And now on to Winter 2009

I'm back, and Rexburg has welcomed me with open arms. Ah...isn't she inviting?


The trip up here was very adventurous and interesting. The plan was for us to leave on Monday and I was going to caravan with my roommates Lydia and Michelle. We were going to leave early in the morning but Michelle's car broke down on the way to my house. So I stayed with her to make sure everything got worked out. Lydia continued to Rexburg but Michelle and I received the news that her car would be out of working condition for about two weeks. So we had the fun task of taking everything out of her car (I have no idea how she packed it so full!) and transferring it to my house, and then transferring what would fit into my car.

The Denali to the rescue!


I have no idea how we fit so much stuff in that car!


So then we got home and transferred everything into my car. Poor little Vicky was PACKED. To the brim. Like there were clothes stuffed into every crevice. Ha what a good little car. Then I went to start it....and she wouldn't start! It was a let down to say the least. But we got it jump started that night and thankfully it started again in the morning. We went to Walmart the next morning before heading off to Rexburg to buy a new car battery and of course they didn't have my car's battery. So....that was fantastic. But we had them check and see if my battery even needed to be replaced, and it didn't. So that was good. Then we were off!!

The roads were AWFUL. It was super scary driving. But Michelle was a good passenger and I was able to stay pretty relaxed. It just got intense in a few spots, especially since I couldn't see out my back window or my blind spots. And the car was so heavy.


Here's a little piece of what the roads looked like. Scary!


But we we were very grateful to arrive safely with enough time to move our stuff in, get books, and run to the store quickly. But poor Vicky, she's so dirty now. My snowboard rack froze shut, I had to chip at the ice for 5 minutes to get it undone. But I am happy to have a good car that works and is trustworthy...for the most part.

I am hanging out with Maria right now. And Trevor.

Think whatever you want about me, but I just love the Jazz. And especially this guy:

Well okay, I love the whole team, every one of them. Last weekend my dad took us to a game, and for the first (and probably only time) in my life I had seats in the lower bowl. 15th row baby! So I had a view that looked something like this:





So the Jazz game was fun. I also made one of these with Trevor...


And then he made me eat a spoonful of frosting. Yuck.

Christmas is in 3 days!!! Hope everyone got their shopping done and stuff. Here's what i'm getting my aunt and mom for Christmas. Just a nice little touch to their kitchens:






Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!

I am so bad at updating my blog. So i'll start from square one, I started this entry, oh, about a month ago. But I think it's too good just to skip over. Wayyy too good. Sooo...this is originally from about November 21. Oooh good times.

Such a good weekend! This entry will pretty much be all about the Coldplay concert. Okay..

COLDPLAY= AMAZING!!!! I can't even explain how good it was. It was the best concert i've ever been to...it even topped Keith Urban. And that takes a lot...

So we got there and I was kind of like what in the heck. Why did I pay so much money for seats that are totally not good. And I was kind of like ooh man if I didn't have these tickets i'd be $116 richer. But I decided whatever, I'm here so I might as well enjoy it.

Then the show started. From the very beginning I was like HOLY COW this is so incredible, this concert was definitely worth the money. Their music was soo amazing live, even better then their album. I got goosebumps every ten seconds. Words can't even describe how good it was.

So then they were playing up on the main stage and Lydia and I noticed that behind us there was a sound guy setting up guitars and microphones. RIGHT behind us. So...I just about started freaking out, because I knew that within minutes Coldplay was going to be about 4 feet away from us. My heart.

They finished their song and soon enough they were running through the audience, up to where I was!!! So they came up and they played two songs, right there, up close and personal. I about died, I loved it and I'm pretty sure they loved me. When they got up to the stage they said "Wow, there are a lot of babes in Salt Lake" ooooh yeah.

Here are some pictures.







Obviously I've lost some enthusiasm on the subject. Oh well.

Love this! Watch it.

Desperate times call for.....

Our last attempt to get our roommates to do the dishes......

Lydia= Amazing for making this.

Ooooh what a good week this has been! Wow, I don't even know where to start. Okay, I'll just go day by day.

Monday we carved pumpkins for FHE, it was pretty sweet. Kaitlin and I carved ours together, it turned out nice. Wednesday I went over to the Hazards and carved pumpkins with all of them. That was so much fun!

