Happy Holidays!

A little something to put a smile on your face. :)

Plus I don't have any recent photos of me to put up. :)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year (almost!)

Christmas was small and simple with the family this year, but most enjoyable. There's nothing like being home for the holidays!

Life has been crazy! It's been almost 2 months since my last blog post, but it seems like just yesterday! My semester at school is over and so is Christmas break almost! I start school again next week! I don't remember details much of the happening over the last month or two so I might jsut have to hit some highlights!

Highlights (in no particular order):

~I turned 20. My roommates being the bestest roomies ever threw me an awesome party, best birthday I've EVER had.

~ I received notice that I had been awarded over $4000 in scholarships for the next 6 months.

~I had an interview for Summer study abroad in London the day after my birthday and was told I wouldn't be notified until the end of February when they would be done interviewing all of the applicants. I was then notified 4 days later that I got accepted.

~I got to do baptisms for the dead in the La'ie temple!

~I passed all 8 of my classes. 4 As and 4 Bs. Not too shabby.

~I had an awesome semester filled with new friends and awesome classes and awesome fun and everything was just awesome and I wouldn't change a bit!

~I am getting to see my sister and her family for the holidays.

~I had a date offer for the holidays, but I can't get him to get the hint I'm not going on a date with my creepy ex-boyfriend's older brother... so my love life... looking promising. :) *insert sarcastic chuckle here*

~I'm moving into an awesome new house for my next couple of semesters! Pumped!

So yeah, life is, once again, fantastic! I am looking forward to many more adventures to come!

Yet another post from my life...

Halloween? Halloween is exciting yes?

So for Halloween I was.... actually I don't know, I was like a marionette mardi gras emo chick... but we had fun nonetheless.

Then we were off to Waikiki for a fun filled weekend, there were 3 people up front and 4 of us in the back.
We got rained on, because guess what?! We are moving into Monsoon season!!! woohoo rain and flooding and singing in the rain... me and my moped just love it.... *sarcasm*
but naturally with rain comes the beautiful rainbows, basically amazing things they are!
Then we went to the Hawaii vs. Idaho game, yeah I wasn't sure who to cheer for exactly.... U of I failed horribly and Hawaii squashed them like majorly!!!
We had pretty good seats actually!!! It was an experience like none other!!!


This is beautiful Waikiki after sunset! Big city, something we little BYUH students see on rare occasions!! :)


This weekend I went to McKae's work party, it was their Christmas party :) It's almost here right? Oh how I miss the snow and Christmas! Can it be here already?!!

Today, after church of course, me and my roomies went on a hike to Laie Falls, notice how I'm barefoot? I am she-woman hear me roar! It was muddy and dangerous so naturally I enjoyed it massively!!
Me and my roomies Taylor and Stephanie. Like our war paint? The falls were much bigger than normal because of all the rain that has been falling lately! It was almost intimidating!!




In other parts of life, midterms are almost over. Only about a month and a week until the end of the semester and then it's home for Christmas!!! My play opens this coming weekend, I hope and pray we will be ready!!!! Life is kind of overwhelming presently and my calendar is the only thing that keeps me organized, every day of November has something written on it!!! AGH! But as my fortune cookie said the other day, I am busy but happy. If I weren't so busy I would have too much time on my hands to mope... oh which reminds me! I got some spider bites a while back! They were hideous! Then they got infected!! and then the infection spread!!! So instead of the original 6 infected spots, now I have 11!! I am trying to keep them under control, but seriously!!! Can I just have a week of normality?!?! Nah, it's over-rated!!

Simply Put. LIFE.

Staring at the blank tiles of the bathroom,
These simple blank slates become my own personal projector screen.
All of the happenings of my days play out.
I contemplate meaning and try and make sense to this point.
For all the living I do in life, nothing really... sticks.
"In one ear and out the other" really takes form.
I always seem to strive for the next best thrill,
But at the rate I burn through my many thrilling adventures,
I'm going to have nothing for the latter part of my life.
It's amazing how living life almost shortens life.
And yet, something intrigues me along this road I'm on,
Hoping and praying that once I hit that point in life,
When adventures are sparse and my body weakens,
I reach the point of self-actualization and life becomes pure...
BLISS.

