2oo9?? oF cOuRsE iT hApPeNed :) nOw HeRe iT iS!!

Alrighty peeps, it's a new year and your lucky day! I've decided it's time to get the blog back up and running :) After one heck of a year, and the last insane semester, things are finally looking like they might calm down a little bit! But then again school hasn't started yet, so we'll see..

When was the last time I updated this thing?? November '08...well For those who haven't been around for it all, here's a quick update..

The people mainly mentioned in the blog up to this point are still some of my best and closest friends! I honestly can't imagine my life without them! Last New Years, TiA, BrYcE, NaTe, BrAdEn, KrIsTiN, BrAd and I went down to St GeOrGe for a couple days. If there is one thing worth mentioning, it's that we absolutely love any excuse for a RoAdTrIp!!

I fulfilled a lifetime first after that trip too! For the first time ever, I found my self riding a sNoWbOaRd! I know, I've lived in UtAh my whole life and only ever gone dOwNhiLL sKiiNg once! This was only a couple days into the new year, and by now BrEnNoN was back from HaWaII, so I hit the slopes with him and JaSoN. It was so much fun! A little cold, but definitely worth it :)

And just in case you thought I was joking about the roadtrip thing, it was only about a month later that BrEnNoN came running into PiZzAs apartment and told us we should go to DiSnEyLaNd again! Except for this time it wasn't months in advance. We're talking TwO wEeKs :D and we most definitely did! It was BrEnNoN, AlEx, KrIsTiN, BrAd, JaSoN, KaEsI, SaRaH oH and TaRa McCaIg, and I can honestly say that it was one of the funnest trips I have ever been on! It was super fast, but just loaded with great people, and all kinds of fun :)

What else has happened.. I can say that I went to the DrApEr TeMpLe OpEn HoUsE a total of at least 3, maybe 4 times. And can I just say that I absolutely love that temple!

Oh, and I can't forget one last trip! This trip lasted a total of 23 hOuRs, 21 of which were spent in a big ReD tRuCk that was rented from EnTeRpRiSe..and tRaiLeR on the back. BrEnNoN had found himself a motorcycle on eBaY, in N. CaLiFoRnIa, that he had to go pick up. There were only two problems.. the rental truck would have been super expensive if we didn't get it back in 24 hours, and BrEnNoN had a test to be back for the next day.. That meant there and back, NO STOPPING! Except for ya know food and gas. There was no way I was letting him take that trip alone. So we hopped in the truck FrIdAy mOrNiNg, and were back by SaTuRdAy MoRnInG! We still can't believe we made it home alive! Since I wasn't on the insurance I couldn't drive, which meant it was all BrEnNoN. I stayed up to make sure he did. We were both complete ZoMbIeS, i'm not even kidding. That too was my first all nighter! I've tried them before and just never been able to do it. I guess when you put two lives on the line things change a bit.

Other than that my second semester back home was random little things. TyE dYiNg shirts and wearing them to JuMp On It, 8o's DaNcInG in SlC on a school night, mOvIe NiGhTs at BrYcEs, and of course the HyPnOtiStS we seemed to become obsessed with.. just a whole lot of fun! I was still studying pHoToGrApHy at UvU, but I began to like it less and less. The program there is a lot more about fiLm pHoTo, and that just wasn't what I wanted to be in. I found that I liked photo more as a hobby, and not so much as a career. So at the end of the semester I called that one quits. But still had no idea what I wanted to go into...

If you remember my last post, I had applied to work as a BC in ReXbUrG, and didn't get hired for that. It was ok though cause I was happy being a cOuNsEloR.. well I didn't get that either :( I had talked to BrEnNoN about being a hEaLtH cOuNsElOr, and even applied. But I didn't even get a chance to interview since I wasn't 21 yet. As far as I knew, EfY was a no go that summer :( i was heartbroken.

