Summer Thus Far.

Summer of '09 has been pretty good to me.  I've met lots of people in Calgary (mainly just because Brittany was friends with them when she lived here and through her I have been introduced).  Because of traveling and what not I did not have a job this summer.  By the time we were done traveling it was the end of july, and I actually head back to school the end of August so it really left no time for me to get a job.  So I have been just chilling.  I go on bike rides when it is sunny outside, so I've done that about 4 or 5 times aka Calgary has been rainy slash cloudy for several days, I am not a fan.  None the less every night is pretty fun.  There are about 5-15 of us who hang out.  I'm not sure what we even do....hahah...play games, Wednesday nights at the wave pool they let you go in for the last hour for only 2 dollars so we do that then go for wings.  It is pretty fun, lots of socializing that's for sure.  We've gone to two drive-in movies up at Deerfoot Mall they are free so they attract lots of people, but that has turned out to be fun.  We gather out blankets and people with trucks and big cars head up there and watch a movie.  On Monday night some YSA got together and played volleyball for 2 hours.  I cannot believe how sore I was after that.  5 days later and I am still hobbling down the stairs haha.  

One of my good friends Kandice Palmer has a condo in Invermere, so last weekend she gather up some kids and took a weekend trip out there.  We had so much fun!! Thanks Kandice for everything!

(L-R: Brad, Renee, Karly, Kandice) Us four stayed out in the pool all night just playing.  One night we built a 4 man totem (pic is below), and we had some photo ops involving jumping into the pool. Brad took some pretty solid belly flops only because he was doing the superhero pose, and sacrificed his bod to get a good pic! Another night we had a football and the four of us were on the sides of teh pool and we would throw it to one another while jumping in.  It was lots of fun, took a while to get through all 4.  It's al ot harder than it sounds! haha

Here is the whole crew minus Topher and Max who graced us with their presence for two days!

Us girls jumping the one night!

4 man totem pole!!!!

We had some fun with out wet hair, made us some staches.

The last day we were there it was pretty windy and cloudy but non the less us girl stayed outside for about an hour or two trying to get a little tan.  

On our way home we stopped and took a picture by the mountains! I love this one, the scenery is soooo beautiful!

Kandice bought some Sour Patch Kids, and we have never experienced such sour candies!! They were seriously SO SOUR!

That was the highlight of my weekend! Thanks again Kandice for so much fun!!! You da you da besT!!!!!! hahaha. 

Cruising the Caribbean

When we lived in Texas we were only 2 hours away from Galveston (port where cruise ships leave).  So before we packed up and moved, we thought we better take advantage of our close commute to the port and go on a cruise.  We went on a Western Caribbean cruise.  During the 7 days we hit up Jamiaca, Cayman Islands, and Mexico.  It was sooo much fun! At first we were like "Mom, Dad we are resort people not cruise people."  But by 2nd or 3rd day into the cruise we said "We love cruises!!"  It was so much fun, tons of activites for the whole family.  Cole made a couple friends and played with them the majority of the time.  He also loved going to the arcade.  Us 4 girls obviosuly sunbathed and read books and ate lots!  There are several perks of going on a cruise rather than going to a resort.  Perk #1:  The food is much better in my opinion.  Perk #2: You save on money, instead of going to a resort for 7 days to one place, you go to 3 places in 7 days!! And I really like that, cause in a resort you maybe go out of the resort 1 or 2 days and do an activity.  Well on a cruise you do the activity in the one day, and you can still tan and swim and all that fun stuff.  Perk #4:  If you go on a family cruise, there are lots of stuff for every age group.  Kids make friends, and really enjoy themselves.  That is all i can think of.  Next time we cruise I would LOVE to go to the Mediterranean and hit up Greece, Italy, and Spain!!!

Cozumel, Mexico probably had the bluest water of the 3 places we went to.

The famjam after ziplining in Cozumel.  It was alot of fun, I wish we could've gone parasailing cause ziplining only took about 2 hours, but the people there were very nice.

The ocean in Cayman, it was SO beautiful, and SO warm.  But SOO salty.

At the end of the day in Jamaica it started to rain at a little.  This is the sign as we were driving back into the port.

This was a bar in the Cayman Islands, we met just on the other side to going Snuba.  I was just so excited that they had so much CANADIAN HOCKEY tokens.

The Ocean in Jamaica.

This is a sign in Jamaica.  We just thought it was so funny that we should WALK GOOD to keep fatalities down. I mean it is true, but sounds funny.

The family at "Welcome to the Cayman Islands" sign.  Here we did snuba. It is a combination of scuba and snorkel.  You have the mask and a breathing apparatus that has a tube up to a raft where your oxygen is.  You can still swim around pretty freely and it was alot of fun!! I would definitely do it again.

This was our tour guide when we went to Jamaica.  We climbed the Dunn's River Falls.  It is 600 feet tall, and fun to climb up.  Not hard at all!! After the climb we went the beach where we had some Jamaican cuisine, which consisted of chicken, veggies and rice.  I really like the veggies, Katelyn really liked the rice, and Brittany really like the chicken.  But all of it was really good!

Mom and Dad at the Formal Dinner.

