I love snow

The first week of break I swear I slept all day and ate all the candy that was available. I did go and make some apple cider with family on Christmas Eve, though.  There is nothing like a cup of homemade cider.  Marissa has been trying to get me to go sledding this whole break but we didn't want to go pack the snow down.  We ended up going sledding with Megan, Travis and their family up in an orchard on the way up to Echo.  It was tons of fun and entertaining to see people flip and run into snow.

  Nick and I went snowmobiling up at Echo Valley with Michelli and Mitch. It is so pretty up there. Even though I am incredibly sore from holding on for 3 1/2 hours, it was worth it. 

This morning my dad took Rissa, Nick, Katie Barnes and I up to Top Shelf to shoot, one of my favorite things to do when I come home.  I have been wanting to shoot a big gun and finally got to. :)

After taking a three hour nap, Nick, Marissa and I went sledding with Brian and Kyle to the same place we went with Megan.  We didn't get to go very long because it was getting dark and the boys were wusses and got head aches.

Christmas!

Rather than rambling about how the last two days went I will be lazy and just name off a few highlights:

1. Getting posters of "hunks" (marissa and I asked for posters of hot men for out apartment at school... mom had a different idea of hunks than we did. Check it out here: Mom's blog

2. Listening to a recording of my Grandpa Myron read "The Night Before Christmas"

3. I love how crowded our house gets when tons of family members are in town for Christmas and we try to make room for 60 people for dinner

4. My mom's face when I mentioned I asked for a rice cooker for Christmas and she had no idea what I was talking about. (She read the wrong email or didn't read the email at all... or something like that)

5. ...it's okay though, I still got my NorthFace jacket that I have been wanting

6. Going sledding with some cousins down a sweet hill and watching everyone else flip over or crash. and not having to walk back up because Miguel was nice enough to drive us up after we sledded down.

7. Having my little cousin yell, "Don't hold me! I'm poopy!!" when I tried hurrying him up because his family was trying leave.

8. Watching that same cousin eat dinner, two ice cream bars, an OtterPop, a waffle bowl with ice cream, and still want more. He is a beast.

and...

9. Watching my mom's face when she opened her new ring from my dad.

Chubby Cuppy Cake

One of my friends posted this on my Facebook wall. It made my day so i thought i would share it with you. Hope it made your day like it made mine. :)

home. about time.

After countless hours of anatomy studying, playing volleyball every chance we got, watching movies like crazy (and hoping the "owner" of our projector forgets it when she gets married), having rissa move in, finding a dress for my sister's wedding, finding out that I wasn't getting a calling because my records never made it to my ward (I just thought I was lucking out... but at the same time i kinda was) and peanut butter&honey sandwiches every day to keep me going.... the semester is finally over. 

I am back to where I can eat whatever I want in the fridge and cupboards (well... almost.), having tvs!, soft toilet paper and not the cheap brand that scratches, NO TRAFFIC, my mommy playing with my hair, and not having to care what I look like when I leave the house... 

It's good to be home.

I still don't have all the classes I need for next semester, so I am hoping I can figure it out by the 4th of jan! but, i am going to get all I can out of this break. 

it's beginning to look a lot like CHRISTMAS!

Well, I lasted the rest of the break and this past week. I had four tests and an assignment due (which I forgot about, thankfully the teacher came to class prepared to extend it. She knows college students way too well). Did really well on all of them! This semester is looking soo much better than last year. Anatomy lab is over. Which means no more looking at dead bodies and trying to figure out what organ is which or trying to figure out if the structure is a vein, artery or nerve. the final wasn't too brutal but a couple pins were extremely "I have no flipping idea." but I guess that's the case for most finals. I have a week to prepare for my other finals and then I am done for this semester! I can't wait.

I got my dress for Lindsea's wedding. :) and marissa and I got sweeeet heels to match. I can't wait, even though we may not have toes by the end of the day and my ankles might double in size.

Okay.. onto the good stuff. My apartment wanted a tree. A real one. One that we could smell every time we opened the door. We decided to ask Chris for help since he has a truck. I don't think he understood what he got himself into....

Marissa and I picking out a christmas tree, you can imagine. But he was a good sport.

After going to three stores we finally found some cute ornaments and a tree stand, headed back to the apartment and found a perfect spot for it. It took us a bit but we finally got the tree up... crooked. At that point we didn't care. ha (Marissa did fix it yesterday, though. I'm sure she would want all of you to know). Here is our tree :) :

the break

soo we got kicked out of the RB on tuesday due to an "intense" blizzard that never hit provo. they also closed it for wednesday which screwed up more plans that we had. oh well. we found other things to do. 

this break has probably been the laziest break I have ever had. we did go to the BYU basketball game, found bridesmaid dresses ( :D ), successfully made a thanksgiving dinner for 8 college students, listened to the BYU basketball game and today we are going to watch the BYU football game. That's plenty of "productive" things to make up for our daily 3 hour naps and the 6+ movies we may have watched, right? 

OH but I finally made it to the gym. even though it just pointed out how out of shape and weak I am now, it felt so good to go again. I haven't had time this semester because our schedules are so messed up and if I play volleyball we don't go (which is like 5 times a week) so I am trying to do better. If marissa ever wakes up we are planning on going again today. hopefully. :) 

here is the whole group (minus Nick because he was sleeping) that joined us for thanksgiving. :)

As much as i love the life of sleeping/eating/sleeping/watching movies all day, I can't wait to start  my finals so I can be done to go home!!! 

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.