Winteresque Adventures

So this last week I have done some pretty darn fun things, I have enjoyed it.  On Saturday,  I had an intramural soccer game, we won, of course. :D  Then, I received a random text from Froot Loop (aka:  Froot).  She had a hankerin' for "Dick's" a small little hamburger joint in Kamas, Ut.  She and bubbles drove down, picked me up, we picked up Dazzle and then we took off.  We went to Kamas and got food from Dick's.  They gave me a grilled cheese instead of a cheeseburger and fries so I wound up getting it all, mmm...an abundance of greasy, fatty foods.  I could feel my arteries clogging just by smelling it.  Then, later that night, they got two more of our orders wrong when we went back to order shakes.  Also, we were the only ones in the restaurant until two cars of snowboarder guys showed up.  This is a good thing for a group of Oakcrest girls, until they drop their boarding pants and shorts and give ya a full moon.  Yup, for the first time in my life, I was fully mooned, gross.  Anyways, then we went to camp, it was so fun to visit and see it in the snow!!  We had a blast!

Frizz, (Me) Dazzle, Froot and Bubs in front of Treehut

Froot, Dazzle and Me in front of camp.

Me with all my food at Dick's.

Next adventure.  Snowboarding.  Chris and I went up to Park City Mountain Resort the other day.  I swore to Mckay for year's that I would never go there, just to mess with him.  Well...I caved.  I went because it was somewhere new and it included nightboarding.  We boarded for 9 straight hours.  That is an exhausting amount of time to board, and I loved every minute of it.  We are both starting to get pretty good if I may say so myself.  We did mostly blues but we did our share of black diamonds and...I went on a double black diamond for my first time ever!!  I didn't do outstanding on it but I did pretty decent, I was excited.  It was a really fun resort, the runs were great and it brought back a lot of memories of McKay.  (For those who don't know McKay, he is one of my best friends from high school serving a mission in St. Louis, MO.  He has 9 months left.)  It was fun to go on lifts and do runs that I always heard him talk about.  I also got to go back to the spot where we had our last date before he left.  Man I miss that kid.  Anyways, it was an awesome day, Chris and I still can't get over it.

This is where Mckay and I had a pinic, only it was summer time, still beautiful though.

Chris coming out of the double black diamond.

Me, carving down a long, open hill.

Chris and Me, taking a photo op break halfway through the day.

Busily Doing Nothing?

First of all...I will have you all know this is the first time I've blogged that hasn't been at a ridiculously late/early hour.  Yay me.

So lately, people have been asking me why I'm so busy because I "don't do anything".  Ah contraire my friends.  I have managed to commute to and from Salt Lake from Provo about 6 or 7 times, it is a little ridiculous.  My sister-in-law had her baby last Tuesday, that was one of my trips.  His name is Michael Byron, 9 lbs 4 oz and 22 in.  I pray that I never have to give birth to a child that size.  Props to Danielle.  That same day, I recieved a new calling, which I am super stoked about.  I am the Relief Society 1st counselor, I love it already.  I obviously don't have homework these days so I just sit and read up more on my calling and what I can do while I get ready in the mornings.  Our President is Bailey and I love her to death, she's gonna do great.  Heidi is the 2nd counselor and Angela is secretary.  We are going to have an absolute blast doing this, as long as we spend lots of time on our knees.  On Wednesday I got to go and see the baby, he is super cute.  He has an old man face, just like Timmy did, it's kind of funny.  After being at the hospital, I rode the bus back to provo.  Yes, me, I rode the bus...for 2 whole hours!!  This is a huge feat, I have always hated the public transportation sysytem, but it wasn't that bad because it wasn't just the regular city bus with a bunch of bums, it was mostly college kids so it wasn't bad at all.  Friday, Lindsay, Ale, (roommates), Chris and I ventured to Park City to catch some of the film festival.  We really only got to eat dinner though.  I love the pizza and noodle co on main st though, so I was ok with it.  The rest of the night was a bit of a flop, who knew there were so many details involved just to see a moive, weird!! Oh well, now we know what to do different next time.  Saturday morning we had a DG reunion breakfast, right after cleaning checks.  (Which I honestly love, it means my whole apartment gets clean without me having to do all of it. :D)  The breakfast was waffles...yum.  I love DG.  Oh, that's dinner group, case you haven't read the post on that.  Then it was up to salt lake again.  Checko had her farewell party on saturday night.  It was fun, there were just a few oakcresties but we had a good time.  She spoke on Sunday morning and gave a great talk.  I'm so proud of her.  She is checking into the MTC (Missionary Training Center) right now, as I type, frowny face.  She'll do great though.  She called me at about 8:30 this morning to say goodbye so I was happy to get to say goodbye at least.  I won't hear her voice for 18 months probably.  Super Weird.  The funny thing is I've only known her for about 9 months. :D  Sunday I got set apart and started with relief society meetings and since then, I've just been working, hanging out with friends, doing relief society, finishing up videos I'm making and other odds and ends.  

