christmas vaction part 1

This is part one in my Christmas vacation installment. Christmas vacation ends next Monday :( sad days I know! But anyways here is what I have done so far :)

played in mesa. it rained and i ran bare foot in the street with trent and caroline

saw the mesa temple lights

shopped shopped shopped

walked down memory lane with cortney and decided we missed tate :(

drove to st george

ate about a million oranges

lit a paper towel fire while making lunch (oops)

went to tepanyakis SOOO GOOD!

went to provo and saw temple square

went tubing in park city

shopped at the byu bookstore with the fam

drove back to st george and watched stardust on the way (love that movie)

just discovered the coolest store ever called tai pan

made about a million head bands (not even joking)

played like a million rounds of hand and foot (and won most of them oh yeah!)

here are a few pictures from my adventures

Temple square. trent, marci, and i

We had so much fun taking pictures of the temple there :)



we even pretended to be statues haha




Tubing in Park City

i heart mesa :)

Yes I am finally back in Mesa, and I am LOVING every second of it! The weather is beyond amazing! I mean who wouldn't want to wear flip flops, or run around in the rain barefoot in the middle of December? Because I LOVE it! (and I don't miss the snow, not one little bit). After a CrAzY day of shopping and running around like chickens with no heads, my family went to see the Mesa Temple lights! Talk about beautiful! I LOVE the Mesa temple lights! We went and got hot cocoa for QT! YUM!!! Here are a few picture we took!

The temple is SOO pretty! loved it! :)

we wish you a merry fort-mas!

So basically finals weeks sucks super bad so to deal with the overall suckiness of it Dana, Tori, and I built a fort instead of studying! Don't worry we had been studying all day so it was ok that we spent two hours on it! We then proceeded to move our mattresses down from upstairs and have an epic movie night on Saturday night! We invited a bunch of boys and had a BLAST! On Sunday, we had to take it down for a ward party at our house but never fear! The awesomeness that is the fort went right back up after they left! We are now on day 6 of sleeping in our tent but we have to take it down today because Dana went home today, and I am going to TOMORROW!! OH YEAH! I am hoping this becomes a tradition because it was SO nice not to be stuck in our room studying but instead in a fort studying! Trust me its way better!!! :) Anyways, here are a few pictures of the awesome fort we built. And yes, it is ok to be jealous! Most people are! :)

These are our beds!The front door! animal print style!
one of the walls. see that table?? look how creative we are haha!
We also got to go visit Kimbers new casa last night! So cute! Now that she is all married and lives with her hubby in this super cute little house! Loved it!

Oh oh oh I am going home tomorrow and I couldn't be more stoked! I will not miss this stupid cold weather, I will not miss the snow and I definitely will not miss homework!

But I will miss the fort, and Tori, cake day, and my friends :)

Fun things to do in the snow...

Yes snow does suck but there are a few fun things you can do...

1. make awesome sculptures,

This is a pirate snow man we saw haha.

2. watching people slip and fall on ice. It sucks when it happens to you but HILARIOUS when it happens to someone else haha

3. Doing mean things to people... We covered our FHE brothers door with snow so when they opened it all the snow would fall into their apartment hehe

but now we have to worry about them plotting revenge! all i have to say to them is BRING IT ON!!!

Christmas Service!

For my calling on the pure religion committee we had a Christmas service for the ward! We decided to "adopt" a family and get presents for them! We had the whole ward donate money and collected over 1200 dollars! Go ward!!! :)

Here is us with the family after we delivered the gifts!
The family!The gifts! It was snowing so hard!!

way to cold...

I worked at Aspen Grove these past two weeks and this is how cold it was....Ah!!!!!! yes that says negative three!!! -3!!!! why utah??? why??????

MLIA

Right now i heart the website MLIA! After a super stressful day of homework, school, homework, finding time to breath, and oh yeah homework I love reading a few posts on this website to make my life happy! here are a few of my favorite posts today....

