I didn't realize that everybody was going to read that post and not know what my new major is. Sorry to everyone who was left in the dark. My new major *drum roll please...* is Home & Family Living, emphasising in Family Finance. There is a story behind it that involves Sister Beck's CES Fireside from the beginning of March. If you really want to hear the story, email me and I'll fill you in on the whole story, including the 2 majors I had in the middle.
Also... my siblings that know Tyler... he sent in his papers yesterday and now we begin guessing where the boy is going. I need to create my guess, so if you have any good suggestions, let me know! I need a good guess for this one.
3.24.2008
3.22.2008
American Heritage Service Project
For American Heritage you have to do 10 hours of community service. I chose to volunteer at this place called Friday's Kids Respite. It's a place that families with special needs kids can drop their special need kid off on Friday's (and Thursday's I heard) for a few hours so they can go out, or spent time focusing on their other kids. I went last week and spent 4 hours there playing with the cutest little girl. Tonight I went and spent 3 hours with this hilarious boy that kept telling me that he hated me, but that he wanted to play with me anyway. We were pirates, digging in a sand box for buried treasure (an easter egg from some easter egg hunt from earlier in the week). We probably played in the sand box for 1 1/2 hours, which was hilarious. However, I will admit that this service project has made me realize how glad I am that I changed my major. Although I wouldn't have been teaching elementary special ed, it still would have been really really difficult.
3.19.2008
Mission Calls!
Today... Brendan C & Nickolai from 204 got their mission calls. Nickolai's parents came up from Payson with his call at 4:50, and Nickolai got home at 5. We all congregated in the kitchen to learn that he's going to the New Jersey Cherry Hill Mission, English speaking. He enters the MTC on June 4th. My guess of Finland was a BIT off...
We all gathered again at 6 in the lobby for Brendan's call, he had to wait for his mom to get off an airplane. He was called to serve in the Texas Houston South Mission, Vietnamese speaking. He enters the MTC June 25th. I was kinda close with Brendan... I guessed Washington Everett, Cambodian Speaking.
This is super exciting, I'm pretty sure that Nickolai was the first person I've ever watched open a mission call. And apparently in the next few weeks the first of my FHE bros will get their call. I'm excited for that day too!
It's so crazy to think that Brendan and Nickolai have their calls. They'll be awesome missionaries, I can't wait to hear about their experiences.
We all gathered again at 6 in the lobby for Brendan's call, he had to wait for his mom to get off an airplane. He was called to serve in the Texas Houston South Mission, Vietnamese speaking. He enters the MTC June 25th. I was kinda close with Brendan... I guessed Washington Everett, Cambodian Speaking.
This is super exciting, I'm pretty sure that Nickolai was the first person I've ever watched open a mission call. And apparently in the next few weeks the first of my FHE bros will get their call. I'm excited for that day too!
It's so crazy to think that Brendan and Nickolai have their calls. They'll be awesome missionaries, I can't wait to hear about their experiences.
3.15.2008
Rex Lee Run
I got a haircut yesterday... but this isn't the best picture to tell from. This is after running my 5K. I'll put another picture up sometime when I've actually done my hair.Today was the annual Rex Lee Run. Kelli, Christie, Sarah and I were all training for it for the last little while. When we woke up this morning though, Kelli was really sick and had all the symptoms of a viral infection... so Kelli went to the doctor while we ran the race. It was sad not having her there with us, I know that she was sad about missing it, and Sarah was sad about not having her running buddy.
We ran the 5K and were really excited when we crossed the finish line and found our time to be around 36 minutes. Christie and I had only ever gone 1.6 miles and it had taken around 25 minutes... so we were way pleased with our time.
One of the best parts of the run was the end... after we crossed the finish line and were waiting in the huge crowds of other finishers to have them take our timers off of us. We saw a bunch of parents pushing their kids in strollers, or older kids running alongside their parents. But... the best was a man that we saw pushing an older kid in a jogging stroller type thing. This kid looked about 10 years old, and was fighting cancer. Christie and I saw it, and almost cried... we had been complaining about running up a little hill, or wanting water, but then we realized how much we had to be grateful for.
Overall... it was a really neat experience and we decided that we'll be doing it again next year and every year that we're at BYU. Next year I won't be so cheap and I'll give an extra donation so I can get a certificate honoring Brother Halverson. It's hard to believe that it's almost been a year since that day in Seminary, or the funeral.
