Spring is here and it's WONDERFUL!

I should be working on my take home physics test, but I have so much to share... it's been a while since I've updated you all on my life! First of all, I had a great birthday! Thank you to all of you who called and sent cards & presents. It honestly made me SO HAPPY to hear from you all! Seriously! I feel so blessed to have such wonderful people in my life. And thank you to my wonderful roomies who did so much for me on my bday! We had fun! As always, there are lots of pictures in this post... that's just how I roll. We'll start with my 22nd birthday. 22? Holy crap. The things on our foreheads say Happy Birthday :)

My great, great friends Jim, Kevin, and Mark were in town from Utah. It was GREAT timing!

Thanks, Dad! It was delicious and we had a great time!

As some of you know, I LOVE DODGEBALL!!! I've played on many teams during my time here at BYUI and this semester I participated in my last one. SAD! But, we had a great time! We were eliminated from the tournament last night, here are the super tough, really awesome girls of the team.

St. Patricks day was this last week, and really- we'll take any excuse for a celebration! My roomie, Anessa is super into it. So, she made is the traditional St. Pattys day meal. I was a little leary, but turns out it was great! She was so festive and I just LOVED IT!

And I just have a couple of randoms. The first one is my last night with stephy... we partied down at Craigos before the tearful goodbye. Don't worry, I'll be home soon, mall! And then the last one is of my whole apartment!Lindsey, Brittany, Anessa, Me, and Brooke. Yay for Camden #4!

Thanks for sticking with me through all the pictures. But ya know, mom's and sisters and bffs like to see them!2 days until David Archuleta, 20 days until my family comes, 22 days until graduation, and 25... yes 25 days until I see Michael Woodmansee.

Musical Genius

If you haven't fallen in love with this guy yet... it's time to convert. His music has the amazing ability to put anybody in a fantastic, motivating, change the world mood! Bryce Avery of the Rocket Summer is a beautiful man who makes beautiful music!

Please... do yourself a favor... go to the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaAWuWH46E8

I just had to share the love, one more time because he is truly unbelievably talented. He records every instrument himself on his albums and his lyrics give me chills every time. Love him. Yes, that was a command!
I'll post pictures soon! From my birthday and such, I just wanted to share this :)

Bridal Shower for our Favorite Bride

Lots of pitures!

The invites!

This is my family this semester... we will miss Stephanie SO BADLY! We're jealous of her blingy bling bling!

Getting together with Danielle seriously always just makes my semester!

My Best friend in cake form and real life form :)

The whole gang, with panties on us and all

I promise she knows Jarom, but here were a lot of questions! Hot, huh?!

Kristin couldn't do a funny face, she's just pretty all the time

The most helpful, selfless roommates ever!

I made a Stephanie Bride cake :)

The bridal shower was a huge success. We had a great time! I was so thankful that Court and Kristin could come and did so much to help and make it all happen! And all of Steph's beauty school friends came, and my roommates, and Danielle, it was just fabulous! I love seeing Steph so happy. I've always been kind of protective of Stephanie, so seeing her so happy is more than desirable! We had it in a really nice, pretty room, and we had pretty decorations with pink tulle, candels, lights, and pictures. Also, we made polka dot cupcakes and wrapped them in tulle for everyone to take home. Lindsey and Anessa and I made them and I absolutely COULD NOT have done it without them. Seriously- talk about good friends coming together to help a sister out. They were so helpful and we had tons of fun doing it, too! Steph got SWEET presents! Her girls were good to her that's for sure, and she looks good in them too ;). It was just a lot of fun! I was so happy that we had a bridal shower here in Rexburg.

I am so thankful that I have had Steph here with me for the past year and a half. In 2 days, she leaves me. The next time I see her will be her wedding. That makes me choke up a little, so we'll stop talking about it and I'll just tell you that the bridal shower was great, and Steph is a fantastic bride!

