Brittneys College Experiences

not much going on but somehow super busy all the time

2011-11-06T18:21:00.000-07:00

Not much has been going on and life has been crazy! How is that even possible? It feels like I've just been taking tests non-stop and filling out applications. One day I was feeling super stressed and like I wasn’t ever going to catch up with all my work and I went over to #9 to chill for a little while before tackling the ever-growing list of tests to prepare for. While there I just had a blast and lost track of time and this one guy, Brian, who is always so happy even when everything is going wrong for him convinced me to go play Ultimate Frisbee at 11 o’clock at night. It was like 30* outside and he wanted to play OUTSIDE! Well I went, mostly because I have the light up Frisbee, and had a blast. I forgot all about the mountain of work I needed to do and had the best night’s sleep ever. I don’t know if Brian knows how awesome he is but I feel like everyone should get to know him and his brother who is on a mission.

This week I paid a lot of bills and was like ok I have enough food and stuff to last me until my pay check comes next week then Utah weather happened and I realized that I did not have enough gas in my car to drive to school (one of the perils of always riding my bike except to wal mart so I always forget to see how much gas is left) and then to work then back to school. So I rode my bike praying that it wouldn’t snow until I got home. Well this guy who is in my two math classes and he asked if I would like to do the homework after school. I went and did my homework with him in the tutoring lab and as we were walking out to leave I noticed that it had started to snow way hard so I just said “I’m gonna wait a while for the snow to ease up then ride home.” He asked me why I didn’t drive when everyone knew it was gonna snow and I told him I planned poorly so now I had to deal with it but I wasn’t worried, because after all this is Utah, you just need to wait a few minutes and the weather will change, it may not get better but it will change. Well the next day we also did our homework together and the same thing happened but he had planned for it this time and had borrowed a truck so that I wouldn’t spend my evening waiting for the storm to end. I am so thankful to live in a place where people will go out of their way to help someone out.

If you hadn’t heard yet I am going on a study abroad in Greece. There is a never ending amount of paperwork associated with this ‘adventure of a lifetime’. While I was thinking about going on this study abroad I asked a few professors and a few students what they thought about me going and I always got the same reply- “This will be the best and possibly the hardest thing you do” I am nervously excited to go. Some days, when things are going really bad and I call home like ten times I think how am I going to last a whole semester in a foreign country? I can’t just call home when I’m having a bad day, then I think well this will be the best experience for me to learn how to figure things out on my own.

Today in church I also realized that I won't be completely on my own; the church will always be there to help, even if I can’t understand a single word being said you can always feel at home learning the teachings of Christ. We had a wonderful lesson out of the new relief society book and it made me think about how lucky I am to belong to this wonderful church where its members will go out of their way to help someone out.

Also pretty much the whole town has been dealing with mice. It seems like wal-mart cannot keep mouse traps in stock as fast as people need them.

Well that is pretty much what has been going on in good ol’ Cedar City

Oh ya thanks for all the awesome birthday presents!

My friends say I've officially achieved nerd status

2011-10-08T19:34:00.000-06:00

So the other night my friends asked if I wanted to go play capture the flag and I had to say I couldn’t because I hadn’t written a paper that I had known was due the next day for 2 weeks. They asked me why I didn’t write it and my response was because my calculus homework was more fun and easier than writing the paper. Ya…that was not the answer they were expecting and they promptly told me how much of a nerd I’ve become. But I don’t think they understand how much fun the tutoring center is. Everyone there knows each other because the same people are there at the same times each day so you get to know the people and everyone helps everyone with their work and we just goof off sometimes. It really is more fun to do math homework than to write a paper, not to mention easier. With math there is only one answer you have to aim for and if you get that answer then you get all the points for the problem, but with writing papers you just have to hope the teacher will like what you think is the right answer. There’s not a definite answer with papers, I never know what the right answer is I absolutely hate writing papers!

I made up my schedule for next semester and I was looking at it thinking ya next semester is going to be good. My schedule consists of 3 math classes and orchestra. We were talking about next semester in the tutoring center and 3 of us are taking the same classes, can I just say that next semester is going to rock!

I also decided that I could not have lived in the snail-mail times. It drives me nuts to have to wait for letters from friends on missions instead of just being able to text them. Not to mention that the story isn’t as funny by the time they get the letter read it and write back.

Wanna hear what happens when you have a class with the elders quorum president and the second counselor in the bishopric? Well you make a suggestion that it’s too cold to do the activity outside and they agree and change the activity to be inside but both happen to be busy that night so they can’t tell everyone that it got changed so they conveniently volunteer you to tell everyone. I spent my Friday night going around to all the apartments and telling everyone that we changed it to be at the church. On the bright side I now know more people than I did on Thursday night.

How college students spend Friday nights

2011-10-01T15:51:00.000-06:00

There was an institute date night last Friday and for some reason like no one got asked to go, so we decided to have our own party. How did we party? We went to Wal-Mart and bought finger-paints and spent the night painting pictures and acting like little kids; making marks on others papers, flinging paint at each other and all. It was an awesome night. There’s no better way to get to know people than to come together and come up with an idea of what to paint.

I am grateful to live in a ward where everyone gets along so well, even when people fling paint at them. Not one person got angry or snapped at another and believe me there were plenty of times that someone could have and others would have agreed with them. Instead of getting angry we just laughed and kept on painting.

These are the handprints of every one that was there.

We all signed our names on our handprint

see the guy laying down in the very bottom right hand corner,

well it was a bad idea to fall asleep with so much paint,

he ended up with a green face

the guy holding the one of the sunset and the girl with her arm on him went on the date night. they just came at the end when we were taking the picture, they didnt paint any

This Friday night I was feeling kinda angry and like I didn’t want to be in Cedar, I was thinking man I should have caught a ride home with the people going to Salt Lake. This feeling came because on Thursday I went to help someone with a math question really quick then go back and finish my math homework. As I left my apartment I said hey don’t lock the door I’ll be right back. Well I ended up not coming right back because then someone else texted me and asked me to come over and help them with their homework, which was fine I love explaining their assignment in a way they understand and will be able to do on the test. But right back turned into 3 hours later and two other peoples math assignments, mine still undone. Then I got talked into playing a game with some friends, which was a great stress reliever and a boat load of fun.

Well after the game I went home, which was just next door, to find that the door had been locked! No biggie I’ll just text them and ask to be let in, well they didn’t answer my text or my call or the never ending knocking and doorbell ringing that my friends put into effect. So we decided to break in through the window, ya it’s that easy to get in if you forget to put the bar in the window. It was now 12 o’clock and I had to be awake at 6. I went and brushed my teeth and could hear footsteps upstairs! Then one of my roommates came down and got a drink of water and started watching TV! I was sooooooooooooo mad! I had just spent a good 20 minutes trying to get in and they were awake! When I woke up, 15 min before my class started because I accidently slept through my alarm, my anger intensified by seeing the huge mess that was still in the kitchen from Tuesday making it near impossible to make a quick sandwich for lunch before hurrying to school.

While at school I got a text asking if I would like to come their taco pollo fiesta in la bocca, (we had a crazy name the food night last year and that’s what we named this dish). I was so excited to hang out with my roommate from last year and was reminded that it’s not bad living here it’s awesome! I then went to that party, bringing my keys with me. When I came home at 1 the door was unlocked and both of my roommates were dead asleep! I just don’t get it, if I ask them to leave it unlocked they lock it if I don’t say anything they leave it unlocked.

Also at that party my roommate from last year told me that they had an extra room in their apartment so I should just move in with them. I was so happy to hear that, as my roommates disgust me, they frequently leave half eaten meals on the counter for days and just leave trash laying around everywhere. So for next semester I have put my contract up for sale in hopes that I can move in with my friends.

Has anyone seen the movie Hanna? If so what did you think? We watched it at the party and IDK how I feel about it.

Things found on Desertbook.com

2011-10-01T14:26:00.001-06:00

So my roommates recently decorated our apartment...........With pictures of half naked people.....ya....and other pictures that don't really make me feel at home, they kinda made our apartment feel very worldly and not really like a house the Lord would ever visit. (I did ask them to take one down and they did so now it’s not as bad but the other day Brian and I were hanging out and he was like so we should go over to #9 cause that picture is totally distracting me.) So I decided I need to get a big picture of a temple and hang it in the one place there isn't a picture. I found lots of cool stuff on Desertbook.com here are some of the things I liked most.

These are really cool pictures there are a lot of different people you can choose from

Life is not about what you have, it is about who you are

otherwise they'll take you to the hospital and check for brain injuries

I think I'm gonna buy this picture

Loud, yes in deed

Best family ever!

2011-09-18T22:16:00.000-06:00

The other day I was complaining about how my mom has a job and I can’t just call her whenever I want and have a long conversation and how when I go home to visit she doesn’t get home until late and then the people I was talking with were like so let me get this straight, your mad because your mom got a job? I said yes I’m used to my mom always being there whenever I want her to be, she never worked when I lived at home. I then realized how stupid that was. This one guys parents don’t help him out at all and he was like stop complaining about it, your parents help you pay for college and your car and your phone (they were having a conversation one day about how much their insurance and phone bills were and they asked me and I had to say I don’t know my parents help me out with that stuff I just have to do my best and graduate) I then realized that I have the best parents on earth.

As I get to know more people the more I realize that I have the best family there is, even if we make fun of each other. It surprises me how many parents send their kids to school and don’t help them at all or even care how hard of a time they are having. One person asked me who I was texting and I said my daddy and they said I don’t even know the last time I talked to my parents. I just don’t get that. I love my family, all their craziness and teasing. I wouldn’t trade my family in for any other family.

I love the random text conversations with my parents, and the random pictures from Jordan and Dylan, and especially the awesome conversations about Phineas and Ferb with Lauren, (even if my friends do get a hold of my phone and make fun of me) I love it all.

I love the surprise packages from the office (even if the UPS man always comes while I’m in class so I have to go pick it up) they always make my week better and my friends like to see what crazy stuff I got this time. I love that my family is strong in the church and raised me to know who I am and what I stand for. I have seen too many people move out and go astray because they didn’t make the choice when they were young to stay on the straight and narrow they just followed their parents. I am grateful that my family lets us make our own mistakes and then helps us to clean them up.

I’m grateful that my mom taught me to stand strong and how to make food “out of nothing” as my roommates say. (apparently only having 2 eggs, butter and milk in the fridge should not allow you to make delicious meals, I feel that those are the main ingredients to most delicious foods) I’m also very grateful that she taught me how to clean up after myself. Roommates teach you a lot about yourself and I have learned that I do not function well if there is a layer of food on the counters and every dish is dirty.

I’m grateful that my family taught me that if your legs work well by golly why are you driving? It’s cheaper and healthier to walk or ride a bike to school.

I’m grateful that our family only expects your best out of you and doesn’t look down on you because you’re not studying law like your dad wanted or you’re not becoming a doctor like your grandpa, we love each other no matter what and I love that.

I’m grateful that we are competitive in a good way and that we push each other to do great things we never would have done. Like run the Red Rock Relay, all my friends told me I was insane when I would try to leave activities early so I could go run, most of them told me to just quit, but that competitiveness in me made me run all 18.2 miles of my legs of the race. Now my friends are just amazed at my stubbornness.

I’m grateful that no one in our family insists that we all get together and go to a photographer and stand all stiff next to each other to get pictures. I like crazy ones where only half of us are looking, that’s more like our family.

I’m most grateful that families are FOREVER. I love this crazy family of ours and am grateful that we will be able to bother each other for all eternity.

My gratefull list could go on forever but I have to stop typing at some point and go to bed.

this is how all families should do family pictures

we're all in the same place same time with smiles better take a picture

Red Rock Relay

2011-09-11T21:50:00.000-06:00

The Red Rock Relay was the best worst weekend of my life! I had so much fun cheering everyone on and had a little bit of sorta fun running my miles. We didn’t take a ton of pictures, things were a little crazy but we did take a few.

My first leg was all downhill and 6.4 miles with a chance of snow. Yes I said snow. I ran my first leg at about 4pm I have no clue what my time was other than I remember thinking that I did it in about the same amount of time I figured I would so I’m guessing about an hour. On this leg I realized that playing ultimate Frisbee instead of running is not a good choice. I pushed myself too hard and had a slight o boy I need to stop running and focus on breathing so I don’t die moment. Our car had a lot of energy and a lot of noise makers, I’m pretty sure that by the end of the race the other runners were sick of our car yelling at every runner that we passed. By the time we passed the baton on to the other car, which had 3 married couples in it, they had decided that our car was the frat house car.

