Home Stretch

This was my last week of classes and the start of my finals! By Monday, I will officially be DONE with my freshman year at BYU! How crazy is that?!?

Monday~For FHE we watched Midway to Heaven.  Easily one of the cheesiest movies I have EVER seen.  But, it was as if I was watching my life unfold in front of me.  It is basically about a girl bringing home her boyfriend to meet her dad.  I swear, this is EXACTLY what is going to happen when I bring my boyfriend home.  The dad in the movie reminded me so much of what my dad is like.  Another happy thing about Monday: I saw Emily, David and Alec on campus.  It always makes you smile when you unexpectedly see your friends on campus =)

Tuesday~LAST DAY OF SPANISH CLASS FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!!!!! I love Spanish, just not the class so much.  I also went to the end of the year "Unforum" that was held instead of the traditional devotional.  It was a lot of fun.  I also went with Jordan to Emily and David's University Band Concert.  It was really good.  My friends are very talented.  After the concert, Jordan walked back to the dorms with Emily and I.  Talking about how girls walk in heels and how Emily and I walk weird were topics of conversation from the HFAC to Jordan's dorm.  After Jordan went home, Emily and I got ice cream to celebrate.  Then we went over to her apartment and continued celebrating with her roommates. I LOVE those girls so much.  They are all so sweet and are so loving and I am so grateful to them for letting me come over and crash whenever =)

Wednesday~LAST DAY OF CLASSES!! I saw Jordan, Alec, and David each twice on three separate occasions.  Again, it always makes me smile =) I went to my childhood friend's wedding reception.  It was great to see her and her parents and sister.  Crazy to think that it was probably 12 years ago that we met and played together every day.  Now she is married! Her mom told me that I need to be watching out, I could meet my boy next week...very weird.  I went to the reception with my other childhood friend who I haven't talked to much (even though we both go to BYU).  After the reception the two of us went to a study room and attempted to study.  I wasn't getting much done so I called Jordan and asked him to come walk me home from the library.  Luckily he was kind enough to do so.  I have the best friends ever! After Jordan and I watched some of Whose Line is it Anyway? I baked peanut butter muffins (it was after midnight by the time they were done)

Exams and studying do lovely things to me.  Can't ya tell?

Thursday~Probably one of the greatest days I have had in a really long time.  First off, we had our final complete Breakfast Club meeting for over two years! It was so much fun goofing off and eating and talking and joking and everything with my friends.  I really don't know how I was lucky enough to be blessed with such great friends.  After cleaning up from Breakfast Club, Jordan and I went to the Temple.  Let me just say, it was one of the greatest experiences I have ever had.  Jordan was able to confirm and baptize me and it was just so amazing.  I turned around to thank him after the baptisms and he had the BIGGEST smile on his face, which in turn only made me smile bigger.  After the Temple, Emily and I (along with two of her roomies, Chelsea and Morgan) went to the Cocoa Bean to get cupcakes.  Let's just say it is probably bad that it is so close to our apartment next year: we will be making many more trips there in years to come.

I LOVE my Breakfast Club! I am going to miss doing this with EVERYone but we'll just have to wait a few more years to have a complete group again =)

You can tell a lot about us and our friendships solely based on this picture.  I love it =)

Emily and I on our way to get CUPCAKES!!

Emily's is in the back.  She got a chocolate raspberry cheesecake cupcake and I got a "Better Than Whatever" cupcake.  It was delicious!

Friday~I had a lunch date with an RM who served in my home ward for a really long time.  We hadn't seen each other since I the summer before my Senior year so it was great to catch up! It was really fun.  I am kind of sad that I broke my non-RM-dating streak but I am glad it was broken with this guy.  We are planning on hanging out more in the fall when I'm back at the Y.  After lunch, I cranked out a 7 page paper that is due on Monday.  That evening, I watched a movie with Emily and we went to get ice cream.  I love that girl so much.  I am so blessed to have her as my friend.

Saturday~I had a Book of Mormon review followed by a walk to our apartment for the fall with Emily.  I sold my books back to the bookstore (I got over $100!!) and tried to study a little bit for my BoM and D&C exams on Monday.  I got back from studying and Skyped with mi familia before Jason came over for our date which consisted of dancing and watching Tangled.  It was really fun and just a great way to chill and unwind from exams.  It was probably the last time I will see him until he gets home from his mission (he hasn't even gotten his call yet!)

