woo party!

Marissa stole some pictures of mine so HERE is her blog you can check out some pictures and here are some others that weren't good enough for her precious blog. :)

okay, i know there are some doubles but i liked them so I couldn't pass em up. It was such a sweet party.

seeing mom made my weekend. I have missed her so much!!!! she helped us buy stuff for our thanksgiving dinner. oh how i love her.

Marissa and I are getting everything ready for our college thanksgiving. Selene is bringing over some mexican good, YUM! we have two pumpkin pies in the oven and they smell excellent.
I made another attempt at homemade tortillas. ya... selene is going to have to teach me in person instead of over the phone tomorrow. I am horrible at it!! oh well. time for bed so I can wake up to set the rolls out. :)

four things to make this week awesome.

I got a new volleyball. It made my day/week. It is a Molten L2 black and white. I love it and I cannot wait to use it!!!

I was going to my advisor today to talk to him about minors. I had a feeling I needed to get one. I found out that I had to get an approved teaching minor. Good thing I went in! I called dad after talking to my advisor for 45 minutes looking over minors. Being indecisive it took me a while to narrow it down to three different minors: PE teaching & coaching, Chemistry Ed and Geography teaching.  As I was talking to my dad he asked me why I would ever take more chem than I have to, knowing how much I hate science. I ran into Nick while I was on the phone and he wanted to know why I would take geography. I said it's a short minor and I would only decide to have it as my minor because I HAD to have one... Both dad and nick wanted to know why I would choose these two minors over PE & coaching. They both knew I would enjoy it more than the other two. I guess I am just happy that my family members know me better than I know myself and try to help me make my life less stressful, which obviously I am horrible at because I almost chose to go into chem ed over pe and coaching....

Joel is bringing us apples. WOO!! I have been craving Washington apples for way too long. :D

MY MOMMY IS COMING THIS WEEKEND!!! I have kinda been getting homesick and lots of people have had family come into town or got to go home. It has made me want to see my parents sooo bad. I cannot wait to see my mom!

Nate and TJ's Homecoming!

You're really good at that.

This weekend we went to St. George. A much needed trip.

We left early Saturday morning. Everyone else left Friday but we didn't want to miss the basketball home opener and we had a game/movie night planned with some friends. 

We finally made it to St. George after 3.5 hours, a creepy guy trying to sell us tires, an amazing Subway, a gas station with a pretty impressed deer on the wall, guys with inappropriate signs and lot of good ol country music. 

When we got there we decided to play some volleyball (of course) while everyone else went to get some lunch.  After a couple hours of outdoor volleyball (which was a bad idea playing with only having a couple hours of sleep the night before) we decided to hit up the pool. We played ultimate football (a  mix of ultimate frisbee and football) in the pool. Probably the funnest game I have ever played. Our team rocked and we had only two guys (the other team at four) and they also had two extra people on their team. We won, obviously, even if guys had to guard Marissa and I. We then decided to hit up a Mexican restaurant in town (after having 15+ people take showers). It was around seven when we left to eat (keep in mind that we hadn't eaten since 12 maybe? We got the restaurant and all I wanted was chips and salsa. I was super sad when I saw that extra orders for them were 6 bucks. What the heck? So i tried to make the most of the little baskets we had. But guess what??? We got more. Thank goodness because I probably had about three baskets to myself and the burrito I got wasn't very good. I swear I could live off chips and salsa.

We went back to the condo (which by the way, we didn't know but a guy that served in our ward awhile ago, Elder Burton, was the brother of who "invited" everyone for the weekend. Weird? ya...) and played murder in the dark. I was voted as a killer right away since I was found right by three dead bodies when the lights turned on. I was actually just hiding because I didn't want to walk in the dark because I was too scared and felt someone fall next to me. That round sucked for sure. It was an awesome game though. we watched Vantage Point after which I think everyone fell asleep to. 

we woke up for church (where a bishop bribed us with chocolate to transfer into his ward) this morning but of course, we were late so waited until the one pm church then headed, sadly, home. 

We did not want to come back to Provo AT ALL but absolutely loooved our mini vacation. 

eat cake

So, I think you all have been wondering how Marissa and I are doing being roommates. Well ya know, we have lived with each other our whole lives and have done pretty good. You would think we would get sick of each other. Marissa is definitely not at that point. We were taking naps and she insisted on putting her head on the other end of her bed just so she could see me. A little creepy maybe? Just maybe... 

Men's basketball has started. WOO!! I LOVE basketball.

 Marissa and I picked another favorite: Nick Martineau. Too bad he is MARRIED! 

He is one gorgeous basketball player though. 

