Ending 2012

Missing Home today so I thought I'd make an entry.

It's been a little less then month since my last post. I am not a perfect book keeper, but at least you know I am alive.

Merry Christmas and Happy New year to all!! Hope every one's 2012 was as awesome as mine.

In 2012 some of the things I accomplished were:

Completed my senior year of High School with college credit because of Ap Classes.
Had my first relationship
Graduated from High School, with an advanced Diploma
Applied to and got accepted into not only BYU-I but Virginia Tech as well. (Big accomplishment in my book!)
Attended a full semester at BYU-I, which included living on my own, feeding myself, going to class, doing my homework as well as extracurriculars, spending my own money, getting myself over colds, and so much more.

This year has been a big year of change for me, realizing a lot and becoming a better me. I could not have asked for a better year.

By the way I finished off me year on Christmas Break with my Grandparents in Burley Idaho. Its been a lot different then home for sure, but it has been great. We have been able to see cousins, reacquaint with family members that we have not seen since we were little, eat a lot of food, none of which was Macaroni and Cheese, and best of all really get to know our Grandparents!

On Christmas morning Jessy woke me up a little after 7 and we woke up Grandma and Grandpa. We were tempted to jump on their beds, but decided against it. We opened the gifts and relaxed the whole day. It was great!

New Years eve Jessy and I went to a 15 stake young singles adult activity at The College of Southern Idaho. We had a blast. We resolved with or without boys we would make sure to have a blast just Jessy and I. We enjoyed ourselves! We raced through inflatable fun houses, watched many aspiring young men take a try at a Mechanical bull (Hehehe), and we danced our booties off. Two guys talked to us making the night slightly more entertaining, but I could not have asked for a more fun night with my sister Jessy. I really love her and will miss her when she goes on a mission!

We came home to Grandparents still awake watching old movies on TV. So we stayed up till after 2 just enjoying time together. It was great! We were tired when we woke up.

Well there is more to say, but I am going to go look at old slides with my Grandpa. I'll talk to you later. Love Ya!
-Em

Well...

Well guys, can you believe it, the semester is about over. The first semester of my first year of college is about to its end. This semester has been a great one!  We have classes Monday and Tuesday then tests the rest of the week, not to mention white glove clean checks and packing up the room. Lots to do, but all the way worth it. 

This semester I have been blessed with a lot of "Awesomes":

I have had the best roommates I could have asked for. We have not fought or killed each other, yet, and we get along excellently!  Hopefully the final clean check won't change that.

Our Ward this semester has been great to. We have been blessed by the hard work of the Relief Society presidency, as well as the Priesthood, Sunday School and Bishopric. Our ward is full of fun, happy and spiritually in tune people.  I love it!

Our family Home evening group was awesome! We as an apartment we blessed to be in a ward with more men then women so our FHE group consisted of 6 girls and 9 guys. We made some great friendships with the guys in our "Family."

Classes have been going great as well. This Semester I took 15 credits worth of classes which included: Career Exploration, Pre-Calculus, Book of Mormon, Science Foundations, and Beginning Spanish. The classes are great and the teachers are wonderful. It is so amazing to see how the Gospel fits into every aspect of life, even Math.

Some of the programs I have enjoyed being a part of this Semester include: Stadium singing (Spanish and English), Spanish Choir, national housing and building competition, (which is still going on and I get to fly to Las Vegas for), Architecture and Construction Management society, ushering for devotional and other events including the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Boise Idaho temple dedication broadcast.

I have also had fun, pretending the floor was lava, dancing on commercial breaks, and drooling over cute boys, both on the TV and off.

This semester had been great I can only anticipate the upcoming semester! We will have two new roommates and different classes and work loads to attend to. 

Overall I think that it is going to be great!

I was going to post pictures of recent happenings around here, but I cannot get them to work for some reason, but just know they include Josh Groban, Straightening my hair, Spanish Choir Christmas performance, and more!!! Just know I love them all!!!

