guess you know that you are attached to your roommate when you talk to them on the phone or webchat every day you are away!
Monday- I went to my classes and to student gov meetings and then just spent the night in my apartment with Em. Then guess what we did... we watched Zoolander! :)
Today- This has been the most eventful day in a while! It started at 3:50 this morning! I got a call from my sister telling me that I was an aunt again! :) Keagan was born at 2:50 am, he is 7 pd. 5 oz. and 20 inches long. He was about 3 weeks early. He has had some health problems, his lungs weren't working properly, I am sure Ciera will post more about this later. But he is a beautiful baby and I already love him! I am so excited to be able to meet him on Saturday.
Isn't he adorable?!

I went to my classes today and to work. Then I came home and our home teachers came to visit. They stayed for 2 hours! It was crazy! Then Em and I went to go to Wal*Mart. Our home teacher had been teasing me about dates and was standing by my window talking to me. So I told him we had to go and started pulling away. He started screaming and making a scene. So I text him and asked if I ran over his foot.. his reply was, "yeah so I guess that means you owe me a date." I replied, "uhh goodness... sorry. " and he said, "you really didn't run over my foot I was just playing with you. But I'd still like to go on a date." Umm... awkward, yeah? I thought so...
My roommates all found it hilarious and were teasing me all night long. Then I did some homework and we are now watching New Moon. :)
That is my week so far! :)

Another Epic Wednesday!

2010-03-11T09:09:00.007-07:00

Last night was Epic Wednesday! We weren't sure what we should do so we decided to use one of the suggestions that we had been given! Aubre suggested that we do a heart attack for a friend! :) So that was our plan.... but things didn't turn out the way we planned.
To start off our Epic Wednesday I found out that I didn't have to go to City Council!! Yay!! Instead I went to the Presidential Debates. I really enjoy things like that so it was fun for me. We were super hungry so we decided to go to Subway and get a $5 footlong! :)I got a chicken bacon ranch! Yum!!! :) It was amazing! :)
Ashlie had a paper she had to write so when we got home she did her homework and Emilee went to hang out with her boyfriend. And I was super epic and watched TV and talked to my sister on Facebook.
By the time Ashlie had finished her paper we both thought it was a bit too late to make cupcakes and do a heart attack and decided that would have to wait for another week. We improvised. :)
My mom gave me some jiffy popcorn that you make over the stove. It was delicious!Emilee was only able to attend the first little while of Epic Wednesday this week because she had previous plans, but we were glad that she could celebrate with us for a little while.It got huge! How cool is that?!
Then we decided to just relax a bit and watch a movie. We watched 17 Again. I had never seen it but I really liked it! :)I think this is pretty funny because Ashlie is still looking all cute in her clothes... and umm... well I'm a different story! I decided to take a shower and put my pajamas on so that I could really relax... so I have my super sweet pink bandana, a CEU shirt, and Tyson's Jazz Pajama pants, I think I was making a pretty good fashion statement!

And that was Epic Wednesday! On Tuesday our school had a basketball game at SLCC most of my roommates went to the game, I wasn't able to because I had work. :( So Emilee and I were at home. She decided to take advantage of the quiet and went to bed early. I decided to read! I didn't realize how much I had missed reading a good book!! I read the entire book Dear John. It was amazing and now I really, really want to see the movie!
Today is Thursday, Ciera suggested that we call it Lame Thursday and do something really lame... so I think tonight I will go to work and then pack to go home for Spring Break, that sounds pretty lame, right?! Maybe to make it even more lame I'll clean the bathroom or something... I'll think about it.
I am so excited I only have one class left until Spring Break and it is my favorite class! I will be leaving Price tomorrow when I get off work and I wont have to come back until Sunday the 21st! It is going to be so nice to have a break! I am excited to see some friends that I haven't seen in a while and be able to just relax and not have to worry about school!

Blonde Moment!

2010-03-09T21:28:00.003-07:00

Ciera, this is just for you! :)
You told me that you wanted me to post my blonde moments. So here ya go! :)
We all know that in the past I have had many, many moments where I didn't do exactly the most intelligent things. Well I thought that those days were over... but not so much! Here is the story:
Emilee and I were super bored tonight so we decided to go to Kmart, because Emilee had never been to the Price Kmart. So I park my car and I take my keys out and I look out the window and saw movement! So I automatically press on the break and kind of freak out! The truck next to us started to pull away but I thought that I was rolling! So I freaked out for no reason!

So good news!!! Our CEU basketball team just won their game and we are going to Nationals!!! Yay! :) Go Golden Eagles.
I don't really have anything else to say. So I'll write again soon! :)

It's been a while!

