april. . . according to instagram and other things

i decided to get the flu general conference weekend. spent two days with a fever above 100.

celebrated Passover with family and friends

wished for it to stop snowing.

went to the dr. about stomach pains. got an ultrasound. not prego. no gall stones. diagnosed with gerd. gotta cut back on the ice cream :(

made pazookies.

skyped a lot.

worked 40 hours during finals week.

welcomed home my sister from her mission.

went to Pizza Pie Cafe with Hyrum. and ate lotsa pizza.

stopped blogging. woops.

bought a plane ticket to vegas.

cheered BYU men's volleyball onto a MPSF victory.

jenny moved to salt lake :(

signed up for my last half marathon until after the mish. (and i'm totes not ready for it.)

graduated from BYU!

yeah so that was april. now it's may and ya'll are probably wondering where in the heazy i went. but never fear. i've moved back home (oh the joy) before my mission. and i have a goal to blog at least once a week. also, let's play before i leave to Vancouver for 18 months. saavy?

throwback thursday

the recent Thanksgiving holiday had me thinking about what i am grateful for. one day i was just struck with how grateful i am for the ladies i lived with freshman year. it was probably the day after i saw Hadley, Amy's baby girl, for the first time. moments like that make you realize what you've got and how good life really is. moments like that make you wonder how lucky you are to have such wonderful friends.
i don't really want to write tons about each person individually, but since it's throwback thursday, here's a bunch of pictures from freshman year. you probably don't care about this if you aren't me or one of my freshman year roommates, but hey i don't care. enjoy perusing these four year old photos and laugh at how i look like i'm twelve.

literally the weekend we met- me, natalie and heather

powdered sugar fight- typical beka and heather

mary kay makeovers!

decades dance january 2009

football for FHE- got our game faces on. amy, me and kyli

yes we all squished onto those tiny heritage couches

loving the spring sun- natali, beka, heather

halloween- heather, natalie and me

homecoming game 2008- kyli and me

our future album cover

sledding for FHE

roommates for a year- friends for life

maybe ya'll are sick over the cuteness of this post. maybe i just need to get over my freshman year roommates and move on. but really! these girls are like sisters. we had fun times and some hard times freshman year. we have all grown and changed a lot since then, but we have all stuck together. i hope they each know how much i appreciate them and their interest and concern about my life! love you girls!

senior game

****dear friends: if you commented on my post on friday, or made kind comments of relating to my situation and wanting to help, please do not feel like i was peeved or upset at those comments! i truly appreciate your friendship and kindness! so keep commenting :) you are all great.****

last Saturday was my "senior game." in other words, it was my last home BYU football game as a BYU student. granted, i will still be here next year and i hope i can buy a guest pass for the games, but i won't be a student. weird. i remember the last football game i went to as a high school student. i cried afterwards. i didn't cry after this game. probably because my tear ducts were frozen shut. but still.
it was also the senior game for two friends- Preston Hadley and Brooke Renslow (cheerleader). they are both from my home stake and are awesome people that i have loved watching on the field each game. we made a sign for Preston because really he is such an amazing player! and also a great person.

the weather was freezing cold! like below freezing. i was totally bundled up and was still cold! we played idaho which really was an easy peasy team to beat. i left during the third quarter because i was so cold and had a long sunday the next day. however, for half the game we had awesome front row seats! (thank you people who left before me so that i could enjoy those seats for my last game.)

do you watch college football? 

who do you cheer for?

what are your favorite memories of BY football?

thought on tuesday

*upon finishing my second graveyard shift. . .  i realize i could do them long term- but only if i don't want a life.

*if you make rules, right them down and stick to them. be true to yourself and what you want in life, long-term. don't trade something you want forever, for something you want just now.

*why do people always give girls chocolate and ice cream when they break up? while i appreciate the kind gestures, i've eaten so many sweets in the last few days that i want to puke. what i really want is a cute new outfit, a trip to Disneyland, or to be registered for my next race.

*you know you love sleep when you look forward to sleeping from 6:45 am to 12 pm, after working all night long.

*it's soup season! who else is excited? i made this delicious butternut squash soup (from Sprouts Market) and added broccoli- perfect combination.

*i'm trying to be positive. but while i believe in optimism, i also believe in honesty. that's why i just tell people "i'm ok." because i'm not good. staying busy helps keep me ok.

*who let my sister's p day be changed from Monday to Tuesday? don't these people know that if i don't get a letter on monday i can't even handle it?

