Semester dos...almost el fin?

I cant barely contain my excitement for summer...and with that I can also barely contain my love for this past semester either! WOWwwwwzerrrssss. I have FAILED this semester at blogging...sheeeshh. Well here goes nothin...readers diggest version, maybe...hehhehe :]

I just can't believe that my freshman year of college is just about over...and it makes me kind of sad. I have learned alot this semester...in my classes, about myself, others, and in the gospel. As of this semester I am OFFICIALLY a Reacreation Management Major and headed down a path that i really am passionate about. I was skeptical of first of the major...I just felt like how far can you go with a major in FUN? I am so grateful I took a couple Reacreation classes this semester and found what I truly love, and am so excited about!! :] I am majoring in the commercial emphasis, and hope to go into event planning, non-profit work, and improving the living standards and perspective of life of people. Recreation is so important, and provides the power of laughing and enjoyment! I am really looking forward to moving on in the program....

Speaking of Rec. Management...one of the introductory classes to the major is 189 Careers in Recreations. I decided to tak this class a few weeks into the semester once I decided to declare my major, but more importantly drop sign language...hahaha I had a cast on at the time, and I figured considering I only had one hand available for use, it wasn't the smartest thing to take a class where you communicate with merely your hands! :] Needless to say, I am so happy that i decided to take RMYL 189...We took a week long trip to Rec. sites all over the west (St. George, Las Vegas, Del Mar, San Diego, Orange County, etc) This trip included a totally sweet day trip to Disneyland as well, where we got to do a little meet and greet with imagineers as well! I got to meet alot of entertaining people as well as explore many career options...LOVE IT.

Movies ( JUSTIN BIEBER MOVIE 3D), and fun galore with Sar Bear, Laurel and Alex.... :]]

And in Latest News....I a recently physical therapy graduate, for my little thumb! What a journey that was... After about Ten to twelve weeks of healing, therapy, etc...my little guy is back in action! It is amazing all your thumb allows you to do...I am grateful for my little thumb thumbs. :]

And along with being a survivor of therapy...I am proud to announce that I have survived the SNOW! I will admit to having many thoughts this semester about staying home from class, when I opened my blinds and saw snow falling like crazy...but I went anyway! This winter has just made me more than greatful for the sun, and being raised in a place, where I was hardly ever introduced to snow! The day spring arrived, I was and am a VERY HAPPY CAMPER. I worked at Campus Craft & Floral again this semester, and I really did love it! I have learned so much and made wonderful friends. I also experienced one of the craziest days of my life at work this semester...VALENTINES DAY. We started our preparations for the day at FOUR A.M. The men of BYU campus sure do owe us CC&F girls...hahaha. It was a total madhouse on Valentines day, with a line out the door at all times. But it sure was fun. After all I do love holidays so much and any chance I get to celebrate!

I have made the most wonderful friends this semester...we keep each other in line, laugh our guts out, and have way to much fun together. I really love them. We have done some really fun things this semester...including camping out all night in front of our desired housing complex for next year LIBERTY SQUARE in the negative weather...when we really didn't need to...I can't help but laugh when I think about it. All six of us. SQUISHED in a small tent. Bloated from our great idea of getting Mcdees for a nice middle of the night snack. The sides of our tent condesating. And just laughing from insanity when we finally realised how dumb what we just did was...anyways...WE got a contract right??

I was also able to cross of #132 on my bucketlist with them! HABITAT FOR HUMANITY. It was the blasty-est blast I have had doing service in a long time. We made good friends with our boss SIR. CRAIG. A memory I will never forget!

WE CACKLED. WE SPACKLED. WE SANDED. WE CONQUERED.

We preformed in our ward talent show this semester as well which is something I will never forget...we bought D.I. out of overalls and learned a dance from "Coach" Jacob Guest, that is awkwardly fantastic and simply was unexpected by our ward. We are quite proud of that performance...to the point where we would watch it 20 times in one day. Ever since then we have been in love with making music videos, etc. To much fun together...to much fun. Yes.

SEMESTER DOS ACCOMPLISHED.

well that was a mouthful...

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Pictures coming soon....

DAY 5:

ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI.

NIAGRA FALLS, CANADA.

NYC.

GETTYSBURG.

ADAM-ONDI-AHMAN.

AMISH COUNTRY.

WASHINGTON D.C.

PLACES I HAVE BEEN.
...ALL DUE TO ONE TRIP. Church History Tour.

HOLY MOLEYYY.

A. I am obsessed with all old school movies, especially Singin' in the Rain!
B. I LOVE THIS!

I wasn't a huge glee fan this season but this made my whole day!!! Thank momma for showing this to me. This ones for you! Prepare to have your life forever changed by this video... :]

M.M.

