Sledding

Last night I went sledding down Old Main Hill up in Logan with a couple of my friends.  It was way fun and the hill is so huge and perfect for sledding down.  Old Main Hill is pretty famous for sledding and ice blocking (which is what people do when there is no snow as a substitute).  I was SO excited to use my new coat and long johns, which worked very well to keep me quite warm.  We only had to sleds so the guys took one of their couch cushions and put garbage bags over it.  It works really well and when you hit those large bumps it doesn't hurt one bit but when I tried it I didn't stay on for very long... I biffed it :)  Anyway I've been feeling the results of it all today... I'm feeling kinda' sore and I discovered bruises on my behind as well as on my thigh.  Haha it was worth it though!  

Christmas Break

My Christmas break has been just wonderful!!  It's been fun to get together with all my girlfriends from high school and hang out like back in the day.  Three of them still live at home but Jessica goes to BYU and I'm here in Logan.  I went back to work at Dick's Market as a Service Desk Clerk/Cashier, while I was home for two weeks, which was surprisingly fun!  I didn't realize that I actually missed working until I worked again, and the extra money will be helpful!  So other than working this break and playing with my best friends, I read a lot.  I LOVE to read but I never really have time during school so I was reading non stop for most of the break.  

I had to work a 9 hour shift on Christmas Eve starting at 7 in the morning and ending at 4... oh man I was exhausted!!  Luckily it wasn't crazy busy and we had all eleven checkstands open which helped a ton, but I was still way worn out.  That night my family was doing our traditional Christmas Eve activities and I sadly was sleeping on and off on the couch...  Every year for X-mas Eve my dad reads us a christmas story and we open one present.  It was fun because my sister and brother-in-law and little niece Alexis came and stayed overnight.  Little Lexie is SO cute and it was so fun to have her around!  Especially on Christmas morning opening all of her presents.  She got some pretty big fun toys which filled our living room haha.  My Christmas presents consisted of a coat, warm fuzzy slippers, long johns and a couple long sleeve shirts... haha everything I need to live in crazy cold Logan!   I also got my own duffel bag and some books that I have been reading non stop!

The day after Christmas (Friday) was my friend Maeghan's 19th birthday.  All of us five girls got together and took her out to lunch which was quite interesting... We embarrassed Maeghan by having them sing to her at Applebee's and then shortly after Jessica spilled her entire glass of water onto Julane!  Haha oh man good times!  Us girls should not be aloud out in public when we are together.  Then we went over to Maeghan's house where we played rockband for like 4 hours... I really liked the drums :)  Overall I had a Fantastic Christmas and break at home!  

Temple Square

On the Saturday after we got home, my Mom's side of the family had a Christmas Party.  Me, Jen (cousin/roommate), and our cousin Cassie who is from Arizona rode the trax to temple square to see the lights.  It was a lot of fun especially since it's not that often that us three get to to be together (usually only reunions).  

Cousins!!

More Fun with Photo Booth :)

I'm sure you're all sick of all my photo booth pictures but I think it's so much fun and me and my friend Melissa got a great laugh out of it.  This was the same night of the gingerbread houses. 

This one is my favorite!!

Gingerbread Houses!

Sorry that I'm so far behind but there isn't internet access at my house and I've been home for the last two weeks for the Christmas break.  I'm back in Logan now because Jen (my source of transportation) had to start work today and I decided to come back up to Logan with her for the last week and party before the new semester starts :)  Anyway so now i'm going to catch up on everything... 

So on the Friday that I came home I got together with my girls and we made gingerbread houses!!  It was so fun!!  It was so great to be back together with everyone (well almost... Our friend Jess was still at BYU at this time and Julane was at work but came later).  

Maeghan and Me getting ready to start the Gingerbread house making.

And the finished products... Don't they look awesome?!

Haha we had a fun time taking tons of pictures.. this is only one of the many :)

And another one.  From front to back: Maeghan, Me, Julane, Melissa, and Danielle.

Roommate Christmas Party

First of all, we FINALLY got our quote wall set up last weekend.  We have been writing down our silly quotes since the beginning of the school year and me and Jenni finally created the "wall" last Friday (when I should have been studying :), but as you can see I was avoiding it).

  

Jenni couldn't quite reach the wall with the table there so her solution to the problem was to just climb right up on the table!

It is still pretty small because we have missed some quotes that were never written down but it's growing as the days go by so it's ok!

For Christmas (since we are all poor college students) we drew names instead of getting everyone a present.  So Sunday night we had a little Apartment 26 Christmas party which involved hot chocolate, doughnuts, presents, and The Polar Express!  What could possibly be better than that?!  Anyway, it was a lot of fun and good to spend time just as roommates and no one else.  Jess played Santa Claus and delivered the presents to everyone, but before they could open it each person had to say something they liked about her.  It was so great!

 

This is our cute little Christmas tree that Jen provided with our presents underneath!  haha notice the presents are wrapped in printer paper... well all except for the one wrapped in grocery bags :)  Haha oh I love college life!

Roommate Picture!!!  Just ignore all the random junk down in front on the coffee table...

