Happy New Year!

I have been looking forward to this weekend for a while. Ever since the invite went up on Facebook, i was getting pumped. Elissa Stapley has been throwing a New Year's Eve party for 2 years now, and the first two were out of control fun, loved them! Tons of people, dancing, socializing, food...what else could a single girl want?

Now after going to Jerusalem with Elissa we had all these great mutual study abroad friends, that we LOVE! After some easy convincing some of them decided to come down since they had heard about this party from others at BYU and how epic it is.  So with three different airplane tickets and two cars full of Jerusalem kids came down for a weekend of fun!

New Year's Eve we went to BJ's for dinner, reservation for 15, it was so much fun and yummy! Here is some of the crew:

Diana, Ron, & Anna

Mary, Kelsea, & Lindsey

Alex & i

Dan Jones, Jon (or as we call him Tall Blonde), & Steve

 Sadly i didn't bring my camera to Elissa's party since i knew that it would just get in the way of dancing. Although we did take some great cheesy Prom style pictures at my house which maybe ill post later. After Elissa's party, all of the jeru-crew came over and slept at my house. By 4:30 a.m. there was a total of 11 kids sound asleep.

The next morning, after eating some cinnamon rolls, we headed down to our friend, Kelsea's, house who lives in Oceanside for her birthday.

 Ron, Anna, & i

After Oceanside, we headed up north and went to Balboa Island and did a classic california dinner of Ruby's on the Pier. 

Us waiting for our table...

After Ruby's, stopping at the Candy Barrel, and some walking around, we went back home and played the name game, which i fell in love with (i had never played before)! Then we had round II of cinnamon rolls, since all my friends could not get enough of their deliciousness. In the morning, everyone was packed and gone by 8:15 a.m. :(

The weekend was a blast and it went by way too fast! The whole time we were together we all reminisced about how it was just a year ago we had all even met each other! Its crazy how close we have become, and yet we still seem to can't get enough of each other and crack each other up. i just love these kids so much!

Finals Week

So any other finals weeks, i would have been this woman shown above. Stressed out! But this semester has been great! I had 2 take home finals, one on blackboard, one scheduled presentation (thats on friday), and one in the testing center (which i was able to bring one page of notes (but it was really hard!)). So i got the one in the testing center done, and am just chillin for the next 3 days til Friday morning for my presentation. Can this happen every semester? please :)

So to catch up a little bit...

Friday

Britten, danica, Fred, Lon, Cj, and i all went to the Salt Lake City Temple and saw the Christmas lights. We drove to Sandy and then took the train from Sandy to SLC because it was suppose to snow that night and we thought it would be fun to take the train too :)

 the crew (CJ, Lon, Danica, Fred, me, Brit)

roommate love

Monday Night

Alissa Rios is going on a mission, so sad, but she will do great. I cant believe that it will be the last time for at least a year in a half that all of us, what i call "the capo girls" will be together!

Us a year ago (at Guru's of course ;) )

Its amazing how fast things change, but i will always love these girls.

Washington DC

Washington DC was awesome! Loved it! And after being there, i thought, wow i could live here. Anyways, so here is the low down on what we did:

Flew in on Thursday night...

Our first Metro ride :)

On Friday Aaron had to work, so he put on a scavenger hunt for Mary and i, it was so much fun! As much as we wish we could have been hanging out with Aaron, it was like we still got to with all his little clues. Before we went on our scavenger hunt we took a tour of the Treasurey, it's an amazing building. And we also walked around and found the white house which was right next door...

 Okay so back to the scavenger hunt, he gave us our first clue, which led us to the Newsuem, which is a musuem full of newspapers of top headlines everywhere, we didn't end up actually going inside but, the outside had all the states and their major newspaper and that days paper.

 Mary found the first clue, behind the Arizona newspaper (Aaron is from Arizona)

 Our next clue led us to the Hope Diamond, which was in the Natural History Musuem.  I had never heard of it, but it was so cool! i loved learning about the history of this beautiful, HUGE diamond!

Mary and i throwing down that we found the next clue (3rd one)

 Our next clue led us to the Air and Space Musuem, specifically to the Wright Brothers exhibit.

 Along the way to the next clue we walked by the capital and it was just so pretty!

 Our next clue led us to the first American Flag, it was really cool to see. Made me feel very patriotic

 Okay so this clue was really hard for us. It led us to the Vietnam Memorial Wall, but it was dark by the time we got there so it made finding our little envelope very hard. We ended up walking the wall like 3 times and mary had to take like 30 pictures of different parts of the wall just to get light from her flash on her phone to be able to find our clue...haha the funny part was that it also took so long because on the outside of the envelope it was addressed to Major White and General Huish, which i didnt notice the first couple times we walked by! haha!

My favorite clue was this one that we found at the Vietnam Memorial because inside all it had was a five dollar bill which ended up being a 'map' which led us to the lincoln memorial...very clever.

Later that night we ended up meeting up with his parents, who were also in town that weekend, and his sister and her boyfriend to a really yummy italian resturant.

Saturday morning and afternoon we spent on Mount Vernon which was also very cool. I learned a lot about President Washington.

 This is us chilling with the Washingtons. (Aaron's sister, Leanne, is next to me and his dad is on the far right)

 Out in front of his house (Aaron's mom is on the far right)

After Mount Vernon we went to Ray's Hell Burger which is apparently where Obama took the Russian President and Obama is a frequent eater there, it was sooo good though. The patty was probably 2 inches thick though and i couldnt even fit my mouth around it, i had to cut in in half!