This taught me, in all aspects of my life to avoid acting "someday" but rather today. I love this video so much, as it encourages us to act now and the way by which we can return is service. I know that by serving those around us we can be restored to a sense of our divinity, and the divinity of all those around us. Serving others is one of the acts by which we can invite the spirit into our lives and the lives of others. It is a strange and marvelous occurrence, the feeling you can receive upon serving another. It is of the most rewarding and necessary things we can do. In all my actions I hope to serve my fellow men.

Spade.

FOSTER.

I have had to many discussions about Kate Spade lately not to blog about all of the lovely, simple, and delicate goodness brought into this world by her genius. When I googled the word "Feminine" a Kate Spade Add popped up right next to it in correlation to my search...I KID YOU NOT! Femininity is one thing I believe the world and all women could use a little more of. Yes I am of the most guilty of being a slacker in this area...but...we should embrace all things feminine! Merely glancing over things Kate Spade makes me beam with joy at the fact that i am a woman, and such creations are made in mind of the woman (which I am). :] Why yes, it is quite expensive...but quite the quality. Why pay so much, we all ask. But today my question is for all of us is, why not admire? We can take it as a bit of inspiration! These little beauties you find your eye-balls glazed over with amazment by, are called the FOSTER. Kate Spade made with just a pinch of old-school-feminine-nerd-tanstic-ness. Could I be anymore in love with such a pair of frames? I KNOW NOT! And actually the price on the little puppies are not to shabby for frames... by this I am beyond ecstatic. I hope to someday have these gracefully resting on the arc of my nose, and the cure to my absolutely (not)attractive full-face-scruntching eye squint. In honor of Kate Spade I do this. :]

Round One.

End of first semester done, say what? I can't believe how incredibly fast it went. I feel as though it was one of the most momentus and challenging transitions in my life thus far, and of course it continues on. And ya know what? I LOVE IT. Sometimes, I stop and think to myself, What the heck am I doing here? This is absolutely nutso. It's kinda surreal as I reflect on my current life, day to day, as I thought this time would never come or happen as such. And thats the thing it just happens. Not necessarily a warning comes with it. It just HAPPENS.

Coming to college is truly a time when you come to terms with exactly who you are and really rely on exactly what you believe every second of every day. There have been times this semester that have been incredibly difficult, and this may sound odd, but I have had to learn how to enjoy and love the difficult. Love the opportunity to pull myself out of those difficult challenges, Love the lessons I was taught, Love and grow closer with those around me during those challenges.

As of right now, I am sitting in the Harold B. Lee Library with my most diligent friend Rachel Udall, studying for finals. She is the most wonderful example to me, especially considering she is studying right now as I am blogging my little heart out...hahaha what you ya know...I got distracted. I am really hoping they go well and am super stoked for them. A hot date with the HBLL on Friday Night is whats up right now. Nerdy? YES. Fantastic? I THINK SO.

I can't wait for next semester as it holds many new learning experiences (including how to accept the snow into my life.) As of now I am still ignoring the lovely winter fastly approaching...why yes I did wear capris and sandals yesterday. You best believe it. I am super stoked for my classes, as they will hopefully help me to decide on a major and start jet-settin' towards the future. Ain't Life Wonderful. And as is the CHRISTmas season. It truly is a time we can reflect on our Savior and feel of his and our Fathers love greater than ever. Home in 6 dayss!

ding. Ding. Ding. Round 1 is just about finished. And I survived :]

DAY 4:

LACK-OF-FOCUS.

Exhibit A: Yes this was in the HBLL were normally people study...NOT I :]

This would be A HABIT I WISH I DIDN'T HAVE.

MM of the Week.

I love the message of this times ten thousand! This perspective towards life makes it so much easier to focus on eternal perspective and our wonderous purpose and plan for life, that if we remain faithful we can return in celestial glory to live with our Heavenly Father and Savior. Such a beautiful and happy plan is his, and so should we be! Mormon message of the week. :]

DAY 3:

DARYN KAYE FRISCHKNECT

Meet Dee. D. Frisch. She is currently a Utah State AGGIE, and takin it by storm. It is the perfect school for her. She is one of those people that is always up for a good time, and spontaneous like no other. Even though we are only 2 hours or so apart, I really miss her. She is stronger than most anyone I know and just plain CRAZY. She taught me to not worry so much a not be afraid to try new things, cause she sure isn't. :] I LOVE HER. She will always be a best friend to me. So...MEET D.K.F....

MY CRAZIEST FRIEND.

HAPPY THANKSGIVNG

DAY 2:

The DAWG POUND: where and the people who I spent all of my friday nights, and many week nights. Most of my favorite memories are cheering on my team to victory with the pound.

