Tomorrow, Tomorrow I Love Ya Tomorrow!

Well, I guess I will love you today too, but I will love you even more tomorrow! Maddi comes up to Rexburg to spend the weekend with me! I am so excited! Ahhhhh! Okay, well better be going off to do homework so I don't have to do much when I am wanting to do other things. Have a most splendid Thursday.

No Snow?

     So it is January 21 and there is no snow on Rexburg's streets at all! Today was perfect! It is sunny but rainy. It reminds me of spring in CA. I could have gone out with just a light jacket. This week and semester has been wonderful!

Happiness

     This week has been a happiness filled week. I have learned so much about myself and all hat I can do with the lord's hand in my life. It is oh so necessary to include the Lord in all you do. "When obedience ceases to be an irritant, God endows us with power."- Thomas S Monson. So I put it to the test. That day was the best yet. I felt so close to my Heavenly Father, and in each of my classes I not only understood the material but I had learned something about my personal relationship with my father in heaven.  Also, it has seemed like every talk and every devotional were made with me in mind. Man I love the power of prayer. It amazes me how much our Heavenly Father knows each and every one of us individually, and knows all of our needs, fears, and excitements. 

Random Thoughts of the Week

You guessed it school has started! We are only 2 days in thus far though, and I already am waiting for it to be over. On a happier note I have wonderful roommates. I am always nervous that we will not get along with each new semester, but we seem like we will all mesh really well. We are all unique in our different ways, but yet that uniqueness draws us together. Well that is pretty much all the excitement that has been going on in my life since the last post.

p.s. My love and desire to go to Africa has been growing, and growing, and growing, someday it will end up bursting and my wallet will deplete, but who cares? I will be able to see little black kids someday, and maybe see an African animal.

Winter is approaching

Winter is approaching and that means that Fall is ending. This is not good for these reasons:
1.  It is getting colder, which means
     a. snow is going to be tickling my nose, cars will be sliding, and my feet and hands will continue to be frozen for the next 4 months. (My roommate literally just walked in and was like  "It snowed! ERG!" Man, we got this far with only one or two snow occurrences, let the freezing begin.)
     b.It will be getting too cold for just a sweatshirt. I absolutely love sweatshirts, and I would wear them nearly everyday of the year, but now time to bring out the big bulky attire.
     c. Rexburg winters are harsh. Did you know that your body is a thermometer? If you walk out in the morning and the first breath you take freezes your nostrils, it is -20 or below. Oh and did I mention wind chill?
     d. Rexburg has the worst, and I mean the worst roads in the winter. They plow the streets every few days, put red rock down as salt, and leave huge piles (about 5-6 feet high) of snow in the middle of the road to create medians, that were never there in the summer.

2.  Fall semester is ending. This is bad for numerous reasons. My best friend will be going home for the next 4 months, school starts for me with some hard classes I am very nervous about, and I will be working while I am going to school.

But, there is opposition in all things, these are the reasons I am excited for Winter to begin:

1. I am excited for the material in the classes. I am excited for my Teachings of the Living Prophets class, and semi-excited (but when I say semi I mean on the lower end closer to not excited) for Organic Chemistry and Human Biology.
2. I get to continue to work with some amazing people that teach me to think about the simple things in life. I love old people.
3. I will be able to get into a routine. I like it when I have things to do all the time. My brain goes crazy when I have nothing to do.
4. New semester means new roommates (now this could be good or bad), new ward, and some new friends.
5. New semesters mean new challenges, but new growth.

I am so glad that I will not be alone for Christmas, I would have been so sad if I was going to be in Rexburg all alone for Christmas. Granted I am working most of Christmas eve and most of Christmas,  but at least I will have Mark and Summer and Summers family to come home to. Thanks so much for allowing me to be the party crasher. It really means a lot. I think that this is the first Christmas when I have actually never had anything on my Christmas list besides being with people I care about. When you take that away from the Christmas season, nothing else matters.

Also, We took roommate pictures. Except for I am the adopted one. I sleep in 211 but eat, live, and party in 109.  Here are a few: 

Thanks girls for an amazing semester, it is one I will never forget!

