Possey Power

Summer Time Sunshine 2011

2011-08-06T16:46:00.000-07:00

There's been a lot of exciting happenings this summer in my life. Because i suck at uploading pictures we're working from most recent to latest. . . but as usual, let's start out with a pic of me. I got bangs this summer. . and i've trimmed them up once.

I moved to Independence, MO to do a business internship with my school with 14 other ppl. I ended up being the manager of a specialty hot dog restaurant. And i cant' wait to come home. I've learned so much in so many different aspects and met some wonderful people. This is a lot of the Singles Branch i go to, at a YSA dance we had. Polynesian, just the way i like it.

I met some hilarious and awesome people, who were only in my life for a short time. Like Adam

And Vise, who's headed on a mission to Florida next week.

I met Spawnbreezie and Big Steve. . (steven's in my ward) He's a big Polynesian/Reggae singer from Independence.

I went to Liberty Jail with my friend Jeremy. . who's serving in Alaska now.

I went to my first MLB game (in box seats) thanks to my employers. These are the other interns i work with.

I lived with 5 other girls in a house. We had a good time together. 3 of them spoke Spanish, so we kinda worked on mine. Not a lot tho.

I met a BUNCH of wonderful sister missionaries, serving at the Visitors Center in Independence. They taught me so much and brought peace and happiness to my life.

My best friend Natalie Belka left to serve in the Winter Quarters Mission.

I got to go home for a few weeks and see all of my amazing, best friends, whom i love dearly. . .and Zack Nordfelt left to Mexico. (we're gonna teach our kids Spanish).

I saw my White cousins and had a wonderful time visiting with all of them.

I saw my little brother after a few months apart. Six to be exact.

I went through the temple and got to go with my siblings. Awesome.

I got my MISSION CALL to serve in the Resistencia Argentina Mission. I report September 28.

My parents came and picked me up from Graceland. We went to Nauvoo together.

And Carthage Jail. Amazing.

It's been a wonderful summer. . . and i can't wait to come home for 5-6 more weeks and play with my family and friends, while preparing to leave and serve the people of Argentina.

Post Partum . .

2011-05-05T17:56:00.000-07:00

It's been 4 full days without facebook.

Let's just absorb that for a minute. Real addict here. Really pathetic. haha. . hence the blogging. I've got nothing else i can do on the computer, so i keep looking for other stuff. Although this week i have had so much homework, i've spent at least 6 hours a day in the library. That's such a long time, i know. But our library offers self-serve free hot chocolate (and coffee) all the time. So that's wonderful! . . but seriously i did get a lot more done, cuz i wouldn't break to fb. . except for last night. . . i caught up on the last two episodes of GLEE. What are you addicted to ?

GLEE.
i don't watch a ton of television, especially during the week. Except for my 2 vices: Army Wives (sunday on Lifetime.) and lately GLEE. The music on Glee is amazing, at first each show had a central message of good morals and behavior, even if it wasn't 'popular' . . lately the show has gotten raunchy. But some of the better ones are so funnnnnnnny. i made a 'glee cast' channel on pandora. . and it's pretty much amazing. What tv shows do you watch?

Also. . i have to write up my retirement plan for my Investment Analysis class and i'm supposed to spend 2-3 pages talking about the mutual funds i chose for my 401k. . . since i haven't been paying attention the last semester, any ideas? .. haha jk. . nbfr.

Weeelllllll i have "Solah goodbyes" tonight. We get all cute for 20 minutes to take pictures with each other, then we're going to the only place that's open 24/7 (a truck stop 15 minutes away) and THEN we're coming back to paint the bell!! :) . . but first i have to go beat a boy in 1 on 1 basketball. lol

Facebook

2011-05-03T08:48:00.000-07:00

Two days i did something really drastic.

I deactivated my facebook account.

I know, this is a big step for me. Not many people who are as addicted to facebook as i can just go cold turkey. Cut the cord. The tricky thing about deactivation is after i pushed the button, a page came up with 4 of my friends and pictures of them. It said "Kate will miss you." "Mars will miss you." "Are you sure you want to deactivate?" . . . haha wow, those facebook makers are clever. I thought, "you're right, so many people will miss my status' and pictures and comments." . . but i did it anyways. Truth betold it's only been 36 hours and reactivation is very simple, i just log in. But i just needed a few days of peace, nothing holding me back. Although my electronic void had to be fixed somehow, hence the blogging now. haha . . of course i will probably get back on there soon. How else will the world find out where i'm going to serve my mission? Texting just doesn't cut it anymore. Especially since i don't have 700+ contacts in my phone.

My papers went in Sunday night. I'm stoked.. luckily i have my last week of classes this week to keep me busy and focused, since EVERY teacher thought they'd make a final project due. AND then i have finals all the next week, so i don'thave much time to wait and wonder!

Time to go to Intermediate Macroeconomics! Chow!

Books for thought. . .

2011-04-03T20:39:00.000-07:00

Adoption: it's about Love.

If you know me at all, you know i LOVE to read. If i get a good book in my hand i would rather do that than watch a movie or . . a lot of other things

When i was in junior high and high school i would stay up past my encourage bed time and incessitany listen to Cindy's nagging that went, "ELIZABETH, put that book down and turn off the light!!!" .. and after i wouldn't, she'd come in my room and flip the light off. Mind you, this was usually if my dad was working nights .. haha he was the lead discipliner in our family. So sometimes i would literally grab a flashlight (from out of my dad's truck) and read under my blanket. One night i stayed up the Entire night and read a whole book. Luckily the following day was a Saturday. There's just something about being taken into another world and imaging the scenery, feelings, time period, characters that i just love.

Cinda is in my ward and my adoptive aunt! She bought 2 books last week when she was in Nauvoo at their little "Deseret Book" and she lent them to me. The first one i read was about a Boston raised lady who was orphaned and sent to live with her Mormon aunt and uncle in Montrose, IL. The family was headed West to Zion because of the persecussion of the Saints. The family took their covered wagon and traveled through Mt. Pisgah, IA and Garden Grove, IA , two of the places on the Mormon Trail that i visited back in November. I felt so close to the girl as i imagined what these places looked like 150 years ago and what they hold now. It was neat to imagine and read of this fictional character and the Mormon pioneers. The story pointed out that each time a trial was faced, the Saints had faith and positive attitudes that they could get through it! This was a new and different twist, because usually when i think of the faithful pioneers i only think of the heartache and sufffering, which is completely true. . . but they made it to the Salt Lake Valley because they were a happy people, because of the happiness brought to them throught the Gospel and Plan of Happiness.

The other book is an LDS ghost story about a girl in Cochise, AZ who was fixing up an old bed and breakfast. I found it interestingly ironic that the two books had settings occur in the two areas i have been living and going to school for the past 3 years. Cochise College was in our conference. It made me wonder how different my life would have been, if i had not been given the opportunities i have. How would i differ? And how i am that much better.

I miss my family and friends, parties, weddings, Sunday dinners, baptisms . . but i'm learning that part of growing up is going out and experiencing new things. Still i am learning, haha, Tera always told me i was naiive. . but there are things i'm learning that are making me better. I've learned to love people for who they are and realize that not everyone has the same upbringing like i did, but they still turn out to be amazing people, against the odds they had to face. I've learned to not judge as quickly as i once did. I'm grateful for the events which have transpired in my life so far. I'm grateful to know that even though i'm missing out on being close to my family, i'm becoming a better person for my future and i'm grateful they are my family forever. I love my siblings and admire them for who they are and the example they are to me and my parents for their ever continuing support.

I love watching the possey too. They've grown up to be beautiful young women. They have showed me what's important and the married one's have taught me so much about the husband i hope to have.

I suppose i write so much, because i learn so much when i read. I learn of testimonies, people, love, and life. So even if one person reads this blog, i hope you become a better or happier person because of it.

ApRiL showers BrIng on them May Flowers!!!

2011-04-03T19:42:00.000-07:00

Oh my dearest bloggers. You are guys are so devoted and good! I love your faithfulness!

Today was General Conference! I got to watch it with my adopted family in Osceola. They give me my own room, feed me good, and let me use their washer. It's awesome! Haha . . but seriously, i love conference! It made me miss my family though :/ . . when we were kids, Sunday sessions my parents would make us all sit together in the family room and watch (and i'm glad they did). We would pull out these brown, rickety, plastic type tv trays. We'd pull up one of the many wooden chairs in our house. We'd draw a "speaker" on a piece of paper and tape it to the tray. Then we'd have a pile of important papers (coloring books) and writing utensils. We'd have inter-office discussions or requests via our speakers. Haha it was awesome. I loved being a kid and having 2 brothers that would always play with me.

Easter is in a few weeks! I get to speak in Sacrament that day, so you're all invited! I opened my peeps I bought this weekend. I love peeps. They are good soft, they are good hard. They're good at Easter or Christmas. Some of my favorite Easter memories are when we'd go down to my Uncle Jack's farm. We'd spend time together, because it was usually still cold. We'd color eggs and have an easter egg hunt outside. . . or when we had our Easter party with the White's. Candy everywhere and those few eggs with quarters in them. Haha my cousins have been growing up quickly lately! One is on a mission, one is engaged, others are already in college. . . i joke a lot with the saying "Oh to be young again" .. but i miss the simplicity in spending time with my family and friends!

So i finally broke down over spring break. . and i bought myself a flower. Not just a little flower, because, I'm gonna wear a flower, i'm gonna wear a flower. And i love it.

This is my new ring. I'm not really a ring person, well really the story goes, i had one in high school and then i lost it. . but then i got another one last year and i've kept my blue CTR ring for over a year. My new ring is a silver band, which i'm totally fine if that's what my wedding ring looks like, but this one was inscribed by mel and it reads "E cousins for eternity M." It means a lot to me and i adore the thoughtfulness and beauty of it.

I had an exciting spring break in the middle of March! I flew into Phoenix to see my old teammate and friend Breanne! We drove to San Francisco and then Oregon! This is at Crater Lake, the 3rd deepest lake in the U.S. It's on the top of a volcano! And it was FREEZING!

This is in China Town in San Francisco! I LOVED San Fran! I can't wait to be a successful business woman and live in a small apartment that's outrageously expensive and live the big city life! We ate at this sketchy Chinese restaurant, rode a trolley, viewed the Golden Gate Bridge, walked the Pier, ate at Little Italy and had a TON of fun together! We were at some shopping stores by Uof C Berkley and Bre and i had to pee so bad. . . we couldn't find a bathroom ANYWHERE! . . we saw some kid taking a box of things into a dorm hall. . so we followed him in, hopped on the elevator, picked the 3rd floor and the doors opened to .. . . A Bathroom! We were stoked! haha

This was at the Pier in this old arcade game set-up. Look familiar? It's the game from Princess Diaries that the Queen plays! Haha

Breanne and I at the San Francisco Bay with Alcatraz in the background. (That's a famous prison).

Oh, hey, i turned 21!!! . . . i've been waiting FOREVER to turn 21 ... because that's when you can do stuff!!! . . . . Like

Valentines Day!

2011-02-15T00:37:00.000-08:00

It's 2:37 AM on Tuesday morning. I'm awake. Why you ask? . . . Well that's a great question. I have a "going to bed problem" . . going to bed and showering seem like such party pooper of ideas, so i try to avoid them till the very last second. The dumb thing is, i always regret that decision.

I'm actually awake because i'm browsing through my Macroeconomics reading material for tomorrow. It's a book called 'The Return of Depression Economics' it's all working up to what cause the Recession of 08. You know what did? Speculation. A bunch of stuff, but mainly it was because we American's thought we were going to go into a recession, so we stopped spending, we got out of the stock market and we had a recession. Of course it's a bit more complicated than that. . .and i haven't actually reached that chapter yet, so i could be wrong, but from what i've learned in class so far, that's why it happened. I knew we were always in control.

It's like when we were in high school and no one wanted to take that stupid English test. I knew that if none of us came to class the next day, we wouldn't have to take it. But not everyone was ever willing to stick together and not show up. . . but if we did all ban together, we could do some jaw dropping things.

Today was Valentine's Day. The people who hate V-day or call it 'Single-Awareness Day' are such pesimists. I find it a wonderfully refreshing holiday (and yes, i'm single). Plus i absolutely ADORE all holiday candy. Especially candy hearts! . . i gave out the girls on my hall my Barbie Valentine's i bought at Dollar General the other day. No better way to say i love you then from Barbie saying "You've got style!" And Barbie knows style.

I found skype yesterday. Beautiful little gift right there. I can't believe it took me so long to get it, but it's absolutely wonderful!

