The Toys are Back in Town!

First of all, I want to give a shout out to Mandy, my dear cousin, for changing my background for me.

Last night, I went to the midnight showing of Toy Story 3. It was pretty much the first midnight premiere I've ever been to. It was great! Of course, there were no kids in the audience, because what parent in their right mind would let their child go to a midnight movie, on a school night? So the theater was full of college students. The movie was very tender and emotional, even for me. I found myself tearing up at quite a few parts of the movie. I'm pretty sure all my friends were sobbing. Over a movie about toys. Haha it was great. I recommend it to everyone.

pictures for mom

Just a few pictures of the rolls and breadsticks I made, along with the enchiladas my roommate and I made. I tried to live up to the standard my mom has set, but I didn't quite make it... I came really close though. :)

I give myself a capital F for Failure

So... I decided that I'm just not a blogger. I gave up on my blog about 3 months ago. But then, tonight, Carissa made me read her blog and it made me want to be the kind of person that blogs. (Thank you Carissa.) I think the problem is that:

1) I hate the background of my blog. And I'm sure it would be simple to get a new one, but honestly, that takes too much effort.

2) I have nothing to write about. Sometimes, during the day, I have moments when I think, "Hey! This would be great to write about in my blog!" But by the time I get home and sit down to write about it, I either have no idea what was so great about the moment, or I completely forget what the moment was.

3) I hate writing. I love to read... especially other people's blogs. But it honestly takes all my will-power to write something of worth. This is why I am a math major, and not an english major.

4) I get distracted easily. During this post alone, I have done 3 math problems, texted Carissa, set up my cat on a date with my roommate's cat, and daydreamed about Nick Jonas (not really). So by the time I get ready to hit "publish post," it just doesn't seem like a good idea anymore.

So anyway, these are all the reasons I am a failure.

I found some really old sugar cubes when I was cleaning out my closet... Don't ask me why I keep sugar cubes in my closet... and so I decided to put them to good use. Rachel and I made the Bountiful Temple out of sugar cubes and I think we did an amazing job! haaaahahaha our temple making skills are sweet!

Every Sunday I try out a new recipe. Usually I bake, since I seem to fail at any other kind of cooking. So this last Sunday I tried out a recipe called individual shortcakes. I used blackberries for the fruit in the middle, topped it with whipped cream, and drizzled some blackberry juice on top. I was happy with how it turned out!

I joined a basketball team this semester, and we have played 2 games so far! We won the first game, lost the second, so ... I think we're doing pretty well. This picture pretty much illustrates my contribution to the team: standing there, not really doing much, looking away from the hoop. The other girls on my team all played in high school, they know actual plays, and they use actual basketball lingo. Needless to say, everytime we play, I feel like a complete idiot, and I think to myself, "How did I end up on this team? Oh yeah, my roommate forced me into it." So the moral of the story is: Don't be on a basketball team unless you know how to play, and don't let your roommate to force you into embarrassing situations.

Integration Bee

Last night I participated in an integration bee.... which is like a spelling bee except with integrals, such as the one shown below:
I am aware that my particpation in this integration bee demonstrates my complete nerd-ishness, but it was really a lot of fun. Calculus 2 is my favorite class and I am going to be sad when this semester is over.
If anyone who reads this blog knows how to solve integrals, I would be happy to share the answer to this one. :)

dating is stressful!

yikes... this weekend I went on three dates. One on Friday, one on Saturday, and one on Sunday. All with different guys. I am not even kidding. This never happens to me. Haha It was a lot of fun! I have never dated so much in my life... I must have finally gotten rid of that weird smell I had in high school or something. I think the funniest thing about my adventures this weekend is that all three guys I went on dates with are left-handed. I must have a thing for lefties.

Friday's date consisted of driving out to the middle of nowhere to light a fire and stand around it, freezing to death. Haha ok it was more fun than that... we ate tinfoil dinners too.

