Fantastic Fall 2012 Part I: Idaho Friends

Another fashion show at Christopher and Banks. It is always a party when Sydney and Sarah come along and act goofy with me!
We are so cute!
I went to I-night and got to see Kirby Hewborne perform (sorry for the sideways picture)
We are so excited to see Kirby!
Oh Sydney Schlosser! She was so proud of her director name tag! I am so proud of my bestie taking after my footsteps and becoming a director.
We got to see two of the most amazing people get married: Martin and Megan. They are a crazy bunch and we had to draw a mustache on Martin's face and then blame it on David. I love these two and Megan looked beautiful!
The Bride and me.
The crazies and me...
It is always good to go to a wedding and get to see old friends! I loved seeing Lacey there, she is amazing!
Oh course I love my Sarah Mann! She is special....

Fall was full of wonderful memories and this was just the start.

I moved to Utah in August to do my student teaching at Bountiful Jr. High. I lived me my Aunt Maryanne and Uncle Mark and there amazing daughters Crystal and Britany. I loved having two little sisters and walking to school with Britany everyday. I had an amazing experience and feel in love with the students I taught. I couldn't stand to be away so I moved back to Utah to substitute teach and go back and teach my students.

Yellowstone and Utah Friends and Family are coming...

Sensational Summer 2011

For my 22nd Birthday we dressed up and went to Johnny Carnio's to celebrate. I love all my roommates who came and supported me!

My two besties, David and Sydney! I was sad that Sarah was out of town that weekend and couldn't come celebrate with us.

The whole gang outside of Johnny's!
As a Birthday present from Johnny's, they gave me turtle cheesecake and it was delicious. I love Sydney's face in this picture!
Some of the greatest people you will ever meet!
This is at the Jocks vs Nerds dance with David and Sarah. Sorry the picture is turned and I am too lazy to fix it.... there are more pictures turned the right way than the wrong way.
Sarah and I.... love this girl!
Another picture turned the wrong way.... Me with my bestie Syd!
Neils and Susan had there mission farwell at the beginning of Summer semester and I was glad Sydney could be there with us. She loves my Mom, she even calls her "Mom."
Social Board was again a huge part of my life. I was a director this semester and had an amazing team working with me. I love each of these people so much and they are amazing for all they do.
I didn't take very many pictures this semester so there was a lot that I missed on camera, so here are so highlights:

My last semester at BYU-Idaho

Amazing Retreat where the BOBCATS reunited (aka my old band) and performed

Meeting the amazing Sarah Mann

Sunday dinner's with the Mann's and watching Jane Austin movies

Competed in a Lazy Man Iron Man and Finished a Tri-a-Tri in 1:10:13

An amazing Birthday where my roommates got me Toms, David and Sarah got me a cat shirt and a mixed tape, and Sydney got Mean Girls!

Sunny Days in Idaho Fall where we had BBQ in the fire pit, played on the tramp, worked in the yard, and had a great 4th of July weekend

Farmers Market every Friday with bike rides and trips to the DI

Mystery Dinner

My birthday Mocktail party and David and Sarah making me Sushi

Summer Solstice

Bonfire at the Dunns and Fire Blowing with wax

Harry Potter Midnight Premiere and dressing up like Hermonie and Syd dressing up like Snape

It was an amazing Summer!

Winter Wonderland of Memories 2011

So I discovered this magical collage maker called Picasa, and I know what everyone is thinking, that is old news and everyone knows about it. Well I didn't and I think it is awesome. During my break before I started student teaching my mom asked me to scrapbook my college years, which is a daunting task. We decided we would do a collage for each semester making it easier so this is the one for winter 2011.

Some highlights:

Area Director of Social Activities

Getting closer to some awesome peeps on Social including Mama Hymas, William, Martin, Maxine, Mariah to name a few

Onsies Wednesday... for one week only we got free shakes at Sammy's for wearing onsies

Hanging out with my girl Shalane aka Shayla and watching Despicable Me

Having awesome roommies, Morgan, Jordan, Christy, and Shayla

Being 2nd Counselor in the Relief Society

Becoming a Director for Spring semester

Retreat

Took the Art Praxis and passed!

