..............................XOXO..............................: It's been a Great Semester at BYU-Idaho

My time here at BYU- Idaho has been SO absolutely wonderful and i've made so many great friends. Although today has been full of tears, I know the future is bright.
There have been so many things go on over the last month that I don't even know where to begin.....
I've done so many photoshoots with some GORGEOUS people and I've had the opportunity to learn SO MUCH! My finals just about made me want to go dig a hole in the snow and die......which now that I think about it would've been totally possible since REXBURG ALWAYS HAS SNOW!!! ....Pretty much every week I had a list of things to do that seemed almost impossible to complete and yet I managed to get it done..shocking. Basically at this point in my life i'm pretty sure there is never a dull moment and if i'm bored I shouldn't tell anybody because then I'll end up making plans when I really had plenty of actual Productive things I should've been doing....but I love my Life and I can't wait to see what the future has in store for me.. : ) Here is a list of events maybe in order but then again maybe not of the last month of my crazy, hectic life here in Rexburgia and other parts of Idaho. : ) xoxo

Today was a beautiful day...The BYU-Idaho Center and Manwaring Student Center were dedicated by Henry B. Eyring of the First Presidency. The Center is HUGE! When you walk in there are 10 full size basketball courts and an indoor track...you keep walking and you run right into the Auditorium that looks JUST LIKE THE CONFERENCE CENTER in Utah and It holds 15,000 people. The Choir sang Come thou Fount and it was one of the most beautiful arrangements i've ever heard in my life. The spirit was definitely there with us today.

That was today the 17th of December.....but since I haven't blogged in forever I need to take you all the way back to the weekend before Thanksgiving! : ) I know... it's like time traveling without even having to go anywhere!

The week leading up to it was crazy because everyone was leaving early and getting things together but Kim and I were the only ones left on Friday after Dawn left so we went to lunch with our FHE brothers. : ) We got back and Kim thought this would be a great opportunity to clean out the fridge since we were going to be gone for a week and she was right but there are some things you should just throw away and not even think about opening!! She opened a container of black beans from like 3 weeks earlier, maybe even a month, and it smelled like the worst explosion of Poo EVER!!!!! I was taking a nap and it literally woke me up and I thought I was going to die!! lol I love her but I couldn't stand that! I went over to the guys and slept on their couch while Jeremy watched "The River Runs Through It". I went back to our apartment and it STILL smelled HORRIBLE so Chelsey, Rick, Jeremy, David and I hung out for the rest of the night. We went to Fat Cats to Bowl and Play mini golf before heading home to make Ricks homeade enchilada's and watch Ace Ventura When Nature Calls! They were super yummy and (note to self:) that movie is so much funnier when your slap happy! : ) Thanks RICK!

This would be Rick and Jeremy playing with my camera while I was gone : )

Chelsey spent the night with me in my apartment since we were the only ones left. We left the next morning stopping by Pioneer Rock before heading into Twin Falls where our week consisted of Feeding cows, taking LOTS of Pictures, pulling cars out of the snow, learning how to snowboard, starting baby afghans, swimming so I could finish my Triathlon and good company! Shel lives on the "Cloud Nine Ranch" and it was such a wonderful experience for me! Really there's just too much to fill you in on. The Browns are such amazing people though and I will cherish those memories forever! Coming home was another experience though. The snow was drifting on the roads and there were probably 40 cars that had slid off the road! No kidding! Scariest thing though!....There was a truck in front of us for awhile and we lost sight of him but then we watched him flip and roll through the median....you could see the stuff in the back of his truck falling out and I knew I had to help him so I threw on my boots and jumped out of the car (we were only going maybe 25 so Chelsey stopped). It landed on the drivers side and when I got down to him there were a couple of other guys coming down too. In the roll it had shattered the passenger window and completely busted up the windshield.. I grabbed onto the top of the truck where the passenger window used to be and looked in on the driver who seemed to be fine. We had to bust in the windshield because it wouldn't come off but he was wearing his seatbelt and didn't have a scratch on him. That was a blessing from Heavenly Father!

Chelsey at Register Rock

Plasma was another......fun (cough) part of my life as a poor college student! Yay! I went twice a week unless I was super bruised from the time before and they give you 20 the first time and 30 the next. $50 a week is pretty good for working 2 hours : ) I'm pretty sure i'm not going to do it when I go back though! What a nightmare! I thought it was funny that I would go with Dawn and she was the one who told us not to do it! She would always be like "Don't sell your body".....then apparently she justified it for herself! haha Jeremy used to look at us like we were the worst people on the planet for donating so we'd always hide our bandages when we went over and avoid the subject completely : )

I got to take some fun pictures with Kim and our neighbors Tyler and Joy. : ) It was cold Sunday activity but I loved every minute of watching their wonderful personalities come out for the camera! : )

*more pictures from this shoot are on my photo BLOG : )

The rest of the my time there consisted of Watching ELF!!!! : ) "SANTA!!!!! I KNOW HIM!!!!", Getting to drive Blue Steel home from church!!! Thanks again Rick! You're awesome! , making Christmas cookies with Joy, Kimberly, and Lexi, Playing the cereal box game....(too much fun to even begin to tell you about...you just have to experience it!), My grant money came through!!!! : ) , I went on a date to Wingers, Got to drive a snowmobile!, Sang Pachelbel's Canon in Church with some awesome people, Jeremy burnt my grilled cheese with his mad "cooking skills"... lol , and we packed up and cleaned our entire apartment spotless!!!!

This is Jeremy trying to tell me why his method of cooking a grilled cheese is so much better than mine.....meanwhile my grilled cheese is burning to a crisp.. : )