Sunday~Today was a bittersweet day.  I LOVED my ward this year.  But it is finally hitting me that all of this is coming to an end.  I had dinner with some of the people from my FHE group tonight and it was just so much fun.  I have made so many friends and have so many people who have helped me in this ward these last two semesters.  I was proud of myself for getting up to bear my testimony today at church.  That very rarely (if ever) happens.  I love the Church so much and I am so glad for the opportunity to have attended the BYU 68th Ward.  I was meant to be there.

The last BYU 68th Ward in the history of the world.  I have come to love these people so much.  They really have been my family for the last 8 months.  

Family Bondage

This week my family was here! It was great spending time with them :)

Monday Bridger came to classes with me and my friends followed by the necessary golf cart tour of campus with my parents.  After that was done, we headed up to American Fork to pick up Hunter and Hannah so we could go to dinner at Rodizio Grill.  It is one of my favorite restaurants ever! Their pineapple is my favorite, it melts in your mouth and you can't help but smile as you eat it.  Hunter teased me about of the waiters there.  Hunter was really sad that we had cloth napkins because he wanted me to leave my number. It's a "classic." Oh the humor of 13 year olds...

Tuesday my mom came to devotional with me and my friends.  After, we went to the MOA and the Brick Oven for lunch, followed by an afternoon of shopping.  We met up with Hannah and the boys for dinner at P.F. Changs (another fantastic restaurant). When I got back to campus, I headed over to the library for an hour in my study room then I went over to the Periodicals to finish up another assignment, only to find Jordan there.  After attempting to finish our homework, Jordan walked me home and I went to bed.

Wednesday was my catch up/get ahead day.  With my family being here, I usually didn't start my homework until about 9:00 at night.  I don't do well working on homework at night.  So, Wednesday I caught up on the stuff that I had been not putting much effort into and I tried to get a little bit ahead.  After my long day on campus, I ran into Emily on the way back to the dorms.  We were both headed to the Creamery so we got ice cream together :) I picked up some groceries, came home to make cookies and eat a quick dinner before jetting off to see Harold for a few hours.  When I got back from the library, I actually felt that I had accomplished things.  My check list of things to do was basically done.  Later that night, I took some of the cookies that I made over to Emily, David, Jordan and Alec.  I was able to talk/hang out with Jordan and David in their lobby for a while and that was nice.  That doesn't happen too often and it made my night :)

Thursday I had my Spanish class at 8:00 and got my Book of Mormon homework done before my mom came to pick me up so I could go have a physical done for my summer internship.  I'm pretty sure I passed... ;) They had to cut a chunk of my hair out to test for drugs so now I have a bald spot but luckily I have thick hair that isn't super short so you can't even tell.  I got blood drawn for the first time and I discovered that I am totally fine with needles as long as I don't look at what they're doing to me.  Apparently I have a really healthy heart and a low heart rate.  I was asked by the doctor and the two nurses if I was a long distance runner or a swimmer.  I think they were kind of shocked to hear that I don't do anything.  That's bad.  I really do need to start doing something.  Hopefully this summer I'll start running again and I'm thinking about picking up swimming too.  Anyways, after my physical, I had the car so I drove on I-15 for the first time in my life! It actually wasn't that bad from Sandy to Point of the Mountain.  Once you get into Utah County, I-15 is gross.  I survived and made it to my grandma's in one piece :) I had a date with Hannah that afternoon.  We went to the Creamery for lunch and ice cream followed by meeting Jordan, going to the MOA, the ESC and the Bean Museum.  That night, we went to Tempanyaki for dinner.  That is also a very fun restaurant to go to.

Here we are at the MOA.  This was such a fun exhibit.  Both Hannah and I had a blast playing here :)

Here is Hannah with her brother Hunter ;)

And Beto at dinner with his alien balloon hat.  The alien's name is Jim. 

Friday I went to Spanish and took my final oral exam before going to my Civ class only to find it was canceled :D So, I picked up some Jamba Juice for me and Hannah and I drove up to Highland (on I-15 again!!!) to spend the day with my family.  My mom helped me with my taxes (I'll be able to pay for books in the fall!) and I just sort of hung out with my brothers for the rest of the afternoon.  That evening, my mom took Hannah and I to dinner and then we went to the BYU Ballroom Dance Company Concert.  It was so good! The dancers were amazing.  The set was amazing.  The music and the costumes were also AMAZING! It was a lot of fun :) My mom took us back up to my grandparents' and I spent the night with them.  A lot of it was goofing off with my brothers: wrestling, poking wars, hug attacks, pranks, etc.

