I feel so small town...

Being in Cedar for what a month now, it still feels so weird. If I want Cafe Rio, I can go get it because its down the street. I have three grocery stores to choose from. I have about 50 gas stations to choose from. I have to go through two sometimes three stop lights just to get to one class. If I walk to school its going to take me as long as if I would walk to campus at snow and back and still would be walking a little bit. It is so weird. I am from a big city well more like suburb, and yet when it comes to going to school, I am used to little tiny Ephraim. It has definitely been a different but good change. I like the fact that there is more to choose on where I want to go. Like for example, instead of going to McDonalds for a dollar menu item during the day, I can go to this place called G.I. Jo's where I can get a whole meal for a dollar. I am not lying. Its a culinary school, so they learn to cook and we get decent food out of it. Seriously, how cool is that?! Its such a fun place to be, go with a whole group of friends and make more while you are there. Go try it out for yourselves, you will not be disappointed!
    Okay now I guess you want to know what I have been up to? Well nothing real exciting has happened since the last post. Our first home football game was a blast and we won! It was really cool because in that same weekend, Taylorsville High won their homecoming game, and Snow College won their game. So every school I have attended won their games that weekend. Pretty cool I must say. Oh and the Chargers won too. I got sick this past week and you know what it sucked. I mean getting sick sucks period, but when you are away at school it sucks more because your mom is not there for you. Yeah that's right I was missing my mom. Moms are always there when you are sick but when they live three and a half hours away. But all better now! Well that's about it. Anything new happens you will all know sometime soon. :)

First week as a T-Bird

School school school. That wonderful time of the year when everyone between the ages of 6 to 25 get back to the books. Most people complain that its the end of summer but for me I was actually excited. Honestly it was more that I was excited to a change! A new city, new campus, new roommates, and so much more! Funny thing was that I was scared about one thing...Riding my bike to school. Now now do not judge me, it is a serious fear when the last time you really road a bike was when I lived in California. But I love my bike! It is so much fun and its a peaceful workout while heading to class.

So you want to know the fun times of my Cedar adventures. Well here in this picture is A. our first roommate picture! Yay from left to right, Simone, Kelsey, Yours truly, Ashley, and Lauren! B. This is us at Casino night! Here we all got fake money and got to play 21, poker, texas holdem, etc. I stuck with 21 and did pretty good at it. Would I ever do it for real money...Probably not for the fact that I probably would not be as lucky. But funny thing was that we were going to Casino night and didn't want to walk around the building so we climbed the rocks in HIGH HEELS and DRESSES! Yeah we are pretty legit! That was a fun night!

Next wonderful experience! Our first tailgate!! Ahh so since our first football game was away at Utah State we had a tailgate and watched the game on two 50 inch TVs. It was a ton of fun! Then our two friends LaBrandon and James wanted to get pizza before watching the Hunger Games which was playing after the football game. So we went to the sketchy Dominos and then to Maverick for drinks and oh man it was definitely something you had to be there in order to laugh at the experinece. But that is how a lot of college experiences are like I feel.

Ahh to end the wonderful first week experience. So friday went to a legit Mentalist! He blew our minds away! Then did the classic, roasting starburst over candles and just being fun crazy girls. Then Saturday PAINT STOMP! Oh my freak! It was crazy and so much fun! Jumping around and getting paint sprayed over the crowd! It was nuts! Pretty legit DJ if I do say so myself. Oh man the music was crazy and the crowd was crazy. Dang if the year is anything like this first week I think I am going to be set. :) Stay tuned to see what my next adventure will be!

Last part of Summer... First part of School

                                      So peace out West Valley I am heading to Cedar City!

Moving to Cedar was such a different experience.First off, it is a fresh new start and the worst/scariest part was that seriously I know very few people here... At Snow I knew a couple more people and made friends so fast. But before my scary moment of moving to a new city I got to spend the weekend with my brothers and mom in my beautiful home state of California :) This was so much fun because we goofed off on our way there, even stopped at the welcome to Las Vegas sign and everything. People think its crazy to do such a fast round trip to California but if you have ever lived by the beach and then moved so far away from it you wouldn't think it was crazy.

                                                      My favorite place in the world!
Being in the water was the best. You know when everything is like not doing great and you have that one place you can always go to and everything bad goes away. Well the beach is that place for me. :)

                                       This is what happens when Kelsey and I are left alone
So SUU is pretty fun so far. So our apartment air conditioning was broken... Sad right?! So my roommate Kelsey went next door to ask our neighbors if their air was working and it was. So then we went on with life. Well last night our neighbors came over and were like "we know your air is not working so we brought you this fan that you guys can use until you air starts working again, but we do need it back." How sweet right? So Kelsey and I decided to make them cookies. Well since it was Sunday we could only use what we had. Ashley had this cookie mix for molasses cookies and we decided to try that out. Well as we were making the dough I was all, "Kelsey it looks like poo" cause it did. So as we made the cookies they turned out good and we went to our neighbors and were like, "we made you cookies because you brought us the fan but we do need the plate back." It was way fun. Well we had some dough left over and decided to make poo logs. So that is what the picture is above. How hilarious right?! Seriously they look like poo! :) Very entertaining way to start off the school year for sure! :)
Stay tuned to see what will happen next!