Love you and miss family, Wish I could head home to see ya! Wish everyone the best!!!!

Hey guys,

I hope life is treating everyone well.
Here is an update of my life.

Pre-Thanksgiving fun:
The night before we left for thanksgiving a few people helped McKenna and I make a miraculous fort in our living room and had a blast. One of a kind night!

Thanksgiving:
It was delicious! Jessy and I headed to our Grandparents house and got to spend thanksgiving with family.  It was great seeing them! I wish that we could hang out with them more often, we have grown up without each other that I love getting to know who everyone has grown up to be.  We ate turkey, ham, jello salad, salad, deviled eggs, rolls, stuffing and everything was delicious.
We are so grateful to our grandparents who housed us and fed us as well as treated us multiple times. They are wonderful!!!!

Back at home: (School):
The Semester is slowly winding down and everyone is excited to head back home for Christmas. We have finals this week and then we are practically done.  I am excited to have my first semester of school over and anticipating next semester. I only wish that I could for real go home for Christmas, unfortunately the tickets to fly home for Jess and I are spendy, however I am sure that we will have a blast with family in Idaho.

My first social weekend (sounds pathetic right):

Surprisingly I did not spend my Friday night watching "Say yes to the dress". This past Friday my buddy from back home, Shilo, invited me to the Jane Austen Yule Ball held at BYUI. So, Shilo, Amanda and I all dolled up went to dance hoping for a blast.  We learned some of the dances from that time period and we took turns being the boy and girl in the couple. We also made a new friend named Siri who danced with us. We left early and got Kiwi Loco. It was a lot of fun!
We finished off the night by skyping with my best friend in the whole world and Shilo's boyfriend Ibrahim. We had a sleep over and enjoyed a relaxing morning which involved calling and friend from back home.  I also have enjoyed talking to family a bunch. I even got all my homework for Monday morning done by Saturday night!
This weekend was a pretty great one! Oh, and I watched My roommate Amanda dance her tail off at halftime for a basketball game with her lovely dance team.

Luckily it only rained!

The only scary thing coming up besides finals of course is:

THE WEATHER!!
In the words of our apartment, WE ARE ALL GUNNA DIE!

Temples!

Hi guys,
I hope that life is treating everybody pleasurably. 

Life out here is going well, I just cannot wait for thanksgiving! It will be good to see family.

Today was the Boise temple re-dedication.  All the wards on Campus were counseled to cancel regular meetings so that all members could attend on of three dedication sessions.  Our apartment went to the eight o'clock session.  I had the opportunity to usher for the session and direct people where to sit, which is always a pleasure.  I love helping people.

The dedication was beautiful.  I loved participating in the Hosanna Shout, and hearing the words of our Prophet, it is a wonderful experience!  The closing song was The Spirit of God as well as the Hosanna song sung by the choir.  When the congregation joined in to sing The Spirit of God, the floodgates opened and I could not stop crying the rest of the song.  It was a beautiful experience to be a part of. 

Temples are such a blessing in our lives. I always love going there. On Saturday our Relief Society went to the Temple and participated in Baptisms for the dead. I love doing service in the temple.  We got to the temple at about 8 and had a 2 hour wait to get in and were heading home an hour or so later.  The Rexburg temple is a busy place. Which of course is a wonderful thing!!! I cannot wait till I am able to fully take part in many other saving ordinances of the Temple.  There is no doubt that God visits His temples and watches over them and those that serve in them.

I also gain a much greater appreciation for the men that hold the Priesthood.  There is no doubt that they are called by God.  I never want to live without the priesthood in my life!
Well I hope everyone is doing swell,
I love ya bunches.
-Em

Spanish!!!! hehehe!

Hola guys,

I thought I would devote yet another one of my posts to my favorite language, however this post will be in English.

I started taking Spanish when I was in eighth grade and took it through my senior year of high school.  In high school we were only required to take three years of Spanish in order to graduate, however I loved it so much that I just kept taking it.

