just hang in there.....

ONLY 12 MORE DAYS UNTIL I GO HERE

yes that is right... this would be a picture of the happiest place on earth. in preperation i have been studying this

like crazy! i will be prepared! and i will definitely be going on this

lets face it. its probably the worst ride at disneyland but its kinda like a sin not to go on it when you are there. and i am no sinner!
lastly, i will be eating about 1.3 million of these

maybe more...
So disneyland i will be there soon but first i just have to make it through
a big nasty english ppr
a semi nasty english ppr
a math test that will leave you saying "please just kill me now"
a super ridiculously long chem test
and
2 chem lab write ups
so disneyland i will be there as long as school doesnt kill me first!

just a second to brag...

I have the best home teachers to ever grace this planet...

enough said

now thats what i call a good day :)

I have been planning on finally declaring that I wanted to be a food science major for a really long time (about a year) but I just kept putting it off. I mean who could ever believe that I could get into the program. Every time I walked past the life science office I was reminded that I hadn't gone in there and make an appointment with the academic counselor so that I could finally get the information to apply to the program. One day last week I was feeling particularly bold (probably due to the fact that the weather was finally broke into the 40's and I almost wore flip flops... almost) and I walked in and made an appointment, but of course they were completely full until the next week on Friday! I think they were trying to torture me, and it was working! So Friday FINALLY rolled around and I walked into my appointment. (I felt like I was at the dentist of doctors office two places of which i detest) After what seemed like an eternity I finally got called into the counselors office. I sat in silence as the counselor looked through my grades and other academic stuff (the whole time all I could think was breathe in, breathe out, don't panic, breathe in, breathe out...) Finally she told me that I had been officially accepted into the program!! Just like that! I was finally in the program! no messy forms, no horribly long interviews that I had to stress about I am in the program!! I even got a free pen that says the BYU College of Life Sciences on it! Now thats what i call a good day!!!!!

p.s. Food Science doesn't equal cooking

Every time i tell someone that I am a Food science major (because I am one now :) )I get one of two reactions the first "oh you want to be a dietitian" nope if i wanted to be a dietitian I would get a degree in dietetics. And the second response "oh you want to be a chef" I'm pretty sure that if I wanted to be a chef i would go to culinary school... I don't want to be either I just want to be a Food Scientist!

AG

This past Saturday we had a little Aspen Grove reunion for the summer staff this past summer! We went up to Aspen Grove and partied! SO fun! I forgot how much I am completely in LOVE with that place! It's so beautiful and I made some of the most amazing friends this past summer! I never dreamed in a million years that out of the hundreds of applicant that applied I would get picked! This place has definitely changed my life! Here are a few of my favorite summer memories...
Going to my first ever rodeo! it was amazing!

living here! it's so beautiful! (minus the bugs haha)
getting to hold little kids all the time

getting rescued by firemen!

finding random pictures of these two on my phone all the time haha


celebrating christmas not once but twice in one year! oh yeah!

late night GT
being with all the other amazing ag workers!

doing things like paint balling, rock climbing, and repelling!

Last summer was SO much fun and I can't wait until next summer! I submitted my application yesterday and hopefully I will be going back this upcoming summer again!

here are a few pictures of the reunion this past weekend (ps i totally stole these pictures off kimbers blog because i didn't bring my camera! thanks kimber!)


Casey, Kimber, and I cross country skiing!

new job

So, i just started a new job working at the BYU creamery! So far i love it! i love that we work and set teams so im always working with the same people and they are amazing! however, starting a new job is always interesting... trying to get the hang of a fast paced job when everyone else knows what they are doing besides you can be pretty crazy! let's just say i didn't make in through the week without making a few little mistakes... ok ALOT of mistakes! haha some worse then others but of course this post would be boring with out a few good stories so here goes...
the first day i got there they forgot to get me my uniform for me (we wear polos) so they had to make do with the ones that just got back from dry cleaning which consisted of an xxs or an xl. lovely... so my whole first shift of work i had was swimming in an xl large t shirt! haha
Then, on saturday, the ice cream part of the store closes at midnight and then after cleaning up we get to go home. we started cleaning around 11:30 because there were not many people coming in because it was getting late... well around 11:55 right before we were about to close and we had just finished cleaning everything some random person comes in and asks for a shake. now shakes are pretty much the vain of my existence. they are so hard to make and if your not careful you will cut your hand of! not even kidding! so one of my co workers was instructing me on shake making and i pulled out the cup right as he turned on the blade! bad timing! the shield that keeps you from getting milky ice cream all over yourself fell off and i dropped the cup trying to get my hand away from the blade and ice cream went EVERYWHERE within six feet of the machine! i mean EVERYWHERE including all over myself and my hair and my co-worker! yuck! so we had to stay an extra 15 minutes just to clean up that mess! oh the adventures this job is brining me! well sorry for the novel! im sure i will have ALOT more interesting and embarrassing stories to come!
ps a general authority totally came into the creamery yesterday! oh utah you never disappointed!

christmas vacation part 2

well its official i'm back at school and starting a new semester tomorrow! crazy crazy crazy! well before i get into all of that this is what i did on the rest of my break...

spent an entire day making tamale (family tradition)

pretty much ate my weight in homemade peppermint ice cream (i look forward to this ice cream ALL year!!!)

more shopping!

whipped my gram at scrabble (i have been waiting YEARS to be smart enough)

crafted with my older sis

went ice skating with the fam (it was trent AND carolines first time! talk about hilarious!!!)

went to first night in st george with the fam

saw a comedy magic show (so funny)

watched the fireworks for new years at my grandmas

drove back to provo with kimber and her hubby casey

went shopping because i had NO food in my apt

bought new school supplies (loved it!)

went shoe shopping with my friend eric

dejunked my room and unpacked all my stuff from vacation

and now i am officially ready to start and new semester except for the fact that dana and tori are still MIA. they need to hurry up and get back here because im lonely haha!

here are a few pictures of my last days of vacation

ice skating on new years eve
caroline, me, my cousin kristen (kris), marci, and darrian
trent and marci

after a long day of tamale making! this is the biggest one they made and they were so proud :)

the jaggers (jag) he sleeps with his tounge out! so cute :)


P.S. i bought a cactus when i was home to put on my desk! now everytime i look out the window and see snow i just have to look at my cactus and its all good! :)

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