2010-03-07T18:43:00.005-07:00

I was informed that I need to write again, so I'm back! :)
So last time I wrote about Epic Wednesday, well guess what! I wrote too soon because that night was far from over! :)
Emilee and I were sitting on the couch watching TV and talking, it was almost one in the morning so I have no clue why we hadn't went to bed yet. All night I had been telling Em that I was afraid we were going to set the fire alarm off with our burning marshmallows and then all of a sudden while we are just sitting there the fire alarm went off! (No, it was not our fault.) So we all had to evacuate the building. It was freezing cold outside so I decided to take advantage of student government! Emilee, Lacey, Ashlie and I went to the student government room. Lacey made popcorn, and we put in the movie IronMan, we all fell asleep and ended up sleeping in the Student Government room! It was legit!
I went home for the weekend and it was great! :) Saturday I went to a play with my mom, Kerri and Heather. It was a lot of fun. On the way back they dropped me off at the Gateway and I went shopping with Em and Ashlie. :) Then Aubre picked me up and we went to a Double or Nothing concert at Kilby court. The guys did great, as always. It was a lot of fun but I can't lie. My favorite part of the night was riding home in Derek's Mazda 3. It was awesome!
Sunday was Tyson's eagle! It was really good. I am so proud of Tyson for getting his eagle. He got it like a year ago but it took a long time to have his court of honor but now its all over. It was a lot of fun and it was really good to see my whole family again.
Then I traveled back to Price. Monday was different than normal because our Student Government Meeting was an activity instead of a meeting! It was a great change and I think that we all needed a break.
Tuesday was just a normal Tuesday and before I knew it Epic Wednesday was back! We decided to have an extremely Epic Wednesday by getting away from Price. I mean, honestly, how can something get more Epic than leaving Price. Ashlie, Bethany and I drove to Provo and met up with Aubre to go to a Double or Nothing concert! It was their best show I had seen! It was so amazing! I was so glad that we had been able to go! After the show Aubre had an after party at her house. So we all went there and had sandwiches and hung out. The girls and I needed to leave early because we had a long drive home. It was definitely worth it!On Saturday Ashlie and I went back to Provo and went to another Double or Nothing show. Then to another After Party at Aubre's house and we stayed the night. It was a fun weekend.This is a terrible picture, but it's Ashlie, me and our new friend Ginger at the show at Muse on Saturday night.Our cute shoes! Ginger, me, Ashlie!
Now I am back in Price! :) I ate food at the stake center! I had delicious Chicken noodle soup. :) Then I took a Chemistry test, I got 96% thanks to Emilee and JJ! :) And am probably going to go over to the institute to get a treat at munch and mingle.
Now I am just looking forward to Spring break and our next Epic Wednesday! :) Thanks for the fun ideas we will definitely be doing some of them. If you come up with anymore let me know!

Epic Wednesday #2

2010-02-24T21:01:00.011-07:00

Today is Wednesday! :) That means it is Epic Wednesday! I love Epic Wednesday. (Wow I just said Wednesday a lot!)
It has been a very eventful day! :) I woke up and went to math and then went to my booth hour. While I was there I had to hand out some fliers with Hershey's kisses on them for True Eagle, which is on Monday. So I went over to a table of guys and gave them each a flier and told them to go and become a True Eagle, one of the guys asked if it could be me. Funny but not happening.
After my booth hour I went and checked my mail! Guess what, I actually had mail! :)
The Ipod from Dustin and Kerri came! I am so excited. :) I can't believe they just gave it to me. :) I am so lucky to have such great siblings. :)
After checking my mail I went home and worked on some homework and cleaned my apartment for health and safety checks. Then I went to class. It was really cool because my leadership class got out early! :)
Then I had to go to City Council. I don't mind going to City Council except that it is SO long and people just blab on and on about nothing. Normally Davey and I go but today Davey was unable to go. So I went by myself. There is always someone from the newspaper there and today it was a new person. So a few minutes into city council and see a paper slide across the chairs. So I pick it up and look at it. It's a note, it brought back Jr. High memories. It was from the guy from the newspaper asking why I was there. I wrote back, this continued for a bit and then he asked for my number. Kinda strange but once again a funny moment. To my excitement City Council was only an hour and a half today! :) When it was over I went to thank the mayor and he gave me a present!Sorry the picture is way blurry, I couldn't get a good one. But he gave me this pin and said, "it's made in Price and you can keep it close to your heart!" haha I love small towns! :)
Anyway, then I picked up Emilee and Ashlie so that we could go to Wal*Mart and get the treats for our Epic Wednesday Activity. When we were checking out the cashier started to talk to us. Ashlie was buying some more candy kisses for student government and the lady said, "let me give you girls some advice, don't share these with boys!" We laughed and said, "yeah, boys are stupid." (totally kidding, of course.) And she proceeded to tell us her whole life story, including her divorce and how her husband left her for a 350 pound lady with a hump and no front teeth and that she decided she doesn't need a man and is going to adopt a baby. TMI? Just a bit! But also another funny moment! :)
We came home and I had to eat my dinner. :) I bought a frozen dinner, I thought it looked delish, it was cheese, rice and chicken! But when I opened it I was a little disappointed...
I had to pick out all the yucky stuff that I don't like. But other than that it was great! :)
Then the real party began! :) I had an idea for Epic Wednesday. Tonight we made smore's over our stove. :)Looks delish, right?
This is just Emilee and I stuffing our faces!
This is so not an attractive picture but you can tell that we were having so much fun! :)
Well I am off to go finish Epic Wednesday and some homework. If anyone has some good ideas for Epic Wednesday leave it in a comment! :) Thanks for reading! :)

