a few of my favorite things :)

Here are some of the things that are responsible for making me very happy right now!
1. daffodils

2. the album

love love love love love love it
3. my favorite show

i laught through the WHOLE thing :)
4. think about how in exactly 21 days i will be here

and FINALLY be able to get alot of this

because i have had way to much of this...

because to much it that white stuff will make you want to do this...

5. my fav freshman year girls :)

6. my family

they are just plan nuts

Festival of Colors

Every year the Hindu temple in Spanish Fork has a festival called the festival of colors! It is so amazing! Basically a bunch of college kids from all over northern utah get together at a hindu temple and throw colorful chalk at each other! They have this little ceremony and burn an effigy of some lady they don't like and we all throw chalk at the same time! The cloud of chalk is SO cool! For about a minute and a half you cant even see your own hands the cloud is so dense (it made it really hard to breathe though haha)! By the end you are just covered head to foot in colored chalk that smelled like flowers! It was amazing and SO crowded!
ps they also filmed it this year to show to 5 million chinese people to show how we celebrate the coming of spring haha
before
lynzi and i

jessica and brian

pictures of the festival

at the festival

some people there had really funny signs

haha it was amazing :)
when the smoke first goes up the colors are beautiful! heres a youtube video if you are intersted in seeing how cool it looks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdRjoLZ55VY&feature=related

This last weekend our friend brandi bell came to visit! We had a lot of fun and had some crazy times! Most importantly we taught her what it means to be a true BYU student!
Such as, blowing bubbles on sunday afternoons,

sneaking up on people when they least expect it,

and scoping out boys and what not :)
It was way fun and she even cut my bangs! (thanks brandi!!)

This is our awkward family picture :) it makes me happy!

a seriously needed break!

This past weekend I was once again reminded why I hate Utah (don't worry I heart BYU)! It hasn't snowed really hard here in weeks and weeks and then the one time I need clear roads to go visit my family who is in st george for spring break there is a freakin blizzard across the entire state! curses! I was really upset but I tried to drive down on Saturday night and made it to Payson (like 30 miles south of provo) and the roads were just completely covered in snow because the plows couldn't keep up with all that snow! ugh! So I had to turn around and go back to Provo! Thanks Utah!!! Luckily on Sunday afternoon the sun FINALLY came out and I threw everything in my car and drove like a mad man (i mean very saftely mom, dont worry!) to see my family! I finally got there at about 8 pm on Sunday instead of Saturday afternoon as planned! But I did get to see my family!!! I was so happy! I haven't seen them since December (on a depressing note marci and my dad weren't there so i still haven't seen them! sad days!)!
On Monday we were busy busy busy! We went shopping (and found the CUTEST dress!!), and played scrabble, and went ice skating!!! I laughed so hard during scrabble I cried and my abs are actually sore!
Here are a few pictures of our epic ice skating adventure
me, melissa, caroline, and kristen

trent, me, melissa

trent and i

trent, jared, melissa, me, caroline, kristen

caroline and i

Then on Tuesday we slept in :) and then went quading out in the desert! It was gorgeous and the weather was perfect! It was SOO fun! :) We went out to this old fortress and went, saw dinosaur tracks, then ended it by riding around in the red sand dunes! SO fun!
caroline and i at the fort

p.s. we only have five more weeks of school and then i get to go home for a whole month before i go to aspen grove!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!

this means war...

So a couple of weeks ago I innocently stole my roommates keys so some guys in my ward could put newspaper and packing peanuts in her car. No big deal right? Well, a couple of days later Dana and Tori stole all of the guys clothes and dropped some off at every girls apartment in our ward. Let's just say he was less than thrilled but I'm not going to lie, it was pretty hilarious! but I was afraid dana and tori would get me back for stealing her keys so for like a week I had to sleep with my phone and my car keys. Well I thought I was in the clear from this war and let my guard down and then on Sunday I went out to my car to drive to church and this is what i found...

mean right? They always call my van an astro and I always get mad and tell them its a GMC safari! Because I don't drive an astro!!!! Well the stupid paint took me like an hour to get off my car that week, and no one will confess to who the culprit was so as far as I'm concerned dana, tori, richard, stephen, and jeremey are all guilty until proven innocent! This means war my friends!

Aspen Grove

I'm officially going to be the new Tromper leader at Aspen Grove this summer!!! I am so excited they are letting me come back and now I get to watch older kids that will be around 4 and 5! P.S. I love Aspen Grove!!!!!!!




AHHHH I can't wait until this summer :)

oh BYU

So facebook there are two groups called overheard at BYU and seen at BYU where people post funny things that they see/hear! I think they just hilarious, so being the person I am, I am posting a few on here for you to enjoy! I hope you think they are as funny as I do! but maybe its just a BYU thing...
here goes.

Here is a few from overhead @ BYU
"Did I tell you I got asked out on two dates, all in the space of 8 minutes? Personal record of mine."

On my way to devotional this morning a guy was talking on his phone...
"It sounds like a secret combination! ... I just hope I don't get caught up in some mega cult and have to run for my life for the next five years."

Physical Science 100 TA: I hope I get translated while wearing this shirt; I don't want to leave it behind.

Religion professor after reading Proverbs 5:18-19 aloud to the class: "Who says being religious can't make you sexy?!"

"Sharing the Gospel is like doing crack cocaine. It's addictive. If you haven't tried it, try it." - Brother Bott

Me: Hey, I was writing a reaction paper for Psych and I had a citation question. So, in APA, do I cite the year 1830 for the Book of Mormon or 1981?

Walking out of the Marriott Center after the devotional: "Did the engineers pray before they designed this? Because ifthey did, there would be like fourteen more exits."

"This is going to be the week from the terrestrial kingdom. Ugh."

Physics professor showing an example on the board:
Professor: So what's the first thing you do when you see this problem?
Student: Pray.
Professor: ok... What's the second thing you do?

yes. that is a motorized chair!!! they ride around campus on it hahaha


there is never any parking at BYU so i guess they just got creative
hahahaha so typical BYU is case you cant see it that guy is riding on a bike and pulling a baby stroller haha!!!!!



P.S. yesterday at work i was scooping ice cream and this guy came in with his three children and no joke their names were eowyn, boromir, and aragorn!!! hahaha (for those of you who don't know these are three charactors from lord of the rings) those poor children!!!