College life is CRAZY!

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

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

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

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 :/

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

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

Farewell Snow College.

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

How I didn't do my homework

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

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

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.