So Excited!!!

Tonight was a great, great night. 

Tonight, I got to help one of my very best friends get engaged!!! 

To one of my new good friends. 

And I could not be more excited for them!

SOOOO very happy for you Taryn and CJ!!!!!! 

I love you both so much and cannot wait till August!!

Eleven Things

My cute friend Nicole tagged me in a post for a game so here goes! P.S. you should check out her blog, her and her fiance have had a crazy long engagement but are absolutely adorable!

The rules for this game are:

1. Post these rules.

2. Post a photo of yourself and 11 random things.

3. Answer the questions set for you in the original post.

4. Create 11 new questions and tag people to answer them.

5. Go to their blog/twitter and tell them you've tagged them.

11 Random Things:

1) I just got back from an interview in San Francisco with PwC for their Summer Leadership Program (2-day conference over the summer)

2) I changed my hair part a couple weeks 

3) I like to cook when/if I ever have spare time

4) My sister is pregnant!! So excited to be an aunt!

5) I apply for my master's program in a few weeks - weird!

6) I don't really like to go shopping with people and if I do, I only like going with one or two people. I do love going with my sister though. 

7) I am hoping to run three half marathons this summer

8) One of my best friends got home from his mission today!

9) I'm going to the Hunger Games midnight showing tomorrow and am so excited!

10) One of my pet peeves is when the toilet paper is put on the things so it rolls from the bottom, not the top

11) My favorite number is 11!

Questions from Nicole:

1) What is your favorite book? I am a bit Harry Potter fan. Always have been and always will! My favorite book is the 7th.

2) What do you do with your free time? Running, cooking, reading, swimming, and any random fun thing that comes up in the college life

3) What is your favorite restaurant? Cafe Rio. That place has been one of my favorites for a long, long time and I still always get the same think. Pork tostada! They have also probably made a lot of money off me...

4) What is your dream job? I always wanted to be a pediatric nurse or a secretary. Instead, I'm in accounting! Yay me.

5) If you could go skydiving or bungee jumping, which one would you do? Good question! I would probably have to say skydiving. I want to go skydiving but I will admit I am terrified. It's on my bucket list though.

6) Would you rather watch a movie or read a book? Depends on my mood. If it's a choice between watching a movie by myself or reading, then reading. If it's between watching a movie with friends or reading, then watching a movie for sure.

7) Where do you want to travel next? Europe or Hawaii!

8) Would you rather live in the country or the city? City for sure! I love bigger cities! 

9) What color do you usually paint your nails? I haven't painted my nails since my sister's wedding and before that it's been a really long time. I just pick off the nail polish so I don't paint them. If I ever do though, it's usually a neutral color.

10) What is your favorite candy? I mostly just love anything chocolate! Chocolate raisins and Almond Joys are some of my favorites though.

11) If you could pick anywhere in the world to live, where would that be? Hmmm I would love to live in California or somewhere exotic for a little while. Like Europe or Tahiti or someplace random like that.

My 11 questions are:

1) What is your favorite movie?

2) What is your favorite color?

3) If you could go any place in the world, where would you go?

4) To the question above, if you could take anyone with you, who would you take?

5) What is the most exciting thing that you did or that happened to you this past week?

6) What is your favorite food?

7) Mac or PC?

8) Where do you hope you are 5 years from now?

9) What is your least favorite chore?

10) What is your favorite car?

11) What is one thing you couldn't live without?

And I tag -

Jennifer

Cosette

Taryn

Katri

Sydney

Happy Gaming!!

Some Numbers

Since I am an accounting major after all, and I spend lots of my day working with numbers, I thought a little bit of numbers might be appropriate :)

1 day till my interview with Deloitte for their Summer Leadership Program

5 days till I go shopping with my sister - I need some new clothes!

6 days till Ali Peterson's farewell (a dear friend from high school)

7 days till I fly out to San Francisco

8 days till my interview with PwC in San Francisco

10 days till I get to go see the midnight showing of Hunger Games!! And see one of my best friends from high school who's getting back from his mission the day before!

12 days till the Ernst & Young Extreme Event up at Aspen Grove

17 days till the KPMG event up at Sundance

18 days till I interview with KPMG for their Summer Leadership Program

19 days till General Conference!

21 days till the Final 4 party put on by Deloitte up at Sundance

As you can see, recruiting activities for the accounting program are keeping me pretty busy! Luckily round two of midterms were last week and our homework load this week is pretty light. It's nice to relax and breathe a little bit after a such a crazy busy week!

San Francisco, Here I Come!

All of the big accounting firms have what they call a summer leadership program where you fly out for 2-3 days for a leadership-type conference during the summer. It's basically a way for us to get to know the firm, and for them to decide if they would want to bring us on for an internship a year later, and potentially a full-time job the year after that. I thought it wasn't really a big deal, but apparently this program is harder to get into than getting an internship position! 

