It's FREEZING here!!!!

I am SO cold here. Definitely not used to this bitter cold Idaho weather. This morning it was 0 degrees outside but with windchill it was actually negative 15 (-15) degrees!!! I think that's ridiculous!!! Luckily I only have about 2 weeks left here and then I can go to the warm state of Washington...haha. I never thought I would ever say that!

Craigos Night!

So, before I came to Rexburg I hadn't even heard of Craigos...if you guys don't know what it is, it's a pizza place. So, I told my roommates that and they said that, at some point in the semester, we were going to have to go. So, last week we finally went as roommates. It was SO fun!!! We went around 6:30 or 6:45 because we had to wait for all of our roommates to get home. One of our roommates has a class until 6:15...CRAZY!! Anyways, we drove down there and all got the buffet. SO GOOD!!! It was actually pretty good pizza. But the funny part was when my roommates Amber and Cathryn went to get pizza. Me and Kenzie stayed behind and, without them knowing, we put salt in their drink and we switched their cups (just jokingly of course) but when they got back and tasted them they didn't notice anything weird. So...when they left again we did the same thing, except we put more in. This time they noticed and it was really funny. The faces they made were priceless (too bad I didn't take any pictures of that). We stayed at Craigos for like 2 hours and we just talked for most of the time. The people sitting next to us kept looking at us...they probably thought we were weird...but whatever. It was so much fun!! I don't think I've laughed that much in a long time.

Thanksgiving...SURPRISE

So for this Thanksgiving I totally wanted to surprise my mom by coming home for Thanksgiving. So, my dad and I tried everything. We looked at airplane tickets and train tickets and busses and everything we could possibly think of. Then, after awhile I gave up. I figured there was no way I was going to be able to get home for Thanksgiving. So...I bought a bus ticket to go down to Utah for Thanksgiving and I was set on that idea when I decided to try one more option. I emailed all of my friends from Washington that are up here at BYU-Idaho asking them if they were driving down to Washington for Thanksgiving. None of them were...then I tried the drivers board (or whatever it's called). It's this thing that BYU-Idaho has where people say if they can drive and, if you want a ride home, then you just ask them and you have a ride home. Unfortunately I didn't find a ride on there. Then, I realized that I didn't ask some of my facebook friends. So, I emailed all of my facebook friends and none of them were going home but....one of them had a suggestion. They told me that this guy that used to be in our ward in Everett, WA was going home for Thanksgiving and she thought that he was driving. So, I added him as a friend on facebook and asked him if he would be willing to give me a ride and he said.....SURE!!! I was so stoked! The minute I found out I called my dad and told him the good news.

So, on the morning of November 21st he picked me up, along with 2 other people that are from Snoqualmie, WA, around 6:00 am and we drove for a long time. We only stopped 3 times and that was only to get gas. The weather wasn't too bad. I don't think there was any snow on the road the whole way there. Then, we got in Lake Stevens around 5:00 and I wasn't supposed to go over to my house until my mom was getting ready to leave. So, I went over to my neighbor Kanani's house and hung out with them for a while. Then, when 6:00 rolled around Tanya came and picked me up and we went to pick my mom up together. They were going to go to dinner and a movie and I was going to tag along with them. Then, when I walked in the door my mom was surprised. I wish I had a picture of her expression. It was priceless! It was such a good surprise!!

Child Development

The other day I was studying for my Child Development quiz with my friend Caroline and we came to this really funny part in our textbook. At least I thought it was funny...I don't really know if you will find it funny or not.

This is a recipe that a child wrote for a Turkey.

INGREDIENTS:
- 1 big bag full of whole turkey (get the kind with no feather, not the kind the pilgrims ate.
- a giant lump of stuffin'
- 1 squash pie
- 1 mint pie
- 2 little fancy dish of sour berries
- 1 big fancy dish of vegetable mix
- 20 dishes of all different kinds of candies; chocolate balls, cherry balls, good n' plenties, and peanuts

DIRECTIONS:
1) get up when the alarm says to and get busy fast. Unfold the turkey and open up the holes. Push in the stuffin' for a couple of hours. I think you get stuffin' from the farm that makes it.

2) I know you have to pin the stuffin' to the turkey or I suppose it would get out. And get special pins or use big long nails.

3) Get the kitchen real hot, and from then on just cook turkey. Sometimes you can call it a bird, but it's not.

4) Then you put the vegetables in the cooker-and first put one on top, and next put one on the bottom, and then one in the middle. That makes a vegetable mix. Put two red things of salt all in it and two red things of water too. Cook them to just 1/2 warm.

