Count down... & Rewind!

13 Days left till I get to go home... Not that I'm counting or anything. This semester has gone so fast! Here are some pictures from the beginning of the semester, like setting my room up when I first got here... Enjoy!

Mom & I at an assembly...

Ella and Me in my room...

Amanda, Me, Mom and Ella, as we set up my room... Notice the High Jump Bar? We definitely set my room up with priorities first!

A early view of my room. (Imagine a cleaner desk and pictures all over the wall. Don't you look my pink polka dot towel?!)

Early View of My bed. (Imagine a clean bed and then first a orange picture frame hanging at an angle, and then... like after two weeks, that same frame hanging up normally)

Big Blister after Freshman orientation... It just got bigger when class actually started!

First Day of School Picture in my Room.

Once again, the semester has flown by super fast!

FHE 11/30/09

So, a few week ago I got called to be one of FHE Leaders, aka I'm the "Ma" for group #1. This was one of the few activities we've had since giving the calling. Thank to the creamery, "Pa's" idea, and my organization it was defiantly a hit. We made gram cracker gingerbread houses. Here are some pictures I took of the event:

For More Pictures of this event you can check out my Facebook...

Thanksgiving Break!

For my Thanksgiving Break I spent the week at Jared and Amanda's house. For thanksgiving day meal we headed over to Aunt Julie's house in Peoa for thanksgiving day dinner. Jared was on call, and has luck would have it he was called in when we were half way there, so we turned around and headed back to his work. Jared quickly took care of business and we headed up again, making it just in time for dinner. The meal was absolutely delicious, especially the orange rolls. I'm glad I had family in town to spend the break with, though I did miss making food next to mom and eating her special pudding salad- the orange juice, coconut cream pudding one!

Some of my highlights during the week were:

-Making pumpkin, I made the crusts and Amanda made the filling. Thank goodness for near by grocery stores that are open up late at night. FYI shortening not butter is used for crusts.

-Grocery Hunting for foods I have never heard of and watching a guy run off with the turkey we were in front of, contemplating if we were going to get it or not.

-Eating traditional turkey cheese sandwiches with gravy for dinner the next night

-Playing cards... (I can't remember the name of the game)

-Having a CarrotCake on Friday (to make it a bit more of a surprise) for my Birthday, In which I brought it home on Saturday, and ate it all that night by myself! I'm really glad I didn't bring the whole thing home or I probably would have eaten it all, which would not be the smartest choose, delicious... no denying that, but not the smartest. It was gone by 11:25 that night!

-Getting my wool coat from Old Navy. (I must comment how rare it is I buy things... I bought it after only looking at one other coat in one other store!... Shock!!!)

-Hitting the end of Black Friday shopping with Ella and Amanda.

ToysRUs.... Its been a while since I have seen so many toys!!! Ella loves anything with wheels

I just HAD TO stick her in the big pile of pillows at WalMart! Isn't she Cute? (Like always!)

-And spending time with them in general!!! Ella loved playing with my bag, she especially liked pulling out my scarf and playing with my hat. Here is a couple of random cute pictures.

Yah BYU baby! She knows who to cheer for in Track...

(P.S. BYU won the game vs. U of U, they should thank me

since it was my Birthday... Great Game!)

Well... That's my Thanksgiving Break 2009!

Last Week and the Week before Catch Up Post:

Sheri and Lindsey came up around General Conference. Sheri was nice enough to bring some some things from home I didn't think I would need or forgot. I definitely used the windbreaker that night, THANK YOU Sheri. While she was here she treated us to Tucanos (A Brazilian Grill.) It was delicious, especially the carmel covered deep fried bananas! I also got to see Lindsey's premier of One Good Man. I would just like to let the world know that she is amazing and everyone who can should go and see this movie. It was fun to see her in the film. Oh, funny connection to the movie, I totally recognized the shirt she was wearing in one of the school photos they showed of her, I wore that same shirt, I might even have had a school photo in in! Yeah for neighbors with good taste!

Okay, so this event was a little bit ago, October 7, but here is a picture of us at the Premier:

My Ward had a temple trip at 2:00 last Friday (October 9th) but I couldn't make it, but some friends invited me to go with them on Saturday. Their plan was to go at 7:00 am, but luckily they went later, and so I was able to go with them. It takes about 30-35 minutes to walk there, not to bad, other than I wear new shoes and ended up getting 2 bad blisters, one on the back of each foot. Sadly, one popped by the time we got there. When we finally arrived we took some pictures and then went inside and did Baptisms for the Dead. It felt good doing service -even more so than having an opportunity to take my shoes off. I think we left some time around 3:00 (can't quite remember) and got home at about 6:30 (just after the Cannon Center Closes, that I do remember!) It was really an overall enjoyable experience, even if I did walk nearly the entire trip back in bare feet. The grounds were beautiful, and just reading and pondering while sitting and waiting our turn was very peaceful.

Here, we're getting a bit more recent:

This was some of last nights fun. We started off playing pool, in which my team won 3 times in a row. We then played with the shutter speed and a flashlight outside, and afterwards went and watched Ice Age 3 in the Dollar theater and grabbed some Hot Chocolate (which spilled all over just my pants while the car was turning.) I then studied for for Human Development for a while, went to sleep and set my alarm to wake up and study before the volunteer activity to play with kids with down syndrome today. I did so, so on my Test.

Very recent!:
Well, that's all for now!

I Know the Moon is out there...Somewhere?