On Saturday I shot a gun for the first time! We went shooting out at the sand dunes, and it was a lot of fun. My arm is really sore though. We used shotguns and we shot at clay pidgeons. And if you were wondering, that is me in the picture. haha ok not really. I would never wear camo.

On Sunday I went to Idaho Falls with a guy to the visitors' center at the temple. We watched the Joseph Smith movie and a movie about President Monson.

the L word

tonight my roommate kacee and i did laundry. can i just say, i hate laundry! it's the worst invention ever. i think we should all walk around in dirty clothes all the time. that's all i have to say on the matter.

Guess what I did?

I made a pie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry Carissa, I couldn't resist. Actually, it's called a Missouri Mud Pie. My friend Nicole and I got together tonight and decided to try a new recipe. We chose the mud pie pictured above for obvious reasons: maximum chocolate consumption.

This pie is basically chocolate and whipped topping mixed together, in an oreo cookie pie crust. On top, we put caramel, whipped cream, a chopped up Hershey's bar, and toffee bits. We probably could have made it look prettier, but the main point of making this pie was for us to eat it. Actually, in this picture, it looks quite disgusting. Sorry about that.

It's days like this that I look forward to my future life as a cat lady.

Mandy and I have failed at blogging I think.

The only reason I have such a hard time keeping up my blog is because I never have anything cool to say. Never. Either that or I'm too lazy to write about all the cool things that happen to me.

Well, summer semester at BYU-I ended in July, and I've been home ever since. I got a 4.0 this semester, which was my goal, so I'm really excited about that. Oh and I ran a 5k! It was really fun. This is me after the 5k:

Ok now this next picture is a more realistic view of me after the 5k:

I can't think of much else to say... that about sums it up!

Mother's Weekend

This weekend my mom, Aunt Heather, and Sara came to visit Mandy and me at college. They stayed at our apartment and it was great! We went to dinner, got 60 cent drinks from Horkley's, went to the splash park at Porter Park, did Mary Kay makeovers, and ate chocolate melting lava cake or whatever it's called. Here's a picture of us at Gringos for dinner last night. Hahaha hope you like the picture mom. Our moms took us shopping for groceries! Isn't that nice?

Thanks for coming to visit Mom! I hope you had a good time.

Sunday Afternoon Picnic

Today we all went to the Rick's Gardens and had a picnic! Then we took some pictures and walked around. It was a really nice weather and we had a great time. Us roommates on a bridge!

Robby and Cortney... precious.

Mandy made us fried chicken and oriental cabbage salad, and we had pineapple thanks to my mom! Thanks for organizing the picnic Mandy, you're the greatest roommate ever!

me and mandy

well mandy and i are sharing an apartment for the summer semester at byu-i and we're going to have so much fun! we've already settled in and we went on a walk today, and mandy made us sunday lunch today - cream cheese chicken - and it was delicious.

mandy's dresser is the messy one :)

New Furniture

We got some new furniture in our living room!

Cooking with Mandy!

Anne and I visited Mandy in Idaho a couple weeks ago, and we made ravioli at midnight one night. It was delicious.
Me slicing the french bread!

Doesn't it look good?

Wisdom Teeth

This is me the morning before I got my wisdom teeth out! Now watch the transformation from a semi-normal looking girl into a hideous beast!

This is me in the waiting room at the oral surgeon's office.

This is me a couple hours after having surgery. not bad, right?

Ok this is the morning after. The left side of my face is the only side that's swollen.

AAHHH!!! Run for your life! haha look how gross i look in this picture! This picture was taken tonight, about 30 hours after surgery. I'm hoping it doesn't get worse! but it's a pretty cool picture.

Cooking With Carissa!

I finally got my chance to cook with Carissa! I was always so jealous of Mandy. We made breadsticks. SO THERE MANDY!!! And Carissa wore her cute apron. I didn't wear an apron, and then I got butter on my shirt. Oh and Carissa was being creepy with the knife.

Merry Christmas!

Today is Christmas! Carissa, Rachel, and I all got matching sweaters, so we decided to all wear them today! Yes, it's very 2nd grade of us, but we just looked so cute! haha