Hunter took Uncle Dave's driver and we hid it with Harold The Nutcracker that lives in the closet.  I took a picture on my phone and sent it to him in a text message.  He called me a dork :)

Saturday morning my mom woke up Hannah and I said good-bye to them as they left for the airport.  Then my dad came to wake me up telling me that we'd be heading for Provo in a few minutes.  I got dropped off at my apartment at 8:00 am and proceeded to watch two movies before showering/getting ready and packing for a little bit.  David and Alec came over and we went to Emily's flute recital.  I got to meet her mom and sister and cute nephew.  They are all very sweet, just like Emily :) After her recital, I went to the library to write two of my three papers.  I returned to my apartment and watched  movie with Heather.  David and his roommate, Andrew, came over at 8:00ish and we watched another movie.  I left part way into it to go hang out with Emily.  We had so much fun with her roommates.  I love that apartment so much.  They let me hang out with them lots :) We jumped and danced on the beds that were on the floor before settling down to watch one of the cutest movies I have ever seen: "Meet Me In St. Louis" It was ADORABLE!! After some Youtube clips, I left to go home and go to bed.  Much to my surprise, David and Andrew were still over.  Luckily it was almost curfew, so I watched the end of whatever they were watching before the guys left.

Sunday I was supposed to go to a Spanish ward with a girl from my class for extra credit in my Spanish class but she overslept so we ended up not going.  But my ward was great! Brad Wilcox taught our Sunday School lesson and it was amazing.  He is such a great speaker and teacher.  After church, I went to my grandparents' for dinner again ;) I LOVE spending time with my family.  They make me very happy :) Now all I have to do tonight is wait for a phone call. It is already after 10:00 so I don't think that's going to happen, but you never know with this person...

General Conference

Another week has come and gone filled with sunshine, friends, the end of mid-terms, homework, family and General Conference.

Tuesday night Emily and I went to David's orchestra concert. It was really good and fun to go to.  The ice cream after was the icing on the cake for a great night.

This picture I think describes our friendship quite well. :)

Thursday afternoon I was very excited to go to the Temple.  It had been a while since I had gone and the weather was BEAUTIFUL! I had such a great time just being by myself and thinking.  After doing baptisms, I went outside to read the Book of Mormon.  It was so gorgeous and such a great afternoon. 

Friday I went on an extra credit field trip for my science class with my friends Erin and Kamree.  The weather again was beautiful so I was wearing shorts for the second day in a row! After our field trip, we got ice cream to celebrate the official end of that class.  It was great to catch up with those girls.  They are so much fun. We will be major buddies for the next few years. :)

Saturday morning, Emily came with me and my mom to go to General Conference.  It was so much fun and there were so many great messages shared and beautiful music played.  It was Emily's first time and I was so glad that she was able to spend time with me and my family. 

We found this yummy place for lunch called the Blue Lemon to eat at in between conference sessions.  Emily told me and my mom that she wanted a picture of us.  This was our first reaction. Can you tell that we are mother and daughter?

Me and my mommy in front of the Salt Lake City Temple.  Almost exactly 21 years ago, my mom and dad were married there for time and all eternity.  I am so glad that they made that choice :)

I love this girl so much! Emily is my best friend and I am so glad to have met her back in September.  She has helped me so much and been such a great friend to me over these last two semesters.  I'm going to miss her a TON this summer and I can't wait to be roommates with her next year (and hopefully for years to come :)

The rest of Saturday night, I spent with my family.  I love them so much! Sunday was great just hanging out at my grandparents' house with my family, chilling and watching  Conference.  And, of course, cooking, baking and eating: three of our favorite things to do together :)

Closing In

I can see it! I can finally see the end of the semester! Just three more weeks of classes and one week of finals and I will have completed my freshman year! How crazy is that?

This last week has been great (as usual :) filled with more birthday celebrations and homework and studying and friends.

Monday~I made myself sick studying for my Civ. midterm.  Note to self (or anyone else): Sleeping for a few hours followed by studying for a few hours all night is a BAD idea.  Don't do it.  It's not worth it :P

Tuesday~I got my box of birthday presents from my family! I got the cutest jacket and jewelry from my mommy, an adorable scarf from Hannah, Inception from Hunter and Apples to Apples from Bridger.  It was a great day :) I also went out to dinner with my childhood friend, Tyler.  We went to Los Hermanos, one of the restaurants our families went to together when we were younger.  Our birthdays are four days apart, so Tuesday night was the half way point between our two birthdays which is why we went out to eat.  Tyler reminds me so much of my dad it is ridiculous!  It was so great to catch up with him and talk about our futures and what we will be doing in the next few years.  I told him multiple times that night that we are too old for him to be going on a mission.

