Demolition Derby

Lindsey, Catherine, and I went to a demolition derby several months back! We had such a wonderful time! Who would've thought that watching cars bash into each other over and over again would be so exhilerating!

My roomies! Lindsey, Me, and Catherine!

Me and Catherine!

I totally had bets going that the black whatever type of car would win... and it did! Too bad we weren't betting with money! :)

Some guy had this shirt on and it totally cracked me up...

Our neighbor Tyson who was our date for the evening!

Lindsey and I... We were so absorbed into watching cars smash into each other we couldn't even look at the camera! :)

Thanks Lindsey, Tyson, and Catherine for getting me out of the house to have a "smashing" good time!

Updates Coming!

So I have been somewhat a slacker in updating my blog! Just so you all know that I am alive! Updates will be coming soon!!! College has been great! I am having a blast!

Much Love,
Me!

Jumpin into Freezing Cold Water!!!

After the boat race, everyone decide that they wanted to jump off the bridge into the lake... I was thinking it was going to be this huge drop off.. but it was just a little jump off the bridge...

Everyone was just chillin on the bridge wondering who would be the first to jump in... Brad jumped in first then everyone followed suit... its kinda like when one sheep jumps off a cliff, all the other sheep will follow... however, when one person jumps of a bridge.. everyone jumps off the bridge :)

Makin the first splash!

Lindsey, me, and brad... both lindsey and brad had jumped into the lake.. but since I was fully clothed.. Jeans, tshirt I hadn't jumped in... So I asked Brad if I could push him in the lake and he was like no... I was all you can push me in.. me thinkin that I would run for dear life once i pushed him in... so he agreed. So he climbed over the bar and i was getting ready to push him... So I climbed under the bar and held on ... then pushed him but he grabbed my arm and pulled me in anyways... I jumped a little bit as well... The water was FREEZING!!!!! so I come out of the water and the current catches me as I'm swimming to the edge... current and wet jeans do not mix... so i'm trying to warn everyone that my pants are about to be ripped off by the current ... but I made it out of the lake... pants and all :)

Boat Race

So it is a tradition for people who live at Cambridge Court and anyone else who knows about the race to attend the annual cardboard boat race. Those who participated built a boat out of cardboard and tape then raced across the lake at first dam to determine who the winner would be!!!

This is the winner of the 4th annual cardboard boat race... Congratulations Beth!! Apparently she wins the boat race every year... I'm not really sure on all the facts but if I held that title... I would boast that I was the Cardboard Boat Race Champion.

Tyson and Brad were doing fairly well and were in the lead... then Tyson jumped out of the boat to touch the other side of the lake... When he went to get back in the boat.. he ripped a hole in the bottom and they sunk rather quickly... they came in second place.

Here are some of our neighbors who were in the race!

The start of the race... yes my pictures are backwards.. but thats ok :D

Jell-O Slide

If any of you need any fun ideas for something random to do... A jell-o slide is the way to go! The LDS institute holds an annual jell-o slide on the quad at USU! Once I found out that they were having a jell-o slide... I was so there!

How to prepare for the Jello-Slide

Materials needed - 1 pool full of liquid jell-o water, a large tarp, clothes you can get wet in, lots of people, and a smile on your face!

Step 1: Jump into the pool of jell-o making a huge splash!!!

Step 2: Get a running start....

Step 3: Launch yourself onto the tarp in order to get enough speed

Step 4: Gracefully finish the jell-o slide... get back in line and start the process all over again!


I had so much fun on this jell-o slide... I couldn't get any of my friends to do it with me... but what a great way to meet people by jumping into a pool of jell-o and racing to the tarp!!! it was so much fun and can't wait until next year to experience the jell-o slide all over again!!!

My Apartment!!

Mom and Dad brought my stuff up to Logan so I could have my college stuff that I wasn't able to fit into my car and had stuff to live up here on my own! So they took a picture of me in my very comfortable bed, showing off my laptop and my connections shirt that shows just how amAzing I really am!

Lindsey (my roommate) and I made some cupcakes to meet our neighbors... we unfortunately ate most of the cupcakes.. but we still have a plate of cupcakes on reserve for going out to meet people in our complex.

This is the living room in our apartment... we rearranged it a little bit to make the room seem bigger... it worked out quite well... We get a perfect view out our sliding door of the swimming pool and people walking by our apartment ;)

Our kitchen is tiny! It's kinda messy at the moment.. but we just haven't finished unpacking all of our dishes and put them away yet... but everything works out fairly well... we bought a garbage can to put in our kitchen because it wasn't provided and the little sacks that we all had from walmart weren't working out so well...

This is our little dining table and the garbage can.. the door on the left is our guest bathroom... i forgot to take a picture but I had a I got locked in the bathroom, because the lock is kinda retarded and once you lock the door it will somewhat jam and it is hard to get it unlocked and you have to turn the doornob like every possible way to get it open and pull at the same time... mom I now know how it feels to be locked in the bathroom... its not very fun...

