I looked out the window and what did I see?

SNOW!!!
I wake up reluctant to face another long day of classes and work when I enter my kitchen and find THIS out my window! Where the heck am I? Narnia? It's freaking October! I believe that it has snowed in St. George about seven times in my entire life. Never in October!

My roommate Talysha just loves snow. She has grown up with it her entire life. She is immune to the cold. She is wearing a hoodie...that is all!

After much preparation and about an hour trying to get my boots on, I finally accumulated all of my layers. A long sleeve shirt, a vest, a hoodie, and a trench coat. I was still INCREDIBLY COLD! If I'm not warm wearing that many clothes I just don't know how I'm going to make it until December! Now I have to go test my driving skills. Great. I've already warned my dad that I have to drive to work and if I wreck he has to come save me. This should be interesting...

PUmpKIns!

Prettiest pumpkin on the block? I definitely think so!

Me and Talysha looking like five year olds with our pumpkins

The finished product!

For Family Home Evening tonight we carved pumpkins! First of all I would like to say that I chose the ugliest pumpkin on the face of the earth! It was all green and black and completely misshapen you can't even tell how bad it is in the pictures. I thought that the insides would be completely rotten but thankfully they weren't any nastier than every other pumpkin. I forgot how disgusting and gross the insides of a pumpkin were! They're all slimey and seriously made me want to throw up. I think I had to go wash my hands like four times! After the pumpkin carving they decided we should all play a game. They tell us that we are playing the pass the tiny little fresh picked apple with your chin! At church! So this hot guy that I have never talked to before is basically giving me a big fat bear hug and dropping an apple on my boob and I'm supposed to keep it against my chest with my chin and pass it to the next person! Let's just say I laughed really hard and loudly and turned an embarassing shade of red! It was really funny though. Like incredibly, I am the most awkward person on earth and this hot man is getting incredibly close to my face and boobs and the bishopric is watching me, funny! I love family home evening!

Happy Birthday Johnny J!!!!

24! Time for some red pleather pants! Haha I love you J you are the best brother in the world! Woo for you! I hope you had the very best day ever! I don't have any pictures of your big party but I will get them soon and blog them for sure! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! YAY!

open toed shoes+30 degrees=a really long walk to institute!

Yes. I went for it. I wore sandals and capris. It was 29 degrees when I left my house this morning. Not a good combination! I made it to math just fine, where I got some wonderful help from my American TA. He is so much easier to understand than my cute little asian professor! Anyway, I exit the science building and attempt to walk to the institute building all the way ACROSS campus! It was the coldest most miserable walk I have ever attempted! I tripped like five times almost hitting the sidewalk with my face at least twice! In institute we learned about listening to the promptings of the spirit. Obviously I was not listening when He told me to put some freaking real shoes on or you will freeze your butt off! Well I learned my lesson! From now on, I will just change my clothes after class before I go to St. George!

FOOTLOOSE!

Alexis and Tino rocked it out! I love watching people I know perform it makes me feel so cool! Alexis's outfits were truely amazing and so legit..I'm pretty sure she got them right out of Anna Marie's closet!

Thayne! So yes he is mini...but I am a little bit shorter than him! He was amazing, I was so not expecting him to be such a good singer! The main girl was awesome and very spunky and skankalicious! I loved it!

Ah the fam! I believe it was around this time that I scared the hot man from the bank so bad that I ruined any hopes of our future together. What can I say. My family is weird alright!

Me and Em being absolutely awesome!

Posing like maniacs! Yeah...that is some serious sparkle and shine! Jazz Hands!

Footloose at Tuachon with my family was so much fun! Not only was the show amazing, and slightly Saturday's Warrior when the parents were singing, but it was just so much fun to have a night on the town! I saw the beautiful man from my bank standing in front of us in the line for treats. I had plans of semi-stalking him and going and asking a question about my account but then we were all just crazy and he was looking at me all funny, so thats the end of that! We got the yummy frozen lemonades and saw beautiful fireworks and relived the eighties! Well I guess I didn't get to relive them because I wasn't alive, but I've seen so many pictures and movies from then, I feel like I was there! The cast was so talented and my family is so funny it was probably the best night of my life. Loved it!

Woa we're halfway there.. WOAH living on a prayer!

