BYUi sports?

BYU is famous for all their sports teams. They have amazing volleyball, football, and swim teams. People come from all over just to see a BYU football game [in fact i'm going to one next weekend!] BUT i am here at BYU Idaho where we have NO sports teams. CORRECTION, we have inter mural sports teams. Basically about 10 people get together and form some type of team. Then other groups get together and do the same thing and they all have their little games. So it isn't anything important but guys are ALWAYS competitive. So yesterday some of my roommates and i were SO bored we thought we would go watch some of our friends play inter mural flag football. We went to maverick, got some hot chocolate, bundled up and went. It was actually a ton of fun to watch and i am glad that there are still some types of sports to get involved in when i am up here. Afterwards we all went to Ramirez [the only mexican food place in town] and all just ate a laughed till curfew. Even though this town is small and dumpy and i am glad i am up here making the best of it.
And i have to send a shout out to my mom for the quilt i am snuggled up in, in the picture. She made it for me and sent it up to me just yesterday, I LOVE it.

not even a little cute

when i was about to graduate from high school and we were preparing for the graduation party my mom picked about the ugliest picture of me ever taken for the invites. she claimed "it was just so lauren" and she thought it would be perfect, all i saw in it is that i thought it was probably the worst picture of me ever taken. well, i think i found one to beat it...

halloween weeeks

last night started off the 2 week halloween celebration we have in rexburg. here halloween is an excuse to throw parties and get dressed up, so instead of giving it a night, we give it a few weeks. My REAL costume isn't here yet so yesterday night hannah and i dressed as twins [baseball players] for the pinnacle party. We went with a huge group and just had so much fun dancing till about 1 AM [curfew]!! After the party we all went to my friend tracey's APT[downstairs] and had a little after party. we had gone to the store earlier and bought a bunch of snacks so we had chocolate AND white chocolate fondue, chips/salsa/guacamole, pizza, and drinks and all just hung out till about 4 when we all were just dead and went home. I LOVE halloween and i am so excited for these next few weeks!!!

i think jason mraz sings a song about this

A- Attached or single: single. what was this i heard about a ring by spring or my money back?

B - Best Friends: Candy, Brady, MegMeg, and Hannah

C-Cake or Pie: pie. i'm not a cake fan.

D- Day of choice: friday NIGHT, i would say saturday but we have 8:15 church on sunday, so saturday nights make for a grumpy sunday.

E- Essential Item: strawberry chapstick, it's an addiction.

F- Favorite Color: pink and red.

G- Gummi Bears or Worms: worms, but i rather have chocolate.

H- Hometown: Brentwood, California. Born and raised!

I- Indulgence(s): ice cream and peanut butter or ice cream with peanut butter?

J- January or July: july, cause in living in rexburg...January SUCKS!

K- Kids: no illegitimate children.

L-Life is Incomplete Without: my family, laughter, friends, and tasty treats!

M- Marriage Date: uh, pass.

N- Number of Siblings: 4. 3 brothers and a sister.

O- Oranges or Apples: apples. i eat one EVERYDAY.

P- Phobias or Fears: i only have ONE and that's snakes. HATE them.

Q- Quotes: "dance like no one's watching"

R- Reason To Smile: i have some of the best friends in the world who are always around. my momma loves me!

S- Season: summer. the only season i don't have to deal with snow and cold weather. and i just LOVE summer. summer also ='s beach house!

T- Tag Three +: JEFF, JEFF, &JEFF

U- Unknown Fact About Me: i stutter. WHAT, i know huge surprise. nothing about me is unknown.

V- Vegetarian or Meat Eater: meat eater. BIG TIME!

W- Worst Habit: i ALWAYS press snooze on my alarm till the last minute and end up going to class looking like death walking.

X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: when the time comes, i will adore my ultrasounds.

Y- Your Favorite Food: watermelon and my mom's rolls.

Z- Zodiac: virgo

rummikub!

has anyone ever heard of RUMMIKUB? i swear that it is a game only anyone 80 and older would play but my roommates and i are OBSESSED! I saw it at my friends apartment one day and thought it was dominoes so i stole it and read the instructions. It's nothing like dominoes but it sounded interesting. So i borrowed it and took it home and now my roommates and i are addicted. When we are all home from school instead of sitting around and watching TV we immediately grab rummikub. People come over and see us all gathered around the table in an intense game of rummikub and just laugh but we don't even budge. It's just one of those games you can't get enough of IE: PHASE 10!!
SO basically i would encourage ANYONE reading this blog to go out and buy a game. It's good for your brain and a good way to get away from watching hours of TV (or doing hours of homework!)

