Blood Drive Madness!

So, on Friday I went to the blood drive on campus with Patrick to be a superhero and save up to three lives. I am not so good with needles but I'm trying to suck it up and deal with it. I have really little veins, small enough that they use a toddler needle on me when they do blood tests. I told my nurse this when she was having trouble finding a vein. She refused to believe that and said that I probably had, and I quote, "Perfectly good veins that are just hidden." Well apparently my veins got tired of hiding and when the second nurse put the needle in me this is what I got.

Sunday Night

Monday Night

She stuck the needle straight through my vein...she didn't know it until I

gasped and said that there was a lot of pain in my elbow. She made the "oh crap" face and got the needle out of my arm. They put ice on it and told me there would be a bruise. Meanwhile, 7 other nurses came over to feel my other arm. One guy felt confident that he could try it. Whenever they poke me I look the other way. This time, I had no idea where to look! If I looked the other way then I would see my swollen and bandaged up arm. I turned my head and buried it in the chair as best I could. The nurse put the needle in and said, "Tell me when it starts to hurt." He said WHEN! Great! I started to feel some pain and he immediately took the needle out. I have a small bruise on my right arm from that. My bruise as seen above is growing AND I didn't get to save up to three lives! No good deed goes unpunished...

Okay...it's official...

I'M ENGAGED!!!!

Patrick proposed to me Friday night!

We are going to be married on May 23, 2009 in Salt Lake!

ENGAGED!!!

This is not my hand! This is the hand of my high school best friend, Tracie Bair, and on April 11 she will be Tracie Thompson! I moved Tracie up to Rexburg on the 2nd of January so she could start school at Evan's School of Cosmotology. My school started Wednesday the 7th and hers didn't start till the 13th. She was so bored so I invited her to my social dance class on the 7th and watched as she gave some guy her number. That night my roommate, Taura, and I went to Tracie's to watch Transformers. This random guy called Tracie, it was the boy from dance class. He came over and then there was no stopping them. They have spent every minute of everyday together. (except when they have school) Two weeks and one day after they met, he proposed. Insane? Absolutely. Scary? 100% Too fast? You be the judge.

What?!?!?!?!

(Chrissy, Angie, Myself, and TauraLee)

Yes, this is a midget market...We saw it while we were in Idaho Falls today and couldn't pass up the opportunity for a great photo! Please take note of the people behind us with a tv in a shopping cart. They were laughing at us the entire time.

Final Potluck, English Class, and the Temple

The last Sunday of the semester our neighbors held a potluck. Our neighbors were amazing and Taura and I are so glad that 4 out of 6 of them are staying! There was never a dull moment with them! You could always hear them wrestling and laughing!

Roomies!


Cory, Patrick, Sam, and Katelyn


My English class was amazing! It was incredibly hard though! (Words cannot even begin to express the difficulty of that class! Detail by request) However, I know the name of everyone in my class and we are very good friends! This was a part of our final project. Our entire class got together on a freezing cold night and took a picture to put in a book of what we learned over the semester. Half of our class is either from Texas or California. We just had to laugh at them.



Absolutely beautiful! That's all I have to say!

Roomies! Gotta love them!

The Saturday before finals Katelyn, Becky, Taura and I said, "What the heck? Lets have a sleepover!" So we pulled our mattresses to the living room and stayed up till 4AM laughing, cleaning, and just having a great time!

Bridal Shower!

My lovely roommate, Samantha, got married in the Seattle Temple on the 20th of December, 2008. We got to throw a bridal shower for her and had a blast!

Toilet Paper Wedding Dresses! Classic!

This is Sam...sideways...sorry.

Sam's sister made all the food! Mmm!!