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!

Festival of Colors and Jazz Game

This weekend Elise, Lizz, Jaren, Ben, Brad, and I went to the Festival of Colors at the Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork. For those who have never been, you go to this temple and buy colored chalk and then throw it on each other. Sounds weird, I know, but it's super fun because there are thousands of people there who are all just colored in chalk. Then, they have a countdown where everyone throws chalk at once, creating this huge cloud. It's hard to breathe and see, but it's fun. I just life going because it's something that's different. So, if you haven't been, you should go next year!

Enjoy some pics!

Here's the whole group after the throwing

Apparently holding hands with three other people is quite the fun adventure! All I can say about this is that we have fun :)

After the Festival I went to the Jazz game vs. the Mavericks at the Energy Solutions Arena with Ben and Jaren. It was a good game: it was close the entire game until there was about five minutes remaining. Then the Mavericks went on a roll and ended up winning. But it was still super fun and it was a great game. Ben and Jaren are way fun as well, so it was just a relaxed, fun night!

In other news, Daniel Glade got home from his mission a little over a week ago. Elise and I went to his homecoming today. He is just the same as when he left - he has the greatest sense of humor and it'll be fun to hang out again. It's just crazy that all our friends are coming home now. It's exciting though!

Twists and Turns

I'm sitting in the Tanner Building trying to study, but I just can't focus, so here's what's on my mind:

It's interesting to see the different twists and turns life throws at you. It's interesting to see where I've been, and what I've accomplished. 

But, I think one of the hardest things for me is watching friends move in and out of my life.

I miss my high school friends and all the amazing memories I have of those times.

I miss freshman year and those great memories.

Next year, I know I will miss my sophomore year, but I also know that it will be another fabulous year and I will make many amazing new friends.

Each year, life seems to get better and better, but I still miss those friends that have walked in and touched my life when I needed it most. 

It's just hard to lose those connections with those you have grown the closest to, those who have been through everything with you - the good and the bad.

Run Run Run!

Well, life is pretty great!

Last week I got asked to run on a relay team from Provo Temple to Salt Lake Temple.

Our team had five members to run a little over 58 miles.

We started the race just wanting to finish and have fun.

But, when Natalie started us out with a great lead,

and Jordan dominated his first leg (6 miles in under 36 minutes)

we started getting competitive and thought that maybe we could win the whole thing!

After Casmin ran her leg, it was my turn.

I actually started up in Cedar Hills and ran to the church by the Alpine roundabout so it was kinda fun to run where I'm used to.

My leg was four miles and I ran it in a little under a 9-minute mile pace, which is pretty good for me since on my usual runs I go about 10-minute miles.

Allie went up and over Suncrest, and she did amazing up those killer hills!

We kept making our way across the valley, kinda following the mountain line. 

My next leg was supposed to be eight miles but I started at too quick of a pace and just didn't have enough energy to keep it up. 

Kinda disappointing but what can ya do?

Anyway, we did end up taking first place, and won a super sweet trophy!

Don't be too jealous!

I loved it though! 

It was so fun to do the team thing and the atmosphere was just great!

I think I strained my hip flexor on the long run Sarah and I went on the Tuesday before though, and so this race was a little painful to say the least. That night and the next day I could hardly lift my leg even a few inches off the floor. I've never realized how much you use your hip flexor before. So, no more running for me for a few weeks and then hopefully it will be completely healed and then I can pick up on my long runs again. 

Other than that, not much else is new. I'm just keeping super busy with school, work, homework, and fun. I also just have to say how much I love the college life! I just love all the random, fun things that come up in the daily life of a college student. That's what makes college so great!

My roommates and I are also having a housing crisis - we don't know where to live next year. We've been looking but it seems like everywhere is full. Anyone know of some fun complexes that still have openings?!