I have 5 classes this semester. Four of them are business/economics related. The other one is art history. My art history teacher actually asks us to draw some art pieces, which i was completely flabbergasted about. It's ART HISTORY, not ART. . . but it'll be fine. I aced our first test last week. Although it was my favorite time period with Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Cubism, but i'm learning a lot still, for when i travel the world and want to appreciate art in the museums i go to. I'm also learning a lot in my other classes, everything keeps tying in together, i just hope it'll stick in my brain. I watched 'Wall Street' the other day and everything they talked about including moral hazard, bonds, stocks, etc were all of the things i've been learning about, so it was exciting to have an idea of all the jist! Learning is fun that way!

We have 3 games left in our season! I'm excited for them! Haha, it's been a long season, but i love being in the Mid-West. I love the open spaces and small towns and friendly people. I love my family and friends and my Savior Jesus Christ. I love my ward and my calling as primary chorister. It's 2:48 and i still have 20 pages to go, so i bid thee all goodnight! :)

Black Friday

2010-11-27T17:22:00.000-08:00

In my mind, i live in a very unrealistic world. I believe in happy endings and as Taylor Swift says, am "a true romantic. Always." Some people say i'm gullible, but i like to believe in people. I like to trust in their goodness. Although i believe in a lot of goodness, i realize that life isn't always like the movies. So an incredible thing keeps happening here in Iowa. I've watched my fair share of Lifetime and Hallmark movies throughout the years. I remember one saturday i was the only one home and i watched like 5 Lifetime movies in a row. I'm going to blame that one on my mom. Haha, anyways since i've been here thsoe small towns where everyone knows everyone, where the whole town goes to the high school sports games, where there is a town square with holiday wreaths put up on the light poles and a 'season greetings' signs strewn across the street. The amazing thing that keeps happenin' is that these towns, they're REAL!!! And they're scattered all over in the Mid-west. I'm in awe every time we drive past them, i love it. I love where i grew up and having real stores and being able to drive into the next town in 15 minutes, but there is something magical and adoring in these small towns where they're are farm houses 10 minutes outside of downtown and where people really do go pick out a Christmas tree and cut it down for their tree that year.

Second, I went to Walmart with the May's, the ward family i stayed with for Thanksgiving on Black Friday. We went at 11:30 pm. We hit the deals that occurred at 12:01 am and then got in line and waited so they could get some tv's on sale at 5 am. I read a whole magazine on all things Taylor Swift, she's so adorable i totally want her in the possey, and just killed time. After we were done at Walmart Shelley and Doug (the May parents) and i went to Pimida at 6:00 AM to buy a vcr/dvd, and then hit a store called Farm & Home at 6:30 AM to get their son some john deere toys. As i walked around this farming store, exhausted from being up all night, i noticed a rack of clothes that cowboys and girls would wear. They're were button up shirts, jackets, and cowboy hats. I was drawn to the racks and started wishing for more spending money so i could buy a Carhart coat to keep me warm and fit in with the kids of Osceola. Just like the days of junior high, when i asked for Volcolm t-shirts from my brother, to fit in with kids at Hunter. And then i realized i'd been up WAAAAAAY to long. Sure every girl wants to live on a ranch and be a cowgirl like the girl in FLicka, but was i seriously considering buying a heavy duty farm jacket that Uncle Jack wears????? omg, i was high. hahahah
The whole shopping on Black Friday is good when you want a good deal on all those electronics. Haha i kept looking at dishes, pots and pans, towels in the adds . . . you KNOW your turning old when you do that. I had to stop myself though, since i have no need or apartment of my own just yet for those items, plus it'd be a hassle to ship them home, but it was fun to imagine! . .it was also fun to shop with Doug and Shell as they tried to grant the wishes on their children's Christmas Lists. They just kept buying and my tight wadded mind was freaking out inside. . but then i thought about the Christmas' with my family and the gifts my parents had given that were on my list or surprised. One year i got a snow cone machine, i think i'd mentioned getting one months before, but completely forgot about. I was in pure heaven because it was such a neat gift! Or the year i finally got an Easy Bake Oven! I knew i was rolling big that year! hahaah, but it just made me realize the immense sacrifice parents go through to make their children happy. They are very giving. Haha I kept thinking they didn't need to buy their kids that much stuff, they had everything they needed and they probably do, just like i always did and do. . .

Nauvoo, Illinois

2010-10-23T18:45:00.000-07:00

I am so excited to share this post with you all! I took waaaay more pictures, but i only put up these ones (and there's a bunch). I wish you could of all been there with me. Nauvoo is a beautiful and wonderful place! The midwest is such a beautiful landscape. Those poor Saints who left such a green fertile land. . are so great, for turning the Salt Lake valley into what it is today. The Bishop's wife and I left at 5:30 AM to make the 3 hour drive across the Nauvoo and Mississippi River to the Nauvoo Temple. Then we spent the whole day exploring. I looked up ancestors that lived here and even saw the plot of land that one of them owned back in the 1840's.

This is the view from the steps of the Mississippi River. It is SOOOOO big and beautiful! I am in love with the Mississippi and so excited to finally say i've been East of it! hahah, even tho it was only a few miles.

The temple was beautiful, as they all are in their own unique ways.

Water towers are big here in this area. . altho they don't look like our good ol' red and white checker one.

This statue sits across from the entrance of the temple as well. It's of Hyrum and Joseph Smith. They paused here, overlooking the temple and beautiful city the Saints built up, before they rode off to Carthage. It was one of my favorite spots in Nauvoo. To see the river, the temple . . to be standing in the same place the prophet Joseph stood, was very special for me. The plaque meant a lot to me to, it read of Joseph's words: "This is the lovliest place and best people under the heavens; little do they know the trials that await them."

Me waiting outside the temple for Sister Bair to finish her session.

The artwork, sun, moon of the famous temple

I love this.

The back view of the temple as i enter the 'downtown' street of Nauvoo. . look at the trees! So prettY!

Heber C. Kimball's home. . it was a big a beautiful house. Just like Brighams, Wilford's, John Taylor's.. .

The print shop sat next to john taylor's house, which is where i wished i'd lived, if i lived in Nauvoo!

The brick place! i got my famous red brick with a bunch of little kids. haha

Me and the Mississippi river at sunset. I LOVE it.

We also went to the Nauvoo Burial grounds. It was the last place we went. I tried to catch the beauty of it in the pictures. . . the serene, peacefullness here would be a wonderful resting place for my body, until the Resurrection. Many of the headstones were unreadable, so it made us wonder what our burials will be like it 150 years. . what will i leave behind? . . who will care?

The sun was streaming through the trees. . it was a perfect end, to a lovely day. We didn't have time to see everything, apparently that takes 3 days. . . and we didn't make it to Carthage, but i can't wait to get back and visit there.

Look at the colors of these leaves!

This is one of my favorites too!

The temple on the hill. I still can't believe i was able to go to Nauvoo! I feel so blessed to be living here at the time being, going to school, playing basketball, enjoying the friendships of so many wonderful people on campus and in my ward.

With the lack of mountains, the sunsets fill the sky. This is as we drove over the bridge, back into Iowa. :)

I went to Nauvoo on Saturday, on Monday i had no school, because of fall break. . so the Grave's, this old couple in our ward took me to Mt. Pisgah and Garden Grove. Two places the Saints stopped and made as living areas, as they travelled West and prepared for the long trek to Zion. All that is left of the pioneers is a cemetery area, with no head stones or marking and a monument at each. At Mt. Pisgah, the Des Moine's stake built this log cabin to represent what the Pioneers built, while they stayed for a season. They cleared the land, planted crops, harvest, planted again and left, and the next batch of Saints came and harvested. . . brother helping brother.

Mt. Pisgah monument, with saints names who died on it. . the valley below is where the Saints farmed. There's even a spot where there are wagon wheel indents, from being beaten into the ground.

This is the monument at Garden Grove.. about a half hour drive from Mt. Pisgah and Osceole, IA.

No editing necessary. A tree by Garden Grove with the setting sun and rolling green hills.

Hahah, this little jail was found in town. idk if they still use it. . but maybe they do. No one was stuck into it tonight tho. haha!

Adam-Ondi-Ahman and Far West!!!!

2010-09-26T22:16:00.000-07:00

Today after church we went to Adam-Ondi-Ahman. I drove with Bro and Sis Graves. He is one of the counselors in our Bishopric and she is in the RS presidency. This weekend i stayed with his sisters. Above is Far West, a settlement in Missouri where pioneers had a town of 5,000 people, what is left is the Far West Temple site, that has 4 corners of the laid foundation that the pioneers did during the night, since they were constantly persecuted. They finally had to leave Far West as they headed to Nauvoo. . . This is one of the cornerstones.

Me in front of the sign!

This is me in front of the Far West monument thingy. It has scriptures and revelations, mostly from D&C. It's at the far end of the Temple ground.

But first we went to Adam-Ondi-Ahman!!! This is the big area, where we met. My ward members are viewed here.

This is me, with the low lands of Adam-Ondi-Ahman in the background. Much of the 1,000 or so acres are rented off to farmers to farm the land. . or so Bro Grave's thinks. The saints will be called here when God comes again. That's gonna be interesting. Lol Adam and Eve came here after they were kicked out of the Garden of Eden, which is in Missouri, more south.

Missouri and Iowa is Midwest, spaced out areas of beautiful farmland and greeness. It's been a wet season, so it's just beautiful here! Even the cities seem more spaced out. It's a neat place to live and be around, but if i were to live here forever my husband better be one sexy beast, and my neighbors better be a lot of fun!!! Hahah but the blue sky, shining sun and growth at Adam-- was beautiful here.

Some corn fields in Adam-Ondi-Ahman, which means Adam (Man) Ondi (around or about) Ahman (God).

This sign explained how Saints had bought land on Adam-Ondi-Ahman and Joseph Smith came to the land and realized where and what it was. They found remains of a tower, used in Adam's time. As well as 3 altars laid on a hill, which were Native America (Nephite) altars, under which there was a burial place of Nephite people. . . farther to this point was a town called Spring Hill, where the Saints mapped out a town to build, like Salt Lake's in a grid like fashion, but the town was never built, because the mobs forced them out. Although there were people that lived in this area and a ward established. Like 1,500 people lived in Adam-Ondi-Ahman, Lyman Wight was one of the first to build his log cabin there, just below our field we met at.

This is, Tower Hill i think they called it, if it's called anything. Where they found the altars and bodies.

And this is me and the sign of entrance to this Holy Land. What a neat experience to travel here with my fellow Saints and see this land. As i looked over the low lands of corn fields i tried to imagine looking at it as if i were a pioneer (which wasn't hard, since it's country land everywhere) but the world was a very different place. I'm grateful for my Pioneer ancestors and my forefathers to carry the Gospel of Jesus Christ to this land and eventually to Zion. We are so lucky to have been raised in the shadow of the Church's Headquarters. What a neat opportunity to grow and learn and be blessed by the temples, church's and gospel teachings so close and easily accesible! I have grown to love the Salt Lake Valley even more! I'm excited to travel to Liberty Jail soon, in Liberty, MO and Nauvoo soon! I'm grateful for the gospel in my life and the peace it brings in my life.

The other night i wondered, what if the gospel isn't true. What would i do? And i've had these thoughts before and i realized, even if there was nothing behind it all (which i know there is, but i'm just saying) that i would still want to be part of a religion that teaches us to be like the kindest person that ever walked this earth. To live a life of service, of hardwork, of honesty and morals. . . there's nothing wrong with living a life like that, a life that i'm proud to tell my mom what i did at the end of a late friday night, a life where i am encouraged by my prophet to look after the widows in my ward and not judge others, and lovingly encouraged to fix my many weaknesses. . . but they're are too many tender mercy's and confirmations of my heart where i feel the love of my Savior and the peace of the Holy Spirit to deny that the Lord God lives and is aware of my being and that there is life after death and i look forward to dwelling with my Heavenly Family again someday.

Hello from Lamoni!!!

2010-09-17T13:15:00.000-07:00

This is Kate, me, and Aubrey. They're roommates and they live a few doors down from me on our hall. We live on Solah, each student belongs to a "house." Solah is the oldest and most popular female house at Graceland University (which is where i go to school. fyi. haha) These 2 are freshman and each have a few cousins here at school with them. They just met, but they are hilarious to watch and be around. Aubrey is the world's most sarcastic cinic and pessimist. Yesterday she came into my room and said she's never seen so much positivity in pictures and signs in her life and had to leave cuz it was overwhelming her. Haha. Awesome. This was at our Solah Inductions last week. We each had a candle and then blew it out. I can't believe i showered for it, but everyone else was getting all ready for it. . so. .

We had a lot of welcome activities for the school and our hall. One of them on our hall was a tye dye day! I don't know, but everyone here is like super into tye dying. I haven't done it since like elementary. . but it's cool! haha i liked it! These are some girls on my hall! Kate, Kayla, Lindsay, Amantha, Aubrey and me!