That my friends, is how I stay busy doing nothing.  There is always something, and I love it!

Me and Frootloop.  Rockband meets Oakcrest.  What more can I say?

Gonzo, Kabunga, Frootloop, Checko, Frizzles (Me), Oodalolly

Me and Baby Michael!!  (I was still waking up a little.)

Livin' It Up

So I have spent an awful lot of time at my house in Murray lately, it is kind of wierd, just because I haven't spent much time there in the last year and a half.  It has been a lot of fun to hang out with the family though.  Vicki and Logan came up this last weekend so I got to see them which was fun because I haven't seen them since Thanksgiving.  My family pretty much rocks.  I had my first soccer for intramurals last Thursday which was a blast!!  I miss soccer soooooooo much!!  It is wierd to not be playing very often after playing for 15 years, I love it.  The following day I went boarding with Chris again.  We hit up brighton and Ahamay (another counselor from camp) works there so we met up with her.  I am finally getting really comfortable on my board, the better I get the more I just absolutely love it.  The sad thing is Chris is almost as good as me and he has only gone three times, and I was his teacher, oh well, it's kinda funny. 

We switched offices last Monday.  Our new office is huge.  I got stuck at the receptionist desk which I am kind of bummed about.  There is going to be a glass wall separating me from the everybody else in the office and I can't have anything on my desk other than my computer, mouse, keyboard and phone.   Oh well, as long as I keep getting paid, I gues it is worth it.  Finally, I am getting a new nephew tomorrow!! (well, techinically today).  My sister-in-law Danielle is having her fourth baby in the morning, I am so excited!  Don't worry, pictures will follow shortly. :D

P.S.  I want to mix my blog up a wee bit.  I am using it mostly as a form of journaling but if anybody has some fun ideas, let me know!  Thanks!

A Fabulous Holiday

Well, I opted not to blog over the holiday break, mainly because I was at home with poor wireless internet so it was going to be more effort than laying in my bed with my computer on my lap at 1:30 in the morning.  It was a great break though.   I got to spend a lot of time with my family and see my nieces and nephews lots, they are so stinkin' cute.  I am definitely one of those aunts that will just rave about them for hours if you even slightly crack open that can of worms.  I just love them inside and out, they are easily some of my favorite people  in this world, and there are A LOT of people out there.  Christmas itself was good, pretty mellow to be honest.  It was the in-laws year so it was just me and travis there opening gifts with mom and dad.  I thought a big vacation with just the four of us was wierd, that was nothing compared to this.  It's ok though, the fam came over in shifts througout the morning so we still go to see them.  There was a lot of snow on the ground making it a very white christmas, but Christmas day it pretty much just rained all morning and afternoon in the valley but it was snowing like crazy in Heber so we didn't get to drive up to grandma and grandpa Olpin's.  However, we did go to grandma Neiswender's for a few hours which was nice because we don't do that very often anymore.  

I went snowboarding with Chris the next day which was alright, I'm not a huge fan of nightboarding because it is small and cold.  However, the following Tuesday we went to the canyons and it was one of the most blissful days of my life, I love being up.  I've always loved the mountains but after having lived and served in them for 3 months this last summer, it is like going home when I get to go be in them again.  For the rest of the break, I pretty much just kicked it.  Part of the fam went to st. george to visit Vicki and Logan but I had already committed to some stuff and didn't want to travel so I just stayed home, it was kind of nice and very productive, I basically finished one of my camp videos, I am still excited about that.

Now I am back in Provo, I've been back for almost a week.  I decided to only go to school part time because the thought of graduating with a 4 year degree 2 months after I turn 21 just doesn't sound that great to me anymore.  So I am just working and looking for a second job to fill in my free time and my pathetic bank account, oh the joys of college life.  Checko came down on Tuesday, one of her last visits before she is off for 18 months, which is still a little surreal to us all.  Gonzo and I are officially on a soccer team together, and I am officially stoked.  Our first game is next week, hazzah!!  I fixed up some loose ends at work that have created a bit of a mess but it should all  be good now.  I get over stuff like that pretty quick thank goodness, I don't know how people live with it.  Yesterday I spent the day with Daniel and Chris just running errands and kickin' it.  It is wierd to hang out with both of them and not have Lindsie there.  (Hint hint to the fact that you NEED to move down here.)  Other than that, I've just been taking it easy!!  Life has been a little stressful just making choices on school and work and such, but it is all working out and I know it will be great!