This is Lindsey and Catherines room...
This is our bathroom... Lindsey and I bought a shower curtain yesterday because they old one when you turned the shower on would suction itself to your body... it was a pain in the butt... so we got one that suctions to the wall and it is so much more effective to take a shower. The shower head is also really low in the shower... so I will just sit down and wash my hair instead of having to squat really low... I might as well just sit on the floor! :D

This is my room! My bed is the purple and black one... Jessica's is the other bed... Lindsey and I put my bed up on the cinderblocks so I can store my shoes and purses under my bed and not take up any additional space that needs to be taken....

So we decided to make cupcakes yesterday morning in order to meet the boys around the complex... yes a brilliant plan... but we didn't have anything to scoop the cupcake batter with so we just grabbed a ladle and it worked out so well.. who needs a special cupcake batter scooper when you can use a ladle?

Our neighbor brandon was demonstrating how well of a lamp he could be... we don't have any lights in our living room just two lamps that have to be plugged into a special plug and the light switch has to be turned on.. its very interesting...

So funny story of how we met Brandon... and his roommate Trever....

So Jessica, Lacie, and I came home from school one day to go swimming but lo and behold the swimming pool was closed for cleaning... so we just went to the top of the swimming pool because there is like a deck area up there to sit and socialize with people... so Lacie goes out into the sunlight.. because unlike jessica and I she can tan... so all of a sudden you hear these blinds open and this kid just starts laughing like how ironic that he opened his blinds while we were all sitting up there... so he didn't want to be mean so he just left them open and played on his computer... So later that night some guys from another apartment were making hot dogs so we went over and got free dinner... and met all of them... then we went out later when everyone was done and was coming back from off the deck... and we were talking to this kid because his shirt said USU soccer team and we were like oh you're on the soccer team.. so we started talking to this kid and we found out what apartment he was in and it donned on us that this was the kid in the window.. then we all started lauging because of how ironic it was that we met... so we all watched a movie and made a walmart run to get some tic tacs because we had eaten all of them...

So his roommate... so jessica and i got back from our tuesday night classes and we were craving some chicken sandwiches so we go to open the mayo and I could not get the bottle open for the life of me... so I was like jessica open this.. so she couldn't open it... and our roommates were out for the night... so i was like man I need a guy right now.. so through the pool windows I could see a couple guys just walking down the sidewalk... so i take off running out of my apartment and was like .. Hey!... will you open this for me? ... they looked at me really weird like i was just kidding or something.. and the one kid that was opening the bottle for me couldn't get it open either so I was like ha.. look at me weird again... so jessica lost her keys the next morning so she took my keys.. but i took the apartment key because I thought I would be home first... but she was home first and so she went and sat on the deck thing... same thing the kid opened the window and jessica was looking at him and then he eventually came up there and talked to her... so he was brandon's roommate and jessica was texting me that she met the kid with the mayo ... i was all that's embarrassing... so I have met the two neighbors through fairly significant embarrasing moments...

Connections Week at USU!!!

Lacie and I left for our connections class last week on the 18th! It was an interesting trip getting up to Logan that day... We left a little bit later than we anticipated, then Lacie'D and I stopped at the bank to put money in her account, when we left the bank... let the car trouble start... Lacie's truck wouldn't start. So we sat in the bank parking lot and waited for our dad's to come help us because we didn't know what to do... So Lacie's battery on her truck was totally shot so they jumped it and drove it to the local shop in town so they could stick a new battery in it. So I went to my mom's office until they got it fixed. So they fixed her truck and we were on our way. We made good time until we went to Sardine Canyon and on the way up the massive hill my radiator light came on and my car started smoking a little... but we were almost there.. so we went and had my uncle look at it.. and my radiator was completely empty.. even though we had it flushed and filled up earlier that week... I guess it had a couple air pockets so it emptied really fast. But we made it there... we checked in the first day, got told where to go the next day, got a tshirt and set up eating arrangements for that week.

The first day we went into the Kent Concert Hall and listened to the Utah State President speak for a while... Lacie, Annabell (we worked with her at Jubes), and I were all in the same class, so we were goofing around with our camera until the people behind us got mad because of the really bright flash on my camera...

Lacie and I were staying at my cousin Amanda's house (thanks Amanda!!!) and after going to the freshman connections dance that night Lacie and I were a little bit energetic so we were taking pictures of the exciting event of brushing our teeth!!!

For one of our Connections class activities we had to find all of our classes and take a picture to prove to our professor that we had actually found the class :D This is where my Public Speaking class is held... just in case you were wondering!

This was my partner for finding where our classes were. Her name is Emily, she's a really cute girl and really funny. This is where we meet up for connections the next couple of weeks that we are in session.

After we got back from our adventure of finding our classes Lacie and I crammed into the only available chair that was open before we went into our Rape Prevention Seminar. So since we both had our camera's out showing the pictures we took looking for our classes we couldn't avoid the picture taking opportunity that had presented itself.

Playing with the camera again :D

After seeing the fun Lacie and I were having taking pictures when Travis jumped in the pictures as well... just to make the whole picture taking episode even more hilarious!

more pictures...