3.13.2008
General Conference
The BYU Choirs are singing at the Saturday Afternoon session of General Conference this year. Christie & I wanted to go to a session of conference before we found this out. THEN, we found out that Sarah & Nickolai both actually get to sing at it (amazing since they're both freshman). Tonight... Christie listened to a message from her dad saying that he had gotten us two tickets to the SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSION! Soo... now Christie and I are freaking out because we get to go to the session of General Conference that our roommate and Nickolai (from 204) will be singing at!
SO EXCITING!
SO EXCITING!
Don't Worry
After I called maintenance yesterday and then headed off to my classes, they came to fix the problem. Apparently nobody in my building had thought of calling maintenance to get the water and heat problem fixed. When I came home there was actually warm water again, even hot water. It was glorious to take a warm shower. :D
I'm in a line waiting to go in and talk to the guy in charge of RAs... waiting for my 5 minute meeting where we discuss the exciting job that is RA. I think I'm quite fond of the computer lab at the central building, it is a brilliant idea.
Anywho... the heat is fixed which meant that I actually slept last night. It was glorious. None of that laying in my bed for 3 hours wishing it wasn't so hot so I could get to sleep.
I'm in a line waiting to go in and talk to the guy in charge of RAs... waiting for my 5 minute meeting where we discuss the exciting job that is RA. I think I'm quite fond of the computer lab at the central building, it is a brilliant idea.
Anywho... the heat is fixed which meant that I actually slept last night. It was glorious. None of that laying in my bed for 3 hours wishing it wasn't so hot so I could get to sleep.
3.11.2008
The Weather
It's finally getting pretty here. Finally, like right in time for me and the roommies to run in the Rex Lee Run for cancer. Hopefully Saturday morning is as prettyful as today was. I'm really liking the sun, something I haven't seen in many months, many many months. It just doesn't get very sunny here during the winter, crazy, right?
Today, Christie and I went running (we're actually training now for the run that's only a few days away). When we got back we were all hot and sweaty... but then we open the front door. It's no joke, 80 degrees in our apartment. I'm not sure if someone got a little cold and turned the heat up, or if for once our heat just randomly turned on. Even with the windows open in our room it's not getting any cooler. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to sleep with it being 80 degrees.
On another really cool and random note... I rearranged my room kind of. We watched a movie on Christie's bed tonight and pulled my dresser over to put the computer on while we watched. When we went to put it back we flipped the dresser around so that I've got this cool little hiding spot between my dresser and my bed. I might put a picture up if I actually take one...
Today, Christie and I went running (we're actually training now for the run that's only a few days away). When we got back we were all hot and sweaty... but then we open the front door. It's no joke, 80 degrees in our apartment. I'm not sure if someone got a little cold and turned the heat up, or if for once our heat just randomly turned on. Even with the windows open in our room it's not getting any cooler. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to sleep with it being 80 degrees.
On another really cool and random note... I rearranged my room kind of. We watched a movie on Christie's bed tonight and pulled my dresser over to put the computer on while we watched. When we went to put it back we flipped the dresser around so that I've got this cool little hiding spot between my dresser and my bed. I might put a picture up if I actually take one...
3.09.2008
Memories of Freshman Year
We had Stake Conference today. A bishop spoke about how our wards become our family while we're at BYU, and listed a bunch of activities from his ward, that helped them to bond, or that were just funny memories. So... this post is really for me, but you can read it all you want. I've been thinking all day of memories of our ward, memories of my FHE group, memories with 204, and memories with my roommates. I'm writing this post with the intention of printing it and putting it in my journal so i don't have to write like 10 pages about all these memories. Some of them you won't understand because I'm not putting a lot of detail, but if you really want to know... ask me. I'm more than happy to share.
Memories of the BYU 186th Ward:
-our opening BBQ
-Making pizzas at Bishops house
-Ward Temple Day
-Watching the guys get their mission calls
-Our Thanksgiving Feast
-Our Talent Show
-Ward Prayer every week... oh the humor :D
-Being together for Ward Prayer when we learned that President Hinckley passed away
-Tubing at Soldier's Hollow
-Saran Wrapping Ee and Kevin to the tree between our buildings
-Our Ettiquette Dinner, and wrapping gifts for Secret Santa
-Having constant lessons at Ward Prayer on Marriage
-Snow men, snow forts, and the snow monster
-A 5 AM trip to Denny's on President's Day
-20 of us fitting in Donny's van to go see Stardust at the dollar theatre
-Our Hall Pumpkin Carving Contest...