Trip to Salt Lake

Yesterday was the USU vs. BYU basketball game.  It was held in the Energy Solutions Arena (which I think sounds dumb and it should still be called the Delta Center) down in Salt Lake, so we took a little road trip and spent the day down there.  I drove with some friends from my ward and we went down early to go to the body world exhibit.  I was a little bit freaked out by the idea that they were real human bodies, but they actually didn't look very real.  I was surprised at how awesome it really was and I really enjoyed it!  the one thing that really freaked me out was the bodies had fingernails and toenails still... uh that just gave me the shivers!  Anyway it was worth it and we had a great time.  We then went over to Crown Burger for a late lunch and then headed over to the game.  It was a very close and intense game which sadly ended in a 5 point loss for the Aggies :(  And of course both my brother and sister had to rub it in...  

We left Salt Lake and drove to Bountiful where we had some delicious ice cream concretes at Neilson's Frozen Custard, then went to my house where my wonderful Mom prepared us dinner!  We just hung out there for a while playing ping pong and guitar hero.  I had a great time even though I was VERY disappointed in our loss... but oh well there's always next year!

Thanksgiving Break

Happy late Thanksgiving to everyone, sorry I'm getting so behind... life has been busy lately.  Ok so I had a super wonderful Thanksgiving break and it was great to be home and have a break from school.  Thanksgiving was delicious of course and it's always good to have REAL food for once :)  I don't get much of that here... oh except for last Tuesday (the day before the break).  Jess owed our dear friend Shawn dinner from losing in a card game and we also turned it into a goodbye feast for him, since he's not coming back next semester (he's going on a mission to Sweden in March!  Yay!!).  Anyway so we went all out and even had a super awesome centerpiece that Jess put together :)  It was delicious!!  

Oh we even had streamers!  Like I said... we went all out!

It was so great to see their reactions when Shawn and his two roommates walked in!  They were so surprised and just loved it!  Brownie points for us :)

After our "Parting Feast" we went to the basketball game against Weber.  It was so frustrating at first because the whole first half we were doing terrible and were behind by about ten points.  But... the second half was a completely different game!  It was a totally turn around and we came back to win by about twenty I think.  It was SO good!!

I always told myself that I would never go out shopping with the crazy people on Black Friday... but Friday morning I found myself at Sear's with my mom at 6:30 in the morning... haha!  It was actually quite fun!  We found some great deals and I got some christmas shopping done.  After Sear's, we went and picked up my sister and stopped by Smith's Marketplace, Khols (twice :) ), Target, and Seagull Book.  It was quite exhausting so I slept in the car for a bit while they continued shopping.  We didn't get home until around one and soon after eating some leftover turkey, I took a nice long nap :)  

I finally saw Twilight also on Friday night.  I LOVED it!!!  There were a few parts that I was trying not to giggle because they were pretty cheesy but it was still great!!  And even though I believe they could've done better with Edward, I will admit he did grow on me.  Well it's great to be back in Logan and now I get to study my brains out for finals next week... yuck.  But oh well, it means that the semester is almost done and Christmas is coming!!!  I LOVE Christmas!!

Christmas Idea

Just in time for your Christmas shopping!
Check out one of my Dad's new websites. This one is not the big one (where you can design your own shirts). He is still working on that one.  This is strictly a retail site. It has clothes and some accessories.  Check out the prices, they are generally 10-20% below suggested retail.

Looking for Christmas ideas or just some new clothes?  Check out this website:

http://www.companycasuals.com/apparelforyou/start.jsp

Fun with Photo Booth!

Ok so me and Jess got a little bored today before Ward prayer, so this is a result of our boredom... sorry there are a lot of pictures but we were having fun :)

Here we are sleeping... well trying :)

I'm drooling on Jess' arm while she is happily dreaming :)  Haha not really, that would be gross...

Biggest Mouth Contest!!  Who's mouth is bigger?!?!

Oh so adorable... The boys downstairs decided that it's too difficult calling both of us Jessica so they took our last names and formed them into nicknames.  So therefore we are now known as Roy (based of Rau) and Norm (short for Norman).  

Tie Date

So on Thursday night our dear friend Allen hooked us up with some chocolate milk from Lee's that i guess they could not sell or something like that... anyway so we (Jess, Shawn, and I) were just happily drinking our chocolate milk when suddenly Jess got a little bit too excited about something and hit Shawn with a very large pillow, spilling his cup of milk ALL over him!!  Haha it was everywhere!  Shawn was a good sport though and luckily the jacket was saved after a having a little shout fight... sorry this picture doesn't really show how bad it really was.

 

So in our ward we had a little activity called a "Tie Date."  Each guy put in a tie (actually two ties since we have twice as many girls than guys), then all of us girls went and picked a random tie.  They told us who the tie belonged too and we had to do three nice things secretly for this person throughout the week and then they took us on a date.  The guys didn't find out who had their tie until the date. 

Me and my roommate Jenni picked a tie that the date was at the same time so we could be together.  So on Saturday morning we showed up at their doorstep then they took us up on campus and we played Frisbee golf which is way fun!  I've never played before and I wasn't very good but it was still a lot of fun.  Then we went to Casper's and ate some delicious ice cream.  I had a lot of fun so it was just great!