fright fest

All this month a big group of us is doing something called fright fest. For every night of October we have been watching a different scary movie. It's been totally fun and it has actually attracted quite a crowd. We all have T-Shirts that we had made and it is just a good little bonding experience. Some nights you actually see the movie, others you fall asleep or just talk the whole time, depends on how good the movie is. Last night some fright fest friends and i decided to go to an actual "haunted" place just for the scare. So i had been to this deserted village out in the middle of no where before but no one had actually gotten out of the car so i thought it would be a good place to go. Let me tell you, this place was FREAKY!!! It had snowed yesterday so the whole village was covered in snow. The village houses were all falling apart and when we went in they were full of broken down box springs, broken mirrors, and all kinds of sketchy things. We walked around for a little while and started to hear things, got scared and left. Our little haunted village was just a little reminder to me why i love rexburg so much. It's so small and just in the middle of no where. So if you just drive around for a little you are guaranteed to find SOMETHING to do, whether it is bridge jumping, going to a "haunted house" or just playing the snow you have to be creative here, but you end up with a bunch of experiences you wouldn't find living in a city. You end up getting really close to your friends cause they are all you have out here and it really is a good experience. i totally feel like i look like my mom in this picture!! CRAZY!

oh and i can't forget... HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY TWIN..MADDIE HAZEN!!! i love you so much and i miss you EVEN MORE! Hope to come visit you soon!!

i love FHE?

Every year i always seem to get screwed when it comes to FHE (family home evening). Our ward is full of all kinds of good looking, nice guys but they are NEVER in my FHE group. Who is in my group....well every werid, 27 year old, nintendo loving, braces wearing guy get together and live in one apartment and they are ALWAYS my FHE brothers. By now i should be used to it but every semester when they are announcing the groups i always cross my fingers for something good, never works. So instead of being ANTI-FHE like my other roommates i decided that this semester i would make the best of it. so tonight i decided to not only go but help plan it. Our group consisted of the 4 boys and me. But it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be, we carved pumpkins. I haven't carved a pumpkin for years so it was fun to do and i got to know my brothers a little more...which was interesting. I have some good stories from the experience i guess, never talked so much about star trek and halo (which i knew NOTHING about till tonight). By the end of the night travis and i had carved a pretty sweet pumpkin and i felt good about myself for going. (this is all with an execption to winter 07' SHOUT OUT TO ALEX KNIGHT)

sunday afternoon blogging

i am so bad at keeping up with this. It's all the late nights that turn into mornings and days that disappear. so i thought sunday afternoon would be a good time to catch up.This weekend meg's boyfriend dan is in town so me, meg, hannah, dan, and to of our other guy fiends alex and mike have been hanging out a ton.

Friday night then my friend paige and i got a group of about 50 people together and we all went to the civil defense caves. We hiked about a mile through the caves till it was absolutely pitch black and somewhat flat and played glow stick hide and go seek. We brought about 60 glowsticks and everyone just brakes them and speckles them all over our clothes and the sides and floor of the cave. It is pitch black so you can't see anyone but a ton of glowing dots everywhere. So everyone blends in to the cave and you play hide and seek. It is fun cause you can just stand there and not be found cause you blend so well. It was SUCH a fun time!!
Saturday hannah and i decided that we wanted to take a roadtrip to see some of the prettier parts of idaho that we have heard about but never actually seen. So since the weather was good we got a little group together and went to mesa falls. It is only about 45 minutes away and it was SO beautiful! You just stand at the top of this mountain and you look out and all you can see is beauty. The trees were yellow, orange, red and green and in the middle of them all is this beautiful waterfall. The weather was SO prefect and it was just such a beautiful place to be. After leaving the falls we were all starving so we stopped by good ole' big 'to get some lunch. If you've been to either ricks or BYUi you would know what big jud's is because i don't think anyone leaves this school without the experience. One burger takes up a whole plate so basically you buy one burger and it can feed about 4. perfect for a bunch of cheap college students!

DBW

Dance Battle Wednesday started of last winter in just a lounge of one off the local apartment complexes and has turned into something HUGE in rexburg. Every Wednesday night without a fail if you go to the "rex" you will get to see that weeks battle. 2 different people or groups of people battling it out on the dance floor. It is like our own little "so you think you can dance." This week was extra special because we had MTV cameras
and people from some MTV show come and dance against our locals.so i am not sure exactly who this is but he is from MTV and we took a picture with him!!So you could only imagine how excited the whole town of rexburg was to have someone semi-famous here. Let's just say it was a bit crowded.

After the dance battle every week there is usually a dance. The DJ keeps the music going till everyone is worn out so it is always a good time. After watching everyone dance you just want to do it yourself. It is a good way to get to know a bunch of new people and to just be social. After watching everyone pull out there moves tonight i just had to pull out some of mine!
P.S. i finally figured out how to upload pictures onto this without using photobucket. so now you can click on the pictures to see them bigger!