I'd quit at AeRo cause I just couldn't take it anymore, and RoByN, one of the assistant managers, offered me a job at a new store her and her husband were opening out in AlPiNe. Summer looked like, AlEx in JeRsEy, KrIsTiN and BrEnNoN doing EfY, BrAd in IdAhO, HeAtHeR and SaRa doing EfY in the North West, and BrYcE moving to TeXas. Me, NaTe and TiA were gonna be the only ones left here. There was nothing more that I wanted to do than be working in IdAhO :(

Then BrEnNoN decided to take things into his own hands. He did so many things to get me hired, I guarantee it is because if him that things worked out! NiNe days before the first session in ReXbUrG started, his original co had dropped and DiCkSy was desperate! Technically I wasn't supposed to work because I wasn't 21, but ReXbUrG and ByU were the only two places that allowed it! I was going to be a hEaLtH cOuNsElOr in the BuRg :D I had never been so excited to work in my whole life haha :)

I got to spend my summer with some of the most incredible people! Our team did 7 weeks in ReXbUrG, and 1 in PoCaTeLLo. I even picked up 2 more weeks in PrOvO and finally fulfilled my dream of carrying a wAlKiE in PrOvO for eFy :) The summer was probably one of the hardest times of my entire life, but there were so many great things happening that kept me going. Not to mention the team I had to help me through it all.  Working back in the medical area that summer is what put me where I am right now.

After eFy ended, we took another trip to dIsNeYlAnD, then I landed right back in school. Only this time I was taking the hardest class UvU offers, and all sorts of other medical classes. I decided to become an UlTrAsOuNd tEcHnIcIaN :) Although it was the hardest semester i've ever had, I'm loving it! I've met some of the greatest girls who I spend crazy amounts of time with since we always have to be studying. Me, NaTe and PiZzA became closer than we ever had. And my cousin CaM even came back from his mission :) PiZzA and TaNnEr went on a trip down to AZ to visit, with a stop in VeGaS to visit the NeWlYwEdS :)

Looking back on the year, it's been crazy to see how everything has worked out! If BrEnNoN hadn't got me into eFy, who knows what I would be studying, or how many times i would have to switch majors again. Oh and one other thing, that boy who got me my summer job, the one i was co's with all summer,  who I went on crazy amounts of trips with, is now one of my absolute best friends! We've been together officially since the beginning of oCtObEr, but unofficially since that trip to CaLi in FeBrUaRy, and I couldn't be happier :)

I can't wait to see what the next year brings all around! Will I get into the UlTrAsOuNd program? Will i work eFy again? How many more rOaDtRiPs can we fit in? BrInG iT oN!!!!

ToDaY. ToDaY iS tHe DaY!

So tOdAy was the day I have been waiting for since, oh, let's see, wEek OnE in PrOvO. From my very fIrSt CoUpLe WeEkS into EfY, and throughout the wHoLe sUmMeR, I wanted to be a Bc for eFy. My first SiX sEsSsIoNs that I did, I sWoRe that my gOaL was to be a bC in PrOvO ( I mean, not every team gets to carry around wAlKiEs; and some of their cHaSe dOwN sToRiEs.. DaNg!) . It wasn't til the end of the summer when I worked my last tWo WeEkS, which were both in ReXbUrG that my plans changed a bit. That was where I decided I wanted to work as a bC on the ReXbUrG tEaM. The people I met during the tHrEe WeEkS I worked in ReXbUrG have undoubtedly become some of my aBsOlUtE bEsT fRiEnDs! There is no doubt on my mind that I was meant to meet all of them for a reason.

I'm going to go just a little of subject for just a second, but don't even worry! I promise I'll get back! When I was first hired as a CoUnSeLoR, I was never scheduled any weeks in ReXbUrG. I had tWo weeks in PrOvO, OnE in SlC, and tWo in CeDaR cItY. That was it. In fact, when I signed up, I signed up for pretty much everywhere in the WeStErN sTaTeS except for IdAhO cause I really didn't want to work there. At the end of week TwO in PrOvO, JoN and JiLl were telling us in BuSiNeSs MtG that they needed counselors in DiLlOn, MoNtAnA and BoIsE, IdAhO. By then all I wanted to be doing was working EfY. So I signed up.

FoUr DaYs later, I was down in St GeOrGe packing up my stuff, getting ready to move back to OrEm, when I got a PhOnE cAlL from the EfY oFfIcE offering me a week in BoIsE. They had just left a VoIcEmAiL, and I still wasn't sure if I wanted to do it. So I didn't call them back until the next morning after I had talked to my mom. I was definitely going to take it!

By the time I got ahold of them, they said that all the spots in BoIsE were full, but they did have a spot in ReXbUrG they needed to fill; so I took it! Before I knew it, I was riding up to ReXbUrG with HeAtHeR hAnSen and KrIsTiN hUmPhReY. HeAtHeR I had known from my weeks in PrOvO, but KrIsTiN I had only seen, we'd never talked or anything.

