I've been bad at blogging lately SORRY!

So it has almost been a month since I last posted, dang it! Hopefully I will get better at writing faithfully on this thing. Well let's see in the last month I have reclaimed my status as a heartbreaker, so says dad (he is secretly excited that I am haha) Let's just say I want to date lots of people and well that's how it's going to be for a while :) Kristin told me that I had my share of kissing this year, probably true.

These last few weeks have been crazy with midterms and papers. It is insane how many papers I have had to write lately. And the midterms are equally rough but so far so good YAY! School is crazy as always but it's alright because I like it that way. If my life was not busy I wouldn't know what to do with myself. Also Winter semester is over in about 6 or 7 weeks....oh YA!

I got to go to the Draper temple with my Mom and Nathan. It is so beautiful! I thought it was going to be smaller, judging from the pictures, but it is huge and amazing. I also have the chance to go to the temple dedication on March 22, so there is that to look forward to.

Another fun thing which is coming up is Cinco de Marcho...plus dos. My friends and I are throwing a Cinco de Mayo party in March since no one will actually be here in may, but we couldn't do it in the middle of the week so it is on March 7....hence the plus dos. We will have mexican food, a homemade pinata (we're working on it), swimming, and to top it all off the movie "The Three Amigos" Yes, we are dorks but it is going to be oh so fun. Anyways I love you all and I will try to update you more on my life, have no fear :)

p.s. bowling league is tonight-wish me luck! Go SEA OTTERS (team name)

so good news...I saw a dog today (elf)

Alrighty so it has absolutely been too long since I posted on my blog...But honestly nothing very exciting has happened but in order to catch y'all up here's a few things about this winter semester:

1. I have joined a bowling league. Yes, be astonished and amazed! Every Thursday night I is league night at the Wilkinson Center for students. It is awesome! Also we are getting t-shirts (any suggestions for my name would be greatly appreciated)

2. D&C boy. Let's just say some boys are extremely attractive the first day of class and then they speak to you, and they are no longer attractive, just creepy.

3. I am in a Turbo Kickboxing class every Wednesday night. It kicks my trash but is so so so much fun.

4. Surprisingly my Sexuality Education class is my favorite one. It may sound weird but my teacher is amazing and I am learning so much- it's quite informative

5. Only 2 1/2 months until Britney Spears concert. You may laugh, but I always believed in her :)

6. I don't know about this whole dating thing. Sometimes I get really sick of going on dates and not liking any one. They are all great but there's nothing.

7. I thoroughly enjoy working out. I am like a deer on that eliptical.

8. I am applying for this Romania Internship. Hopefully I will get it. If so that would be so so amazing and give me a chance to get out and experience the world.

9. I feel like M &M's are taken for granted. Sometimes you want plain chocolate- not all the hodge podge of caramel and nuts and peanut butter. It has become one of my favorite treats during my cinema class when I start getting a headache due to low blood sugar haha

10. This semester is going by so so fast. It is already February for goodness sake. Only a couple more weeks till my sister in-law has her baby. So exciting!

Well hopefully this is update enough for everyone. I love you and hope everything is well.

p.s. The picture at the top was taken at Wal-Mart, it was the sweetest truck I had ever seen. Complete with purple paint and raging golden flames. It complete me :)

I got TAGGED!

Rules:
1. Post rules on your blog
2. Answer the six '8' items
3. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving them a comment.
So...I've been tagged.

Here goes my first shot at this tagging business.

8 favorite TV shows
1. The Office
2. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
3. House
4. Wizards of Waverly Place
5. Unwrapped
6. Challenge- only when they are doing cakes
7. Chuck
8. Bones

8 things I did yesterday
1. Went to Physiology
2. Went to Sociology
3. Watched someone break up in the cougar eat during lunch (sad, but highly entertaining)
4. Wrote a reaction paper about immigration
5. got 100 on my physiology quiz
6. listened to Byron serenade me on his guitar :)
7. Ate a spaghetti dinner at FHE
8. Sad goodbye to Camille and Jenn who left for Thanksgiving

8 things I look forward to

1. THANKSGIVING! and seeing Twilight with the family
2. The end of Finals Week
3. Eating mom's apple pie
4. My family coming for the holidays!
5. Seeing dad get excited and giddy on Christmas day
6. Eating Dad's chocolate chip pancakes
7. Starting my scuba diving class
8. Snow finally coming to Utah!