Lamoni is only 3 miles from the Missouri border. And they are lots of corn fields and bean fields around! It's very green and pretty! There is a sign as we enter Lamoni that says something about being aware of buggy's and horses, to respect the Amish people in our town. Haha which is also awesome! Lamoni is actually a very cute little town! It should be filmed on a Lifetime movie.

This is one of the two hotels in town. It's called Chief Lamoni Motel, which i found amusing, since he was a king, but whatever. The school is sponsored by COC (Community of Christ- which used to be RLDS) but i don't have to take any classes or anything for it. Lots of kids' families are COC, but i haven't met many that are very active and into the religion. We had a a big religion talk last night in my room, which was good and neat. My roommate went to a Restoration high school, which is a break of COC, there were Mormons at her school, but she doesn't claim any religion. It's neat being able to talk to her about religion because she's knowledgable in it, but not judgmental about anything. She's really awesome! i love her! She's a freshman from Independence, MO.

There is something very great that I have come to appreciate each fall for the last 3 years. It is college. Higher education, better jobs, more money, competitve world, we should do it, blah, blah, blah. Actually the whole school thing is important and awesome, but college life is SOOOO easy! I love it! Sure there are times where i have to push myself physically and mentally in basketball, which is what's paying for my schooling. . . but it's a good life. I wake up each late-morning to get ready for a 50 to 75 minute class. I got to 2 or 3 a day, with breaks in between and prepared meals at my behalf in the commons, or if i'm running late in the "Swarm" which is our on campus fast food place. Things are going good!

Basketball is going good! We're having a team bonding day today, instead of practice. The girls are all pretty cool. My ward family is Awesome and so supportive! The RS presidency drove a 1/2 hour yesterday to come visit me and the 3 other mormon girl's that go here, and took us for ice cream. I get to give a talk on Sunday on Nurturing Testimonies and am going to be working in the primary! So things are looking good! If only i could stop procrastinating all homework assignments, things will be golden!

Sweet Campout

2010-07-27T15:58:00.000-07:00

Here are a few pictures I did of the sweet campout this year Enjoy :)

haha.... figured it out!

2010-07-23T10:28:00.001-07:00

2010-07-23T10:23:00.000-07:00

ok well,,,, the blog won't let me upload any pictures so my apologies! you'll have to wait for another day unless somone knows how to help me?! Lol. .....
love, leen

Life + Change = Growth

2010-07-23T10:13:00.000-07:00

Hey lovely ladies, wow things change so much in so little time! but i love it!
So, i am officially moved up to a basement apartment up in Ogden. We just got the kitchen and everything done and its small, simple, but oh so cute! and i love it simply because it is mine!
Also, i just dyed my hair red! i love it... it is crazy and different and yet it seems to fit me!
I love all of you! enjoy some pics!
love ya mean it,
leen

Summa time!

2010-07-03T14:36:00.001-07:00

Hey guys! this is Biggie-B aka Bowser, he's mikes little puppy. He's so cute! we went hiking last week, he loved it!

Oo i like the intensity.

Me and Mike :)

these are some flowers outside of our yard i shot and edited. so pretty!

Its crazy cuz they used to be soo curly, and now they are super straight. Anyways, love you guys!

Mama's Day!

2010-05-09T22:37:00.000-07:00

Isn't she gorgeous?? The most beautiful eyes you will ever see :) She is the sweetest, most loving person in my life, and so unbelievably giving! I love you mama!! Happy Mothers Day!

School is 4 Fools!!!!

2010-05-07T16:44:00.000-07:00

I'm officially graduating! :) unless by some crazy means i bomb my calculus final and my teacher fails me. . but i have my cap and gown! haha i'm on a 2 year graduation program. I just finished my final class today and i have 4 finals starting monday at 11 until wednesday at 9 am! Then i'm chilling till i can leave friday night after commencement!

I love all the fun things school's do with the year winding down. This day was the President's picnic, where the pres of our school fed everyone a bbq and even cooked the meat! Then the dorms had a bbq last night cuz they have lots of funds left over!

These are my head residents little girls. haha fat breanne made them pull her! I used their wagon to take my pink scrapbooking tote to class cuz it's SO HEAVY!!!!

Me and my adoptive nieces! ;) haha their so cute! We sometimes jump on their trampoline with them and i know the other students are totally jealous, cuz not just anyone can go into the hr backyard and use her tramp!

Corey, Corey, Corey. Sometimes i wonder why we're friends. Haha he'll tell you i'm his community service project.

THe LUAU!!!!!!!!!

The Polynesian Club put on their annual luau again and Moose came up with this eccentric idea to REALLY dress up! Haha So we did! Amaris, B and me! We decorated our own hats!

Moose is really good at free handing stuff! .. naturally i needed a hawaiin flower tatoo for the events. No worries mom it was washed off sunday morning for church.

The crew! Sasha (the one kissing the girl) said they make fun of people who dress up like this in hawaii and here she is doing it right along side us! Hahaha. The girl being kissed, her tatoo was drawn on my Moose. It was insane!!!

The boys doing the Haka. Gotta love 'baby-oiled up' poly boys, shouting war chants. Made me miss West Valley fo sho!!!

The Poly girls (all athletes here)

We also got pineapple cups to carry around, which had 'lemonade' in them! Haha it was a fun night, altho it was really windy and got VERY cold!

it's a phOtOshOot!!!

2010-04-28T22:49:00.000-07:00

SO our campus at EA is actually really pretty and i wanna remember it. (plus 4 scrapbooking measures) This is our clock tower. the stupid thing is fast, which always makes me think i'm late, then i remember its fast, so i'm still usually late. haha tuesday i was 15 minutes late to international business, but that's cuz the caf was serving these DELICIOUS waffles with strawberries and whipped cream! YUM!

lol, obviously.

The new nursing building is on the right, they just took down the fence and are working on the inside. the student services is on the right. and the beautiful blue sky!

Palm trees make me happy. :) this is at south campus where the pool and gym and my business classes are.

Doesn't this make you wanna go to school in arizona??? i've adapted so much to heat, it's weird!!! I've been waiting for it to get in the 80's forever. today at 5pm it was 89, which meant it was over 90 all day. . and i thought it was only 70's. i love the heat. there i said it. wow. This is our outdoor pool i've been hitting up everyday around noonish to swim laps. today i swam over a 1/2 mile.

In my swim suit. i'm a cutie!

So today we had a photoshoot for all the recruiting and pamphlets the school sends out to recruit students to come here. lol breanne and i went all out. i got these sweet purple tights for us at wet seal a few weeks ago. 50 cents each! lol it was fun! We also did an "academic" pose later, we had to change out of our "mardi gras" clothes, as the camera guy said. This is us and Big Rig.

As beyonce says, Pose for the camera now, Flick, Flick!

Are my yellow shoes not SICK?!?!? haha. i JUST wore them for the first time yesterday. they're freaking awesome! lol

Ruby Red Heels

2010-04-18T21:39:00.000-07:00

So saturday we went to Phoenix to play in the sophomore all star game! All the sophomore's in our conference go to play and are split up into teams to play each other! I played against my two teammates. It was a lot of fun! . . Afterwards coach took me and sasha to the mall! I love the mall! haha i haven't been shopping shopping in a mall for like. . EVER! . . so i bought 3 pairs of new shoes! i have this weird feddish with heels now! I got 2 pairs for $3 each!! Woot woot! and some comfortable dressy flats!
SO today at stake conference i was looking FLYYYY in my new shoes and sweatery purple thing! And new necklace and adorable bracelets!

THe GILA VALLEY TEMPLE open house is this coming friday, April 23rd! I get to be an usher for a few nights AND serve cookies! I'm actually stoked to be part of it!

This is Mt. Graham. It's this one little mountain. People here think they have "mountains," but apparently they've never been to salt lake! . . altho my coach was telling me that Mt. Graham is the single tallest mountain that is not IN a mountain range, but stands alone, in the whole world. Hmm. Crazy. 4 weeks of school left! = excited Liz and nervous, don'tknowwhattodoaboutthe future Liz.

Maturity.

2010-04-10T21:19:00.000-07:00

It's CR@ZY how attractive i look, isn't it???? Haha, even when i make stupid faces!!! . . btw, my favorite color ALL week long has been orange. Ever since i borrowed Moose's orange nail polish and painted my nails orange. Idk what's up, if i'm turning more into CinCin everyday. . but I wore orange like all week!!!! . . and it's been a long hard week. I have a BIG case of Spring Fever and i have yet to do anything productive. I'm supposed to be writing a manuscript right now for my speech on "Why mother's should stay home." . . it's coming . . not at all. HA! SPEAKING of Moose! She's my next door neighbor. Lol sweet girl, everyone feels like their moose's best friend, she's got a gift to make people talk, and she's funny as heck! . . Well the other day, April 1st actually, Moose saw our head coach, Dan Dersam dressed in a warm up suit and realized her dad had picked up an identical jacket to coach's at the thrift store a few weeks ago and given it to moose. The most mature thing to do in this case is dress up EXACTLY like our cooach. Naturally. So that's what Moose did. lol from the white hat, to the glasses to the black shoes. It was SOOO funny!

Announcement!!! The old geiser is "RETIRING!" . . which is legit, since he's had how many losses in his coaching career?!?! Let alone just in the pass 2 seasons!!! Lol, don't get me wrong, he's a wonderful guy, took Great care of us all . . but EAC women's basketball is in dire need of a new, commited, smart coaching staff.

M.E.M.O.R.I.E.S

2010-04-08T23:28:00.000-07:00

Memories. What do you think of when you hear the word memories? . . . Some people are really book smart. Some people are street smart. Some people have amazing memories. Some people have the ability to retain a ton of non important information. . . I have a little bit of each, but I'm no expert or gifted student. But there is one thing unique about me. I have a passion for memories. I think this is why i love scrapbooking so much. The creativity and color and tools are neat, but my scrapbooks are simple. I leave lots of space to journal and like just now i spent 20 minutes looking at the scrapbook pages i've done this last semester of The Possey. I reread everything i wrote and smiled at my own tactic and humor.
Some would say, including myself, that i have too much time on my hands, that i don't use my time wisely, but this fascination in remembering events has to be for some reason. Sometimes when i write in my journal (yes, i have a journal i write in) I get caught up in reading experiences i've had and remembering the feelings, the people, the life i've lived.
I'm learning how important our decisions we make in life are. The everyday choices and the largely important ones. I remember sad times in our life, like when we lost someone we loved dearly. Take Shalleen for instance. She is this beautiful, strong, amazing young woman who has turned out twice as good as i could of even hoped myself to turn out, if i had faced her same trials. Or i think of mistakes I've made and am disappointed in myself, but then i RemEmBer that although the mistakes were stupid, i learned from them and I am a better person today. As i remember I am reminded of my Savior's love, He who is so merciful and perfect, I am in awe.
My memories remind me that I am not alone in this world. I would not be the person i am without the people who have influenced and touched my life. Women, teachers, leaders, family, friends.

Did you Just wake UP?

2010-04-07T11:41:00.000-07:00

Last night i went to bed at 1 am, the two nights before i went to bed at 2 am, the only problem with this is that i have to get up every morning by at LEAST 7:50 am to make it to my 8 am morning classes. Well today i was definitely finding a hard time to roll onto my stomach and slide off my top bunk to the bottom mattress and slip onto the floor. . but I FINALLY managed. I kept on the shorts i slept in and threw on a sports bra and white t-shirt. After my first class i have an hour break, which i WAS going to go running during, cuz that's what us athletes do (plus i'm getting fat) . . but my eyes were SO tired, we agreed to nap before public speaking at 10!!! Well Breanne knocked on my door to go to class and immediately started her durogatory commentary on my outfit.

I understand that i don't ALWAYS believe in matching my clothes. I don't always want to look impressive or adorable. . because A. I looke that way in sweats w/o trying. and B. i don't care what people thinK!!!! . . but APpaRentLY my half yellow half pink Volcom striped board shorts, with my still white basketball shirt and my white and silver champion flip flops were just too much. . So we walk into the building where public speaking is and breanne points out her dismay at my outfit to some of our teammates, softball girls and hawaiins. lol . . they seemed confused, but not as haterade-ish as breanne. .

So after class i have to go meet with my counselor to see if SVU is accredited school. . lol i wait for like 15 minutes, (course i got there 10 minutes early) so this hawaiin lady named Gina walks out and calls my name. I stand up and look at her and she goes, "did you just wake up?" . . lol ah geez, EVERYBODY has got jokes today! lol . . i go "Nope, i been up since 8!". . . she's quick to recover you barely see her face flinch and she recovers with same lame comment about, "oh, that's so great you have that look of being well rested." . . Ha, yeah thanks lady!

Small towns with Channing!

