Crazy week turned awesome.

If life locks you out of your apartment, hit the hammock. :)

Got locked out of my apartment and got to read outside for an hour. I really don't use that hammock enough...

These bad boys below look like gross green pancakes. They are actually the most life changing food in America. Not really. In any case, I LOVE THEM. Grandma &Grandpa Starley made them for me and so I had to get the recipie. They are ZUCCHINI FRITTERS. Yum *12. That means yum times twelve. I am in a math economics class and so I am trying to be fancy. :)

This week ended up being a keeper for sure. Went to the football game tonight and got to sit on the second row... DEEAM. It was freezing cold outside but I could handle it. I even got to see my grandpa! He is one of my favorite men in the whole world. We won the game and then I got to come home and prepare for my relay in the morning! WAHOOOO! I also listened to grammar girl while doing the dishes ... Oh yes, it was great. The only thing that made me nervouse this week is the fact that snow is just around the corner...

Happy weekend-ing y'all. 

TTYL. :)

Weekend of first & favorites.

 

All that I can say is that crazy brains planned the excitement this weekend and I am PLUM TUCKERED OUT.  I feel great about it though.  My roommate Hollie has been wanting to hike Mount Timpanogos for the past year.  Today was the day that we finally had time to do it.  My only condition was that we would make it back for the HOLY WAR... The BYU vs. UTAH football game. 

 

We left for Timp this morning around 7 this morning.  We expected to be done around three in the afternoon. We rounded up all the troops, made a quick stop at Great Harvest for a slice of bread, and we were off to American Fork Canyon.  We started at the Timpanokie trail head in a camp ground.  I was feeling kind of nervous for the hike at this point.  I didn't know what to expect ... all that I knew was that I was going to have to conquer my fear of heights today. 

 

The climb up to the saddle truly was not a bad or incredibly difficult hike at all.  It was just long and consistent in terms of the incline.  We arrived at the saddle and the view was beautiful.  The wind was roaring up there and I was so nervous to continue up to the summit.  After a little break at the saddle we moved on to the summit.  Part of the time it felt like I was scaling the side of a cliff in the roaring wind. INTENSE. Eventually, we made it to the top.  The only words I have to describe finally being at the top are-- PURE JOY. Seriously.  I was shaking a little bit, but I am totally going to cross off my bucket list item, "Conquer your fear of heights" after today. YUP.

 

The way back down to the saddle went by really quickly.  The rest of our descent to the trail head did not feel as quick.  Although,  singing climb every mountain and pretending to be the Von Trapp Family in the Swiss Alps did help.

 

On our way down, I started having a sneezing attack annnddddddddddddd realized I had a bloody nose. MY FIRST one ever.  I felt pretty cool. Weird, I know.  But it is totally something I would feel cool about.  Another fun fact about our hike: my fingers swelled enough to look like sausage links. I couldn't close my hand into a fist.  For the first time in my life I see what my dad means by "sausage link fingers."  I've got 'em. I was a medical wonder today. Ummmmhmmmmm.

 

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We attempted to go the football game for a little bit.  It is just my favorite thing ever.  The games also make me miss my family a lot too. This would be the 'favorites' part of my blog.  The stadium tonight was the most packed I am seen it in my four years at BYU. I couldn't believe.  Hols and I ended up sitting at the very top of the visitor's side with two Polynesian women.  I would not have rather sat anywhere else in the stadium.

 



 

Let the adventures begin.....

My roommate just brought me a bowl of my favorite Mint Chip ice cream.

Priorities...

SEE YA!

 

Stories of a Flowershop Girl.

 

          Second week of school... Accomplished! It was a great week in Provo town. I realized this week that I forgot how entertaining working at Campus Floral! I had a man blurt out to me as I was ringing up his flowers for another girl,"Are you married?!" I responded with, "no, I'm not!" I didn't think it was an odd question, I just laughed at how ubruptly he asked me. He then whips out his phone from his pocket, extends it out to me and says, "Well, what the heck. Put your number in." I couldn't believe and couldn't stop laughing after. Oh the adventures of working at a flower shop. I love it. 

       I walked through the fabric store earlier this week and wanted to sew like nobody's business. Maybe when I have free time! Another adventure I had this week began when I went up to Salt Lake.  I was going to participate in a wisdom tooth extraction study. We shall see if I end up participating in the study at the end of the semester. It freaked me out because the would keep me awake during the surgery though. We shall see..

Cutest brother in America update:

How cute is he! Skyler and his companion bought matching ties... I can just see him getting a kick out of that. In my last email he said "dope boy fresh" in the first line. He is getting funnier by the day and has grown so much already. Miss him to the moon and back. Elder Jacobs is the man on the right.

 

Back to the grind...& blogging!

Well, everybody. Today was day two of my FIRST senior year. That's right folks. You heard it right. I get two senior years. What a dream. Good thing I seriously LOVE school. :)

I can already feel the serious love for this semester. My classes are challenging and are going to definitely be quite the ride. I am in the integrated core of the business school and it is going to be a full learning experience.  I got assigned to my team for the semester and i love them already. It is me and four cool an hardworking guys. Lets do this thing. I had my first day of Pilates today and I am beyond STOKED. I have it with this little lady pictured above. We are going to have too much fun working on our fitness. 

Lastly, I started my MComm 320 class today and that is the reason I am back on the blog train! I will be blogging once a week again. Let's see if I can get my not so awesome, kind of crazy grammar into order, yes? I can't wait. 

Also, question of the day...why do I see so many men running around Provo wearing swim trunks?!?! CRAZY MEN!

TA-TA till next post!

-little senior girl :)