Crazy life

     I am now working full-time and it is great! I work at Heritage Homes Assisted Living in Rexburg and then I also nanny the owners kids for 20 hours a week. I experienced my first death this week. Farrel was 96 and deserved to go. He was in bad shape. I was the first person to find him after his last stroke. From then on we babied him and the he passed 30 min after my shift was over.

     I also signed up for classes and am a wee bit nervous for this next semester because from here on out the majority of my classes will be either biology or chemistry. Oh well, that is what I chose.

     Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and I get to go home. We will all be there but Kyle & Alyssa and their kidos. But don't worry we will only have 80% fun. See ya then!

Wyoming with my Bestie

Mads invited me to go to Wyoming with her to go see her family and her grandparents. On the way we drove through Yellowstone. We saw some pretty cool things. I love driving, especially with my best friend, not to mention the views were great.

In Cody, we walked down main street. here at the Yellowstone Gift Shop we found this glitter hat. I asked Mads to try it on. She had glitter on her the rest of the day. 

I am glad that someone appreciates my snuggie other than me!

We found Barbra under the bed, later we found her this accessory. 

On our way back, we found this black beauty. Wolves are hard to find in Yellowstone, luckily we found this one. 

Thanks Mads for inviting me. I had a blast. And for the first time in my life I won Phase 10. It was a weekend of new adventures :]

Rexburg Take 2

So this time I am staying in Rexburg. I am all moved in and sitting on my bed in my new room. I am the only one home now. I am only just upstairs from my old roommates! That means party all the time! Tonight it the David Osmond concert that Crissy, Marie & Greg, Brooke, and I are going to. I am excited! I have work too. I work for Absolute Home Health Care in Idaho Falls. This Sunday we re having dinner with our old FHE brothers. They are seriously the best. Well, not that much to say. Oh yeah, so I found 10 dollars on the ground the other day. Also I found a $15 Itunes card in my room while I was packing. So, you know what I bought? SCOTTY MCCREERY! Yay. Well of to listen to the blessed son of God, that he is...

General Conference Oct 2011

I loved Elder Scotts message today. I loved that he said to memorize scriptures, because it is like having many close friends with you all the time. It is so true. I need to be more valiant in my scripture study, I love conference it always makes me feel so good. 

I also loved the talk by Elder Arden.  I need to learn to prioritize. And to use my time in a way that I can prepare better for Christ to come again. 

My cousin Adam Burke is GREAT! He got the opportunity to sing in conference today in the afternoon session. Adam and I are pretty close. Whenever we are together, we are either playing with each others hair, laughing, or making funny faces at each other. I am so jealous of him being able to sing at conference. All of the family that was at my grandma's house were looking diligently for Adam. He is the youngest grandkid, and everyone loves him. Here he is singing in conference!

Adam we are all so proud of you! You did a great job!

Best Weekend Ever

I had been planning a weekend up to Rexburg to see my old roommates for two weeks. I am not very good at keeping surprises a secret, but I did it! And they didn't even suspect anything! It was grand. I also brought Mykal, Maddi's sister up with me. We had a blast on the car rides, I am glad I had company. I got to see my best friends, a lot of friends, some acquaintances, and met some new people too. 

Since I barged in on her life, Mads still had homework to do. This assignment required her to go watch children at play for 30 min. So I politely invited myself to come along. 

We can be just a little crazy sometimes too. 

Saturday afternoon Mads took Mykal and me bowling at the school. I had never been there before. It was way fun and cheap! Especially cheap for me since Mads paid! Thanks Mads!

Saturday evening was the Relief Society broadcast. The stake provided dinner for all the girls. The best part were the skittles that were the center pieces. Needless to say they were gone by the time dinner was half over. 

 I was way sad to leave on Sunday, but dreams can't last forever, you eventually have to wake up. So Sunday  Mykal and I left, and on our way back we documented the large buffalo in the middle of the field. Kind of hard to see, but the first time I saw it on the way up, I got freaked out. 

Sidenote: Mom and I always make fun of/ think it is funny when people with short hair spike it straight up and make themselves look like a ray of sunshine. So mom was flipped over hairspraying her hair and came up like this. Not the total ray of sunshine look but similar. I guess her hairspray really works! I told her she should go to work like that :)