SDSWHO?

 January 26, 2011

#9 BYU 71
#4 SDSU 58

Best game of my life. Here's my story:

Tuesday
12:00 AM  Parker and I arrive at the Marriott Center to begin our wait in line for wristbands into the game! only about 10 other people there.

2:00-11:00AM we FREEZE our butts off. Miserable? yes. Bored? yes.

11:00 - 12:45 PM we get cut, budged, pushed, smashed, and down right ROBBED of our places in line.
#12 in line say hello to wristband #630 . GRRRRR stupid people

1:00-10:00 PM I take a nap, shower, etc. trying to recover from my still frozen toes and my lack of sleep

sleep time.

Wednesday
7:30 AM wake up

9:00-1:30 PM go to work. Pump my boss up for the game.

2:00-3:00 PM go to class. Organic Chemistry. Yuck.

3:15-6:00 PM wait outside the Marriott in MORE lines. Meet more cutters. GRRRRR I am FURIOUS by now. PEOPLE STOP STEALING MY GOOD SEATS PLEASEEEEEE!

6:30 PM enjoy a nice, special show by the one and only TJ FREDETTE. Yeah boiii

6:45-8:15 PM wait anxiously for the game to start!! Tired. Hungry. Nervous.

8:15-10:15 PM observe a miracle. nuff said.

Thank you Cougars. You never fail me. I'm proud to call you mine! The atmosphere of the game was absolutely amazing. SO SO loud. I was screaming as loud as I could and I could not hear myself. yeah, that loud! Enjoy some highlights from the game!! P.S. Pardon my screechy singing of the school song, all of my screaming, and my unsteady hand... I was a little excited. haha

Our Awesome posters:

 Beautiful score when we started to take the lead

My favorite part!

 Hahaha a kid in my ward found this on Deseret News.. embarrassing.

My face says it all. I wasn't happy.

 I stole the next few from offline

 and this.... would be my lover.

mmmmmmm

And this is the kind of welcome Jimmer gets for warm-ups

                                         

Maybe next time BYU will rethink their stupid line method. Well they better or they WILL be hearing from me. But this game will go down in history. That is for sure. And I was apart of it. Love BYU.

Our Burdens will be Light

Today was the first time I have been to my singles ward in about a month and let me just say it was the PERFECT sunday to return to. Church today was AMAZING. I felt the spirit so strongly through all of the meeting.
During sacrament the speakers talked about the words of the prophet. The speakers were 3 recently returned missionaries. All good looking by the way :) ha but all of the talks were so good! A few words stuck out to me.

• Life is hard. It isn't going to be easy. That's just how it is. BUT, if we do what is right, follow the commandments, and listen and obey the prophet, life will be doable. Our burdens will be made light and life will be a lot easier than if we didn't do those things. 
• Faith. We need to have faith. Just like Moses with his serpent. All the people had to do to be healed was LOOK at the serpent. How simple is that? It is too simple. Our Father in Heaven can see the big picture. He knows what we need in life and when we need it. We need to have faith in him and do his will and we will be blessed.
• Our rest hymn was We Thank Thee O God For A Prophet. The congregation stood and as I played the piano I was overwhelmed with the spirit. How grateful I am for a living prophet. Thomas S. Monson. I KNOW with all of my heart that he is called of God. Currently I am reading his biography and it is so amazing to see just how normal of a child he was. During his youth i'm sure noone knew that one day he would be the prophet. He is a normal person just like you and I.  But he was called of God. He is truly amazing. 
• Today it hit me how grateful for the sacrament I am. With my calling, I have to sit at the piano kind of out of the way from people. I can't tell you how many times I freak out that they won't come to me. My heart starts racing and I am in panic mode. Praying that they will remember to come to me. Luckily I always have that moment when one of the passers will look at me and wink and then I know they have my back. And then I am finally at peace. I have thought to myself what i would do if they skipped me. Would I stand up?  Wave my arms around? Or since the sacrament table is next to me just nudge one of them and say umm you forgot me? I don't know how retarded I will look at that moment, but let's just hope it never happens.

In sunday school we are now in the New Testament. YAY! no offense old testament but you just aren't the same. Today we talked about the 3 temptations of Christ. Recently I had my New Testament class so all of this stuff was fresh in my mind. Pride, Passion, Power. How simple those three things seem to overcome but EVERY temptation and sin we face falls into one of those three categories. 

