some pictures from this week

karakoke 

nail polish

sweet potato fries and grilled cheese sandwich

festival of colors! [sans photos] and new resolutions

i ended up going to festival of colors yesterday.  there's a huge krishna temple in spanish fork, and every year they have a color throwing to celebrate holi... a krishna holiday [i think]. i don't much about the holiday, all i know is you dress in all white, get scented/colored chalk, and throw it on people. it was way fun.  i went with boy, his siblings, and a couple of friends from my old ward.  there were some hilarious times- mostly between us and children [yes, seven or under].

sorry i don't have any pictures, yet.  there all on boy's camera.  but there were some good ones. trust me.

last night i went emergency grocery shopping with boy for the things he needs today: cereal, frozen pizza and pringles. [wow. such a guy.] it made me remember how sad it is to not be able to cook.  so, i decided today that i am going to have a sunday dinner, every sunday, where i make something for reals. so far, i have compiled recipes for mediterranean risotto, my aunt's yummy pasta salad, sausage, chard and lemon lasagna, gruyere and parmesan souffle, backed rigatoni with tiny meatballs, quiche lorraine and chicken tortilla soup. sounds delicious right? i also want to bake desserts that i have never tried- pies, cakes, fudge, chocolate dipped cookies.

so here's to a colorful weekend and a delicious future!

party-filled weekend.

so, friday was sarah's birthday party.  it was awesome.  here are just a few pics to make you see how awesome it was:

saturday night was the stake luau activity.  i went as a tacky tourist, and my roomies [and ahlin] went as natives [and female jason mraz]. photo time:

happy friday folks.

image from here

this is the song of my day.

tonight is sarah's birthday party. it's "hipster" style themed.  we're dressing up, talking about existentialism, and listening to obscure music. it's going to be awesome. be prepared for pictures of cupcakes, finger mustaches, and boys in cardigans.

tomorrow night my stake is having a luau.  i'm dressing up as a tacky tourist.  it's going to be awesome.

christmas time is the best time

- happy 80th birthday, grandpa t

- getting mommy hugs

- being snowed in

- a visit from santa

- family time

- winter walks
- snowmobiling

- babies

the happenings

this semester is over! [cue hallelujah chorus]

to celebrate, you can read about our girl's night up to temple square from these two buddies of mine: ahlin & sarah.  here are some of fritz's shots.

i love sweet potato fries!

currently i am up in snowy midway.  it's magical, for lack of a better word. we're hanging out with family, including this lovely cousin of mine and her two adorable twins.  [emmerson really likes me]

another week, another weekend

sorry guys.  i feel like i'm only blogging after the weekend... don't know why.  i guess college life is a lot more boring than when i lived at home.

this weekend wasn't too exciting.

friday: i walked around campus looking legit and taking pictures of autumn.  trammel, jen and i went up to sandy for chipotle.  (it was like my second time having it, but dang, it's good stuff).  then trammel's roommates bennett and tanner joined us at our apartment to make sugar cookies.  i showed them this and then this.  their other roommate alec came over with his bud jordan.  then kye joined us.  we just hung out and stuff.  it was a blast.  pictures below.

saturday:  the football game.  i'm not a huge "Y" fan, but i like going and hanging out with friends. oh, and we were on the front row.  right behind the end zone.  say what? afterwards, we stayed and volunteered to help a buddy clean up the stadium.  gross, gross, gross.  people are gross.  i will never leave anything (half eaten or not) behind at a stadium.  yuck.  then, i took a shower, ignored the two miler i was supposed to do, and went on to study german. (yuck) photos below.

sunday: a much needed extra hour of sleep thanks to the end of day lights savings. church.  a desire to bake resulting in a no-bake peanut butter/chocolate/oat bar.  watching chitty chitty bang bang with friends and eating all of said no-bake delight.

monday: (yea, i know it's not the weekend, but whatever)  rain, which made me miss home- rainy ol' london.  grocery shopping thanks to urges to bake all sorts of things (peanut brittle, pepermint bark, cinammon rolls).  i swear it was bring "attractive man shopping day".  i saw at least twenty VERY good looking men today.  dang.  if only i had put on make up.

last week/weekend

last week was a struggle.  i had a billion things coming up: three midterms, a few papers, and a project that i haven't started working on.... needless to say, i was stressed.  i was up late every night, studying like a madman, which isn't good cause i'm getting sick.  but i had a few distractions this week that kept me sane.

wednesday, my old friend darrik and i went to a benefit concert for his friend and band-mate dane.  it was an interesting collection of artists to showcase, but it was fun.  then, we came back to my apartment to watch a 30 Rock episode whole, while drinking tea.

thursday, adam was in town, so some of the gang headed out to gold spoon and ate yummy, yummy ice cream.

friday was my sick day.  i went to bed at 10, with the help of nyquil.

saturday was my birthday! yay!  to celebrate, jen and i ran a 5k accompanied by our good friends ahlin and arielle. we did pretty well for a sick person, and for someone who didn't get home until 1:30 the night before.  our time was 32.08.  so not bad. it was a halloween run, so they were dressed up.  jen and i weren't.  oh well. katherine came down from salt lake and took me to sammy's, a delicious burger place with the best sweet potato fries i've ever had!  i received shopping money from the parents, so katherine, me and the roomies went shopping.  i got the best thanksgiving outfit, ever.  so, don't worry, pictures of it will follow. i also got two extra cardigans, an extra shirt, more of my perfume and some all-natural deodorant. after our shopping extravaganza, we were exhausted, so jen and i watched some hulu together, until we went to seem darrik's other-band [that also includes my katie's brother].  the concert took forever to start, but once it did, it was good.  then, katie and her bf went to dinner while jen and i went halloween party hopping.

yes, i stole this photo from ahlin's blog.  thanks, love.

sunday was busy but great.  our friend is going on a 18 month mission for our church, so she'll be missing thanksgiving and christmas, so her parents threw an early "thanksgiving/ christmas" dinner, on halloween.  the food was great, and so was the company.

sadly though, i still have my three midterms, papers and project coming up.  today i get one midterm out of the way, but i'm still kinda stressed.

best halloween costume

ok.  check us out.  we're bubbles. awesome huh?

we got an award.  sweet, no?

what i've been up to

... besides school of course.

a few weeks ago, instead of homecoming, a group of us did what we call "homeless coming".  read more about it on my friend/roommate katie's blog.

here is a group picture.  yes, my date is pouring his root beer on me.

here's a pic of the three roommates with their dates.

bennett & me, paul & jen, katie & tanner 

then, this last week, we had a roommate birthday party.  jen's birthday is on the 3rd and katie and i are twinners born on the 30th.

so far the running has gone well.  i've run four miles in the past four days.  no, it doesn't really sound like a lot, but i'm proud of how i'm doing.