-Seeing I Am Legend...
-Sitting Front Row at both sessions of Stake Conference
-Our own version of Forrest Gump... "run forrest, run"
-Our distant cousins stopping by for dinner
-Eli and his weekly indexing announcements at Ward Prayer
-BROTHER PARENT (from the bishopric)
-Kelsey calling Bro. Parent and asking to speak on marriage after his inspiring ward prayer thought
-Brendan C calling Bishop and thanking him for Bro. Brockbank
-Hall activity PJS party
-Katalin's Curl Keeper and how it fit in to each of her RS lessons
-Lauren A's obsession with BIG hair
Memories with our FHE group, or parts of it:
-Playing Apples to Apples our first week together...
-Taylor confusing Eleanor Roosevelt with Rosa Parks AND Napoleon Dynamite with Napoleon Bonaparte during Apples to Apples
-Going to the temple together
-Carving pumpkins
-Fast Sunday Dinners
-Birthday parties!
-Indexing... Taylor's password, hahah
-Playing Movie Charades... Honey I Shrunk the Kids, oh Andrew!
-Our Christmas Gift Exchange
-Taylor writing me the sequel to But Not the Hippopotamus- But Not the Armadillo
-Teaching FHE with Troy...
-Going to Walmart- Riding the bus & playing telephone to learn that Tay & Trev were moving out
-Watching The Office when the guys were in charge, learning the difference between a Salesman and a Saleswoman
-Watching Transformers
-Playing ULTIMATE SPOONS
-Going to the Reptile Show at the Bean and eating Jello Jigglers after
-Pranking each other... newspapers, tying our door knobs to our neighbors so we can't get out
-Going to Jenny's French Horn Recital
-Watching American Idol with them
-Using them to use their VCR to watch Cool Runnings
-Playing Mafia... Kev getting killed by pantyhose, and Chris dying first
-Playing Spaz
-Entertaining Kevin
-"Stealing" the boys tv
-Snowball fight with them at DT
-Kevin & The Texas Chair
-Chris cooking in our kitchen and producing large flames
-Ee calling Allison "Allison Baby"
-Threatening to sell Ee back to the bookstore or donating him to DI
-Capture the Flag with Christie cheating
-Andrew trying on my high heels
-Watching Anastasia in their kitchen with stadium seats
-Taylor in general
Memories with 204:
-Hiking the Y
-Eating Ants
-Dinner at Nickolai's house in Payson
-Making them waffles
-Them making us french toast
-Nickolai's birthday party!
-Them putting jello in 205's bathtub
-Our walks with Nickolai
-Eating English Muffin's with Brendan B at 2:00am
-Going to Halloween parties, spook alley, and an old abandoned theatre in Payson
-Nickolai & Brendan C being our 8th & 9th roommates at the beginning of the year
-The Contracted Competition Extravaganza
-Going to football games with Nickolai
Memories with my roommates:
-Jenny's surprise 1/2 birthday party
-Christie juggling at 1 AM
-Having the cleanest light switch in all of E Richards
-Rico's Grill at University Mall
-Brad from Y Group
-Building a fort
-Girls Night Ins
-Sleepover at Sarah's in American Fork
-Our "secret" obsession with Broadbent 22
-Dance parties
-Aerobics night with Kelli
-TPing eachothers bedrooms
-Taking naps in other peoples beds
-Coming home and finding random roommate sleeping in my bed
-Going to Nickolai's
-Talking to Bryson through the window
-Missionary Week
-Switching the fridge
-Magnets
-The French Horn
-Shower Parties
-Jenga with a strobe light
-OUR FAN CLUB!
-Chocolate banana bread & martinellis
-Waving to the ward as they walked home from church
-The Weather
-White Elephant Gift Exchange
-Watching movies on my laptop
-Cleaning Checks
-The vent on our front door... and red & Green duct tape
-Carrot peels going down the disposal and clogging the kitchen sink
-RALPH
-Waffle cookies
-Facebook Stalking
-Talking in our sleep
-Telling roommates they talked in their sleep when they didn't
-Random Journal Parties in our kitchen
-Watching Oprah and Arthur when we had the boys TV
-Sunday afternoon Indexing Parties
-"Training" for the Rex Lee Run
-Christie breaking her dishes
-Christie breaking my dishes
-Making my training video for the pizza eating contest
-PEOPLE
-Kelli's Rose...