GRAD NITE 2010: Our stake put on the world's greatest grad nite EVER. Dancing, Raising Canes, Jump on It, and Bowling. Holla :]

Senior Prom 2010: Me and K-rad started our dances and finished together!

Hawaii with my best friend SUMMER 2010

SEMINARY GRADUATION: with the greatest parents in the world. :]

Graduation: June 9, 2010 Official Centennial Alumni

MUSIC VIDEOS GALORE :]

Finishing the E-board To-Do List!

HOT CHOCOLATE DAY: me and my brother dressed as twinners in our super sweet brown jumpsuits.

E-BOARD :]

CHT: church history tour was the greatest and most fun experience of a lifetime.

FOURTH OF JULY 2009: The day we almost died. hahahahahahah

Tennis Seasons...worlds greatest :]

HIGH SCHOOL: A GREAT MEMORY

DAY 1.

1.My favorite color is yellow & I am a stout 5' 2"
2. I went 6 years without eating sweets and drinking soda (except for Christmas break & family birthdays)
3. I like living life as simply and "fun-ly" as possible.
4. Call me Ms. President- President of the virgin lips club that is :]
5. Two of my greatest loves are the gospel and family.
6. I could be classified as the worst/ most inconsistent decision maker ever created-it either takes me forever or i have already made my decision!
7. At night in bed, I mentally plan my meals out for the next day.
8. I have a slight obsession with happy music & dream of playing the piano someday.
9. Why yes, I do long for Vegas skies, drive with my windows down, and listen to my music just a little too loud.
10. I absolutely have the problem of sleeping in to often & it drives me nutso.
11. My life motto is "Come what may, and love it."
12. I am a great advocate of busting a move. at all times. in all places.
13. I like people.
14. I am hoping to graduate in Recreation Management, and do somethannn. Make a difference.
15. I am as weird as my dad, and I'm okay with that. :]
HOLLA.

sidenote: I am home finally!!!! Home really is sweet and I have re- fallen in love with Las Vegas. I am so happy to be with my family and back where I grew up and became me me me!

thumb. thumb.

Thumbs really are funny little guys, and recently I am sure grateful for them. They really just don't get enough credit in my opinion. At FHE on Monday night I played a sweet game, "wally-ball" (volleyball in a racket-ball court) with my awesome college family. I wouldn't be typical me unless I came out of it with an injury, and boy did I. I thought it was just jammed so I just let it be for the following day. The swelling didn't stop, so my friend laurel took me to the health center to get it checked out and maybe a little brace to support it. A couple x-rays later and...not only did I end up breaking it but I ended up needing to have reconstructive surgery. They wanted to do surgery the next day, but I was coming home that next day and didn't want me to travel after the operation, so for now I am in a brace until the Tuesday after Thanksgiving! I am so grateful it isn't my right thumb, or all of my fingers, or an eye or something. And after all i have taken on some pretty sweet nicknames because of it, such as THE CLAW & Bionic Woman. It has been quite the funny little adventure realizing how much I use my thumbs...So, I challenge you all today to think of all the things you can do because of those beautiful thumbs of yours. From experience, i can tell you the top ten of these things include...call them "Rules of Thumbs" if you will... :]

1. Opening things (water bottles, ranch dip, doors, Ibuprofen bottles, etc.)
2. Tying your shoes.
3. Picking up and Holding objects.
4. Buttoning your pants.
5. Unzipping your backpack.
6. Washing your hair//Shaving
7. Texting...
8.Dancing Properly (it is just heart-breakingly different with the loss of a filangie.)
9. Putting your hair in a pony-tail// doing hair.
10.And most importantly, DOUBLE THUMBS-UP.

I'm just grateful for my little thumbs, and can't wait to have both of them back in action together!

No more double thumbs-up or wicked sweet left hand high-fives for me for a while...dang it.

Ballin.

Emery. Jackson emery. Number 4. It just simply doesn't get much better than this my friends. After one game I already have him pegged as my all star for the season. Love you Jimmer, but Emery, he's just got my heart. BYU Basketball is FINALLY up and running and I couldn't be loving it anymore! Yesterday night was the home opener against Fresno State, or as the score board had it FRESNO ST, and for some reason my brain interpreted it as FreSNOT and i died of laughter!! The student section was a total white out. It was one of the most awesome experiences ever. I also scored a super sweet FREE "Y" shirt to wear to the game earlier in the week and got a super sweet pompom at the game that made me mone happy woman. And it really made me miss high school...all the spirit and crazy things we did. They started playing techno music and we all went wild, throwing our pom-poms all up in the air. I can't even describe the rest of it from there...besides AWESOME! Huge white sheets dropped from the center of the arena and all the lights went out. they projected a pump up season kick off video that was nothing but epic- "ARE YOU READY COUGARS. IT'S TIME." We all went crazy!! GEv from So You think You Can Dance was the half time preformance, along with BYU's version of the Harlem Globe Trotters! Hallelujiah for the start of an awesome season, and exciting games. LET DA GOOD TIMES ROLL. :]

Basketball is ma favorite sport. I like the way they dribble up and down the court.
but I really love football. It's really my favorite.

