I hope this brings you some holiday cheer. Even though it's not a holiday video. It's so precious and wonderful. I loved it, and laughed lol ;)

Frustration

So, this week I'm crazy busy and its easy to get frustrated by every single little thing I have to do.. So I made a list of all the things I'm frustrated by..

• research papers
• cold feet
• intense stabbing pain
• wikileaks
• the New York Times
• not being able to use online resources
• vague assignments
• hunger
• people not updating facebook often enough for me to stalk them
• boys who make girls cry
• cleaning checks on mondays
• not having enough time 
• wanting time to go by much much faster
• not wanting time to go faster
• democrats in general
• headphones that DON'T WORK
• gross-smelling things
• my ability to procrastinate/inability to do things when i actually have time to do them
• the fact that temple square closes at  10 
• dance partners who are annoying/can't dance 
• not being able to eat/drink anything remotely cold on the left side of my mouth
• NOT knowing where my scriptures are....

... That's a fairly comprehensive list..  and it's kinda depressing.. so now a list of all the things i'm grateful for

• wonderful roommates
• snow
• christmas lights
• christmas music
• warm blankets
• hot chocolate
• cancelled class
• paper extensions
• chocolate
• not driving in the big snowstorm
• boys who are nice
• friends who are engaged
• roommates who offer to help you clean
• people who have ibprofen
• babies
• overheard @ byu
• snuggling
• hugs
• a clean room 
• MOTAB
• adventures
• Japanese television 
• seeing family and friends that I love
• yummy food
• homemade donuts
• laughing
• ballet
• notes from friends you love
• weddings
• nice T.A.s
• having a support system 
• CHRISTMAS
• going home in three weeks
• getting a christmas tree (hopefully soon!)
• thanksgiving
• goofy cousins
• trips to Salt Lake 
• Top Gear
• doing donuts...
• realizing how much I LOVE my copy of the scriptures... (and how much i'm gonna cry if i don't find them)
• cameras
• people traveling safely
• egg rolls
• asisans
• blog stalking 
• mustaches

Well, as you can see, the good things outweigh the bad things.. It's just easier to remember the frustrating things sometimes.. which is dumb. So here's a link to an awesome youtube video  featuring the King Singers, MOTAB, and dancers. :3 It makes everything right again :)

I've been prettty busy...

wow.. I haven't updated since like the first week of school.. oops. Sorry! I have been doing stuff, i promise!
I've:

• gone to several football games, one of which i sat on the front row :)
• been in the homecoming parade
• went on a really awkward blind date to the homecoming dance
• danced in the rain
• bonded with my roommates
• received a calling-ward prayer pianist
• decided to double major- political science and social science teaching
• picked a minor-World Dance
• eaten a lot of ice cream
• gained a love fern named Henry
• found a new pet worm named Mr. PuddleTickles
• gone to a volleyball game with my good friend Allie ;)
• taken tests (got a 95% on part of my dance test!)
• taken LOTS and LOTS of crazy pictures
• made a goal to go to every temple in Utah
• been to the Jordan River Temple, Provo, and Mt. Timpanogos Temples
• laughed
• danced- a lot
• written a lot of papers
• eaten TACOS!!!
• gone ring shopping... For my roommates ;)
• made a tie-dye t-shirt
• eaten a lot of pizza
• bought tickets to Harry Potter 7 at midnight
• watched movies in Japanese 
• gone to the train restaurant
• and many many more that I can't think of.... 

So i don't know if you heard but....

I MADE THE BYU FOLK DANCE TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


i'm pretty freaking excited if you couldn't tell.... ;)

So, here's the whole story. haha.. I tried out on Wednesday night. Tryouts started at 6:30 and I didn't get home till like.. 10:30. I was one of the last girls to get called back during the generic try outs. Then we went and learned some hard dances, and finally.. after like 2-3 hours of dancing, they finally finished announcing all the teams. I'm on one of the lowest teams, but it's still WAY EXCITING!!!! I'm going to be in the homecoming parade and in Christmas Around the World. We get to wear costumes for the second one!! :D Plus my teacher/coach said that we might be getting to do an INDIAN DANCE for the Christmas concert which would be BEYOND EXCITING!!! indian is probably one of my favorite styles :) So.. that's what happened to me this week :) 

Back to school

School started Monday, and I moved into my apartment last Wednesday. I LOVE BYU!!!!!!!! WOOT!!! This semester is gonna be so much fun!!!!! I love almost all of my classes and I'm looking forward to having a blast. I love my roommates sososo much and I'm just excited to be back at school!!! This semester I am taking:

- Survey of World Religions

- World Dance 270

- Introduction to Dance (History of Dance)

