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 :)

Adventure time, ya'll.

So yes, I have been the worst blogger in America...but hopefully that will change this summer! I am going to D.C. on BYU Washington Seminar for the summer. I am going to write about my adventures and living in D.C. right about HERE.

Happy Summer-ing party people!

little discoveries.

how much do I love summer?

IMMEASURABLY.

But isn't it really the greatest thing? It is like this feeling of such airy-ness and freedom.

I am living at my grandparents for the summer, on the weekends when sports camps are out. They have a garden in their backyard & it has recently become one of my favorite things. All the flowers and fresh veggies that we get to eat for every meal. It just says summer. I went out to the garden and just walked around for a bit today. It was such a lively place, on a micro level of course! :] I snapped some pictures of the things I found, including a butterfly. This butterfly let me get so close it was ridiculous.

Also, my Aunt Jen has introduced to me a new healthy eating website. DASHING DISH. It is promotional toward healthy eating and healthy living patterns! I fell in love with it in just a few moments of visiting the site. I hope to put to use some of those brilliant recipies soon...like a huge healthy breakfast cookie?! GREAT! Also, ran in a 5k with Sar this weekend and it rekindled the love of running/motivation to run that I lost when my roomates left for the summer. I need to kick it into gear for our Red Rock Relay coming up in September....

Step 1: FORGET how much I love ice cream.

Also, #186 is OFFICIALLY CROSSED OFF MY BUCKETLIST....Sit in a Suana!!

Random and wierd.... but it had to be done! I accomplished it after an early morning swim in the BYU pool with these lovely ladies! This is not the most atractive picture but, DIG IT!

here's to another great week at camps... Cross Country and Speed and Power!

of the heart.

The smallest moments in life can make a huge impact on what we become. 

I was getting cash out at the small market near my grandparents house this last Friday night and had one of these greatly small moments.  I was running a bit late and had impatient feelings running through me. The woman in front of me in the express line was writting a check, and also seemed to be in a rush. I looked more closely at her and recognized the name of an event written on the sleeve of her shirt. It said in small letters,"Run To Walk." My non-profit fundraising class had helped the Now I Can Foundation, a special organization local to Utah that helps give therapy to children with disabilities, with this event. My heart got a little excited in the fact that I recognized this. I remember being so touched by their organization and their goals. I reached out to her and softly asked if her shirt was for Now I Can.  She looked a little taken aback at the fact that I knew of the organization and introduced me to herself as the Executive Director.  I explained to her that I was a student at Brigham Young University studying Nonprofit management.  She first responded to me by apologizing for the way she looked for she had been cleaning and working all day. After this she grabbed her grocery bags, paused for a minute and said to me, " Keep doing what you are doing. Good girl" , and she was out the door.

My interaction with this woman was but a few seconds and yet it ment so much to me.  It was a tender mercy from the Lord reminding me of what I have written on my heart. It reminded me that I was in the right place and to keep moving forward.

The heart is such a sacred and tender place. When we write something on our heart it is something we can never forget or deny,  Written on my heart I have the gospel of Jesus Christ. The love of my family. The illuminating power of love and service. The choice to be happy.

This is the largest girls week for the entire summer at sports camps. It is going to be another whirlwind-ly great of a week. I have tried resting up all weekend in preparation for the good times ahead.  Hopefully we will have some memorable stories to tell. Actually, I KNOW WE WILL.

:]

I have it written on my heart that this is going to be the best week of the summer.

"There is no limit to your influence for good."

~President Thomas S. Monson

This is a picture from one of my favorite & latest activities. Downtown Provo DANCEWALK.

Dance Walking through the streets of Provo with my fellow counselors.

Also in GREAT NEWS:

I am a self professed EFY lover/nerd. The new EFY CD is out. HAPPINESS. :]

The life changing CD can be found RIGHT HERE.

todayy.

#1 of today.