2010-04-05T00:06:00.001-07:00

Lol, so the last post that was on our blessed possey blog was the one i put up in February. . . idk where March went. I'm sure our avid fans are disatisfied with the lack of knowledge about our crazy lives, specifically mine, since i'm the only one that gets on here.. . but can i blame everyone else? Nope! They're not the ones that live in Thatch-Nasty with very little responsibility, homework, social highlights or will to do their homework at midnight. Ha! I don't have any sweet pics to put up either of what i've been up to, except for my awesome time in the blessed valley of zion i had a few weeks back! . . I'm learning that there truly is No Place like Home. No matter where I go or how faraway i end up, Salt Lake will always be my home.

I've actually had some sweet ideas for blog topics, but do i remember any of them? Absolutely not. Which is not surprising at all since I have a horrible memory and don't listen well. . but i do have an avid and spectacular imagination. Sometimes i wish i could record the thoughts and/or scenarios that flash through my head to show to the rest of the world. You'd love it, i'm sure! haha. Today we drove for 6 HOURS back to Thatcher after spending the weekend in Williams: The Gateway to the Grand Canyon (1/2 hour from Flagstaff) at Breanne's parents house for a nice Easter weekend. Anyways i was despising all the little towns we passed as we drove. Sidenote: i HATE small towns. I am not a small town girl and do not ever want to become a small town girl. Weekend visit, Fine. live? No thank you. . . but as we were driving i thought of that Dutch oven- er, Pioneer woman that Jessica, Fern and Carrie like who was a city girl and fell madly in love with a sexy cowboy and had to adapt and learn how to live it up on a rand (or at least that's how i remember the story) . . . So i was rethinking my decision about small towns, naturally, and i came to the conclusion that that sexy cowboy of mine better be looking like Channing Tatum and build me a fancy schmancy ranch house if he wants me to move to the middle of nowhere and learn how to cook more than no back cookies and top roman. I'm jus saying.

Anywho, I'm supposed to be studying for a little test i have in accounting ii tomorrow morning at 8. Frustrating since i have yet to start. So far this semester i've been doing the whole "not study and see how i do" . . i pulled out a C then a B (but the B did acquire SOME studying). And really all i can think about is that basket full of easter candy i just put high on my dresser so i'd stop munching at it. haha! Tomorrow i'm going to start my training for this mini triathalon being held in Safford. I'll let you know how that goes. It's supposed to be 80 degrees tomorrow too! I'm slowly working on my tan, since this may be the last month and 10 days i'm in Arizona for a long time. I can't WAIT for graduation! May 14, 2010. Come and visit the Open House of the beautiful Gila Valley Temple! I'm so excited for that and so happy for this valley to be receiving a temple. They're so cute about it. It's awesome! . . but hw calls so i shall leave thee hence.

February has come!

2010-02-05T10:34:00.000-08:00

Oh the month of love. Red and pink, valentines, secret admirers and love notes. . . good thing i don't have to deal with any of that! Instead i get to enjoy the season of candy hearts and cheap chocolates! Wahoo! lol I can't believe it's already February!!! WAHOO! Spring break will be here in no time! Along with that blessed day that i was born almost TWENTY years ago! (mom you better send the package now, so i'll get it by the time the day rolls around!)
School is going. We have a love/hate relationship. My plan is do as little homework as possible, play as much as possible. lol
Did i ever tell you about the SAWEET leaopard print spandex pants breanne and i found at pac sun? They were only $5!! We wore them out of the store! and then bowling with some baseball, football, softball kids.

Ok mom, don't freak out. I do NOT heart beer. But i do own a t-shirt from walmart that was $3!!!! lol Our good buddies Corey (left) and Matt (right) bought these matching shirts when we were with them. They were so Stoked! . . so b and i went back to walmart and bought some to match them!! lol Then we surprised them when we took off our jackets! haha so funny! Especially since neither of us drinks!

SO cute!!

Did i tell you we finally WON A GAME!?!?!?! Yep, that's the beautiful score!!! It was a GREAT night! I'm number 34.

The other thing in my life has been trying to find a school for next year. I'm looking at Dixie, Weber, BYU or BYUI just to go to school. But i really want to continue playing ball if i can. Southern Virginia is interested and a school in Denver called my coach. . . but it's all up in the air! lol oh the joys of being a transfer student!

Liz the Shiz!

2010-01-17T19:24:00.000-08:00

Do you know how easy waving your hair becomes, when you french braid it the night before!?!? SO much easier! lol. . school started. :/ mixed feelins. lol it's stressful, but neccessary!

But, at least i do it with style! . . gosh i'm a darling girl!

hey, wanna see what my bedroom looks like?!? Well here ya go! . . lol i sleep on the top bunk, even tho i don't have a roommate, cuz my closet (amoire) works like a night table. And the bottom bunk is my couch. (ps i don't like when people i don't want sitting on my bed, sit on it, so they now have to climb! lol)

i have TONS of drawers to put my knick knacks in with two desks. . i think i really have something in every drawer. lol

Awe, its my cork board, with happy couples and pictures! ;)

Now, 4 the BASKETBALL PICS! . . .Welcome to the Eastern Arizona Gila (He'll-yuh) Monster Women's Basketball Team. Record 0-way too many. lol

Sasha from hawaii. Sophomore. Shooting guard. She gave a boys bball team my number, saying it was breanne's. lol

Amaris (Am-er-us). We have 2 classes together, same major (business administration) and were Visiting teaching partners.

Finally, Moose aka Kobe Bryant (i named her that) aka ivana (no one calls her that but coach, and he pronounces it wrong.)

And finally finally, Liz Sweet. Liz the Shiz. #34.

Oh hey, blondie, you wanna shoot? Okay, i'll hold 2 phoenix players back, while you do. I call it the wall. No one's getting around me, or else i'm getting a foul!

watch out little one, liz the shiz coming thru.

Oh you don't wanna make room for me?!? is that a fat joke?. .well meet my elbow.

Yup! All day baby, all day!!!!!!

Hello Again

2010-01-14T10:35:00.000-08:00

Hey my beautiful friends!!! I know I've been out of the whole blogging thing for a while, but I really want to try harder!!! :) I'm in my office at school right now or I would post some pictures or something :) ha I'm taking this eduacation class and we're learning about blogging right now so I'm really stoked about it!!! YES!! ....anyway I need to go get back out on the Diagonal for club rush, but I LOVE you all!!!!!

210 is HerE!

2010-01-07T23:08:00.000-08:00

Well i made it back alive to thatcher and i didn't even miss my flight this time! lol Breanne picked me up at the Phoenix airport and we made the 3 hour drive to our deserted school! I gave her a sweet matching snakeskin purse and belt that's pattern matched my belt, purse and shoes! lol

Plus my mom graciously made her some christmas pajamas that matched mine! lol Oh to be young again!

The two Brides!!! Kels & Katie at their bridal shower! I love you girls! COngrAtS!!!!!

Sam, Mars, me and Mel at our Possey Christmas party Sam threw! It was Super fun! i love being with you girls SO much!

shalleenie, kate, jen and mel. WE shoulda been models! :) Happy 2010!

MeRrY CHriStMaS!!!!

2009-12-16T21:47:00.000-08:00

Happy Holidays!! Love Breanne, Liz and some black kid. Bahahahhahahahahhahahahhahah!

Christmas in Thatcher!!!

2009-12-14T19:32:00.000-08:00

I had a BLESSED time in Salt Lake for Thanksgiving!!! but i didn't really take any pictures! This is me and breanne the day after returning to school, counting down the days till christmas break!

This is Nate, aka Big Rig who was in the hospital for like a week. Matt, breanne and i visited him diligently!

And THIS is Matt John Baty. Probably one of the FUNNIEST guys i've ever met. Alabama born and bred. The things that come out of his mouth and freaking rediculous! lol

The night we set up our christmas decor!

Yep, Christmas lights around the doorway to lighten our already always lit hallway in Mark Allen South Dorms. And Matt Baty sitting inside of B's room.

Last sunday breanne and matt went up to the mountain to play in the snow and matt pulled this tree-ish branch out of the ground for breanne. My fake tree is next to breanne's in the shadows. LOVe IT! I'm so stoked to be home for christmas! i really know understand now how great it is to go home for christmas! I can't believe it's only about ten days away! The christmas festivities are short lived on a college campus! . . but until i fly home, i must attend to my finals. :( Love you all!

check it!

2009-12-11T22:08:00.001-08:00

801. yo theres alot of pink on this page these days.

Update 4rm Thatcherita!

2009-11-13T14:37:00.000-08:00

So for Halloween this year, b and i decided to be "black boys." lol, and we were going FULL OUT! So we had our hair braided by this girl. Then we borrowed LEGIT clothes from actualy football boys.

We even wore wave caps and cologne. lol We sagged our pants and had chains. We went to the football game and people thought we were actual boys. it was SO funny! Moose was a lumberjack.

Bre and i, still looking cute dressed as boys!

i looked like a fat white boy. lol and the jacket's actually mine. hhaha!

It was pretty cold here for a few days. . like it hit the 50's! (I've turned into such a softy weather wise!) So we were tramping around in sweats!!! . . this was one day after classes. lol B, Moose and i all have our own rooms right by each other, so we play a lot.

a few weeks ago, marcia mcclure, (My FAVORITE AUTHOR) was in thatcher to meet fans! So i went and met her! Loved her, we're now friends on facebook!

Last week we made the 10 hour drive to Midland, TX for a 3 game tournament. I did really well, which was good for my self-image for ball, i had 29 pts thru the three games and saw the potential in our team! This is B and i at that italian fast food place, that's by walmart on 5600 west. Can't think of the name.

These are some of my teammates. L-R Amaris, Aleisha, Sasha, Madie, camera girl and croatia in the purple sweats.

THE TEAM! . . . our season starts this coming with Mesa Community College at our house! I'm done with my classes for the day and i'm just chillin! I only have 35 more days till i come home for a short christmas break! I'm listening to christmas songs right now on fm 100 online, Love it! I think i'll take a nap or read a book!

as of lately. .

2009-11-05T21:09:00.000-08:00

This is halloween. we were stuff you find in an alley. gum, banana and a cat haha!

Chad kirkland set up a booth at the party and took pics of everyone it was so awesome! I didn't go with whit but she snuck in the pic since alicia was bein a poor sport. It was just a house party but it was HUGE! 200 peeps easy. there were some craze costumes though, one girl was the money you could be saving if you switched to geico lol! she couldnt go inside though cuz it was too packed and her costume wouldnt fit. It was tight they had live dj's with their switch boards and records! fun fun! My fav holiday for sure.

Me and tear bear went to the blackout game on halloween, both of us were sick but we still cheered. of course. the game was ridiculous until the last quarter where the utes stomped those indians. they shoulda known our bows and arrows could whoop their guns and horses. booya!

Kenny was awesome enough to get me james and syd into the CHEVELLE concert for free! his dad works sound so they put us on the majic list haha! my FAVORITE band EVER!!!! Ugh it was sooooo saaweeeettt!!! i wish they could play here every weekend!

We only brought our phones so the pics are pixel city. but we were so nasty after im glad we didnt have a good camera. I went nuts in the mosh pit and was covered in nasty sweat (hopefully, but probably not, my own sweat). Ugh so much fun!!

Fml.

2009-10-08T15:15:00.000-07:00

i dunno. . . i kinda liked this picture haha! warped but i cant help it. im an art student what can i say.

at least i found a use for my hideous towel.

so much effin glass EVERYWHERE!

PrAnks & FUn!

2009-10-07T14:18:00.000-07:00

You look at this and you think, "YES!" lol we went to a dance party @ some cute mexican mormon's house, but we couldn't go dressed normal! lol So i pulled out the old school hunter shorts and we danced our behinds off! lol it was a TON of fun. I didn't care what anyone thought of how i danced and i just Felt the Music!!

Breanne thinks its really funny to grab my camera while i'm in the lou and take pics. It's frustrating.

Moose gave us a fake eviction note, so we leaned a bottle of water against her door and when she opened it it left a small water spill. She did it back to us and left a HUGe wet spot. lol

But we decided to switch the pranks to others, instead of each other. This is me, michelle, aleisha and moose (ball team). We started pulling pranks on some football boys, this was our latest. They literally ran away from us, the big black football boys. it was SO FUNNY!!! We got girls and boys in our dorms, basketball and baseball boys and people around campus. But our secrets out now, they know it was us.

We took team pics today. The backdrop was left open, so i had breanne take a couple. lol

Some of my teammates. Our team picture for our poster is gonna be pretty cool! I'm stoked! We got out of running 19 and 19 suicides today! Thank goodness! Our next game is in a week and a half. Were looking So GOod this year! It's exciting! :) Loveyou all!!!

Good ole' Melon Days!

