snowboarding

FINALLY some pictures from snowboarding. Yesterday was a BEAUTIFUL day at Grand Targhee. The weather was not bad at all, there was fresh powder, and the skies were pretty clear.
the tetons skyler and i tanner jon and i


Snowboarding is definently the highlight of my week and i love being able to go, and get school credit for it. Every Wednesday i play the role of "momma bear" and make 4 sandwhiches, one for me, jon, skyler, and tanner and also pack a ton of lunch snacks. By the time we get back to the bus at about 4:30 we are completely starving from have only eaten breakfast and a whole day of snowboarding, so my little lunch i pack everyone is always real tasty! snowboarding is such a fun time to spend with my friends and i get to do something i just love to do!!

baby mady!!

i think it is pretty well known that i LOVE LOVE LOVE children. If i had the option of hanging out with some friends on a friday night or a bunch of little kids i would probably pick the kids. they are just more fun. and what i love even more is BABIES!!!! On December 29th (paypay's birthday) my friend Cassandra had a little baby girl. My new favorite thing to do is go over to their apartment and play with little mady. She is one of the CUTEST babies i have ever seen and i just love her so much.

tell me, besides your own, that mady isn't the cutest little baby you have ever seen!!!

sunday dress!

Skyler and i both gave talks in church on sunday. i spoke on integrity and he spoke on obedience. i seriously don't know the last time i gave a talk but i was soooo nervous. I prayed to be calm and feel good about it and when i went to the pulpit to give the talk i did SO good. barley even looked at my paper, and did not stutter once, CRAZY huh? Skyler also gave an amazing talk. He is like a natural speaker i swear. He didn't have a piece of paper or anything but delivered such a good talk. i was way proud of him. but my mom asked me to take a picture of us all dressed up together for church so here it is. Let me just warn you...not the best picture of skyler.

another lapse in judgement

the 80's called....they want their bangs back

my valentine

This morning i woke up to a nice little valentines surprise from skyler. He was going to decorate my hallway but our door was locked and Skyler couldn't get in so he decorated my car. It was covered in posterboards and the inside was full of balloons and all kinds of valentines treats and some of my favorite stuff. it was such a nice surprise cause i usually don't really do anything on Valentines and i was just expecting a little card or something so i was WAAAAAY excited when i saw all the work he put into making me feel special. At night we went on a little date then when we got back his friends came over cause they had a surprise for me too. They had a shirt made for me that says "we love Lauren" and has a picture of them, then the back has a little inside joke of ours quoted on it. It made me laugh. We had a little valentines party with all of us, i made cupcakes and a big heart shaped cookie so we all ate and just had a good time. I would say that this was a pretty great valentines.

SO in the spirit of valentines day i thought i would take a second to write down the people i love and care about
My Family
[dad, mom, Jeffrey, Scotty, Mitchell, Rachel, Grandma and Grandpa Groseclose &Rydalch]
My Friends
[Candy, Sara, Tanner, Jon, Catherine, Paige, Brady, Tyler, & Scott]
My Roommates
[Meghann, Jennie, Hannah, Kaitlan, & Courtney]
My Boyfriend Skyler
My Other Families
[Rob, Rachel, RJ, Madison, Payton, Vicki, & Pam]
My Bishop and His Wife

i'm....BORING!

i keep getting told to update my blog but i feel like i have nothing to blog about. i mean i was looking through pictures of this last weekend and this is what i got...


me and my two favorite people, passed out in the car on the way home from dinner. I have realized, my life has become so unexciting!!! I mean i could update my blog everyday but all you would be hearing about is how i fell asleep in class...AGAIN! So i am very sorry for this disappointing blog, when my life gets more exciting i will blog about it, and let yall know...until then, i won't bore you!!

a healthy lifestyle?

i am on the run a lot and i have noticed this semester that my shelf never has very much food on it, so i started to think, what do i eat? I have come to a depressing or maybe not so depressing realization that my diet consist of snacks from maverick. Maverick is a gas station just down the street from my apartment that sells EVERYTHING and even though we are usually in negative weather here in rexburg i am STILL addicted to their frozen yogurt. I felt so pathetic today when i called to find out the flavors and the lady on the phone asked, "seriously, in this weather?!" I don't know why but no matter how cold it is it will never get old to me. To add to this frozen yogurt addiction i am now addicted to their chocolate milk. It's one of those things you just crave and i can't help but give in everytime. I have somehow convinced myself that these things are healthy, FAT FREE frozen yogurt AND LOW FAT chocolate MILK. I mean growing up my mom couldn't pay me to drink milk and now i am consuming it so willingly. I think i need some help!!

feeling grateful

Life is pretty amazing and i have so much to be grateful for. Some times i find it more useful to when i am reflecting on life to write down what i am grateful for so i can physically see all the blessings i have in my life. so, some things i am GRATEFUL for:

A warm Bed, My Family, A car that works!! Prayer, My bed,Computers, An education, My roommates, pictures, Skyler, Warm Clothes(there's a warm theme going here), Mexican food, Music, Airplanes, the scriptures, Snow(boarding), Cell Phones, Children, The gospel, Fruit, Shoes, Fashion, Friends who will always be in my life, The Priesthood, Smiles, The News, Medicine and the Medical Field, Water, My finances, Microwaves/Ovens, Temples, Friends, nature(this beautiful world), My body from my hands to my toes, Dancing, camping, THE SUN, showers, Games, heaters, parties,The chance i have to be with my family FOREVER

Happy birthday CANDY

Happy Birthday Candy!!!
this last weekend was my best friends birthday and she came up here to celebrate it!! So last night i made her a birthday cake and invited a few people over for a little get together. we danced around, played PHASE TEN (my personal favorite), and all just hung out. It was such a fun time to have a ton of friends over at once and just have fun!!
Candy and i have been best friends since we met at EFY years ago. For some reason we started calling each other summey and have referred to each other as that ever since. I spent much of my senior year of high school flying out to provo to visit her and now that i am up in Idaho we are able to visit each other a little more often (whenever we feel like making the 3 1/2 hour drive)!! She is one the sweetest people i know and is so fun to be around! She attracts crowds cause of her outgoing personality and it really has meant alot to me to have her in my life. We have been through thick and thin together and she has stayed a part of my life though all the distance between us for years. she is one of those friends that you just know you'll have for a long time. I love you Candy!!

ready to here some complaining cause here it comes..
the snow is really starting to get to me this winter, last winter was not so bad but this one, just ridiculous. i mean it snowed at least a foot of snow just yesterday alone. i am getting very tired of the repetitive having to scrape snow off my car anytime i want to go ANYWHERE, not to mention trying to open the doors to my car that are frozen shut. i remember being excited for the snow to come, WHAT WAS I THINKING. it's really not fun to slip at least 10 times every time i walk to class. the fact that i can't ever look cute because i have to wear 5 layers, and the snow just ruins any reason for doing your hair. i mean the snow is beautiful, and i do love snowboarding, but it's just too much work for me. I'm ready for some sun.
ok no more complaints coming from me, i just got them all out.

p.s. i realize this picture isn't amazing, but it shows how excited we are about the snow....which is not at all.