Counting Blessings

2010-02-22T19:36:00.004-07:00

On Thursday I decided that I was going to go home this weekend to go with Ciera to hospital for Stewart's heart surgery, the fourth one in 20 months! I knew that my sister would want and need some moral support so I wanted to be there for her.
I wasn't able to leave until Saturday after work. So I spent Friday night hanging out with my fabulous roommate. We went to Maverick and got smoothies. That is right! Smoothies at Maverick, did anyone know they had smoothies? Well they do and they are delish! :) Then we went to Walmart and treated ourselves to a little snack! :) Then we came home and watched Hitch and fell asleep on the couch and beanbag. It was a pretty good night.
Then I just spent the weekend at home. It was really good because I was able to see my family and spend time with my adorable nephew and Ciera and Stewart and of course my parents and I can't forget Tyson.
Sunday night I had a hard time sleeping and I kept waking up. We had to leave the house by 5:45 to go to the hospital for Stewart's surgery. I was pretty tired. I got in my car, Stewart had scraped all the ice off for me, he is so nice. I turned on my radio all that was on was dumb commercials and morning shows that I really didn't want to listen to. So I went to put my ipod on and my ipod tuner was gone. I let my dad drive my car yesterday so I figured that maybe my ipod tuner was in his way so he moved it. I didn't worry about it to much.
I got to the hospital and sat with Ciera and Stewart's parents while Stewart was in surgery. If you want more information on the surgery you can check out Ciera's blog which is http://stewartandciera.blogspot.com
I had to leave at 12:30 to be back in Price for my 2:30 class. I knew that I needed to find my ipod tuner because it is the only way for me to listen to music through the canyon. I looked in the backseat and it wasn't there. So I called my dad and asked him about it and he said that it had been in the car when he drove it. So then I checked the spot that I keep my ipod and guess what. Yep, it was gone. So my only guess is that my dad accidentally left my car unlocked and someone stole my ipod and tuner!!! So I had to make the long drive through the canyon in silence.
I was really upset at first but now I am just grateful that they didn't take my GPS or my car, so I guess I should focus on the positive and count my blessings. I can easily replace an ipod and tuner. In fact, Dustin and Kerri are the best! Dustin called and told me that they have an ipod I can have. So all I need to do is get myself a new tuner and put songs on my new ipod.
I have decided that I hope that the person that stole my ipod is really poor and has desired to have an ipod for a long, long time. Hopefully it made their day. That is all I have to say about that.
So this was not my best weekend at home and discovering the loss of my ipod made it even worse. I called my mom and just started crying! I felt like such a baby! I was crying over a stupid ipod. I am sure that it must have been a lack of sleep and other things on my mind but regardless, I was crying. I don't like crying so I was pretty grateful that I had an hour and a half drive ahead of me to regain my composer. The entire drive I was feeling sorry for myself, how terrible is that?
When I arrived in Price my brother called me and comforted me, my sister text me and comforted me. My sister who is 7 months pregnant and having a very difficult pregnancy and on top of that she was sitting at the hospital with her husband who had just gotten out of surgery was worried about me and my petty problems. My mom called and talked to me as well and then my dad text me. Then I felt guilty. I have so many blessings in my life. My family is so good to me and I am so lucky to have them. I felt so ashamed for being so selfish and focusing on myself. I went to my class and to my student government meetings and came back to my apartment. I was greeted by my amazing roommate. She gave me a hug and listened to me laugh and cry about my day. Once again I realized how blessed I am. I have so many amazing people in my life. So once again I am crying, but this time it is different. This time I don't feel bad about it because I am crying because of all the blessings in my life. Tonight I am definitely going to have a long list to thank Heavenly Father for.
I just want to thank all of my friends and family for being so great to me and helping me so much. I hope that I can some way repay you all. :) I love you all a lot!