Crazy weeks of Celebrations

                                           Miss Alyssa Littell telling us where she is going!

So being 20 in Utah a lot of things happen in this time. First, at 19 years of age and a member of the LDS church boys go on a two year mission to spread the word of the Church. So a lot of my guy friends are out all around the world doing that which is way cool. Now the Church does not discriminate, girls are allowed to go on missions as well. Girls just have to wait until they are 21 years old and girls only go for a year and a half. So now that the boys are on their year marks or coming home this coming school year, now my friends that are girls are going. One of my best friends ever since I moved to Utah, Alyssa Littell she got her call! She is going to Brazil! Ahh so excited for her! She is going to be an amazing missionary! And her companions are going to love her!

                                                      Another one of my best friends!
Now another thing that happens when you are my age here in Utah...Marriage. Some people say we are too young to get married at this age but when you know its right you know its right. Well thats how Elle felt. Elle and I have been the best of friends since our first semester in college. We became friends by agreeing a guy was hot. Yep typical girls right here. Her now husband, Brendon, is another one of my best friends..once removed..[inside joke]. Being apart of their wedding was amazing. It was a fun night! I hope the best for those two crazy kids.

Now the one of the last things people my age are doing...Moving to or back to college. Sadly the summer is coming to a close and the fall is coming which means school is starting once again. Packing sucks there is not much more to it. Especially packing all your crap cause you are going farther away from home. This year I will be going to a new school. This is scary because its like being a freshman all over again. I am excited though for a new adventure! New school, new roommates [still love my old roommates], new city! [No more turkeys!] Moving to college is a fun, scary experience that I think everyone should go through because it has helped me grow and become the person I am today. This age is scary because there are so many changes that happen in the small time of our early twenties but these are the changes that make our lives.

Orem 2 SAH- The Delievered

                                             My girls who helped with Secret Counselor

                                                        My huge amazing company

                                                           Haha Silly Co's we are :)
Three weeks in a row of EFY say what?! Yep thats right! Loved it. I got to do my first stay at home session for my last week of EFY. That was so much fun and so different. It was weird that the kids had to just stay within the institute. But then you were never alone during free time. Yeah during our first free time found out one of my boys already has his mission call. What?! Crazy! He is going to be a great missionary. Oh on tuesday classes guess who was one of the teachers....BROTHER UDY! Yep thats right my ninth grade seminary teacher! Ah it was so cool to get to talk to him again. Loved it. It was definitely weird not to do lights out... But then it was nice even though I still didnt get to sleep until the wee hours of the night. Oh man we had secret counselor and the way I told mine was I got silly putty and  had six of my girls have letters of my name and he had to figure it out. Well he did very easily because he had me. haha funny. A lot of my kids did the musical program and it was so cool to see them singing! Loved it. It was weird to say good-bye to them on friday. It was a great ending to EFY. Thank you everyone

Provo 8D- This Rock

I got the great opportunity to do EFY once again right after one great week. This once again was a great week. Love all my kids, they cracked me up, like always. My girls were great at listening except they knew how to distract me when it came to lights out. They knew I liked talking to them. We got to have pizza night out on the balcony cause our dorms were horrible inside lol. Thats okay though. We all went and got Hawaiian shaved ice together which was a blast. One day a couple of my boys and I seriously got into a deep discussion about the second coming and wow they knew so much it blew my mind. Loved how we could have that discussion because it was on the perfect day...Spiritual Thursday. :)  Loved it. Also, got to watch tangled in the BYU bookstore haha that was fun.Oh and a couple of my girls made some friends who like swam in my hair...umm what the? It was super weird but super funny. What another wonderful week at EFY.

Provo 7C- May the Peace Be With You

                                                       My Boys for the week

                                                       Some of my girls for the week

                                          Hahaha they stole my camera from my backpack

Ahh I love my job. It is seriously the best summer job by far. So my second week was crazy fun. Our company name was May the Peace Be With You. So Star Wars references were a must! It was hilarious! Had a great set of girls who didn't give me trouble lol love them! We had so much fun together. Got to know them and love them. I was told some sad news about a friend and they noticed something was not right and comforted me. :) Thank you girls. Prayers were answered. Remember the fires at the first of July and how we were all asked to pray for rain...BAM it rained on our spiritual thursday which I would say was legit and totally amazing to see. And the cool thing was, it would rain hard core while we were in the building but when it was time to leave the building it wouldn't be raining or at least hard core. Ahh so cool! Love the amazing things I get to see with my job.