Jess wasn't in our same group but her date was at the same time as ours was, so here she is wearing her date's tie... well at least trying too :)

Just look at our amazing tie tying skills!!  The Internet is so great!  You can learn so many things haha!  It took us ten minutes just to tie the half Windsor knot... but don't they look so great?!

After the Tie Date I went downstairs to watch the football game.... ugh, SO frustrating... I don't know what was wrong with Max Hall but he was literally throwing the game to Utah.  Anyway, usually I would be way upset about it, because I really like football and I get extremely and emotionally involved, but this year it didn't bother me as much... I guess it's just because now I'm an AGGIE!!

Office Party

       Ok so yesterday was pretty eventful.  Every Thursday there is a Hurd dinner and coach's show (the Hurd is basically the spirit club here) and they usually give us pretty good food so we went and stood in line for a half hour just to find one tiny slice of little ceasar's pizza at the end of the line... and that's ALL!  We were all way disappointed but oh well.  Our friend Todd who lives downstairs had an Office/"Dark side of the Moon" set to Wizard of Oz (or something like that) party.  Last week he had a similar party but we watched Snow White set to Beatles music and I made Strawberry Shortcake to go along the beatles theme (We called it the strawberry fields forever cake :).  So this week I made lemon bars, but I hadn't made them for a really long time so they didn't quite turn out how I had imagined but everyone still loved them so it's all good.  Anyway so we were all just hanging out down in their apartment and our friend Shawn got a call from some random number asking about his van being for sale.  He was so confused and all of these people kept calling and calling... We figured out that someone had put his van up on KSL.com for FREE!!  Haha it was pretty hilarious!!  

    After tons and tons of texts, calls, and voicemales the guilty one called and confessed because he felt bad.  It was so sad because someone text him and said that her husband just had a stroke and they really needed it for transportation and Shawn is such a nice boy that he was ready to give up his van for real!!  

    Also last night at midnight was the Freshman's turn to start registering for classes next semester, so i got on at like 12:03 and the system was already down.  The banner has been having so many problems this week.  It has been crashing like crazy and frustrating everyone.  I stayed up and it finally let me in at one and I was able to get into all of the classes I wanted.  So far I'm signed up for Family Finance, Marriage and Family Relationships, Physical Geography, and Career and Life Planning (which will hopefully help me figure out a what I want to major in).  Then today I was talking to my roommates and me and my cousin Jen discovered that we have two classes together which totally wasn't even planned!!  My other two classes I found out I have with the other Jenni :)  Haha I'm so excited now!

Friday Hike

We went for a hike up the canyon which was a lot of fun, but we left kind of late so we were hiking in the dark for half of it.  It was so pretty outside!  I just love the outdoors!  Being out in the mountains made we want to go camping SO bad!  After the hike we went to Fredricho's and ate very delicious pizza!  Oh it was good.  

Nate, "The Jessicas", and Shawn

Oh yeah we also brought a box of mini wheats with us (that's the only food Shawn had in his car), just incase we got stranded out in the wilderness :) Haha  

Jessica Love!

Posing on this "Perfect Picture Rock" 

This is us trying to be Gansta!

Feeding The Ducks

Both of my classes got cancelled on Friday which was really nice.  I had all these plans to be really productive and do some homework, but I slept in, made some french toast (for the first time ever :), got distracted on Facebook, then my roommate Jenni came in my room and started talking to me.  Then our friend Fred came over and we went and fed the ducks at first dam.  Haha yeah, so much for doing homework... anyway, first dam was pretty fun.  Fred had a big bag of old bread to feed to them.  There were tons of them everywhere and it was kind of funny to watch them fight for the bread... but they just kept getting closer and closer!  The geese were practically attacking us which was scary so i ran away :)

The funny thing is, we started out standing at the edge of the water... haha

There were so many of them!!

Fred daringly risked losing his own finger to feed this feisty goose.  I think he is crazy!!  Those geese were so scary!  They would just stare you down and keep getting closer and closer until you gave them some bread.  

Halloween

Honestly Halloween is probably my least favorite holiday.  I really just don't like any part of it.  It was great when I was a little gal and I could go trick-or-treating and get sick on loads of candy, but now it's just lame.  I do like to dress up and be weird though (as you can see from our all-nighter adventure).  Our ward had a Halloween party for FHE and we couldn't figure out what to dress up as so we just went to DI... of course!  I ended up being an old grandma, which was kinda lame but hey it worked. 

Melanie was a hippy, Marral was a dead school girl and Jenni was an army chick.

Cousins/Roommates!!

This was before the Howl party on Friday, which was pretty lame by the way... Waste of my fifteen dollars.  It was frustrating because we had to wait in line for an hour just to buy our tickets and then when we got there, there were just way too many people and we got sick of seeing girls wearing practically nothing and guys dressed as girls... haha yeah quite interesting.

A fairy, Cowgirl, 80's exercise girl, witch, and a bumble bee.

After the Howl was great though.  We went to Village Inn with some friends and ate some delicious strawberry banana french toast with eggs and bacon.  Mmm mmm mmm Delicious!!