No, wait. Emery is my favorite! :]

LIFE CHANGING.

Once upon a time, four girls had took an adventure to SLC for a night out on the town. A night out to see LADY ANTEBELLUM that is!

November 2, 2010 was the day I officially fell in love with Lady Antebellum. Their Concert was my favorite concert i have ever been too. It was just fun, chill, and clean- and plus I went with best friends, so i guess the company wasn't to bad either. :] We had quite the experience, including an "awesome" drunk encounter, that made us laugh to tears. A middle aged woman and her daughter were just "Lookin' for a Good Time" and they sure had one, and made our experience all the more unforgettable. The mother thought that Jameo was my mom and kept talking to her about me, and got upset when I didn't dance along to the song. The daughter accidentally dunked Sar's hair in her beer a couple times, as they were standing behind us, and regretfully and slyly pulled it out. I watched the whole thing and about died of laughter. Sar really did almost die when I told her. Beer hair. hahaha We sang along all night long and got our country on. When the concert was over, we were all sad and the croud kept on cheerin. Before we knew it Lady A was back on the stage preforming the BEST 15 minute ENCORE EVER!

We left competely content and utterly deaf! Of course we got lost on our way back to Provo but I confindently sai it was totally worth it...i laughed and sang my guts out. We also had a nice little photo shoot before the concert started to sustain our own personal entertainment :

]No concert is a concert without the "SUPERSTAR"

Laur & Sar :]

look at mommacita GO!!

trying to resist the double chins of life....

And now for your listening pleasures...

What I've Learned.

Well i got shipped off to college to learn, and boy have I. But all that i have learned thus far is not just in regards to academics. I love college for this fact! Heres what I have learned:

1.) Really, its all good. Its all great! I have learned that how my day goes, and how I feel is all on me.

2.) How to actually study...FINALLY! The best way to study is to find the best way for you! It is different for everyone.

3.) Do your best and the Lord will take care of the Rest - Mom :]

4.) The Freshman Fifteen is no myth.

5.) Time is Precious.

6.) Rosie Noses, Yellow, Rainboots, My family, Good grades, Not Fast food, Not Sugar, Night Walks, Running, Agua, Backpacks, Movies, Cold Weather, the Library, learning new things, Making my bed, loving ,to-do lists, spare time & country music just make me happy.

7.)A Glacier is a compaction of snow and ice, where more snow accumulates than melts. Glaciers are in motion and slowly move with the aid of gravity. As they move they leave scars of abraision and plucking, hangin valleys, cirques, and horns. GEOLOGY.

8.) Boys are just funny.

9.)How to stay up incredibly late and still survive :]

10.) College is so hard, and everything is different but it is the BEST. & I'm a big girl now. Weird homeboy. Weird. But good. :]

The Testing Center.

Ahhh the joys of the Testing Center. You know, in a strange way I realy enjoy it. I have always been fastinated by it and actually look forward to taking tests because of it...i get to take a special excursion to a special building just to take a test...HECK YEAH! And in a more realistic way it creeps me out and alot of times leaves me feeling down. But boy was tonight an experience...I went tonight to take my beloved American Heritage Test and what I found was a line all the way down the stairs in the main lobby of the testing center. What a sight that was. Instead of the feeling of panic, all I could do was giggle. It was actually kind of fun. A new experience! I also ran into a couple of friends from my classes so we kept each other company. Now I know to leave plenty of time to take my tests always, and to be wary of nights at the testing center with lines like those. The lines for the testing center resemble that of Disneyland, but with nothing at all to exciting at the end..ususally. They wind back an forth, teasing you as you walk pass and away from the test administering desk and to the next loop. and the next loop. and the next loop. Your avergae experience at the testing center goes as so:

1. Enter and Walz on by the Vending Machines
2. Observe all the Last minute Cram-ers on the floor, pop a squat and join them for a few
3. Close those Notas, and head up the infamous Stairs
4. Make your way to the Test Administering Desk, hear the speal on your test, and get your specialized buble sheet
5. Open the door to the MASSIVE and relatively intimidating testing room and search for a desk availablem (TIP: have your eye out for pencil tappers, chair jigglers, etc.)
6. Finish up that test of yours!
7. Turn test in, and they scan it just in time for you too...
GRAND FINALE.
8. Walk down the stairs f despair, open the door of horor, and glance up at the screen for you test score.

I HATE IT. BUT I LOVE IT!
heres to more lovely journeys at the testing center. TA-TA :]