Anyway, I applied for the leadership program with five different firms and had my interview with the first firm, PwC, last Friday. I must have done something right in my 45 minute interview because I got a call today about going to San Francisco for final round interviews! 

So, what does it mean? They will fly me in on March 21st for a few hours to tour the offices, get to know some people, and have another interview. Nervous? Most definitely. But also very excited? Most definitely.

Amidst our midterm week that seems like finals week where all I do is study, I sometimes wonder why in the world I did this to myself. But then, trips and opportunities like this make it all worth it! 

Here's to hoping this, and my other 5+ interviews this month go well!

Skiing at Sundance

This weekend, I got to go skiing for accounting! PWC was hosting an event up at Sundance so I took Tracie up with me for a day of skiing, food, laughter, and sun. It was a beautiful day and minus the fact that it was a little icy, it turned out to be a pretty good day on the slopes. I hadn't been skiing for about six years while I've been trying out snowboarding, but luckily it's like riding a bike - it comes back quick. Anyway, I met some great people and am thinking I just might go work in San Francisco when I graduate. But that's still two years away so I don't have to have that all figured out just yet :)

Can I also just quickly say how great my major is? Sometimes, at least. We get hoodies, backpacks, ski trips, concerts, bowling, and all kinds of crazy events to go to. Yes, the program is challenging and certainly is very stressful at times, but I'm also lucky to be in a major where jobs come looking for me. Tangent over.

One more thing, Elise posted this little gem a little while ago and I just had to share. This was way back in our senior year of high school (I think) and we went to the drive in. Such a fun night with my best friends! And look how young we look too! It's great.

Ode to Elise

I just have to give a quick shout out to one of my very best friends who is leaving on a mission to Argentina in three days. Bear with me :)

Miss Elise and I met in 7th grade (random fact - as Elise recalls, I was wearing a Costa Rica t-shirt. Not important to the story but cool nonetheless) but didn't really become friends until 9th grade when we both joined the Lone Peak swim team. We began a carpool to practice everyday with Zach and Hayley and slowly got to know each other over freshman year.

Sophomore year we had American Studies together and her and Zach also got a ride with me and my brother to swim practice everyday in the grandma car. Basically, that means that they sat in the back seat and just watched me and my brother be our weird selves with each other. I think they, and I, will always remember the day Michael smashed crackers in my face for no reason. It's one of those things you just have to be there for but it is sure a great memory!

Anyway, junior and senior year we just continued to become best friends. We have some great basketball memories, dances, and hundreds of swim team memories. 

The two of us, Taryn, and Zach code-named ourselves the fab 4 and usually spent our weekends in sweats lounging on the couch talking and laughing cause we were so tired from swim practice. 

These friends, as well as our other wonderful swim friends have become an amazing group of friends to be around. Check out these wonderful swimmer family photos if you don't believe me. Yes, we are weird, but we have fun!

Fast forward to sophomore year of college when Elise and I brought our friends together to live in lodge 73 at Glenwood Apartments. That year was literally the best year of my life and we have so many happy memories from that year; I'll always treasure it! Especially spring semester when we just partied it up. And then this year I got to live across the hall from her and Sarah since we couldn't all get into the same apartment. We learned our lesson: don't be slow on housing! 

One of my favorite things about her is that we don't have to do anything to have an absolute blast. We can literally just sit, chat, and laugh for hours, and it is one of my very favorite things! We can talk about anything and everything and she is so good to listen to all my crazy stories. I'm extremely grateful for her true friendship and for her incredible example to me of a Christ-like person. She makes me want to be a better person each and every day, and I wish I could even begin to portray how much I love my bestie! She will be greatly missed over the next 18 months, but Argentina is extremely lucky to have her. And I know she will do amazing things there! 

Love you Lise-Geese! I'll see you in August 2013!

Cafe Through the Years

So, this Friday night I had a laughing night with my two besties. Can I just say I'm pretty sure I have two of the greatest friends in the whole world?! The 'Fab 4 minus Zach' met up on Friday night for a much overdue laughing night before Elise leaves on her mission. Pretty much that just means we just talk and laugh and cry all night. It's my favorite. These two ladies are my favorites. 

We've had many, many great times over the past few years and I'm soooo very lucky to have been blessed with their friendship. I treasure my many memories with them and it was wonderful to catch up!

I also dug through my photos to pull out these two gems of our many Cafe Rio trips through the years. We have had dozens of these trips, but only documented a few. Here's our senior year after winning region:

And here's one from last summer:

Basically, we are some pretty loyal Cafe customers!