(L-R) Katelyn Brandy Karly Cole Brittany

The Kids before one of the Formal Dinners.  The food was soooo good, and you could orders as much as you wanted!

More Winter '09

Getting Groceriessss.

In school, when we would go grocery shopping -- which happened only about 4 or 5 times -- we only wanted to make one trip up those blesses 34 steps to the third floor. So one day when we returned home, we found that we had an abnormally large amount of groceries. So that we didn't have to make so many trip in the freezing cold....i decided to pack almost all of them on myself.

I not only had groceries strapped to me and in my hands but also some were put in my backpack.

I ended up weighing 220 lbs i think.

The Spoonmaster 3000:

This is probably the most tragic story this semester. My friend Kandice Palmer had bought this piece of furniture from some guy, and she had it in her APT fall semester. Because she is on the summer/fall track I told her I would babysit it for her for the winter. Well Lo and Behold after about a month this guy came over and was like yah this is mine, I'm taking it. I was like "uh no, this is my friends, I am just babysitting it for her." We argued for a little bit, I told him if you take it you need to call Kandice and tell her. So he did, and he took it the next day. The question that lingered in my mind, was HOW THE HECK DID HE FIND WHAT APT I WAS IN? AND HOW DID HE GET MY PHONE NUMBER....some people are really good at creeping. So this is the apt the day he took it, as you can see I am not very happy.

This is me in the spot where the spoonmaster sat. You can still see the indentations.
Here is a video that we made as it was leaving us, props to Renee for her video skills in adding the music etc.

Long Over Due.

Hello!! It has been so long since I last posted, not because my life is so busy being in college (it really isn't) but merely because I am just too lazy to get on here and tell stories and post pictures. So I will split the last 5 months into a couple posts so that you can get all caught up!

BYU-IDAHO WINTER SEMESTER 2009

So winter semester was pretty good! I got to live with Renee Comfort, and she was just so DELIGHTFUL!! I loved living with her, she was so much fun, and winter semest would not have been as good, or the same without her. I had really good roommates aswell, we bonded more to the end of the semester which was sad, but still had SO much fun with all of them. Here are some pictures from the semester.

So this semester Renee and I were very creative with how we did somethings. One night we wanted brownies, but we had no beaters, thus forcing us to use our hands. It was messy, but fun, and the brownies tasted pretty good. Another night we wanted snow cones. Well that was easy to make, one we live in Rexburg in the frigid WINTER!! and snow is all around us, so we went out, got some CLEAN snow, and then mixed water with some grape propel, dipped the snow in the propel and viola! Insta snow cone!

Here you can see our bowl of snow, and the pink cup contains the grape propel mixture!

my computer is having problems. So this for now I guess.

Last Week Before the Break!

Well I cannot wait for Thanksgiving break! For a couple reasons.

• Reason #1 : Here at BYU-Idaho we get a full week of.  This coming saturday I will be flying back home to Texas and cannot wait to be home, out of this bloody cold.  Being away from home you really do appreciate all the little things your mom does for you (laundry, dinner) I hate doing laundry I think I have only done it three times while away from home, and I cannot wait to have a home cooked meal, and just chill out and not have to worry about homework, or getting up at 7 am.  So for that I am very thankful for this break that is quickly approaching.  Plus Im excited to see all me family.  I definitely cannot stand some roommates and look forward to being back home with people I have lived with for 18 years!
  

• Reason #2 : Twilight is coming out FRIDAY! Oh my gosh I absolutely cannot wait for that movie to come out.  I have read all the books, twice.  Which is probably less than some of you but still I cannot wait.  I wasted countless hours this summer trying to see as much of the movie as I can before it comes out.  Honestly I can say, I am a little sad with Edward, at first I thought he would be amazing, but now he is only pretty good (he need to get more muscle i think, plus there is an actor who is better looking and has muscle that could've been Edward) Bella looks good, I think it matches her character in the book really well.  The best actors cast are Rosalie, Emmett, and Alice.  I think they look exactly how the characters should look! I saw a picture of all the vampires sitting at the lunch table and my mouth just dropped open.  I could not believe how good looking they were.  I literally felt like one of the students who was just jealous of how great the Cullen's looked. (This is a picture that I found that I think shows the characters pretty well...we'll obviously just have to wait for the movie to really tell!)

• Reason #3 : After this week of school, we have Thanksgiving break for a week (aka NO SCHOOL) Then after that school is almost over.  I am officially done my first semester as of December 12, 2008.  I just counted 15 days of school after the break.  I can't believe how fast this semester has gone by.  Surprisingly college is not as hard as I thought....yet.   But I totally love it.  It's nice not having anyone to tell you what to do, or be home at a certain hour (hopefully those rules are not reinforced when I go back home) But I have met so many great people here, and some of them will be leaving me here in Rexburg (they are summer/fall track) and I will miss them so much!
  

First Post!

Hello Bloggers!...A couple of my friends have blogs, and I just love reading about their interesting lives. So i thought I might as well give it a shot. Granted my life is deffinitley not that interesting, but for those of you who know me this may be a nice way to tell you about my college adventures, and plus I won't have to write as many personal letters to friends.  I really don't have much to say right now except for I hope this is turns out to be a cool blog!