2009-09-27T22:52:00.000-07:00

So last weekend I went to Green River with my family for what is known as Melon Days! We all had a blast... tons of family, fun, and sun! Here's some wonderful pictures of the fam from the trip.......

This is my great uncle in this picture, holding up the umbrella. He and his wife live in Green River. They are the sweetest couple I have ever met....

And my good old grandpa sleeping in the front lawn while he's supposed to be baby sitting... Lol.

And my cutest little cousin ever, Brant! What a cutie! Here he is showing us all how he can get us to scream and jump up as he sticks a fist full of grass in his mouth!.... :) Cute little boy, eh?

And this sweet guy was in the Melon Days' Parade! He was awesome, he walked up to my little cousins to ask them for high fives and they all started crying. Lol.

And here is the two sassiest littl girls ever.... Brynne and Aspen! What little diva's! :)

Me and the little bro..... PRECIOUS!

And here's a once in a lifetime shot with the dad! Good times....

Breanne's Birthday!

2009-09-14T21:19:00.000-07:00

Awe, this is Moose, B and i at 7:30 am this morning, getting ready 4 our 8 am english class and then straight to practice!! We woke up breanne with the good ol' happy birthday song and gave her my GREaT gift!!

Yep!! This would be the GREAT gift. I would give you all a shirt like this, if only you were all my roommates!!! lol Now That WOULD BE GREAT!!! Let's all buy a house together and live in it! and the married couples can live in our circle with us! Cul-de-sac!

THis is what her boyfriend Brandon sent her. He goes to school in Washington. lol and he bought her a star, that was pretty cute.

We have LOTS of cake left over in the because her mom made this HUGE cake and had her bring it back! It's super yummy! Good thing we ran 10 suicides in 10 minutes today!!!

And THIS is the Gila Valley Temple!!!! LOok how fast it's going up!!! There obviously still working on the outside, but its so cool! I'm so happy 4 the people of this valley to get a temple so close!

advencherz!

2009-09-14T19:19:00.000-07:00

Wild cats roaming around, it was not happy about me. this won best pic of the trip lol! She took over 800!

Me and ken in the mid and Jen and Chet (we met them at the resort and stayed with them, their from vegas. awesome people!!)

Margaritaville in Jamaica.

Jamaican Rasta! ancient and possibly dead rasta.

zipline city! no other girls would do it! lame.

THis is the Powell crew! 3 houseboats, 10 wakeboard boats, a helecopter, zipline, slip and slide, DJ and dance floor! Partay.

Me and Rick (owner of the X30) chillin in their background haha! Rick was so much fun!

we passed this guy and had to stop! Sad huh!!

There are sooo many others to show you but it would be quite impossible :)

MOose and BirTHdaYs!

2009-09-12T22:54:00.000-07:00

This is Moose. She moved in next door to me and Breanne. Moose doesn't like to be photographed (i hate when girls pull that) lol, she looks innocent enough, doesn't she. Fun girl, get's along with B and i, even tho we're white. . .

Exhibit A. After practice friday B and i were grabbing our stuff to go get in the shower. Moose came in and was casually talking to us. Apparently as she talked, she grabbed breanne's keys off her door. So she left, we got in the shower and B returned to our room to find this. My bed off the top bunk and on the floor. ODD.

Then breanne was confused, cuz she has walked down the hall looking at her toes, so she missed where someone had put her bed. Oh, it was in the HALL!!! And breanne's keys were just hanging on our door knob. lol, breanne's car had also been affected, moose opened all her visors and stuff and in the dirt of her windshield wrote, "You've been Moosed." lol and she seemed like such a nice, quiet girl.

Our room, after we put clothes on and put our beds back together. It's Hunting Season Moose.

Mmhh. A happy liz before we took off to Phoenix this weekend for Breanne's Birthday weekend!

Happy 19th Birthday Breanne! lol i can't wait to show you all what i got her!

Why Bloga?

2009-09-09T22:26:00.000-07:00

So i'm kinda sick of typing in my favorite blog site and continuing to see a picture of me on our blog. As much as you all KNOW that i do truly LOVE myself, we made this blog to see what's up in each others lives. So i guess i'll let you know what's up.
Right now i'm catching wireless internet in my room, i should possibly be looking up sources for my research paper on the positive effects sports has on adolescants. . but let's not get pushy, eh? So instead i've been playing on facebook, dreaming of hunky dunky guys and randomly turning to look at my roommate (Breanne) asleep on herbottom bunk who was talking to her boyfriend thru Skype (web cam) who is ALSO asleep. PA-THETIC. haha, ah geez. If i've learned anything about relationships so far it is that Long Distand Relationships are a PAIN!!!!!! Last week they were breaking up, this week they were playing the, "No you get off first." Oh the joys of love. :)
PRACTICE:
Basketball has been going great this season. I actually kinda dread going to practice because we're just running a lot and working hard! but i LOVE it!! My team is really great! We have 4 returning sophomores and a butt load of hard working, focused, talented freshman! My coach has a better work ethic this year, so we plan on winning more than ONE game this season!! Lol, but really we scrimmaged half court today and i'm just psyched 4 our guards!
The other day some guy asked where i was from, because i looked SO Familiar! I quickly replied that it must have been from America's Next Top Model. Silly boy. lol i Told Nicole G. this story and she sent me this sick ANTM hat. So now "I'm Rolling LIke a Big Shot!" (name that song)
Anyways i had a fun little Labor Day in Williams, AZ, its 30 minutes from Flagstaf and 6 HOURS from Thatcher. That's where Breanne lives and i love home cooked meals and Cereal. I'm thoroughly enjoying my scrapbooking class and my church calling. I like walks with a bowl of ice cream from the caf when the sun has gone down and the temperature is in the mid 80's. I learned that buying Walmart yogurt is no substitute for my Yoplait goodness and doing my homework instead of napping is pretty beneficial. :) Now i'm going to read Timepiece by Richard Paul Evans and brush my teeth and wash my face. Next time i gotta tell you about Annie, she lives in our hall! lol

St@rtInG SkOOl!!!

2009-08-25T15:28:00.000-07:00

This is my first day of school outfit!! Mind you, i did wear gym shorts and a tshirt to english and basketball first!

This is breanne and my bunkbed. I'm on top. Its a very colorful happy room! i LOVE our rug from ikea i bought! There are only 2 other rooms being used in our hall, so its kinda quiet!!

My closet is a little cramped area, but it will do for now!

my desk area. . . not a lot of room for studying, which is okay, cuz i'm not really ready for it yet.

SUMMER ACTIVITES!!!!!! i went to the slc temple a lot. ;)

I FINALLY hiked Ensign peak! with Shalleen, Meranda, Kelsie & BOO and MARS!

The beautiful sunset view!

I went boating/camping with my family ONCE this summer, to the ward campout! Hunter and me. i taught the kids how to eat nasty food and not taste it, by plugging their nose. ;)

my llittle freakofabrother. Dallin.

i went to the YSA Summit at the U with Natalie and Sam and us three went to the Sunday Fireside at the Tabernacle. It was very good, i was ready to go running after! lol

The Sweet family Campout. Aunt Belva and G-ma Sweet. hee hee!

I went to Zion's for the campout! I'd never been! it was very neat and i hiked Angel's Landing and lived!!!

After Zions i was in hiking mode! So dallin, shalleen and i hiked timpanogus cave a few days later. Dallin slammed a door in the cave and the air made a whooshin noise that sounded like a rock slide. . i was SURe we were going to die. No joke
At zions Scot very nicely taught me how to ride a motorcycle. He said i did better than Dallin! This is Dallins Kawasaki Super Sherpa 250 i learned on. ;) . . Good luck in school this year!! i miss you all and love you!!!!

Summer trip and moving...

2009-08-23T12:55:00.000-07:00

So I just moved up to school and this is my new room all set up....

Ben sent me that sweet new zealand flag and so it is proudly hanging up in my room and I love it!

Hey, so these pictures are from my family trip to Washington D.C. this summer. It was so hot and humid and lots of walking didn't help... but it was a blast and very interesting! I recommend that everyone go there at least once in your life.

This is Arlington Cemetary. This was my favorite part! There's so many headstones... and we also got to see the changing of the guard here at the tomb of the unknown soldier! Way cool!

In one of the smithsonians they had cockroaches that you could hold...don't ask me why! Ew! But my little cousin was begging me to hold it so I did! Totally gross!

So anyway... I love you guys! And I miss you all so much already!

2009-08-15T11:56:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! I've been meaning to blog this summer too but haven't gotten around to it either! so sorry! But my pictures are also on my laptop so an update will be coming after school starts. So liz, I love you very much! I'm so glad that you're excited for school. I am excited too because now that ben has left my life is totally different! :) :( Its been hard to decide if I'm happy or sad a lot of the time but for the most part.... its all good! I just have to let you guys know that you are all irreplaceable in my life! Without you guys I would not be myself and i highly doubt that I could make it through life in one piece! Lol. Thank you for holding me together! :) We are the awesomest, strongest group of friends....
Anyway.... for a quick update on me! I got my first job! Well its kinda like my first/second but I don't really consider the stuff I've done before as actually being an employee of a company so I'm excited about working. Its at Michaels in bountiful. I wasn't going to take it because its kinda far from my apartment and so therefore I wasn't quite sure if it would be worth my time. But as I was thinking it through I just really decided that I need a job regardless of where its at and so when this one came through I felt like I needed to accept it. So my first day at work is this friday.... so wish me luck!
I'll have to post pictures of my work and of me in my sweet work outfit! And school also starts for the 24th and I can't wait! I'm so excited to have a new fresh start of all new people and all new classes and an all new job! :)
I love you guys so much!
And I send my hugs to all!

I wanna be with YOU! ~Hannah Montana

2009-08-12T11:17:00.000-07:00

This morning i woke up before my alarm at 6:15 am, i went back to sleep and pushed snooze on my alarm until 6:45, when my sister texted me and told me she was here with Emery and Hunter for me to babysit. SO i dragged myself up the stairs with a blanket and was planning to curl up on the couch and keep dreaming while the tired em and hunter would wanna watch cartoons in their pj's. SIKE!! Those two RAN into the house, stoked to be here! They were completely dressed for the day with gel spiking hunter's hair. LUCKILY my mom was still here, so after i did turn on mickey mouse club for them and curled up on the couch, i fell back asleep for 45 minutes, while Grandma entertained them with stories and compliments and a bowl of reese's puff cereal! :) . . then i put on Stardust and hunter was looking a little freaked out by the witches. .but all is well!!!
I haven't put up ANY pics ALL summer long, cuz all my pictures are on my laptop and i don't have wireless, so when i get back to school i will fill you all in with a collage of photos!
I have LOVED being HOME!!!! Most people tell me they hate moving back home, to the rules and the blah blah blah. Yeah it was a little hard at first, but i LOVE being home! I really never thought i was a homebody. BUt i LIKE seeing my family, and telling them what i've done, and showering without flip flops on, and opening and closing my fridge. I like having a job and meeting new friends there; and especially getting PAYCHECKS!!! And i love my homeward and of course seeing ALL MY FRIENDS!!!
IT'S just SO great! . . but home life has to end!!
i go back to school thursday morning, really early, Aug 20th. The folks are taking me again, which is so great of them! I'm gonna be rooming in the tiny dorms again with my friend Breanne. We've been looking into bicycles to buy lately. . I'm excited for our new season, and since it's a 2 year school, we have a whole new team, so lots of new's!! . . and i wanna get a part time job too!
i just bought a new camera, and i LOVE it! It's green. :) Emery gave me the Hannah Montana 3 Soundtrack! I listened to it while i ran today and there's now a GREAT song in my head, featuring David Archuleta, who's voice gives me Goose Bumps! I have 2 more days at Papa Murpy's, which is sad, but so very happy too! Of which i better go get ready for! Toodles!

Latest Fun

2009-08-02T16:46:00.000-07:00

Syd died my hair!

Definition of little boys right here. His face says it all!

The Cousins.

These ones of Cam are kinda old but i love them! Hes so cute.

This was at this sweet ghost town me liz, my dad and my aunt stopped at in Zions.

Bryce Canyon.

The view from Angels Landing!

The Iron Rod.

This ones for my mamma. Look, I'm holding on!! Lol.

Me and my Pops at our spot, the top of Angels :)

AT&T. More Bars In More Places.

Aaron and Dano at Bryce. Crazy Kids!!

Jen's Welding!!

2009-06-21T14:31:00.000-07:00

Here are some of my favs from the blessed day! Life doesnt get any better than this.

Aren't they beautiful?

The Castle.

It would be cool to add some color graffeti art above us i think.

#2!! Awe!

The last supper.

Poster Worthy for sure.

pitch yers.

2009-05-27T18:41:00.001-07:00

These are just some picture i took lately.

Free at last!

