Spirit Rally Relay Race

All this week is spirit week at school. It is kinda like homecoming just not because we do not have any sports teams at BYU-I. It is way fun though. Last night we had a the spirit rally, and we ran a relay race of 50 laps around the track, or 12.5 miles. We did not have 50 people to run it so some people had to run twice. I was one of those people and I just about died!! I don't run here in Idaho. The air is so much thinner that I start to breath funny and almost die from lack of oxygen. But anyway, I have a few pictures from the rally.

Ashley and I. She is my new favorite person in the WHOLE WORLD!!!

Me, Puff, and Ariana shortly after
the race. We all lived through it.

The ward after we finished the race. We got 4th which is the closest we have ever gotten to winning the race. We were in 3rd until the last 100 yards and our guy, in the pink cape, got passed. He almost died when he got over the finish line. Well he almost passed out not died.

Our ward cheering it up trying to win the spirit award. We were a very, very close second we were told. The ward that won used big metal trash cans as drums, and had a ton of people there. Our ward was still louder than their was even though we had about half the people they had. So basically we should have won but we did not. We were a little bit upset about it.

First rain....

In Rexburg, the precipitation of choice is snow. I personally would beg to differ. I hate the snow. So, naturally, the day when it actually rained for the first time, everyone went to play in it.

Unfortunately, since it was the first rain, there was all kinds of oil in the water. When you walked outside you could smell all the oil. It really was kinda gross.The most fun part of the playing was the round about. It flooded in about 10 minutes of raining. So what do the intelligent college students do??? Oh, they go and stand by it waiting for cars to speed by to splash them with the oily water. It was really gross because sometimes you would be talking to someone next to you and all of a sudden you would get a mouth full of nasty, cold water. Unfortunately I was not able to get pictures of us at the round about. I know sad.
My fabulous room mate and I after we decided we were done being frozen by the cold water. BTW we could totally see our breath the whole time we were playing in the rain. It was great!!

Yellowstone

Saturday I went to the Yellowstone. It was so much fun. It was pretty rainy and it started snowing on us quite a bit but it was ok. We still had a blast. We made a lot of really good fun memories. Many animals were seen. We had a goal that we wanted to see to specific animals while we were there, and we were 1 for 2. Next time we go we are going to stay longer so we can see the othere one.

Here are some pictures from there and I will put a picture of our goal animal...

Entering Yellowstone. The people in the picture starting from left to right are Kelsey, Niccol, Josh, Puff, Me, Summer, Chelsee, and Carinne.

This is me, Chelsee and Niccol

Here is the group again. We just had so much fun.



We saw a moose! This was no the goal animal at all it was a bonus. Seeing a moose never ever crossed our minds.

These are some beautiful waterfalls that we saw while driving that we flipped a U-ee just so we could get the picture.



This was our goal animal! Yeah we saw BEAR!! It was so awesome! There is a little bit of a funny story that goes along with these pictures... We were driving along and we saw a build up of cars. We were just like GREEAAT. We all had to go to the bathroom pretty bad, so we were not looking forward to the traffic jam. Then we saw that people were out taking pictures of something. So we were a little curious as to what they were all seeing that we could not see. We drove up a little, and we thought that maybe it was a buffalo really close to the road and then we got a clear view. The girl that was sitting in the middle was freaking out because she wanted to get out to take the pictures. She went on to slam the head of the girl on the other side of her into the window, and just about trampled her on her way out. Luckily she is OK and did not sufer any injuries besides a sore head. Then the ranger came up to everyone and told us to get back in our cars and get moving, because we were too close to the animal. There is a rule in Yellowstone that you have to stay 100 yards away from bears and wolves. I guess they are a little dangerous. So we got in our car drove to the other side of the ranger truck and took this picture. He went on to honk his loud horn/siren at us so we left before we got kicked out of the park.
Our other goal animal was a wolf, but alas we did not see one. Maybe next time......

