29 days and counting!

So we are now under a month until I move back down to BYU. Because there is only 29 days I thought I'd list 29 things that I'm looking forward to about BYU this semester:

1. Always having someone to play with.
2. Starting class with a prayer.
3. Being surrounded by the gospel.
4. Going to football games at Lavell Edward's Stadium.
5. Coming home to visit for Sunday dinners.
6. Staying up past midnight having fun with my roommates.
7. Kicking boys out of the apartment at midnight.
8. Dessert nights.
9. Sharing a bathroom with girls instead of my brothers. (I HATE the little hairs everywhere!)
10. BYU student ward (not that I don't like the single's ward here...)
11. Starting my major.
12. Courtney.
13. Nichelle - by the way these names were in no particular order. I miss them both a LOT!
14. Mystery roommate.
15. Roommate dinners.
16. Not knowing what the world looks like at six AM.
17. Knowing what the world looks like at three in the morning.
18. Saturday morning breakfasts.
19. Trying to make things taste the way our mom makes them taste.
20. Being on BYU campus again.
21. Three words: All-Sport Pass (or is that two...?)
22. Not worrying about waking someone up when I get home after midnight.
23. Theme nights.
24. Playing games on the kitchen table of our apartment.
25. Apartment life.
26. Having professors that frequently end class with an "Amen."
27. Tuesday morning devotionals.
28. Getting ready in the mornings with someone else.
29. Basically the whole college experience - social, academic, spiritual, emotional.

Oops...

My how time flies when you're having fun...or something like that. I can't believe it's been since March that I've blogged. So much has happened in that time, yet it doesn't seem like long ago at all. The Splash n' Dash came and went, and well, we finished. :) Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure.

Emmilie came and visited - she was our official lap counter. Thanks Em! :)

The triumphant finish...

Finals week also came and went and I've now been living at home for about three months. I miss our apartment a lot, but it is nice to be with my family again. Brian got home on the twentieth of June and it's been exciting to have him home...and to realize that he's still the same annoying older brother that we dropped off at the MTC two years ago. But it's fun to have the whole family together. And I do like being able to drive down to Provo every day with Jeff and Brian. It will be awesome to have all three of us down at BYU together.

But for right now I'm just working, trying to save money. I work at Provo Early Education Program down in Provo during the day. PEEP is an Early Intervention program that serves kids from birth to three with developmental delays. I was hired as an aide in the toddler and pre-todd classes and I love that. For the summer, however, I'm working fully time in the office sort of temporarily taking over the job that Brandi usually does. She's in San Francisco for the summer for her husband's internship. It worked out nicely because she'll be back close to the time that school starts, so I'll go part time after that. I love working there and I love the people I work with - it makes it so much better coming to work every morning.

I'm also working nights at Artic Circle in Riverton. And I actually enjoy that quite a bit as well. A lot of the people there are really fun to work with and you get to meet a lot of interesting people who come in too.

I can't wait to be back down in Provo though. I'm excited to jump into my major (oh yeah - I changed that too). It's now Communication Disorders (Audiology and Speech Language Pathology). Which means that my job at PEEP is giving me a lot of good experience. I'm excited to always have someone to play with, and I'm just excited to be in the college scene again. I love it at BYU and I can't wait to jump back in.

Two in one week!

So I decided to go out on a limb here and throw all of you off (all two of you that read this) and actually blog two times within the space of one week. Impressive, I know. The problem, however, is that I have a serious lack of pictures. Last night was an adventure in and of itself. Kathryn got the idea on Sunday to make a green dinner for us all. So our menu consisted of green mashed potatoes, green salad, green kiwis, green beans, green milk, and chicken (unfortuately - or fortunately for us - Kathryn couldn't figure out how to get the chicken green).

This is a picture of our plate, courtesy of Nichelle. And her phone. It's actually her plate, not ours. That is one thing that we in fact do not all share at 124. Sorry it's kinda pixely. Yes, I'm SURE that's spelled correctly. So anyway, there was much joy and happiness in apartment 124 last night.

On a different note, I am now in training for a biathlon. Yes, this may shock some of you, in fact, it still shocks me on occasion, many occasions. Last Thursday Nichelle and Courtney and I were walking around campus when we spotted a large banner that read "SPLASH AND DASH." Now, you can clearly see how this would catch our attention. We thought, "What is this splash and dash?" Well, our curiosity got the better of us. We walked over to investigate. It all seemed to go downhill from there. Once we got the idea in our head and let it simmer, there was no turning back (numerous gospel analogies can be made). So in just under two weeks the three of us will find ourselves wet and tired. A quarter mile may not seem very far, however, everything seems ten times longer in a pool. That's 18 lengths of the pool! It's a lot! We began our training with a trip to the pool last night. I don't think we even did the whole quarter mile...unless you're pooling (no pun intended) all of our laps together. If you'd like to come cheer us on and/or mock us, please feel free. March 29, 2008 @ 11:30 AM at BYU. Thank you.