Second leg and wondering what on earth I got myself into. Did I really pay to wake up at 2 in the morning and run 5.2 miles? I did not want to get out of the car. I did though and I now understand why that leg was called “the spooky leg” it was really creepy running at night, you could see the shadows of the runners behind you and you could hear the noises of the night. About half way through another runner was coming up behind me and their light was moving around so much it was like making me sea sick. I finally slowed down so they could pass me and I kept going slow until their light was no longer making me sea sick. Then a little while later I passed her while she was stopped getting water! Agggggg! I couldn’t believe I was next to super moving light person so at my next water stop I waited for her to pass me and get far far ahead so I wouldn’t have to see it moving all around. As soon as that leg was over all I wanted to do was curl up and sleep but we still had to cheer on our team mates so I yelled as loud as I could at our next runner. By the time our next runner was up I was sooo sleepy. We went up a few miles to wait to give Jaynee water but we all fell asleep! Even the driver fell asleep while we were parked waiting for Jaynee to get to us. I woke up and was like hey everyones asleep did Jaynee pass what time did she start, no one knew so we waited for a few runners to pass us then drove up a little ways with everyone awake looking out the window so we wouldn’t miss her again. She was the last runner of our van for that leg and she was excited to be done so she was sprinting into the finish to find that our other van was not there! That seemed to be the theme of that stop. This girl ran in after Jaynee to find that her next runner also wasn’t there and she proclaimed “Where the swear word is my van?” after about 10 seconds she promptly found the swear words but her attempt to keep it clean was very funny. After this leg we went to the Anderson’s house in St. George and as soon as we got there everyone was like shower must shower. As people showered they would come out of a bedroom to let someone else shower and would just sleep where they fell. That was the best 2 hours of sleep I’ve ever had.

My last leg was called “Run Tiger Run” it was 6.8 miles almost all uphill in the middle of the day in Hurricane(hur-a-ken) Utah. We started our race at like 50* and ended it at like 90*. The whole time during my last leg I was thinking man I would do anything to be running in 50* weather in the rain, even though I complained at the time. It was so hot I thought I was going to die. I definitely didn’t have enough sugar in me. My car stopped and gave me some water and said I’ll see you in no more than 2 miles. I swear I ran and ran and I never saw them, turns out they went to the store! Ok so they went to buy a spray bottle because it was just way too hot out there to be running. When I finished running my last leg I ate so much food, I was so excited to be done running.

I loved and hated every minute of this weekend. If I’m gonna do it again I definitely have to train for real, not playing ultimate and staying up until 2 am. It makes for good endurance of staying awake but does not help with the sore muscles at all!

I was so happy to live so close to the finish line. I was showered and asleep by like 8:30 and didn’t wake up until like 10 on Sunday. When I stood up to go to the bathroom, note to self do not drink a whole Gatorade right before bed, my calves refused to hold me up, I almost just gave up on going to the bathroom. At church I was still tired so I was kinda leaning over with my eyes shut when my friend said if you weren’t going to pay attention why did you even come then I told her exactly what the lesson was on and who had commented and even a few comments that I had but I was not going to raise my hand for anything then she was just impressed and said my comments and took all the credit for my awesomeness.

We have ward prayer after the fireside every Sunday and it is upstairs, like at least 25 steps. The only reason I went was because I owed someone $10 and I NEVER see them on campus and at church they were like well we’ll both be at ward prayer so I went and climbed up the stairs to find that they weren’t there! I was mad until I saw that the treat was cream cheese wrapped in cinnamon covered bread stuff, delicious. When I made it to the room that prayer was in I sat in the first seat and the bishop goes hey Brittney how ya doin’? Would you like to play some prelude music? I said I made it up all the stairs, and only if the piano comes to me. I should probably mention that I was wearing a hoodie and running shorts and I was soaking wet, even rain couldn’t make my legs move any faster. He comes over and was like are doin ok? I was like I’m great I ran all of my legs all by myself in the time I thought I would, I can’t walk but I did it. Most of the people in my ward said I was crazy and that none of them would do it. When they asked me how it was I would answer best worst weekend of my life. It got a lot of laughs. The person who didn’t show up did invite me to come to dinner though so I guess that made up for me walking up all those stairs and then back down them.

I went to check our team in becuase it was on Thursday night

and my team was still in the Springville/Mapleton area. It paid off though I brought a friend and we got a free dinner out of it.

oh ya thats where I slept after my first leg of running.

My blanket is covering up the gear bags that I'm laying on

see my blankie there at the bottom I was scrunched up.

Jaynee's probably getting water. Notice how high the food is.

So they said ok lets load up so I get up and go outside then they were like oh Ingela is still in the shower just a min. Ya I layed down right there and slept.

This pretty much sums up our team, 2stubborn2stop and Jordan roped us all in by saying it will be fun

Notice the food level now this is right before leg 3

Van 1 and one person from van 2 were more concerned with the BYU game than supporting their own team. See all the medals around Jordans neck?

I finished. Jordan had these shirts made and I think we were the only ones that thought it was funny. I love it

Kanarraville falls

2011-09-04T14:58:00.000-06:00

We went to Kanarraville falls on Saturday and had a blast. We decided we wanted to see how far up you could hike and if we could find where the water starts. We hiked farther than we ever had before and only stopped when we noticed leeches were attacking us.

While hiking up the trail we were singing songs most of which were Disney songs and church songs. I think I chose pretty good friends.

The water was soooo cold

My dad thinks this picture looks fake

See how carefully the guy is going down the rocks?

Well I was jumping from rock to rock running circles around the people I was with

they said I was crazy

So I was just walking along the river looking down into the river so I wouldn't slip and fall

when all of the sudden I was like ahhh. By this point I ended up in a group with just 3 boys, the girls were way to slow, and they couldn't stop laughing and wouldn't help me until they took pictures.

Fun in Salt Lake

2011-09-04T14:32:00.000-06:00

Sunday was Roberts farewell so those of us living in Cedar drove up to Salt Lake to support him and to say our good-byes. The car I rode in left Saturday morning and got to Brian and Roberts at like 11ish. We had the best weekend ever when we got there their parents had ordered pizza for the group of us. There were 12 people sleeping, eating, and causing mischief, at their house. After eating we wanted something fun to do without spending any money, we are all college students after all. So we decided to meet up with some friends who live in the Salt Lake area at the Gateway mall. We played in the Mac store for a while then we went over to Dick’s and played with everything there. We even found a giant net and caught people in it. After getting bored at the mall, and being able to see the temple from there we decided to go walk around temple square.

On our way over to temple square we thought taking a tour of the temple grounds with the missionaries would be fun. I learned a lot about the buildings that I didn’t know before. Did you know that the tabernacle has the coolest acoustics ever?! A person can stand at the pulpit and talk in their normal voice and be heard all the way at the back of the room. They also did a demonstration where they turned pages of the Book of Mormon and dropped pins and nails. You could hear everything. When they first build it they discovered that it was too loud and you could hear every little thing that went on so they added the balcony later. They also told us an awesome story about how the organ that’s in there got there. We watched the movie about how families are forever. That is a cool presentation, if you haven’t seen it you should go and watch it. After the tour we just walked around the temple and took random pictures. When we decided we were all hungry we started to leave but there was a couple getting their wedding pictures taken so we waited for our whole group so we could walk past really fast so they wouldn’t have to wait for forever for us all to pass. Well as we were walking really fast past them the photographers started clicking furiously and asked us to come back so they could take more pictures. We walked past them like 4 times so they could take pictures. I have never been asked to be in a random persons picture before. We managed to spend a whole day in Salt Lake and only spend $7 for parking.

After the temple Brian and Robert’s grandparents were nice enough to feed all of us and feed their family too. After dinner we sat around and talked for a little while then we went outside to play games. We decided to play missionary tag. Our game was pretty intense then slowly little cousins started to join and we had to become less intense.

Sunday was an awesome day. We managed to get 16 people up, showered, and dressed an hour before church started with only two bathrooms. Roberts talk was amazing, he is going to be an awesome missionary! The ward they are in is amazing, you know when you walk in to a ward as a visitor and you can just feel how they day is going to go? Well when you walked into this ward you could feel the love everyone had for each other. After sacrament we went back to their house to do the mingle thing. I was really tired so I laid down on the floor in the living room, not five minutes after I laid down my friends thought it would be fun to start throwing balls at each other and at me. My nap did not happen.

We all made it back to Cedar safe and sound and ready for the next week of adventures.

The ways we find to entertain ourselves.

The guy is the one going on the mission.

He caught a good catch

One awesome group of friends.

Sarah, Rebecca, Robert, Kollin, Katie, Brian, Leisil,

Vanessa's head, me, Molly Skyler and Acasia is taking a picture

This is the most normal picture we got,

we're just a bunch of silly friends

Back at SUU!

2011-08-23T11:26:00.001-06:00

OK so a lot has happened since my last blog. I don’t have pictures of like any of it (I couldn’t find my camera) but it was way fun.

We went to California for the weekend to go to Ashley’s wedding.

Finals at the world’s most unhelpful university, a.k.a. UVU, came and went and I got the grades that I expected to get and I moved out of that apartment and lived at home for 2 weeks, went to Lagoon once then moved to Cedar City.

Can I just tell everyone how much I love it in Cedar! The first day I was here the few others that were here played games and watched a movie, the next day they forgot about me! Can you believe that they forgot to invite me to Sand Hollow with them. I was very sad but they made it up to me by doing a spontaneous night swim at the manmade lake/pond thing. The next day we went to Park Discovery, this is one of the coolest parks I have ever been to. There are lots of places to explore and lots of places to hide, I love going there. Sunday was also jam packed with fun, church is at one so we all stayed out late Saturday night so we could sleep in. I love wards where you just walk in and feel at home. After church we went to the fireside then we had ward prayer and treats. After ward prayer we had dinner then we played games again.

Then today was the first day of classes, my classes start bright and early at 8 am, I know what you’re thinking you’re in college make a better schedule, well this class is only taught at two times and the other is during a time when a class is only taught at that time, total bummer. The day was going great I liked my classes and I got free lunch then I checked my e-mail. They changed a class so that it now comes with a $60 fee, that was fine they told me in the middle of the summer that was the case and there was no book listed for the course so I figured ok $60 it could be worse, oh it was worse. The teacher is requiring a book that she wrote and only one place has the rights to sell it so on top of the $60 we have to buy a book for $136! No way! I talked to a lot of people about this and have decided to see if I can get the $60 fee waived so I can afford to buy this book. I ended my school day with orchestra, I love going to orchestra because you know like your whole section and everyone just gets along and its way fun.

Now the fun started all over again. After orchestra we played Ultimate for like 3 hours, then went to FHE and played slip-n-slide kickball. You have to slide into 2^nd and home on a slip-n-slide it was way fun. After FHE we decided we weren’t finished having fun so we went to Park Discovery and played dot dot for like 2 hours. I have had more fun in the week that I’ve been in Cedar than I did all year at wolverine crossing.

As for my roommates, well we’ll just say they have deeper pockets than me and that I’m glad this isn’t my first year down here.

I forgot to mention the incredibly long hike that Steph got me to go on. She posted on Facebook who wants to go hike up a really cool river? Well it was very educational, not so much a river as a stream in a dry river bed, and a really long hike. We went so she could work on her senior project.

This looks like how me and Dylan used to play together

JoJo was so tired by the end of the day that he went and

buckled himself in his seat hoping we would leave

I guess this is the park that my mom and Lisa used to play at all the time

It was really funny to hear them talk about playing there

If I smile while I poke it is that considered being soft?

this makes me think of Brian Regans Party Games bit.

this kid can down popsicles like no ones business

and finally my room in Cedar City

College life is CRAZY!

2011-07-26T22:08:00.001-06:00

Okay so this is what my next week is going to be like:

Wednesday 7am- wake up get ready for school 8:30-go to school, class from 9-11 then homework for half an hour, change and head to work at 11:45. 5pm get off work drive to Mapleton check my checklist to make sure I have everything out of my apartment, check out of my apartment then home to pack for Morro Bay. Study for calculus test and eventually go to bed. I also have a class from 6-9 that just might get skipped today.

Thursday 7am-wake up get ready for school 8:15-go to school, class from 9-11 then homework for half an hour, change and head to work at 11:45. 5pm get off work drive to the airport get on the plane to Long Beach land around 9pm local time.

Friday I have a calculus test(don't know how to pull that off). Hopefully early in the morning drive up to Morro Bay and hopefully get dropped off at the library to write a paper.

Saturday is Ashley's wedding

Sunday drive back to Long Beach to get on the plane land in Utah around 9pm

Monday 7am- wake up get ready for school 8:15-go to school, class from 9-11 then homework for half an hour, change and head to work at 11:45. 5pm get off work 6 pm go to school to take a music test. 8:30ish drive home make sure papers are written and all calc homework is finished.
Tuesday 7am- wake up get ready for school 8:15-go to school, class from 9-11 then homework for half an hour, change and head to work at 11:45. 5pm get off work 6 pm go to school turn in paper #1.

Wednesday 7am- wake up get ready for school 8:15-go to school, class from 9-11 then homework for half an hour, change and head to work at 11:45. 5pm get off work 6 pm go to school turn in paper #2, #3,and #4. Yes 3 papers due in one day.

If you haven't noticed writing three of the four papers is not in the schedule.

I’m told in the end it will all be worth it, but sometimes I just want to be able to fast forward to the part where it’s all worth it.

I know just how this kitty feels

Utah Valley Half Marathon

2011-06-30T21:37:00.000-06:00

So I ran the Utah Valley Half Marathon on June 11, 2011. I still don’t understand the pleasure of running and now that I’ve done it I think I may be done, unless anyone wants to do the Disney Land half marathon with me, then I would do it again. I ran it in 2:15:08, pretty good for someone that’s had around 5 surgeries on their feet and hasn’t ever ran before. Red powerade and me do not get along. It seriously made me throw up a little when I drank it, needless to say at the next station I searched out blue. The last like 3 miles of the race you could see the finish line but it never seemed like it was getting closer; it was the longest 3 miles of my life! I was so happy when I finished and saw the clock said a time way faster than I anticipated I could run.