Thank you Bon Jovi for those incredibly inspiring lyrics. But seriously. I'm halfway done! Yes, I have made it through half of a semester of college away from home. Yes, I come home a minimum of twice a week. No, my classes aren't that hard. But seriously this has been some of the hardest eight weeks of my life. I am so bad at not being home in the place that I've known my entire life, and I miss it like crazy. But I've made it halfway! And with the amazing wonderful help of the Lord and all of my answered prayers, I think I can make it the rest of the way. Seriously, I have never had so many answered prayers and so many feelings of peace when I am freaking out. It is a good thing I have that help, because there is no way I could do this alone. My family thinks and knows that I am crazy and they are fine with me coming home. Even though I know they all wish that I could do this on my own. But hey, I'm not doing anything alone. I am wasting an awful lot of gas money and some seriously expensive rent to come home all the time!
This weekend is the thing that is bumming me out. My whole family gets to go up and have a Halloween party and watch Mike's football game, and I can't go because I have work on Saturday. And all of my roommates are either going home or to Vegas on vacation, and I can't go because I have work on Saturday. And I am so so so bummed. Thats the only word that can describe my feelings right now...bummed. Like I feel like a butt probably feels all the time. They just get sat on! And everybody hates theirs because it's too big or too flat! And it never looks the way you want it in jeans! That is me..just getting sat on and hated and not looking good in jeans. My family better have a lot of freaking fun to make up for the fun I am missing!

Sunday School Moment

ZOMBIELAND

You know those stories they read you in sunday school, "On sunday Jane's friend invites her to go to a movie. She knows that she should keep the sabath day holy but she really wants to go to the movie and doesn't think it's that big of a deal. What should Jane do." I had that moment today. I found out that the movie my friends were going to see was rated R. I told them I didn't want to watch a rated R movie, she says well I'll just find someone to go with that doesn't care. I'm so not that person that judges people for watching rated R movies or eating out on Sunday, I really don't think it's that big of a deal. But I don't want to waste my "its not a big deal" excuse on a stupid movie like ZombieLand. Then the sunday school teacher tells you what happens. "Jane decided not to go to the movie and did something amazingly spiritual and felt so good and warm inside and now for the rest of her life she will be blessed." That is not how I feel. I'm not doing anything spiritual and I won't be getting any blessings for not going to a stupid movie. I just have nothing to do on a Saturday night. No awesome fun plans to tell the stupid kid that dumped me but still texts me all the time to complain about his busy crazy fun life...great! Stupid sunday school stories! LIES!

ha not really...but right now totally how I feel

I got dumped. I got pink eye. I got a bloody nose. It was twenty six degrees.

Awesome right?...I'm sure you are all jealous.

But honestly, I'm fine. I mean yes, getting dumped by the first boy that you have actually liked, not just cause they're hot and popular, but because they make you laugh, that hurts. Its embarrassing and humiliating and it makes me cry, but that is nothing new! Yes, I will probably miss him and it will take me some time to adjust. Yes, I think it's weird that he still texts me every day. Yes, it kind of breaks my heart. But just a little bit.

A couple hours after the dumpage, mild tears, a couple prayers, and finally sleep, I wake up at four in the morning to a searing pain in my eye. Take out the contacts figuring they just irritated my eye with the crying and the tear wiping. Wake up in the morning, pink eye. Now that is going to make me feel awesome. I got dumped and now I have an oozing infection that means I can't wear make up or contacts. I ditched my last two classes and came home. My real home, not this hotel in the freezing cold in cedar, that is not home.

My family makes me feel better. They let me eat ice cream and tell me that it will be fine. I get an appointment with the eye doctor who gives me drops and says I will be good as new in a couple days. I trust him. Partly because he went to like ninety years of school. Party because he looks and acts exactly like Pilot Jake from the Bachelorette. Party because I really hope he is right. Three days later, I'm still wearing glasses but my eye no longer burns with searing pain. Three days later I made a playlist of I'm over it songs for my i-pod...and I jammed on my way back to Cedar. I might not be good as new, but I am definitely good. Maybe I'm a new kind of good that doesn't need a high school boy. Maybe someone will think I am the hottest glasses wearing girl in the world. Probably not, but reguardless, I'm good! So mom, no need to worry! Emily, please don't buy me anything, food substance or otherwise, I can't be the fat, glasses wearing, eye oozing, dumped girl that would just be sad. Kristi, thank you for the conference post, i agree with all your thoughts and now don't feel like I need to blog my own! Kassie, I expect a really funny and uplifting comment to this blog update, maybe even two! That covers all of my blog lookers so anyone else that finds this on the internet, don't show it to Eric Carter, that is just embarassing.