 I have discovered that I am no longer the unburnable Starlee Jacobs, that I once was in high school.  I went to the pool with my family last week when they were here and didn't think to put on sunscreen.  A hot shower and a couple of hours later I seriously began to regret the no-sunscreen decision.  As girls we have this sub-concious thought than sunscreen=continuous winter delight white skin...Therefore, we just forgettttttt...to wear it. :]   This sunburn actually took me back to the days when I went to Hawaii with The Smith family & Sarah and I fell asleep on the beach...entire bodies ROASTED. We could barely walk, sit, or sleep, and radiated more heat than a bonfire. Considering My skin is now peeling away from me, I am going to have to be careful with the new clean canvas of skin. Well, lesson learned, right?  Tomorrow, I go to the lake...wish my burnt back luck and a whole lot of SPF.

#2 of this most adventurous Friday.

 (which has been one of my favorites of the whole summer, thanks to Madison Mackey).

TENNIS. We played tennis for a couple of hours today.  We both played in high school but, haven't played since.  It was seriously so much fun to start to kind of get back into the feel of tennis.  It really is a blast-and-a-half of a lifelong sport! PLAY IT. You should really play it. We set a goal to be able to actually play a full game by the end of the summer. Also, if we get good enough we might sign up for intermurals. Keep you eyes peeled for the new dynamic duo of tennis AMURICAAAA! We commin. We commin.

ALSO. THE FOURTH OF JULY IS THIS WEEK.

(my favorite holiday x 10,000000000000000.3)

Unfortunately, I won't be able to participate in watching, my favorite things in the whole world, The Freedom Festival Grand Parade or Stadium of Fire but...I will be working & I love that just as much. We will be at Seven Peaks that night...Let the sports camp party begin!

reading report

..."but with a cultivated mind, quick sympathies and that power of enjoyment which is a priceless treasure-- he was well equipped for the battle of life." pg. 18

 

Cool. Stuff. This book. I really have to be in the right mood to read it but, I have already learned so much. So far I have just read about the family of Florence Nightingale. They really fought for what they believed in no matter the consequences. They set so many of the precedents for they ways in which we live. So many of the comforts that we have are because of the many discomforts they lived through. Inspiring-ly great history and people.

 

I am finding my love for reading again. DO IT.

 

:]

Daily Adventures of a Sports Camp Counselor

Wow. Yes, that really just happened.
A whirlwind of hilarious kids, lost keys, puking, all-you-can-eat ice cream, late night activities, and the funniest people I have ever met!
BEST WEEK EVER.

Week one of Sports Camps done. Check mate. 
I will tell you this much. It is the most fulfilling job in the world! The phrase, "never a dull moment" definately applies here. I don't even know how to adequately describe how much fun this job is.  It is alot of work but the kind of work that makes me more HAPPY than any other!

Monday came and went...all of the kids checked in, started camps, and we ended the night with field games and of course, ice cream! The counselors turned in their headcount and all kids were accounted for.  I crawled into bed with a sign of relief and gratitude of how great the day went no matter how tired I was.  Right as I started to doze off I heard a doors in the hallway opening. I kept hearing little things for the next couple of minutes, and finally decided to get up and check it out.  One of the girls in my hall had gotten sick and had thrown up. This moment was the actual moment in which I realised how much I loved my job. Wierd moment to realise this? YES.  The kids are what we are here for!  With my hair tied back, and a little chuckle, I put the big-girl mommy pants on, and dove on in to clean up. Working with the kids is the most rewarding thing.

My counselor roomate for the week said to me last night, " I don't think you can get hired for this job unless you are weird." TRUTH. We are all just kind of weird in our own little way, which is why it is so much fun.  Wackyness is totally neccessay! I can't even wait to work all summer with these counselors.  Every one of them is a bucket full of laughs/weird :], hardworking, and really know how to really have a good time. Let the games begin.

Here we have Exhibit A of the stellar hilariousness of my fellow counselors:

It was introduced to us by Romney as "OSTRICH-ING."
Planking at a whole-nutha level. The competition has begun, to say the least.

We may or may not have worn pastel shorts on the same day! HOW RAD IS THAT!?

  Another thing that I was not lacking this week,
along with entertainment and awesome kids, was sugar. HOLY COWS. Cookies. Candy. Ice Cream. Whadaa Dream. Scary-Gotta-Be-Careful Dream. Here's to self control NEXT WEEK!