The begining of the race waiting for the gun to go off

It was soooooo cold

somehow dad missed me in the tunnel but

heres a picture of me leaving the tunnel

This first hill was a killer

Ya cars drove past going super fast as you were running it was a little scary

The misters felt sooo good

Look at me finish!

Memorial Day weekend

2011-06-08T10:17:00.000-06:00

On Sunday we were all jumping on the tramp and Kenny goes “what if we slept out on the tramp?” I told him about how we used to sleep out on the tramp with the uncles and aunt Nedra and that maybe we could sleep on the tramp this summer. Uncle Dylan told Kenny that he needed help moving stuff on Saturday so maybe on Friday they could come over and we could make s’mores and sleep out on the tramp. Well we did have a ton of fun but it started to rain so we didn’t get to sleep out on the tramp we had to move inside.

On Saturday we helped to move the office to the new building. Myia and Kenny were awesome helpers and we got a lot moved.

I think Kenny may be jumping on Myia

It looks like its snowing but its just the ash from the fire

Jordan trying to figure out how to get the stuff off the top shelf

Kenny figured out how to get it down!

The new office

Auntie in her new playroom

Kenny's helping gma go through gpa Kens stuff

Brysen didn't like walking back and forth so he would always take two boxes

We had a really fun weekend but there were a few things missing like one Lauren and one Parker.

Pros and Cons

2011-05-26T12:26:00.002-06:00

Yesterday I was extremely bored and started thinking if I was in Cedar........then I thought if I was in Cedar I wouldn't be able to go to Sunday dinners, or hang out with my cousins, or have sleepovers on the tramp, or meet new people, and I wouldn’t get to have a new adventure. I’ve decided that adventures build character and teach you new lessons.

Going to UVU :/

2011-05-18T10:56:00.001-06:00

So an advisor at SUU said that I should go up to UVU and take calculus II over the summer that it was the same as here. Well dean of the college of math you were soooooooo wrong! UVU starts about 2 chapters after SUU ended and the teacher doesn’t explain why you do what you are doing she just does a whole bunch of examples and says "so we have what" and "this equals what" a lot but they aren’t questions for the class she is literally asking herself how to do the problem and sometimes she does it wrong and has to go back and do it again! Needless to say I dropped that class, trying to do two extra chapters of work while trying to figure out what the craziness she is doing on the board was just too confusing. Instead I decided to try to up my grade in calculus I so I'm just going to retake it and hopefully get a higher grade to raise my GPA. I also found out that they teach a class that I forgot to withdraw from when I stopped going so that will be very helpful in raising my GPA and I can take a class to fulfill all the requirements for my minor. So I guess that the summer won't be a total loss. I also moved hoping it would be easier to find a job, well it’s hard to find a job anywhere, I’m either over qualified or under qualified, so my quest for a job goes on.

I have one roommate and like the 5^th day I was here she asked me “How Mormon are you?” I’m still not really sure how to answer that question. My roommate follows most of the commandments from what I can see, not including modesty or going to church. Hayley said that her institute teacher calls them Mormon but…….s.

Here are some pictures of my apartment. The kitchen is really small and feels crowded when the two of us are in it I couldn’t imagine what it’ll be like if we get a roommate or two. I live on the 3^rd floor and have a beautiful view of the church. (note the sarcasm) There is a train that goes by about 5 times a day and blows its horn an excessive amount; it’s a good thing I’m a heavy sleeper so I can sleep through it. Where I live is pretty cool it has a workout room with TV’s and they transmit the sound to the treadmills so you just plug in your headphones and watch what you want at the volume you want. There are also two pools and two hot tubs, all of which are closed currently and very dirty, I hope this changes soon. There is also 5 buck pizza, a textbook store and wise guys comedy.

This is right when you walk in the door

The kitchen

The living room

The hallway to my room

My bathroom.

There aren't any drawers :(

Things I learned at SUU

2011-05-18T09:51:00.003-06:00

Well my first year at SUU is over here are a few lessons learned while in Cedar City

1. Every sound of every letter and when it says what sound and why.

2. You can get used to the sound of constant traffic.

3. Along with the traffic you get used to the sounds of sirens all the time.

4. Riding your bike is faster than driving, almost always. (College drivers are almost worst than high school drivers, especially when late.)

5. The picture of a tiger on the letter t is not a good idea because all the kids call it a lion.

6. Almost all ESL students call the quarter a penny.

7. Vegetables is a hard word to say and sometimes starts with a b.

8. There are not enough practice rooms and people don’t value music like they do at Snow.

9. That people don’t know who the Beatles are.

10. How to play racquetball.

11. Sometimes you have to ask the same question to several professors and see what answer is said most before acting.

12. You have to phrase questions like you would to a 4 year old if you want the math professor to be able to understand you.

13. You do not need a blender to make a shake, just a cup a fork and lots of patients.

14. Homework cannot come first, you must go play softball and go on dates and go on crazy adventures or life here is going to suck.

15. Toilet paper lasts a lot longer when you don’t share a bathroom with 4 other girls!

16. Number 14 only works if some of your professors cancel class so you can get it all done. Or if you stay up late and wake up early.

17. Make friends with good values and they won't lead you astray but lead you to grow.

18. I do not want to live by a freeway or major road when I grow up.

19. No one can be trusted! Sad but true.

20. I have awesome parents who taught me great skills, like how to get an earring out of a sink when someone drops it down the drain and is in tears about it. (It was from Paris)

21. Sometimes you just need to cry.

22. When prices on food and gas go up financial aid goes down. L

23. Going to bed at 2 am and waking up at 6:30 am three nights in a row is a really really bad idea.

24. Sometimes you have to learn the hard way

25. How to sleep through lots and lots of noise

26. If you’re nice to others they are nice to you

27. No matter how many times you tell people that you are not going to share your lunch they still ask. (This one bothers me a lot because this one particular guy says that it is very rude that I eat my lunch in front of him every day. Well buddy I’m not your mom make your own lunch!)

28. You can’t help students that never go to school

29. Doing homework can be fun if you find the right study group

30. Even if you are super tired taking the extra 10 minutes to read your scriptures and say your prayers is well worth it.

31. My parents are cooler than most, ok almost all, parents.

32. I’m glad my parents taught me of the effects of drugs and alcohol at a young age so that when presented with them I already had an answer.

33. You can eat enough at free food things to last you the rest of the day

34. Always eat the free food, even if it’s cold

35. Running and eating new foods does not mix, sticking with what I eat everyday makes my tummy much happier.

36. Great friends and awesome wards are rare so treasure them when you find them

37. True friends always find a reason to get together and then they make it epic!

38. I think I may have lucked out on the roommate front this year. Let’s hope next year is half as awesome as this one was.

Snow College Graduation

2011-04-30T21:14:00.001-06:00

Farewell Snow College.

I'll miss your awesome atmosphere and top of the line caring staff.

How I didn't do my homework

2011-04-17T15:42:00.002-06:00

So like all week some of my friends were talking about this hike and going rappelling and they kept trying to talk me into it all week and every time they would ask I would tell them that I had so much homework and that I couldn’t go unless I got it all done. Well I didn’t get my homework all done and they still got me to go. My to do list for Saturday was a big one and only two things got crossed off that huge to do list but I had the funnest time of my life.

We went to Red Cliffs in Hurricane and did this hike where you hike up a stream that’s in a rock valley. It was so fun and so cold.

We had to park pretty far away from the trail head because there were so many people there and we thought it would be faster to just go over the hill.......well it wasn't and this is what we ended up walking through

They were very glad to be out of the craziness we were in

This was so fun you had to climb up the waterfall to keep going.

(I don't know whats up with the guy without a shirt he was just

standing there when we got there and we waited but he never moved)

Thank you dad for the waterproof camera! I was the only one with a

camera handy and not in a Ziploc bag and we got some amazing pictures because of it!

After the red cliffs we went to In-N-Out and got some lunch then we went to snow canyon to go rappelling.

I got a page of my paper written while I was watching others rappel. All in all it was

well worth the extra work I’ll have to do tomorrow to catch up.

There are more pictures on Facebook

I couldn't get the video to go in order but this was during our first hike.

No one would jump from very high and this guy chickened out while I was waiting for him

to move and his friends totally made fun of him after I jumped.

Conference weekend

2011-04-03T00:27:00.002-06:00

We had peep wars on Friday....

you buy peeps and put toothpicks in them then heat them up in the microwave.

After the peep wars watched Sweet Home Alabama and Made of Honor and we made a diet 7up cake.

Sunday morning we watched conference and after the first session Brian and Robert made homemade pancakes and buttermilk syrup.

Then had a pudding war after conference on Saturday.....

I was supposed to still be clean at the end. I was just there to take the pictures.

Later we watched Life as we know it then Brian and Koby said they wanted to go play basketball so we played basketball from like 10-11:45pm.

I've heard of a few things going on tomorrow so we'll see what fun adventures come next.

Catching up

2011-03-28T21:18:00.000-06:00

I have been crazy busy! I have just now caught up from my 2 weeks of being sick in February and the week of being in the play the Mikado and life is good. I am no longer trying to do 3 days worth of homework each night and everyone has told me that I stopped being a hermit and they missed me when I was. It’s good to know that people care about what you do.

The apartment complex that I live in is very active and everyone is always doing something, if you’re bored it’s your own fault. Sometime last week Robert (he’s that guy you can’t help but love) came over around 8ish at night and asked what we were doing later. Me and my roommate both looked at each other and said going to bed. He convinced us to go play night Frisbee, mostly because I’m the one with the light up Frisbee. That was way fun and it started the week of late nights.

Another night we went to Park Discovery and played this game called dot dot. It’s a crazy game where one person is it and they make up like four things you have to do like go down a certain slide, cross the wiggly bridge, spin around on the tire swing, anything they can think of that’s at the playground. Then they decide how long they are going to count so they say like 20 dot dot, then they count 1 dot dot 2 dot dot…… and when they get to 20 dot dot they open their eyes and if they see you then you’re out. The first person to do all of the tasks and tag the person that’s counting wins. This game was brutal. I got hurt a lot. There is a little hole for little kids to climb through and someone said that we had to go through it, so there were like 5 people all trying to go through this hole not even big enough for one person. It was a ton of fun though.

A few nights in a row my roommate had movie parties and they watched the x-men movies I guess. I heard that there were games in a different apartment and that sounded more fun than sitting quietly in a room full of people I didn’t even know so I left. I ended up watching Flubber with some friends. When we watch movies it’s not quiet like when movies are on here, at #16 its always rambunctious and fun. They are amazed at how if they throw something at me I catch it pretty much every time and I’m amazed at no matter how many times you throw something at Christina she always huddles into a ball and squeals.

I stayed up late the next night too just talking and hanging out then I went to bed when they started the movie. This was one crazy night. There is this guy in our apartment complex that just doesn’t have very high self-worth or self-esteem and he’s always trying to get my roommate to go out with him. She went out with him and they went to dinner and then to a movie. She’s really bad at saying no, she’s kinda a push over, so I guess they ended up going to a rated R movie. Well I didn’t really like him much from the beginning, he seemed a little shallow and he’s always talking about weird stuff that he’s done. Well anyway I guess he went out and got wasted and then came over to our apartment at like 2am. I was in my room starting to fall asleep when I heard him come in. Just from the sounds of what was going on I could tell he was drunk. My roommates finally got him to leave around 3 I guess. I’m glad that I know who I am and what I stand for and that I told him that I wouldn’t go out with him.

The play was the week before spring break. Not a fun week. One Saturday we had rehearsal from like 10 am to 5 pm. My brain was sore, my arms were sore, I was tired and I still had a ton of homework to do. The next week was the worst week ever. It’s like all the teachers got together and were like let’s have huge assignments worth half of their grade due this week and then test them about it right before spring break. Between rehearsals and homework my social life depleted. Even though this was the craziest time ever I wouldn’t trade the experience for anything. I learned a lot about how much work goes into musicals and what the musicians have to deal with. Like the actor skipping verses or slowing down and speeding up whenever they want, musicians that do this for a living are my hero. Here are some pictures of what we could see…….

The bass player took this picture, she felt lonely in the corner all by herself so she was walking around, well trying to anyway.

They gave my camera to some random person and asked them to take pictures

It was small, dark, and smelly down there and only the front row of people could see the actors some of the time but it was fun. Oh and they had on wood shoes because it was set in Japan I think so you could hear when they walked around and when they stomped in anger it was really really loud. By the end of the play I could sing most of the songs and knew most of the lines.

Snow storm

2011-03-06T21:33:00.001-07:00

So Saturday night before stake conference it snowed a lot! I was not excited. I knew that in the morning I would have to wake up early and clean off my car and hope that it would make it to church (my car is more of a snow plow than a car to drive through snow. Should have thought about that when I bought it but it's still an awesome car.)because, quite frankly, my roommate is a really bad driver in the snow and she's lived in snow her whole life! I didn't even get to go snowboarding in it or play in it or anything. It snowed Saturday, was sunny Sunday, rained Monday, and by like Tuesday night all the snow was gone.

outside of our kitchen window

I didn't want to go outside it was cold and I didn't feel very good

the second car closest to the curb got snow piled onto it and he didn't think to wake up and clean off his car before putting on a suit so he was out there in a suit like 15 min before church trying to clean it off. Luckly another guy saw him and started to help.