Saturday morning was our 8:20 am volleyball game. The ref sucked and we could have won. I was not in the mood to argue, even though I wanted to more than anything. It was a close game though.

I had a basketball game at 10... only an hour for a "nap" that I didn't even fall asleep during. I was not in the mood to play and was hoping that no one would show since it was only my instructor and I with like 5 minutes until the game started. Too bad three others showed. We won. By a lot. It was nice to win one finally. it was the first game of the tournament so we are still in it! 

I had to rush home after my basketball to get ready for the football game. Which also went pretty dang awesome, too. I didn't think I would make it through the game standing the whole time since I was exhausted but thank goodness that we were so far ahead this game so I was able to sit down more. 

We went home and took naps. Massive naps. Definitely needed.

Marissa and I then went to the women's volleyball game, as you can see:

 Sorry, you have to tilt your head. They should have won in three. They won the first two pretty easily then went to 30-32 the third and lost the last two. Super lame.

We then went to a bonfire with a couple friends and saw even more friends there. It was awesome to see people that I haven't seen for a super long time.

Today was KC's birthday so we headed up to Sherry's for his party. We played RockBand, Disney and Simpson Scene It and some card games. Nick taught Ash how to do the match/hair trick.

Sherry made an awesome cake for KC. It was delicious.

He loved his Rosetta Stone Japanese from mom and dad. Marissa, Nick and I got him the movie How to Train Your Dragon, which we thought he would like.

It was a good weekend and break from school, now back to studying for my midterm.

Oh, and I am finally getting a calling. I am rooting for birthday greeter.

Hope you had a good birthday KC!!

Birthdays!

Tuesday was Aaron's (not my brother, one of our friends) birthday. When we asked him if he wanted to go get ice cream he said no. When we asked if we could make him a cake he said no. We told him that we were going to go over and bring him something anyway... He said we were welcome to stop by but we were not allowed to bring anything. Too bad. We decided to make him this: 

 Marissa wanted to be in the picture... surprised? 

Today is my roommate's birthday. We decided every girl loves getting flowers on her birthday so they were a must. I need to fix the K since she walked into my room when it was drying and I grabbed it... forgetting it was still wet. Whoops. 

Next birthday up is KC's on Sunday. 

We have a volleyball game Saturday morning at 8:20 am. I then have a basketball game at 10 then we have the football game at 12. Long day? Yes... And I know for a fact I will NOT be getting sleep tomorrow night. I just know I will have a nice long nap waiting for me after the football game.

Haunted Weekend

Friday started out with some volleyball. What better way to start a weekend? I met up with some friends and we played for a couple hours. We later went to a haunted house that Bronte was in. It was pretty scary. Marci and I made two guys laugh by screaming. Oh, and Bronte was probably the scariest. Especially when she popped up and started waving. Pretty scary if you ask me. :)

I went with Marissa, Marci, Stacey, Phillip and two guys that we met playing volleyball earlier that day. After this haunted house we went to a one dollar one that was in a house and put together by the college students that live there. It was pretty dang scary. Definitely worth a buck.

Saturday morning I lined judged a volleyball game and then Marissa and I were off to Rexburg to visit Kyle and Brian Richardson. One of my friends from last year is serving his mission Arimo so we decided to take a picture of the sign for him.

 It was a super small town but we still didn't see two guys on bikes.
We got to Rexburg just in time for Brian's baseball game where we met up with Kyle and one of his friends.  After his game we went to the Haunted Mill.  It was a pretty good haunted house. We then headed back to Kyle's to watch a movie and then play some Play Station.

Sunday morning we headed back to Utah to make it back in time for TJ's farewell talk. He gave an awesome talk, of course. Sherry had people over after sacrament and everything was delicious. Have fun TJ!

After four haunted houses, October is finally over and now it's time to plan Thanksgiving and turn on the Christmas music.

It's raining, it's pouring.

Well, I lasted the week. I finished the week off with my anatomy lab midterm which went really well. I had spent over 10 hours last week in open lab so I am happy it was worth it. When I was done we went up to Sandy and met up with TJ, KC and Joel to watch the movie RED. It was really good and funny.
Tuesday night I had a basketball game. I am SO out of shape. They didn't sub me out the entire first half and I was about to die/throw up. Really bad. We lost by 6 but the game went better than I thought it would. We played our first volleyball game Thursday. Our name is Beavis and Bump-Head. Fits our team pretty well huh? We lost. Really bad. I have played volleyball with half the team we played and I knew that they were really good. Hopefully we are better this Wednesday!
This weekend we watched The Return with some friends. Bronte's mom had sent her down Halloween cake mix and frosting. We made and finished it between the six of us. Sooo good. THANK YOU SHANNON!!! After the movie we had to watch a happy movie, of course. So we watched Nacho Libre since Marissa and I had never seen it all the way through. It was hilarious. ha Loved it.
Saturday morning we wen to the football. Nick had picked us up some panchos so we wouldn't get soaked. It was a good game. Besides the fact that we had the MOST annoying Wyoming fans behind us. We can never go anywhere without having annoying people around us. Oh well, I am just happy we won.  After the game the team walked around the field giving fans high fives. Nick was not going to miss the chance to touch his boyfriend, Jake Heaps.

