Grapefruit Diet

Yesterday we found out that we might be getting another roommate!!! We are all so excited to have a new friend and have less rent to pay! :) That was the highlight of my day yesterday, except we still don't know for sure. I am so tight on money right now, books are killing me and until my first paycheck comes in I am not going to have much money for anything. My budget breakfast had become home made granola and Grapefruit. :) Mom sent me up with a whole box of grapefruit and so did Lindsey. I just hope my roommates and I can eat them before they all go bad! :D

Oh and this is really funny I just thought I would share it with everyone. I took a whole bunch of picture one night right before I went home for winter break. I was just sitting on the couch looking through them and Anne was very interested in what I was doing. She was sitting next to me and when I got to this picture of Jerah she tried to do the same pose. It was so darn cute! Then later Rachel wanted to join in the fun so I got one of her too. Once again those girls are way to cute....I hope that won't get them into trouble when they are old enough to start breaking hearts. :P

Winter Wonder Land

OH MY GOODNESS! There is so much snow in Flagstaff! I can't even believe it! there are piles and piles of snow on the side of every rode and sidewalk. I was so shocked when mom brought me up here on Friday. The weirdest part about it thought is that during the day it is warm. I question my sanity when I sit down in my smoldering classes wearing long selves. You think with the snow it would be colder but you thought wrong!

It makes me laugh that so many things are just buried in the snow! There is something else buried right next to the picnic table and Jerah and I can not figure out what it is! I guess we will just have to wait till spring to find out! And I laugh at who ever owns this car. Poor poor things. :) I took that picture on Sunday and it is still like that. I guess they decided it just wasn't worth the trouble.

In other news... I started classes yesterday. 3 Math classes(Modern Geometry, Differential Equations and Elementary Number Theory), 2 Education classes and a Liberal Studies. I really hope I will be able to survive the next 4 months. It has recently been reaffirmed to me that an education is expensive. It is ridiculous that I have to pay for the classes and then pay for the textbooks. How is anyone supposed to be able to pay for all that on their own?!?!? It is a conspiracy!

This is Jerah and I on the first day of classes at the bus stop on our way to our 9:1o classes

I also didn't write anything about Christmas or New Years, just like everyone else.
Christmas was great fun and it even lasted for a week. The highlight of my New Years was the party with Lindsey and her kids. We all got sparkly hats, masks and horns, we drank sparkling cider and tooted our horns at 7:00! :D Those girls are so adorable!
The most adorable picture ever!!!! I just love that Annie has food all over her face, it really adds something to it.

Gifts and Mountian Dew

This week one of my roommates left and to go down to the valley so we had a Secret Santa exchange and...a wild drinking party! :D I will explain.

This is my beautiful present I got from Whitney. Everyone else got/gave small presents like candy and socks, but Whitney gave me a set of pots and pans! It was pretty awesome. I didn't complain! :)

So this was my first experience with Mountain Dew. Jerah got the bright idea of taking shots of Mountain Dew and then it just evolved from there. We ended up playing Kings cup. My roommates were so shocked that I had never had Mountain Dew that they tried as hard as they could to make me get to drink more! And ironically by the end instead of bouncing off the walls I was ready crash.

To roommates and highly caffeinated drinks (in place of alcohol)...Cheers!

MORE PICTURES!

K...This picture is super cute! I couldn't pass up posting this one. Every single one of them are makings the most adorable faces!!! :D

These next ones are just a little glimpse into my C-R-A-Z-Y college life! :) Except I was home when I took all these.....

All the rest are pictures taken during the incredibly boring Lillywhite reunion. Elise, Julia, and I went snap happy and just took a whole bunch of pictures! It was really fun :) But Grandma's couch was not a very good back ground though! :D

SO, I have jsut decided that Julia is the cutiest little girl ever. She is going to be a heart breaker!

These one were a few hours later and the reunion was STILL going on. Jeni and I were tired of being around so many people we didn't know and couldn't stand the nasty enchiladas, so we took Brittny and Karl with us and snuck away to McDonald's. We all had hot fudge Sundays and we played on the play place...and they didn't even kick up out!!!!!!!!!!! :P

All I have to say about these is that Jeni is SOOOO Pretty and the Brittny turned out so much cooler than Myrna but, that is not to hard to do! (I know I'm a horrible person)

PICTURES!!!

Since I got back to Flag last night it seems like all I have done is look at the 300 some odd pictures I took while I was home. I am so excited...I am just starting to figure out the best way to edit photos. So I decided that this post should be all about pictures. :D

It was soooooo weird to watch Afton get married. But she is happy and they are a really cute couple; what else can you ask for?