-Pasta Roni
-Good News Minute in RS
-"OUR" couch at Ward Prayer
-James & Jordan at the window AND in the garbage can by our door
-Wanting to steal the Balloon Man
-Colecting Newspapers
-Ocean's 13
-Our first encounter with Bost
-Our Chore Wheel, both versions
-Constant concerts from Sarah
-Double date with Jenny & Devin & Brian... fingerpainting & finger foods
-Football Games
-Making lots of plans that never happened
-Drew Carey
-Josh Groban and our kitchen window
-Green Shirt Thursday... the original
-Snow Ball Fights
-Coming back "home" after Christmas break
-Rex & Shelton... and Kelli & Christie wrestling for them
-Dinner with Devin
-Priesthood blessings and then us all on the couch
-Hall meetings and "OUR" couch
-Massage trains while listening to Ben Folds
-TROY BOLTON
-Slow dancing
-The Awkward Word Game
-Going to get real massages
-Webkinz
-Our dance to Give, Said the Little Stream
-Signing "Happy Birthday"
-Desserts with Danica
-Singing Backstreet Boys with Christie, singing every other word
-The "Man Palace" putting their phone numbers on our dishwasher
-Christie's conversation with Eddie at Denny's
-Shaving our legs with whipped cream
-Playing songs on Apple Beer bottles
-Jello Jigglers
-Queso Dip
Wow... in a nut shell, those are the big memories so far. We've still got the rest of March, and a lot of April to make more memories, but it was really fun to look back and remember all of these memories. It also brought 5 of us together to create the list of some of our memories... oh good times!
Memories of the BYU 186th Ward:
-our opening BBQ
-Making pizzas at Bishops house
-Ward Temple Day
-Watching the guys get their mission calls
-Our Thanksgiving Feast
-Our Talent Show
-Ward Prayer every week... oh the humor :D
-Being together for Ward Prayer when we learned that President Hinckley passed away
-Tubing at Soldier's Hollow
-Saran Wrapping Ee and Kevin to the tree between our buildings
-Our Ettiquette Dinner, and wrapping gifts for Secret Santa
-Having constant lessons at Ward Prayer on Marriage
-Snow men, snow forts, and the snow monster
-A 5 AM trip to Denny's on President's Day
-20 of us fitting in Donny's van to go see Stardust at the dollar theatre
-Our Hall Pumpkin Carving Contest...
-Seeing I Am Legend...
-Sitting Front Row at both sessions of Stake Conference
-Our own version of Forrest Gump... "run forrest, run"
-Our distant cousins stopping by for dinner
-Eli and his weekly indexing announcements at Ward Prayer
-BROTHER PARENT (from the bishopric)
-Kelsey calling Bro. Parent and asking to speak on marriage after his inspiring ward prayer thought
-Brendan C calling Bishop and thanking him for Bro. Brockbank
-Hall activity PJS party
-Katalin's Curl Keeper and how it fit in to each of her RS lessons
-Lauren A's obsession with BIG hair
Memories with our FHE group, or parts of it:
-Playing Apples to Apples our first week together...
-Taylor confusing Eleanor Roosevelt with Rosa Parks AND Napoleon Dynamite with Napoleon Bonaparte during Apples to Apples
-Going to the temple together
-Carving pumpkins
-Fast Sunday Dinners
-Birthday parties!
-Indexing... Taylor's password, hahah
-Playing Movie Charades... Honey I Shrunk the Kids, oh Andrew!
-Our Christmas Gift Exchange
-Taylor writing me the sequel to But Not the Hippopotamus- But Not the Armadillo
-Teaching FHE with Troy...