My pumpkin was rotten in the middle but I was tough and dug out all the guts and carved it anyway (I paid 5 bucks for that thing!). Everyone finished their pumpkings pretty quick, mine took forever to finish. I think I took about 2 hours, but in my opinion it turned out amazing! The day after I carved it my pumpkin caved in on itself and never even got to see Halloween. Oh well.

Thursday night I had another soccer game, the first game of the Tournament. It was against the Knights and it was a good game! We won, I honestly can't remember what the score was but it was a good competition. It brought us one step closer to the championship game!! It was perfect soccer weather and I love playing with my team! They are so awesome. My friend Scott came to watch me play and so did Kaitlin, so they hung out on the sidelines and I joined them when I wasn't playing.

Me going after the ball. That girl got owned!

Scott and me after my game

So Thursday was fantastic....Friday came and of course that was Halloween!!! It was kind of an up in the air kind of night, we just skipped from party to party. But we started out the evening with eating pumpkin stew at the Hazards. I was a little nervous but it was actually really good! Nancy dug out the insides of a pumpkin and cooked the stew in the oven IN the pumpkin. It was really fancy and the pieces of pumpkin were delicious! We ate on the floor in the kitchen by the light of two candles, it was very spooky. And of course the occasional trick-or-treater would come and Colby would get a mask on and scare the bejeezes out of them. Poor kids!

After dinner we all got together and played a little Nintendo 64 Mario Kart. That was fun, I'm a little rusty though. Then we got all dressed up in our costumes. Kaitlin was a "dare devil" and wore the devil horns with bandaids and stuff. Very creative. Colby wore a wig and he was a "reject BYU-I student". Good one haha. And for my costume I decided to be a polygamist. I found the best dress for it and my hair was poofed sky high (the higher the hair the closer to Heaven). In my mind I knew that I should've been wearing running shoes with my dress but I just couldn't get myself to do it. So I just stuck with wearing normal shoes. Here are some pics!

After we partied it up we went back to my apartment and watched Mothman Prophesies. Scary movie! I wasn't really scared after but it made me have horrible dreams all night so I didn't really sleep very well. But I guess it shook Colby up a bit, haha! Kaitlin said that when I dropped them off after the movie the front door was locked and Colby freaked out and then slept on the floor in Kaitlin and Court's room. Funny. It's alright, it was a scary movie! I watched I am Legend for the first time on Saturday night, that one was way good but kind of creepy and scary too. I really liked it though.

Saturday morning my team had our second soccer game of the tournament against the Hawks. I guess you could say that the Hawks were our rivalry, they were the number one ranked team until we beat them last week (shut them out at 3-0). They were undefeated before we played them. It was a really, really intense and competitive game. The atmosphere was just filled with anger, you could tell that we all wanted to beat eachother. I think the Hawks just weren't used to having a lot of competition, and we definitely gave them a run for their money. My old roommate Mary was on the Hawks team so it was good to see her again.

But anyway, they were our first game. If we lost that game then our season would be over, and we didn't want that! So we played our guts out and played with real heart and in the end the game was tied 3-3! We had to go into overtime and that was so nerve racking. The refs told us that we would just play until the first goal scored, so when our team scored first we all ran together and dog piled on the field. Turned out that it was a miscommunication and that we had to play two complete 10 minute halves. So we regathered ourselves and beat them fair and square.

Me playing keep away with the Hawks

My team getting pumped for the second half

So after we won our first game we had about two hours to recover and play our next game, the game for the championship!! We were so excited to have made it so far, because looking back on our season we actually lost a lot of games. But we're a good team so we were happy to show that and to show our skills. We were all so exhausted from the first game; the other team had a game that morning too but they didn't go into overtime so they had a slight advantage because they weren't as worn out and they had more time to rest.

The game was so slow moving. Everyone was so tired, but in the end we won again and became the champion team of all BYU-I women's soccer!! When the whistle for the end of the game blew we didn't even have enough energy to run together and be excited, we all sort of walked off the field with smiles on our faces, high-fived eachother, took pictures, and pretty much collapsed. It was a very well deserved victory! Go Vikings!

We are the Champions!!!