california

WHY I LOVE COMING BACK TO CALIFORNIA
*i love babies, well kids almost more than anything, and when i'm at school i have no little ones around to play with, so when i come home i will most likely kidnap your babies.
* my momma cooks for me!! She not only cooks dinner for me every night but she is constantly cooking my favorite meals cause she knows how crappy i eat when i am up at school.
* i get to sleep in till whenever i feel like it cause i have nothing to do all day!
*mini road trips with the family. my dad likes to get out of the house on the weekends so we find ourselves going to random places every weekend. [[not all of us agree on one type of music so we all pull out our i-pods and just drive]]
* family wards are so much more exciting than singles wards. every sunday i get to just sit and people watch and it is very entertaining. everyone bets on who is going to take out their crying kid first, which kid is going to run up to the stand, and which elderly person is going to start snoring first. a little irreverent but we can't help ourselves!!
* I CAN SEE THE SUN!!! The first few days i get here i just want to run around the whole time in a t-shirt. it gets a little old after a few days though, when i remember that 50 degrees really isn't that warm.

christmas lights

i'm obsessed with christmas lights. they are really one of my favorite little things ever, so i always look forward to coming home and seeing the christmas lights in livermore. every year my family goes with my grandparents to livermore and we go to dinner at a place called yin yin and then go look at this house. i don't know who these people are but they go ALL out at christmas. they use about 3 million christmas lights [no joke] and deck out their house. Every year they do a different display so it never gets boring. I think everyone is getting a little tired of this ongoing tradition but I LOVEE IT!

christmas candy

this is definently the time of year that i get chubby. Not only am i at home getting all the free meals that i want, but my mom and i are constantly baking christmas candy. It's our family tradition to make plates of candy for all our friends and deliver them to everyone's door as a family. This year we made EVERYTHING there is to make...caramel, caramel with chocolate, pumpkin pie fudge, fudge, orange cranberry bark, caramel corn, snicker doodles, ginger snaps, toffee, cashew brittle and so on. It was a fun to cook but i seriously feel 10 pounds heavier.


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saying goodbye

saying goodbye to everyone you care about so much is always hard, but saying goodbye this particular semester was way harder for me than it has ever been. I have made so many AMAZING friends this year and it's not to easy to think of life without them when they have been there everyday for months. Most of my friends are on summer/fall track so they will be gone this winter and My best friend sara is transferring to provo so i will never get to live with her again, not going to lie, it makes me real sad but I am way grateful to be able to be home with my family for a few weeks and i get to go to san diego for new years so that will be waaaay fun. it's so warm here and meals are free!!
Next semester i am living with 5 of the best friends i have and i'll be snowboarding a ton, so that gets me excited, i know its gonna be a ton of fun but it was sad to say goodbye to such an amazing one.

finalssss

i am done with classes/finals for this semester!!! don't doubt that i got a 118/118 on my philosophy final and a 50/50 on my rec leadership final. this NEVER happens so i am feeling pretty good. final grades on the other hands...uhhh let's just cross our fingers.

so i've decided that i am going to start a new little blog tradition, picture of the week. This one is definently a keeper.

it's cold outside

this weekend was absolutely perfect cause i got to spent it with my favorite people!! candy came up here from utah and we spent the whole weekend with my roommates and skyler. we didn't do much of anything but playing games, dancing around the living room, and just laughing but it was so much fun!!! I absolutely love candy so much and i am so glad that she is my best friend, and she is looking soooo stinken good these days. We made a baby crib and candy and i slept in it all weekend, then during the day we would lay in it and watch movies, it's snowing outside so it was really comfy to just lay around and drink hot chocolate. now this week is finals week and i am feeling a little behind cause i spent the whole weekend playing, but i'm planning on just living in the library this week. I took one final today and think i did really good so we will see how i do. life is so exciting right now...i'm a happy girl!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTTY!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTTY!!!
for your 11th birthday, i have to name, 11 reasons i love you
11. the way you ALLLLWAYS give me scotty hugs
10. how you tell me that you love me
9. your passion for soccer
8. the way you never talk bad about ANYONE
7. your big heart, all the girls must love you
6. how happy your smile is
5. you are SOOO smart
4. you are good at sharing
3. your focus in life at such a young age, you know what you love, and realize the value of doing good in school.
2. your laugh
1. the way that you are STILLL the pantie man

winter is here!!

Winter is here in good ole' idaho and even though i HATE driving the snow i am not minding the snow too much this year, i am actually kind of enjoying it. i have grown some kind of weird new love for it, but i am glad i am actually more happy about it this year. last night skyler and i decided that we wanted to go play in the snow today, and then we thought about it and thought going snowboarding would be more fun. so today when i got out of my classes, Skyler, me, and steve drove up to Grand Targhee and did a half day of snowboarding. It was SO fun and the snow was perfect. The drive was absolutely beautiful and i actually did REALLY good coming down the hills. I didn't eat it even once. i was sooo impressed with myself!!! Next semester i am taking a class where you go snowboarding for a full day every wednesday and i am so excited about it!!! and it's a plus that hannah, skyler, and steve are all taking the class with me. today got me pumped!!

ENGAGED!?

my friend skyler and i spend almost every waking hour together. Whenever you see him, i'm probably there, whenever you see me he is most likely with me. He is seriously the funniest person i have ever met and hanging out with him is always a good time. My roommates absolutely love him so it never bothers them that we are dancing around the living room, or doing whatever. I have no clue why but one day we started to joke that we were engaged, so skyler and i started to take the joke to the extreme and last night we took fake engagement pictures. Notice our matching outfits and the biggggg fake ring. Don't worry mom, everyone knows it's just our little joke.

i love backpacking!!?

This is the winter wonderland that i was hking through for the last 3 days. Let me just tell you, this trip was INTENSE!! so much harder than i thought it would be. But it was also alot better than i thought it would be, in that i fell in love with the group of people i went with. At first, i was way sketchy to be spending 3 days with this little group of ten people but by the middle of the first day i was having the time of my life with them. i don't think i stopped laughing the WHOLE trip, which made the conditions alot easier to bear. however the trip was so much more INTENSE than i thought it would be. I knew that we were backpacking about 20 miles but i didn't consider that it was through mountains, thats a WHOOOOOLE lot of uphill, now i don't mind uphill too much, but being the snow, was a completely different story. we were hiking through about 2 feet of snow the whole time, so the snow went to about my knees, each step was harder than the last but somehow i made it, with a 50 pound pack on my back!! As for the weather, it was just as cold as i thought it would be, at night it got to about -15 and during the day we were at about 9 degrees, and it snowed the WHOLE time. Sleeping was way rough cause you just could not get warm, but other than that, i was just able to hang out by the fire or we would be hiking which warmed you up. Either way i wore 7 layers at all times so i couldn't of been TOO cold. I lost 6 pounds in 3 days, as a result of alot of hiking and bad bad meals [everything we brought completely froze, and even though we had a little stove, my food group wasn't the best with measurements. Snacking wasn't too much of an option cause all our snacks (granola bars, powerbars, fruitsnacks, bagel, ect) froze] . Even though this expedition was tough i really did have the time of my life and i took away SO much from it that i will have forever. When i was out there i felt so close to my heavenly father and was able to appreciate such a beautiful creation of his. The views were absolutely breath taking and i saw all kinds of wildlife in it's natural habitat. Some moose walked through our little camp and i thought of my mom, and how she would DIE to see that! So overall i had a very good trip. i don't know if i would do it again but i am so grateful for the experience!!