That first week in ReXbUrG was a little strange. A new pLaCe, new pEoPle. Total I knew fOuR pEoPlE, and rEcOgNiZeD one other. I just didn't know where from. Aside from HeAtHeR and KrIsTiN, I knew AnDy BrAsHeR and AmBeRlyN HuTcHiNgS. BrEnNoN mOoRe, one of the HeAlTh CoUnSeLoRs, was the one I recognized, but not well enough to ever really talk to. All fIvE of us had worked PrOvO.

I met loads of new people that week, and had a pretty good time; but I was having some major PrOvO withdrawls. Both me and KrIsTiN were. After the FrIdAy NiGhT dAnCe, both of us, who were Co's that week, were doing cOuNsElOr LiNe Up in the parking lot, and all we did was complain about how much better pRoVo was. The next morning we got to know some of the other people on the bC tEaM a little better, but by then it was to late. We were done in rExBuRg.

Obviously GoD knew that I needed to build stronger friendships with the people that were up in ReXbUrG, because FiVe WeEkS and TwO sEsSiOnS later, NaTe WoRtHeN, the CoOrDiNaToR up in ReXbUrG called me up and offered me week SiX! I was eCsTaTiC! Then in the middle of week sIx, he had another spot open up for week SeVeN; the week that KrIsTiN would be coming up for! Could life had been any better? It was during those two weeks that I really started to develop my fRiEnDsHiP with the people who are now some of my greatest friends! BrAdEn GrEeN, sPeNcEr DaHl, KaSeY bUtLeR, RiLeY wOrThEn, AlEx PiZzA, ScOtTy B; none of them had been there the first week I was there. NaTaLiE bLiSs, LyNdI bUcHaNaN, DaNi LeWiS, HeAtHeR tOdD, BrEnNoN mOoRe, NaTe WoRtHen, BrAd BeAuFoRt, SaRa WaLkEr, TiA hAmMoNd, BrYcE eVaNs; they were all there, but I wasn't very good friends with any of them. I knew who they were, and talked to some of them occasionally, but that was about it. And KrIsTiN and HeAtHeR; we would have never been the great friends we are now had we not gone up there together. What if I had never worked in ReXbUrG?? The fOuR mOnThS of my life would have been completely different! This here slideshow, is just a handful of the things I have done with my friends from the BuRg since those last TwO wEeKs. I am so glad I got the chance to rEdEeM myself!

But to get back to where I was originally going with this, on OcToBeR fIrSt I signed up to be a bC in ReXbUrG; a few days later I scheduled my interview, and on NoVeMbEr 7th, mE, AlEx and KrIsTiN went in for our interview. It's been about tWo and a hAlf weeks since then, and today I found out that I didn't make the cut for this year. But ya know what, I really wasn't all that sad about it. I'm actually sUpEr ExCiTeD to be a cOuNsElOr again! I can't wait to have that oNe on OnE with the YoUtH, to get to work with different cO-cOuNsElOrS every week, and to be back at the BuRg with all my fRiEnDs! With all the things I have been hearing about next year, cHaNgEs that are being made, the people who are being hired, there is no doubt that EfY 2o09 is going to one of the gReAtEsT yEaRs YeT!

TaG yOu'rE iT!

Alrighty fOlKs! Here's another one! ChElSeA tagged me, so lets get to it!

8 favorite TV shows:

1- CSI
2- ThE oFfIcE
3- SuRvIvOr
4- The BiGgEsT lOsEr
5-  ER
6- AmAzInG rAcE
7- TrAdInG sPaCeS
8- ExTrEmE mAkEoVeR hOmE eDiTiOn

8 books you’d recommend:
1- The OtHeR sIdE of DaRk
2- TeNnIs ShOeS aMoNg the NePhItEs
3- BoOk of MoRmOn
4- 7 HaBiTs for HiGhLy EfFeCtIvE tEeNs
5- The DiArY of AnNe FrAnK
6- The GiVeR
7- JoUrNaLs
8- do ScRaPbOoKs count? :)

8 things that happened yesterday:
1-I slept in cause I was to sick to go to church :(
2- Watch a movie on Tv about RiTcHiE v something..
3- Had a BbQ bEeF sAnDwIcH my dad made
4- Watched way to many episodes of SuRvIvOr
5- Sat in the warm tUb..
6- Made some ChIcKeN nOoDlE sOuP
7-Took some NyQuIl
8-Sipped some HoT cOCoA

8 things to LOOK FORWARD TO:
1-ThAnKsGiViNg!!
2- The end of the SeMeStEr!
3- All my fRiEnDs being home for the HoLiDaYs
4- CiNnAmOn RoAsTeD aLmOnDs :)
5- EfY next sUmMeR
6- Another trip to DiSnEyLaNd
7- The FuTuRe in general!
8-Next SeMeStEr!

