Home Sweet Home!

Well I got back yesterday around 5! I was so excited! Although when I got in the car with my dad and two brothers, Christopher and Cameron didnt even notice I was there because they were to busy watching a movie! :( But, I am very glad to be home. It was really weird to wake up this morning and realize that I was actually in a house.

Last night was Aubry's 16th birthday party! I was very glad I made it home in time for it! She had her friends come over and have a 5 course meal, go caroling, play games, and then they watched The Chiristmas Shoes. It was a lot of fun of course, how can you not when you have 8 15/16 year old girls together!

Aubry and her friends making a toast at the 5 course dinner

Home Free!

So today I finished my last final!! Yeah!! I am now officially done with my 1st semester at BYU. Amazingly I am still alive and functioning :) This poor Panguitch girl is not use to this kind of intense studying.

Last night while I was studying, David called me and wanted to know if I wanted to take a study break before my brain exploded. So I took a break for a while, and made cards with him while we watched A Christmas Carol on the TV in the Lobby! It was very good to let my brain calm down before I went back to studying!

Top: David making a card for his brother on a mission

Bottom: Two of the cards that I madeI am just glad I am done and I can go home tomorrow!!! I am so excited for Aubry's birthday party tomorrow night. I cant wait to see all my family and spend time with them again.

The start of the end of my life!

Today is the start of finals, something all students look forward to ;) I am studying constantly and cant wait until they are over and I can make my way back to Panguitch again!

Winter Wonderland!

The view of the snow from my window

On Saturday it snowed all day long! I was SO excited! When I first looked out my window and saw the ground covered in white blanket I freaked out. I couldn't wait to go play in it. After finishing everything we needed to, Sydney and I finally went outside and had a blast!!

I am all ready to have fun in the snow!

Making a snow angel

Fun in the Snow!!

Well as you all know Sydney moved in with me, and so we got very excited about decorating our room for Christmas! So we spent a really long time cutting out 30 or more snowflakes to hang up all over. Now our room looks like a Winter Wonderland that we love! We also put up Christmas lights above our beds! We also have a Christmas Tree with candy canes all over it, and the star I made during Thanksgiving Break!

Our favorite snowflake that we made!

My side of the room with the snowflakes and Christmas lights

New Roomie!

Waiting for cleaning check

For the past little while my friend Sydney and I have been planning on becoming roommates. So yesterday she finally had all her stuff moved into my room. But she had to pile all her stuff on my side until the other side got checked to make sure it was clean. But we are now roomies!!! And both of us are very excited!

Sydney's stuff all over my side of the room

Taking a break from putting up decorations :)

Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!

Yesterday it started snowing!! I was very excited. It didnt stick for very long, but it finally started feeling like Christmas time to me!!

Temple Square

Nativity Scene in the Reflecting Pool and the Temple

Monday for FHE my ward went to Temple Square to see the lights! It was gorgeous like always, but it was a little different not being with my family on our yearly trip. But I still loved every second and I wish they would have given us more time. We had time to walk around, go to the top of the Joseph Smith Building, go inside the Tabernacle, and go inside the Assembly Hall. By the time we got out of the Assembley hall Sydney, Gary, and I wanted to head over to see the statue of Christ until we looked at our clocks and realized it was time to go. So Sydney and I just decided we were going to have to come back with a group of our friends. It was a really fun trip and I am very glad I was there to see my friends see the lights for the first time!

Sydney, Gary, and I in front of the Reflecting Pool

Us in front of the Salt Lake Temple doors

Assembley Hall

Thanksgiving

I got to go back to Panguitch for Thanksgiving!! It was very nice to be back home and around my family! We had Kerk and his family over, along with my Grandpa and Grandma Phillips. We just had fun playing games, watching movies, and just hanging out! On Saturday we went hiking in Escalante, which was really fun. Aubry, Katelyn, and Joan had fun singing their own version of Pioneer Children Sang as they walked and walked and walked and walked. Except they changed it to something like this Modern day children died as they walked....Modern day children wished they werent walking as they walked and walked........ We had fun and were very excited when we finally got back to the car so we could eat!!!

The First Snow Fall

Today it snowed for the first time! Sydney and Bre were very excited because it was their first time seeing snow! I just cant wait until it snows a lot and we can actually build snowmen and stuff like that!

Sydney was amazed with the snow on all the leaves!
Poor Bre, a texas girl in the freezing cold!

