be a peach

last friday after class Hannah and I hit the road.

we went to Brigham City for the new Temple Open House. 

I love temple open houses. It makes me so excited and I can always feel the Spirit. 

This temple was beautiful. It has a real sense of belonging to the community here.

Throughout it had a theme of peach blossoms because of all the neighboring peach orchards.

It became a fun game to see if you could spot all the blossoms.

they were in the door handles, wood work, tiles, rugs and ceilings. 

it was amazing. 

my best friend Katie who lives close to Brigham City drove to meet us.

i love it when i get to see this girl. 

she is such a peach. 

25

well my big sister is 25 today. 

and to quote a family classic movie Some Like it Hot:

 "twenty five. that's a quarter of a century- makes a girl think."

stefi really knows how to do 25 right- she is graduated, has a masters degree, working as a legit SLP and is married living in a dream city. 

yeah she's got it covered. 

she is my best friend and i feel so lucky to have her. 

 

there are lots of things i could say about stefi but i think what she will appreciate most is the lack of blackmail pictures in this post. (power rangers people. power rangers.) 

thanks for always letting me be your shadow and letting us have a Barney cake for our birthday party one year. you are the person i look up to the most and want to be like.

love you so much and happy birthday keki!!!!!!

long weekend

i feel like blogging- as part of not doing my boring homework- but nothing new has really happened since this weekend. so i am just putting up pictures from the road trip. 

and i can do that because its my blog. 

 prize winning pumpkins. 

with my outfit it made me feel like a country cinderella

 going up the canyon

 the crew getting ready to hit the road

 salt flats

 delicious mexican food. 

northface twinners

(because obviously owning a northface means you go on lots of adventures)

together forever

this holiday weekend a big group of friends and i went on a road trip.

it was all my room mates and this apartment of boys we met last year and have been best friends with ever since

miriam invited us all to go home with her to Elko Nevada to celebrate the weekend we all met last year and to celebrate one year of great friendship. 

we joked and called it our family reunion because last year we were also in the same FHE family.

even though we aren't in the same FHE group any more we still call each other FHE bro and sisters. 

we had such a great weekend. honestly. so great. 

we went to the County Fair (which is a big deal and really fun) and went up to Lamoille Canyon for a cook-out

as reading rainbow says, you don't have to take my word for it:

at family prayer Mir's family does this cute little hand /cheer things where we say "together forever"

miss BYU

Monday was my last first day of college

i will never again have the beginning of Fall semester at BYU ever again. 

i would be sad about it except that it was a really fun day. 

i didn't even had to worry about finding my classes because i already knew where they would be, while in class i knew what to expect (no surprises- once you are a senior in my major, by now i've had all my professors twice before) and work was a blast. 

all my classes were good, (except i am labeling Hearing Science as my beast class for the semester) and going to the classes I T.A. for was great. Its fun to help run a class and help the professor. it just proves that i will always be a teacher's pet at heart i suppose. also its fun to have people realize that you will be grading their papers and suddenly become a little more important. 

At lunch in the WILK i literally ran into about 32 people i knew. as i was eating lunch with 3 friends i randomly ran into, i could only sit down for 30 seconds before i had to jump up and go say hi to somebody else i saw. i only got 3 bites of my sandwich my whole lunch break. 

 its crazy as time goes on how you just build and build up the pool of people you know. 

and now its at an all time high with freshman friends back from missions (seeing some of those were like seeing Ghosts of Christmas past), people from high school coming to BYU, friends transferring and just the culmination of all the people i've met from the past three years.

just call me Miss. BYU because i intend to fully enjoy this senior year

tybalt

its official. i feel like an adult. 

in the grown-up sense of the word. 

why?

BECAUSE I BOUGHT A CAR. 

and i couldn't love it more.

its a honda civic and that means its reliable, safe and will last a looong time

 i named him Tybalt. 

Tybalt has always been one of my favorite Shakespearean characters 

why?

1. his name is awesome

2. when i read the play he sounded like he had to be good looking

3. and then when i saw the 70's movie he was good looking

4. he is fashionable, vain and sleek

5. cares about courtesy

6. you don't want to mess with him. he is a beast

8. he is firey 

7. very loyal to his family

8. he fulfills one of my favorite literary role- he acts as a foil

9. has a tragic / dramatic ending. i love those. 

10. out of all the minor characters in all the Shakespeare i find him the most memorable 

11. best of all he kills Mercutio. whom i find completely annoying. 

and when i got the car, Tybalt just came to me. so that is his name.  

our maiden voyage together was incredible. 

i felt so lucky and totally luxurious. 

i felt like i didn't deserve him

(i do realize that i am talking about my car like a boyfriend.

they can be very similar sometimes.)

my dad and i then spent 2 1/2 hours washing it, waxing it, getting new windshield wipers (Dad wanted to get the best brand. so that mean the German brand to him.)
 and tons of other stuff that i didn't know the purpose for.
and by my dad and i- i mostly mean my dad because he started taking over the process while i just watched.
then he had to drive it around to "test it out"
then he said he would be happy if this was his car.
Whoa there dad- this baby only has a mama and its moi. 

BEST WAY TO END SUMMER FOR SURE

ciao bella!

my best friend abigail lauren pace is going on a mission. 

she opened her call last night and she is going to:

 ROME ITALY

can you say dream life? ideal mission? totally jealous? because i say all three

she is going to be there for when the Temple is built. 

she has impeccable timing. 

i am so happy for her and so proud of her choice to serve. 

i just don't know what i am going to do without her. 

here are some pictures of when i was in Roma last for a good laugh: 

baby face with glasses.