Foosball and Leo's

This weekend has been pretty good so far. Last night we went to a student ward activity that involved food (namely strawberries) and human foosball! For those lacking in the creativity department, human foosball is when you get a bunch of long pvc pipes (or duct tape some shorter ones together) and set them up like the rows in a foosball table. Everyone picks a row to stand in and just has to keep their hands on the pole when they kick the soccer ball. Pretty much Lauren, Mariah, and I kicked butt. Just kidding we weren't even all on the same team most of the time, but when we were all on the same bar we were like a brick wall!...

Today Lauren and I went to Mustard Seed to get some sseko sandals. We became enamored of them when we went to Mustard Seed last week and have been thinking about buying them this whole time, but couldn't decide because they're kind of expensive, but so awesome. Obviously we decided to buy them. You just buy the sole to the sandals and then the straps are interchangeable and you can tie them however you want since there are five spots the straps can go into the shoes.

They go towards helping some women in Uganda help fund their higher education, which is awesome. And...you can wear them with skirts and not get blisters! I'm excited about this since I will probably be mostly wearing skirts when I get back to Provo and am working...
We also went to Leo's. It's this super random shop in the middle of Downtown como. It's upstairs from Dryer's and just has random used stuff. It was so awesome. It's one of those places that you think is super cool, but you also really want to wash your hands while/after you're there. Lauren got a sweet hat and some rings and I got a sweet ring for like 3 bucks. Excellent. That store will be graced with our presence again.
We also had free coupons for Hot Box cookies. It was pretty good, but you can tell that they mostly make their money from lazy college student cravings rather than the excellence of their cookies.

Lauren and I have started making a wicked sweet video. We have so many random and awesome visions for it. Look forward to it. It will blow your freaking mind.

Home, Sweet Home

Just had a two day drive with my awesome roommate, Lauren. We actually had a blast on the 20 hour drive. We sang as loudly as possible to some sweet jams, yelled at Nebraska, ate delicious beef jerky, "raced" a car full of obnoxious guys, screamed to stay awake, hot tubbed at the hotel and watched an awesome move in the hotel room. It was insane, we really need to find out the title of it...
Easter was great and mom made my favorite dessert. What a doll. Tomorrow we start work. Yummy. I already miss my peeps from school, but it won't be too long til I see most of them, and I can survive until August for the others.  :)

I was going through some pictures today to figure out a picture I want on my debit. And I found this beauty from the end of freshman year:

we may or may not have gone wading in the JFSB courtyard fountain. It was awesome and the faces in this...classic. Marsh's might be my fav, but I can't quite decide...

He's Just Not...

...That Into You. I'm reading it right now. It's pretty good. Probably every girl should read it. I think that it should be way more acceptable for girls to just be able to say to our friends "maybe he's just not that into you." Sometimes I do, but I generally get expressions of pure shock. You can't say that! I think the real problem, though, is that we see our girl friends as so cool and so awesome that we can't wrap our minds around the fact that a guy might not be interested in them. "But ------- is so funny/smart/gorgeous/athletic/fun/great, how could he not want to ask her out?!" But sometimes he doesn't. Quit letting your friend wait around for him. Punch her. It might help.
I don't think that much of the book has applied to me yet, but maybe it will help in future dating endeavors and definitely in talking to my girl friends. Although this is what I am definitely going to have them read first. Breakups are the worst to get your friends through. When they're on a self-destructive path, they will eventually realize it themselves no matter how many times you told them. The article also has some relationship advice, ladies.

Now I just need to read The Gift of Fear...

...But finals are already rearing their ugly head. Remember that picture that people used to put on their facebooks around this time in high school? The one with the grim reaper holding the little boys hand and it said: "Let's Go Take the AP Exams." Someone should make one for finals. At least I only have four finals!!! :)

A Beautiful Week

I have been so busy lately! Our friend John was in town visiting for the weekend, so Monday night we went to SLC and had delicious Greek food and watched a laser show in the Imax there. Then we went to a yummy frozen yogurt place. (They're cake batter flavor was spectacular.)
Of course we played around on the galaxy/solar system stuff first:

 Yeah, we're on Mars.

Inspecting footprints on the moon with our friend in the background.

Thursday night we had a way fun big group date (girls ask guys). We played soccer for a while out in the cold and rain. We may have lost, but my team was awesome! Just saying...I think everyone had a lot of fun. They didn't want to go until it got pretty dark. Finally we went and got frozen yogurt (seeing a pattern?) Mmmmmm....

The whole group minus Tracie and Peter, party poopers. You should have seen us trying to take this picture, though. We put the camera on the TV with the timer and it kept falling off...

Last night I went to a "bonfire." The weather was pretty crappy, so we ended up grilling hot dogs outside my friend's apartment complex. Then we went inside and told a 'scary' story and made s'mores by roasting marshmallows over tea candles. It was really fun! Some of his friends reminded me of my roommates, which amused me.

And a couple pictures from conference at Brady's and Temple Square:

We're pretty awesome. I know. Speaking of awesome, Hannah and I went on a run in the snow this morning and then went swimming outside at Glenhood (okay, the pool is heated, but still pretty fun). Then we got some lunch at the coffee pod, it was good, but not too filling. The atmosphere was fun, though. There were a lot of hippies. I think it will become Hannah's new thing. She'll probably put our pics up in a few months...or years...

Cecil!

Conference weekend has been great! Saturday morning I lazed around with the roommates watching conference on TV. But right after the first session, Lauren and I jumped in the car to head to Salt Lake for the PM session since I had two tickets. We found parking pretty easily, which surprised me and meant that we had time to visit with a friend who works in the ticket office. My aunt was in town for the weekend with my cousin and her friend, so they saved us seats (we were in the balcony). Of course the talks were fantastic! And it was exciting when Cecil gt up since he's my homeboy. There was a lot of whispering in our section when he stood up. The BYU-I choir was great, but I wish we had been there for MoTab (don't worry, I've been to conference before, so I've seen them, but it's always nice.) I kept looking at the spots we had last year covetously, though. We were in the fifth row last year! But anyway, then our group went to Crown Burger, known for their cheeseburgers with pastrami and fantastic fry sauce. It lived up to it's name. Mmmmmmm! Walking around temple square rounded up the GC Saturday. And when we got home we got to visit with our friend from last semester who moved to Texas, but is in town visiting!

Today we continued our somewhat new semi-annual tradition of going to our friend's parents house for conference. His parents and family are fantastic and fun (and make amazing food!) His grandparents especially are characters. We also went in footie pajamas (I borrowed from Krislyn since I don't yet own any :(  ) And took some awesome pictures. They will be forthcoming....

Maybe I should demonstrate that I was actually educated from conference...I got:

GET MARRIED!

Yeah, it felt like BYU firesides all over the place (Especially Elder Scott's since he told mostly the same stories as our fireside a few months ago.)

So pretty much a fantastic weekend.

P.S. I went rock climbing on Friday! But alas,  I forgot my camera. It was actually kind of scary at first, but way fun.