Lots of Rain

So the other day on my way back from church it was pouring rain! And being the smart person I am, I didn’t have a jacket with a hood on it. So…when I got back to my room, I was soaking wet with water dripping down my face.

Steph and I soaking wet! It was very cold

Halloween!

For Halloween this year I was the character Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas. It was very interesting having my face covered in blue and white paint, but it was way worth it. I had fun walking around Helaman and visiting all the lobbies. We went to a dance in Chipman (oh yeah I love that place). Then that night after the party Sydney, Steph, and I watched The Nightmare Before Christmas in my room.

The Mascarade Girl, Sally, and the Doctor (Sydney, Me, Steph)

Sydney, Me, Bre, and Steph doing a random ballet pose

We love the weekends!

This week has been very interesting. On Thursday night I was sitting at my desk when the fire alarm went off. We had to assemble outside, and it was FREEZING! The firefighters had to come and check out the building before we could go back in. So once they had explored, they found out it was a prank. Which made me not so happy.

Anyways, Friday night I went with Sydney to University Mall to a Twilight CD Listening Party! I loved all the music! Then we explored the mall. We went to the Disney Store and wanted to be Princesses for Halloween. I wanted to be Belle, and Sydney wanted to be Jezebel.

Me at hot topic for the twilight cd listening party

The Aweseome Belle Crown I really wanted to buy but resisted

Saturday was the awesome football game against UNLV!! It was a pretty intense game. Bre kept grabbing on to Sydney and I saying “WHAT ARE THEY THINKING?”

Basketball Cosmo at the football game!!

Saturday night was our ward Spooktacular up at a park in Provo canyon. We had tonz of fun carving pumpkins, eating caramel apples, apple cider, homemade root beer, and dancing!

Trying not to fall of a log at the spooktacular

(The vampire, the mascarade girl, and the doctor)

Bre and I going down the slide

Getting ready to go dance!! YEAH

Yay for the Fam!

Well I finally finished decorating my room, just in time for my family to see it! I got to see them for the first time this weekend since I moved up to Provo. They came and picked me up Saturday night after Aubry's volleyball game, and we went to Grandma's house! Aubry, Katelyn and I had fun watching the movie The Others Saturday night. I just had fun being around them again.

On Sunday we had a dinner with everyone! I was sooo excited to see my cute little cousins! After we left their house we headed down to Provo! And guess what! I got to drive for the 1st time in two months! It was pretty awesome! Anyways i stopped and said hi to Brad, Camille, Josh, and Jamison before heading back to my "home"!

It was a way awesome weekend and I was very glad to get away, only if it was only for a day and a half! :)

My Decorated Room (very purply)

Aubry and Ty

Cameron in the Playhouse

Cameron holding Liam

Ty the stud!

Me and my crazy bro!

Katelyn and I with our awesome gummy car suckers!

Saying my goodbyes to Savannah

Jamison was eating a sucker and his spit dripped on my cheek YUM!

Holding Josh's cute bunnies

Cold Weekend!

This weekend was Homecoming! After classes on Friday we walked to the Hospital to see Bre. We also went yesterday, and she is doing a lot better. She got released from the hospital last night, after the doctors examined how she was eating and her situation after getting her gall bladder taken out.

Saturday was the football game against New Mexico. It was pretty cold. Sydney and Steph are both from California and they were freezing, so I gave them my scarf and gloves. It was a pretty crazy game, with the score 21 to 3! And the Cougars are still undefeated! YEAH!

After the football game we went back to our rooms and got ready for the dance.

After the dance we walked to the Malt Shoppe! We had shakes, which by the way were huge. I couldnt finish a whole one. It was a was way fun to just hang out with my friends and have a good time.

Homecoming Madness!

This week is Homecoming Week. There have been lots of asking to the dances going on. I asked one of my friends named Todd. I had one of my other guy friends put fish all over his door and one that was a different color than the rest with a not saying "Of all the fish in the sea, you're the one for me. Will you go to Homecoming with me?" He answered me by having this sign and flower on the piano in the lobby of our dorm, and he played the piano and sang me a song. It was way cute.

I also helped Sydney ask one of our friends.

And helped him answer her. We had to trace my body on the ground and he had a not that said "I'd die to go to homecoming with you". It was pretty fun. So now everytime i see the tape on the floor i think of how i died there!!!