2009-05-05T13:36:00.001-07:00

I got a darker head!

I was literally shaking so bad when i saw this. i had to sit in the library while the rest of the class critiqued it. freaky stuff man.

This is the texture on my project. i melted a heat gun (gramma sweet conveniently had one in her car haha!) and melted black garbage bags all over it.

This is my final for 3D all set up.

It was fun but im soooo glad im done! now the hard part is loading up the freakin thing to take it home. its concrete on the bottom and its ten feet tall, somethin like 300 pounds. HEAVY. My arms are quite bruised from setting it up at 8 in the morning.

Cinco de Mayo!!!

2009-05-05T10:21:00.000-07:00

This is me in my powder puff shirt. lol, our shirts were sick! haha, those hawaiins r so creative!! It was basketball/hawaiin vs softball/white volleyballers. The other team got in one lucky touch down and won in the second half. ;( it was fun, but some of those girls just got plain mean!! the blue sweat-band on my arm was given to me by some girl in my ward. It says "Utah, keep it in the Family," with an outline of the blessed state! haha, she found it in her car and thought it was mine, it wasn't, but i washed it and wear it proud!!! lol

Oh, most of r players at r winter sports banquet. We ate food the cafeteria fed us on nicer paper plates than we usually eat on. . the food still sucked. lol as well as our coach's pitiful speech! haha! Can't wait for next season!

my roomie for next year!!! We are SO pretty!

OOoh, we had a luau 2 weeks ago, put on by the polynesian club and the boys did a fire dance! lol it was cool!

and more hawaiin dancing! This kid josh pulled me from the audience and made me go up to learn how to dance, i'm getting it, but i need some practice! The food was awesome too!

My roomie this year! . . 3 more days and i'll have completed my first year of college!! Now i'm just chillin today, workin on packin up, maybe do some reading, oh i gotta go get my wash!! and then study for my next final that's tomorrow!

portfolio time!

2009-04-28T23:56:00.000-07:00

first self portrait of the semester

second.

third.

and a super weird version of our b-e-a-utiful water tower. 801 son. 801.

My Spring Break Mexican Cruise!!!

2009-04-28T09:29:00.000-07:00

So these pics are definitely no in chronological order... but this is my cruise!! And these are just some random pics from it!! And yes.. I am like a month late! My bad!

So, one of the days at the beach.. we got in a huge sand fight... everyone against Kelsie.... I have never had so much sand on me in my entire life! Man did it feel good to shower after that one!!

This was at the flea market! There was this huge meat section... all the meat is just sitting out in the heat... oh my, it smelt sooo bad! And there were pig heads everywhere! Nasty!

So every night we ate sooo much.. I think I should have gained 30 lbs on the cruise! And every night we would get dessert... this was the most disgusting one by far... it is suppose to be pumpkin pie... but it wasn't!! I don't know what it was... but it really was one of the most disgusting things I have ever eaten in my entire life!

This was the pumpkin pie before I tasted it! The plate looked so pretty.... if only it tasted as good as it looked!!

On our way to the cruise we stopped in Las Vegas. This is everyone that went on the cruise...

Dixon is on the left, then Maha, Trisha, Mark, Me, Matthew, and Ben! (Kristi was taking the picture...)

On the ship they had the coolest, most random things all over the place! And yes... that is a real watermelon!

This is me and two of my roomies in Mazatlan! We hiked to the second highest light house in the world! The view was sooo pretty!

On the first day that we got off the ship, Matthew forgot his swimsuit... and I had already decided that I didn't want to go swimming.... so I offered mine to him... only I was just kidding! but he took me up on the offer and wore my swim shorts!!

We went to a tequila factory... and at the end... they had us dress up in the dresses! We look so beautiful!!

This is us at the tequila factory... they have a tequila tasting at the end of the tour (on the tour they teach you how they make tequila and show you the plants and stuff... it was actually pretty sweet!).... and they never had a group go through the tour before and not taste any of the tequila! They thought we were so wierd... then asked, "Utah?"... it was funny!

This is my roommate roommate (we share our room), Kristi! We didn't really know each other very well before the cruise.... but now we are best buds... and we stay up way too late almost every night talking... but its fun!!

Yeah.... I am holding an iguana! And there is definitely a little one on my head... the guy just walked up behind me and stuck it there... it scared the crap out of me at first! But it was pretty cool!!

On the ship we met a group of kids that go to Utah State... we ended up doing almost everything with them! They were really fun!

They had a volleyball tournament.. 3 v 3.... my team took first place!! I think I was probably the deciding factor!! That's me, Ben, and Kenneth... Kenneth was one of the Utah State guys.

This is us sailing away from California! Just thought you all my enjoy a nice but shot! My butt is definitely the best looking!! :)

So the cruise was so amazing! We did whatever we wanted whenever we wanted! There was food, entertainment, games... everything and anything! I vote that we do a cruise one day as the Possey!

2009-04-23T23:20:00.000-07:00

Me and Bre happy as can be. AND wet as can be!! The other night our power was out for a couple hours all over campus and town! SO we pulled out water balloons that aren't allowed in the dorms and ended up getting in a huge waterballoon fight with the boys side! lol it was so funny! . . . i was just wondering why every one had water balloons on hand!?

It's amazing the facials my beautiful face can make! This was monday, it was a BEAUTIFUL day! Probably 90 degrees! i wore my new outfit i bought in Tucson the saturday before!

This was the day i went back to beauty school to get a little more red and brown low lights put in. It turned out really pretty i really like it, but you can't really tell in the pic, but they decided to curyl my hair to, so i was all dolled up for a night in the room!

We went to the softball game a few weeks ago and i was gonna go shoot around, but the gym was locked and the second softball game rained out! But i scared the crap out of Chelsea with her mask!

So last night I was folding my wash and steph and i were in our room listening to music, when i started singing one of the songs. . . and then steph handed me her body spray to b my microphone and then one thing led to another and we were having a dance party in our room! So we changed clothes, she went more for the gangster look, but i like 2 take things kinda far! lol, this was us pretending to dance like the black guys in the club! Yep, i be getting it!

Easter Eggs!!! We colored them at the Bishops house at FHE the day after Easter! lol i had so much fun doing them! i got color everywhere and was super hyper! We brought them home 2 our dorm, but neither of us like boiled eggs so we threw em out cuz they were stinkin up the fridge! My easter package my family sent me . . my dad said he helped, but this has my mom written all over it!

Now how many of you have had ur face plastered on a Wheaties box when your team one 1 game the entire season? . . . that's what i thought!

Look Tera, i hung up ur easter sign!! We love holidays in Mark Allen!

Breanne and i went and played middle blocker for this counselor's volleyball team the other night, so i wore this! . . it's like church volleyball for women to the max!! lol, some lady said she lives for their volleyball season! We did okay, bre a bit better than me, but the normal lady came back so they said they didn't need our services any more! weird. Love ya! Can't wait to come home soon!

oopsie.

2009-04-18T23:13:00.000-07:00

Initial Thought: "I'm gunna make LOTS of guacamole so i can enjoy it and eat it all week! And ill buy a big bag of chips, this will be soo great!!"

After Thought: "wait, all this guacamole looks like poop. literally. uneatable."

Ouch.

2009-04-13T18:59:00.000-07:00

My wonderful lil car got pounded on thursday by some weird scrawny drug dealer. So rude. Then he rode off before i could get a plate number or any info. Here are the results

April Already? Alright!

2009-04-05T19:10:00.000-07:00

Steph came back from Spring break and had chopped & colored her hair, again! lol

Oh this was my birthday package from the folks! My dad left me a message . . .

. . . And so did my mom!

So one friday i got all dressed up, i was even wearing my new silver stilehtos, i was looking good! The mirror told me so. . and all the football boys. then we went to this cafe place called Gabi's where they've been having dance parties every weekend.

Steph & Chels bought me puzzles for my birthday, i loved them. .i don't love puzzles. I put together the 63 piece one and was like, "yeah i'm a winner." The 300 piece hannah montana one, not so much. Lol, the other day steph spent like an hour and half working on it, while i slept. Then she had given up on the outside pieces and i sat down and finished it for her.

This was after one night we went to a dance, i had a different shirt on, but my poof was just working it!

Ha! i love being able 2 wear others clothes! These were stephs shorts and chels' top! We went dancing this night, it was lame. But you can go ahead and just look at that calf muscle.

Same night as above, i just like to look at my face suppose, lol, i didn't notice however the piece of chocolate stuck in my tooth! haha, hope no one else did too!

Wedding pics!!

2009-03-28T12:44:00.000-07:00

Hello all my pretty people!

Well sorry it's taken forever and a day to post any news after the big day. Things have been so busy. But lemme tell ya...married life is wonderful. :) Although working and school full time have me pulled in all directions and I'm stressed beyond belief, I couldn't be happier. I want to thank all of you that came to the wedding. Although...I must say Miss Melissa and Miss Shalleen...I didn't see either of you dancing when I was. :( Even though you both promised! Sad...I didn't see any of my friends dancing :( But its in the past...anyways, I just wanted to post some pics for those of you that weren't there. I wish you all the best of luck in finding your Prince Charmings. Mwah!

P.S. I'm pretty much a clod when it comes to this lil' postin thing. So that's why the pics are all catty-whompus. lol Forgive my poor technical skills.... But I hope ya like 'em. Love you guys!

update

2009-03-27T21:42:00.000-07:00

before.

After.

After the after. New hair!

I'm in Miami trick!

2009-03-23T16:47:00.001-07:00

so spring break was super amazing! we flew into fort lauderdale florida last monday night and it was really nice and warm, our room only had one bed in it so our front desk friend jr (who is really not so jr) hooked us up with a jr suite! tuesday was really nice so we rode the bus (15 min. drive, but a 1 hour bus ride) to the beach and hung out there all day.

So we went to the NCAA game U vs AZ. Sadly U lost. i think AZ was on speed or something because their defense was unreal! Anyways, we stayed for the next game and me and taryn were so bummed we just sat in silence with our huge group and pouted... that is until we spotted this mascot chillin on the floor! I busted up for a solid 20 minutes, this guy looks so weird sittin there! lol! still cracks me up.

This lil bundle of joy was one of the creepers of the trip. The beaches alternate from family groups to old people to young people, this guy apparently thought he belonged with us young spring breakers because evertime we came to the beach he was sitting with all the young folk in this exact position with that lil suit of his on. Not creepy at all right?

This was our last night, we went and had a dance party on the beach! holla!

Super windy headed to Miami (30 minute drive on the freeways). In downtown miami its super sketchy, they make all the lights flash yellow at night so you dont have to stop because if you stop you will get jumped.

Me and taryn went swimming all day wednesday because it was raining so bad. Im not complaining though because a university baseball team joined the two of us in the pool and we all played with kids toys for hours on end!

These guys are haleys friends that live in slc but happened to be there that day with a car! it was so nice of them to drive us home from the beach in the pouring rain on tuesday. they had a rental sebring convertable but the top didnt work so we drove with it down all everywhere. you shoulda seen the look on the toll booth ladies face on the freeway coming back from miami at 3 in the morning. she thought we were complete idiots.

Me and taryn walked to the gas station to get our beloved DP (only $1 for any size you want! bonus!) and this is how haley found us 45 minutes later. you shoulda seen it, there was the weirdest bird walkin around it was seriously half duck half chicken! picture a ducks body with chicken feet and those weird red things that hang off of chicken faces. freaky.

Leaving the swap shop at 5 in the afternoon we found to be a horrible idea. the busses were so full they wouldnt stop to pick anyone up, so we ended up walked the 5 miles back to the hotel, but we made a stop at this lovely park because i saw a turtle! turned out it was dead. . . but at least everything else there was pretty!

Taryn always makes me take really embarrasing photos and this was one of them. this was at the pirate bar/creepy back alley way with weird pirate statues and garbage everywhere. pretty classy place. obviously.

Well that is only a slice of our adventures in fort lauderdale. Sometime i will have to tell you guys about the bahama boys and the sketchy guy that stalked us and club Ink and the mormon possey. But until then, love you guys! (i finally got my tan on hallelujua)

19th GanstA!!

2009-03-16T11:25:00.000-07:00

I got back from spring break yesterday, after 6 hours in the car and i found a decorated room from chels and my roomie!
It was cute! And i finally got my birthday cards & packages! lol Thanks everybody!

lol, they gave me cookies, cuz they always let donald eat mine when i'm not around and then a hannah montana & will turner puzzle! wahoo!

Friday i we went to vegas, but i had them drop me off at my aunt marsha's house! I got to hang out with michah, bridget, and marsha! it was a lot of fun and way better than going to the strip!

Wednesday we drove up to the Grand Canyon! it was way cool & pretty! it's only A 4 mile hike to the bottom! i wanna do it one day soon!

