I love my girls!

The end of the semester calls for a girls reunion...LUNCH! I became great friends with these girls right after I graduated but most people think i've known them for years. All of them went to Mesquite High School together and have known each other for much longer but they are now like family to me. When people tell you that the friends you make in college are the life long friends -I completely agree! These girls are amazing!

Here they are...

Alissa, Brooke, Katie, Katie, Mindi, Caraline, Me, and Dawnee!

Dawnee! ...she's ENGAGED! So she stayed in Utah over the summer. This is the only time I got to see her while she was down and I was so excited!

"Girls just wanna have FUN!" :)

Hello Summer!

School ended almost a month ago! The semester ended great which was very exciting. However, it consumed my life for a while so i'm excited to be back doing things that I like to do more than homework.



I decided to make a quilt. Originally I was thinking about making a hard core quilt that Brittnee would probably have to coach me through but then I changed my mind. Instead I made a quilt with big squares using most of my high school shirts. It's not perfect but it turned out pretty cute. The edges are fabric with sheet music. It's the size of a twin sheet...here it is. (sorry about the bad photography...it was hard to get it all in one shot)

As for the rest of my summer...i'm going to be an EFY Counselor for two weeks at NAU, going to the great place of IDAHO! And then it's back to work and a summer school class.

GREAT NEWS! I got hired on at ASU next semester to be an accounting tutor! I'm pretty excited becasue I can work there on the mornings that I don't have school three days a week and if no students come in I can work on my own homework and still get paid for it!! :) Not a bad deal!

Hope everyone is doing well! Love you all!

JAZZ has officially been conquered by yours truely!

Alright- i couldn't let this exciting/ relieving day go by without a quick post to share my happiness. So i've been taking this Jazz in America class online this semester...specifically MUS 347, for an upper division general credit. I'm not going to lie, i took it thinking it would be a piece of cake- a non-stressor class if you will. Well, it turned out to be just the opposite. All the lectures are audio which mean hours and hours of listening to this boring guy talk while you sit at the computer and take pages and pages of notes on facts and different sounds clips of jazz artists that he inserts. So the tests come along- which are online as well obviously and you're thinking "no problem, i've got my notes on a word document (searchable) and i've got my sound clips accessible. Needless to say, those confident assumptions were wrong as well. THE TESTS WERE REDICULOUS! More than half the test was listening to sound clips and identifying which time period they were from, who and/ or what they were playing/ or who is most likely not to be, etc. Oh and the tests are timed- 50 min for 50 questions. Needless to say, my test scores had an extremely terrible downward sloping trend and i had scored worse on two of the three tests than i have in my college/ high school career. I was a little scared! BUT great news of the day! I pulled a B in the class! With some extra credit, massive studying, and another person (aka another brain) to help...we all survived! Moral of the story: work hard until the very end...don't give up...just never take that kind of class EVER AGAIN!

Smiles all around! Finals are almost over :)

April Conference!

Hello all! My qwest for improved blogging continues! I love reading all ya'lls so I figure I have a duty too. Life is going well! About one month left of school and things are really getting down to the wire. This semester is really giving me a run for my money. I'm definitely having to work for my grades...some are turing out, some i hope will turn out, and some don't have a very bright future (but i'm still giving them encouragment :)).

This past weekend we took a journey up to Utah! We left early Friday morning and came home late late Sunday night...alot of driving in not alot of days is not recomended but definitely worth it! Nothing compares to the great times of singing in the car or trying to figure out where the heck you are in this foreign land. Saturday we were able to watch both sessions with one of my best friends that moved to BYU, Dawnee. It was so good to see her and all the other girlies whom I love!

We had tickets to the Sunday morning session of conference this year! What an amazing place that is! I have gained an amazing appreciation for conference through being able to go and see it in person. It really gives you a new perspective on things. The apostles are inspired men called of God.

Caraline, Dawnee, and Mariah!

Naomi Deighton- my friend from England who's going to BYU. She loves it here in America!

Who Does this?

THIS IS REALLY EXCITING! Last Friday I went to my first phoenix suns game. As we sat in our Row 11 seats about 45 minutes before the game started, I was approached by a guy asking me if I wanted to help him out by participating in a game. I asked what it was before agreeing and he said, "At the 2nd time out of the 2nd quarter you will be playing wheel a fortune in front of the entire crowd. The clue is 'an award' and you need to say these letters." Being a little nervous I still agreed. At the 1st time out of the 2nd quarter the same guy came and pulled me from my seat and had me sit in an isle seat so I would be ready when the next time out was called. It was hilarious because all the people around me asked what happened and why I had to move...I think they though I was being disruptive or something. Anyways the time came and it was me, the main emcee, and the gorilla on the jumbo-tron! I guessed the word right and confetti came falling down, I won $500 to Discount Tire, and a large bag of Suns apparel! Woohoo! I loved it! What are the chance?? I want to go back :)

Pirate?

So it's been a while (ok a VERY long while) since i've posted. But life is good no worries...it's just super busy! School is insane...I feel like i'm sacrifices sleeping time to keep up. I got a new calling in the middle of last semester. I am currently the RS secretary which, despite your thoughts, can be a bit time consuming as well. I've also been dating Collin for the last couple of months which is going well...so of course, I must make time for him. oh and you can't forget about work :) So as you can probably relate there's too much to do and not enough hours in the day. However, I read a time management article and it said "don't manage your time, manage yourself." So that's my goal. haha

As for being a Pirate- I hope my pictures are able to upload. My ward had this "Who dun it?" murder/kidnapping mystery activity and I was one of the actresses in it. I was Uma Scar, the galley wench...but we weren't supposed to say that in the church so my title was modified to "galley girl." haha I speculated this activity but it turned out to be pretty fun.

General Conference

Ok it's time for a new post. This event happened a few weeks ago but that's ok. So i had the opportunity to go up to conference with a few friends- about 12 of us went so it was a blast. We left early early Friday morning and came home Sunday night. Wow that is kind of a long distance for such a short trip but i loved it. We all stayed at one of my friends parent's house in South Jordan and then drove up to Salt Lake. This was a huge debate whether or not to go on my part but things just kept working out. One of my EFY co-counselors called before i left to see if i wanted to go to the saturday afternoon session with him...so i had a date to conference with a Utahan! Haha that was super fun. Then once we got there another one of my friends called up to see if we wanted some saturday morning session tickets!!! Yay! This was my first time up to conference and i loved it- oh and it was freezing!! That was a new experience- i recommend more than just a holey sweater in the snow! :)

To make the weekend even better...Friday night when we got there, i ran into so many people i knew in Provo. People from my accounting class here at ASU, one of my best girl friends growing up that i hadn't seen since i was 12, my best girlfriends from Gilbert, what seemed like MY WHOLE WARD at one table at Applebees, a kid from here that one of my friends tried to set me up with, my friend from England, and a girl that i had yelled to earlier that day at Wendys in Beaver, Ut because she was wearing an ASU shirt too!!! ALL OF THIS AT APPLEBEES IN PROVO! Crazy small world and i loved it!