Oh and this picture is in black and white, that car is really red.

Valentine's Day

2011-03-06T21:17:00.000-07:00

I know it's like way past Valentine’s Day but I've been staying busy with school and just having fun so I never posted these pictures.
Like the week before Valentine’s Day they told us to come up with a fun activity for our FHE groups and that we needed to just meet as groups and do something so I asked my friend who is the leader of another group if she wanted to make cookies and decorate them and we could combine our groups. Well somehow it turned into everyone coming over to her apartment instead of just my group and her group. Not sure how that happened.

The master chef. (the one who ended up with our whole ward in her apartment)

People came and went and there are people sitting onthe floor behind the counter

My roommate Desa(on the left) and Sariah

and since I know someones going to ask the boy in the background is Daren

Two parties and a test

2011-02-12T14:35:00.002-07:00

The boys in the apartment next door decided to throw a super bowl party. They got a pot going and bought like $50 worth of food, most of it meat. It was really fun. They put two couches in their apartment, one on cinderblocks, and invited a ton of people over. There were about 20-30 people there. If you have seen my apartment you’re probably wondering how to fit 20 people in it, use your imagination and think like college students. I think someone took pictures but they haven’t shown up on facebook yet.

I spend most of my time at study groups for calculus as I am determined to get an A in this class. That’s why I haven’t updated my blog very much this year, I’m either at study group or sleeping. On Friday we had a test in calc. and after taking the test I saw someone in my friend Kristina’s class and told her that she needed to embarrass Kristina by having the class play happy birthday and sing to her (I should probably mention that it’s a class of about 10 people who play various string instruments) Sarah said man it would be even better if we had a cake to eat after. I decided that would be awesome so I called work and asked if there was anything for me to do or if I could come in late they said there wasn’t anything to do so I called Kristina’s husband and asked if he had a class at one and he said no so we went and bought a cake for her and went to her class and surprised her. Her husband, Wes, asked if the teacher was in on it and I said no, she doesn’t even know about it and he almost wouldn’t do it with me. When we walked in the teacher immediately started playing happy birthday and totally went along with it. And we did embarrass her and made everyone in that class happy that they got to eat cake instead of do their work. Then when I went to work they were having a party. Friday was a good day. Today just consists of making up two weeks’ worth of homework that I didn’t do because of the calc test that was yesterday.

Life

2011-01-22T17:29:00.001-07:00

What has happened since Christmas break ended? Well I got into all the classes I wanted to be in and at the times I wanted to take them, I talked my way out of having to go to one of the classes (it’s called string studio, it’s really lame you play scales and do busy work for homework) while still getting the credit for going, my iPod was stolen while at work at an elementary school, and I’ve played some awesome games of ultimate Frisbee.

Now to elaborate on the awesome things that happened. I was put into a math 1010 class when I really signed up for math 1210, I just about died when I saw that, there is no way I am going to take a class that I got an A in again. I went and talked to the registration people and they said I didn’t have the prerequisites needed. They figured out that I did have all the prereqs needed and they put me into the class I wanted.

I really hated going to studio class and felt it was a waste of my time last semester so this semester when the teacher said hey why aren’t you taking lessons and I said I didn’t have time or need for studio she said well you can take lessons and not go to studio if that’s what it will take. Well that’s what it took so now I am in lessons and not studio!

I pull students from their regular class and take them to a resource room. Last Friday was a super crazy day, none of the classes that I needed students from were in their classrooms and all the students were on one, they couldn’t sit still to save their life. In the crazy shuffling of students it went missing. We drilled the students and tried to get them to turn on each other but no one would. My supervisor asked me on Tuesday why I didn’t respond to her email that she sent out earlier that day to inform us of changes in the schedule to which I replied, I don’t have my iPod so my responses are going to be really slow now. I read my text books on my iPod and make lots of notes on it; I didn’t realize how much I used it until it was gone. Somehow the temporary principal found out about how much I use it and he graciously gave me money to replace it.

I played some awesome games of ultimate Frisbee. One day we played in the mud and it was awesome. Everyone was sliding around and was covered with mud by the end of the game. The other game we played on a less muddy field but it was coold. I also went to the gymnastics meets with my friends and have been doing a ton of homework. That’s what I’ve been up too.

Dads crazy 4 and 1/2 layer bars

2011-01-09T17:17:00.000-07:00

So my dad had this crazy idea to make a better seven layer bar without coconut and he described it all to me while we were shoveling the driveway (I think he thinks too much when he's bored.). So this is what he said to me "what if you made seven layer bars like this: make the bottom layer, wait what even goes into seven layer bars I've never made them." I then explained the process of seven layer bars to him and he goes "O.k. so make the bottom crust layer then the sweetened condensed milk layer then put peanut butter chips and then milk chocolate chips then," in a very excited voice "put more crushed graham crackers on it." while we were making these crazy treats he goes "what if you put marshmallows in it?!" He put marshmallows on half and then covered them with some more sweetened condensed milk. My mom said he was crazy but we made them anyway. When they came out my mom said they were too sweet and you couldn’t eat them and they would just go bad, well they didn’t they got eaten very fast.

My mom said the marshmallows would just burn but they didn't

they turned out nice and crispy crunchy

Christmas

2010-12-29T15:13:00.000-07:00

Dylan got a bath time basketball game

I got an amp for my cello.

my dad says that defeats the purpose of the silent cello,

I say who wants a silent cello?

Grandma got a Nook

Jordan was very excited to have knifes and scissors.

He said it's hard to make stuff without them

My dad got 5 things of foamy soap and socks

he was one happy camper

oh ya he also got new church shoes but said there was nothing wrong with the old ones

duct tape fixes everything

we got auntie a TV so she can see the scores of the football games

without having to walk upstairs

naturally everyone but gma got to play with the nook

Mason really liked playing my ipod, taking it back was not an option

where'd the trampoline go?

this is snow from today

this is how much it snowed this morning

third times the charm!

2010-12-14T23:07:00.000-07:00

Hey just wanted to let everyone know that I CAN pass English 2010, it may take 3 tries but I can do it and with a B+, which is way better than I thought I'd get. I thought that if I was lucky I'd get a C but I was planning on seeing a C- on my transcripts. Am I good or what?!

Just an update

2010-12-11T19:08:00.002-07:00

No big adventures to tell about. Thanksgiving was good, small and fun. They closed campus the Tuesday before Thanksgiving and told everyone that was heading north to leave quickly, so I left work early to make it home before the “blizzard”, it turned out it was just like every other night in Mapleton, high winds and a small dusting of snow when we woke up, nothing amazing. The drive back to school was more adventurous. This was a storm they should have warned everyone about. I made it almost half way to school when I started to see a lot of traffic, it’s kinda weird to run into traffic in the middle of nowhere, and by time I made it to beaver you couldn’t see the road or the reflectors on the side. It was crazy! The next week of school was insane, it was hard to find parking spots, the roads were covered as fast as they were cleared, and I learned that my car is an awesome snow plow. Not to mention it was the last week of classes so teachers were piling on the work. Don’t leave projects you’ve known about all semester for the last week, there is way too much to do in one week to add anything else.

My dad texted me and asked what I was doing, my reply, writing a paper on a book I never read, his response, check your e-mail. This is what I found.

Part of a talk by President Monson.

Now, that would be kind of overwhelming, except that every semester for 21 years he had given the same examination in every class of Religion 101. The examination consisted of one question. And for all those years, the question had been the same. Can you believe it? What a snap class! The question had always been: Describe the travels and teachings of the Apostle Paul.

Some young people would come to class the first day and get their name on the record. That was about it until the final examination. Then they would come, having boned up on an answer to that question.

One particular semester, three young men who had followed that practice of registering and then absenting themselves until the end of the semester sat with their pencils poised as the professor went to the chalkboard and said, “I shall place on the board the question on which your entire grade will depend.” To their great astonishment he did not write the usual question. Instead, he wrote, “Criticize the Sermon on the Mount.”

One of the three young men said, “I don’t even know what book it is in.” He closed his test book and left the room.

The second young man thought for a moment. He didn’t know anything about the Sermon on the Mount because he had prepared for a different test question. He left the room, anticipating a failing grade.

The third one of this trio stayed in the class. He wrote line after line and page after page. His friends were outside in the hallway, looking through the door window, wondering what he was writing. They knew that he had no more knowledge of the Sermon on the Mount than did they, that he had prepared for the question that was not asked. They wondered what he was writing in that test book.

He didn’t tell them until the day the papers were examined and returned. They all huddled around to see what grade he had received. He had an A on the test and therefore an A in the course. As he opened the cover of the exam book, there was the question: “Criticize the Sermon on the Mount.” And here is what this enterprising young man had written: “I will leave it to someone far more knowledgeable and experienced than I am to criticize the greatest sermon from the greatest life ever lived. As for me, I would prefer to describe the travels and teachings of the Apostle Paul.” (p.s. I got an 80 out of 100 on that paper)

One more thing about finals, just as I was sitting down to take my last final I got a text from Nedra saying they were at the children's museum having fun. I texted her back and said that it was not fair to tease me like that during finals week. She went on to tell me how they turn the stairs into a slide, super jealous! I wish I was rich so I could fly everyone to Indiana to see the Smith family and to go to the world's coolest museum.

I am very grateful that I am a part of a church that is so close knit. There is a group of people from the ward and they get together all the time and play games and they are always making sure everyone has something fun to do and knows that they are welcome. I love it! I didn’t know how much I missed them yelling and running around outside until they weren’t there. This has been an eerie two days without anyone here. Yesterday I played ultimate Frisbee with this group. We were tied and it was game point and I jumped up to knock the Frisbee away from the other team and ended up being at the bottom of a dog pile. I felt really bad for Sean, he was going to land on me but he tried to stop himself from smashing me so he put his hands down to break his fall and Brian landed full force on his arm making it collapse and they both landed on me. I was a lot better of than Sean and wasn’t really hurt at all. Next week is going to be boring without them banging on the door to get us to go play ultimate with them.

Good news my English teacher told me I was going to pass, I hope he’s right, if not he’s going to get an earful.

Today has been an awesome day! I did absolutely nothing. No papers to worry about no tests to study for, and no homework at all. I slept in until like 10, which is quite a feat for me, I usually wake up when the sun comes up. I watched a ton of TV and also managed to clean our kitchen, which was quite the disaster after finals week. And watch more TV.

Well that’s what I’ve been up to.

thanksgiving pictures

2010-12-11T19:07:00.000-07:00

making gingerbread cookies

a gingerbread man puzzle

caramel cheese cake

mason not smiling

Keaton wanted to stand up but he wanted to eat

playing wii

he wanted to see his picture before I could take it

still not smiling

He's trying so hard not to smile

every little boy likes motorcycles

Crazy week

2010-11-20T11:33:00.000-07:00

Oh so much to tell. This week was a crazy week, I had an English final paper to write, a math test, and lots of other homework to get done before the end of the week. It was made a lot better when I got a package from my dad and brother. But the UPS guy wouldn’t leave it on the porch for some reason (we think it’s because it said compliance medical on it). When I did finally get it it was hard to open to say the least; you know those kind of packages. I played in a racquetball tournament on Wednesday night. Thursday I got my stitches out and went to the midnight showing of Harry Potter. And on Friday I was planning on going to bed early because I stayed up late Tuesday night, Wednesday night, and Thursday night and woke up early the next morning’s but then some friends came over and asked if we had flashlights because they wanted to go camping then my roommate, Desa, and I ended up just going with them. It was a blast even with the weather advisory. The tent was very loud in the wind but gratefully it didn’t snow or rain on us. I love spontaneous college adventures!

No more stitches!

The tent we all stayed in

I forgot to take pictures of us putting the tent up it was quite the sight. We (me, Kollin, Desa and Sarah) used my headlights so we could see and it was super windy so we had a hard time keeping it down while we were trying to figure out where the poles went but we got it up in the end.

Desa, Kollin, and Sarah

we went before the other group and set up the tent and got a fire started

Desa gathering wood

They were dancing on the table

Tara, Brian, me, Desa

Kollin, Desa, me

yup it was really windy and yes our fire is oversized we made it smaller after that we didnt want to burn down the forest.

Yummy

they packaged my soda so carefully

it arrived safe and sound.

A great week that ended not so great

2010-11-13T10:57:00.000-07:00

This week started off great, I was caught up on my homework and I did something fun every night. On Monday I just did homework. On Tuesday I did a ton of homework and went to a jazz concert, it was really good.

On Wednesday it was snowing when we got back from cello lessons and a whole bunch of people from my apartment complex were going to play ultimate frisbee. We were playing with a white frisbee and it was way fun because the people who usually dominate were having a hard time because the snow and wind would carry the frisbee and everyone was sliding around.

On Thursday I did a ton of homework and went to see opera scenes, they were way good and pretty funny.