5) Put candies all around the place and Linda will bring over the pies.

6) When the company come put on your red apron.


I just thought this was really funny and it kinda fits this month...it being November and almost Thanksgiving and everything.

my roommates

I thought I should probably tell you a little bit about my roommates. 4 out of my 5 roommates are great. I just can't stand one of them. I guess we will get to that point when we get to it...

Deborah
She is great. She's 24 but she is amazing!! Since I've been having issues with this other roommate she comes into my room at night and talks to me and she just likes to listen. She also has some of the same problems with this roommate as I do so she just talks to me. One night when I was really having issues she took me out and we hung out with some of her friends and played games and stuff. SO MUCH FUN!!! I just love her.

Devri
She is great too! She's just so easy to talk to. She's from Arco, Idaho so I've gone to some of her sister's volley ball games. Her parents are great too! It's fun to just go driving with her and just talk. Last night we went to a volleyball game and on the way home I got to know a lot more about her and she's just a great person.

Ashley
She is okay...I mean she's really nice but when she's with the roommate that I have issues with she gets really annoying. But other than that she's really nice. She'll talk to me about my day and we'll just talk.

Nicole
She's SO funny! I love her! I love talking to her...without this other roommate. I think this other roommate just causes all of the problems.

Alicia
Now here's the roommate that DRIVES ME INSANE!!!! She wakes me up every night because she likes to hear her own voice. She's very selfish. She isn't considerate (of me at least). Last night I was asleep in bed and here's what she did:
1) she came in and turned on the light and searched for PJs (loudly I might add)
2) Then, she left the door open (people were being loud in the hallway)
3) Then, she came back in with carrots and started eating them in her bed (did I mention we share a room?)
4) Then, when she finally went to bed, I was completely awake and it took a lot longer for me to fall asleep.

I'm SO sick of this!! I don't know if I can stand it any longer!!! AHHHHHHHH!

FHE and Wingers

Today I went to school as usual. BLAH! But the fun thing about today was Family Home Evening. We went to the church at 7:00 and we got more ice cream...lol. (see my ice cream extravaganza post). We also got to meet our Family Home Evening group. There are 12 girls in our group and 6 guys...Considering that there are 120 girls and 60 guys in our ward that makes sense...

Anyways, after FHE me and my roommates went to Wingers. It was SO much fun! We got chicken...of course and we just talked and had a lot of fun. It was funny because Ashley (one of my roommates) thought that the waiter was really cute. So...she left her number on a napkin. Nothing will probably ever come of it but we thought it was really funny.

Our Ice cream Extravaganza

On Sunday September 13th my roommates and I had to get up pretty early because we had an interview with the bishop at 10:15. So, we drove up to the interview and then when we were all done we drove back again and we just hung out and talked for awhile until church started (church started at 1:30 pm). Church was pretty good but the seats for Sacrament Meeting are highly uncomfortable. But that's okay...I guess.

Then we got home and we were all craving ice cream for whatever reason. Unfortunately, it was Sunday so we couldn't just go out and buy some. So...we asked Deborah to call all of her friends from BYU-Idaho. She's 24 so she's been around awhile and she knows a lot of people. So she called a bunch of people and then she called her friend Donald. HE HAD SOME!! So he said he would bring it over.

While we were waiting for him though we still really wanted ice cream so we yelled out of the window to the guys apartments that are behind us. They always have their doors open so they could hear us. We yelled, "HEY!" out the window and two guys came out. We asked them if they had any ice cream and they said that if we had ice they could make us some ice cream. We only had 2 trays of ice though so we didn't have enough to make a whole thing of ice cream. So we just talked to them for awhile through the window and then Donald came so we ate that ice cream.

Then, while we were eating the ice cream, the other guys (the ones we had yelled at through the window) were coming around and collecting ice for us. We saw that they were coming to our door and we didn't know what to do. So we were all freaking out because we didn't want them to know that we had gotten ice cream. Alicia was freaking out. She threw the ice cream behind the trash can and we fixed that and put it in the freezer. Then the guys came over and they were like, "we are collecting ice to make ice cream. Are you guys the ones that wanted ice cream?" And we told them that we were. So, they told us to come over to their apartment in about 1 hour.

While we were waiting for that hour to be over we invited some other guys over that we had met the other day. We played Uno and talked for a little while. Then, the hour was up and we all went over to the guys apartment to eat ice cream. It was DELICIOUS!! After that we went over to Devri's (one of my roommates) brother's apartments and we talked with them for awhile and then we came back to our apartment and watched a movie. It was SO much fun! I had a blast!