*oh, i went to a football game on saturday. it was like, good. but we lost which is horrid. saturday was not a good day for me or for byu football. (i said it last year and i'll say it again- my dating life and byu football scores are totes connected. someday byu will have an amazing season- and i will be married or something. i think coach mendenhall should do something to make this happen.)

*i need to get out of utah county!!! like really, provo is the pits sometimes. i'm stilling trying to come to peace with the fact that i'm supposed to stay here next year. however i'm hopefully heading up north next weekend so if you live in Logan be excited to see my face!

*did you watch the debate? my friend had a drinking party. so obviously i went. i'm falling off the wagon- it's cool. so in the debate if certain words were said (jobs, America, immigration, etc.) you had to take a drink (sip) or entire cup of root beer. (oh, did you think i meant alcohol? this is byu, people!) after three cups i was so done. i think it's safe to say i would never be good at any alcoholic drinking game. oh but back to the debate, what did you think?

*true confession: i have no plans this weekend other than working a 10 hour shift saturday. it might be time to cash in that month long netflix trial. . . .

*i'm shutting up now. gonna go watch despicable me with my brother (he still hasn't seen it!)

on top of the world

loving this song today. because i found out that i got an A on my music theory test which means. . . i get an A in the class for the semester and don't have to go to class ever again! here's to two more hours for studying or working out!
and i just feel like life is good.
i started my final year of school. finally. i feel like this has been years in coming! i guess it has. these two stud-muffins started their first year at BYU with me. it's been great/weird to have younger siblings here with me. i suddenly feel like i have huuuuuge shoes to feel to be an awesome older sister.

football season has also started! byu has not lost a game yet and i am loving watching them play- as usual. we've got an awesome group for football too. it's so fun to go to the game with "my boys"- Jake, Spencer, and Hyrum. it's never boring where we are.

i feel so blessed this semester. i know there are trials ahead, but at the same time i am happy. thursday was institute kick off and we had a wonderful speaker come talk about scripture study. i know that i this semester i want to improve and strengthen my relationship with Christ as i try to figure out what i'm doing after i graduate. i know that as i diligently study my scripture i will be able to fulfill my goals. i went to the temple on friday and was able to study and ponder the scriptures and my patriarchal blessing for almost two hours. it was wonderful!
so far this semester i've already been able to meet some wonderful people. there are a lot of new girls in the ward and my calling is allowing me to get to know them. i hope that i can be the best 1st counselor in the RS that i can be! i've met other great people through friends and i hope i can get to know them better as well.
i've made changes in my life too. good changes. things that i had been praying about for a long time. some of them were hard changes but i have felt so at peace about the decisions i have made.

Sunday dinner with the bros

i don't know what the semester holds in store for me! i won't be the richest girl ever. but can still be happy and succeed in my classes. it may not be the best semester in my life, but it will be the best semester for my life!

i'd run a mile for ya

it's time i made a confession. i have a crush. it's major. and who is it on?

Miles Batty.

if you go to byu then i think it's a sin if you do not know who he is.
i cut his picture out of newspapers, get butterflies if i see him walk by me in the RB or SFH, follow all his races. and kids, this is a two fold crush. i have a crush on his athleticism. he is an amazing runner! in fact, this last weekend, he broke the NCAA mile record at the 105th Milrose games. you can watch him breaking the record and it's pretty fantastic.

that is some stellar running! he is running with some top professionals here and breaks the record, making the new record 3:54.56 (or something close to that). the second fold to this crush is that this boy is insanely cute.

i'm kind of a freaky stalker, i know, but hey he might be famous someday...

weekend rewind

last weekend was the first weekend of my birthday month. since it is my birthday month i want it to be amazing. so far it's fun, but . . . emotional. that's all i want to say about that. but i did have a wonderful (albeit) very busy weekend last week.

i like to think my weekend starts on thursday since i only have one class on friday. thursday night my dear friend Shaunzi took me to dinner at Cafe Rio because she felt i needed picking up. i did. it was wonderful to be with an old friend! i love it when old friends see your change and love you all the same. after dinner i went to insitute with miss erin barrett where we were entertained by a lesson on dating (such an original topic, but i mean it was the marriage prep class). i did learn some things, especially about integrity and making decisions now.