WAY Long Post!

2010-02-17T17:42:00.011-07:00

Sometimes I get really bored in Price and I pretty much live for the weekends. I decided that this isn't such a great thing and that I needed to find a way to enjoy the weekdays. Then I came up with the idea of "Epic Wednesday!" Basically Emilee, Ashlie and I are going to do something out of the ordinary every Wednesday to spice up our week.
Our first Epic Wednesday was on February 10th. Ashlie's birthday was on the 8th and she had a cake that she wanted to eat. :) We decided this would be an excellent way to start Epic Wednesday. The only problem was we didn't have any matches or a lighter to light the candles. But then we had a brilliant idea....
I used the stove! :)Tada! :)
Our next activity was facial masks!
It was a lot of fun and made the week so much better.
I left Price on Thursday. Ashlie and I rode home together. We stopped at the South Towne Mall on the way home! It was awesome! :) Have I ever mentioned how much I love shopping? When I got home I was able to just relax for a little bit and just hang out with my family. Tyson had a church ball game so I went with my parents to that! Oh my goodness. It was probably the best game I have ever watched! I am not a sports person and I could really careless about them but I love to go and watch Tyson just to support him but I can honestly say that I enjoyed this game. The boys in our ward do not know how to play at ALL! Pretty much I think that I could play better than most of them and I am not a baller. Then to my excitement Ciera and Stewart came to spend the night at my parents house! That was really cool because I don't get to see them very often. We were at home and I was hungry so Ciera and I went to KFC to get some food. We ordered and they told us it was going to take a while and asked us to pull up front. Long story short, they didn't have what we ordered so they asked if they could give us something else. Of course we agreed. The guy brought our food out, gave us an entire package of biscuits and gave our money back and then he apologized! :) It was pretty sweet!
On Friday Morning I went with my mom and Ciera to get pedicures! It was so relaxing. When we got home Baylee, Matt's sister in law, came over and we made a baby blanket. I love sewing! Friday night I went with Matt and the band to get band pictures taken. I always feel bad because I feel like I am imposing on their band time but they are always so nice to include me in things. :) They are some of the funniest boys I know! It was a very fun night.
Saturday was a hectic day but still good! I judged a debate tournament in the morning. It was a lot of fun. I miss debate so much! It was really nice to talk to my old teammates and my old coach. After the tournament I went straight to my friend's bridal shower! She is marrying my sister in law's brother so the shower was at my brother's house. It was a really nice shower and I was excited that I was able to go to it.
Saturday night was the night that I was most excited for. Aubre and I had been planning to have a Valentine's dinner for Nick and Matt. So I got home and began setting up for it. Aubre came to my house and my mom, Aubre and I decorated the basement. She is sending me pictures of it and I will post them as soon as I get them. :)I think this picture is really funny. Aubre is so much taller than me that she had to bend down.

Matt was so cute and brought me flowers. :)
We had heart shaped pizza for dinner and then we watched a video that I made of Double or Nothing. Then we watched Little Rascals. I just love that movie! It was a really good night and I was so grateful to be able to spend it with Matt.
On Sunday I went to church and slept a lot! I was pretty lazy. On Monday Matt came over and played games with my family. Then I traveled back to Price. So far it has been a pretty good week. Tonight is Epic Wednesday so we will see what crazy activity we do tonight! :)

Homecoming Week!

2010-02-06T15:32:00.009-07:00

This week was Homecoming Week! We had different dress up days and since I am in Student Government I definitely had to participate! So here are the ridiculous outfits I wore this week! :)This is my Student Government Vest. It is HUGE on me and I HATE wearing it but sometimes you have to do things you don't like!Monday was Hawaiian Day. So I wore a Hawaiian shirt and that night we had a Pizza Party at the wave pool! :) Nothing beats free food and swimming.It was also Heath and Safety week so on top of all of the other crazy things we needed to wear we had to wear this hideous construction vest and if people questioned us we had to give them a random heath or safety fact.We also had DI day, basically our excuse to dress up as ridiculously as possible. I love dressing crazy!This is my roommate Emilee, our neighbor and friend Ashlie and me! We just had a lot of fun taking pictures!I think it is pretty funny because I have been living in Price with my roommates since August and they just barely found out that I am supposed to wear glasses! So this is me in my glasses that I pretty much never wear.