And last but not least in Relief Society we talked about fasting. It made me reflect on some of my memories of fasting. The first time I remember really fasting was for Kallie Keele when she was diagnosed with cancer, or for Chris Eyres when we found out about his brain tumor. I remember Justin Pack and I were fasting for Chris in the 6th grade. It was Ryan Graves' birthday and he brought treats. I was sitting next to Justin and we kind of looked at each other like "dang, that looks delicious" but we had a plan. We took our treats. Instead of giving them up and passing. We then went up to Mrs. Hogge and told her the situation. She put them in her drawer and saved them for us until the next day. I remember my ward being "HIT" with multiple occasions in the same year with opportunities to fast. But one experience that I will never forget was my senior year. My ward did a 40 day fast for Josh Pack. Each family signed up for a different day that covered a 40 day period. I remember thinking how cool that was. But then about 2 weeks ago while I was in my home ward we had this same lesson on fasting and Lisa Pack told how that fast 2 and a half years ago still blesses their family. The power of fasting is huge. 

So grateful I went to church today! And grateful for a relaxing sunday. AND.... STOKED for the byu game this wednesday! #6 SDSU @#9 BYU. Biggest game of the year. the game is sold out to the public and for student seating I am going extremely early tuesday morning to get in line for a wristband to get into the game. Sad they are doing away with camping out... but this makes it so I can still carry on with my normal life and not miss things like my tuesday temple day! Happy sunday! Thanks for reading.

Change is a good thing

Yesterday I realized a simple concept. I love change. I got in the mood to rearrange my bedroom and it is like a completely different place. i absolutely love it. Every time I open my door it makes me so happy to realize the change and the difference. Also I put a blanket over my window cause there is a stupid light in the stairwell that shines through my window.. Now my room is so dark I'm pretty sure I could sleep for days.  Here are some pics. I guess you won't know that it is different if you didn't see my bedroom in the first place, but here it is!

Secondly... you've gotta love these gems. These were a gift from Parker for my birthday and so I wake up to our beautiful faces daily.

(Yes, they are magnets ha ha)

 To my mom and dad: HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! Big 22 years! Thank you for being in love. I love you guys so much and I'm so grateful for you. Thanks for all that you do for me! I have the best parents in the world. I hope you are having a blast in Puerto Rico!

And last item of business for the day... most of you may know about my byu basketball obsession. And if not... I am obsessed. I will admit it. But this season I was a little heartbroken because my favorite player is serving a mission now. Tyler Haws. My love. But a new mormon message features this beaut... so please enjoy! (mormon message down below)

 Please watch this and try not to cry cause I can't help but cry everytime. ;)

Can't wait for your return to the Marriott Center Elder Haws! You are missed!

The Birthday I would LOVE to forget

Thursday, January 6, 2011.

My birthday. I love birthdays. Especially my birthday! But I swear it is a curse. I don't remember the last time I had a birthday that i didn't cry on. Don't ask me why, it is just a bad day. I thought this year would be the end. I thought I would end my horrible streak. I was wrong.

The day started out great. And I was looking forward to my little birthday party at wingers. Courtney, my girl, drove all the way down from NO. And I was so happy to see her! Love her for driving all the way down just to go to dinner.

So we left at 5:40 so we could get to Wingers before everyone else showed up and left ha ha. It was a really good time. It was a really good turn out and had about 20 of my closest friends from down here come celebrate my birthday with me. My mom called during dinner to tell me that my old seminary teacher had called to wish my happy birthday and I told her I would call her back as soon as I was done at dinner.

Around 8:30 she got a phone call from me bawling.

Someone had climbed up our balcony, pushed open my roommates window, and stole all of our laptops and chargers. 3 being macs nonetheless. I then realize that my ipod was plugged into my laptop so that was missing too. Then not long after I also realized that they had used MY backpack to hide them all in. Which contained my I-clicker, notebook with 3 days of class notes, student ID, etc. Usually I have a debit card in there but i had taken it out earlier that day. lucky? yes. So mr. thief has my life at his fingertips. All of my pictures, if it weren't for my blog saving pictures, I would have none. He has all of my itunes music. Luckily itunes was nice enough to re-grant me some of my purchased songs. He has all of my documents, school work, odds and ends, passwords, EVERYTHING.

I called 911 and they showed up soon after and got some fingerprints. Our house was a nice little crime scene. What a dramatic night. I for sure was a mess. I was crying all night. I was supposed to drive home to Eden that night but i decided I better not. Instead I had a sleepless night in Provo. Awesome.

I am still scared. Uneasy. Paranoid. Etc. I hate it. But I will get through it. Soon enough. Luckily we had 2 comforting guys with us, which I'm sure made us feel a little safer. Thanks Cade and Parker.

Fortunately I have the best parents in the world who replaced everything that was stolen! They are so amazing and I am so grateful for them! I love them so much! We were lucky girls to all have parents kind enough to get us up and running again. Thanks mom and dad!