on friday i awoke feeling somehow sick, and used that as an excuse to not do more than two hours of studying the entire day. oh, and i ate about six oatmeal raisin cookies. (am i the only person who could eat these all day? they are delicious, and sort of healthy right?) After getting off work at 6 i booked it home to get ready for a date at 6:30. i got home with three minutes to spare but luckily my date was a little late so i wasn't completely frazzled looking. we went to Pad Thai Siam in Orem and got Thai food. i lurv Thai food. it makes me think of (a) freshman year when we would fight (but not really) over who Heather would be bringing home Thai food for; (b) dear Shalise and Bre who are in Thailand preaching the Gospel (you two better learn how to make Thai food while you are there!); and (c) how much i want to go to Thailand! we got massaman curry (i'm gonna try to make this) and some kind of noodles with beef, veggies and sauce. yummy yum yum. after dinner we went mini golfing. (sometimes i feel like guys take girls mini golfing because they know the girl is going to be horrible and therefore it become a chance for them to show off their manliness by being amazing at mini golfing. i don't think this was my date's mindset though don't worry. mini golfing is one of the top 3 most frequent date activities in provo. the other two are probably country dancing and bowling.) anyways i stink at golfing. like bowling i try to avoid it. but this adventure was actually pretty good! there was only a few times where i had to take about 15 tries to get the ball in. luckily i didn't feel too stupid. i embrace my poor lack of aim, and blame it on my hyper-extended elbows.

on satuday i slept in until 10. this does not usually happen. but, due to the fact that i didn't sleep well until about 5 am, i would say that it was much needed. i ended up not going to the Bridal Fair with shaunzi (which made me sad but there are some things that you can't plan). at noon i went over to the gymnastics meet with my friend Evan. i've always thought gymnasts were the bread and butter of athletes. don't worry track & field and cross country always gets my top vote, but gymnasts are legit. they are powerful, flexible, and graceful, all in one tiny package! secretly i think i should have been a gymnast (i mean, i am 5' 2") but since i can't even do a cartwheel it obviously was not my life calling. my friend Mickell is on the gymnastics team here at BYU though. and i love watching her perform! it's thanks to her involvement that i watch gymnastics and love it as much as i do. she performed on vault and floor. i was bummed with her floor score and thought the judges were wack, but whatever. BYU lost to Boise State by one point. (i wish i could go to every home meet, but next week i have a ward dance so i have to miss it. poop.) after the meet i went home and was very productive all afternoon. really i truly was. that night i went to Becca Clyde's birthday dinner in Springville. Becca's parents made us a wonderful dinner of fajitas. now i see where she gets her amazing ability to throw dinner parties! it was lovely spending time with some guys and gals from my ward and celebrating with Becca. after the dinner i went out (with a boy) and we got ice cream from sonic. i'm not a huge sonic fan, but the oreo shake i got was quite delightful (of course, if you know me, you know i love anything that involves ice cream).

i do not have photogenic fingers. but isn't the heart cute?

sunday was Super Bowl Sunday/ the Sunday where i blissfully am unaware of what is going on in the sporting world. people ask me why i don't watch the Super Bowl. i don't really care about it, but the biggest reason is that i don't watch sports on Sunday. it is just something i don't do. so there you have it- the truth. after getting out of Fast and Testimony Meeting right after the sacrament (due to the fire alarm unceremoniously interrupting us) i went home and promptly hung out with miss erin barrett. if you didn't know we are soul sisters and have twin lives. it's cray cray. we tweeted back and forth with the indubitable cameron collins and then proceeded over to c209 for the puppy super bowl. (note: puppy super bowl does not count as a sport because it is mostly just adorable puppies romping around. not exactly as intense as eli manning. yes, i do know what goes on with the Super Bowl i just choose not to watch it. is eli attractive? double yes. ) watching puppy super bowl with three boys made me wonder a little bit about the sanity of animal planet (and the sanity of cameron, kevin and andrew). the remainder of the day was spent making cookies, Breaking the Fast with the good old 174th ward, planning Heather's baby shower, writing and skyping siblings, going to Ward Prayer, making Valentine's decorations, painting my fingernails festively, watching Gilmore Girls, making homemade granola bars, and chatting with a good friend. i got to bed at midnight which is not the smartest thing, but it was worth it.

after seeing the length of this post i have decided that maybe i should blog over the weekend instead of putting it off until monday. because who really reads these novels? i mean. . . no one comments on them. . .  (do you like how i basically am begging for comments? share the love people!)

