To the Future

Things that my future home will include: (Thanks to Pinterest)

Yes that is a chalkboard wall. The possibilities that chalkboard paint opens up...

A people wheel bookshelf. The practicality astounds!

Beautiful.

 The veranda.

 A secret passageway? 

 Fantastic.

That is all.

Except it's getting to be Jimmertime...

BYU Kind of Life?

Nice game! Way to take Wofford, Cougs. (Who even knew who they were before this game? We gave them publicity. How nice of Jimmer and the boys.)

Story: About a month into the semester one of my professors announced that this couple that had met in our class were engaged! What the what? They always sit in the front and are kind of lovey dovey, so he put his arm around her and I realized he now has a ring on his left hand. They already got MARRIED!! They didn't even know each other three months ago!!!

This is where all these ridiculous BYU stories come from. This is not the norm, but it certainly happens. I just don't understand...Although I haven't met anyone here yet. Maybe if I did I would be saying 'whoa, I need to snatch that up!' ...No...actually that still wouldn't be me. But to each their own I suppose.

Bridal Veil. Basketball. Dance.

This weekend was rather fun. Thursday night we hung out with our old FHE brothers as per us. and watched Wizard People. It's the whole Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone dubbed over by this guy who narrates the whole thing weirdly. It's way funny, but has quite a few cuss words. We had them fast forward through the worst parts. :) 

Friday night was, of course, basketball! Jimmer made 52 points!!!! It was so exciting. We didn't get that channel, so we had to stream it off the internet and hook the laptop up to the TV, so it skipped once in a while, but we stole saw Jimmer's spectacularness. (Yep, it's a word.) We also went to the Alpine Village dance party. Normally their's are way good, but it was really small for an Alpine Village party and we got bored really quickly and left. We decided to go to the hot tub, but on the way home we saw flashing lights and heard loud music coming from an apartment in a building near ours. Of course we had to go in. We made up about half of the party, but it was way fun alternative music! And we saw some people we knew even though there were only like ten people there. Then we did end up going to the hot tub and met some...interesting people.

 Saturday was again basketball...but let's not talk about that. Except to say that Brock got to play! He is soooo nice, I was glad he got some court time. Later on we went to Bridal Veil Falls. It was too icy to really hike up to the waterfall at all, but we wandered around near the bottom and told stories and played koomcha (sp???)  It was a way fun night, and we were even with a couple people we don't normally hang out!

Sunday Hannah and I went on a delightful walk. It was longer than I expected, but really fun. We sat in a park for about 15 minutes talking (I got a slight sunburn. Summer's here!) and then started heading back. But then some boys invited us to toss a football with them, so of course we had to stop. I'm terrible at football, but each time we got it, we had to tell an embarrassing story, so that was entertaining.

Sunday night I had dinner with my family. My younger cousins were so adorable! I'm so glad that I'm here for this stage in their life. They won't be young very long. I wish I got to see my nephew so much. I still haven't seen him in person.

And that's the weekend wrap up.

Catch a Cougar?

Two boys from the U just came by for catch a cougar (and awkwardly asked to use our bathroom. We really should keep it cleaner for such happenings...) I was definitely tempted, but my darling roommate Shayla was the only other one in the room and she isn't as venturesome as me. They would have bought us Brick Oven! But alas, she said no...I wasn't venturesome enough to go on my own. Who knows about those crazy U boys?? (or if they were even from the U for that matter!)

Random thought: Isn't it odd how we so easily forget people who were important in our lives albeit only in a useful manner. I was just thinking about this today because I got on the elevator in the SWKT with a girl who I knew I should know well from somewhere. It took me a whole minute to realize that she was my TA last semester. I saw her about 5 hours every week and she was even a funny TA and it was only a few months ago and I still didn't recognize her immediately. Though I guess it's also partly seeing the person outside of where you normally see them. But think about how many experiences like this you have had. I know I see people on campus all the time who I know I have some reason to say hi tom, but i can't remember why, so I don't say anything. I really need to just working on being a friendlier person and just say something anyway. I've actually been better about it than I was freshman year ( I made a goal of it :)  ).

I put my hair up in a bun when it was still wet and had it up all day. The result:

I've also decided that flannel shirts are one of the best things in this world. They are comfortable and warm and hot! This one from Papaya is my favorite. I think...Usually my favorite is just whichever one I last wore...

And...I was part of this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q_ymVeR6Yk&feature=player_embedded

Model. Number. Basketball.

This weekend has been fantastic. Thursday night we were planning on having a game night with some girls we know from last year. We didn't hang out with them too much last year, we just had some mutual friends and we think they're really cool. Of course all my roommates but one flaked out, but we still had a blast. Instead of having a game night one of the girls asked if we could model for her dad's girlfriend who teaches a photography class. She told us to dress up, so I wore that dress from H&M and Lauren wore a skirt. We get in the car and our friends are wearing jeans. We also realized that we weren't modeling for the dad's girlfriend, but for her class! Haha, it ended up being really fun, though. Some of the students were really awkward and I didn't really know what to do, but some were great at directing and telling me what poses to do, which was what made it so fun. We rounded off the day with ice cream from Sub Zero since that was the squeeze for the day (a coupon thing from restaurants all over Provo that you get texted every day). We had a blast with those girls, we definitely need to hang with them more often.

I almost forgot the best part though, on the way to the photo shoot we were driving and saw a boy in his car alone, so naturally we started waving and winking and then one of the girls rolled down the window and yelled for him to give us his number, so he did and I put it in my phone. We were texting for quite a while. Haha. It was way entertaining.

Last night we had a chill night with some games, talking, and part of an awful movie, I think it was called Arena. Terrible....and today was the basketball game!! It was soooo fun and fantastic since it was senior day. It actually made me really sad, though. I don't actually know them personally, but those boys are household names nowadays. We'll especially miss Jimmer and Emery. Tonight we have been volunteering for Krislyn's 3 on 3 basketball tournament that she organized for class. It went really well and we got to meet Brock, Nick, and Noah from the basketball game.

We just realized that since we have a long running joke with me and broccoli, I need to marry a boy named Brock. Get it?! Too bad the Brock we just talked to is already married, we'll have to go on a search for him...


P.S. We had to return the taxodermy animals that we had rented. We really miss Mouth, Charles, Genevieve, and Krislyn (the cougar) already!

I've been waiting my whole life...

for this...

My shampoo and conditioner ran out at the same time!

Yesterday was way fun. We played laser tag for FHE, I didn't do very well, but it was still an excellent time. I find it ironic that last time I went I did much better and about half of the group was in the ROTC. What is the nation coming to??
I also had some excellent spoon it up. I hope I just made you crave it. Bring me some!

I almost screamed!

When people read Footsteps in the Sand to an audience this is all I can think of: (It's rather appropriate for far too many talks as well...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TSth9DiXD4

I wore my new H&M dress that I got in Cali today. I'm kind of in love with it...I normally don't like ruffles, but for some reason I picked it up to try on and really liked it on. It's so odd when that happens.

The pic kind of sucks because I was on the phone with my parents at the same time. I really wanted to change into a hoodie, and naturally I couldn't wait to do so, so I had to take the picture then...although it misses my sweet grey beaded necklace that's tied with an awesome black ribbon. I don't have many outfits I can wear it with, so it was exciting...