- Political Inquiry 200

- Mock United Nations

- Contemporary Dance 140

My classes freaking rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Some will be hard, but all will be totally worth it. I'm LOVING LOVING LOVING my religion class. My teacher is hilarious-which is always good- and i get to learn about different religions. I'm hoping that I'll gain a lot of knowledge, respect, and tolerance from this class. We talked about holy envy on the first day- or things about other religions that we wish that we did in our religion. It was neat. My professor mentioned one about Judaism that he had, which is that after their meal is done, they have a prayer of gratitude, thanking God for the meal they have just partaken of, which was very neat. Another thing that I've discovered as I've done my reading, also about Judaism, is that the Sabbath is very important as a day of rest. While we focus on that, they seem to take it to another level. I was just very impressed by how they didn't want to do work on the Sabbath because it is a day of rest. It was very enlightening. I'm learning a lot, and we've only had two classes. 

I am also planning on officially declaring my major as Political Science this week. I'm trying to decide what to do with that, but so far I think this is a good step. My three main options that I'm considering are double majoring with social studies teaching and being a high school government teacher, double majoring with middle eastern studies and being an expert on the middle east... or just keeping one major, and then going on to Law School to be a Constitutional Lawyer... or something like that. It's hard, but I think that as I go through this semester I'll be closer to figuring out what I want to do. Also, if/when I go to Jerusalem next fall, I'm hoping that will help me to make some decisions. I went to talk to a guidance counselor- and my decision is to talk to someone else in my department once I'm officially declared because he was a big fat whopping piece of non-helpfulness. I felt like I had a conversation with myself, and came out at the end pretty much how I felt when i went in. The only thing useful was that he gave me a major map for Social studies teaching, and told me where I could declare Political Science as my major. 

So... that's where i'm at. I'm super psyched for a STINKIN AWESOME semester and I can't wait to share how everything goes.. :) 

My asian roommate Megan in her Yukata :)

I can't believe it...

Umm.. so Trevor is a senior. When did this happen? Totally ridiculous.. But it is the truth. And with being a senior, comes senior pictures, and so here's the best ones that I took.. :)

Club Can't Handle Us...

I'm Gangsta. I mean it's totally obvious. I'm a white girl from a small town in Colorado.. and I GOT SWAGGER! or SWAGGA as i like to call it. How is it not obvious that i am clearly a BIG BLACK RAPPER/GANGSTA on the inside. I'm basically an Uh-Oh Oreo. Legit. But if you don't believe me... check out these pictures.. Club Can't Handle ME!

See? TOTALLY GANGSTA. 

Rainy Day..

So I got some epic wellies. (aka rainboots. Obviously, I called my friend, we went on a walk, and took some EPIC pictures..  Rachael is my bestie.. and we had fun together. And got some epic bestie shots, so all is well. I LOVE rain. and umbrellas. and wellies. and RACHAEL!!!

Camping and Caving

So a few weeks ago i had the pleasure of going on a very epic camping trip with my Singles ward down near Glenwood Springs. It was most excellent and fun!! We only stayed one night, but we went hiking and caving!! We also had cameras.. so we took a bajillion and a half pictures.

This little stream looked like a total fairy village. Although it didn't smell like one. Rotting egg smell... EW!

This is how dirty we were after coming out of the sketch cave lol

Inside the cave!!!! we used our own flashlights, there was a rope in some places, but otherwise, it was just us exploring the cave. It was LEGIT.

We love each other.. :)

                                                                                                           I has a carrot!!!!! After eating a BUTTLOAD of junk food.. i was craving carrots... really really badly lol

The entrance to the cave. I know what you're thinking.. "She climbed down a ladder bolted to a culvert on the side of some mountain. What a CRAZY!!!" And you would be right :)

Sweet Staches

Well some of us got the happy memo... ;)

I felt i needed my own stache picture. Because I don't have a hormone imbalance... lol

This lake looks like a T-REX. OBVIOUSLY. But some ppl just don't see that. So i made this helpful drawing.. 

SEE!!! So obvious. ;)

My other new obsession- and probably more healthy

So at least my other new obsession is at least worthwhile.. it's... drumroll please... Editing pictures using photoshop!!!! :) YAY!!!!! i checked out a book from the library, and I've been obsessed with doing all the pictures... Frankly everyone's probably starting to get sick of it.. but I LOVE IT!!!!!!! You'll have to check out this pictures that i did!!!! I think they look super good... :)

 So Shannon thinks that my hair looks really cute this short... what do y'all think? Should i cut my hair super short???

So idk if you care, but for the photos of Camille and I, I whitened our teeth, softened the skin, increased the vibrancy,
changed the skin tone-for the better which increased the warmth, and some other blemishy detaily stuff... but those
were the important ones :)

He's learning to be a creeper at an early age... and a colorful one at that!!!! bwahahaha

I love the epicness of the colors..
 I mean, I don't think my shirt or my jeans are actually that color in real life hahaha