Hello Christmas Break

My christmas break has now officially began, and I am welcoming it with open arms!

This year I'll be celebrating my Christmas in St. Louis, Missouri with Jeff and his family. I'm pretty excited for this little vacation and for the opportunity to really get to know his family better. I do feel bad that I'm ditching my family for Christmas though... Sorry Mom! But we've got lots of fun things planned and I can't wait!

We are actually hanging out in the airport right now waiting for our flight in a couple hours. We both fly out today and then i'm coming back on the 28th. Yes that is almost 2 weeks! I'm a little bit nervous... but mostly excited! :)

Graduation Photo Shoot

We had a lot of fun doing this graduation photo shoot for my friend. Thanks Steph for the practice and Congrats on Graduating!

Family, Fun, and.... FOOD!

Happy Snowy Thanksgiving!

I had a wonderfully busy break hanging out with my family and stuffing myself with food. We had a full house and, as always, were very entertained by the little ones.

Lexie helped me make these cute little turkeys. Her "help" consisted of sucking all the color off the jelly beans and hiding them under her plate, and licking all the filling of the oreo's. Ha ha she was a great help!

Black Friday shopping consisted of Walmart at Midnight, which was total madness! I loved it! I get a kick out of black friday shopping. It's so fun and crazy. Katie and I waited up until 2:30 to go to Kohl's but once we got there and saw the line we bagged that idea and just went to bed.

P.S. I came back to Logan to find at least a foot of snow! When I walked out the door this morning everything looked so beautiful covered in snow!

P.S.S Only 2 more weeks until Finals!!!!! Oh YEAH!

Baby, It's Cold Outside...

And it's a Winter Wonderland!!

This is a picture of the "worst Blizzard of the century" that hit us on Tuesday. Really not as bad as I was expecting. This is a view from Jeff's apartment in Logan.

And of course we had to play in the freshly fallen 8 or so inches of snow!!

Ha ha :)

Practicing My Domesticality

First time making homemade wheat bread... And it was a success!

It was kind of time consuming, but the amazingly yummy result is definitely worth it! Yum!

Most of you are probably thinking that I've fallen off the face of the Planet....

....Well I have.

I just realized that it's been over two months since I've updated my blog... Sorry to those who actually read it and care about what's going on in my life. I will try to do better, but now that I'm back in school and working i've just been a busy busy girl. Life has been really good though! I am enjoying my classes this semester, I love where I'm living, and I think that I have the best job ever. But best of all I'm in love with my best friend :). (I apologize for the cheesiness)

Here are some of the highlights of my life the past couple months:

I finally got to go to the Oregon coast and loved it!

Witnessed first hand the domination of the Aggies over BYU for the first time in 17 years :)

Experienced my very first car accident, which sadly resulted in the death of the deeply loved Geo which I was so attached too.... :(

Bought my first very own fishing pole! It's orange.

Finally after 2 1/2 years of living in Logan, "Cleaned the Sink" at Angie's

Lots of hiking and enjoying the beautiful fall colors

But mostly what my life has consisted of is school, work, school, homework, and playing with my man.

Life is Good :)

Boating and Camping

Last week ended up being pretty busy and eventful for me! Here's what I did:

Wednesday I went boating with a big group of friends at Willard Bay

Thursday morning I went camping with the Young Single Adults from my home stake up in a tiny town north of Preston, Idaho.

Someone knew this guy who owns a ton of land and he let us come up and camp on his property for a few days. He had horses so we got to do a lot of horseback riding!! I LOVED it so so much! I felt like I was on a farm. We got to round them up, and saddle and bridle them. We also learned/observed one of the horses get horse-shoed. That was pretty cool! And... I finally galloped on a horse for the first time! I've always been a little nervous but I did it and it was awesome!

Friday we drove out to this private lake and played on the beach/boated. We had a tiny boat so only a few people could go out at a time. We did a lot of tubing which was way fun, and I also got to do some wake-boarding again! It was fun with this little boat because it had a lot of power.

Friday night brought lots of excitement. We got hit by a big storm! It was extremely windy, and rainy. There we were in this wide open field surrounded by lightening while clinging to metal poles trying to hold down our two big canopies! It was so windy that my tent blew away.... ha ha yes it BLEW away!

I had been up riding horses when the storm hit and someone pointed out to me that my tent was gone... ha ha. I thought he was just teasing me but when I realized it really was gone I ran down to camp. It blew at least 300 yards away and ripped a huge hole in the top (keep in mind this was one our wards 6-man big spring bar tents)! Miraculously every single item of ours stayed inside the tent. Which really is a miracle because all of our bags were wide open and things were strewn everywhere! They just had to shove it all together and throw it in the truck before it started pouring.

I thought it was pretty hilarious that our tent blew away ha ha. That night we slept in the back of our leaders car, which was super uncomfortable. The good news was, was that we didn't have to take down our tent in the morning, or even clean it out for the next people to use it ha! That's all we heard about at church that Sunday. The young men teased us a lot because we "ruined" their tent that they were going to be using that next Monday. Ha ha oops! It was some pretty intense wind I'll tell ya what. Wasn't our fault! :) It sure was a pretty big adventure.