10.26.2008

Homecoming Week

Homecoming was this past week, which was fun and exciting. My friends and I went paint dancing Monday night. We basically got in a paint fight and then danced for a while. While it was extremely gross at the beginning, believe it or not, I got used to it. It was not cool when I had to take two showers and scrub like mad to get all the paint off me. In the pictures are my friends: Heather, Chelsea and Alyssa.Friday night was the homecoming dance so my friends and I went and it was pretty sweet. Here are some pictures before the dance.Saturday was the game and the Utah State Aggies came super close to winning. We were ahead, 28-27 until the last two seconds when Fresno State kicked a 58 yard field goal and made it. So we lost with the final score being 28-30. It was sort of depressing since it was homecoming. We only have two more home games, which is weird. I still can’t believe that it is almost November!

10.18.2008

Fall Break

The highlight of the past week or so has been the wonderful snowfall here on campus. As you can see, it snowed a little and some of it even stayed overnight. I only got pictures when it was dark out. About three days later, the snow had melted and now the temperatures sit back up in the 60’s. Thank goodness! I went down to Salt Lake City on Friday for fall break. I went to Temple Square again and also met up with some girls from USU who live in the same building I do. Then that evening, I met up with some people from BYU and we went to Nightmare on 13th, a haunted house in Salt Lake. The big sign outside it says it is rated #1 in America. I didn’t scream but I jumped a few times. The scariest room was the chain-saw room. All the walls are padded in white and there is no sign saying “EXIT” so we didn’t know how to get out. The chain-saw man, who freaked me out the most, had to show us. There was another part that reminded me of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Bellevue Hospital. It was an insane asylum and was sort of creepy. Every now and then people jumped out at you or things fell from the ceilings.
My roommates and I had a great excursion to Wal-Mart the other night. I received a gnome for my birthday from Sami Kordonowy, a friend from back home. We took the gnome with us to Wal-Mart and had some fun.


Gnomes are important to me because at the camp I work at, we go on gnome hikes and the children (most of them) believe that gnomes exist. It is great fun!
Homecoming is this week so there are a lot of interesting activities going on. The major events include the dance and the game this weekend, both of which I am going to. My friends convinced me to go to the dance so I might as well. Only about a month until Thanksgiving break, which is scary because then the semester is pretty much over by then. I am sad that I won’t be able to come home for Thanksgiving but less than two months and I will be home for Christmas break. We only have about seven weeks left of classes. Woo Hoo!

10.05.2008

Birthday Weekend!

This past weekend was probably the best one here in Utah! It was filled with fun times and good memories. My friend, Janet come up from BYU for the weekend. BYU played USU Friday night in football. BYU of course beat USU but only with a score of 34 to 14. I thought we would lose by about 63 points so the game actually went pretty well for USU.
Saturday morning, Janet and I went hiking in the Wind caves up in the Logan Canyon. It was only about two and a half miles because we didn’t have much time. But it was cool! Here are some pictures of the Wind Caves.

Saturday night, since there was nothing better to do in Logan, we decided to go to the Logan Temple. Here are some pictures of it. Then Sunday, MY BIRTHDAY, Janet and I drove down to Salt Lake City for the Church’s General Conference. My friend who goes to school in Idaho, Jodi, met us there as well. It was really cool to be able to go to the Conference in Salt Lake instead of watching it on television, especially as my first General Conference. It was near the Salt Lake Temple so we took some pictures there too.
This is the conference center, where the Conference was.
Conference occurs twice a year for the Church and it is where the leaders of our Church speak to all the members throughout the world. It was really cool and was a great way to spend my birthday. I still can’t believe I am 19. It feels super old but I know it is just the beginning.