LIFE UPDATES

My little sister has been reminding me how I really need to update my blog, and I do, so here goes!

Life over the past month has been pretty great! It’s been adjustment getting to know new roommates, new ward, and getting used to new classes. School has been pretty crazy. Accounting definitely keeps me busy but I find time to go running and do fun things so it works out well. I like the challenge and the other great thing about the accounting program is all the free stuff! So far I’ve gotten two sweatshirts and a backpack! And then they have lots of free events too. For the game last Friday KPMG had a tailgate party where Carrabas catered. It was such a fun event and the food was delicious! Love it J

I also really like my ward so far. I don’t know very many people just yet but I’m excited to get to know everyone throughout the semester. And speaking of church, guess what my calling is?! Gospel Doctrine Teacher! Haha when they extended the calling, I seriously said “wow.” I never saw that one coming! But my first lesson went pretty well. I have a lot to learn and there is definitely room for improvement but I enjoyed preparing and teaching. So I’m kinda excited for it! I know, I’m crazy.

Nothing too exciting has happened recently. Except that we got FRONT ROW seats in the endzone to the BYU vs. Utah football game!! That was soooo much fun. Would have been better if we didn’t get slaughtered but it was still fun to be right up front! It was all good though, because after the game we got to go up on the roof and see the ESPN box and everything cool up there. That was pretty sweet! 

Up on the roof!

Front Row!!

Other than that, my life pretty much consists of going to school, going the library all night, and then relaxing a little bit from my long day. 

Junior Year!

Well, I'm officially back in Provo and have started my junior year! I'm living in Condo Row this year and so far I like it. We have a great ward and I'm excited to get to know everyone. I do miss Glenwood and all our friends there but I know that once we get a good group of friends here I'm sure we'll love it!

I also started the fabulous Accounting Jr. Core a week ago! I heard so much about how deathly the program is that I prepared myself for late, late nights in the library but so far it's been much better than I expected to be! I haven't had to stay out too late and I've been able to do lots of social things so it's been great. We'll see what the rest of the semester has in store for me though :)

And then yesterday for Labor Day Elise's family took us boating. We invited a random group of friends but it was such a blast. Our group was too big to all go on the boat at once so split off into two groups. I didn't get to meet everyone but I did get to be with my bestie Sar-bear and then a boy in our ward and another boy we just met. While we were waiting on the beach they buried me in the sand which was a new and odd experience but it was an adventure for sure. Anyway, there's not too much to tell other than that I had an absolute blast on the lake! And I may or may not have a date with one of the boys we hung out with that I'm very excited for :)

Here's some pictures of the past few weeks for your viewing pleasure:

Trish and Brice got married!!!! So very happy for them!

Seven Peaks with our dear friends from 85

So manly!

Jace, Sarah, and Robbie digging my hole

Haha there aren't really any words for this one 

Life is great!!

13.1

Yesterday I ran my second half marathon and it was pretty great!

I ran the Provo River Trail Half Marathon and despite the fact that it was very unorganized, it was a good and beautiful route.  I ran it with Kim Strasburg, an old YW leader and friend, and I'm so glad she was nice enough to push me.  This one was slower than the one I did last year but I was able to go faster than I thought I would be able to go so that was awesome.  

It was also kinda funny because when we were up at the top waiting for the race to start, I saw someone in one of the Lone Peak Swimming sweatshirts I had when I was in high school.  Lo and behold it was my dear brother!  A friend from work convinced him to run it last minute, so without any training he whipped out eight-minute miles!  He went faster than I did and I trained.  Boys are so lucky.

Almost to the finish!

Kim and I at the finish

All four of us at the finish.  Apparently blue is the cool color to run it.

This is out of order but this is where I found my brother at the top.

And this is all of us before the race.

Where Did The Summer Go?!

Holy cow, how is it already August 7th?

Spring and summer have definitely flown by way too fast.

I could use at least another 6 weeks before it's time to hit the books again!

But, what can you do?

Guess I will just have to soak up my last three weeks of relaxation -

That can easily be arranged!

Pretty much all I do is run, go to work for 8 hours, and then come home and be lazy.

Being lazy sure is nice after all the craziness of school and everything.