And on Friday I was going to end the week by going to see Inception and just hanging out with friends, well that’s not exactly what happened. I was all excited because the news said it was going to be in the 40’s so I decided to ride my bike to school. (It’s way easier to ride your bike, you don’t have to fight for a parking spot or park really far away from your classes and its cheaper.) So I put on a hoodie, gloves and my helmet (people always asked me why I wore a helmet to school, it’s not that far away and it’s not like it’s dangerous.) and got on my bike to ride to school. Well the apartment managers still haven’t turned off the sprinklers, I’m not sure why sprinklers need to be on when there’s 3” of snow on the grass, but they were. Well I noticed that the sidewalk looked icy so I went to stop to walk my bike past the ice, well I was on black ice that I couldn’t see and when I pulled my brakes I didn’t stop but my body was expecting me to stop and the bike slid out from underneath me and I think I hit my chin on the edge of the sidewalk and luckily I had my helmet on because it hit the edge of the sidewalk and now there is a small crack in my helmet, so that’s why I wear a helmet, because my head is not stronger than the icy sidewalk. I did still go to see Inception but then I just went home and watched some TV all wrapped up in a blanket then went to bed. And the worst part is that the news lied like all week so I didn’t ride my bike when I could have and Uncle Brad is coming to get grandpa this weekend so they are going to pick it up so it doesn’t sit outside all Christmas break.

I took this with my phone to send to my dad to ask him what to do about it.

I took these friday night after getting home from Inception

Well 3 stiches and a tetnis shot later and this is what ya have.

AWESOME!

2010-11-07T14:47:00.002-07:00

Friday night Tyson and Michelle asked if I wanted to go play glow-stick hide and seek in some caves in St. George, at first I was skeptical, a cave doesn’t seem like the best place to run around. They told me it was perfectly safe and lots of people do it. I trusted them and went along and they were right. It was amazingly fun. We cut open glow-sticks and covered the walls with them and got it on us then we played hide and seek. It was so cool. Pictures wouldn’t turn out and we tried really hard to get them to, it’s one of those things you have to see in real life. You would close your eyes and count and when you opened them it was like no one else was in the cavern with you everyone blended in it was so cool. This has got to be one of the coolest adventures I’ve ever been on in college.

The most dangerous sport

2010-10-20T22:41:00.001-06:00

is anything with a ball and a church group.
So the FHE group I'm in charge of is kinda lame. I'm pretty much the only one that goes willingly or at all. I think that there is only one member in one of the apartments they gave us and then my roommates usually make up lame excuses and the other apartment of girls only has 3 in it and one or two of them usually come, we usually end up with like five to six people. Well this week the guy that is supposed to help plan activities with me usually just text me Monday afternoon and asks if I planned anything. I usually have put some thought into it and can come up with something and send out a text to all of the people in our group. Well Monday I just wasn't in the mood so I told him it was his turn to think of something and I'll text everyone and tell them when and where it is. He came up with going with his brothers group and playing softball, I was the only one from my group that went and this is what I have to show for going to FHE.

This picture is from my phone the night it happend.

The next morning

tonight

This happened after we were finished playing, this guy wanted to just hit it one more time so me and this other girl that played softball on her high school team went out to left field to catch his ball. He hit it right to me and I put my mitt up but it just hit the side of it and then hit me. It was coming pretty fast I fell over and the other girl that was out there with me came over and was like "Wow that hit you hard" then everyone else came over and were like ohhhh, it didn’t sound good to me, I was very concerned. I could feel it swelling up while we were picking teams for ultimate frisbee and then they were like you should probably just go home and get some ice on that so someone gave me a ride home and when I finally saw it I was amazed at how fast you can turn that weird blue, brown, purple color. The next morning I was amazed at how bad it hurt.

Just to let you know sneezing hurts a lot. I know that’s weird but I keep sneezing today and it hurts.

Birthday List

2010-10-10T15:09:00.002-06:00

ankle socks from costco
febreeze air effects(my bathroom smells weird and it doesnt go away)
wal mart gift card
blender
itunes gift card
racquetball starter kit (you can get them from walmart or sports authority) it has a ball and goggles and everything included.
Beauty and the Beast on DVD or other disney movies. (lion king)
an amp for my cello
korg chromatic tuner
korg metranome

Crazy Fun!

2010-10-10T13:52:00.000-06:00

Sorry its so long but I did a ton and it was fun!
WOW! Where to start. The first weekend in October I went with Jeni and Brysen to the bug-o-rama in Las Vegas. That was a blast. We went to M&M world and the pawn shop that’s on the history channel and of course to the bug-o-rama. I took my camera out of my backpack the day before we left to take some pics and it didn’t make it back in so I don’t have any pics but it was still way fun. Keaton is all smiles, Mason has a ton of wiggles and always has to have a car in his hand, he really liked the loud noises the cars would make right at the beginning of each race, Kenny told me all about the different cars and he showed me which ones he liked and Myia loves to play card games, and is very good at them. I miss seeing everyone every Sunday but Cedar is getting more and more exciting as the weeks go by.

This weekend I had a ton of homework to do and I barely got half of it done but had a blast not doing it. These guys that live in my apartment complex are always getting us to go and do stuff with them even if we don’t have the time to do them, they will make great missionaries. Well on Friday I had a list of things I was going to get done this weekend so I wouldn’t have to bring any homework home with me when I go home for my birthday this weekend and I was determined to get it all done so right after my last class I started right in on my homework but left something at my apartment so I went to get it and when I got there Robert, Koby, Alex and Brian were talking people into going to play softball. I tried to sneak past but I just couldn’t and homework is not an excuse with them so they drug me to go and play ball. We didn’t have enough mits so I used a left handed mit and I felt like a complete nerd trying to throw with my left hand but after the game everyone asked me if I played softball in high school and they said I was super good and I thought I sucked it up. There was a date night at institute on Friday but I had not heard about it and Robert and Brian asked me if I was going and I said no I don’t even know what it is and as soon as I said that they yelled at Koby and asked him if he was going and when he said no I had realized what was going to happen. I went to date night at institute with Koby. It was actually a ton of fun. It started at the institute with making your own PB&J sandwich and picking out fruit and veggies and a juice box to put in your sack lunch then you got a kite and were supposed to go fly it. Of course the only night it’s not windy is the night that they decide to have you fly a kite so we went to the sandy beach and played in the water and skipped rocks and walked along the beach watching the sunset. (We went in a big group with lots of people from our apartment complex).

On Saturday I told them I had to get homework done no matter what, well of course that did not happen. I woke up early to get a head start and did get some of it done but then I went and helped clean the church and they convinced me to go with them to hike to the C. That hike is a killer! Its 4.2 miles and changes in elevation 2200 feet, its more exciting than the hike to the Y, there are more trees and a narrower trail but at the top it is freezing cold the wind is ferocious. They told me it would take like maybe two hours well four hours and super soreness later we are home. I did a little bit more homework and then went to the adult session of steak conference and when that ended I started to read my English book but fell asleep at like 10. My roommate thought that since it was the weekend the 11 o’clock quiet time wasn’t in effect that the managers had set so she came in with like 6 friends rapping and playing the guitar and singing at 2 am! I was so mad! I figured they would just get something then leave like they always do but after 20 minutes of this I went and asked them if they could use their it’s 2 in the morning not 2 in the afternoon voices and they were all like it’s the weekend party it up! Church was at 9 am and I was super tired, they would know that if they ever would go to church instead of just rebel all the time.

Well overall this weekend was a blast I did a ton of things I wouldn’t normally do and didn’t do a lot of stuff I should have done but I’m glad I went with them.

Well it wont let me add pictures so go check them out on facebook

Electric Cello

2010-09-30T21:24:00.000-06:00

I got an electric cello so I can practice in my apartment in the morning without waking up my roommates. I haven't had time to really play it because I have to be at the middle school before 8 every morning but last night I was playing it and my roommate wanted to see what it sounded like with the headphones and she was awed. She said it was like listening to a cd. You can barely hear it if I shut my door and my roommates said they can’t hear it if my door and their door is shut so I'm excited to be able to use it for practice in the mornings.

Crazy

2010-09-17T19:16:00.000-06:00

Between school and work it has been a crazy few weeks. I love my job and have decided that I may have chosen the best career path there is. I got a job as an America Reads Tutor. I started working on the 7th and the first week I spent cutting things out for kindergarten classes while all the teachers got all the supplies together and their schedules worked out. Now that everyone has gotten their schedules down I get to teach them how to read. This is the funest and funniest thing there is. In the kindergarten class I work in three times a week we have an alphabet chart, it has the uppercase letter and the lowercase letter next to each other and then a key word picture below it like this:

Aa

(this worked a lot better in word)

And so on. So the kids start out by singing the alphabet and pointing to each letter as they say it. This is especially fun with kids who have just sung the song and don’t know the letters, because they are saying f but are still on the lowercase c, and then the whole lmnop ‘word’ is fun. Some of the students don’t seem to think it’s as funny as I do, but some of them laugh right along with me when I ask them what the picture is that their finger is on and if cat starts with an f sound. Once they can sing and point to the right letter, they say the letter name twice pointing to it each time, then they point to the picture and say what it is; the bilingual students have the hardest time with this. My favorite letters are Jj and Ll because the picture for Jj is a jack-o-lantern and Ll is one letter in Spanish. The picture for Oo is an ox, I find this one weird because none of the kindergarteners know what an ox is. Once they can do that to each letter they add the sound it makes and do the whole thing; A, a aaa, aaa, apple. Only a few students can do this but if they pass that off then they read sight words. I have now become a pro at what every letter looks like and says.

I also work with the ESL teacher. I have a list of kids to pull out of class and they love it when they see me because that means they get to go and play on the computer for 30 minutes. This is the best time of the day because all the students are happy to see me and they are quiet for 30 minutes so I can read my English book, or do other homework.

I work in a third grade class helping kids to read faster and comprehend what they read. They have a one finger space rule when writing answers which I love! They have to write their word then put a finger down and then start the next word after their finger. No trying to read one word sentences in this class, it is amazing!

In the afternoons I work with an extended day kindergarten class. All I can do is laugh. By this point the teacher has lost a lot of patience (I get there at 2) because this class is a class for the students who just aren’t learning what they need to in the regular half-day of kindergarten. The other day a student yelled at me in Spanish and then looked at me like I needed to resolve a conflict and another little boy cut his hair, again. When I leave I’m just grateful I don’t have to be there more than a half hour twice a week.

I also tutor an ESL girl, she is really smart and I’m not exactly sure why I tutor her. They said that she doesn’t comprehend what she reads but from what I’ve seen she does know what she’s reading and can answer the comprehension questions just fine.

School is ok. I’m still a little skeptical about the orchestra, it doesn’t seem like its coming together yet but it just might by our first concert. Sadly I think the easiest class is my math 1060 class, maybe just because I know exactly what is expected of me. In my education 3000 class I’m still a little confused on how and what we get graded. I’m scared for the educational psychology class because he gave us like a 12 page syllabus with like a billion assignments in it and he didn’t really go over how to do them just that they had to be done so we could pass his class. I’m also scared for the tests in this class because all he does is read from the book, that’s a lot to remember for a test. English is English, I decided that it doesn’t matter what you have to write about or the teacher, just the fact that you have to come up with 5 pages of filler to say your thoughts in the concluding paragraph is a royal waste of time.

I pretty much feel like I go to school all the time because work is at school and I’m constantly learning. I miss blue-jeans. It is against the Iron County School District dress code to wear blue-jeans, but you can wear corduroy pants and capri’s. I can get away with wearing jeans one day a week because I’m only there for like an hour in the morning and I sit behind a desk so no one can see what I’m wearing. People notice when you stop wearing jeans and they ask all sorts of questions, especially if you forget to take off your nametag as you’re running in to class. I have also learned that an appropriate wardrobe for college is not the same as an appropriate wardrobe for being in a school, you can no longer wear v neck shirts, t-shirts, or your favorite old tennis shoes. On the plus side this has taught me to be very creative with my clothes so as to fit into the dress code, I have almost found a way to wear every shirt that I have, with the exception of t-shirts, you just can’t make those professional.

Zions National Park

2010-09-17T18:02:00.000-06:00

I went on a day trip with the school to Zion. It was a blast. We did the Angels Landing hike and the Emerald Pools hike.

The beginning of the hike.

To get up to the crazy part you did a whole bunch of little really steep zig-zag trails

Two of the other students I went with

The goal was to go to the top of the narrow steep rock,

most of us made it but some turned around.

The Angels Landing rock.

The trail was really fun.

Or at least I thought so, some of the other people were scared by it

This could be why. The above picture is the top of this.

To the left is a drop off and pink ribbons saying you will fall

This is at the beginning of the trail but on our way up there were a ton of people in it.

The little boys in the back were in there for like 5 min before we decided that they could just stay in our picture.

So they told us to hike to these awesome waterfalls.

There is a bigger waterfall that comes out of our gutter.

I guess it used to be this huge waterfall but it didn't look like a waterfall when we got there.

They had a little thing that told about it and this is what it used to look like. which would have been awesome because you can walk behind it.

School and work have been crazy but fun.

How to fix a shower that doesn't shower

2010-09-01T22:37:00.000-06:00

My Class Schedule

2010-08-28T16:13:00.001-06:00

I meant to add this to the bottom of my previous post but there were like a million things going on last night.