Holy Guano, batman!

I have been horrible at updating this thing!! Absolutely horrible!

So chronologically I shall address the most recent things first. Saturday night, me and my dear friend McKae were bored after hitting up our friends Paris' super fun party. So what did we do? Naturally, my creativity took wing and we were going to be secret campus ninjas. After midnight, security gets mad if there is anyone on campus that is not en route to the dorms or off campus... technically we met that criteria... Anyway, so we started making our way on to campus around 12:45 AM, starting at the school of education. We then made our way around the school of social work and then on to the stake center. When we were trying to get past the stake center however, we tried to cut across the grass, forgetting that at night it is like marsh... so we had to leave our shoes behind after that point. We dove through bushes, ran behind building (discovering motion sensed flood lights), then we took a potty break, then back to being ninjas. The best part was trying to get across the huge parking lot by our gym which only consists of trees and pavement, we belonged in a cartoon. Security saw us and the truck lit up and so we booked it the rest of the way. BUT THAT WAS NOT THE END! There was a random tractor in the parking lot that we noticed once we got past the outer wall. McKae wanted to go play on it and naturally I was in! But she went to go step over the wall once more and discovered a thorny patch. Me and my naivety said, "ya just gotta jump over it!" and then proceeded to do a pouncing cat move over the wall... into more thorns, landing on all fours. And at that exact moment, two security guards (ON BIKES) rode by and asked, "uh you guys all right?".....yeah.... How is it we managed to avoid security in trucks for an hour, but security on bikes? NO! THey're just sneaky like that.... Epic night of my life.
This photo is me being secret ninja over a wall.

Earlier that day, we had celebrated our friend KallyRae's Birthday by heading to sunset beach. A good day in the sand! And this was the sunset at sunset. :)

A while ago, like September 25th or so, I went to a super fun hot tub party! We got to the "BBQ" part of it and got bored so all of us featured below went to the beach and went night swimming in the ocean! Beautiful!! Then to warm back up we went back to the hot tub and dove in!! The best part about all of this was I walked away with an eye disease! Epic right?! I went to the doctor and was diagnosed with Keratitis from a bacteria in the hot tub water... so I for the last 2 weeks I've had to go without contacts, without eye make-up, without going in water (other than showers), and wearing sun glasses everywhere. Between that and the sinus infection I am also fighting off, Paige and I decided someone's got a voodoo doll of me. Probably one of my old high school teacher! I'm on to you.....

The night before the hot tub party, was another fun party night! We first started the night out at a school dance, but then heard of a party at some guys' house in Hau'ula and we migrated over there... in a very small car.... :)

Sometimes I can be so sexy..... hahaha JK! :)

Shortly after getting over here, I set in motion mission obtain a moped... and succeeded!!! I like it a lot! McKae and I named it Kanake and we have been on many adventures! So useful and a good way for me to clear my mind!! I started my wonderful school year, dove right into work, and things are going well so far! 22 credits, 8 classes, and going strong!!

Before coming back to Hawaii I went to go visit Hailey and her family in Washington! Her kids are getting so big! Kimber is up and walking now and I have missed so much of it because I am so far away! It's sad, but I know their mom is obviously doing a good job! They are darling little squirts! :) I love them dearly!

In August, our town was all up in hububs becaue Extreme Makeover Home Edition came to Pocatello. Paige, Ashley, and I got in on some of the fun! I can tell you straight up, you see some strange people come out of the woodwork once something famous comes to town! I'm not so sure we were always the best represented! haha! But I miss these girls lots!!