TO: Jared and Amanda

You probably were curious why you got an iChat message asking you if you could see the moon. Well, truth is I couldn't find it. It is as simple as that. You would think something that big, round, a commonly seen would be easy to find, but then you would be wrong. I will not write how long I looked, but just know that I had to. As with all thing, when you are looking for it you can't find it. But then I discovered where it went. Mom, Dad and Caity had robbed it in the night.

I have to chart the position of the Moon for my "favorite" class for a two week period, with only 3 days excused for cloudiness or else I would have to start over. Yesterday it was cloudy and so I couldn't see it. Today the skies are for the most part clear and so I thought I could find it easily... oh how wrong I was.

TO: Mi Familia

Thanks for the iChat, and I would like to inform you that I have stolen the moon back and intend to keep it... ie. I found it! look here! it's proof!!!!

Can you see it? HINT: Its the big bright sphere above the mountains :)

It's has been awhile so...

Since my late update (which Jared would say would be a lifetime ago) A lot has happened. Today was the last day of boot camp! Hurray, I survived! Before I get to know if I made it our not I have to take the QUAD test on Thursday. This consists of the standing long jump, triple jump, 30m dash and the shot-put throw. My goal is to get 125-130 pts. to make the team, or at least beat my start of boot camp mark which came to a total close of about 102. Hopefully after a month of running, strength training, more running and hard work and practice, and oh yah, more running I can prove I can do it. But if not, I feel accomplished at surviving Boot Camp, something I wasn't sure I could do at the start. And I had "fun" on the way... that is if your definition consists of feeling good after accomplishing hard work and dressing up silly for friday weight training workouts. Here are some team pictures of our fun:

Bootie Show! (Sep.18)

"Hair" Day! (Sep.25)Football Day! (In honor of todays BYU vs. Utah Game-Oct. 1)What can you do for a fun get to know you activity on your day off? How about take a hike on a Saturday morning up to Steward falls! This is most defiantly a track team when our idea of a day off is hiking up a mountain. But is it not pretty? It has lots cool views of other mountains, and the leaves had already changed color so it was an especially beautiful sight. (Sep 19)One of the cool things I got to do because I am with the track team is go to the "Y" games. Basically this is a completion to see what team can attend the most "Y" games of all the different sports. The idea is to unify the athletic department by getting athletes to support other athletes. It was pretty cool. The football game vs. Colorado was this years football "Y" game. First there was a BBQ and then we all got to go out onto the field and be I got to be out apart of the tunnel as the players ran out. I also got to take a picture with Cosmo, the school mascot. It was hot, I sat up in the north stands for this game with some friends on the track team. Here are some pictures from this experience: (Sep. 26)

Other cool things I have done since my last update is go to True Blue, an event sponsored by BYUSA. (Sep. 23) It was pretty fun sliding down and playing in a massive pit of blue foam. I will have to post pictures of that event later because right now no one has posted these pictures on facebook, and I don't have my cord to download pictures... not that it would help for this even because I forgot it :(

Well, Jared I hope this mass amount of pictures and update satisfy. Until next time...

My Day: Tuesday

I took a balancing board test with Pat in a research project for BrainLinking this morning at 8:15. I woke up late so I had to get ready super fast, eat breakfast and fly over to the Crabtree building. I then went to my Physical Science class that started at 9:00. It was an interesting lesson because of all the demos, especially watching my teacher trying to get them all to work right. It was also nice because he let us out at 10:10 instead of 10:40 so we could hurry over and try to get a seat for the devotional. I got to sit on the 9th row, 26th seat on the right hand side if looking from the prophet's point of view.

President Thomas S. Monson was this week's devotional speaker. It was absolutely wonderful. He spoke about all of the previous prophets he knew, their favorite food, song, and personal motto and an memorable experience he had with them. My favorite part was when he made the comment "but he was not in the Navy like I was," after talking about a man who was being kindly told off. His talk really proved that prophets are real people. They have fun, run red lights once or twice on accident, clean up by hiding their notes in the refrigerator and mess in the closet and secretaries desk. They love milk and bread and raspberries. In essence, they are human and have their own challenges and trumps. He also noted that each one also displayed a virtue like kindness, charity, devotion, and modesty. From the truth they never wavered, faltered, or failed. I am glad I got to go.

I then hurried and changed for track at 1:00. It was good today. We did various types of drills and warmups. We did 5 min. abs. And when we ran I found some people that go at the same pace or just a bit higher, and so the big 5 laps around the field doing various things wasn't to bad. I showered, wrote this post and now I better start doing my real homework, or I will pay for it later.

My Crazy Summer!

Time flys by so fast, I still can’t believe I am getting ready to head of to college. I still have a lot to do before I am ready to head down to school. On Monday I went the FAFB to get my shots updated. I got three. I have turned in my resignation for work. Finally. I officially have one month of work left today! My last day will be Saturday, August 22nd, that way I have a day or two to finish off whatever needs done. I am planning to head out with Mom and the Birds on Tuesday 25th. I still have a lot of packing and shopping to do before then! Caity and I have need to sort out who gets to keep what clothes and shoes. We have grown quite accustom to sharing each others closets. I have a dentist appointment on August 3rd, so hopefully when I come home from school the insurance will cover another appointment. I am still adjusting my class schedule, and I believe I discovered I am in slightly the wrong major, but its not a big deal, I just have a couple more classes, in addition to the ones I already planned on taking, as prerequisites for starting the program.

I am keeping myself busy in the meanwhile with 38.5 hours a week at Taco Bell Tue.-Sat. and another 4-6 hours for Grandma and Grandpa Barnes on Mon. I also like going to the single adult activities FHE and TGIT with Aaron. It has really been fun working and hanging out with him this past while.

(Wed. July 22, 2009) A blog before I blogged!