What I missed most about Rexburg.....

THE TEMPLE

I love being able to see the temple everyday and I missed it so much while I was home. I forgot how much I loved seeing it everyday while I was home, but now that i am back in the Burg I remember. The temple here is so beautiful. I love this temple. A temple means so much more to you when you served in it during the open house, cleaned it the day before the dedication, and actually attended the dedication of the temple. The Rexburg Temple will always have a special place in my heart. Many Sundays my room mates and I would go to the temple grounds and watch the sunset. And yes many of the sunsets looked like the ones in the picture. I love Texas sunsets, but some of the sunsets here in Rexburg are absolutely phenomenal. Rexburg sunsets honestly gives Texas sunsets a run for its money. Or at least that is my own opinion.

Microbiology.....

Call me crazy, but I absolutely LOVE my microbiology class. The class is going to have a clinical focus, which I think is awesome. That basically means that the class is going to be all about bacteria and viruses and I am STOKED about it. This is how much I like the class..... When I realize I must do some reading for the class I seriously get excited. Usually when reading a text book I fall asleep, but not this one. I get completely enthralled with the subject matter. I read into chapters that we aren't going to cover or are going to be later on in the semester. I am even considering not selling back my book just so I will have something interesting to read when I am bored. I know I am a huge dork, but I'm OK with that.

And now with that all said the teasing may now commence...

Firetruck

My neighborhood has a tradition where they get Santa on a firetruck and he rides around a waves at all the kids. It is a great little tradition that they do and I just love it. This year I took a video with the camera I received for my birthday.

Shut the state down!!!

So it snowed here in Houston and people did not know what to do. I will explain.... So I am driving home from my mothers work and it starts to snow. I was not happy to say the least. I'm driving on a highway and there are people in the cars next to me rolling down their windows, and then they proceeded to stick their head out the window and stare up at the sky. Does anyone else see a problem with this at all??? They were still driving while they were doing this. I was getting all kinds of frustrated with people, and yelling inside my car that it was just snow and that they needed to watch the road. And then here comes the one that just about did me in.... there was a man with his head out the window looking at the sky and some of the snow got him in the eye, so the natural reaction is to close your eyes and he did just that. He also started freaking out while he was still driving and started to swerve a little bit. I have decided that when it comes to driving in snow Texas drivers are worse than Utah drivers. And that is saying something.

Here are a few pictures of the backyard with the snow everywhere.

What I've done

I got bored and thought I would copy what Laura had done on her blog...
The things I have done are in orange.


1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community (I do this for fun...they're everywhere in Ohio)
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelos David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycl
e79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day

Halloween

So this is a little late but I thought I would still put it up. Since I had to work on halloween I did not wear an actual costume, but I sure did my make-up. These pictures were taken a few days after halloween so I'm wearing a little bit of a "costume", but the face do I have was what I did for work. I eventually had to take off the black lipstick...... I was scaring little children...

Just a really sweet picture I happened to take...

Some cool effects..... I'm not quite that white.... I'm real close to that though... :)

Dallas

I went to Dallas this weekend and had soooo much fun. I went to visit Ashley. We were going to go to the BMX championships but alas it was moved to somewhere in Washington. We were very sad about the whole thing. We looked up what else was going to go on this weekend and found a concert that we noth wanted to see. It was for a band called, Forever the Sickest Kids. Theye are pretty much amazing. They are part of a new genre called power pop, which is kinda like punk rock but not. I highly reccomend them because they are awesome and they do not swear in any of their songs which adds to the awesomeness.
So about the concert..... Ash and I got to be in about the 5th row back from the stage and in the middle. It was great until about half way through the first band's show. They told the children that were there to basically start moshing, just not violent, and to crowd surf. Ashley and I ended up having to saving the little 15 year-old girls around us due to the stupidity of that band while we were trying not to die ourselves. It was horrible. We did not like them pretty much at all. After they were done we got out of the middle. The second band was better, but still not great. They kept dropping the F bomb. Which is pretty much the only thing that I did not like about them. Then came the third band. The band we ahd been waiting for. They were AMAZING!!!! Ashley and I got to meet the lead singer from the band too. He and his friend liked Ashley and I because we were pretty much the only girls there that weren't 5. We were talking and starting up a pretty good little conversation and his manager was like ok jonathan you need to get a move on, you have other fans here. So we left.

This is the headlining band that we did not care about....

Ashley and I after we almost died...

We recovered....

Us and Jonathan Cook, I have a pretty big crush on him at the moment and I'm trying to figure out a way to convert him so I can marry him.... :)