Today, my parents and I had to go to a teacher conference because I had gotten an awful grade on a math test. When we entered the room, I sat down and the teacher placed my test on the table in front of me. Across the table sat a blank version of the test with an apple on top of it. After a few moments of silence, the teacher looked at my parents and said, "Your son only scored 10% higher on that test than this apple just did." MLIA

Today, I passed an elementary school with a student parking lot. I'm still confused. MLIA

Today, I asked my mom what it would taste like to fry something in water. She responded with "that would be boiling something". MLIA

The other day, I was on mystery google and recieved a mission to get my neighbors gnome and move it one foot everyday till it reaches my neighbor's doorstep. I decided to have some fun and do the mission. Today she came over my house freaking out asking if I was moving her gnome, I tried not to laugh and said no. She thinks its alive. funniest. week. ever. MLIA

haha i LOVE this website :) it is now my life goal to get something posted on it before i die... i shall succeed!

catching up!!!

Here are a few pictures i forgot to post from az! I love these guys! We went bowling and then to in n out! oh how I missed in n out!!!!

Now I am back in freezing cold Provo :( If only Provo had good weather and my family it would be PERFECT! (that and the suns because the jazz suck haha) Anyways, we had an Oscars night for the ward where all the FHE families in the ward made videos and competed! It was insanely fun!!! We won best editing! Here are a few pics from that night!

my fake family! love them!
hehe
Leia's got nothing on me :)
P.S. its snowed today. and i fell. i hate the snow!

Thanksgiving!

This Thanksgiving for my dad's work (waste management) we volunteered at a shelter for abuse women and their families. We had tons of booths and served Thanksgiving dinner. My family was in charge of the tattoo station! Kids kept coming back for more and by the end some kids had tattoos all over their arms! They were so cute! It was a little rough getting the hang of it at first but by the end we were pro! If anyone needs help with tattoo's I know all about it (but only the fake kind :) best thanksgiving ever!

little sis's tattoo
tattoo on little bro

little bro and I

me, little sis, and mom
little sis and mom
little bro, me, dad, little sis, and mom. older sis marci was working at the hospital so she couldn't come, and bro in law sprained his ankle in the turkey bowl so he was mia. But older sis got off early and made it home in time for thanksgiving dinner! yay! We also go awesome shirts for volunteering! recycling yay!
little bro, me, and little sis
Happy Thanksgiving! :)

flight, twilight, sleepover, and kimbers wedding!

So on Thursday we barely made it to the airport on time only to find out that our flight got delayed a whole hour! YUCK! Luckily, both Dana and I had our laptops to keep us entertained! When we finally got on the plane we watched HP 6 to make the flight go faster! And it did! Thank goodness because we were SOO excited to be going home! I finally got home about 11 and my brothers and sister were freaking out because we only had an hour before twilight started so I got home and ran right back out the door again! haha! Here are a few pictures from the midnight showing! Oh and the movie was AWESOME!



That next night for Karissa's birthday we had a sleepover in a tent in Karissa's backyard! It was so fun to see all the girls! The next day I helped my sister at a boutique selling head bands and baby bands! They were so cute and they made a TON of money! That night was Kimber's wedding! Crazy Crazy Crazy! It was gorgeous!!!! I am happy I could be down in Mesa for it! Here are a few pictures from the wedding!
trent and caroline
Trent and I
My mom, caroline and I
Kimber, Casey, and I! She looked beautiful!! :)
Amber, Aleece, and I

Casey and Kimber dancing! They are so cute :)Dana, Karissa, Amber, Me, and Aleece

The parentals!
Me, Aleece, Dana, Courtney, Amber, and Taylor

love these girls!

So this weekend we had a relief society appreciation dinner where we went and ate dinner and were appreciated! It was way fun! We got dressed up all pretty....We had a blast! These girls are amazing :) love them to death!

food drive results!

So after hours of hard work and dedication we finally packed all the food in my car and took it to the Food Bank here in Provo! It was awesome!

We had a total of 847 pounds of food! I'm so proud BYU 38th ward! Way to be! :)