Awesome Roommates!

Yeah I'm Home! and I have plenty to write about, I will as soon as I get pictures from Mom!

I've heard from many girls (and guys) about the drama that they have in their apartments and how they don't get along with their roommates and are just counting down the days until they can move out. I have been really lucky and never had that problem before, in fact it's quite the opposite--I really enjoy getting to know the people that I'm living with, talking with them, hanging out and learning/growing because of them. Sure we don't always agree but why focus on that?,

That being said I currently have some awesome roommates (not to downgrade the awesomeness of past roommates), this morning when I came home I was greeted with this (please forgive the upside-ness of the words, I didn't really think as I was taking the pictures and just shot as I saw it):

I had a wonderful trip and being home was made a gazillion (:D) times better seeing the thoughtful thing that my roommates did for me...I missed them too and glad that I'm back!

Nail Be Gone

Have you ever had one of those moments where you go to a sporting event only to be a onlooker/cheerleader but somehow keep on getting pulled into the game? Yesterday my ward had a pick-up game of soccer and invited anyone that wanted to come, I don't play soccer but four of my roommates were going to play and I thought that it would be fun to go and support them (you know something to get me out of the house). It was a beautiful day with the sun-shining and I was enjoying myself but for some reason the ball kept on being attracted to me...I would say that it came flying at me at least 5 times!

The last time is what really did it for me though, I was looking at something on my phone when I looked up and saw the ball flying towards my face, I put my hands up to block the ball. The ball flipped up and went behind me, I suddenly noticed a little of tingling on my hand, I looked down and noticed that a nail was missing from my left hand! I started looking around trying to find it when Josh (from my ward) pointed it out to me 10-15 feet from where I was sitting, he said that he saw it flip from my hand and land there.

And that is how I got "injured" without even playing the game :)

Cookie-Gram

I don't know about others but in high school the week before Valentines day you could send out candy-grams, for $.25 each someone would deliver a lollipop to the person of your choice in their class at the end of the day. As a Freshman we would always look forward to that time in class, to see who "loved (or liked as in our case as it was generally our friends that sent them)" us enough to send us a candy-gram and who would have the most.

If you haven't figured out yet I have some pretty awesome roommates (and apparently pretty awesome roommate's parents)! Saturday afternoon when I came home I found this on the counter in the kitchen. The note says, "Hey guys, My Mom made us each a cookie with our names on it. Feel free to look through and find yours and eat it! -Janet"

How cool is that? Not only was that super sweet (hehe) of her Mom, but it was delicious! So soft and yummy!

Don't You...

...wish that your roommates were cool like mine?

There's Some Bread in the Oven...

the oven, the oven. There's some bread in the oven, the oven, some bread! (sang to There's A Hole in the Bucket :D)

Last weekend at Libbey's exchange party I got two awesome things...a blender (which I've already used twice this week while making the Sweet Pork) and a bread maker! I was so surprised and excited that I got two really big items that would be useful now and in my future home. When I told my roommates found out that I got a bread maker one was excited because then she could make pizza dough and another talked about cinnamon rolls (which I am sure both will be made at some point). I was excited to just be able to make bread! So last night I did it (let me tell you it smelled SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good!!!!). Last night at about 11:30 I heard the beeping telling me that it was finished, I was so excited and ran into the kitchen with the camera prepared to take some pictures.

Such a beautiful shade of light brown.

So tall and pretty (I'm not proud of it or anything ;D)

I was so impressed with how clean it came out of the pan, that was one thing that I always remembered from when I would make the bread in my Mom's bread maker, that little mixer arm wouldn't stay in the pan and it would come out in the bread so then we would end up tearing out half the bottom to get it out. Stinky! :(

If only you could see the steam that was coming off this as I took the picture!

You'll be glad to know that less than 24 hours from it being finished it is all gone (with the help of my roommates of course---I left a note for my roommates when they woke up that they could have bread, my roommate Anna said "I notice that you didn't exclude Anna from that, yeah!")

I'm excited because next when I go to my Mom's I get to grind wheat so that I can make whole wheat bread, yum, yum!

Christmas Cards Season

It's that time of year again...everyone is getting together their Christmas Cards and Letters together (some are even on top of the ball and already have them enveloped and sent).

You may not have heard of this awesome thing that Shutterfly is currently doing...all I have to do is blog about this and I will get 50 FREE Cards! How cool is that?

I hadn't originally planned on sending out cards this year, last year I bought them and they were so big it looked like I loved myself just a little too much (:D) but last night my roommates and I were taking some roommie pictures when we had one that we thought would be perfect for a Christmas card. I liked the idea of sending them out as roommates and figured why not.

Just at quick glance I have found several card ideas that I like...

Just to show a couple.

If you haven't worked with shutterfly before you should try it out, it is a really simple website and they have tons of beautiful designs for fairly inexpensive.

Also...if you want to get your own 50 free cards check it out HERE!

Fighting

A couple of weeks ago I walked into my roommates bedroom and this is what I found...

The bedroom was split in half as if they were fighting, so I determined that it was what they were doing.

But if they were fighting they definitely do not fit the normal mold of fighting, as I sat between them they were looking at the same website and talking about what they were looking at.

I never did really find out what was going on and don't really think that I ever will, so I'm going to go with that they were fighting. :D

Anna...the monk

This is Anna, one of my roommates...the other night she was cold and was walking around during dinner with this blanket draped over her shoulders, my other roommate Erin thought that she looked like a monk from the front.

Red Sky at Night, Sailor's Delight

A couple of weeks ago I was in my room when my roommate called to me to come look out the window...I came out to see this beautiful sight, of course I had to take a "couple" of pictures. I'm not even sure if what I took did it justice but it was gorgeous...I'm so grateful for the beauty that Heavenly Father has blessed us with in this world!

Fro-Yo Time!

There's a new frozen yogurt place called Spoon It Up! in Provo and unfortunately (or fortunately) it's right up the street from me, I'm discovering more and more how much I like frozen yogurt. One night my roommates Ciara, Erin and I decided to go up and get some...of course it was super yummy!

Ciara!

Erin showing her yumminess in the form of frozen yogurt.

Naming the Baby

We had a new girl start this week in the 3 year old class, when someone new starts they either already have an English name or we as teachers put together a list of names to give to the parents and they get to pick which one they like the most. I was the only one available at the end of the day and so I quickly threw together a list...Macy, Katie, Chelsea, Erika, Sarah, Jamie, and a few others...you know all the good roommate names!

And the parents chose......... ERIKA!! Congrats Erika, there has been someone named after and in honor of you :D