Then on the 21st our class went on a "nature hike" up Logan canyon. It was so beautiful... and yes we are all wearing the same shirt! It was national... anybody who is at connections this week wear your game day shirt that you got on registration day... just kidding thats not what it really is called... but it should be called that!

Then during our hike we stopped at this little waterfall thing and discussed why the water was so low right there... there are stream beds that take the water off to different streams and rivers... it was really pretty right there!!!

While we were sitting there listening to our professor talk we took a picture... one of the girls had to leave for work and he was asking if it was alright if she left and we were all like sure... then he looked over and I had pulled a cheese it for the camera... but my cheese it and putting the camera in front of my face reaction time was a bit slow... so my professor looked at me really weird and was like is that ok with you... and Lacie and I just started laughing and were like yeah.. so we took the picture.. then our professor was walking in the back and we told him that we were posing for the camera and we weren't making faces at him... he was like oh ok.. you just had this really weird smile on your face.. then he walked with us for a while until our next pit stop to have a class discussion.

Then walking on the way back to civilization...

I'm so stinkin cute.. I know!!!

Then after our hike our professor bought us some pizza... so while we were waiting for the pizza we were sitting in the quad socializing with our group and telling stories about our lives... Connections was a great week and I'm really glad that I took the class.. I was able to find all of my classes just fine without stressing out about it on the first day of school... and all the services that are available on campus.. what to expect with roommates... and lots of other fun things to do while in Logan!!!

While in North Carolina... Benita let me drive Denny's car... hey he wasn't there.. he couldn't do anything to stop it! :D So I was doing really good... made it from Benita's house into Ashboro... we were planning on going to get some Chinese food... but instead we went to get some Japanese food. So I made it to the Chinese food place just fine... then we went up this big hill and the light turned red...

So Benita was making fun of me while I was driving... I think she about peed her pants from laughing at me so hard... So she took my camera and I pulled a face for her... this is how my face was when I got to the light!!! So the light turns green... so I let go of the brake and I roll half way down the hill and I'm screaming the whole time.. good thing no one was behind us... So I lay on the gas but I let the clutch out to slow so I totally peeled out in the intersection!!! It was pretty much awesome!

So after we went and had dinner.. we went back to see if I left any marks... well.. I did! They are pretty much awesome... and I must say they are good skid marks on the road for a front wheel drive car... so Denny... you might need a new clutch and tires on your car!

Oh what Animals you will see at the zoo...

So I am a little slow in updating my blog... but I am finishing my blog I started while I was in North Carolina visiting my favorite sister n law! We saw so many animals and had soooo much fun... Benita invited the missionaries to come along with us since it was their P-day and had a free day!!! It was such a blast! I love going to different zoo's just to see how different they varie across the USA!!!

Here is the polar bear... we were making noises and the polar bear finally looked up probably thinking if I just lift my head and give them the satisfaction they will leave me alone.. but I got a shot of it!!!

Then there were these penguin things... I think they are called Fippins?... but they were cool and fun to watch!!!

Oh my heck!!! The baboons were so funny to watch!!! I got tons of pictures of them and the crazy things they were doing... but this was my favorite.. This baboon was laying on its back and making all the other baboons groom it and then it stood up and it was a poof ball!!

Then the gorillas were hard to find for a while... we walked to the other window to see if we could see them better over there.. but then the one gorilla went back to the window we were at... It sat and posed for the people on the one side... came and posed on the other side of the window.. then walked up to the wall and kissed it... it was cute!

I LOVE GIRAFFES!!! I waited all day just to see the giraffes!! They are so beautiful!! If I was able to have any pet from the zoo it would totally be a giraffe!!!

Then of course there were zebra's there!! They are pretty awesome too!!

No need to explain this one... the sign should be more than enough explanation :D

hahah... there was this really old ostrich that was losing its feathers and would just walk back and forth in front of the bridge.. take occasional pit stops then go back into its routine.

The elephants were so beautiful... I'm glad that zoo's are able to put the animals somewhat into their natural habitat!

Benita being a crazy helicopter driver... good thing Denny knows how to fix them :D

We caught this baby elephant and all took turns riding it... the missionaries caught it... and pretended it was a motorcycle.. haha.

Benita ridin the elephant...

I couldn't figure out why the elephant wouldn't go... I thought that was how you were suppose to ride the elephants!!

We also found this armadillo... Benita got this one to go even though she was riding it backwards.

haha...

missionaries havin fun at the zoo...

still havin fun :D

Here is Benita's sexy pose...

Me and Benita having fun at the zoo!!!

As we drove up to the zoo there were some rouge elephants!!! Good thing Benita's car was fast and we didn't get involved in the stampede...

Benita had me take a picture of the sign... so we would remember where we parked... E.. for Eagle.. don't forget!!

Me n the missionaries in the zoo... good thing it was a nice panther behind us...

Thanks for takin me to the zoo Benita!!! It was so much fun!!!