8 things on MY WISH list:
1- A nIkOn DiGiTaL cAmErA
2- A pLaNe tIcKeT i could use over and over to aNyWhErE i WaNt
3- WiNtEr ClOtHeS.. I seem to be lacking since moving from sT.gEoRgE
4- To live in an aPt again
5- more get togethers with FaMiLy
6- HaIr DyE! I'm so ready to color again
7- PuRsEs.. PuRsEs and more PuRsEs!
8- More TiMe in the DaY

8 things I LOVE ABOUT Fall:
1- Drives up PrOvO cAnYoN
2- ThE cOlOrS
3- the CoZy FeElInG
4- WaRm DaYs and CoOl NiGhTs
5- HoT cOcOa
6- GeTtInG rEaDy for the HoLiDaYs
7- JuMpInG in LeAveS
8- Spending time with FrIeNdS and FaMiLy

8 people I Tag:
1- MoNiCa BeAdLe
2- TiFfAnY cOrReA
3- JuLiE iVeRsOn

4- KrIsTiN hUmPhReY
5- ErIkA mOuRiTsEn
6- MoRgAn MuLlInEr

7- AmY dAvIs
8- IvY nIeLsEn

WhErE oN eArTh DiD tHe SeMeStEr Go?!?!

Really? Are we really this close to the end of the sEmEsTeR already?? I don't know what happened, but this semester has fLoWn! Granted there are parts that haven't, but as far as classes and stuff like that, wHaT oN eArTh HaPpEnEd?! And because I'm only in class twice a week, that means I have a grand total of... are you ready for this?? FiVe ScHoOl DaYs left! Then it's FiNaLs WeEk! But can I just tell you about my finals week?? DrAwInG.. nOnE... 2D dEsIgN... nOnE... PhOtO... NoNe... GrApHiC dEsIgN... NoNe... and ArT hIsToRy... yEs.. but she cut off 7 of the 27 slides we have to know, and 1 of 2 essays because our class average went up so much on the second test we took. Basically, I am lOvInG the aRt DePaRtMeNt right now! So all in all, FiNaLs InCluDeD, I have SiX dAyS of sChOoL! ThAnKsGiViNg is in eIgHt DaYs, and the last day of finals at uVu is a month from today!

I swear time goes by faster and faster the older you get.. and I'm only nInEtEeN! 

UnO, dOs, TrEs!

Alrighty TiFf!! :D

3 of my recent favorite purchases:
1. my NeW pHoNe!
2. ChRiStMaS pReSeNtS :)
3. ByU v. UsC wOmEnS sOcCeR tIcKeT

3 favorite movies:
1. TiTaNiC
2. ThE rInG
3. JuSt LiKe HeAvEn

3 things I haven't done yet:
1. my GrApHiC dEsIgN hOmEwOrK
2. FoLdEd My LaUnDrY
3. OrGaNiZeD all my KeEpSaKeS

3 things I can't live without:
1. my FrIeNdS!
2. my PhOnE
3. eFy :) haha

3 of my favorite dishes:
1. BaKeD sPaGhEtTi
2. PoRk BuRrItO from CaFe RiO
3. PoRk SaLaD from CoStA vIdA

3 of my favorite TV shows:
1. CsI (only the VeGaS one.. I don't care for the others)
2. ThE oFfIcE
3. BiGgEsT lOsEr (yes yes my family is addicted)

3 of the last places I've traveled:
1. ReXbUrG
2. ArChEs
3. CaLiFoRnIa

3 of my favorite treats:
1. ChOcOlAtE tRiFlE
2. anything else with BrOwNiEs!
3. ChOcOlAtE :D (a definite ChOcOhOlIc!)

3 things I'd buy if money weren't an issue:
1. a super nice PrOfEsSiOnAl DiGiTaL cAmErA
2. everything i'd need for some SuPeR fUn RoAdTrIpS!
3. a BeAcH hOuSe

3 people I tag:
1. JuLiAnNe MuRdOcH
2. AmY dAvIs
3. AlEx PiZzA