And after that we went back to the Barlow Center to take a little afternoon nap while being induced by our food comas.

That night we went out to a cupcake shop and it was sooo good! i got a lemon raspberry cupcake, yum!

And after that we went to a random mexican resturant where we sang karoke with the other students at the Barlow Center which was a blast and fun to see the other students.

 

Sunday we went to Aaron's church which was great to be able to see the ward and all the other people that lived there, it was a full on single's ward too, which was another little plus with maybe moving there after graduation?!

After church and dinner we went to a couple more memorials, we went to the Pentagon memorial which i really liked. and we went to the Airforce Memorial which was also really cool.

Anyways, that night we went to the capital to hang out and we all got matching "I <3 DC" shirts. And it was a jerusalem thing to take jumping pictures so we had to get one of those in! While we were there i met up with Molly, which was soo great to see her because it had been way to long, and i miss her not being in Provo!

 cute molly :)

 jumping picture!

cheesey picture, showing off our sweet shirts!

It was a great trip! Great to see Aaron. Great to see DC. Great to get out of Provo and it's coldness. Great to get a break from school.

And let's just say, DC is a definite possibility for my future internship, if it's possible?! :)

Because i LOVED it!

October's Festivities

October has been a very fun month for our apartment. First it was Britten's Birthday on the 10th, which was a blast! Her birthday was on a Sunday but we celebrated on both Saturday before and Sunday. On Saturday we went to Guru's, where we ate, and sung karaoke.  It was soo fun! When first going into, i thought Yeahh right i'm singing up there!, but after being there in the fun environment, i went in for it.  There was no way i did it by myself though, the first song that we sung was "Hit Me Baby, One More Time" by Britney Spears and i sang with Danica and our friend Lon. Then then second song we sang was "Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" by Aerosmith and i sang with Danica, Lon, and Fred.  After going to Guru's we had a few friends come over to our apartment afterwards and hang out.

Sunday for Britten's (actual) birthday, after ward prayer, we had people come over and we played a game called Werewolf, which is a game we use to always play in Jerusalem that we had so much fun playing, but i don't think it was such a big hit for this group of kids. We still had fun singing to her with her gluten, soy, diary, and egg-free cake. We also had lots of candy since that is one thing that she can eat also.  

Janessa and Megan 

 Fred, Skylor, and Britten. These are a couple of boys from our ward that we have been hanging out with lately.

Danica and Lon, he is our friend from the ward also, but we probably hang out with him the most...him and Danica are besties :)

Another big thing for our apartment, is that our roommate, Sam, got officially engaged! She is getting married on December 18th in Las Vegas.  She has been a great roommate, so i am sad that we either have to find someone or get a random : / Selfishingly, I hope that no one fills her spot and it will just be Britten, Danica, and i, it would be soo fun! We already have plans for the extra room..haha!

On October 19th was Danica's Birthday, which was a great day! We went to Kneader's for lunch, which was my first experience there.  We were all hoping for their French toast, but we didn't make it in time! Then later that night we had a big Pumpkin Party, it was so great! We carved pumpkins, ate pumpkin "cupcakes," that i proudly made :), pumpkin pie and lots of candy, and hung out.

 the set up

 pumpkin "cupcakes" a.k.a. pumpkin muffins with cream cheese frosting

 Britten carving away with Kurtis

 My friend Jake..funny kid

 Danica and Ethan carving it up

 Collins and Barrett talking about computer stuff, i'm sure...

 The Capo Girls

Happy Birthday Britten and Danica! 

Confession

So i have a confession to make. I am a Gleek. I love watching it every Tuesday! Danica and i have currently created a new, great tradition for our Tuesday nights. So here is the schedule: First watch Glee with our friends Lon, Garry, Spencer, and David (who are also obsessed with it, which actually Garry and Lon are definitely more into than even i am. After the episode is shown, the next day, they typically watch it like 4 times, not even kidding!)  After Glee, we go to Golden Spoon! And here in Provo, I don't know if they do this at home, its "Double Stamp" Tuesday!

If you keep up with Glee you know that last week was the tribute to Britney Spears, scandalous! Danica and I were so excited for the episode that we counted the days down along with dressing up for the occasion. It was all dedicated to Britney.

I dressed as the classic "Hit Me Baby One More Time" video. And Danica decided to go with the more current Britney look from the "Circus" video.  Overall, we got some great laughs and felt like we were truly spirited and "in the zone."

Easy A

So Friday night was Danica's big night at the movies, since she was an extra for the movie Easy A. It was a great movie though..if you know what your getting into..haha because it is a modern day version of the scarlet letter. So going into the movie you know that there will be a lot of sex talk. But i do have to say that it was sooo funny! And that i loved the parents role's in the film, probably my favorite, well other than Danica's beautiful face on the big screen for like 10 seconds!

Back to School

I can not believe that i am half way through my college career! Its Nuts! But i also kinda doubt that i will finish college within the next 2 years..well thats according to my plans and with my planning of my schedule. Anyways, I have a little apartment at University Avenue Condos,

here is the kitchen...nothing to special

And here is the living room... again, nothing too special

And here is my room...which has a little something special...

i guess i just didnt know my roommates were going to be so generous of giving me the best room

Which you can't see its special-ness too well in this picture but i apparently have a whole new motto in life

...I know, your jelous...

And here is me being so excited about my first day of school :)

And a for realsies

I hope this school year brings that "possibility of a miracle"