My high school Spanish Teacher.  She taught me Spanish 2 and AP Spanish!!
I love this Lady!!!

This year in college I am taking Spanish 1 again.  Lets just say that I have an A in the class.  The review has been good.  Little do the people that sit by me know, that I know the answers already.  This class reminds me of when I took Spanish in High School and how much work I had to put into it to get good grades and remember all of the work.  I am glad I learned it then instead of now, because we move so much faster in college.

One of these semesters I will try to skip to intermediate level Spanish classes.

I don't really know why I love Spanish so much, it could be that it opens the doors to communicate, or that I have put so much work into learning it that I have grown to love it, or that it just fun to speak.  Whatever the reason I love Spanish.

I would love to go on a Spanish speaking mission.  That would involve two of my favorite things in the entire world.  (Of course my Family is up there on my list of favorites too.)

At school I have incorporated Spanish into my life in a regular basis.  Every Sunday I  participate in Spanish stadium singing,  I have joined the school's Spanish choir, and every time I get angry at my computer I rant at it in Spanish.  I love speaking Spanish.  If anyone ever wants to talk in Spanish with me I would love too!!! And we could even have a FIESTA!!!!!!

Well I love you guys! I hope all of your days are filled with Spanish and your dreams full of fiestas.
-Em

Questions...

Hi World,

For this post I have been thinking about some questions that have been left unanswered in my life.

...

now don't worry only some of these are serious questions...

Why does the toothpaste I use not attracted boys like the commercial says it should?

Why are some of the yummiest foods not healthy for you?

Why can't I stop eating the yummy foods?

Why does time fly so quickly?

Serious-er...

Why in Spanish do we pray using the informal you when we are talking to God?

What does it mean in hymn 41 Enoch's band?

I have many more questions in my life and I am sure I will find more, but here are a few of them.  Now don't everyone send me the answers all at once.  For the last question I want to search out the answer myself.

For your further enjoyment I shall post some pictures of my life:

Our recent weather

Since daylight savings time, I now see this when I walk home from Spanish class.

Look what I got myself into!

Same old me!

Miss you all and love ya to death! 

-Em

Tortilla pizza and other weird things.

Hey guys,
It is Me! And who you ask, might me be? Well flip me around and you will have it.

Today I was going to share some information with you:  (Its not very important, so you can scoot back into your seat)

Some weird foods I have created or eaten while out here so far include:  Ham and Cheese roll ups dipped in pizza sauce,  Tortilla pizza, grilled cheese minus the grill (basically toasted and microwaved cheese and bread with butter), toast with peanut butter and syrup, or sugar crystals,  no bake chocolate mounds,and since day one my snacks have been tortillas.  Super healthy right.  You might be happy to know though that I have not purchased a single Ramen noodle packet and have only eaten 2 or three boxes of Mac and Cheese.  BUT a lot of Tortillas!!!!

Now, not only do I eat semi-weird things I have done some weird things too, not any weirder then most college students I would think.

Some of these things include:
Tackling roommates and holding them down to keep them from tickling me.  (Or others)
Crawling across the floor to get to my kool aid
Taking designated Kool aid breaks
Eating with weird utensils because the normal ones are dirty
Using frying pans, cake pans, and muffins tins as cookie sheets
Using a frying pan as a popcorn bowl, (Frying pans, who knew?)
Sprinting off a couch to hid behind another couch when a scary movie scared me after exclaiming "This is worse then Harry Potter!"
Over reacting when people fall in love in chick flicks or reality t.v. shows.
Eating way too many tortillas.
Getting way to excited when a shirtless guys is playing tennis outside.
And many more, but If I share them all you might think the little of me that is "NorMAl" is gone! (TOOO LATE!)

College Life has been treating me well.  Not only have I learned how to better be a grown up, but I have had a lot of fun, just doing what I want.

Now all I have to do is my homework, write a resume, write some letters, send in my absentee ballot, eat a tortilla or two, go to church, and exercise.  (of course not all today).

I will catch you guys on the flip flop top!!!

-Em