I love my life.

Well, it looks like life is so good I haven't even had time to blog about it!! I apologize in advance for the lengthiness of this post.  Soon, I will be returning home and leaving BYU and my life will be drastically more boring. Here are some snapshots of some of my most recent adventures here in beautiful Provo!

Animal Dance! I have the greatest ward, so many people get together and do stuff like this. 

I was on an intramural basketball team!! As you may be able to tell from the looks of this picture, it didn't go very well in terms of winning.  In our first tournament game we only had 4 players show up.  I may have gotten a little (a lot) too competitive, but it was way fun. 

BEST TIME 80's dancing at Area 51 in Salt Lake.  Seriously, I will probably miss these nights the most. 

Just hangin' with Erik Mika, BYU basketball player. Also, I continued my back flip streak going! 

Riley, Cady's sister, came into town and we went disco skating! 

Destiny and Sara are 2 of my all time favorite people.  They are my counselors in Relief Society and I LOVE THEM TO DEATH!  We were all wearing denim so we had to take a pic (; 

Apple Beer is a pretty popular beverage here at BYU and I had my first this past week! 

Tay and I had a photo shoot!! It was so much fun and we got so many awesome pictures.  She is so gorgeous, it makes taking pictures easy. 

"Rent a Puppy" is a thing here!  You call and order a type of puppy and they deliver it to you and pick it up an hour or two later!

The weather has been AMAZING here the past week.  We spent time outside playing sand volleyball and having picnics (: 

Capture the Flag on campus late at night is always a great time. 

And last, but definitely not least we went to the Hot Springs!! Down in Spanish Fork canyon, about an hour hike in, there are beautiful water falls and natural hot springs.  We got a bunch of people and had a blast.  I love being in Utah when the weather is nice, there is so much to do!

Basically I'm just having the time of my life here.  I wouldn't change how anything is going except for maybe slow it down a little bit! The thought of leaving here in just 10 days makes me want to cry!

LIFE IS SO GOOD

Another crazy week!

The days and the weeks are flying by!  I can't believe its already the end of January. It feels like I just left home from Christmas.. My days are so busy! But overall, I'm so happy to be where I am and involved in all the things I'm doing.  The weather has been super nice here, so Taylore and I had to take  a picture outside!  We also ordered Jimmy Johns and had it delivered.. It really is freaky fast.  So I think that that will probably become a regular activity!  I also got to go to the temple this week, which was a blessing.  I've been missing my family a lot lately, but NATHAN COMES NEXT WEEKEND! So I am so so happy about that (: 

Life is good with sandwiches.

Merry December!

Yay its December! It snowed a ton here in Provo, so me and Erica put up the Christmas decorations! My mom sent me the old advent calendar that's always been up in my house and Erica brought a tree from home, so now our dorm feels like Christmas! I even have a wallflower that is a Christmas scent (: Also, Marmee gave me her old camera and I'm seriously in love.  Me and Tay went outside today and took pictures in the snow.  I don't think I'm too bad at taking pictures! (; Just 2 weeks until I get to go home and see my family..I am seriously counting the hours I am so excited.  This long without them is really tough.

Also, I am officially started on my mission papers! I have decided to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  I will probably be leaving early next summer. 

Life is good in the Christmas spirit!

I'm 19!

Wow, happy birthday to me! I seriously have the great friends and especially best friend in the whole world.  It was seriously a total party for 2 days straight in honor of my 19th birthday! On my birthday, I came back from dance aerobics to decorations that my mom had sent Erica in my room!! Then we went to Kneader's for breakfast and had the best french toast ever.  Then when I came back from class Taylore was waiting outside my door with more decorations and presents.. She spoils me WAY too much. Then I opened all like 20 cards from all of my awesome cousins and grandparents and brothers and mom and dad (:  That part was really great.. It made me feel like I wasn't really that far from all my family! Later that night Tay insisted that I go to her intramural volleyball game, and it turns out because she was planning for all of my friends to surprise me when we got back! We walked into the lobby with so many of my friends from my ward and the cutest birthday cake that she had made (: It was seriously the best day.  Then last night we went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner where I got to ride on the saddle for my birthday and then WE WENT TO 80's NIGHT. Jaylee, Libby, Liz and Tay all came. I seriously would go 80s dancing every week if I could.  Its so much fun.  So overall it was an amazing birthday.  I have the best friends out here at BYU, and I'm especially so glad that Taylore is out here with me.  Thanks to everyone I wasn't homesick or anything and had the most amazing couple of days!

19 is kind of a weird age but it'll actually be a pretty big year for me! I'm planning on serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and 19 is that age that girls get to go know! I'll start my papers here pretty soon and in just a couple months I'll know where I'll be going! I'll also finish out my freshman year here at BYU. It's crazy how fast time is flying.

Life is so good on my 19th birthday!

Shopping, Shushi, & Backflips

This weekend was actually pretty monumental for me.  On Friday me and Cady took the bus to the mall and went shopping! Taking the bus is always a little bit of an adventure. We got some cute stuff and the mall gets me excited for CHRISTMAS!  Some decorations are already up and some stores are playing Christmas music! Woo! Then Friday night, I tried sushi for the first time. We went for Hunter and Liz's birthday because they both love sushi.. Let's just say that's probably the first and last time I'll ever be having it. Then on Saturday night we went to a trampoline place called hang time and I DID A BLACKFLIP ON THE TRAMPOLINE! I literally have been trying to learn how to do a backflip since like middle school.  Me and Gabes spent an entire summer trying to build up the courage but never could, and me and T.J. would sit outside and watch YouTube videos trying to learn how and I finally did it!  So now I can mark sushi and backflips off the bucket list (: 

Life is good when you're partying on the weekends!

I love birthdays.

Since coming to BYU, I've realized that I am almost obsessed with birthdays. Your birthday is the one day of the year that its allowed to be all about you. When you think about it, it is the coolest holiday ever! Everyone deserves a day of the year to be recognized for how amazing they are.  Even though I totally love my own birthday, I honestly love everyone else's birthday even more.  Like this year for Taylore's birthday, I was thinking to myself that it is literally one of my favorite days of the whole year. I get to plan surprises and gifts and good food!  Nothing beats the feeling of planning cute things for someone's birthday and watching them be happy on their day.

So, one of the best parts about living in a dorm is that its someone's birthday like all the time!! Today is Liz's birthday.  Liz lives across the hall from me and she's become a great friend to me over the past few months.  She's so easy and fun to talk to, I feel like I could tell her anything.  She's always up for a party and is so giving of all of her things and her time.   I LOVE liz and I'm so happy that we get to celebrate her today! 

This is what we do to decorate for birthdays here!! Totally reminds me of how Mom would decorate our doors at home on our birthdays (: She's definitely where I get this affinity for birthdays. Well everyone wish Liz a happy birthday tomorrow!! (:

Life is good when it's someone else's birthday!

Halloween Part 2!

Woo! There is so much fun stuff that happens around Halloween.  We went to a place called Cornbelly's with a bunch of friends and went through a haunted house on Wednesday.  Then on Halloween campus was so funny.  So many people were dressed up to go to class. At one point I walked next to this girl on the phone and she goes, "It's a total geek fest up here!" I thought the funniest one was the guy with the horse mask on so I snuck a picture (;  And then we dressed up and went to a dance party! Tay was Sandy from Grease and I was an 80's workout girl. Then we ended the night with In-N-Out!

Life is good with friends and Halloween!