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My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;

And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes. (D&C 121:7-8)

Friday, April 30, 2010

Winter Lovin'

Ok, I'm trying to catch up on everything that's been happening in my life. For thanksgiving I stayed in Utah and everyone came to me! Yipeeee. So my dad and stepmom Teri came out and we all ate at my uncle Randy's house. Here's a picture of the gang. My nephews Aden and Tristan and niece Tarin are ADORABLE.
I honestly don't remember where I spent Christmas. My mom and stepdad Chris were in the process of moving from Dallas back to Highlands Ranch, CO so I think I spent a little time in Dallas and then the rest of my Christmas break in Colorado? Anywho, here's a picture of a bunch of my Dallas friends. I have no idea when I'll see these people again :(
After Christmas break I started yet another semester at BYU. I can't believe this is my 8th semester in college! At the end of fall semester I decided I really wanted to move to New York City for an internship. I attempted to get an internship with Martha Stewart Living magazine because my mom had a friend who used to work there, but it didn't end up working out (AKA they never called me back haha). But anyway, to my chagrin I ended up staying in Provo, which turned out to be a really really good thing! One thing that was good is that I got to hang out with my adorable roommates for 4 more months. Here we are, minus Molly who skillfully avoided our roommate photoshoot
Emily, Me, Suz and Brenda
We had so much fun living in our Yellow House. Some of my fondest memories include: watching endless episodes of "Bones," killing swarms of ants in our laundry room, Halloween parties, Emily's GIGANTIC birthday bash where hundreds of people were packed in our tiny house, fighting about dish washing (not the fondest memory, but very prevalent haha), all of our boys, Emily and Molly's month long hip-hop obsession where they would move all our furniture out of the living room and play the same song about 100 times trying to learn a dance, all of our pets (duck, chicken, dog, frogs), any countless more amazing memories. I love these girls.

The other benefit of my staying in Provo is that I met this guy!
Isn't he so handsome? Yes. We fatefully sat next to each other in Humanities class and one day he told me he liked my hat, the next class he very politely shook my hand and introduced himself, and that was it! Haha. We bonded over our love of snowboarding and went almost every Wednesday or Friday night to Sundance, and a month or so later we were off on a road trip to my homeland of Colorado for a ski trip with my parents!
We had sooo much fun. We were only there for a spontaneous weekend and we were so sad to leave because that meant no more delicious food and parents taking care of us. But we survived. Another fun adventure we had was the Hindu color festival that happens every year. It is one of my favorite things to do. It was so out of control. We almost suffocated from all of the chalk. Literally. I was scared for my life at one point I'm pretty sure and we both got crowd surfers dropped on us. Fortunately, Eric was having back problems before that and he claims that when the person fell on him it cracked his back and fixed it completely, haha.
That whole winter semester I was an extremely busy girl. On top of taking 15 credits, being in the BYU Bluegrass Band, working at BYU Broadcasting 20 hours a week, doing Provo Youth Mentoring 2 hours a week, and wanting to spend all of my free time with Eric, I was doing everything I possibly could to build up my resume, find an internship in New York, and move out there! It was incredibly difficult to do all of these things. I didn't have a spare moment in my day. One thing I did to try to get work experience and make my resume look more impressive was to participate in the annual U of U Counter Terrorism Simulation.
For the simulation, Law Students at the University of Utah are chosen to act as world leaders and are expected to react to a series of crisis's over a 10 hour period. I was part of a team of journalists reporting on the events as they unfolded and giving the law students a hard time in the process. It was incredibly fun. It was EXACTLY like being on the show "24." If you've ever seen that, you know exactly what I'm talking about. I had so much fun and i really encouraged and motivated me that I was in the right field. It also sparked an interest in me to maybe look into getting a political science minor or something. Who knows. Anyway, that experience was extremely beneficial because I got a bomb letter of recommendation from Matt LaPlante there on the right, and when I was interviewing for internships in New York later I had a lot to pull from experience I had in pressure situations and so forth. I'm definitely participating next year.

As the semester came to a close there was a lot going on. One of my best friends Emily Pena got engaged, to everyones delight, to her high school sweetheart Dave Roemisch. It's pretty much a fairytale romance. This was her bridal shower that Sarah threw. It was a tea party theme and was so much fun.
I also attended my old roommate and best friend Lauren Woodward's birthday party. She is moving to D.C. in the Fall so it was kind of a birthday/going away party. I'm going to miss her so much!
Well, there's an update in a nutshell of my life for the past 4 months. I'm having tons of fun and loving BYU

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Juniorite

Here are some highlights from the Summer and Fall semester. I came back from Japan at the end of June and moved into a big yellow house in Provo with a bunch of my friends. Thank goodness for that because my boyfriend at the time Danny and I broke up and without all of my friends I would have died.
Emily, Suz, Sarah, Me
This is an interesting picture but it's the only one I had with a majority of us in there.
My best friend in the whole world got engaged shortly after I returned from Japan, so I threw her a bridal shower! The theme was pajama party :).
This is my duck Duke and my chicken, Chicken. They pretty much occupied most of our summer. Unfortunately, Duke died tragically when I dropped him on his head. The summer ended without a bang and Fall semester.

Most of what I remember from August, September, and October is moping around from my breakup with Danny. Boo! But Sarah's wedding was amazing.

She got married in the Denver, Colorado Temple in October. We all took a road trip out there for her wedding and it was a blast! Doesn't she look so beautiful? This was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. For some reason it was extremely hard for me to accept the fact that she was getting married. Unhealthy attachment anyone? Haha. Well you can't blame me. We were attached at the hip for 6 years.
For Halloween I was Old Greg. If you don't know what that is, look it up on Youtube. You won't be disappointed.
Mike Earl came back from his mission in Paraguay in November! It was sooo good to see him. We had a lot of fun going to BYU basketball games and hanging out like old times. My good friend Nato also came back from his mission in Montreal.
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