We ended the week with church, 3 hour long naps, homemade ice cream (made by Marissa with her new ice cream maker) and studying for my Anatomy lecture quiz.

Bull Ridin'

Just to catch up a little... I went into basketball class Tuesday and my instructor let me know he added me to his basketball team. I didn't give him my netID. He was kinda desperate for players so looked it up and added me so if I did still wan to play I would be able to, since we had a game that night.  Too bad the only players that showed up were him and his wife. So, we had to forfeit. Next game is tomorrow night. We will see what happens.
Marissa, Nick and I are all on a volleyball team.  Team name: Volleywood. We should be awesome.
Friday night I had a sleep over at my old roommate's apartment (Kelly). She is an absolutely wonderful cook.  We had tons of fun catching up and spending some time together.
Saturday morning Marissa and I went to play volleyball with some friends and afterward went to the BYU women's volleyball game. We went two hours early just to get free pink shirts for breast cancer.
Sunday morning Chris and Aaron made us crepes for breakfast (thanks to Marissa posting her addiction of Nutella on her facebook). They were awesome. They made us try butter, powdered sugar and lemon juice. They said it was the classic crepe. I wasn't too excited about it because I have always have my usual strawberries/strawberry jam, whipped cream and powdered sugar. It was excellent though.
After church my home teachers came over and made us tacos for lunch. Super good! I was still full from the crepes.  Marissa usually makes crepes small and we both forgot that people make them big.  When we usually have four or five small crepes, we had 4 big ones. Pretty intense.  Before ward prayer I went with Shannon to her grandma's house for their Sunday dessert party.  She made this lemon cream cheese goodness. I will definitely be joining every Sunday from here on out.
Tonight for FHE we went to Thanksgiving Point to originally do the corn maze. The group I was with finished in about ten minutes. Way before anyone else. So, we decided to make our way to the mechanical bull. I have always wanted to try it. So I pulled out my 20 quarters and made my way up to the bull.  The guy was pretty easy on me at first but then decided I could take it. I really wish I would have worn jeans because the pants I was wearing were super slippery. I definitely want to try it again with my cowboy boots, jeans and be able to hold a cowgirl hat in my free hand.
I have three tests this week, a basketball game, volleyball game, line judging a volleyball game, the Haunted Forest and I have no idea what else. Wish me luck.

Times Like These

Last week in my anatomy lab we learned about the spinal cord and brain. For the past few weeks I was losing my interest in learning anatomy because it was just so much memorization and I could NOT retain anything...
In Friday's lab I was so tired from trying to memorize the lower muscles that I was no excited to try to learn about anything. We learned about the spinal cord first. It was pretty cool. But still, nothing that I didn't expect. When we went over to the other TA to learn about the brain I got so excited. Most of the brains in the lab are TA only, which means only TAs are allowed to hold them because they are recently dissected and new to the lab so all of us didn't expect to be able to touch or hold anything. There was a brain that was still in half a skull. It was freaking awesome! All I wanted to do was be able to hold it. I could barely pay attention while she was teaching about it. She was trying to lift up the cerebellum to teach us about the stuff beneath and more inferior. She couldn't hold the brain and lift the cerebellum at the same time. SO she asked if one of us would hold it for her. I have never been so willing to volunteer in a class more in my life. It was awesome.
I thought that was cool. I didn't know what today would bring in lecture.
My professor brought fetuses that were miscarried. I was really nervous at first because I didn't know what to expect. At first she showed us a brain that she had dissected but kept the eyes attached. It looked creepy was so cool. She then pulled out a fetus that was (she guessed) 11 weeks when the mother miscarried. She had made a cut so we could see the little organs inside. She then pulled out a fetus that was really hard for me to see and hold. It was a fetus that had Spina Bifida and also Anencephaly. We were also able to hold conjoined twins that shared a liver. It was definitely a once in a lifetime experience.  Times like this in anatomy make me love the class even more. I know that a lot of other schools don't get the chance to study off cadavers or be lucky enough to have a professor that provides an experience like this for her students. Even though this class consumes most of my study time, is one of the most difficult classes I have taken and seems to be impossible to pass sometimes, it is totally worth it.