Monday
8 am practice (you have to sign up for a specific room and time, which sucks)
9 am Institute
10 am EDUC 3000 Principles of Teaching and Learning
11 am SCED Secondary Educational Psychology
12 pm ENLG 2010 Writing About Pop Music
1 pm Orchestra
2 pm MATH 1060 Trigonometry

Tuesday9 am practice
1 pm orchestra
2 pm practice

Wednesday
8 am practice
9 am Institute
10 am EDUC 3000 Principles of Teaching and Learning
11 am SCED Secondary Educational Psychology
12 pm ENLG 2010 Writing About Pop Music
1 pm Orchestra
2 pm MATH 1060 Trigonometry
I have cello lessons. I have to drive to St. George for them! I guess we are going to carpool to them and we each have an hour long lesson. There are 3 of us. Thats 45 min to St. George 3 hours of lessons and 45 min back.

Thursday
9 am practice
1 pm orchestra

Friday
8 am practice
10 am EDUC 3000 Principles of Teaching and Learning
11 am SCED Secondary Educational Psychology
12 pm ENLG 2010 Writing About Pop Music
1 pm Orchestra
2 pm MATH 1060 Trigonometry

I also received an e-mail Friday night that said I got a job so that will be in the mosh-posh of everything very soon hopefully.

You can change a bike tire with two pens and a lot of grrrrring

2010-08-27T17:30:00.000-06:00

Last week on like Wednesday I went to ride my bike to campus to find out it had a flat. I went and bought a new tube and when I got back to my apartment realized that this was not a well thought out plan. I asked my friend, Kristina, how am I going to get the tire off? She goes I don't know how to change a bike tire. I was amazed at this and so I started to look around to find something that I could use and she was fidgeting with a pen. Light bulb! It took me like 20 minutes to change it but it was worth it.

I have decided that the news is a day behind the weather. Yesterday the news said: sunny high 80’s so I dressed accordingly and rode my bike to school, it rained, no it down poured for like 40 minutes. After that much rain that fast the roads were rivers, it is not fun to ride your bike home in rain down rivers. I waited it out at the library but didn’t have any homework with me because I just needed to go to campus for one class then I was going to go back and finish it all up. I didn’t get it all finished; instead I went to a comedy act. It was well worth it! The guy was hilarious. He was way clean and he incorporated the audience into his act, there was this one girl who had a really annoying laugh and whenever she would laugh really loud he would stop and stare and be like the squirrel is laughing again, she totally went with it it was awesome. His name was Jeff Dye, you can you can youtube him.

One week of classes down about 12 more to go. After one week of classes I have decided the following about SUU (which may change with time):

1. The orchestra is a joke! The first day we sight read pieces that a high school orchestra would play but by the fourth day they got a little harder. The orchestra is smaller than Snow College’s and in my opinion not up to par for a four year school. The whole department isn’t as awesome as Snow’s.

2. The Education College here is amazing, they have all sorts of resources for you to use free of charge. I will be in a classroom by the middle of September observing and helping out a teacher.

3. This is the year I am going to pass English 2010! The teacher is amazing and clear on what is due and what is expected of you. It might also help that the class is writing about pop music so I get to use my music knowledge in every class and in every paper. Most of the class looks at me like I’m a freak when I use music terms, but I still get to put my knowledge to use.

4. People don’t talk to each other. I don’t know why but they don’t. Today in class the professor said your row will be your group do case study one. I turned to my row and said should we scoot closer together so we can read it and answer the questions and they just kept on staring at their text book. I gave up and just did it on my own. Hopefully this changes or this is going to be one long year.

5. I MISS SNOW! I miss all the familiar faces, knowing where people will be hanging out and when they will be there, and which teachers are cool to talk to and which ones you should avoid.

I just keep telling myself that change is good and that I will get used to being at a new school.

Moving into my apartment

2010-08-17T22:36:00.000-06:00

This is after I got all my stuff out of my car. I didn't think of it at the time

but I should have taken a picture of my car full of all of this stuff!

Tour of my apartment. There will be 3 other girls in it.

(there's no sound so no need to turn it on)

I got tire of watching the TV on the floor so I put a stool under it.

It's much better

Peanut butter brownie trifle

2010-08-11T18:03:00.000-06:00

My mom put all the Taste of Home magazines on the coffee table that she had and I was looking through them and found this dessert and it sounded delicious so I made it for Sunday dinner. It was soo rich. It had Reese's peanut butter cups, brownies with Reese's peanut butter chips in them, vanilla pudding, a cup of creamy peanut butter in the pudding, and cool whip mixed into the pudding. It weighed a ton when I was finished with all the layers but everyone liked it. There was a ton of it so I took some of the leftovers to our wards dessert night and everyone kept telling me how much they loved it and they told me that I should make more of it for FHE the next day.

Mine didn't look like the one in the picture but it was still tastey

Mom's Tri-Fit-Challenge

2010-08-07T11:58:00.000-06:00

Our stake has been promoting women’s health by having weekly challenges like; take a walk after dinner with the family, drink lots of water, go on bike rides, ect. They were marketing it to the relief society and had a race at the end of the summer of challenges. The race had a 1 mile walk, then a 5 mile bike ride, and a 3 mile run. Mom did it all in like 1hour 15 minutes!

The start of the walk.

The end of the walk

The end of the bike.

(my foot hurt so I didn't feel like walking or running to get good pictures so ya get what ya get)

The end of the run. I think every ones goal in this family is to beat a Haynie at running!

Kudos to Geri who did all three!

The gang at the finish line!

Making Salsa with Cherry Tomatoes

2010-08-05T20:47:00.000-06:00

In our huge garden there were only small cherry tomatoes ripe and lots of peppers, so our salsa was mostly peppers. It was fun to watch my dad cut up the cherry tomatoes though.

Yes he us cutting up Cherry tomatoes

You have to concentrate very hard to cut such small tomatoes

(The yellow on his shirt is from work)

This is what cherry tomatoes cut up look like

We have more peppers than tomatoes so we only put one bellpepper in and one of the white ones and one jalapano

Our finished product! Its not much but it taste great!

Indiana!

2010-07-08T15:49:00.000-06:00

WOW! Indiana was sooo much fun! So I got there and Elle was not happy that I sat next to her but by the end of the week we were friends. I played more war this last week than I have in like the last 2 years, Parker always seems to win. We swam almost every day and played lots of Uno. Nedra can STILL beat me at the speed game but I can win Lauren. The children’s museum is the coolest museum, you can touch everything and they even encourage it! There was a guy walking around the dinosaur exhibit with real fossils. He let you touch them and he told you what animal they were and what purpose they served. I learned so much at that museum and it’s amazing all the facts Lauren, Parker and Kate know about all the exhibits. Grandma drove up to Michigan and picked up Ollie’s kids. Earlier Nedra was saying how she wanted to play Uno Attack and when grandma picked up the kids they had it with them! We played lots of card games and went to the pool with everyone and just had a blast.

Now for the best part of being in Indiana: the fireworks. Dustin bought fireworks at Costco I think and they looked just like our packs but all of them and I mean ALL of them shot flaming balls; there wasn’t a single fountain in the pack. I was really surprised when I lit off a little firework that looked like it was going to be a fountain and it shot fireballs up in the air. Watching the kids light each other’s sparklers was funny because they would both move and it would take forever for it to light. Dustin also bought a box of pop-its and the driveway was like one giant pop-it. After you’d light a firework and you’d run back onto the driveway you would always step on some that weren’t popped yet. It was very exciting.

I was amazed that we got eight kids up and dressed and ready to go to 11 am church. By the end of the weekend we were all beat. We had quiet movie time and I fell asleep and Parker told me that next time we have quiet movie time I can’t fall asleep.

I love Kate’s imagination, she told us lots of stories. Lauren is so good at the piano, she can play songs at like the same level as me. Parker is super smart he remembers everything, if you need to know something as him. Elle is very very good at the word “no” it’s really cute. I think she knows more words than she lets on to. This was one extremely fun packed week when it came to an end it felt more like a weekend.

Oh one last note, sunrise and sunset amazed me because here it’s like oh its getting dark its dark and there it’s like oh it’s starting to get dark still setting still setting still setting now its dark, it seemed like the days went on forever.

Morgen was so afraid to light off fireworks she said she never had before she's only watched them

Me and grandma took Elle to the store and this lady came up with stickers and said can your little girl have some stickers? I just said yes and laughed to myself.

You can see that I was amazed by the fireworks. It looks so bright out but I think it was like 8 pm

We made these super cool purse notebooks it was soo much fun!

I love this picture it looks like it could be in an art gallery

This is in the Children's Museum it's called the Fireworks of Glass

We also made these really cool puppets

Kate was being Kate and wouldn't look at the camera

There are little nooks and crannies all over the Children's Museum its so cool to crawl in all the spaces

Dustin cutting the notebooks for our purse notebooks

Lauren put the camera underwater and then took a picture of herself standing out of the water at the science works exhibit

The pictures are out of order but I've lost patience, it took a long time to upload all these pictures.

California

2010-06-21T16:33:00.000-06:00

Kelly, Keri, and I went to California for a few days and hung out with Sarah and JoJo and Grammy and Lisa. We had a blast. On the way there we left at 4 Monday morning. It was foggy on the way and it was slow going but I got to use my fog lights. We got to Auntie Lisa's at like 1 p.m. and we set up the slide then we swam for the rest of the day. At like 9 we were tired and we decided to go to grandmas, but first she had us go to WinCo, we were walking around trying to figure out what we needed to eat for a week but we were like zombies just walking around. We discovered that it was only 9:30 p.m. and that we probably looked really funny walking around as tired as we were, when we got to grandmas she asked if we felt the earthquake, we said we were so tired we just figured that we were walking funny. We went to the beach on Tuesday and buried Keri and Kelly and Sarah and JoJo in the sand, it was kind of cold so we went back to Lisa's and swam and sat in the hot tub. On Wednesday we helped grandma do some yard work then we watched Enchanted and Sarah and JoJo came over and we played hide and seek with them. Then we left on Thursday morning and the car overheated in Baker so we drove with the windows down and the heater on. Keri does not like the windows down so me and Kelly rolled her window down then locked it. We made a lot of stops on the way back to check the fluids every time someone had to use the bathroom we stopped. When we were almost home I had my window down and it was a little chilly and Keri kept yelling "I'M COLD!" "IT'S COOOOOOLD!" so then I was yelling back at her "KERI'S COOOOLD KELLY" It was really fun! When we got off our exit me and Keri yelled at the top of our lungs "WE'RE HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME!" Until we ran out of air. Then we made it home.

Memorial Day

2010-06-01T16:13:00.002-06:00

What? it worked!

Its so cold he wont even get in!

O.K. so he was the first to go under.

Yes it was cold enough to need to stand by the fire after swimming

We had a ton of fun yesterday, even if it was freezing cold. We cleaned off aunties deck, hung the hammock, swam in the pool, and of course at smoked ribs and chicken! I don't know who's crazier Kenny or Mason but they had a lot of fun. I taught Myia and Kenny how to do backies on the tramp so I could have bakie wars with them like me and Nedra used to have and they are getting pretty good at it. Nedra, you'll have to come out and show them how a pro does it. Only 28 more days until Indiana!

Who wants to go swimming?

2010-05-30T19:54:00.000-06:00

Dad Sweeping out the pool

Vacuuming up the pond. I wish there was smellavision it smelled like fish.

Mom 'helping'

Power washing the pool

Myia, Kenny and Mason played in the foot of water that was in the bottom. Mason literally jumped out of Uncle Dylans arms into the pool and was not happy when we made him get out.

How to entertain Mason

2010-05-11T15:20:00.002-06:00

The Green Brittney

2010-05-08T12:34:00.002-06:00

I love how I'm only green on one side. It was a pretty hot day but the new weed eater was throwing stuff pretty hard so I kept my hoodie on. Our yard looks all clean now.

I was just walking outside when I saw the weed eater so I had on nice pants, I shure hope I can get all the green off of them.

Bye Bye Snow College

2010-05-02T11:27:00.000-06:00

So my last day in Ephraim the power went out for like 3 hours. It wouldn’t have been so bad except that we had been cleaning our apartment all morning and it went off like two hours before I needed to be at rehearsal on Friday and I hadn't showered since Wednesday night. Our bathroom has no windows, I showered in the dark. Then I went to rehearsal and Dr. Smith was like well we are rehearsing without power in a sunny snow storm with all the doors open. It was so cold that our instruments wouldn’t stay in tune. I was trying to help my stand partner tune his C string then my C string fell out of tune. The power came back on for like the last half hour of practice, and at the end we got pizza. After rehearsal I went back to my apartment but the internet wasn't working and we didn't have a TV., (my roommates broke ours earlier in the year and we were just borrowing one so we had to give it back when the person moved out) so I was really bored so we went to Wal-Mart to get something for breakfast for Saturday but my roommate couldn't find what she wanted so we went to Kent’s marketplace but we couldn’t find it there either but we did find kool aid bursts on sale so we bought them. Then we went to Maverick to find what she wanted for breakfast and we did. Then we went back to see if the internet was working, but it wasn’t, so we watched Lois and Clark: the new adventures of Superman. I think I ate more sugar and junk food on Thursday and Friday then I did all year.

Almost there!