(I kind of feel like I just wrote part of a missionary letter, wierd)

Finals Week

Finals week.  Some dread it, I love it.  I would take finals any day over midterms.  With midterms you still have to go to class, do homework, do all the readings, and still find time to study extra AND test.  With finals week, all you do is study... test ... repeat.  My finals went pretty well, my best was this afternoon, and I freaked out.  I finished my test, turned it in to the workers, and waited to see my score on the screen.  My number popped up, and words popped up...it took a minute to connect the dots.  That means that I did really well!!  They computer posted a "Way to Go!" next to my score, it was one of my most exciting BYU moments.   Ask Katie, I wigged when I got home.

Anyways, some fun stuff happened this week, I went to a small party on tuesday night.  It was kind of nice to just take a night off and kick it and see some friends I hadn't seen in a while.  Then last night, I took a last minute trip to Salt Lake.  One of my best friends from camp this summer got her mission call.  Molly "Check" DiFrancesco is going to the California San Bernadino Mission, enlish speaking.  She leaves on the 28th of January, crazy quick, but I'm super excited for her because she has been waiting so long!

Anyways, that's all.  I'm done with finals and ready to go home in the morning!  I will be there for 2 full weeks, that hasn't happened since I moved to college a year and a half ago, it'll be great.   

Take Two

So I originally started this blog 7 months ago for the sake of jotting down my weekly experiences at camp when I was home on the weekends, knowing that I wouldn't have much journaling time up there.  Well, it turns out that didn't work out very well.  I was so worn out by the end of each week of camp that my weekends typically consisted of falling asleep early on Friday nights, sleeping in until one on saturdays, upload the weeks pictures onto my computer and then doing laundry and possibly hanging out with Shawn or Marissa if they were in town.  And then more sleeping, church and back up to camp Sunday afternoon.  Thus, no blog posts about camp.

I am trying again though, because I am still terrible at writing in my journal, and I don't even have a legit excuse, so I am going to try this blog business again and see if I have any more luck.  I'm not sure what all I will post about.  It will more than likely be slightly scatter-brained, as most things I do are.  However, I will include current events in life for sure, that is part of the title of this blog.  I think I will throw in some random stories from camp as they pop into my mind, just because there are some great ones.  Like Checko, and ants in her pants.  Yup, that one will be up here shortly for sure.

So there is a re-introduction.  Wish me luck, because I'm giving this a wo!!  I even made my page cute so hopefully I can keep it up!! 

ER Visit Outburst!!

So I come from a pretty healthy family, my mom is a nurse at Primary Children's Hospital, my sister is a physical therapist assistant but know's EVERTHING about the subject. I am majoring in Fitness and Wellness at BYU so I have studied some health related topics myself. I've been to the hospital a grand total of once my entire life, I got an x-ray on my foot, nothing dramatic. However, there has been what seems like a mass amount of emergency room visits recently. I went in last Monday on May 5th for what we thought was appenidicitis. 2 catscans, 1 IV, 5 hours and a terrible contrast later, they decided it was a ruptured ovarian cyst. Blah. Luckily, it means no surgery, at least for right now. I have to go to a gynecologist next week to see if there is anything else wrong. Then, three days later, my friend Nate sends me a text and says he blew out his knee. Round 2 at the emergency room. His trip was much more comfortable and a lot shorter. They said he probably just has a partial tear of a ligament and sent him home after a little more than an hour. He saw a specialist a few days later, it turns out his whole ACL is gone. He has to have surgery next week and will take a long time to recover. Finally, (at least for now, it is starting to become a scary pattern) my mom called me last night and said that my darling 2 year old nephew went into the emergency room on Wednesday night. They naturally, didnt know what was wrong with him, other than that he was having struggles breathing. They admitted him and he spent two days at Primary Childrens. He is currently doing better, but I still don't know for sure what was wrong. The moral of the story is, Emergency rooms are pretty much lame unless you have a gyser of blood being emitted from facial oracles or limbs dangling off the body, only being held on by a few veins or arteries, also beginning to spout blood. All these years, I thought my mom was crazy for never taking us to the hospital for our little injuries, but I now know, they are pretty worthless unless you are in a deathly state, just take an ibprofen, take a nap, and get over it.