My summer was kind of slow and boring. One major thing was that I had an adenotonsillectomy at the beginning of August. I took extra precaution that way I for sure would heal fully and properly! The second week of my healing my parents left to go to Nebraska. I was still not talking and Socks our dog died in their absence. It is very hard to tell over the phone what is happening when you can't talk well and you're in hysterics. It was really sad and I still miss that pup lots. So does our cat.
On that happy note....
Just kidding I wouldn't leave you with such a downer!
My life is awesome! I am so blessed to be in such a beautiful place preparing for a marvelous future, that only God knows fully what is in store! I don't think I could ask for a better life! I am me, what more do I have to say to express how much I enjoy life?!

I have this friend...

So I have this friend named Haley Smith. I love her very muchly, and she is so very awesome! She's beautiful and talented and deserves all the best, including in her circle of friends (naturally that's why I'm there!) just kidding about that last part! But I think she is so incredibly awesome she deserves a post on MY blog saying how fricking AWESOME she is! I have been blessed with having her as a friend and I know she will be there for me if I ever need her to be, come thick or thin, or hail or high water!! I love you Haley (not in a creepy way) and keep smiling cuz everyone is that much more beautiful when they smile!

Way too long without a post!

So it's been forever, but I am updating for my friend Chelsea who said it was about time. :D
So this last little while, I've been spending time with my sister.... her husband.... and her two kids. All adorable. So flights from Pocatello to Salt Lake to Boise to Lewiston and then it was a great week and a half at my sister's house and then they came back here! I had loads of fun playing with the munchkins while their mother worked and their father was at school. It's very cute that my nephew calls my sister bobby instead of mommy. He's pretty cute. My niece is young and can't speak English yet but her baby talk is pretty darn cute! And her face equally as cute!

One great story about being up there, my nephew tends to have nightmares and wakes up periodically. One night while I was with him he woke up screaming about chocolate milk and
giant spoons... it makes me really wonder what little kids have nightmares about!

After we got back to Pocatello the little ones had fun with Nana and Papa Orr and today we went to the zoo to end their visit with us. In the picture above, Tucker (my nephew) was thoroughly fascinated by the donkey and the cows. We had lots of fun, me and him, running around the place.

Oh, and my sister was there too.... she always says there's no pictures of her because she's always the one taking them, but this is us. People say we look alike,.... meh.... maybe.

My niece is adorable, already spoiled. My nephew (above) is a doll..... with a big smile.... and an even bigger attitude. He's getting mouthier lately, and seems to want to disagree with everything... he argued with me forever while we were looking at a picture of a giraffe, he told me it was a camel and wouldn't let me convince him that it was really a giraffe. But I love him nonetheless. I love my family lots!

Oy ve! Where has the time gone!?

So it's been an incredible fast couple of weeks! It seems like time is flying by and it is absolutely crazy! It is sad that my Hawaiian adventures are going to end soon for a good 5 months. 2 weeks from now I am on a plane home to the mainland! But there's so much to accomplish before then! AH!The plays I've been assisting with have sadly and happily come to an end. I am glad I have more time in my life, but I am going to miss all the marvelous theater people that have been involved in these plays. They always take pictures after the plays of important images from the plays and they always try to get me in at least a couple of pictures, so in the picture, I am holding my notorious guns while the two characters around me stay in there characters for the picture! I love these people so much!

Last night we had a ward date night and were all set up on blind dates. My date was from a different country and didn't seem to want to talk much because it was hard to understand him. For table decorations they put a bunch of toys on the tables for us to play with (toy soldiers, slinkies, Chinese finger traps, etc.). Well to avoid awkwardness, I naturally kept myself entertained! I was trying to get people to play toy soldiers with me but nobody wanted to have an epic battle with me except for Brian (featured above) whose soldiers died moments after the war broke out... then i was slinging slinkies across the room because I figured out how to launch them. I'm glad I at least made the bishop and his family laugh.

You'd never guess Lucille Ball was my all time favorite actress and icon right?! ;)