2010-04-23T15:45:00.000-06:00

So last night my roommate comes running out of our room screaming "SOMEONES TAPPING ON OUR WINDOW!" I wasn't very surprised since we live on the bottom floor, so I said "Open up the blinds and see who it is, the windows locked." (I was watching Antwone Fisher and didn't want to get up). She wouldn’t so Jessica did, and it was SpongeBob. Yup SpongeBob was tapping on our window at 11 O'clock last night. He was a piñata that was being hung off the roof and he kept moving all around. We tried to catch him when he knocked on our front door but we never caught him. Finals week in Ephraim is very interesting.

My friend had this joke as her status on facebook and I thought it was funny:

What's the difference between alto clef and Greek?

Some people can actually read Greek!

1 more day of classes.. sort of

2010-04-21T17:11:00.000-06:00

Only one more day of stuff to do. I have orchestra rehearsal, then my piano final then the pedagogy (pronounced ped-a-go-gee) final. Which I kind of find unfair because in piano we had to write accompaniments to pieces that the pedagogy class picked out so I have to play in pedagogy then again for piano class. I also have no homework left and both of my finals are next Thursday so I'm kinda bored now that I don't have to practice all the time or do any homework. Turns out Ephraim is a pretty boring place to be, now I understand why my roommates are always so bored.

Sun!

2010-04-11T20:52:00.001-06:00

Utahs winter finally decided to let spring come out and play and play we did. Mason decided that he was going to cry unless he was outside so we spent the whole sunday playing out in the beautiful sunshine.

Dont let the snow fool you it really was a warm spring day

My dad was a much better kite flyer than me

Kenny was the best kite flyer out of all of us

I love Masons look. He's like I'm gonna get that kite string and let it go.

Kenny had better luck than everyone, he put rocks on the handle of his kite and just walked away and his stayed up but mine and Myias wouldn't stay up for anything. Mason went to "help" him with collecting the rocks.

Kennys kite is winning the race!

Kenny and Mason playing with rocks. If we didn't tell them it was getting cold and that it was time to go in they would still be out there playing with rocks and flying the kite.

It got cold once the sun went down.

12!

2010-04-07T19:17:00.001-06:00

12 more days of classes, 24 days until the end of school, and 36 days until I get my braces off!

14 days of school

2010-04-06T11:31:00.001-06:00

Only 14 days of classes left! I can't wait for summer break!
And 37 days until braces come off!

Festival of Colors

2010-03-27T21:05:00.000-06:00

This was when we first got there

this was before everyone threw their colors all at once,

people were just throwing it a little at a time because they couldn't wait.

This is what it looked like when everyone threw the colors at once

after the color throwing

wow we are covered

they got covered!

Yesterday Kristina and I went and auditioned at SUU, and on our way back to school Friday night we were trying to decide what to do on Saturday so that we wouldn't be bored in Ephraim when her boyfriend Wes showed up, he proposed. He wanted to go to a family party with Kristina today but then she wouldn't have a ride back to Ephraim, so he convinced me to go home this weekend and said that we should go to the festival of colors. It was so much fun! It was crazy packed and it was hard to see when the colors were thrown but it was a blast, everyone should go to the festival of colors at least once.

CRASH!

2010-03-25T18:47:00.000-06:00

Those of you on facebook saw that I got in a car crash. The first thing Dylan asked my dad when I called him to come and check out the damage was “Did she finally total it!?” Yes Dylan it has been totaled.

We decided to get one last time of snowboarding in before my friend Shea left for India and Shayna, Auntie Wandas granddaughter, is in town on spring break and had never been night boarding so we decided on one last hurrah. It was an awesome night of boarding, I taught Shayna how to use her front edge and how to go across the mountain and switch from front to back it was way exciting! She was so happy to be able to do it. We hit every jump on our last run down and no one got hurt or even crashed super hard all night! It was like the best day of boarding ever. When we were taking our gear off we were deciding on whether or not to go to Five Guys Burger and Fries, we decided not to go because Shea hadn’t finished her packing and her mom said while we were leaving that she thought that Shea should stay home and get it all done. Right after the crash Shea goes “Maybe we should have gone to Five Guys” It was pretty scary, the guys truck that ran into mine was a dodge 250 lifted truck, his bumper was right at my head level and it freaked me out.

If you know the area this is what happened: I was going up the hill on highway 89 heading home and there is construction so both lanes of traffic are on the southbound lanes so I was paying a lot of attention to where the cones were putting me and making sure that the oncoming cars were in their right lane. (It’s really hard to tell which lane to be in coming from the other direction.) When all of the sudden Shea, who was sitting in the back seat, yelled “CAR!” I slammed on my breaks and he hit me so hard we continued up the road and we slammed into the curb. The snowboards came flying up through the middle of the seats and hit the windshield. Luckily everyone had their seatbelt on and all that happened was our arms hurt where our seatbelts kept us in.

Goblin Valley

2010-03-20T21:34:00.002-06:00

Kelly being the karate kid

Taking pictures while jumping is hard

for some reason I was always the guinea pig they wanted to see if you could climb through the hole, turns out you can it was really hard though

Its a pirate ship

Playing leap frog

meditation rock

the rocks were warm

Keri was scared to jump this she said it was too far I made her jump it, she made it.

It looks like a giant saddle

riding on a dinosaur

Like I said I was the guinea pig, this hole went back quite a ways and was very dark so we got out my flashlight

We were catching the snow, it was a weird texture

What on earth is this sign warning you of?

For spring break me and Kelly and Keri went to Goblin Valley for a day. It was super windy and at the end it started to snow, it looks like a warm sunny day but it was cold and very windy. We had a blast and were so worn out by the end.

Warm sunny winter day?

2010-03-04T18:16:00.000-07:00

Today it was a beautiful day, or at least it started that way. It was so warm that this morning when I left my apartment at 8 I didn’t take a hoodie or jacket or anything. I was so happy that I didn’t when I got to the music building and it was super hot in there. I went to math, then back to the music building for the rest of my day and it was still warm. At the end of orchestra it started to get super dark and cloudy and by the end of our next class it had snowed 3”. Yes 3” in one hour! By 5:30 when my class ended it was a cold and slushy walk home.

I took this picture by sticking the camera out the door of our apartment, its super cold and all this snow is from a two hour snowstorm.

Way to go Idaho!

2010-02-22T21:15:00.000-07:00

Me and Auntie Wanda went to Idaho to visit Demis, Glynn, and Shayna. It was a blast! Demis took me snowboarding on this trail that was like a motocross trail for snowboarders it was soo much fun. I decided that that was my new favorite run of all time. I wish that we could just take that mountain and move it to the awesome soft powder of Utah, that would make the ultimate resort.

Awesome day!

2010-02-17T21:54:00.000-07:00

Today has been a great day! I came back from my math study group wondering why on earth I go to class since I’m 2 assignments ahead of where we need to be, and wondering what on earth am I going to do the rest of the week in Ephraim if all of my classes are cancelled to my roommate playing Super Smash Bros. on the Game Cube and jumping around totally into the game. She hands me the controller and says “help me kill them!” I started to laugh that the first thing that’s said when you walk through the door is a line that could be used in a zombie movie. I of course took the controller and started to push buttons randomly asking what the objective was and she said “duh, to kill the other team” It made my day, mostly because I was just going to get something to eat and then go to the library and do some more math and finish my paper. I didn’t do either and now I have a reason to be in Ephraim tomorrow.

Last Thursday my piano teacher asked me a stupid question so I gave her a stupid answer, (I’ve had this teacher for 4 classes now) she later in class got back at me and no one in class picked up on it and the next class period they asked me “why, why did you ask that?” I said “I didn’t ask it she just said I did, we would have had to do it either way it was next on the assignment list.” They then asked why she said that and I had to remind them of the last class period and what was said then they understood what was going on and stopped blaming me for the assignment.

Today my roommates were talking about Pandora’s Box and my other roommate goes “What’s Pandora’s Box?” My other roommate goes “You don’t know what Pandora’s Box is?” She said “I wouldn’t have asked if I did!” in a I’m-not-in-a-good-mood-stop-playing-with-me voice. I then said “Is someone having a bad day?” in the most annoyingly uplifting voice ever. She laughed and said “Yea I am, sorry.” I had to remind her that she wanted to know what my other roommates were talking about. It was a very awesome day!

If you're bored and want to read something funny go to mylifeisaverage.com

Road Trip!

2010-02-17T17:59:00.002-07:00

Yesterday I was playing around on facebook being really bored and Jordan’s status said something about Moab. I turned to my roommates and said “Lets go to Moab and hike to the arch.” Neither of them gave me a response so I just went back to being bored and watching Bones. (it was a really funny episode where Booth gets out of the rent a car and says I hate England! I’m glad we had the revolution!) A few minutes later I brought it up again and with a little persuasion and some deal making we were on our way. We arrived in Monticello at about 10 p.m. and we were really tired for some reason so we just went to bed.

The next day we left for Delicate Arch at like 9 a.m. hiked it and got back to Alison’s house at 2 p.m. Hiking in the snow with tennis shoes and jeans on is very cold. It was slippery but we made it all the way!

Thats me under the arch

We went on this adventure on the 6th but my computer wouldnt let me copy and paste for some reason so you get the story a little late, but better late than never.

To practice or not to practice?

2010-01-29T11:40:00.000-07:00

So yesterday was crazy! I woke up at like 5:30 and went non-stop all day. When classes ended at 5:30 Kristina and I decided to go to her apartment and make some dinner, after dinner we decided that we did not feel like practicing so we watched an episode of Chuck online. Still having not practiced, Kelly and Jaynee texted me (writing out the texting instead of txting took a lot of thought) saying that I should come to the pool and party with them, well that sounded like a lot more fun than listening to baroque music so I did. We got kicked out of the pool at like 9pm and I was exhausted! I went back to my apartment with the intent of rinsing off then climbing into bed; that did not happen. I was extremely hungry for some reason which was weird to me because I ate a lot at Kristina’s so I was looking in our very empty fridge, it’s the end of the week and we have pretty much eaten everything in our apartment, and said “Man there’s nothing to eat, we should just go to Denny’s.” I was totally joking, I had already made up my mind to eat some cereal when Katie jumps up and says “O.K!” She then convinced my other two roommates to go to Denny’s. We left our apartment at like 9:45ish to drive to Salina. We got home at around 12:30ish then we were hyper cause we had been up for so long so we didn’t go to bed right away. I had a class at 8 this morning that I barely made it to to find out that the teacher was not there and we would just be watching a movie. Grrrr! I was sooo mad I could have slept in and it wouldn’t have even mattered.

After class I was awake and there was no chance of me falling back to sleep so I went to make up all of the practice time that I missed. While walking into my practice room Dr. Smith, my cello teacher, saw me and was like I love it when I see people practicing. I thought to myself if he knew how tired I was and how unsuccessful this practice session is going to be he would not be saying that. I started to practice then found that it was not working so I decided to listen to my piece and see if I listen to it if it will get better. I have now listened to it like 5 times and should probably go back to practicing it.
After being awake and listening to it I remembered what I needed to do to make it sound right and what I learned at cello lessons on Tuesday. I learned that you always start on the high note when doing a trill. All these years I’ve been doing it wrong! I tried to practice this today and found that it took a lot of thought to start a trill from the note above it instead of the note I see on the page. I also realized that I talk about practicing in the practice rooms yet you have no clue what they look like. Pictures always make everything look bigger, these rooms are pretty small and you can hear the people next to you when you are practicing. Kind of annoying, but at the same time it sounds soo cool to walk into the music building front doors and hear silence, then you go through the sound barrier door and an explosion of sound hits you. They fit together in a weird way of not fitting together at all.

To practice or not to practice?

2010-01-29T11:39:00.000-07:00

Here is my favorite room to practice in. It's usually taken but since I got here early today I got it. I took it by standing in the corner of the room all squished up. You have to position yourself just right so that you have enough room to use your whole bow but so that you can still use the piano to help check pitch.

I was playing through my song thinking this is not sounding right. I finally realized that I was not paying attention what clef I was in.

Temple trip

2010-01-28T09:52:00.000-07:00

Last night my roommate goes "Hey anyone want to go to the temple tomorrow?" I said "Yea what time are you going?" She said "It's with the ward," at which point I made a face and braced myself for her answer, "so it's at 6 am." I said "Well my first class isn't until 10:30 and I guess I can practice the cello later so I guess I can go." She then said "YES!" and jumped up and down.

While at the temple I read a story in one of the old issues of I think the New Era, it was about how a young lady had saved up her money so that she could go to the temple that was 2 days away. I was reading this and thinking, and I didn't want to wake up at 5:30 to make it to the temple by 6. Boy did that make me feel like an ungrateful idiot, but at the same time at least I had woken up and gone.

When we got back from the temple at like 8:15 me and my roommate were super awake and we were kinda making a lot of noise and one of our roommates was still asleep. She came out and looked like the Incredible Hulk, all scary and super angry that we were making lots of noise. I think it was a good learning experience for her, she always comes in late and makes lots of noise cause she doesn't have early classes.

Its really, really cold at 6 am in January in Utah and my roommate didn't want to roll down the window to take the picture as we were driving up, thats why there's little dots on it.

Things I have learned in college

2010-01-26T12:10:00.000-07:00

Some things I have learned in college that do not help me pass a class in anyway but help in real life are:

1. You can melt a chocolate orange and peanut butter together and get almost the same result as peanut butter cups, only cheaper, and kinda orangey.