This has been a really fun and eventful week. This is the first weekend that I have stayed in Price this semester, it is kind of a bummer that I wasn't able to go home but it is okay! Tonight I am going on a "date" with Emilee! We are going to go and see the school musical 1776. I am excited! It should be a blast. Oh, and just an added thing, I'm a bit annoyed because the videos I posted of Hayden aren't working! Hopefully they start working! If not I am sorry that you can't see them because they are super cute! :)

My Nephew

2010-02-02T20:42:00.002-07:00

Today I was on the phone with my mom and she was babysitting Hayden. He kept reaching for the phone so she let him talk to me. He was so funny. He was very chatty and so funny!
I thought that it would be fun for me to put some videos of him up here just so everyone can see how much fun he is! They are just from a cell phone so I am not quite sure how well they will work out!

He is trying to say my name! :) He is so smart and cute!

Ciera and I have been working with him and teaching him a little bit of sign language. He is so smart and remembers all these signs and does them when he wants something! :) It is adorable.

Another Weekend!

2010-02-01T12:01:00.003-07:00

This weekend I went home (again). Matt and I were planning on meeting up in Provo on Friday to go on a date. But on Thursday night my old debate coach called and asked if I could judge at the tournament they were going to on Saturday. I wasn't sure if I would be able to because of work but I was able to get my shift covered. :) So I made the trip home!

Friday night my mom made lasagna, my favorite! Matt and I ate with them and then my parents went to a movie. Tyson, Matt and I all stayed home. We played aggravation, which I lost big time. Then we had a dance party in my parents living room. I am just going to be honest, Tyson and Matt dancing around is pretty much the funniest thing ever! :) I love having a boyfriend that gets along with my brother and will be completely crazy! :) Tyson really likes Matt so that means a lot to me.

After our epic dance party we sat in Matt's car and listened to some music. I'm sure if people drove by they probably thought we were up to no good. :) But we were really just sitting in the car jammin to some music. Then we decided to relax and watch a movie. We watched Music and Lyrics.

On Saturday I went to Logan High to judge for Debate! I have missed debate so much! My coach suprised me with a Dr. Pepper, it was delish! :) A lot of people think that judging debate is boring but oh man! I loved it. I thought it was so much fun to be the one judging and getting to give my opinion. It was also really good to see all of my old friends. I wish that CEU had a debate team still :( While I was in Logan I was able to see my sister and her husband and my cute little nephew! :) I have missed them a lot too.

My brother Dustin and his wife were at my house when I got home. They have a cute little girl and I just love her. :) It was really good to see them.

This is my adorable neice. I made her that blanket for Christmas. :)

Matt's mom was playing in a concert so we went to that. :) On the way there we almost hit a deer! It just came out of no where! But luckily for us it stopped just in time. The concert was really good and I could definately see where Matt gets his talent. :) Matt and I then went to his friend's house. I love that he takes me with him and includes me in things that are going on in his life. He is a really good guy and I am so lucky that he wants to date me!

On Sunday I went to church at my parent's ward. I guess you know that you are at home a lot when people come up and ask if you moved back! And when your college ward thinks you have gone inactive... oops! After church I came back to Price. It was kind of good to be back. Emilee and I had some fun times chilling on the couch just talking. I love that girl! :)

And now I am back to going to classes and the normal routine! :) This week is homecoming week so it should be a lot of fun! :) Today is Hawaiian day. So I am wearing a super stylish hawaiian shirt. :) Tonight we are going swimming at the Wave Pool. That should be fun. :)

So a few posts ago I wrote that I was planning on going to UVU... well now I am not completely sure. I applied to go there and everything and it is definately an option but I wasnt completely impressed with them. I emailed the communication department head and I asked for information about their program and they never responded. That wasn't very impressive to me. I am now considering going to Weber... I never thought that I would say that. But it has a lot of benefits! If I went to Weber I could move back home, so that is free room and food. I could still keep my job, I would just have to work longer hours less days, and I could help with Debate more. The tuition is a little bit more there but I would still be saving money. I guess I just need to keep my options open and see where life takes me! :)

Pictures!

2010-01-24T19:25:00.004-07:00

This is Katie and I right before we went to the John Lefler concert! :) (Take note, I'm wearing my super cute red boots!)

These are my boots. :) I simply love them.