President's Day was the greatest day

Well, it's possible that the last couple of weeks has been some of the worst ever. One thing after another. I could blog for pages about everything that has gone wrong. But, let's focus on the positive, shall we? I had a WONDERFUL weekend last weekend! We had a 3 day weekend, so my roommates and I went to Island Park and stayed in a cabin with Lindsey's family. We had a blast!! We went sledding and snowmobiling! I have never done that before and I LOVED IT! I've got to try so many new things this semester. It's fantastic. Linds's family was so good to us! We played, and ate, and napped, and watched movies, and laughed, and just had a blast! It was so fun to be with a family for a while. I love love love and adore these girls so much and was so incredibly grateful for that weekend to relax and not worry about a single thing but having fun :).

Brooke and I flying down the hill! At one point, all 4 of us went down on that tube! It ROCKED! We made it down once successfully, and were dumb to try it again, because the 2nd time we fell and I ended up on the bottom. Talk about head ache and sore neck!Brooke and I had the most rockin' snow boots!!

These girls are my sanity amidst allllllllll the stress. Just don't ever assume you're healthy, or assume you're going to graduate, or assume your computer is invicible. And if something goes wrong, call one of these girls up because they always do the trick for me :)

Student Living, Sledding, and Stomach Aches

Student Living is a new program here at school. It is replacing the RA system that we used to have in housing. And I am so blessed to be a student director in this organization. I LOVE IT! It is all about establishing an environment of righteous living within the apartments. I'm so thankful to be a part of it. Brother Dougherty and Sister Jacobson, our advisors, are so wonderful. And the other directors are fantastic! I really enjoy it and we have a lot of fun. We competed in the Spirit Cup Challenge! It's a relay between student-led organizations. Outdoor activities won.... they were totally in their element, dang it! We like to say that if there was a competition on how to have a happy apartment, we would have dominated! Anyway, it was a blast. And we went sledding afterwards and ice skating. I hadn't ice skated in YEARS! It was so fun! And sledding is my new favorite thing!!!! I've gone a couple of times this semester and it's SO SO FUN! I want to go every weekend!

This is some of us directors... but not quite all of us.

My amazingly faithful roomies who came to watch!

This semester is proving to be wonderful! I'm having so much fun. Granted, my schoolwork is suffering... but I figure it's worth it! There have been some minor complications... but it's all good :) I've been having deattthhhhh stomach aches lately, but I feel like they're slowly going away... so let's all keep our fingers crossed!! The Doctor is helping me get this all figured out!

And I just love this one of Steph and I at Big Judds :)

Sunday Hair Day

This is my new roomie Anessa. She's totally rockin. And we were feeling pretty nasty after a sunday of eating lots of treats, so we decided to curl our hair and make ourselves cute. So, we had a pretty hot photo shoot... I didn't put all of our model pictures up because I don't want to make anyone jealous. JUST KIDDING! This is just my favorite one. We're pretty much really entertaining.

New hair!! Honest opinnions everyone! It's closer to my natural color, right? Steph does SUCH A GOOD JOB! She is going to be a rich hair stylist someday. Thanks mall, you always impress me with your mad skill!
And I just had to throw this one of my Brookie Bear in there. Love her :) More pictures to come!

My Daymaker

Stephanie has strep throat, but had to go to school today to get hours. So, I figured today would be a great day for me to get my hair done, so that we could spend the day together if she had to be at school when she was sick. The poor thing... she's really sick and I feel so bad for her! She did a fantastic job on my hair! Bye Bye platinum blonde and grow out! It's way close to my natural color, and I'm so happy to be back. Nope, I haven't taken a picture of it yet, but I'll get on that tomorrow and then post it asap. This post isn't about my hair though... it's about my best friend in the whole world.

Stephanie Mitchell is so wonderful. She is my best friend and my sanity. She is a Paul Mitchell daymaker, and definately makes my day,everyday. She is getting married and I am so 100% totally and completely happy for her. Yes, I'm very scared to live without her. She helps me with everything, from making me feel better about myself, to what I should where to school the next day, to painting my toes, to experiencing anything and everything eventful with me in my life. But, we're living it up while we can :). While she was doing my hair today, I was just thinking about how lucky we are to have had each other for the past 21 years. So here's some pictures of my daymaker and I over the past couple of years.

I love you, Steph :)