2. You can eat a meal with a butter knife.

3. Wonder bread lasts longer than almost every other brand of bread, kind of gross, but it saves you money.

4. Some people are allergic to turning off lights and need to be constantly reminded to do so.

5. You can have awesome I told you so moments like this: So last semester I kept telling my roommates that you can’t sleep with the windows open, lock the door and the windows before going to bed. They kept saying “It’s too hot to shut the windows, and besides it’s Ephraim, what’s going to happen?” Then this semester a nice police officer came over and said “There have been a lot of break ins and a man has been looking for girls walking alone, don’t walk alone and keep the dead bolt locked and all windows shut after dark or when home alone.” I then said “HA! I told you so!” and walked away.

6. Some teachers let you do it whatever way you want as long as you do it and some teachers are on a power trip.

7. Paying the extra money to live on the top of the apartment complex is well worth it.

8. You cannot live off of top-a-roman but you can live off of peanut butter sandwiches.

9. Sleep is not always optional. Some days you just need to say “BE QUIET AND GO TO SLEEP!”

10. And last thing I can think of while watching a really stupid show with my roommates is; sometimes you have to watch stupid shows so you can watch the show you want to the next day by saying well I watched your show yesterday.

What things did you learn while in college that don’t really have a use but you did them anyway?

Venting about English.

2010-01-22T12:54:00.000-07:00

O.K. So I need to vent all of my frustrations of how stupid English class is. Why on earth do they even call it English 2010? You don’t learn about English it should be called “Writing Lots of Papers 2010.” That’s all you do. You write and write and write; then they say you can write on whatever you want, but their lying. You can’t really write on whatever you want, you have to write on what they think you should write on in the style they think you should write. Let me be ME! In math you do math in science you study science, then why on earth in English do they teach you how a library works, or how to research yet again? They don’t make you start with adding 1+1 in math 1050 so why on earth do you have to write a research paper in high school English and then again in English 1010 then again in 2010?! I think they should teach American, it’s not like anyone even speaks English anymore.

My teacher is a hypocrite! He said that he hated all the busy work he had to do in school and he almost dropped out of school and now his course is full of busy work! If you hate something don’t make others do it.

They get you all excited to go to college when you’re in high school by saying you only take classes that you need for what you like to do. WRONG you still have 2 years of someone saying no you have to take this class and that class and you have to do it my way, and they are adding classes for the incoming freshmen to take! Why don’t you just tell us what we need to become when we are born? What happened to freedom? I have not learned a thing at Snow College about English, I have learned how to cheat the system into thinking I’m learning things, but I learned all this in high school. Teach me something new or don’t make me take the same class with more busywork yet again. O.K. I’m done. If anyone is bored and wants to write lots of papers and be completely confused on how to turn in work, fell free to take Chris Riseley’s online English 2010 course. O.K. I’m really done now.

Fire is not a toy.

2010-01-03T21:48:00.000-07:00

I watched the Hatfields and two of their friends on New Years eve overnight. The night started out like every other time; they made a mess of the kitchen, got snow all over the house, argued over the computer, normal kid stuff, THEN, Dallin, one of Hunters friends, told Hunter that if you held a lighter up to his can of axe and then sprayed it it would light on fire. They then decided to do this in the computer room, YES in the house! Maddy came and said “they are making cool fire in there.” I ran into the back room and saw them lighting the axe on fire. Hunter gave me the axe as soon as I walked through the door but Dallin decided to argue with me, I told him he was not allowed to have a lighter and that he needed to give it to me right away. He said “no, you’re not the boss of me!” I said “excuse me. I do believe that is what your parents pay me to be.” I got the lighter from him but they found another one! At that point I had had it! I broke down and called his parents, the FIRST time I have ever had to call the Hatfields while babysitting, and I’ve been watching them for like 5 years! Van was seconds from coming home and killing Hunter and Dallins parents just said “Dallin you shouldn’t do that be good for Brittney.” I was ready to kill Dallin by that point. The next day when the Hatfields got home and all the kids went with their parents Jeni said so did they get better after that? I had to tell her no and that I would no longer be watching Dallin, he talked back the whole time and cause trouble. Jeni said I was the last person who would watch Dallin, all the others had said they wouldn’t watch him anymore either. I said well that sucks for his parents I guess they aren’t going to be able to go out anymore. Van called them while I was still there and told them how bad he was and that he was no longer welcome to come over when I was sitting. The Hatfield kids were getting ready to go get pulled by my dad when their parents got home so we just left and went and had some fun.

If anyone knows any easy kids to watch that pay really good I’m in the market for some new kids to watch.

So I recently discovered that my mother does not know anything about my life, she never reads my blog, and doesn’t listen very well when I call I guess. I was telling a story that had friends from school in it and my dad was following right along but my mom would listen to parts of it then ask what are you talking about? Who is that? And finally I just said “Well you don’t LISTEN to me when I call and you NEVER read my blog AND I’m talking to dad anyway.”
She then got mad at me and dad said “well how come I know who she’s talking about?” That didn’t help at all. I bet that Nedra and Jeni know more about my life at school than my mom.

Great Christmas

2009-12-28T20:01:00.000-07:00

So Christmas at the Lees in Utah was awesome! I got a ton of cool stuff and enough gum to last the year. The day after Christmas Dylan and Jordan were bored, yes bored, and convinced my dad that we should buy a Wii. well my dad decided that he was sick of hearing how we should buy a Wii (Dylan’s been talking about it since it came out last Christmas) so he gave Jordan and Dylan money and sent them to go buy their hearts desire. We had a grand time playing Wii Sports with everyone and New Super Mario Bros. Wii is really fun. Grandma says we should get Wii fit so we can play the hula-hoop game. Myia and Kenny both got Nintendo DS systems and some games so we played each other on them for a while. I think Kenny really likes his; he went from the DS to the Xbox back to DS on Christmas. Mason got a little car and he rode around on it like all day, he ran into stuff on purpose and laughed it was fun to watch. It was a great day here. Hope everyone had as fun of a day as we did!

Great Day

2009-12-16T19:11:00.000-07:00

Today could not have gotten any better if I tried. I slept in, had pizza for brunch, then went snowboarding and the resort was empty. After snowboarding we went to Five Guys Burger and fries. It was an awesome day. No one got hurt and we even tried to hit anything resembling a jump or if it had even the smallest lip on it. Great Day! O yea and Aunt Nancy's candy came today. It definitely can't get any better.

Dylan made a drink that even Frank wouldn't drink

2009-12-09T20:33:00.000-07:00

Dylan bought a Jones Soda that tasted like if you were to go to Chuck-A-Rama and mix all the flavors together you would get this drink. He then mixed it with an extra caffeine drink and some of my Jones Soda which was cream soda. It was super gross to say the least. He put some in a bowl and let Frank take a drink and Frank immediately walked away with disgust and would not drink anymore of it. You know it must be gross if a crazy dog like Frank won't drink it.

Glad to live in Utah

2009-12-09T20:23:00.000-07:00

Today was a crazy day. It all started at about 9 am when I burnt my thumb on a pan while trying to make chocolate chip pancakes. My roommate tried to put a silver lining on it by saying at “least it’s the last day you’re here this year.” I agreed with her until I walked out to load up my car to come home for Christmas and the lock was frozen shut. Great. When I finally got it open the inside had more frost on it than the outside. Even better. I started the car turned the defroster on all the way and went back inside to wait for my car to defrost.
I pulled out of my apartment, finally on my way home but wait why won’t my wheels turn? All the slush that flings up from your tires while driving had turned to ice about 6 inches thick and all around the wheels.(The snow plows hadn’t plowed any roads in Ephraim.) I tried to kick it off but it was solid ice so I figured well I’ll just drive to the next town and let it heat up a little then knock it off. Well at the next town it was still solid ice so I figured that by Fairview it would be soft enough to knock off. I got to Fairview pulled into the gas station and still solid ice! I decided that I could not go any farther without getting it off. I took my scraper/brush and started to bang at the ice with the back of it. I slipped and cut my hand. Now I had a burnt thumb and a cut on the same hand and a car that wasn’t going to make it to Mapleton, I was sooo angry!
Just when I was about to give up and call my dad this guy pulled up behind me and said “Could I help you?” I was soo happy. He saw another man at the pumps that he knew would have tools in his truck and went over and got him to come over and get all the ice off my car. With all the ice off my car it went a lot better. I was so happy that I live in Utah and that people would take time out of their day to help me.
I had to stop at the office to put a band aid on my hand but Auntie wasn’t there and me and Jordan couldn’t find what we wanted so we just put a band aid on it then wrapped it with cohesive bandage.
I made it home and Dylan said hey you should clean out the fireplace. I was like today has been a bad day why don’t you do it. Well needless to say I cleaned it out.
After all of that I just wanted to watch TV and play on the computer so I walked over the computer desk and kazam! The computer has a virus that won’t let you on the internet. So I went and got my laptop. Well when you have the only working computer and all you’re doing is playing around and someone needs to use it you have to give up the game you’re playing.
Can you tell that I’ve been writing final papers with lots of fillers? Well that’s my crazy day.

Sliding in the snow

2009-12-05T23:49:00.000-07:00

Tonight I babysat the Hatfield’s and I couldn’t wait any longer to see the new snow suit I got so I asked them if they wanted to go out and slide around on the snow and they were sooo excited to go out and play at 9 at night so we went to the school and played on the playground. My suit is soo cool I can’t wait to use it next weekend when Sundance opens. The only way I could get them to go in was to tell them that we would make brownies. It is now midnight and all 5 kids are still awake counting down until the brownies are done. I have a feeling this is going to be a long night.

Christmas List

2009-12-04T11:51:00.000-07:00

Ok so everyone keeps asking me what I would like for Christmas, here it is....

5 gum, the blue package
Wal Mart gift card
Summerhays gift card, or if you go to a music store tell them you would like music for a college cellist, some fun music like Disney or pop songs or something like that.
Metronome- I dropped mine and it doesn’t keep time right.
Jean skirt
Classical music CD’s/ strings playing cool songs. (The Vitamin String Quartet is cool)
Skull Candy ear buds (mine just broke today :( )

Thanksgiving

2009-11-29T20:20:00.000-07:00

Well Thanksgiving this year was a very weird one. There wasn’t as much loudness this year since NO one was here. Mason was sure trying to make up for the lack of noise though, don’t worry. Our turkey was the best, we smoked it and it was super moist. On Friday Myia and I went to Planet 51, it was a pretty good movie. This weekend has been fairly uneventful. I guess we’ll have to see what the Christmas break brings. Only one more week of classes, then by next Wednesday I’m done will all my classes and finals!

Manti Temple

2009-11-06T08:41:00.000-07:00

We went to the temple on wednesday to do baptisms for the dead then took pictures when we were done. It was way fun and spur of the moment!

Pumpkin picking for FHE

2009-10-27T18:33:00.001-06:00

Franks ready to go. He loves car rides.

Myia trying to carry a pumpkin thats way too big and very slippery

yup

Kenny being the troll under the bridge

Frank walking through the pumpkin patch

Jordan taking a picture of all the pumpkins we picked.

Birthday wish list

2009-10-11T20:32:00.000-06:00

Birthday wish list
The movie The Proposal
A digital camera, my phone has more pixels than my camera
5 gum, the blue package
Wal Mart gift card
A small surge protector, one that will fit in my backpack
Summerhays gift card, or if you go to a music store tell them you would like music for a college cellist, some fun music like Disney or pop songs or something like that.

Cornbellys

2009-10-06T11:23:00.000-06:00

I can't believe that its already October. Cornbellys has started and fall break has already come and gone. This semesters going to be over before I know it. My roommates have gotten better at cleaning up after themselves, and at going to bed at a decent hour. I think me waking up at 630 and turning on the TV as loud as they had it the night before has helped with that, if you leave the TV at a loud setting the next time its turned on its still going to be loud. I can almost play Allegro Appassionato, there are a few spots that need some help but for the most part its down. Well I have to go practice now.

Clean up clean up everybody do your share

2009-09-23T14:56:00.000-06:00

My roommates this year are like a hundred, no like a thousand times worst than my roommates last year. I have asked them many times very nicely to keep the front room clean, it’s not your room it’s everybody’s room so keep it clean, but they can’t do that so I told them today “well asking nicely isn’t working out so now anything that’s left on the couch or coffee table after 6pm is going in a garbage bag.” I want to be able to come home from classes and sit on the couch without moving 3 text books some clothing and a backpack. It’s not that hard to clean up after yourself. And why do dishes need to be in the sink, if you used it clean it! I clean all my dished right after I use them and stick them in the drying rack, it’s not brain surgery! A cup of milk does not need to sit on the kitchen table, drink it or don’t but don’t leave it out. I swear their mothers didn’t teach them anything! Can you tell by the use of exclamation marks that I’m very angry that I have asked them every Monday for the last 4 weeks to clean the apartment after the weekend? Well I am!

Utah Lake

2009-09-02T13:07:00.001-06:00

On Saturday I went boating with Kelly and her family. It was so much fun! We went to Utah Lake for like 3 hours and took turns on the tube it was crazy! We had 3 people on the tube each time, I’m surprised that no one got hurt.