I was very surprised at how calm Afton was the whole day. She was just like, "yep I want to spend the rest of eternity with Sean" :D

Oh! Look how cute we are!!! ;)

Yes Daddy...I caught the bouquet! Don't worry, I don't think it really means anything. But.....

....who know, Maybe this will be me in a few YEARS! :D

I have a few more but I need to go to FHE soon so I will get around to those later!

The Good Things in Life

First of all I am really really excited for my first college semester to be over! Second...I have had a really good week this past week. When I got back from the valley everyone was really happy to see me! That made me feel special. :) On Friday there was a formal dance but I had to work...and it was girl ask guy and I didn't really want to ask anyone out. So after work my roommate Brittany and I just sat on the couch and watched movies. On Sunday I got a new calling, I am now on the Family Home Evening Committee. I am actually really excited for this one. I will really be able to get to know everyone in my family.
Also on Sunday we had a mini Thanksgiving dinner. One of the guys in the boys apartment had a Turkey so we pulled all of our stuff together and had a fancy dinner. It was really fun! It was just like eat food and hang out time. And then after we were done there was ice cream and we watched Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. It was happy! :D
Last night us roommates had our first "fight." It was more like roommate council. We didn't get to bed till 2 or 3 but we got tons of things off our chests. It was good and now everything is peachy keen and now we are all a little bit closer.

And I was just thinking and I decided to write down the things in life that make everything worth it.

The Best Things in Life:

1. Friends who are willing to put up with all the silly thing you do and say
2. Family who love you no matter what
3. The Scriptures and every part of our Religion that gives us all hope (like conference talks that are modern day scriptures meant just for us)
4. The apartment of Boys who are worthy priesthood holders and good friends that live a stones throw away
5. Pictures that bring a smile to your face every time you look at them. (Like the ones of my Lindsey's girls and Mindy's pictures on her blog that make me goo and ga every time I look at them)
6. Late nights with roommates eating ice cream and having in depth girl talk (can't have one with out the other) :D
7. Having you grandma save up some money for a few months to help you with groceries and ends up giving you $25 :) and then getting out the photo albums and telling stories about when my mom was younger.
8. Reading letters from you brother on his mission and every week having him tell you wa story and share another little part of his testimony with you. :P
9. The look of a parent when they are really proud of what you have become and how you are living you life
10. And most of all.....the little tiny things that just make you smile, like remembering good times with friends and family or watching someone passionately tell a funny story :D

This is Halloween...This is Halloween...

So, not much has happened around here except Halloween, late night parties and the consumption of large amounts of chocolate! No...late night parties are not really a common occurrence in our house but on weekends it is really hard to get the boys to leave our apartment at a decent hour. last night they didn't leave till midnight and I am feeling it today. I guess we are just too popular for our own good! :D So this Halloween was AWESOME! Believe it or not this is the first Halloween I have not gone around begging random strangers for candy. Instead, my roommates and I dressed up and went to the institute dance. Our costumes were top notch (if I do say so my self).

Yeah that's right we were a polygamist family! :D We got the dress at Good Will we were going to buy huge bolder sized rings but we never got around to it. And our hair...oh my gosh I was so proud of the way it turned out! Everyone at the dance thought we were hilarious...except we found out later that one girl who got offended and left. Oh well, that is her problem not ours, some one at the dance dressed up like Osama Bin-ladin, if she was choosing to be offended she should have chosen to be offended by that! My Favorite was when we all stood in a circle during a show dance and all sang "The smile on you face lets [us] know that you need [us]" :D It was classic. I have a feeling it was a legend in the making :D

Anyways...after the dance the boys got it into their head that it would be a good idea to watch a scary movie. Who ever that was should be shot. My roommates "boyfriend" has keys to all the auditoriums on campus so at like midnight he let us all in and set up the projector and we watched "What Lies Beneath" It was cool but I was scared out of my wits, I had to hold Jerah's hand to stop myself from hyperventilating. We were so exhausted by the time the movie was over but all in all I would have to say it was one of the best Halloweens I have ever had!!!

This was after the dance and before the move. We just went a little snap happy! :)

This is Me and Whitney while we were waiting for the boys to set up the projector. After this semester she is going down to the valey to do her student teaching. :( We are going to miss her. We just might get a fish and name it Whitney.

On Sunday Jerah and I just walked around campus and took fun pictures in the fall leaves. It was so much fun. I officially decided that Jerah is the cutest girl ever! :)

We were on our way home and it started to rain so we ran as fast as we could back to the apartment. We thought it was kinda funny that it made us so...uncute, so we took a picture so that our uncuteness could be remembered forever! :D