Whew. Christmas break flew by. I really didn't do anything super special. We had Christmas as a family, and went over to Grandma Ward's house. Oh We had Santa stop by the house (actually he was a really old nice gentleman we ran into at the store) We made cookies. Of course! And I worked (at McDonald's), a good amount over break. Christmas eve, we set out cookies, and spread out the reindeer food outside. We also did like a musical gift pass around the room thingy. It was Pajamas. lol of course! I loved the ones Mom got me. They are awesome! After everyone finally went to bed. Mom, Dad, and I (Luke was awake of course) wrapped up presents, filled stockings and put them under the tree.
Bryan woke up around 1am. Stinker! Right after I went to bed. But I wasn't woken up until 7am or so. Thank Goodness! It was fun watching everyone open their presents. I really didn't have anything to unwrap, because they helped me out with the car, and everything else. Which was perfectly fine. For new year's eve I went over to the Jewells with my family, I left after a bit, because I was leaving the next day so I had to go see Danielle for a bit.
New Year's Day was absolutely crazy. Got up did laundry, and packed everything up. Dad changed the oil in the car. And found out I had a leak in my transmission. So he filled the fluid back up and I went over the Clarksons in the early afternoon (I think). Courtney was doing her laundry too. And we had to pack up the car with her stuff and Kadi's. We condescend as much as we could. We left around 6pm and headed up towards Omaha. We stayed the night with the Millett's. Sister Millett was one of the Young Women's leaders back in the day. ha. It was great to see her again. She got up early and had some breakfast stuff out for us. Which was super sweet! We got to see all her boys too! Then we headed out for our long journey. Sighhh. Long Journey.
It went well. Instead of heading through Wyoming this time we went down through Colorado which was Gorgeous from what i got to see! Another state...Check! Going through the mountains in Colorado wasn't too bad, expect my windshield washer fluid, so we had to stop and get some Anti-Freeze fluid. Then it was much better! We got back to Provo I want to say around 9 or 10pm. I really don't remember though. Got a good sleep and whatnot, unpacked the next day, and went to FHE. My group then went over to Brother Dyer's house and played this game where you hit someone with a spoon and they have to make an animal noise, and then you try to guess who it was. Then we all either just played around the world ping pong, or hung out and talked.
Wow... and as I try and updated this post I always procrastinate it. It's Now February.
Since going to Brother Dyer's house for my first FHE activity with my Ward. We've gotten new FHE groups, and my group without a doubt is definitely the best! I started classes, and didn't really get lost at school. I absolutely love all my classes. Math I was really worried about but it's actually going pretty well. Sign Language without a doubt is going to become my minor. I love that class, and I'm learning soo much! My ward has a sports night, usually every Thursday and I went to that my first week here, and I really enjoyed it! I've gone on a few dates, some with Kyoo, and then some with Jaron. (Jaron's in my Ward, FHE group, as well as one of my dance classes, I met him at the Sports night he's the one who usually puts it together.) Oh, in January Courtney, Ashely, and I walked over to the Marriott center for Elder Christofferson's Fireside which was really good. He mainly talked about living one day a time. Here's a wonderful excerpt from his talk.
"In the 1950s my mother survived radical cancer surgery, but difficult as that was, the surgery was followed with dozens of painful radiation treatments in what would now be considered rather primitive medical conditions. She recalls that her mother taught her something during that time that has helped her ever since: “I was so sick and weak, and I said to her one day, ‘Oh, Mother, I can’t stand having 16 more of those treatments.’ She said, ‘Can you go today?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Well, honey, that’s all you have to do today.’ It has helped me many times when I remember to take one day or one thing at a time.”
The Spirit can guide us when to look ahead and when we should just deal with this one day, with this one moment. If we ask, the Lord will let us know through the Holy Ghost when it may be appropriate for us to apply in our lives the commandment He gave His ancient Apostles: “Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient is the day unto the evil thereof”
After we walked back to Wyview, (SOOOOOO COLD) and finished making cookies, and then Kyoo, and Emilio (Kyoo's roommate) went to ward prayer with me. The next day we had FHE, and my new group watched the BCS Football game, and we were all cheering for the Oregon Ducks, sadly they lost, but nevertheless it was a good game. That Saturday, I went Country Dancing with Jaron, which was waaaay fun! Too bad I can't land the candlestick to save my life. Everything was going great then I said we should try the candlestick, because we'd been talking about it before. So we tried the candlestick... well this time, I landed on my head, he usually sets the girl back on her feet, and I'm used to going back towards the middle...yeah instead of my feet, my head landed on the ground. Concussion without a doubt. It was pretty amusing though, Jaron was more worried about me that I was. It was cute. Luckily I woke up super easily the next morning, so all is well. Within the next week (On wednesday) we had a new roommate move in :) :) :) Her name is Alisa and she is super awesome and sweet! Before she moved in the Ward went to Solider's Hollow for Tubing which was awesome! (Back to Alisa) The first day she moved in we went to basketball that night, which was so much fun! Our friend Steve set the most stupid screen on my it was very illegal, just so Alisa could get free from me guarding her. It was hilarious. Just to say the least Alisa and I have become very good friends in the past couple of weeks.
The first sunday we cooked homemade alfredo, alfredo sauce from scratch. And breadsticks from Scratch too! It was sooo good! And our first official roommate dinner. Afterwards we wanted to make some cookies but really didn't feel like cooking too much, so went over to the guys apartment and accidently woke Jaron up (who happened to be the only one there) He actually came over and we made the most legit cookies ever. They were chocolate chip cookies with oreo cookies in the middle soooooo goood! We cook dinner together every so often (we make AMAZING FOOD), and a couple sundays ago we even hosted a little lunch party after church. That was soo fun! They even helped clean up. Torie came back and asked if we had anyone over, she couldn't tell! After we all cleaned up Alisa, Steve, Kelly, and Me went over to the walmart park to check it out for a possible s.pot for capture the flag. We just walked around and talked and watched the ducks, which was entertaining. Eventually Jaron showed up and we hung out before he went to work. We also have started a little roommate adventures, in the mall, to buy-low to macey's fun stuff like that. We all have gotten closer, which is sooo awesome, and wonderful!
A couple weeks ago, Good Ol' Speedy was closing in on 160,000 miles. So after we played volleyball, Alisa, Steven, Jaron and I took Speedy out for a little Joy ride. Nothing too bad nor dangerous. Just travelin' down Canyon Road, freaking everyone out. Which was a success. haha Here's the video of it:
I love my roommates.
Afterwards we started a movie, but didn't watch it at all. We ended up going over to Wendy's and got food. We shoved 7 people in my car. hahaha. It was great and a bit crammed. But you know, it happens lol