clubs

did you know that on the by clubs website you can fill out a short survey on your interests and they will give you a selection of on- campus clubs that they think fit your interests. in an effort to be more involved [and because i was dying of boredom a la the Bean] i took said survey. here are the results [aka the clubs i should join, because they fit my interests]:
- BYU Pre-Vet club [apparently i want to be a veterinarian. uh no thanks]
- Black Student Union [how did they know i'm black?! in all serious i might join so i can be around black people again.]
- Genetics and Biotechnology Club [i wish i were smart enough to be in this club]
- Rotaract [a Rotary Club. i usually associate this with old men.]
- Finnish Club [creepy/cool. how did they know that spencer is on his mission there? i might actually join this]
- Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu [like karate, but in Portuguese?]
- BYU Environmental Science Club [i do like the environment, but not this much. sorry earth.]
- BYU Circle K [another service club. would be nice but i need a club that is free.]
- Audio Engineering Society [audio makes me think of the stage hands at high school. weird. then engineers. also weird.]
- Mexican Student Association [i am in fact one of the top ten whitest people who attended my high school in 07-08, i am not even close to being mexican. but if they serve mexican food i am so there!]

want to get more involved at byu? feeling like your interests lack stimulation? head over here and get a free interest evaluation like i did! you might just find the perfect fit for you :)

first day of school!

yesterday (wednesday) was the first day of winter semester. weird to have school starting on a wednesday. i felt like it was monday. but on the bright side, tomorrow is friday and i only had two days of school! i think we should always just have 3 school days a week. my first day of school was stinkin cute, but sadly with my new camera i have yet to figure out the self timer. so you get my face and part of my shirt. i still think it's a good photo.

i've got quite a class load this semester!

EXSC 400- Functional Anatomy (including lab)
EXSC 362- Biomechanics and Kinesiology
Physics 106- Intro to Physics 2
Physics 108- Physics lab
Music 202- Civilization of Music 2
STAC 101R- Spinning

I'm super excited about spinning and biomechanics! nervous out of my mind about physics and functional anatomy. and pretty apathetic about music 202. oh, and i'm working 16 hours a week! it's going to be a fun semester. ha.

ok right now i vow that no matter how hard my class load gets i will try to get 7 hours of sleep each night and that i will eat healthy and work out (even if it's 30 minutes in the morning).

here's to the first two days of school. thank goodness tomorrow is the weekend!

how-to-survive-finals 101

1. eat all your fresh food and veggies and drink your milk. this will get rid of them before you leave for christmas break/summer break and they are high in vitamins and minerals to help you concentrate.
2. start studying early so you can get a decent amount of sleep during finals week
3. watch gilmore girls (or something else low stress) on study breaks
4. get at least one kind of significant human contact per day. . .  aka don't spend every second of every day locked up in the basement of the library!
5. read your scriptures daily  preferably as you start the day. let's be real you should be doing this already, but when you are stressed out with finals it's a good idea to start your day off right bu reading the word of God.
6. if it's the christmas season, find ways to focus on the joy of the season- like a countdown calendar, decorating your apartment, making treats for neighbors, christmas shopping, etc. etc.
7. always have a pack of gum on you. because if you are studying all day long and only brought some baby carrots and an apple to fill you up until 8 pm, you are going to be hungry.
8. make sure to have a couple really awesome playlists on iTunes, Pandora, Spotify
9. don't go on a facebook fast. if you actually succeed in going without facebook for finals week, you will just be miserable the entire week wondering what everyone else is up to. it might be the only interaction you get with people all week!
10. eat candy/cookies for dinner. i've done this for the last three days and it's. . . . great! [friday- reese's peices and gummy worms. saturday- a bowl of cold cereal and robin's eggs. sunday- a piece of almond cake, 3 chocolate chip cookies, and robin's eggs. no joke.] *honest truth: this is horribly unhealthy, but probably fairly realistic.
11. don't let yourself sleep in. just because you don't have class doesn't mean you should sleep the day away! i like studying from the early(ish) morn until late at night. i try not to let myself sleep past 7:30 [which is late for me] so that i get up and get to the library before it gets too crowded.
12. break up with your boyfriend. i mean who wants to be distracted with love and happiness when you are preparing to take finals in Satan's abode on campus? i mean really, love/dating/marriage is not that important right? [complete and utter sarcasm. obvi.]

good luck on finals everyone!

lets get down to the skinny

quick study break to say:

Dear BYU,

please don't ban skinny jeans. i would probably die. as would about half the female population of BYU. mk thanks!