8 favorite restaurants

1. Mi Ranchito
2. Tucanos
3. The Happy Sumo
4. Burgers Supreme
5. Macaroni Grill
6. Cheesecake Factory
7. California Pizza Kitchen
8. L&T Produce (cougareat style)

8 Things on My Wish List

1. sleep sleep sleep
2. Doing well on my finals
3. a new camera
4. amazing thanksgiving break
5. A coat with built in handwarmers- it's COLD!
6. Being able to finish the Fuddruckers challenge
7. For my family to come to Utah
8. Finding my ID card

8 people I tag

Well I'm pretty sure only my family reads my blog so...

Halloween and voting

Well there you have it. I was a gangster for Halloween. Almost all of the clothing I am wearing belongs to Nathan haha. And yes I did purchase that hat from the amazing clothing store that is Gen-X. I felt so cool going in there you don't even know! Oh and my bling is totally a tin can lid covered in foil, because you know, I'm crafty like that :)

Well Halloween was this last weekend woohoo! And last week during FHE we carved pumpkins to get ready for it. Jenn, Andy, and I clearly were feeling school spirited and made this amazing Y pumpkin. The only downfall was that pumpkin's shell was almost 4 inches thick! It was a very labor intensive carve but we succeeded and obviously we all need to go into sculpting or something of that nature.

Halloween would not be the same without a ward party and then a dance party! Last friday our ward got together and had a chili cook-off, scavenger hunt, games, and of course a costume contest! Julie, my roommate, and her boyfriend WON! They were Barbie and Ken, complete with an attached ipod that played the song "Barbie Girl." It was amazing!Also yesterday I got to vote in my first ever presidential election. And on the plus side I didn't even have to wait in line or anything. So all in all the whole process took me 15 minutes; from signing my name to get in, to receiving my I VOTED sticker as I left. Although now I am a little bit scared of where our country is headed. I'll be honest I didn't really want either of the candidates but I decided to go with the lesser of 2 evils. And in other voting news, does anyone know if proposition 8 passed in California, or do we not know yet?

And my life as of now consists of: studying, testing, reading, eating, sleeping, dating, smiling, laughing, and partying with the roommates. Life is GREAT! I love you all!

Come what may and LOVE IT!

Oh my goodness! This week was quite eventful. Starting the week with General Conference really helped a lot. I know you are not supposed to pick favorite apostles but Elder Wirthlin is the man! If I could be as happy and as positive as he is I would be set. I especially liked when he said "Come what may, and love it!" Because sometimes that is so hard when you really are going through a hard or stressful situation. But this statement has become my new goal. No one likes to be around people who find things to complain about or who are downers in general; it can bring you down with them.

So this last week I put it into play. And it proved to be a lot more difficult than expected. Especially when I ended up having 2 tests back to back and then having to wake up super early to study or do assignments. But all in all I think I did pretty good. I was extremely aware of what I was saying and so careful not to be pessimistic no matter how hectic a day it was. You can always find positive things no matter the situation. Anyways.... that was this week now into the weekend :)

I was a dating fiend!! That might be overexagerrating a little bit but this last week I went on 3 dates, I think. And they were all really fun! Yay for fun cute boys haha. On tuesday I went over to Byron's house and he made me fried rice for dinner and then we watched a movie. Doesn't sound like much but we are both huge dorks and kinda crazy so it turned out to be an adventure.

Then on Friday Byron and I went up to Salt Lake to a mentally disabled school called South Valley. They were having their Halloween dance and it was really the most fun I had all week! We didn't even dance with each other, we just danced with the kids... I say kids but they were all 18-25 years old. They are the most happy people and the most fun to dance with. I got hit on quite a few times, asked to be multiple guys' girlfriend, and one boy yelled to me as I was dancing "You are HOT, H-O-T!" Biggest confidence booster EVER! haha. They really were the sweetest people. And one more direct quote, as we were leaving the dance, Jared, one of the students, told me to call him if I ever need a good boyfriend...I might take him up on it :)


Saturday of course was BYU Homecoming. My roommates and I went to the parade early in the morning to see some of the people in our ward who were in the parade. It was so cold and started to snow, that's why we are all majorly bundled up in the picture. We got free chocolate chip blue pancakes with whipcream and syrup plus we got to see all the performing groups go by. Of course I went to the game against New Mexico, of course we won, but it was a dissapointing win, our team was not in sync at all the first half but we kind of pulled it together the second half. We will definately go down in the poles tho, i think. Then Saturday night I went on a date with a boy named Ryan from my Anatomy class. We went to Los Hermanos and then carved pumpkins. Which are currently sitting on my front steps, they look awesome in case you were wondering. But all in all it was a really good week. So Come what may and LOVE IT!