Spontaneous Adventures! :)

2010-01-24T14:16:00.002-07:00

Yesterday I came home from work and I was just sitting on the bean bag, talking to my roommates and playing on facebook. My dad signed onto facebook so I started talking to him. I asked what their plans for the day was. He told me that they were going shopping in Sandy and asked what I was up to. I told him that I was really bored and that I didn't really have anything going on. He told me that the canyon looked fine and if I wanted to meet them there I could. So I immediately jumped on the offer. I went to my room packed a bag and left my cute little apartment within five minutes.
I told my friend Aubre that I was going to be going up North and we made plans for me to sleep over at her house in Provo. We were going to get dinner and just have a fun girls night. :)
By the time I got to Sandy my family was done shopping. (Lame, right?) But my brother still wanted to hang out with me. So Ty and I went shopping at South Town! :) And for once, I didn't buy anything. It was good hanging out with my brother again. We don't get to spend much time with just the two of us. Aubre met up with me in Sandy and since I had Tyson we decided to just go spend the night at my parents house! :)
I didn't think I would see Matt because he was really busy and had a ton of stuff he needed to do. But I was really excited because he was able to finish up his stuff and him and his friend Nick came over. :) They gave my parents, Ty, Aubre and me our own little concert. It was freaking amazing. They are so talented and I love listening to them. We then went downstairs and watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. It was a great night. :)
I had a great weekend and I'm glad that I decided to be spontaneous! :) It was definately worth it.

Random Stories.

2010-01-21T09:25:00.003-07:00

I am pretty much known for having dumb blonde moments and I really don't mind. But I always find it very entertaining when someone else does something that is stupid. Here are a couple stories that made me laugh.
The other day I walked into my apartment and one of my roommates was putting away some of the dishes. This roommate likes to talk to herself and I always find it hilarious to listen to what she says. Well this time I just glanced at her and walked past to go to my room and get my stuff for work. I walked out of my room and she was standing in front of the sink looking really confused then I heard her say, "what the heck is this?" She was holding a plate. haha
Yesterday another funny thing happened. I was sitting on the couch just on facebook, being lazy, like always. Emilee was getting ready for the day. She turned her blow dryer on and then turned it off, she told me that she thought it sounded weird. Then she turned it back on to continue doing her hair. But right when she turned it on the fire alarm went off! Emilee turned the blow dryer off and walked down the hall, she was wide eyed and said, "that wasn't me!"

This week has been insane!!! It has been snowing EVERY day! I am definately ready for summer! I also went and talked to my advisor about graduating this summer. I am right on track! I am way excited. I am definately going to be sad to leave Price. But it will be really nice to be closer to home and more importantly, closer to being done with my education! Well that is about all that has been going on with me. Thanks for reading! :)

Perfect Weekend!

2010-01-18T23:28:00.003-07:00

I went home this weekend and it was awesome!!! :)
On Friday night I went with Matt to a concert he was playing at. He was playing with a band called J.Wride. He did absolutely amazing, as always! :) It always amazes me how talented he is. :) Jamin and her friend Carson came with us. It was a lot of fun. :)
On Saturday I went shopping with my mom. It was so much fun. I have been wanting red boots for months, well actually more like years, and I finally found some!! :) They are way cute. Then I was able to hang out with my friend Katie. I hadn't seen her since graduation! That was a lot of fun. That night Matt and I went on a group date. :) we set some of his friends up with some of my friends. We went and saw John Lefler, he is the guitarist from Dashboard! He was playing at this place in Ogden called The Basement! He did amazing. It was such a fun night.
On Sunday I went to church, Tyson spoke in sacrament! He did really good. He talked about how close him and I are, he said that I let him hang out with me even when I have dates over, I never realized that something that is so little to me is such a big deal to him. My mom and I left church after sacrament meeting because we both had headaches. We took medicine and then we had our own relief society together. It was pretty nice. Dustin and Kerri came over for a birthday dinner for my dad. We had kabobs for dinner! It was great, one of my favorite meals! We played Cranium (my team won, by the way!) and Matt came over. :) I was a bit nervous because he had to meet Dustin but it went pretty well. Then I went with Matt to his ward ysa fhe. It was a lot of fun and his ward was very welcoming! After that Matt and I watched Jimmy Neutron. Haha It totally took me back to when I was younger.
Today I went with Matt and his family to the Car Show. It was a lot of fun. :) We got to see the hottest Ford truck! We also went to dinner with his family. I always like being with Matt and his family. They are a lot of fun.
I had to drive home. It was pretty good until it started snowing! Then it was really scary! But I was able to make it home safely! This week I have classes and work and it is back to the normal schedule. And that is about all that is going on in my life. :)

My life!