Speaking of running, I'm running the Provo River Half Marathon next week!

I'm pretty excited!

Due to a hip injury it will be way slower than my first one but, I'm just glad I'll be able to run the whole thing because a few months ago I didn't think I would be able to.

I also am making these delicious things after we eat lunch/dinner in about 10 minutes.

YUM, YUM, YUM

I love anything chocolate, and these are just to die for!!

Leavin the Teens

Did you know I share a birthday with America?

Well I do.

And it's pretty great.

I always have work off, everyone celebrates, and I even get fireworks!!

And this year I turned the big

I am officially no longer a teenager.

Kinda weird!

Fun in the Sun

I've been promising my sister I would make a post, so now I am finally fulfilling that promise.

Here are some of the highlights of my life over the past few weeks:

One weekend during Spring semester we drove up to Salt Lake to visit Cade.  After getting at little lost and making a quick stop at a gas station to grab some snacks, we went and played a hole of glow-in-the-dark golf.  It was my first time real golfing and I could definitely use some practice, but it was fun to watch the ball fly through the night sky.

Another weekend I went to the Eagle Mountain rodeo with Quintin and Jason.  It was Jason's first rodeo, and it was a good one!  We even got to see the little girl who won the mutton riding event or whatever it's called.

On one of our last weekends we had a crazy fun BBQ at Elise's house. We invited all our friends we made over the year and ate delicious food, had an ultimate game of ultimate frisbee, had a campfire, and finished the night off with an outdoor movie. 

It was so fun to see all our good friends and just get to do something fun with them all one last time. We are so lucky to have become such good friends with them all. They are the ones that made our year so memorable!!!

 

We also hiked the Y with our besties before we all parted. (Ben and Jay came too, but they were at the bottom of the Y when we took this)

And Hayley came to visit too! It was sooo good to see her and hang out with her again. Oh, how I've missed her. While she was here we walked to Macey's to get an ice cream cone, went to Nickelcity where we all got blowdarts and had a fun war afterwards, and went to Pizza Pie Cafe.  So fun!

And perhaps best of all, Cosette got married to the love of her life, Matt.  She had an open house in our backyard and then they got married the next day in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. The weather was perfect on both days and it was fun to see family and friends again.  She looked gorgeous and they were both so happy so it was a great few days!!

This is my favorite picture of her!

More pictures to come when we get them :)

Just a Dream!

Pretty much every week I would look at my blog and thing, "wow, I really need to update this!" And then I would get really busy and it would just never happen. Well my friends, you'll be happy to know that I'm finally updating!! So let's see if I can give you a quick run down of my life over the past few weeks.

Winter semester ended at BYU and we're into spring semester now. I am still living in Glenwood, and am so happy I did! I'm not taking any classes; I am just working full time. I absolutely love coming home from work and not having any homework to do! It's heavenly. Some of my friends that have stayed for spring or summer semester in previous years have always told me that it's so much fun. Well, I'm here to reaffirm that claim. Spring semester is a dream! There are so many fun things going on. It was a bit of an adjustment getting used to about a third of the people being here but it is so much fun!

Elise and I are on an intermural soccer and frisbee team and they are so much fun! We play with our old FHE brothers and dear friends, apartment 85. We basically do everything with them but they are such amazing boys that it's all we want to do! We hang out with them about 4 or 5 days out of any given week and I've missed having good, close guy friends so we are very lucky that they still enjoy hanging out with us. We've scootered around and roasted marshmellows in the Riverwoods, ate delicious tinfoil dinners up the canyon, played ultimate, some football, gone on late night food runs, hiked the 'Y', gone to the lake and sung songs around a guitar, scootered to Yogurtland, watched the Justin Bieber movie and so many more fun things.

Basically Elise and I come home and talk about how we are living the dream life! We remember always looking at college kids and seeing them doing so many fun things and just wishing we could be as cool as them, and then we realized that we are doing those same things now! I absolutely love the college life and all the fun things we get to do!!!

In other news, I got accepted into the BYU Accounting Program!!!!

I'm not excited for all the homework and late, late nights in the library next year, but I am excited for the challenge and to learn more than I can even imagine right now. Bring it on!