I opened up my box and it was PINK! It made me really happy :)

Here is a picture for my Mommy so she knows how cute all of the stuff she got me was :)

I LOVE these earrings.  I wore them to dance on Wednesday and while we were doing the cha cha they were really loud and fun :)

Wednesday~I officially finished my Physical Science class.  I locked myself in a reserved study room in the library and studied for two hours before taking the final.  I finished that stupid final at 10:15 pm and was wiped out.  My friend David was kind enough to walk me home from the library that night.  After I got home I passed out and went to bed.

Thursday~I went to lunch with Emily at the Creamery and did homework and laundry.  A very exciting day I know.  I also watched the BYU basketball game.  We lost :( I even busted out the double pom poms and it was no use.  After the game, I ate a bowl of ice cream and life was slightly better.

Friday~I went to a university forum by Mark Zuckerberg (the founder of Facebook) with my friends Emily, David, and Jordan.  It was so fantastic and very interesting.  He is a pretty chill, down to earth guy.  On our way back to the dorms from the Marriott Center, it was SNOWING really, really hard.  As soon as I got back to my apartment, I blow dried my hair, jeans and feet.  And to think I almost wore sandals that morning...Later that night, I went to a Tri-ward neon dance.  It was a lot of fun.  It was sort of funny because most of the night I was the only girl in our dancing circle which consisted of Jordan, Alec, David and one or two of their various roommates at any given time.  Every once in a while another girl would pop in but wouldn't stay for long.  It was so much fun and I had a blast dancing with my guy friends.  They really are the best :)

This is what my hair looks like after a 7 minute walk in the SNOW :(

Me with Jordan and David at the neon dance.  

(LOOK HOW SHORT I AM!! Isn't if fantastic? ;)

Saturday~I slept in really late.  I must have been really exhausted.  After doing some homework and goofing off, I went to Emily's ward's talent show with David.  It was really funny and very good.  I am amazed with people and their talents.  After the talent show, David, Emily, and Westin came over to watch Inception.  It was so great! After the movie, we talked until curfew with lots of mind blowing questions.

Sunday~Another Open Mic Sunday in the BYU 68th Ward.  For the first time in a while, we didn't go over! After Sacrament meeting, I left to go up to my grandparents' for dinner.  My uncle was there recovering from a surgery he had earlier in the week.  I LOVE talking to my Uncle Russ.  He is so funny and teases me a lot.  But the way he teases me, makes me laugh at myself.  I always end up crying from laughing so hard.  He drove me back to campus and we had a really good talk.  He told me things I needed to hear and really made me think about where my life is currently going and where I actually want it to go.  I love my uncle so much and I am so glad that he is part of my family.  I am so grateful for him and the advice that he gives me.

Birthday Week!

What a wonderful week this has been! I did something fun every night this week, a lot of those things were in connection to my birthday which made them even better :D

Monday~Happy Pi Day! Yes, it is a huge holiday on the BYU campus.  And yes, we are a bunch of nerds.  But that is ok :) Miss Emily came over and we had dinner together followed by the Breakfast Club coming over and help me finish off the cake from Sunday night's birthday party with the fam.  I spent the rest of the night licking rocks...don't even ask.

David brought me a balloon and chocolate as an early birthday present :)

Tuesday~MY LAST DAY OF LICKING ROCKS EVER!!!! I talked to my dad and to my brother for a while.  I got my brother excited (well, as excited as Bridger can get) to come out here for a visit in a few weeks and for him starting school here in the fall.  It was another BEAUTIFUL spring day.  Sunshine is the best medicine :)

Wednesday~Classes, homework, the usual.  I also hung out with Jordan for a bit before going to Jane Austen's Persuasion with Emily and some of her roommates.  I have officially converted to the Jane Austen Fan Club.  I am no longer an Anti-Austen.

Thursday~Only ONE CLASS!!! Woohoo!! I spent the rest of my morning doing dishes, laundry and homework.  Then Jordan came over to say good-bye before he left to go back to San Jose for the weekend to see his brother who just got off his mission last week.  I watched the BYU basketball game. We won!!! That made me happy :D After the game I went to my last dance lab.  It was even better than the first one! I mostly danced with Jason and Ramon.  We waltzed and cha cha-ed and it was fantastic.  They are both such amazing dancers and are very strong leaders which is good because they are both a level ahead of me and I was able to follow them into more advanced steps!

