Updates!

Well it's been a few weeks since my last update, so here's your long update from the past few weeks!

Last weekend was Preference week for BYU and also for our ward. So, on Saturday, my apartment took dates to the Peter Pan dance at Noah's. I asked Ben, my 'son' in my FHE group. We started our night out by making homeade pizza. All from scratch.

Trisha and I went to the grocery store to get all the supplies for nine pizzas. Can I tell you how stressful it is to buy that much food? Good thing Trish is always so calm. She's great!

Once we got everything we came back and started making the dough, while our other roommates started cutting vegetables and shredding cheese. Once that was all done, we made the sauce and hurried super fast to get our simple costumes on.

We went and got our dates and started making the pizzas! Each couple made their own pizza and it was super fun! Here's a few pictures of my date and me. My roommate has all the group ones

So fun! 

After that, we headed to the dance at Noah's in Lindon. I was a little nervous that it would be all freshman and there wouldn't be very many people there but I was surprised at how many people were there and how many were dressed up. It was so fun! You all know how much I love dances, and our whole group knows how to have fun, so we all had a blast! 

After the dance, we came back and had a pazookie (spread cookie dough all across a cookie sheet, cook it for a little bit, and then spread ice cream on it). Delicious! Great night!

And now, I am in Vegas for the three-day weekend! I've been dying to get out of Provo and just go somewhere. I couldn't convince all my roommates, so when I got invited to go with some friends in my ward, I decided to go with them. What do I have to lose?! 

Yesterday we went and walked around the temple grounds, went to an amazing buffet, and then spent a good seven hours on the strip. We got to see all the cool sights! Bellagio, Ceasar's Palace, Luxor, M&M World, all that good stuff. I even tried Coca-Cola for the first time in my life from all across the world. If you ever do this, the one from Italy is NASTY! It has the worst after taste in the world. Some of the other ones were really good though. 

Jocelyn and I

This is the Cola-Cola testing - 16 different flavors

Fun times!!

February?!

Is anyone else with me in wondering how February is already here?

I swear we were celebrating the new year just last week.

And now, we're already a month into the winter semester.

Speaking of, I just have to say that my semester is fabulous!

My other three semesters have been filled with time-consuming classes.

Not this one!

It's great to come home at 6:00 and be done with homework for the night.

Yes, I know I am lucky, but don't be too jealous. 

Next year will make up for it when I start the accounting jr. core and have no life.

Can't wait.

Not much else is new though.

My sister, Jennifer, went to her first high school dance about a week and a half ago.

She looked gorgeous and she had a fabulous time.

It made me miss good 'ole high school dances and having a good excuse to dress up!

I also just have to go on a quick little tangent about my great FHE family . . .

My calling in our BYU ward is FHE mom; I think it was because I wasn't a very regular FHE attender during my freshman year. But no matter why, that's my calling.

Last semester, my 'husband' was kinda burnt out of being an FHE dad which meant I did a lot of the work. I felt like I was always planning and conducting, and things were not organized at all. If you know me, you'll know that that equals a lot of stress in my life.

Anyway, the point of this is that our ward reassigned FHE groups at the semester.

And I absolutely love my new group.

My new 'husband' is organized - we have the whole semester planned out - and he was even early to our first FHE to make sure we had everything ready to go.

He's on top of everything and makes my calling ten times easier, and twenty times more enjoyable.

Besides that, we also have a great new apartment of brothers.

They are all tons of fun. No matter what activity we do, I know we'll always have a blast. 

I always heard about people who had the best FHE families in the world, and I was always jealous of them.

But now, I can say that I truly do have the best FHE group ever!

(My 'husband' and some of my 'sons' just happen to be in that basketball picture of my last post in case you were curious)

Yay for Monday nights!