sincerely,

a stressed out student who doesn't have time or money to go buy a whole new wardrobe

please note that i wear almost exclusively skinny jeans...

weekend rewind

this weekend was awesome! definitely one of the best i have had in a long while. after studying my behind off all week, this weekend was a blessed break. as i was super stressed about my paper(s) i went down to my normal spot in the library- first floor, the "cave." no cell phone service. usually not very many people. i sat down at a cubby and found this nice little note from a fellow student.

 thank you, that made my day soooo much better!

friday:
friday and saturday seemed like one big long day. but a really awesome! my english lit class was cancelled so i was done at noon! i took kendra to the skyroom for a birthday lunch. i'm pretty sure i was more excited about this than she was because we took the day off (of our 21 day challenge) and so that meant i could have the desserts there! lunch was good. but we ate way too much! when you don't eat junk food, you start eating much less. i felt pretty full and sick after we were done. it was crazy. it was like we were training for thanksgiving.

after consuming massive amounts of food

side note: KENDRA'S BIRTHDAY WAS ON FRIDAY!!! she is 22! woot! i'm waiting for her assessment to see if it is better than 21. i just need to make a little shout out about this girl. she is awesome. i didn't think that we would become this good of friends, because we weren't really freshman year. but i am so grateful for her friendship! she is always willing to hang out with me and she gives me great advice about relationships. she is always up to do something fun and random- like 21 junk food challenges, getting pizza, or going to see Cowboys and Aliens at midnight (even though she thought it was dumb). She gives me rides places which i hugely appreciate. she is super creative and comes up with great ideas (ie. the goldfish costume). she likes to cook just as much as me, and guess what? we are going to make homemade ravioli! possible date idea- we will probably invite boys too. i am really so grateful for kendra and i hope she had a wonderful birthday!!!

after lunch, i went home and died for a couple hours. i just had to let everything digest. later, Kendra and i ran errands-- mostly to the mall to get her a birthday outfit. i must say that she got a stinkin cute outfit! i also found some gems of clothing. while at american eagle one of the workers said, "i love your outfit! it's so j. crew!" best. compliment. ever. my shirt was from DI, pants from old navy, boots from target girls section. ha! win! then we ran (literally) to costco and maceys to get stuff for fondue and a cake.
i got home and made the cake in 5 minutes. then i went over to Heather's baby announcing party. pretty sure i was the only single girl there. psh. oh well. heather knows how to throw a party! she made tons of food and had a cute cake to reveal the gender. i guessed boy (i had guessed that like two months ago) and well, i was right! go me!!!
after Heather's party i ran home, frosted the cake, and went over the Kendra's. it was snowing!! first snow of the year!  kendra's party was fun. we had a lot of food and about 27 people came.

kendra's cake

there are definitely more than 22 candles on that

after everyone left, we watched Patch Adams with Kendra's cousin and his friend. the movie was a pretty serious one, but such a good movie! i quite enjoyed it :) then after they left, Kendra and i stayed up until like 4 just talking! i know. we are insane. i slept over and didn't wake up until 9 (which is late for me).

saturday: after sleeping in uncharacteristically late (i didn't actually get out of bed until 10), i got ready quick and then went up to campus for some hard core studying. at one i went to earthfruits yogurt with Hannah and Emily. i didn't take any pictures but it was delightful as usual. these two girls saved my life last fall semester when there was so much drama in my dating life. i also had a free yogurt thanks to my "tribe" membership. sweetness! when i finally got home from studying (around 4), Kendra texted me wanting to have a tea party. what a fabulous idea! the tea party turned into tea+pizza. we had a half off coupon to blackjack pizza so we ventured down there and got the Mediterranean chicken pizza. it was really quite good- feta cheese, peppers, olives, chicken, and no marinara sauce, all on a thin crust. yum. we ate the whole thing (don't judge).
after dinner we bundled up for the game- our last football game as byu students! :( i really wanted to be there for kickoff because they were honoring the seniors and i happen to (sort of) know one of them- Fangupo. he was my brothers mission companion- he thinks my brother is the bees knees which is pretty accurate. however we missed it, even though we ran like half the way there! when you are wearing 5 layers of clothes, running makes you super hot! i had 8th row seats which provided an awesome view!

now get ready for some really good lookin' pictures of me and kenj.

everyone looks really white next to jose

we be lookin' good!

kissing the cougar!

the game went super late and we sure killed new mexico state! i got a little teary eyed as we sang the fight song at the end of the game. i better come back next fall with spencer and hyrum! i can't say good bye to byu football quite yet!

ps. has anyone else noticed that on pinterest there are a few pins that say "healthy is the new skinny" while prominently displaying a stick thin girl???? i find this odd and ironic...

hibernation is OVER

HOME OPENER

tonight.

will i be there? you better bet your bottom dollar. i can't wait to see these guys play!