Friday~More homework and nothing too exciting.  I was quite the party animal and kicked off my Friday night by taking a Doctrine and Covenants midterm.  The rest of the night was spent watching Cinderella, painting my fingernails and catching up on some TV shows with Heather.

Saturday~Probably one of my favorite days of the week :) I woke up and went to a midterm review session for my civ. class (THE most boring class in the history of the world) After that, Emily took me out for lunch and ice cream as a birthday present.  We went to Olive Garden and it was DELICIOUS!! Cold Stone was our next stop.  Good thing we walked home...we were able to burn off some of what we ate ;) Once I got home, I was in a food coma for a few hours but pushed through and went to another review session for my civ. class with a guy from my ward and another girl from my class.  I came home and worked on my Relief Society lesson (only one more to teach!) and watched the BYU game.  We are headed to the Sweet Sixteen Baby! It was a fantastic game. So much fun to watch :) After the game, Miss Sydney came over and we had a princess party.  We watched The Princess and the Frog and The Swan Princess, made paper crowns and ate ice cream.  It was a wonderful night.

Ah, Cold Stone :-d

I swear, Sydney and I really are twins.  See? We matched without even planning it!

Pretty, Pretty Princesses :)

Sunday~ Today I am 19! Wow.  I'm getting old.  It was a very chill birthday which I quite enjoyed.  My dad was in town so he picked me up after church and took me to my grandparents' where he cooked me dinner (steak and baked potatoes: one of my favorites!) We then Skyped with the rest of the family in Michigan for a while before he drove me back to the Bubble.  I got bombarded with cake so I am declaring another cake eating party tomorrow night.

Heaven

Another AMAZINGLY fantastic week (with only one mishap).  I am SO in love with life right now! They say that your college years are the best years of your life. I can totally see why! I am having so much fun and am enjoying every minute of my BYU experience.  So many great things have happened this week!

I re-discovered this weekend just how amazing my friends are and how much they love me.  I had a girls night with Alex and Sydney on Saturday night.  We ate pizza, talked about boys, saw Tangled (third time for me!), got ice cream and I ended up sleeping over in their dorm with them.  I was having a rough day and they were so loving to me.  I don't see them as often as I should, I mean we only live MAYBE a ten minute walk apart.  Even though it is half way through the semester, I guess it is never too late to change things :)

This is Sydney.  She is my long lost twin sister.  Seriously, we are so similar in so many ways we SWEAR we were separated at birth.  

This is Alex.  She was the first friend I had at BYU.  She is one of the sweetest, nicest, kindest, most loving people you will ever meet.  She always makes me feel loved :) (plus her hair is FANTASTIC! ;)

No girls night is complete without Creamery ice cream :-d

Sleepover! We squashed their beds together and slept.  It was actually pretty comfy.  Jordan suggested we sleep perpendicular to the way you would usually sleep in a bed until he realized that we are all really tall and that wouldn't work out so well....

Jordan was also extra sweet this week.  He let me tag along with him to various events and didn't seem to mind (at least I hope not!) I went with him and Alec to our stake musical fireside on Wednesday night.  Friday night, I went to the A Cappella Jam to support him and Alec (who was able to do percussion!) and David who sang in the A Cappella Club Choir.  After that we all went to go get ice cream and it was great.  And Jordan also let me tag along with him and a few of his roommates to Stake Conference Sunday morning.  He also randomly, unexpectedly stopped by on Thursday to give me a hug because he knew that I had two mid-terms that I was pretty stressed about.  

Alec was a great friend this week too.  He helped me study for my Spanish midterm.  It took me 20 minutes to learn the words for peach.  But, Alec had SOOOO much patience with me.  Let's just say learning Spanish vocab is not one of my strongest abilities. ..but Alec was kind enough to work with me for almost an hour on it.  And I think my exam  went pretty well!

In addition to my friends being so wonderful this week, I also got to see my amazingly wonderful, crazy family :)  We had my birthday dinner (even though my birthday is next Sunday, my grandparents are going to be out of town so we had it tonight.)  My birthday week-and-a-half party has officially begun! I love my family so much.  I always seem to think, when I get back to my dorm after spending time with them, "That is what Heaven is going to be like."  All of us around.  Laughing.  Loving. And just being so happy it is ridiculous.  

