Thanksgiving!

For Thanksgiving we went to California and spent time with the Smith side of the family.  It was so much fun and so nice to be in warm weather again!  It had just started getting really cold and snowing when I left.
While we were there we did a lot of fun activities.  We played miniature golf, went shooting, played paintball, saw a couple movies, and rode bikes.  It was such a fun week!  It is always nice to spend time with my family, we all know how to have fun!

 We also had the chance to go to the temple Tuesday morning and do baptisms.  It is always a neat experience to be able to go to temples while on vacation, especially with family!  

 We tried so many times to get a cute cousin picture on Thanksgiving, sadly this is the best one we got. Good enough right?

I have been blessed with such an amazing family and I love it every time I get to visit them!  

We know how to have fun!

This week was so much fun!  It was the last week before Thanksgiving break, and I was so excited for it to be over!
Monday night for FHE we played the flour game.  For those of you who don't know what this game is, you pack flour in a cup, place a penny on top, then go around and take turn cutting chunks of the flour off.  Whoever makes the penny fall has to dig in the flour with their face for it.  It was so much fun, it kind of made a mess though.  It was a good memory though!

On Tuesday my dad was driving home from the cabin so he stopped and took me to lunch.  It is always so nice to see family, even if it is only for an hour.

Then on Thursday my roommates and I went to the premiere of Catching Fire.  We went to the double showing so we watched Hunger Games first and then Catching Fire.  It was so good!  It far exceeded my expectations, and I would go see it again in a heartbeat!  For the movie we all made shirts, you can tell who the artistic ones of the apartment are (not me...)

Friday I was done with school for a week, then I went home Saturday morning.

Picture time!

I seriously love these girls so much!  It will be so sad with the semester is over and Amanda isn't with us anymore!  I have become such good friends with all of my roommates and I am going to miss them all so much when they leave next semester!  

The Flour Game after math 

Our FHE family 

Catching Fire Premier! 

Peetas so Hot 

I'm Catching Fire (we came up with this saying, we were pretty proud of it!)

Another Sunday, Another Week

Sunday means the beginning of a new week!  It is so crazy that this semester is almost over and Thanksgiving is next week!  I am so excited for the next few weeks, there is a lot in store!

Since I have been up here I have been listening to a lot of Jenny Phillips music.  If you have never listened to her you really should.  Most of my girls camp theme songs were from her and I just love all of her songs because they are so uplifting!  So here is my current favorite one from her!  I always get chills when I listen to her songs.  They bring back so many memories from Girls Camp and they give me a peaceful feeling.

This is Where you Stand by Jenny Phillips

Have a Fantastic Sunday :)

Update!

Well it has been a pretty boring few weeks.  I haven't really done too much.  I went home for 24 hours last weekend and that was really nice!  One of my friends found a ride for the night down to Logan so we drove down Friday afternoon and left Saturday night.  It is always nice to go back home and see all of my friends and family.  I went and hung out with my friends at USU, and boy was it a different college experience.  I guess I have adapted to the bubble that I live in up here because it was fun, but I was exhausted and couldn't do it every night.  I was out until 3 AM with them and we did just random stuff.  I was talking to my friend and she said that they do that basically every night.  Although when I was home it made me jealous and made me want to transfer, I am really glad we have curfew here!  Even though some nights I hate it, it is nice because I get to get an adequate amount of sleep.

This week I have been studying and doing homework all the time.  I have also started to make more friends (its about time, I've only been here for 3 months now!).  I am getting used to my classes and what I have to do every night.  It is crazy to think I only have 4 weeks left of this semester!  It has flown by!  I have loved it and will be sad to see it leave because that means a lot of my friends will be leaving because of the Track system up here.

This week has also been super stressful.  On Monday night one of my next door neighbors came over and said she got an email about roommate requests for next semester, so I checked my email and I didn't have anything.  I didn't think much about it, just figured I would get it a little later.  Then Bree said she had been getting emails about her winter housing being secure here, and I hadn't gotten anything about it.  I thought that I had signed a contract for my apartment for Fall and Winter semester, but I went down and talked to my manager just in case.  Turns out I didn't sign for winter, and all of the contracts were sold.  I was put on a wait list and was number 4.  I came home and was so stressed!  I didn't have a place to live next semester and most of the apartment complexes had sold all of their contracts already.  While talking to my manager she told me to check the BYU-I bulletin board to see if anyone was selling, and it just so happened that a girl was selling her contract for the apartment where I am living.    I quickly emailed her and everything worked out!  I seriously think it was a miracle!  I didn't need that added stress in my life this week, and she got back to me within a day so I could stop worrying about it.  And another perk is that she signed one with a parking permit (another thing I was worried about) so I can even park here!  I am so grateful that she was selling her contract when she was!

To add to that I had to register this week.  I had everything figured out and got up to register right at 6 AM.  Some things didn't work out how I wanted them to, but I think it will be okay.  It is going to be a really hard semester!  I am taking Human Anatomy/Physiology with a lab, Chemistry with a lab, Public Speaking, Sociology, and Book of Mormon.  It is going to be a very long and hard semester.

Last night Abby and I drove down to Idaho Falls for the night just for fun.  We went to dinner and then walked around the mall looking at all of the Christmas decorations.  Neither of us bought anything, but it was nice to get out of Rexburg.

This morning I woke up at 5:30 and went to the temple with my roommates.  It was really early, but it was so worth it!  We had to wait 2 hours to be baptized because there was another ward there, but it was nice.  I liked it because we got home and I did homework, studied, and took a test all by 12!  I felt so productive today!

Sorry that was a long, boring post, but my family is complaining because I haven't updated my blog for a long tim.  I can't wait for this week to be over because that means Thanksgiving break!!!  I have been looking forward to this for such a long time!

Heres a few pictures from the past weeks!

 These are a few of the pictures from Halloween.  We didn't do anything too exciting.  We had some girls over and we watched a movie.  

 Can you tell that we really like Halloween?

 If anyone knows me, then you know my love for Target.  One of our Idaho Falls trips we went and I was in Heaven!  

 My family was nice enough to send me sugar cookies, but it was really sad when they were all gone.  

 What I live off of (not really, just on really busy nights)

Happy Sunday!

I was sitting in my room doing my Book of Mormon homework and I heard this song, so I decided to youtube it.  I found the Mormon Tabernacle singing it and it is one of the most powerful versions of this song that I have ever listened to!  I am now listening to it on replay and I felt like I should share it.  I hope someone else can feel the amount of peace and comfort that I do from this song.