2010-01-13T21:36:00.002-07:00

So I am terrible at writing on this blog! In fact, I would not be writing right now... but Ciera wants me to! So this is just for you, Yert. :)

My life has changed a TON since I wrote last.
I am now in the second semester of College! :) It makes me really excited. I am actually graduating from CEU this summer. Then I am planning on going to UVU in the fall. I still have to go and check the school out to find out if that is where I want to go for sure. But for now that is my plans!
I think the reason I have such a hard time writing on here is I never know what the heck to write! But I guess I will just tell you all the most recent events in my life.
I went home for the Christmas Break, and at the beginning of the break I wasn't sure I liked being at home again. I wasn't really used to the rules and not being on my own. But by the end of the break I did not want to go back home at all!
During the break I spent a lot of time with my mom! We went shopping a lot (which I can't do in Price). I really liked that!
I also got really into Christmas this year! I spent WAY too much money but I had so much fun buying my family presents! My favorite part of Christmas was getting to see my family and how happy everyone was. It was probably my favorite Christmas ever.
Another big change in my life is... I now have a boyfriend!
His name is Matt. We met at a concert. The concert started and the opening band was called Double or Nothing. They had an electric violinist and I thought he was so cute! So I told Jamin that we had to go and talk to him. We did and ended up hanging out with him that night. We gave him our numbers and him and I began texting. A few days later we went sledding and then everyday after we hung out until I had to come back to Price. We then decided that we only wanted to date each other! :) So that is the story of how Matt and I got together.
That is really all that is going on in my life! I'm sorry it has taken so long for me to write! I will try do better! :)

LONG Night!

2009-10-28T13:47:00.003-07:00

So I've had this assignment in English for a few weeks. It was a documentation assignment. It looked SOO easy! So what did I do. That is correct. I procrastinated. So yesterday was Tuesday, one of my busiest days of the week. First I was on the radio at 7:30 in the morning. Then I had an office hour in the Student Government room. Then I had my prehistoric life. At one I had work. I got off work came home got all dressed up in my top-secret costume with Jamin and Lacey. Our costume is pretty much amazing! Even though we look like creepers. I still cant put what it is because we have a Halloween Party to go to on Saturday, and certain people cant know what it is yet! ;) Which I am very excited about! :) Anyway- then we went to the party, and guess what! People didn't know what we were! It really isn't that hard, it is just creative, come on people, you just have to think about it! :)
The party was really funny though, there was a mini spook ally and I sat in the corner and no one could see me and as they would pass I would blow the air horn. I ended up leaving the party early because I knew that I had my documentation assignment.
So I went home and sat down to work on it. I was wrong! It was a lot harder than I expected!! Then Ashree came over so we could work on it together, and then Patrick came over as well. We didn't finish the assignment until after two in the morning!! It was ridiculous! I guess I learned not to procrastinate anymore!!
At three I finally decided to go to bed. So I walk into Jamin's room and she is on the bed. She is asleep, and I mean fast asleep! But the funny part of it is that she was partially sitting up, and she had her laptop open on top of her, and her cellphone. I guess she fell asleep doing her RA stuff. So I walked over and lifted her laptop off her, she didn't move! Then I moved her cellphone onto her desk because I know that she wakes up better when it is there. Then I turned off the lamp and walked out of the room for a minute. Then I came back in and got in bed, 5 minutes later she moved! It made me laugh. I kinda felt like her mom! :) Just takin care of my cute little Jamin! :) And Jamin--I love you more! haha I so win! :) And just so you know, you are totally my favorite! :)
So, I am just going to let you know! I have been extremely happy this week! I have been very giggly and just happy! It is so much fun! :) I love being happy!! :) And now it is one more day closer to Saturday! :) Yay for Halloween!! :)
I think I am going to make cupcakes tonight. :) Or tomorrow. Sometime before Halloween! :)

Busy Week!