-Going to Walmart- Riding the bus & playing telephone to learn that Tay & Trev were moving out
-Watching The Office when the guys were in charge, learning the difference between a Salesman and a Saleswoman
-Watching Transformers
-Playing ULTIMATE SPOONS
-Going to the Reptile Show at the Bean and eating Jello Jigglers after
-Pranking each other... newspapers, tying our door knobs to our neighbors so we can't get out
-Going to Jenny's French Horn Recital
-Watching American Idol with them
-Using them to use their VCR to watch Cool Runnings
-Playing Mafia... Kev getting killed by pantyhose, and Chris dying first
-Playing Spaz
-Entertaining Kevin
-"Stealing" the boys tv
-Snowball fight with them at DT
-Kevin & The Texas Chair
-Chris cooking in our kitchen and producing large flames
-Ee calling Allison "Allison Baby"
-Threatening to sell Ee back to the bookstore or donating him to DI
-Capture the Flag with Christie cheating
-Andrew trying on my high heels
-Watching Anastasia in their kitchen with stadium seats
-Taylor in general
Memories with 204:
-Hiking the Y
-Eating Ants
-Dinner at Nickolai's house in Payson
-Making them waffles
-Them making us french toast
-Nickolai's birthday party!
-Them putting jello in 205's bathtub
-Our walks with Nickolai
-Eating English Muffin's with Brendan B at 2:00am
-Going to Halloween parties, spook alley, and an old abandoned theatre in Payson
-Nickolai & Brendan C being our 8th & 9th roommates at the beginning of the year
-The Contracted Competition Extravaganza
-Going to football games with Nickolai
Memories with my roommates:
-Jenny's surprise 1/2 birthday party
-Christie juggling at 1 AM
-Having the cleanest light switch in all of E Richards
-Rico's Grill at University Mall
-Brad from Y Group
-Building a fort
-Girls Night Ins
-Sleepover at Sarah's in American Fork
-Our "secret" obsession with Broadbent 22
-Dance parties
-Aerobics night with Kelli
-TPing eachothers bedrooms
-Taking naps in other peoples beds
-Coming home and finding random roommate sleeping in my bed
-Going to Nickolai's
-Talking to Bryson through the window
-Missionary Week
-Switching the fridge
-Magnets
-The French Horn
-Shower Parties
-Jenga with a strobe light
-OUR FAN CLUB!
-Chocolate banana bread & martinellis
-Waving to the ward as they walked home from church
-The Weather
-White Elephant Gift Exchange
-Watching movies on my laptop
-Cleaning Checks
-The vent on our front door... and red & Green duct tape
-Carrot peels going down the disposal and clogging the kitchen sink
-RALPH
-Waffle cookies
-Facebook Stalking
-Talking in our sleep
-Telling roommates they talked in their sleep when they didn't
-Random Journal Parties in our kitchen
-Watching Oprah and Arthur when we had the boys TV
-Sunday afternoon Indexing Parties
-"Training" for the Rex Lee Run
-Christie breaking her dishes
-Christie breaking my dishes
-Making my training video for the pizza eating contest
-PEOPLE
-Kelli's Rose...
-Pasta Roni
-Good News Minute in RS
-"OUR" couch at Ward Prayer
-James & Jordan at the window AND in the garbage can by our door
-Wanting to steal the Balloon Man
-Colecting Newspapers
-Ocean's 13
-Our first encounter with Bost
-Our Chore Wheel, both versions
-Constant concerts from Sarah
-Double date with Jenny & Devin & Brian... fingerpainting & finger foods
-Football Games
-Making lots of plans that never happened
-Drew Carey
-Josh Groban and our kitchen window
-Green Shirt Thursday... the original
-Snow Ball Fights
-Coming back "home" after Christmas break
-Rex & Shelton... and Kelli & Christie wrestling for them
-Dinner with Devin
-Priesthood blessings and then us all on the couch
-Hall meetings and "OUR" couch
-Massage trains while listening to Ben Folds
-TROY BOLTON
-Slow dancing
-The Awkward Word Game
-Going to get real massages
-Webkinz
-Our dance to Give, Said the Little Stream
-Signing "Happy Birthday"
-Desserts with Danica
-Singing Backstreet Boys with Christie, singing every other word
-The "Man Palace" putting their phone numbers on our dishwasher
-Christie's conversation with Eddie at Denny's
-Shaving our legs with whipped cream
-Playing songs on Apple Beer bottles
-Jello Jigglers
-Queso Dip
Wow... in a nut shell, those are the big memories so far. We've still got the rest of March, and a lot of April to make more memories, but it was really fun to look back and remember all of these memories. It also brought 5 of us together to create the list of some of our memories... oh good times!
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