ADDICTION!

i have a new addiction...
FROZEN YOGURT!
WHY I LOVE FROZEN YOGURT
1. good rich flavor but healthier than ice cream
2. melts in your mouth
3. it's almost guilt free
4. a good bonding experience for everyone who goes
5. the flavors change daily and are always fun to try

the girls upstairs got me into it and every since then it has been all downhill.
-i have the number's of both mavericks in town in my phone (flavors change daily)
- if their flavors are no good, i have the number for mill hollow. (just a bit more expensive)
it is to this point where when we were in provo, we drove around just looking for the best fro yo in town at 10 in the morning in the MIDDLE of a hail storm.but look how happy we were when we got it! i guess that there are alot worse things to be addicted to, and it is a little better than ice cream..

SIDE NOTE: they usually aren't THAT big...these ones were free from this place in provo and that was the size they gave us. doesn't mean we didn't eat it all though!

comference weekend!

WHAT A WEEKEND!!!!
To sum up everything in the quickest way possible, 15 girls all under one roof. about 10 guys who didn't leave till the sun rose. 6 hours of sleep ALL weekend. An actual mall=too much money spent. Laughing all day and all night. OH and (rob and rach will be so proud) SUSHI!

Basically i had a blast this weekend. We played games into the morning and just all got along so perfect. Everyone kinda split up during the day and met back up at night. I spent Saturday with Brady who i hadn't seen for SO long and it was real nice to catch up. but now i am so dead. That 4 hour drive home almost killed me, but i did it!

conference this morning was so amazing. The spirit is SO strong there and you know that what you are listening to is the truth more than anything. Everyone there is so respectful, it is just a beautiful place to be. I LOVED Elder Eyring's talk the very best. I think he is such a great man. I am so glad i had the opportunity to go again this year!!
If you haven't met my roommates before the 2 girls with me in this picture are my BEST FRIENDS. This is our second year living together and we are basically inseparable, in the best way possible.

TWINS?

I'VE MET MY TWIN!!!!

everybody meet Paige! She lives on the floor above me and we are everyone's new obsessions. We are complete twins, VERY similar personalities, same size, we look pretty alike, and we just do thinks....the same. She is my new workout buddy and ever since we have been inseparable. I love it.

besides that life i rexburg is good. It's cold but who ever let that get in the way. Today i am going out to lunch with my friend Ryan Lee and then coming home and locking myself in my room for hours till i know my biology book like the back of my hand (wish me luck!)

but what i am REALLY excited for is this weekend. About 15 of us girls are all going to conference together and staying at my friend jennies cabin in sun dance. It is going to be one FUN weekend. I know it already :]

SLEEP DEPRIVATION!!

I would call this a serious sign of sleep deprivation. And YES, this is a real picture, my friend came to my apartment to drop something off and took this picture (the flash and her laughing woke me up). I was in the middle of a LOOOONG assignment for a class on the philosophy and history of education and this is what happened. I don't know if i could blame it on me not getting enough sleep at night or how ridiculously boring the class is but either way, THIS IS A PROBLEM!!

Does anyone have any tips to help me stay awake during the day. It seems like everyday is the same thing, i sit down to do my homework and BAM all the sudden i can't keep my eyes open. I've been making an honest effort to do all my assignments but this is starting to get old.
I know everyone is going to say GO TO BED EARLIER! which is obvious, but i try and i just can't fall asleep. i lay there for hours till i am finally out. I tried taking a sleep aid and the next day i was SOOO groggy. help me!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KENDALL!

ok, so some days are just better than others, and today just started off as one of those bad days. i COULD not get out of bed and by the time i finally did, i had 10 minutes to get ready before i had to go to class. I felt like i had HUGE circles under my eyes and looked half dead (i know this is taking mom back to when i used to roll into seminary in the morning with the same look), but atleast i went to class.

I came home to a PACKAGE from my mom. I have to say that she definently did a good job on this one. It was full of all kinds of halloween treats and fun stuff. OH and one of the cutest jackets i have ever seen! It was a good treat and it definently made mine AND my roommates day. I just had to take a cheesy picture posing with the package and my new jacket for my mom!

After getting ready and running a few errands some friends and i went out to celebrate my friend Kendall's birthday. He is one of the biggest sweethearts i know. He left everything and came down here from Alaska to marry my roommate (last semester) and be together. She is now pregnant and they are happy as can be...So to celebrate we all went to his favorite restraunt in Idaho Falls, Texas Roadhouse. By the time we left we all were about to explode, let's just say we took those all you can eat rolls to quite an extreme!!!