IFT

For those of you who don't know what IFT is (probably everyone) it stands for the coolest organization to ever grace this planet. Still don't know?
The Institute of Food Technologists. Basically if you are a food scientist you are a member of this organization. This past week in Salt Lake they have a conference for their candy division. And it was AMAZING! Heather and I drove out to Salt Lake (got completely lost) and just made it to the conference on time. The food was DELICIOUS (shocking I know...) and I met some amazing people. We had to mix and sit with people from the conference instead of other students and Heather and I being awesome at picking random seats sat with the owner of Maxfields and Sweets! SOOOOO COOL! Tey told us all about their work and what they do. I heart food science! They then had a presentation about the different gums (not the gums you eat but food additive gums like xanthan gum, locust bean gum and carrageenan gum). Coolest presentation EVER! Then after Heather and I went and walked around temple square until nine when they closed. Motab was even practicing so we got to hear a few songs by them! SOOOOO cool! Overall, I think the best part was I got to dress up all business like. With the nice black pants and then nice button up shirt. I will post a picture later when I finally get it from Heather. BEST NIGHT EVER!

HALLOWEEEEEEEEEEN

This year for halloween all my roommates and I dressed as different animals! It was CRAZY fun! We just hit up a bunch of different parties all over campus and went out to dinner and had a grand ole time! I heart halloween :)

at one of the parties they had a wall you could graffiti

Fall. I think?

Up at Aspen Grove we keep trying to celebrate fall but we get rudely interrupted everytime I wake up and see out my window,

I just want to yell "REALLY UTAH, REALLY!!!!!!"
My most favorite thing about fall is when you get to crunch the leaves when you step on them and the snow kinda puts a damper on things. Literally.
A few days ago I made this for our lobby

So it would look like fall inside and winter outside. :)
Also I re-vinyled my laptop! It turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself :)

My lovely older sister made it for me :) Love you sis!!!
Also, this is the background on my laptop

It makes me smile every time i minimize. I'm pretty sure I have the cutest nephew EVER!

slc pics!

Here are some of the pics I talked about earlier from my trip to SLC with my roomies!

 we hate the utes but we couldn't resist when we saw this on the street... GO COUGS!

and we of course made a stop at ikea! love love love that store :)

Us at the outdoor concert!

and if you didnt believe me before when I said that you HAVE to drive the Alpine Loop during the fall here are some picture so that you can see that I am totally telling the truth! IT'S GORGEOUS!!!!

p.s.
it snowed today for the first time and I had to drive to school on a sheet of ice... lovely... It's snowing pretty hard tonight and I hope they plow the roads before eight or I may have to miss my first class! Curses!

what was I thinking...

What was I thinking? Thats what I thought over and over again while I was going through the haunted corn maze at Thanksgiving Point. I have no idea what possessed me once again to subject myself to those stupid haunted places. stupid stupid Janell.... You would think that after going through one in high school and then having a total melt down I would think that twice before going again. I blame it one peer pressure. Stupid peer pressure. Anyways, it was the worst twenty minutes of my life. They prey on the scardest people the weak, and trust me, I was one of those people. They would NOT leave me alone! There were three different guys in my group and at some point I was holding on to each of them and at one point two of them at once. Maybe next time I will think about it before entering again. But lets face it probably not.

Other than that interesting little experience it was an amazing night! Spencer came to visit which was WAY WAY fun! Love that kid :)

On Saturday I went to Salt Lake with my roomies! Love them! We went to the Gateway ( a HUGE outdoor shopping center) and had SO much fun! Then we went to the planetarium, to an art museum, and then went looking for Thai food. OK I have an confession to make. I am OBSESSED with Thai food. It's amazing! My roommates and I are always looking for amazing Thai places to eat at and I have found some really good ones here in Provo. Thai curry is probably one of the yummiest things I have ever eaten! YUM YUM YUM! Then we went to an outdoor concert for local Utah bands, and we and saw a movie and finally arrived home around three in the morning! What a day! Hopefully I will put up pics of my roomies and I in Salt Lake but at the moment I don't have any haha

P.S. if you live in Provo and haven't driven the Alpine Loop yet during fall shame on you! It is probably one of the prettiest things I have ever seen. ALL of the Aspen trees are yellow and just looking gorgeous. So if you havent yet DO IT NOW!

FAMILY!

I FINALLY got to meet my beautiful nephew. He is GORGOUS!!! My family got in late on Wednesday night from st george. I almost died I was so excited to see them and of course meet my little nephew! I was so sad when Marci and Darrian took Brig back to provo to sleep at my cousins house. (Trent and Caroline stayed with me at Aspen Grove)

The next day I showed them all around BYU. We went bowling in the WILK

and caroline got these awesome babies to bowling with

During lunch we paid a surprise visit to cortney who is brig's pretend god mother

We went to the BYU farmers market (which is WAY awesome!) If you haven't gone yet. DO IT. just go. you won't regret it i promise. There was this super yummy sample of butternut squash and apple soup. Sounds weird but oh no it was AMAZING! I showed them all of the awesome shopping places that i heart in provo. Plato's closet, downeast basics outlet, cherrylane boutique, and of course cozy. LOVE LOVE LOVE these stores Then we went out to eat at olive garden one of our family favs and headed back to aspen grove for the night.
 The next morning I took trent to school with me which was SO fun! Then we headed up to Aspen Grove so that I could show them how awesome it is during the day!

Later we went to Sundance and got some lunch! Turkey Bacon Avacado sandwhich YUM!!!!!!! Sundance you sure know how to make a sandwhich :)

That night we headed to st george where we spent time with our family down there! The car ride down was so fun and caroline even managed to get her head stuck in the seatbelt when it locked. How you ask? I have NO idea but I peed my pants laughing SO hard. (not really but I almost did)

I already miss this little kido but its ok only 2 more months and I will get to see him again! what a stud! love you fam!

dear older sister,

dear older sister,

in three days you are coming up to provo with your hubby and this little beauty...

and I just wanted to warn you before hand that I will be holding him for five straight days.
sincerely, your younger and insanely excited sister