Title 1

This marks the beginning of one large adventure. The day before yesterday I moved up to Logan, Ut to attend USU. I thought I would feel the same nervousness that occupies my mind and every thought the 3 times I moved around in Ephraim. It's been exact opposite. Of course I have been so blessed as to start this year with some very good friends as roommates. Elisabeth Fullmer and Laurel Bailey. North Sanpete girls, reunited after two years to further their education together. We have rented a cute red brick house, with two levels and a loft we have plenty of room (if you aren't considering the sink space, counter space, or...the whole bathroom in general...)!

I've nearly unpacked and besides my mirror that won't stay on my door everything is going great! I went to Smiths today to pick up a few things too. It all feels so natural. Amazing. I love it already. This is where I'm suppose to be. Definitely!

The Adventures of a Cursed Apartment!

Okay so we have had so many different problems with our apartment this year! From internet and flickering lights to roommates we have endured it all! But last night at 12:30 we had had enough! My roommate Hailey was taking a shower and when she went to turn the water to the tub off it wouldn't budge! When she tried again the whole handle just fell off! She comes and gets Sam and I and we try to turn it off as well with no luck. So there we are. 3 girls staring at a tub faucet going full blast with no way to turn it off. None of us now how to turn the water off so we called our R.A. which, of course, was gone for the weekend. Who else do we know is going to be up this late on a Saturday night (we have early church)? Thankfully we got a hold of one boy, despite waking him up, that came and turned off our water. Which stopped the faucet but now we don't have ANY water. The next afternoon the maintenance guy came and fixed the faucet and turned our water back on. Yay! right? Wrong. Now we have NO hot water. Luckily we had all ready taken showers the day before. But here we are ANOTHER day later with no hot water. We are all in need of showers and really don't want to use the Swimming Pool showers and would like to wash our dishes. Thankfully when we came back from FHE we finally had hot water! I must say we were troopers going 1 1/2 days without water and 3 without hot water! 

That would be our tub. Missing a handle. Going full blast. Good times!

Our Pioneer Adventure

It's a 8:00 on a  Friday night at Snow College which means you must do something exciting and fun right? It is college after all! So my roommates Sam, Hailey (thats right! There is only two!) and I were weighing the options. There was the 80's dance the school was putting on but that meant creepy guys and tons of high schoolers. There was making a cake but we had just finished off the last one we made. We could watch a movie but that was what we did all week. So while we are sitting in deep contemplation Hailey gets a phone call from a friend asking if she wants to go on a walk. And that is were our adventure began! We came up with the idea to drive two cars to the Manti Temple, drive one back, and began a walk to the temple!
It's dark outside and the temple is another town away. Approximately 8 miles from were we started. Are we cool or what?
There were a few things we didn't really think about, we don't know why, but we are blaming them on school!


First: It was dark (we did know that don't worry) therefore we may have trouble seeing.


Second: Just because there is hardly any snow around campus in Ephraim doesn't mean there isn't snow on the side of the road.


Third: Where there is snow, there is ice. Where there is melting snow, there are ice puddles.


Fourth: It is a Friday night which means elderly couples are coming home from the temple. They see college kids walking in the dark--they call the police.  


While we didn't really think of these we did have fun with each one!


First: If it's dark and we can't see, it just makes it that more fun and exciting. Since all three of us linked arms we didn't have any falls only a few trips. (when I say 'few' I mean too many to count)  It also made it more exciting because cardboard boxes and soda cans are much scarier at night. In fact, they move, jump out, and attack you!
The stars were absolutely beautiful and we could see the bright temple from 5 miles away.


Second: We have had a really weird winter here and it has snowed only twice, both times were just a couple inches and it melts quickly. We didn't think about all those inches piling up on the side of the road until we started walking in it. We still continued on, it was too late to turn back now! The snow made it a lot more fun I think and it made it easier to see the brush.


Third: Every once and a while there are these huge ice puddles that are only slightly frozen over. So basically it looks like snow until you're on it and falling through. I bet it looked funny to see a tight group walking together and then suddenly scattering to all sides. We avoided most of these. Notice how I said most? Well there was one very large, very cold, very icy puddle about 3/4 the way there. Haileys friend came with us and brought a guy friend just for worst case scenarios. That worst case scenario was, in fact, a puddle. He was talking to us walking backwards (brave soul, I couldn't even walk forwards...) and suddenly he stops. We stop also wondering why he did so until we hear a big CRACK followed by an equally big SPLASH. Yep. You guessed it. He had walked right onto the biggest, deepest puddle yet. Right in the middle. As soon as he broke through the ice we all did. He and Haileys friend had to run a good five feet in ankle deep water to get out! Both my roommates Sam and Hailey got it a bit too. I must have had breaking puddle ninja reflexes because I jumped out before the ice broke around me. But in the process of screaming/running Sam had dropped her blanket in the puddle, I ran and grabbed it, teetering on the edge of the puddle (you know those cartoons where they are trying so hard not to fall into something, bent over, arms flailing. Yeah...that was me.) but it was too late, the blanket was soaking. So there we are all 4 out of 5 people with soaking feet still a mile or two to go. I was that lucky 1/5 that didn't get my shoes wet. There were also 1 out of 5 that had waterproof boots on. Sadly I just happened to be that 1/5. Again. Lucky me. =D