Me and Breanne!

This is Brandon, lol we haggled each other so much this week, it's like a brother/sister relationship, it's pretty funny!

Me in Breanne's kitchen

My birthday cake breanne made for me! The old lady behind the cake is Grandma Alice! lol, i celebrated my birthday with my new (breanne's) family, it was nice!

lol, this is my wedding invitation i sent the white family! my aunt and cousin thought it was forreal! lol HECK NO!!!! . . but i mean if bubba wanted to, i'd double think it, yeah.

Colorado birthday!

2009-03-10T10:22:00.000-07:00

Colorado with Alicia was so much fun!! I love Arkansas folk, all 6 of them were from Arkansas and they were the nicest people ever! seriously suuper nice! We got to go shred some pow for zero dollars thanks to Alicia's friend Zach, they made me a cake and they bought my dinner at this super classy restaurant which they put in our reservations a week and a half ago and did it as a surprise for my birthday. They didnt even know me! So nice! Anyway it was a blast! Next week it will be florida! Holla!

We love Vernal. So many historic dinos to look at! This one was one of my favorites

It stormed the night before so we got to ride in Colorado's famous champagne powder! A-M-A-Z-A-Z-I-N-G.

PC's view is better but these guys are in close 2nd

Red Velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. Looks like Crap. Tastes like Heaven.

End of the Season. .

2009-03-05T16:12:00.000-08:00

lol, so when we went to yavapai and arizona western, we stayed in this nice hotel in phoenix, lol both times breanne and i managed to get our own beds as just the two of us shared a room! :) One of our stays there, there were 4 girls in one room. . haha, i guess it pays that people don't wanna room with you!

For has many pillows as were on here tho, i didn't sleep great the first time.

This was at our last game during a time out, i'm sitting next to breanne, 32

lol, oops, just noticed how blurry this pic was!. . i'm the lighter skinned one in purple.

This would be coach dersam. . I'm number 34 bytheway.

oh, and did i mention the folks drove down 12 hours to see me play a few minutes in our last game of the season? It was really good to have them come and support. And all my teammates were so excited for me, it was cute!

So after a long season, we went back to our hotel and went swimming in the sunshine! i already have tan lines! wahoo!

Coolio Schoolio

2009-02-25T19:19:00.000-08:00

So remember how i hate balloons? Well for my 3d class we had to pick something we own and make it abstract out of wood. So i decided since i own the fear of balloons i would make a balloon! its supposed to be kinda freaky. I had syd pop some balloons (Thanks Love!) and i put them on my shattered balloon. balloon balloon balloon, i feel like i said balloon alot in the last paragraph. weird.

Anywhoo. Thats my project! I feel like a little kid coming home to show my mommy a picture i colored lol!

Pink is for. .

2009-02-15T16:13:00.000-08:00

Apparently they have a big thing for breast cancer awareness in college basketball . . yesterday for our game we warmed up in our new "Monsters Fight Cancer" shirts and will do so for our last few games. Shalleen this game was dedicated to your mom.

Me looking a little wide eyed before i went to the dance that i danced with my man at. .

My mom sent me this sign, so this is proof that i did put it on our door the day she sent it! lol

This is Steph, Chelsea-Ann, and donald.. . we fit all four of us, plus our laundry into a small yellow bug and did our laundry at the laundry mat. . it was efficient and nice. . it smelled kinda weird tho. . lol, love ya'll!

Love, Cadeo.

2009-02-11T13:15:00.000-08:00

this is what Cade sent me this week. Im guessing its for Valentines Day, what a sweetheart! haha!

Yep. That's a dead frog. How romantic.

Family Pics!

2009-02-10T09:34:00.001-08:00

The saturday before Jamie left on her mission, we went to Wheeler Farm and had our family pitures taken! I think they turned out pretty good!

I have no idea where I got my blonde hair... but it makes me stand out like no other!

We are so beautiful! :)

Valentine's Day Decorating!

2009-02-10T09:25:00.001-08:00

B10 just wouldn't be the same without decorations for every holiday... so a sunday or two ago, me and my roommates decided to decorate for Valentine's Day!

This is Jemay, one of my new roommates this semester! She is freakin amazing at cutting out hearts! We have at least 200 hearts on our walls and ceiling!

This is my other roommate Trisha, also new this semester! She isn't so good at cutting out hearts.... but man, she can roll tape like its nobody's business! :0)

So, what do you think!?

2009-02-10T09:18:00.001-08:00

So I really was planning to grow out my hair again... but then it hit the 'awkward' stage where I hate it down... So I got sick of it and had Karli Sheppick chop it off! it is super short! You only see the front... which is the longest! The back is even shorter than the front!

2009-02-09T10:36:00.000-08:00

Hey lovelies!!

Alrighty so it seems not everyone got an invitation (wedding). But I asked for ya'lls addresses and didn't get hardly any except when I asked Mel to get them all. Thanks Melvinater, you rock!! So for those that didn't get an invite, I'll post all the information soon as soot! And I'll put up some engagement pics too! I want all of you there to share my special day with me. Lizzie...I don't think I sent you a bridal shower invite cuz you said you couldn't come to the wedding. Which is understandable. But that's why. It's not that I don't love you lol Jenny baby! I'm so freakin excited for you!!! Two blushing brides in the same year! :) I can't wait to see you and talk to you about it! :) :) Anyways, wedding planning is pretty hectic. But we're in the home stretch. Guys....next Saturday I'll be Shelby Morrison! aaah! Anyhoo, I'll post wedding info asap. I love you!

Already February!!!

2009-02-06T09:48:00.000-08:00

This is Breanne and Chels, we decided we haven't taken any pictures in awhile! This is on the bus on our way to get whipped by Central, the #1 team in our conference.

We took one of those big grey-hound buses, because softball & baseball had the Eastern buses, so since the boys & girls play the same night at the same time we had to ride together. I sat in a seat that didn't have a shade screen and the ac was broken! It was a long, hot ride! This is my make-shift shade.

This is mine and steph's extra bedroom. :) I talked the RA into letting us have it for our extra stuff, cuz we still wanted to share a room together and sleep together.

It's super great, cuz i keep all my jackets and church clothes, scrapbooking, luggage, soap, laundry in here!

This is a picture of our community bathroom. There's like 6 stalls, and i have a favorite that i always use, and i hate when others use it and get it dirty, but that's inevitable. So the other day i got the brilliant idea of putting up this sign. haha! Now people won't use my stall! haha! Genius!

Yesterday we didn't have practice for the first time since. . august? . . cuz half the team was in phoenix getting treated for injuries! So i was looking cute ALL day! . . i can't believe it's already February! I'm happy with school and friends and being who i am! But i can't wait to come home! i love you all!

school started. . for reals this time

2009-01-29T09:25:00.000-08:00

Please tell me you can tell what this is. This is my first real drawing of the year, my favorite kind! Shadow contour with charcoal of whatever we want. Hopefully you can see what it is. . .

Girls, help!! Wedding day hairstyle!

2009-01-28T07:49:00.001-08:00

Less then a month away!! Girls! I need help choosing a hair style! Hopefully this posting thing worked for the pictures. Keep in mind: I won't be wearing a veil. I will however wear a glittery small tiara. It is a headband type, not princess where it rises. So I need everyone's opinion! Help!! I'm getting a stylist so no worries if it looks to hard. And if you guys have any other suggestions, share them! I'm going for princess/cinderella/fairytale kinda look. Not too primpy or fake looking. Thanks for your help!!

Water

2009-01-27T20:29:00.000-08:00

So i know ya'll may get sick of me always putting up pics, but i like looking at the blog. . and no one has put anything on for awhile! lol, so this is as good as it gets! This is Breanne, psycho girl that stole my bed, haha, we have lots of fun together. Today at lunch Breanne had a drink from burger king and a cup of ice water, so she was spitting ice at me through the straw. . so i grabbed her water and threw it away and told her to stop. Lol, well she got herself one cup of water and one cup of ice and started at it again, so i threw them both away again! lol, then i left (quickly) to get ready for practice! There's an outdoor area fenced in, that's connected to the cafe and as i walked out, breanne jumped out and spit ice between the fence at me, and then got half a cup of water on me! I was laughing so hard, she's such a freak! So then i went to my dorms and was using the lou, when all of the sudden a cup of ice is poured over my stall! haha, i was very dramatic and upset at her. . lol, but it was funny, it always is!
This is steph and i, we got dressed up for the boys basketball game one day, before spring semester had started, so no one really saw us, but it felt good to dress up, especially when i had boots like mine! Me, at my desk, in my traveling suit. . i'll be wearing the same thing tomorrow for our game at Glendale. . . were leaving at 11 and i have to miss 2 classes, which is kinda annoying! love you all

I love my Utes/Jazz!!

2009-01-16T17:47:00.000-08:00

Go JAZZ!! (they won by the way, of course!)

This is my new possey just hangin out, shootin some hoops.

Me and my good friend Alicia at the jazz game woot woot!

You cant tell me thats not beautiful.

Check out guy in background lol!

GO UTES!!!!! The kid with the jersey in the front is King Louie. Literally, King. And the rest is my Utah team (plus some weirdos like the mayor and senators etc.)!!

Crazy Lady doin a jig with our mascot

Beautiful.

BSC Busters!! Heck yes!!!

Pretty!

I bought you a sweater. . .

2009-01-11T19:47:00.000-08:00

So wednesday morning we started up our six am practices again. It was the same day the new semester started. I don't recall my alarm going off, but my roommate said she heard it go off, and me hit snooze. So I finally role out of bed at 5:40 am, put in contacts, a sports bra, and gym shorts and a cut off t-shirt.. . i'm not sure if i did brush my teeth or not. . hmm. I then grabbed my basketball shoes and followed Chels and Stephanie to the car. I know i live in Arizona, and there isn't snow on the ground, but i kept underestimating the distinct chill in the air! So i'm sitting in the back of Stephanie's bug, which she just scraped the frost off the window with her fingers, very cold and annoyed that the car had not been warming up for us, and that i had not grabbed a jacket. As i left my room, i thought, grab a jacket. But then i realized that it will warm up later today, and if i wear a jacket, i'll just have to wash it, and sweaters take up a lot of room in the washer! . . but as i sat in the car cold, i wish i had a jacket. So we reach the gym and i book it from the car to the gym entrance, and the doors are locked! geez! So i pound on the door, annoyed with the doors being locked! My coach opens the doors and looks at me standing there. He says in a matter-of-fact tone, "Liz, you need to wear a jacket. That's why i bought you one. Your not Utah, but it's still cold." . . i'm like, okay. . but then i start thinking, he never bought me a jacket! what's this guy talking about? And i know i shoulda worn a jacket! i'm freezing! As i enter the gym all of my other teammates have sweaters on.

um, apparently, he's bought me two. :) my bad. Tomorrow morning, i'll be wearing this one.

Dad Loving

2009-01-08T18:51:00.000-08:00

This is my dad Jeff. He loves me very much. He always calls or texts me after my game to see how we did. He's probably my number one fan. It's good to have one of those. He supports me in everthing i do and is really proud of me. Here he just wanted to be with me, so he took me cosmic bowling. thanks dad, i love you.

The Sugar House!

2009-01-07T15:51:00.000-08:00

So I moved again! Heres a preview of my new Sugar House.

These are the only things i have hanging on my wall:

Possey Power!!

Dave. And no, he's no longer 7 years old, I'm not that disturbed guys, come on now.

My B-E-A-Utiful shirt Sam and Carrie got me :) Thanks guys! i need to frame it though. .

I gave my bed to Laura cuz im usin her twin. I set up and made her bed then organized her closet for her cuz its her birthday and manual labor is all i can afford haha!

This is mine and Taryn's room, her bed is the orange one.

And this is what you see when you walk in! Id show you the basement but . . . well i dont really have an excuse other than just pure laziness. sorry guys! Ill have to get i picture of my new roommates for ya. meh. maybe later haha! love yall! (did i just say yall? what the?)

haha!

2009-01-02T14:14:00.000-08:00

Before Surgery.

After Surgery.

Happy 2009!

2009-01-01T10:56:00.000-08:00

Kels, this pic is for you! Well being home was SO great! I missed it the moment i stepped in the red dragon to head to the airport. .

The only thing i was excited about getting away from was the snow! . .lol, i forgot how difficult it is to live in it! you guys are amazing!

And now i'm back to dry air and sunny days. Welcome to arizona.

We drove back from our tournament in Tucson yesterday after we lost again. . we almost beat salt lake, but almost doesnt get yo there. . . So now that i'm back in the empty dorms, what is there to do? Well i just ate a bowl of cheerios out in the commons and i decided to put up some of my pics from being home, they probably won't be seen for awhile, cuz your all still busy enjoying life, but whatdoyado?