I AM my father's child

I have realized now that I am away from home that I am a lot more like my father than I ever thought I was. I will give some examples....
We have a problem with dishes making it into the dishwasher in my apartment and I can't handle the sink being filled woth dishes it blocks the sink so you can't use it (that was a dad thing to say) and so one day I looked at the overflowing sink and was just overwhelmed by it so I go and open the dishwasher and.... IT WAS COMPLETELY EMPTY!!! As I looked and chuckled to myself about it, my room mates come home. I tell them to take a look at what I had just discovered and went on to say this.... "How much time does it take to just put your dirty dish in the dishwasher? Like 5 seconds more?" And went on to load the dishwasher. As I was doing so I became appalled with myself because I realized that I had heard those exact same words all my life from my dad at home.
Another thing is that I used to fold my laundry and not really pay attention to whether it was right side out or inside out. I didn't care I could put it on either way it was. This drove dad nuts. And now that I am up at school I will be folding my laundry and if I see a shirt is inside out then I have to fix it. Even if I have already folded it I have to unfold it, fix it, and then re-fold the blasted thing!
Now the real clencher is about a week ago my room mates were talking about something that we needed to get done. I think it may have been something to do with cleaning again I'm not real positive, but I asked them this "When are we going to get this done? Thursday?" I just about died!! When I said that. My dad had said that to us when we were growing up in reference to my sister and I cleaning our room or really doing anything. Thursday was his favorite day until we started teasing him about it and he doesn't say it anymore.
So thanks dad for all your little sayings that have been embedded in my brain and they just come out when I don't even realize it.

Choose your horoscope....

So these are the horoscopes that are posted in a newspaper here in Rexburg called, The Voice. I thought I was going to die laughing when I read some of these just because it made me think of people in my family. I seriously laughed for about 5 minutes and I had tears streaming down my face. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

AQUARIUS
Due to your bed wetting, buying those plastic sheets was a great investment. Now only if they sold plastic lined pants.

PISCES
A good test of a mans ambition is if his alarm clock is his best friend or his worst enemy. But being BFF is going a little too far.

ARIES
Anohter semester is gone; another three months you're not getting back

TAURUS
Don't worry, dandruff is back in style.

GEMINI
Stop putting words in other peoples mouths. I don't think they appreciate having novel pages shoved in their mouth.

CANCER
Have you ever wiped so hard that you've seen red dots on the toilet paper?.... Yea... me neither!

LEO
You'll run into an old fling this week; that booger you flung on the wall

VIRGO
You're thinking about getting that BYU-I sticker for your car, but you're worried it'll distract from the RULDS2 sticker.

LIBRA
Don't worry, you're going to get terrible grades.

SCORPIO
You will find a chicken McNugget shaped like your heart this week. It too will be chewed up and spit out.

SAGITTARIUS
Working out is more effective when you actually lift weights in the gym, instead of walking around looking for people you know.

CAPRICORN
The unsolicited advice you give to the construction workers will end up with you getting a nail gun to the head.

The marshmallow war

Last night, my roomies andI decided we wanted to start a battle. We have actually been planning it for a good long while and we finally did it last night. We went all out too. We were wearing black, and camo bandanas and some of the roomies painted their faces. I just made it look like I had a black eye. I know lame but I didn't want to put the paint on my face because it wasn't face paint and we didn't really know if it would come off. I'm not that adventurous. The only people we really got were a couple of the guys from our ward. We ambushed them, and were they surprised.

In the process of our battle one of them took my gun and took me hostage! He was using me as a human shield. My roommates did not care and shot at him which really were hitting me. But to be completely honest I did not mind him taking me "hostage" at all. It just so happened to be the boy that I a little bit of a thing for, so I was totally fine, and that is really the only reason he was able to get my gun away from me.He ended using my gun against my roomies. I was on his team after this incident. That really the only interesting thing that we did last night. No one else we went to see was home, so we just went home. But it was a way fun night. I would totally do it again.

FOOTBALL!!!

So this past friday we got some people together and played fome flag footbal. IT WAS AMAZING!! It was in the 30s that night. We were going to play in the stadium we have here at BYU-I which has astro-terf, unfortunately the lights were not turned on for us so we had to go to the lower playing fields. It was all grass. The snow has begun to melt so it was way wet there. We got really really wet. Now time for my totally awesome story..... The other team was doing a kick off and the ball came right to me! Well it kinda hit a few yards in front of me and then i picked it up and was off running down the field. I was doing a great kick return, I was dodging all kinds of people. Then one of my roommates, on the other team, came towards me. I dodged her and then due to the wetness of the field she slipped and fell right in my way. In an attemp to keep the ball alive, I try to jump over her. In that attempt one of my feet hits her knee and I go flying through the air. You know how when you watch football games in slow mo and the guys are flying through the air and their air and legs are flailing around..... well thats what I did. Then I noticed the ground was getting closer to my face. Then my face makes contact with the grass and water and mud. I totally face planted!! After the initial stun of impact, I roll over, and everyone is around me, asking me if I am OK and what not. I was. Just a little stunned. So one of the boys helped me up and I almost fall over backwards again! After I got my balance back I was like "OK LETS PLAY FOOTBALL!!" I didn't get any pictures of the immediate after math of great fall. Here is a picture of us afer we got home. There is still dirt on the right side of my face.