Lived, Learned, and moving forward...

2010 has come and gone, as crazy as that is. It seems like it flew by so fast but then as I look back to the person I was a year ago, I almost don't recognize her. So much has changed. And no, not very many drastic things, but.. little things. Decisions have been made, relationships have changed, and experiences have strengthened the person I am and have made me who I am today. Here's a few events that occurred this year:

• Found out what it is like to struggle in school. College ain't no high school. It's hard work.

• Said goodbye to 2 of my best friends. Zach now serving in Manaus, Brazil, and Christopher now serving in Guadalajara, Mexico. I spent just about everyday for 8 months with these boys and it was hard to say goodbye. My first few months of school were a little hard without them here.

  

• Went to summer school, a new experience for me--For 2 months I had 2 softball players as my roommates and they were not nice. They wouldn't say a word to me. During that time I experienced a lot of loneliness. But not soon after that is where I met 2 of my amazing friends that i will be friends with forever. Celeste and Lucia I cherish your friendship! You were there for me when times got rough and I am so grateful for all of the laughs! Miss you girls!! 

• Celebrated the return of the boy I thought I loved. After writing him for 2 years I couldn't wait for this moment. To be honest, I thought I was going to marry him. But after 3 months of emotional ups and downs I realized who I really was, what I wanted to become, and what I needed for myself. I miss his friendship but I know I did what was right for me and I wouldn't change a thing.

• Got my first job! Finally after searching for months. Target Team Member reporting for duty. This job has taught me a lot. From organizing my life better, managing my time, and having PATIENCE with mean evil customers who want their drugs IMMEDIATELY. I have the best boss in the world and I love the people I work with.

• My family purchased the new love of my life. Gilbert. 

  

Finally decided that Pharmacy School is where I am heading no matter how hard it will be or how long it will take. 

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Got on track for a major so I can graduate from BYU. I am now studying Nutritional Science which includes all of my pre-reqs for Pharm school.

• Went on adventure to South Carolina to see my girl Sharon. She has basically been my left side since I met her in August of 09. I can't believe it has been that long!! But i loved experiencing the heat, Greenness everywhere, and really weird freeways. Ha ha.

  

Watched one of my best friends get married and participated in the wedding

• Said hello to some of my really good friends as they got home from missions including my best friend Parker who now lives only 5 minutes away from me and I have the privilege of bugging daily 

 BEFORE Mish

 AFTER Mish

• Got to go to the temple with my WHOLE family. Thanks for turning 12 Morgie!

  

• Ventured to Brad Paisley. Again. A new tradition for me and my girls! Can't wait for next year!

  

• Overcame my fear of playing the piano in public. That wasn't a choice. Being called to be the ward pianist did me in for that one. 

Through all of these times there was definitely the good and the bad. My family and friends are always there for me but most of all my Savior was there for me through it all. Through the loneliness, the decision making and everything. I am so grateful for him. For his example. And most of all for the classes I have taken that have taught me so much about him and his life. Thanks for readin

Days 16-20

Day 16: A song that makes you cry (or almost)


I have two songs that make me quite a bit emotional

one: Don't worry now- Britt Nichols
two: you're gonna miss this-trace adkins

I love them both. Good messages.

Day 17: An art piece


I guess this is supposed to be my favorite art piece? I honestly don't have one. I like pictures of nature and pretty places, especially of places that i have been to and have been able to appreciate in person. Actually I take that back. I do have a favorite. I found it in Disneyland and fell in love with it. I asked for it for Christmas but i had no luck... ha ha this will be in my future home you can bet on that...

Day 18: My future wedding.....

will be loaded with gerber daises. I LOVE gerber daises! and it has always been my dream to have gerber daises all over.

or.. i want just black and red as my colors with red roses

ehh ok maybe i don't like that idea so much.. haha i guess we will just have to wait and see what my wedding will look like

Day 19: A talent

Well i don't think i have very many talents... but i guess i would consider piano playing one of my talents. I use to HATE playing the piano. i would only practice on lesson day if i could get away with it. It was an annoyance to me and I did not enjoy it. But ever since I have graduated I have loved it. I miss having a piano to play on whenever I want. And when i go home my family yells at me to get off cause I spend so much time on there!

Day 20: A hobby

You may all laugh at me but one of my hobbies is knitting. Yes, I am a knitter. I only have one pattern that I make so I guess i'm not that big of a knitter but I enjoy it. It is my stress reliever. I could knit and knit but then my pinky fingers get really sore and hurt for a few days haha but here are some of my projects. I like to call them scripture totes. They are pretty fun but take forever to make! I have made about 10