This is Tera's new family, the Franks

Margoth was able to get baptized! it was her christmas gift from her parents! i was So happy i was home for it! it was amazing! Tera, emery and me at Emery's preschool program. . gosh were cute, i knew it ran in the blood!

Always repping my city!

christmas was SO great! i'm so blessed! mom, scot and me in our christmas pj's mom sews every christmas eve in a frantic manner!

Of course Christmas break was filled with family christmas parties! this is Amberlea, john, colton, me and Christina!

Not taking bathing suits and jumping into the pool in all our clothes (or being pushed) at our ugly sweater christmas party was a BRILLIANT idea! . . gosh, were good!

Looking fly at our "premiere" of Twilight! . . hahaha. . i looked forward to this so much! And it was really great in it's own qwirky way! i love you guys. i miss you tons. Have a good holiday!

Tieing the Knot!

2008-12-29T09:35:00.000-08:00

Well as most of you found out at our rockin' Sweater Christmas party, I'm engaged! Yep believe it or not, I'm getting married. lol The wedding is on February 21st. I'd like anyone that wants to be there to come! So please send addresses and current phone numbers to me asap through my lilmisslondon@yahoo email. I'm also having a bridal shower in January (I think) if anyone is interested as well. Just tell me which you want to go to, or both, and your address and #. Its comin' up quick! I love you! TTYL!!

WINTER!!

2008-12-23T10:20:00.001-08:00

Hey guys!!! Happy Snow! Im sooo glad it finally snowed :D Me and Aaron were making this snow fort (not finished yet) and Syd had nothin to do so we gave her this little cooler and told her to make a bunch of little blocks, just to keep her busy haha! so after we put them in a smiley face! Happy snow!

This is the unfinished fort made by packing snow into a big cooler

It was sooo hot!! (I mean the temperature. . . and us) haha! jk.

This is the snowmen me and Syd made, he got runned over.

And this is the one Nick and Aaron made on the Burrup's lawn lol! Its a Poodle! But it melted before Dorothy got to see it and blame it on me and Aaron.

Flowers for Me!

2008-12-09T14:15:00.000-08:00

These are my flowers that I got from three random boys from Macey's! They went through my checkstand... and they bought the flowers, then as they were leaving, they said, these are for you! It was funny! But it did make my night!

U-ing Karl's Apt!

2008-12-09T13:10:00.000-08:00

This kid that lives across the hall is the biggest BYU fan I have ever met in my life! He always gets season tickets and watches all the away games... big big fan... So me and Maha decided to redecorate his apt with red and U of U decorations! Good times!

This tree originally had blue lights and blue ornaments... we covered all the ornaments with red paper and took off the blue lights and put on red! Plus added U's to the tree! I am soooo excited for him to come home! we also used red window paint and covered all his windows and mirrors with U logos and signs! Good times! :)

Front and Center, just the way I like it! Lol.

2008-12-07T17:32:00.000-08:00

Ahhhh, aren't we all just adorable! This was at our trip to temple square. There's heather, shacora, cortney, and then of course... ME! lol.

Unforgettable Bonding Moments!

2008-12-07T17:04:00.000-08:00

Our poor poor kitchen! There was water everywhere after Cortney had a "blonde" moment and put liquid dish soap in the dishwasher! Lol. Haha, I believe she tried to convince me that it was "an honest mistake" but I wasn't falling for that. She always does dumb stuff like this... but I love it! It sure keeps life interesting.

This is Cortney cleaning up her mess after she flooded our kitchen! Lol. She sure had fun with that! But our dishwasher is still broken! ;(

Our beautiful masterpiece!!!

Of course this is after our gingerbread house and we had to make a little mess because it wouldn't be near as cool if we didn't! Its santa clause and Rudolph!!

This is a video clip of us making our gingerbread house that Kailey bought for us! It was a blast and of course, it really does look amazing I know... But I love you guys so much and can't wait to see you to have our own unforgettable bonding moments!

love ya mean it

-leen! (that's my nickname now, everyone calls me it and it's kinda starting to grow on me actually. Lol.)

Is it Christmas YET?

2008-12-06T22:35:00.000-08:00

So, it's december 6th, and i was wearing shorts, t-shirt, and sunglasses the other day. . kinda miss the snow, but i can't complain too much!. . Last week i decided i wanted to put up some decorations, but there isn't room in my small bedroom, so i used my student gov't decorating skills combined with my mom's preschool crafts, and made my friends "assist" me in making some! lol

lol, the mistle toe above our door is one of my favorites!

As well as our massive tree! . . the gifts are from santa! . i also added some snowy mountains, a snow man, and shadow figures of breanne! haha! and i am just living to next sunday, when i get to come HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HELLO

2008-12-01T15:00:00.001-08:00

Thanksgiving in MESA!!!

2008-11-30T19:19:00.000-08:00

Mel, meranda, and shalleen all came to mesa to spend thanksgiving with me! They closed the dorms for the weekend, so i went to my dad's cousin's house in Mesa. . Friday night we went to see the Mesa Temple lights turn on, but when we got there, they were already on. . but we still enjoyed the visitors center that had nativities from all over the world.

Shalleen and her beauty food shot at Chili's!

This is the bacon-burger, aka, baconator that Mel completely Dominated! hahahah, we had lots of limes with our dinner, cuz of mel, our waitress made her a lime riki, but she needed more limes!. . nice eyes mercodb

Beauty shot! lovin mel's shades, lol, she brought 4 pair, so everyone would have one!

Mesa Temple, the lights were nice, but not as impressive as SL, altho they did wrap the palm tree trunks with lights, all the way up and that looks really cool! i haven't had the opportunity to do baptisms here yet, but hopefully next time i come up i can plan for it!

lol, i told them to turn around and they were busting up about something. .

In front of the Temple

So we went swimming just about everyday at the ingrams neighborhood pool! it was so lovely, because i LOVE Swimming! meranda and shalleen even got sunburned on saturday! haha, one of my favorites, action shots as we jump into the pool! Lookin good!. . don't worry we know that dresses are too short, there were just no leggings around, we went shopping the evening of black friday and got some sweet deals!

If they had these in my size, i woulda got them! why mel didn't, i do not understand!

Meranda taught me how to put my back against the wall with our kneesup, underwater!

Yeah! meranda looks so funny!

So we made a hot tub in the house after we got kicked out of the hot tubs cuz of the lightning, and so we played in the rain, jumped in Aaron's freezing cold pool and then all had a bathtub chat! haha, we got water all over the floor!

And this is us playing in the rain, wednesday night when they got here to AZ! thanks for coming girls and making it so fun! And for the Ingrams for letting us crash at their house! And Belva and Bob for entertaining us! haha, and Wendy's for making chocolate and vanilla frosty's! love ya!

Holy War!

2008-11-25T14:58:00.001-08:00

I love my Utes, but this guy goes beyond love. This guy is the definition of devotion.

We rushed the field a little too early because we were soo excited! haha! Taryn was trying to jump the fence and some cop pushed her down because the game wasn't even over yet!

12 and 0. All the way to BCS!!!!

So so happy :)

Look at all that beautiful red! there was a little bit of blue in the corner you can't see but most of them left after the third quarter so they wouldnt get eaten alive, plus they had no chance at all. We doubled their score! Oh yes!!

Lots and Lots of Pics!!!

2008-11-23T16:48:00.000-08:00

lol, so i thought i was putting these pics oldest to newest, but i did it backwards! . .lol, oh well!!! this was yesterday with ANNESSA!! yay!! we had a very fun visit! She left this morning and got here wednesday!!

Beauty school used my as a model for a school assignment, she put low and high lights in my hair and did my makeup! ;) course i'm always looking FLY!

I pulled out my Khung Fu Panda masks on Steph's birthday which was tuesday! we knocked on the boys basketball teams windows with them. . and then we got freaked when we saw B following us and he brought his paint ball gun with him!

This was our texas trip, after our second game in the locker room, we were going to get on the bus and drive 11 hrs back to thatcher. . lol, i wore those shorts the whole time, even when we stopped to eat in the food court at a mall in el paso. My coach vicki was freaking about the shorts, she couldn't even look at me!

This waffle maker was part of the continental breakfast at our hotel, it's texas, if you can't tell, that's where we were last weekend! SA-WEET! hahah

me and my 3 roomies for the weekend! Chels, beauty school, breanne and me!

Same girls as above in our sweet eastern shirts! . . i just love my last name!

Me chilling on the bed in the hotel, waiting to go to the mall before r game. . .

Me and steph, her hair is finally back to blonde after she died it black! lol, this is our "sisters" pic!

This was our first game against Tucson Sol, chels, breanne and me. . that retarded look breanne is doing is a secret sign for me when i say something they think is retarded. .lol, it occurs a lot, but i'm usually right!!! :) love you all!

San Diego!!

2008-11-19T11:20:00.001-08:00

We stopped in this ghost town and this guy was sooo ugly! Haha! We had to get a picture

Go UTES!!!!

Ahh i miss Cali already!!

San Diego!!

2008-11-19T11:06:00.001-08:00

Hey Guys!! So this past weekend me and some friends took a little road trip to beautiful San Diego! Actually it wasnt little, it was a 13 hour drive. haha! It was so much fun though! This is Jennyfer, Me and Taryn super stoked to be in 90 degree weather! :)

This was around one in the morning when we got back. Taryn was quite angry to be back in the cold and the 13 hour drive didnt help her mood much haha!

Check out that sweet surfer! Jennyfer had me take some pictures of her on the beach and wicked hott surfer dude comes out of the water and she runs up to him and is like "can i get picture?" Super excited like a kid on christmas! haha! She is like 24 and her english is a little sketchy so it was awesome, the surfer was only like 18 or 19!

This is josh and ben, they came down with Mark (Mark is the one that let us use his beach house) They were pretty weird to say in the least.

Good ole power ranger face off.

Friday Night on the Streets

2008-11-08T15:35:00.000-08:00

So tickets for the u of u vs byu game went on sell this morning at 8am, and let me tell you there are alot of fans haha! this is only one tiny part of the line friday night. Someone counted and by like 6:30 there was over 160 tents! And thats not including the bunch of people that just brought cots and blankets. Luckily our friend camped out for two nights so we were like 7th tent in line :)

The kids next to us came prepared! The kids a couple tents back from us brought a huge screen and these big speakers and set up a huge movie for our portion of the line to watch, we only got to watch half of Dumb and Dumber because stupid cop shut off the power. Jerk.

Me and Kyle chillin by the space heater (before the power blew out) after our longboardinging session. It was soooo cold!!!!!!

Go UTES!!

2008-11-08T15:24:00.000-08:00

Heres the Holy War possey. Taryn, me, Kyle and T.J.! T.J. spent the first night there all alone so we could be at the front of the line (what a good guy huh!) and we joined him after class on friday morning. That guy behind us was our next door neighbor and he was so funny! He was wearing this huge orange coat that looked like the michelin man and these huge nasty boots with like neon construction gloves haha! He was pretty much the leader of the riots that night.

This is the beginning of the night when we still had a space heater to keep us warm so we were happy. First the circuit blew then after some extreme team work we got enough cords to get around the building. Sadly some security rent-a-cop needed to feel powerful so he cut the power and left hundreds of people to freeze. Awesome.

This guy is the Utes football coach! He came with some other important dudes and they passed out Pie Pizzas to all of us that were in the front of the line. It was terrible timing though cuz Tarn had just bought us 2 hot and readys. Oh well, it was a nice thought!

This is the angry mob confronting the people ahead of us that kept having people show up last minute and cut in line. It was crazy, like every half an hour people would get bored so they would go make them feel like dirt for cutting in line haha! It was awesome entertainment seriously ALL night long

This is Taryn and me. This is our mad face cuz we were also very upset at the cutters. we were the rebel rousers!

The Fabulous life of a beautiful, green-eyed girl!

2008-11-04T16:57:00.000-08:00

Possey, Mucho te amo! Hopfully that means I love you a lot in spanish... juli?... I'm not really sure. Lol. Anyway, here's a pic of me, Cortney, Kailey, Shecora, And Lindsay all dressed up to go to that halloween party on thursday. Which was a blast! I was rockin' our dance moves... ah, remember those good ole' days?!

And this is when it totally started pouring rain outside. Me and heather decided to walk to church in it anyway cause it sounded fun! Don't we just look totally gorgeous!

-love ya mean it. Shalleenie Beanie-

IWCC

2008-11-04T15:12:00.000-08:00

FYI: Our busy little soccer star, marene josephine's team won their region title this last weekend! . . this next week they play for District . . and then the following week it's Nationals played in AZ. . . She said her team is staying focused, looking at it as a one game season. She says she tries to read our weekly emails, but stays busy with school, work, therapy and practice! And she just turned 20! . . Congrats Mars! We love you!