Davies

Hartsock

Abouo

Collinsworth

and i can't wait to see what the rest the team brings!

get ready. . .

because until the end of march madness, this will be a BIG part of my life.

get ready for BYU Basketball

november 1

november is gonna be a good month! do you want to know why? because on the 1st day of november i got to see the prophet and hear his speak in the marriot center!

it was a dreary, wet, cold tuesday morning, but i still trekked up to the Marriott Center two hours early to stand in line so that i could save seats. at 9:30 the doors opened and i rushed in, getting a seat exactly where i wanted it- on the side i knew Pres. Monson would enter and exit, just above the portal so that we could wave to him as he came and went. score.

i studied until Jake came and then we waited for Kendra and Adam. it was so amazing standing and watching the Prophet enter! i have heard him speak at the Marriot 3 times in my college life and each time i am overwhelmed by the spirit and the testimony that he is God's mouthpiece on the earth today. his talk was amazing and i was able to learn so much from what he said! I am so grateful for a prophet!

cute jake, real cute

that's better :)

here's a few more reasons november is going to be awesome:
- Kendra and I are doing a 21 day no junk food challenge. this doesn't sound awesome and truly sometimes it isn't. but i definitely feel so much healthier!
- i got a new job (in the Skyroom in campus) and the Bean Museum wants me back for Winter! woot!
- thanksgiving is in 2 weeks.
- there is only 5 weeks left of school! say wha??

weekend rewind

it was another great weekend. not quite as awesome as conference weekend, but nothing really matches that does it?
thursday:
date night again. the weather failed and so we couldn't go on a picnic. however i did end up having a really fun time! we went to rubio's grill [please, if you go, get the cilantro lime salmon burrito. it is divine] for dinner. then we got hot chocolate [the first of the season!] at the starbucks in barnes and noble, and then perused the bookstore for almost 2 hours. anyone who knows me knows that i should probably live in a bookstore. it was heaven. and we barely scratched the surface. i had a blast, and the company was really awesome as well!

friday:
i was a bit of a loser on friday. when the weather gets cold and the air pressure changes my head [?] freaks out and so i get migraines. its fun. not. i was a loser for the afternoon. that evening i went to cafe rio [my dinner was sponsored by daniel ostler- thank you] with the mbale gang! it was awesome to see everyone looking so normal! it was especially nice to see jenner and lindsey whom i haven't seen since africa!

after dinner i went to work. the "gang" came in to visit which was really nice. i wish i could have talked to them more but we got slammed for like 3 hours straight and i almost shot someone. 

saturday:

i blessedly slept in. very much needed. then i proceeded to study for 4 hours. i love studying on saturdays! no really i do. the library is so much emptier and less distracting. [for a pathological people watcher, like myself, the library can be very distracting.] sarah came out in the afternoon and we had kaitlyn waters  do a little photo shoot of us. it was so fun and i am excited to see all the pictures! after the photo shoot we got mom a little bday present from Bed Bath and Beyond. then we hit up Zupas for dinner. i'm a little obsessed with that place. you should know that their thai lobster curry is delicious. ok after dinner we went to the BYU football game. it was sarah's first game [ever] and so i was pretty excited. she isn't a huge sports fan so i wanted to see if she would have fun. i think she did.

dee dee found us free vitamin water after the game, which made the evening exponentially better :)

sunday:

it was nate jensen's homecoming! quite delightful! i haven't seen pretty much everyone who came home this summer because i was in africa. i was especially excited to see Nate and Steve.

they are cool and i am glad they are home. please guys, lets play a lot ok? after the homecoming i went home for mom's birthday party. she always has apple crisp [she doesn't like cake] which i think is the perfect fall treat.

so the weekend was pretty good. i hope this week isn't too stressful and that i have some fun times. i guess i will if i make it happen! peace out kids. i'm goin' to bed.

saturday study sesh

sometimes i come to the HBLL on saturdays and then i remember why i love it here.

it's my little sanctuary.

only the coolest people come to the library on saturdays

why yes, i am thrilled to be here

gotta be scholar