Marley and Mitchell were hiding in the pantry, behind the potatoes.  Why? I have no idea.  My only explanation is that they are 5 and 2...

Miss Marley put the candles on my cake.  She was able to count all of the way up to 19 (I know! I'm getting old!) all by herself.  

Didn't she do a wonderful job?

Mitchell had to help me with those last two candles. ;)

  Three generations: My Gooma, My Aunt MaryAnn and me :)

Yup, I'm pretty sure the feelings and experiences I have had this week are as close as I will get to Heaven while I'm still here on Earth.  :)

How Can I Be So Lucky?

Another week that has just flown by! Hard to believe that I am officially one week into the second half of the semester! Sometimes I wish that time would just slow down.  I wish there was more time to enjoy life.  While I do try to enjoy life as much as I can, it still seems like it isn't enough.  Somedays I just take a step back and look at my life and think "Wow.  I am really here.  I am really at BYU having the time of my life.  Life can't be this good.  It really can't.  How can I be so lucky?"

Sunshine: This has been another gorgeous week in the Bubble.  So much sunshine! You can't not smile :) I started running again this week and it really helped to have the sunshine be out.  It made me not so miserable on my runs ;) Well, I actually don't get too miserable while running.  It is hard but I alway feel fantastic afterwards that it is totally worth it.  I like the quote from Legally Blonde "Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy."

Devotional: The devotional was exceptionally good this week.  On the way out of the Marriott Center I heard a guy say to his friend, "Dude! That was such a bomb devo!" And that it was ;) It was all about how we chose to come to BYU for a reason.  How BYU is very different because every class, no matter what the subject is, is taught with the Spirit.  It is so true! Almost all of my classes start with a prayer and it isn't unusual for a professor to pull a scripture into our lecture for the day.  I mean, where else in the world would you diagram sentences in Spanish from the Book of Mormon? The speaker also talked about one of the aims of BYU, "Become a lifelong learner." He used a quote from James E. Faust that I really liked, "Learning is more than cramming for tests.  Education is more than bulimia at exam time." It really made me think about how I am treating my education.  Am I a student or am I a learner?

Basketball: The last two games of the season were this week, one on Wednesday and one on Saturday.  Wednesday night was so depressing.  After the whole Brandon Davies fiasco, we fell apart.  New Mexico KILLED us.  It took a long time of me yelling at the TV before Coach Rose finally listened to me and went to a man-to-man defense instead of a zone.  We also started to take less threes and go for buckets in the paint.  Emily and I made a goal for the Cougars to get within 20 points by the end of the game.  We did. New Mexico 82- Cougars 64. Saturday's game I was much more impressed with.  We played Wyoming and won 102-78.  We actually played as a team! It was really nice to see everyone step up and to have a lot of other people scoring, not just having a Jimmer show.  I was very happy with Charles Abouo and  Kyle Collinsworth.  They were AMAZING and really stepped up their game.  And of course you can't forget my favorite, Jackson Emery, finishing his last home game with 18 points.  Now onto the Mountain West Conference Championships!!

Temple: I went to the Temple by myself this week and it was great! It was a lovely walk both there and back.  And it was not overly crowded like it is some Friday nights.  I took my journal this time and wrote for most of the time I was waiting.  I filled many pages and it was such a good feeling.  I wrote my testimony.  I have never really done that before.  It was so peaceful, just writing what I know to be true and how I feel about the Gospel.

Date Night: After getting out of the Temple, I checked my phone to see that I had a missed call from my friend Jason.  So I called him back to see what he needed and he asked me on a date :) We went to go see Tangled in 3D with Jason's roommate Carlos and his girlfriend.  The movie was so cute! It was the second time I had seen it and I love it even more now :) There was a miscommunication about the time so Jason ended up picking me up early so we just played Nertz at his apartment.  I was quite proud of myself, I held my own and didn't lose horribly like I usually do. (Thank you FHE!) But I think my favorite part of the night was when we were going to the movie.  Jason opened the car door for me, something that has never happened to me before, ever.  When we got to the theater, I started to open the door but he pulled it shut and told me to wait.  He then came around and opened the door for me again! I really didn't think guys did that anymore.  It was a very nice surprise.  :)

Fireside: This week there was another fireside after church.  This week I was lucky enough to hear from Elder L. Tom Perry! The main theme of his talk was us stepping up and becoming the greatest generation.  It was very, very good.