Fourth: We are proud (in a weird 'its never going to happen again' kind of proud) to say we pulled a cop over. That's right we didn't get pulled over by a cop, the cop got pulled over by us! You see we weren't walking close to the road, I mean c'mon, its dark, there are elderly drivers that might think we're deer, and we aren't too found of walking that close to the cars. We aren't stupid. We stayed far away, in the snow and ice puddles were we belong. But of course the one boy in our group didn't want to walk in the snow anymore and wanted to walk on the side of the road. Don't get me wrong he was in between the posts and rumble strips but c'mon. It's dark and if I were a driver that encountered you I would probably yell at you from my car...so just as we suspected some people called in to the police and complained about wild college kids. Apparently if its Friday night and we are doing something as crazy as walking to the temple than we MUST be drunk. Because no one would do that. Well we did and I can assure you that all we had to drink was some milk. Ohhhh and some of that yummy fruit punch. Wait...we did have a drink from the Activities Center drinking fountain and it did taste a bit weird....hhhhmmmm...anywho a police driver just pulled up and told us we were totally fine but just to make sure to stay down in the snow. Duh. My roommates and I weren't walking down there for nothing! So the poor kid and his friend had to once again join us in the snow.




All in all it was a very fun experience! We took around two hours to complete the 8 miles and made it just in time to walk around the temple grounds before they closed. That was neat since Sam hadn't even been to the Manti temple before.


This is what it would have looked like in the summer between Ephraim and Manti

We did encounter cows on our way. Don't worry we made sure to moo to them! (I didn't take these pictures FYI)


And the beautiful Manti Temple!

And just for fun this is what google brought up when I typed in 'Manti'. Apparently, it's a dumpling!! Haha

This is our victory picture! From left to right, Sam, Hailey, and that one crazy girl!

Sam and I both brought our blankets and carried them never once wrapping them around us, how funny!

5 things you didn't know about me!

Okay, here we go!
#1
If you are ever in Wal-mart or happen to be standing by the desert racks in a Maverick, pick me up one of those Hostess Lemon Pies! It has to be Hostess. It has to be Lemon! (lemon was capitalized on purpose ;) fyi)
I have had these ever since I can remember! It first came from traveling with my dad and brother to L.A. on business. It was always my first pick for a meal! (Don't tell my mom...) I am positive I will never get sick of them!

Just looking at them makes me want one really bad...guess I will making a trip to the gas station in the near future! (When I say "near" I mean probably tomorrow)


#2
I am such a fan of horseracing. Yeah. A small town rural Utah girl. Haha, it first came from watching the Kentucky Derby with my Grandma, she would sometimes even tape it for me so I could watch the tape over and over! No I don't bet on the horses (if I did I would be rich! ;) haha) and I enjoy following it. I'm not like most people around here that feel bad for the horses...they like to run! Going to the Kentucky Derby is definitely on my bucket list! Or any racetrack for that matter!

#3
Since this August I have been drawing and experimenting with pastels. I had a drawing class Spring Semester of 2011 and we just kind of played with all the different mediums and practiced a lot of measuring we didn't ever draw anything. So after that class over the summer I played with a couple simple fast drawings with white charcoal and didn't really care for them but everyone else seemed to really like them. My grandma gave me a set of pastels and I honestly didn't know what I was going to do with them but I wanted to say I tried and so I did! I ended up really loving it! I have done it ever since! Here are some of the things I have done! It is a learning process and I haven't ever worked with color or really done anything with detail. I haven't really done anything before.

This is the first one I did, I DID NOT do this from memory! I looked off one on the computer. I wanted to still do something I was comfortable with but really incorporate the color. Why not start off with a bang right?

These are some studies I did also. Yes they are all horses haha

They look a lot better in person haha, These all took me about 2 hours each.
These were some of the white charcoal ones I did also...The horses took me 15-20 minutes and the truck took me an hour.

So there you go! That's pretty much most of everything I have done! I'm trying to venture away from horses but that is really all I want to draw right now! Haha
  
#4
I am still a tomboy but there are somethings I like that completely disguise that! haha for example I own and use this all the time! I love playing with all the different colors its very fun =)





























#5
I never was into television really, I just grew up with the disney movies but now there are some things that I love to watch!
My favorite TV show is Bones. I love it and think its very fascinating and funny!


I love Taylor Swift (don't laugh at me!) I really do think her voice, lyrics, and music are unique. I feel that I can relate to her as a person and her music. She is a very good role model and I like what she stands for. This is my favorite song at the moment!
http://youtu.be/92isX62fv1g



During my weekdays I am very busy with constant school work and studying I take a break around 3 o'clock and it just so happens that the Ellen Degeneres Show is on! (I totally didn't do that on purpose!) Lots of people don't like her I guess but I just can't get over how funny she is! It really lightens up my day when ever I have time to watch it! Not a lot of the things on the TV make me laugh out loud but this show always does!!! Here is a clip of Ellen's Scares, (it has some beeps but its not her fault!....sortof....haha don't judge =) Every break needs to have some laughter!)
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/C9oYwheDY4Q" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Blog Ho!!!

Yes.

I did it.

I started a blog.

Why you ask?

Because my sister Marie told me I should forever ago and I laughed off the idea, because who would want to read about roommate adventures, Ramen, and homework right? Then a college course forced me to make one and I'll admit...they are kinda fun! Its like a private facebook...or a public journal! (<---Don't think too hard on that one =P )

I wished I had started one last year because I had so much fun and if I would have blogged about it, I would have remembered it! Haha

So here you go, The Museum of Me.