2009-10-27T09:05:00.002-07:00

Wow. So life seems to move pretty fast! I feel like I just wrote, but its been quite sometime.
So last weekend was a lot of fun! Jamin (my roommate! <3 ) has been wanting to set me up with her cousin. She was going home for the weekend and got asked on a date, so she asked me to come with her and go on a double date with her cousin, Alex. I was kinda nervous because sometimes it gets awkward going on a date with someone you dont know. But my blind date ended up being a lot of fun! And I actually ate mexican food, anyone that knows me well, knows that I am a picky eater, and that I really don't like mexican food. But I did eat it. And, I'll be honest, it wasn't that bad. I'm beginning to think I need to try more foods, because I think I dont like things because I haven't had them in a long time. But anyways, so I ordered the small combination, but the waiter brought me a large combination-I guess I looked really hungry or something. So I had a lot of leftovers! Jamin hadn't eaten very much of hers either, so we put all of the left overs in to-go boxes and left. We were in the car waiting to get on the freeway and saw a homeless guy, so Ryan, Jamin's date, rolled down the window and gave him our leftover food! (Ciera, it reminded me of when we gave our leftover McDonald's food to that homeless guy and got a front parking spot at the mall!) Then we played guitar hero and watched a movie. It was a really good night.
On Sunday Jamin and I came back to Price, it was a really good ride! :) I love Jamin! We talked the entire way home, without any silences! It was pretty much amazing!
This week is kind of crazy. I have a lot of stuff I need to do. But tonight is the AJ/Sessions Halloween Party. So that will be a lot of fun! And I get to wear my top-secret costume!
And I can't wait for Halloween! Jamin, Lacey and I are going to a party in Draper. And on the way there we are hopefully going to stop at my brother and sister-in-law's house so I can see my cute little niece and my parents.
Well that is about all that is going on in my life! :)

Lite Brite and Other Fun Stuff

2009-10-11T21:08:00.011-07:00

So I haven't wrote in a while, but life is going good! :)

I have the funnest roommates! I love them! We are just all soo crazy! I went home for the weekend and my mom gave me a bunch of her old Halloween lights things she didn't want. So Jamin and I took advantage of that!

This is us wearing our super cool masks!

This is our door we decorated! I think it is really creepy because its room 31... and 31 is just a creepy number!

For student government we did an activity instead of our normal Monday meeting. Which was awesome! It was definately a nice change! Our activity was ice cream sculpting.

It was a lot of fun! My group was Willy, Cami, and me. I was team captain, a first for me! haha We decided that we wanted to make a person head, as we continued we decided to make him into Todd Olson, our advisor.

This is our finished result! We thought it was pretty good!

This is Willy, Cami, and Me!

With our sculpture!

It was a ton of fun!

We also had Lite Brite! We were told to wear something that we could just throw away. So we decided to go to DI and buy some white clothes to wear. But when we got there we just had WAY too much fun and decided that we were going to have to be a bit more crazy than that!

Jamin rockin in her towel jumpsuit! Devin lovin his mom, in his pink fuzzy pants and suit jacket, and me lookin like I'm from the 80's! It was so much fun!

I have pictures from after the dance but I'll have to post them later!

September 30th

2009-09-30T13:26:00.000-07:00

So I never really thought that I had a reason to have a blog because I use facebook so much. But I realized that I have lots of stories that I cant really put on facebook and that I could put them on a blog. So I am starting a blog!

I have been living in Price for almost two months! It is pretty crazy! I love it here though. I am taking a lot of general classes and a radio class. Sometimes the actual class is really boring but its cool because I talk on the school radio for three hours every week, every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 7:30 until 9:00. If you would like to listen to me you can online at http://theedge.ceu.edu/

I love my roommates! We have a lot of fun just hanging out. :) One of our favorite things to do is watch Friends. It is so much fun!

I have made a lot of friends here in Price and had many fun and crazy experiences. I think one of the craziest would have to be almost catching Devin and Henry's apartment on FIRE!!!
Here is the story!
On Monday my roommates Jamin, Emilee and I went to see the school play. Some of our friends are in it and after the show we decided we wanted to make pizza and celebrate. The guys had to get pictures takin and so Jamin, Emilee and I went to Smith's and bought some frozen pizzas. When we came home we put one pizza in our oven and realized it was going to take a long time to cook our pizzas. So we had a genius idea to ask our friends if we could bake a pizza in their room while we waited. They thought it was a good idea too. Jamin and I went to their room turned the oven on and put our pizza in. Then we came back up to our room and took the first pizza out. We went back down the their room, opened the door and it was filled with smoke! We freaked out because we didn't know why it was all smokey! We opened the oven and the pizza was fine, so we took it out, turned off the oven and, opened the window and turned on the fan. Then we noticed that a bag of fruit loops on top of the stove was smoking. I guess their stove had a vent on top and so the hot air came up and melted the bag of fruit loops and was burning them! We moved the bag but since it had a hole burnt in it fruit loops spilled everywhere! So we had to go get a vacuum and vacuum off the stove! It was so funny! Needless to say, we left their room smokin! :P