FHE/Ward Halloween Party!

Monday night we had a Ward Halloween Party in which we competed the other FHE groups. We had a relay with multiple activities that we placed 4th in, had a pudding eating contest that my group forced me to do, (yuck!!!) and a donut on a string eating contest that my roomie, Becky, placed first in! Taura made some oreo truffles that were absolutely amazing! (and easy!) We took first place in the desserts and Taura and I won cutest couple! Woot! That was such a fun night! I love my FHE group! (You'll notice in the group picture that there is only one guy...well, we have a total of 3 guys but they aren't big fans of FHE...but we all love Patrick!)

Ropes Course!!!

Today my ward got to go to the ropes course! It was a blast! I was very worried because I didn't know what I'd be able to do with my knee. I was able to do everything! We started at the giant swing. (You are pulled up 30-35 feet in the air and released and you just swing!)



Please watch this movie. It has all my pics on it but I couldn't get is onto here. (I'm not very technology savy)


Ropes Course 10/18/08

The girl who wouldn't drop is my lovely Taura. She HATES rollarcosters because she hates the feeling that you get when you drop. If you listen closely you can hear her say, "Can we go lower?" and then Ashleigh, her old roommate says, "Suck it up!" So funny!

I was so afraid that I wouldn't be able to do much that day. I took some ibuprofin and dived right in. I climbed to the top of that tower and was so proud of myself. I was pretty sore the next day though!

OUR FIRST ROAD TRIP!!!

There is a girl up here that is one of my favorite people in the whole world! Her name is Ashleigh and is my roomie's, Taura, old roommate. She is absolutely darling and hilarious! She is also very spontaneous and loves to travel. She came up to me the other day and said, "We are going to an opera in Salt Lake on Thursday. Are you going to come?" It was going to be a rehearsal night so it was three dollars a ticket (with our student discount!) and was absolutely incredible! Ashleigh drove and got us horribly lost. Her childhood friend, Frank, sat shotgun and two of my roommates and I sat in the back.

Katelynn went to a different concert so we dropped her off at a parking garage. We were lucky that the parking garage was deserted because we all changed into our "opera attire". We got into our formals (Frank was in a suit) and walked over to the Capital Theater.

The show we saw was called Madame Butterfly. Apparently it's a world famous play but I had never heard of it. They showed captions on a screen so we could understand. I definately recommend this show! It's so funny and sad!

Frank posing on the stairs.

Ashleigh...so cute!

TauraLee and Ashleigh! Looking good!

Me (wearing my $180 dollar dress that I got for $30!), TauraLee (my roomie), Ashleigh (she hates wearing dresses and curling her hair. This picture is proof that she is a cute girl!), and Frank (he stayed awake the whole 3.5 hour drive to keep me awake while I drove home.)

Ashleigh (once again) She is such a work of art sitting on a work of art!

Bear Lake

I thought that since I had a bunch of really cute pictures I might as well post them. We went to Bear Lake for general conference this year and had a blast, all things considered. Haha.

A Moment to Reflect...

So I have had very little time to myself lately. I've always been surrounded by, not boys, but by homework. I swear, it's a living thing! It breathes, crawls, kills, and multiplies!! No one is safe! I had three exams this last week and had to write a song for my english class. My ENGLISH class! AND we only had TWO, let me repeat, TWO DAYS to write it! Most people took the easy route and wrote a rap to one of their favorite songs. I was the only one who took the challenge of writing not only my own lyrics, but my own melody as well. Can you spell hard?!?! I worked for hours on that thing and I had so much other stuff to do. I showed up to class the next day after only a few hours of sleep and our teacher never showed up. He had the flu and class was cancelled. I had worked so hard on that song and was so frustrated that I had worked so hard for nothing that I didn't look at it again untill we had to sing them for the class. Yes, you read correctly. Each and everyone of us had to sing for the class. And let me tell you, we would never make a very good choir. Overall, school is fun. I am going to the gym three day a week to do physical therapy for my knee and feel so dumb because I can only lift twenty pounds. People walk by and just stare. I like to imagine what they are thinking. "Wow that girl is a whimp!" Oh well. I'm improving and that's all that matters. Our ward is going to the ropes course this saturday so we will see how much of that I can do. It will be freezing tho!!!