Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!!!

What a great way to end such a great year: with FAMILY & FRIENDS!!! The most important thing to me. I have learned and grown so much over this past year, and I am grateful for all of my many blessings!

An overview of the year 2009:

• Graduation from Burley High School and Seminary


• 1st semester of college and BYU-Idaho


• 1st blind date


• 1st church calling on my own- ward pianist: 56th ward


• 1st trip to the E.R. (twice, and on my own, in a new hospital, with new doctors). I know what hives are and how to treat them...from personal experience.


• Concerts and Famous people I've met: Boys Like Girls, Cobra Starship, The Maine, David Archuelta, Benton Paul, Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Kirby Heyborne


• Met people around the world: Colorado, South and North Carolina, Vermont, Spain, Brazil, Fiji, California, Washington, Illinois


• 1st dance competition and showcase: performed the cha cha with Todd Cook


• All-nighters: college and 4-H


• Ironing


• Cooking


• Living on my own


• Boys


• Running errands on my own


• Technology: facebook, skype, texting, wireless router


• New study skills: all day, study groups, recording lectures


• New skills: social dance, opening up and meeting new people


• Rexburg Temple close by. I love looking at it everyday and having that constant reminder to strive to do good everyday. I participated in temple baptisms


• Stadium Singing


• Tons of new friends

A Typical College Week:

• Monday: Classes: 7:45 Anatomy and Physiology, 10:15 Family history, and 11:15 Fitness for Fun. Come home for lunch. then go to University Orchestra. Would go to my Anatomy study group with Alisa, Christine, and Clerissa at 3:15. Come home and study some more and get ready for FHE, or we would go grocery shopping. Had FHE every Monday night and always had a blast and fun activities. Would stay up late talking with my roomates since I didn't have class early the next morning.


• Tuesday: Sleep in to about 8:30. Get ready and study all day. I would aslo update my blog on Tuesdays and iron. At 12:30 I would have lunch in the crossroads with Kinzi. Then Kyle would meet up with us and we would go to devoitonal at 2:00. Would sit in the red chairs with Jared and Mitchel and Logan and his sisters. Then at 3:15 I had child development and at 5:30 I had social dance, one of my favorite classes. Would go home, eat dinner and change into my workout clothes. Then Kinzi, Kenzie, Katie and I would go to hip hop at the Hart at 8:00. At 9:00 was yoga, and 10:00 abs that rock.


• Wednesday: Classes: 7:45 Anatomy and Physiology, 10:15 Family History, and 11:15 Fitness for Fun. Come home for lunch. Then go to University Orchestra. Would go to my 3:15 study group for Anatomy. Come home and study or take a nap, or go grocery shopping. Every other Wednesday we would have cleaning checks. We won every time but two, and I think thats because we won every time. Would relax a little after cleaning checks.


• Thursday: 7:45-9:45 Anatomy and Physiology labs. I really liked being able to see the cadavers every week. Come home and take a nap. Get ready, study. Sometimes I would have lunch in the crossroads with Kinzi, and then go to the bookstore after. Had class at 3:15: child development, and at 5:30 I had social dance. Come home and eat dinner and change. 8:00 hip hop, 9:00 yoga, and 10:00 abs that rock.


• Friday: 7:45 Anatomy and Physiology and then come home a take a nap. 12:30 Family History Lab and University orchestra at 2:00. Go home and study. Then would get together with a bunch of friends and my roomates. We would go to dance parties, sand dunes, have movie/milk shake/smoothie nights, make fries. Curfew was 1:00 a.m. on Friday nights. Would have a blast hanging with friends. Sometimes me and my roomates would have sleepovers in our living room. One time we also pulled out our mattresses and set them up in the living room. Occasional weekend trips to Burley.


• Saturday: Sleep in. Do laundry and practice piano for church on Sunday. Would run the 11/2 mile every other saturday in the workout room in the lounge. Towards the end of the semester I would go with Kinzi and Kenzie to their aunt Laney's house to do laundry. We would always eat and play with the kids. They were so much fun!!! Would work on homework. At night we would also have movie/milk shake/smoothie nights, dance parties, play games, and just hang out with friends. Curfew was midnight on Saturday nights.


• Sunday: Sleep in, and get ready for church. Church was at 12:15. Sacrament was first then sunday school and relief society. We had 3 relief societys in our ward. Janae Beazer was our Relief Society President! She was amazing! Very warm, welcoming, and would come over to visit. She is going on a mission to Japan and we are way excited for her. After church we would have roomate dinners, usually roast, steaks, or casseroles! Mandie would make no bake cookies on Sunday. I didn't like no bake cookies until she made them. They are super good!! We would relax and watch movies, talk, or work on religion homework. We didn't like to do homework on Sundays unless it was religion and we were reading our scriptures. Friends would come over and we would have cookies or brownies. Then at 9:30 we had stadium singing underneath the bleachers at the football stadium.
  

Christmas Eve was spent with my family, grandma and grandpa Blaine, Nik, Kandice, Kaelan, Jackson, Henley, Dave, Sheri, Tanner, Dallas, and Hayden. We had chinese food that is becoming a tradition on Christmas Eve. We played spoons and I won!!! We sat in our living room and talked forever, and then the kids and I went downstairs and watched the new Harry Potter movie. Then next morning Santa came and visited us!! I got a new coat, pj's, versage perfume, a CTR Ring, and our family got a wii!! My dad also gave my mom a painting of the Twin Falls Temple that Marylyn Miller Painted. It is beautiful! On New Years Eve, we went to Ben and Nikki's as tradition! We had tons of great food and tons of family over. Every half hour we would pop poppers and we did the traditional Firework show. After I went to Becca's house. Kristy, Jessie, Adam, and Tyler were all there. We had fun just talking and catching up and celebrating the new year together!

Common meals I would eat:

• lots of tomatoe and cheese sandwiches


• hot pockets


• smoothies


• frozen casseroles, chicken broccili, and lasagna


• sandwiches; toasted tuna fish and meat sandwiches with pickles and tomatoes
• Reese's Ice Cream
• Blueberry Pop Tarts
• A reese's everyday
• Chips and salsa
  

T.V Shows:

• Reba: 9:00-10:00


• Friends 10:00-11:00


• Criminal Minds at 11:00


• What I Like About You: 12:00-1:00


• NCIS, CSI:Miami, and Criminal Minds after that


• Americas Funniest Home Videos at 8:00-10:00

FHE Brothers:

• Would come over for brownies or movies


• Went on a date with Nathan to the Haunted Mill


• Went on a date with Riley to the movies


• Nathan made me cookies our last Sunday and brought them over to me

Random:

• Would go on walks with Kyle to the temple
• Skype with my Burley friends
• Went to the Sand Dunes after FHE, the Monday before Thanksgiving break, to watch an amazing meteor shower!! There were tons of us there! It was super cold.