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!

MLK Weekend

So I know the weekend was a while ago, but I just have to tell you about the great weekend I had last week. 

It all started out on Friday when Elise and I went to a wedding reception for Paige Ellis (friend from high school). It was at Fox Hollow Golf Course in American Fork and she looked adorable and so happy! It was fun to see a few friends from high school, including some who are already back from their missions. I'm amazed at how fast time has flown by! After the fabulous reception we came back to Provo to go to our intermural intertube waterpolo game. It is funny to play, and we played an intense team, but I had lots of fun!

If you haven't, you should definitely get the great experience of being on a intertube waterpolo team!

After that, we were trying to find something to do for the rest of the night. I got a text earlier that morning from a friend I met over the summer, Clint, inviting me over to a dance party at the Raintree clubhouse. It was funny cause Elise and I had recently talked about how much we miss dances. Perfect timing to get invited to a dance! We decided to hit it up with Lizz. It turned out to be sooo much fun! We all just went crazy and had fun. So glad we went!

After that we went to our friend's apartment (hereafter to referred to as 96) and just chatted with our great friend Kev in that apartment. Great night!

And then on Saturday I went to the library to get some homework done, which wasn't so fun. But then later that night we went to a church gym to play basketball with our friends in Apt 85, who also happen to be our great new FHE brothers! I haven't played basketball in years but I had tons of fun! It was nice because they would pass it to us but they also weren't pro, so we were just playing to have fun. And fun it was!! They are some of the nicest boys in the world, and we all just had a blast. 

Serious picture of the group. I somehow missed the memo though.

Here we all are!

After our basketball adventure we came home for a bit and then went over to Apt 85 for a dance party. Round two baby! It was another great dance party. Oh how I've missed them. I definitely got my fill of dance parties in that weekend!

Such a great weekend so far. And the fun only continued!

On Sunday we invited the girls across the hall, 85, and 96 over for a soup party! Everyone brought a different kind of soup and we just ate until we were beyond stuffed. Delicious! I wish I had the pictures but they are on one of the boy's cameras. When we get them I'll post em.

We finished the great weekend off by going snowshoeing on Monday since we had no school. It was a pretty warm day for mid-January but we had lots of fun. And, I do have some pics from that adventure so enjoy those!

All the roommates minus Hayley, who was sick.

Here's our whole group!

Pushing the car out. While Lizz and I watch :)

Well I had a great weekend. I hope you all did too!

Hello blogging world!

This one time a new semester started.

And I don't have very much homework yet.

So, needless to say I am very bored right now.

I enjoy blog-stalking several people so I finally caved and created a blog of my own!

Life is good! 

I am currently a sophomore at Brigham Young University. I want to apply to the Accounting Program in the Fall, so I am finishing up the pre-requisites this semester as well as all my generals. I am scared out of my mind for the heavy workloads that will ensue next year, so for now I just want to have as much fun as I can before all that craziness begins. It will be good though, I am going to learn a ton, and I always enjoy a challenge.

I live in Glenwood Apartments on the corner of University Avenue and University Parkway. Often referred to as "Glenhood" our apartments are pretty ghetto but we've cleaned ours up and made it homey. I live with five girls who are all super clean. That equals a BIG smile on my face! I live with one of my roommates I met last year, Sarah, and she is one of the nicest and super easy going people on the planet. I'm very lucky she is my roommate and is so patient with my weird habits. I also room with one of my very best friends from high school who I love more than words can say. I've gotten to know my three other roommates over this past semester and love them all. We have lots of fun together.

Speaking of fun, this last weekend we went and played wallyball with some of our guy friends in the ward. Super fun! We dressed up a little bit for the match, and took some fun pictures before the game. We unfortunately didn't take any with the boys but here are some of our pre-game pics. 

Sarah, me and Lizz

My roommate and I

Lizz, Sarah and Trisha

My 'master yoga' pose