Best FHE family ever! We tie dyed, make valentines and visited the elderly, Big Judds, ice skating, and scone party at Brother Browns.

Just a couple of great things about Winter 2011....

Fall 2010 Magical Memories

Here are a couple of my favorite memories of Fall 2010 Semester:

To end the Fall semester, David and I did the gallon challenge.... which I hate to say but I failed and puked up 2/3 gallon of milk. David finished but ended up puking a couple minutes later.
Sydney and me! I love this girl, she is my best friend and Fall semester would have not been as much fun without her. We pretty much did everything together the last 2 months of the semester. We went to the dedication of the BYU-Idaho Center which was amazing!
Social Activities was a major part of my life during the semester, this was at Married Date night where I saved the day and picked up the bread sticks.... okay not really saving the day but I did pick up the forgotten bread sticks. I love Social!
My wonderful mother works at Christopher and Banks and every now and again they put on a fashion show. My two lovely roommates agreed to be in the fashion show with me and we had a blast. Sydney and Shayla looked awesome and we had such a good time being "part time models."
Best of Show was another event we attended, the event wasn't all that great but I loved hanging out with my Social peeps. Once again I love my girl Syd.
I love Thai food! David and I went to get my favorite thai food and I just had to document the experience and let you know that it is soooooo good.
I can't remember what this event was called but Santa was there and hot chocolate, Christmas trees, candy canes, and some crazy elves. This is me with my director Amanda, I love her. She helped me so much in the Fall and I owe much of my success in the program to her. I love you Amanda Ellis.
Speaking of people who are inspirational and amazing and wonderful and etc.... Mama Hymas! My advisor who is one of my best friends. We have had some crazy time and I am glad to know that she is always there for me.
Mama Hymas invited us over for a dinner, which was delicious, we had a good time and were stuffed by the time we headed home. Thanks Mama for feeding your hungry children!
I just have to say that David Mann is crazy.... He took on the 3lbs BIG JUDD CHALLENGE. Of course his posy was there to support and keep his head in the game while he took on this CHALLENGE!
.... and this was my 1/4 lb hamburger.... which filled me up!
Oh.... I might have been apart of a one performance band. Yes.... I know what you are thinking. How did we not make it big time. I mean I was in the band playing the double harmonicas and we had a tambourine.... Well, turns out Los Gatos de Siesta, the name of our band, has a case of the stage frights and are going to school and stay pretty busy. We had a good run and were maybe not as original as we wanted to be. Long live Los Gatos de Siesta!
At the beginning of the semester we had a bonfire to celebrate being back in school. It was a good time to get all my friends together. Thanks everyone who came!
So it is not a big deal or anything.... but I was kind of a poster child for Social Activities. Okay so I pretty much am a big deal and was a POSTER CHILD FOR SOCIAL ACTIVITIES. I loved doing Social and was happy to help out with the This Means You campaign. Basically getting the peeps to share their ideas and join in Social. Love you Syd and Amanda!
At the beginning of the semester my Mom celebrated her birthday, we won't say how old, and allowed me to make her cake and spend the day with her. We sang happy birthday, both verses, and you can tell I am excited. Thanks Mom for letting me spend your special day with you.
I don't mean to brag... but this is my present I made for my Mom. She actually asked for it but I was happy to make it. Love you Mommy!

New York + New Jersey = Family Adventure

After being in St. Louis for three weeks we headed out on the 16 hour drive to New Jersey to go see Stephen, Afton, Brooksie, and the newest edition to the family Baby Zoey. It was a long drive and Cohen wasn't the biggest fan of the car but we had some good time watching Baby Einsteins and The Incredible's.

Here are some highlights from the vacation:

Baby Zoey's blessing, she is so beautiful and I am so glad I was able to come and share this special day with her.
A trip to the Big Apple, Stephen had a company party at Dave and Busters so we watched the kids in the city and went to Toy's R US. They had a giant ferris wheel in the center of the store, it was amazing! After we ended up going to Stephens company party and getting amazing food and playing lots of fun games. David and Busters is so much fun!
We to the beach but since there was a hurricane we couldn't go in the water, don't worry we brought out own pool. We had lots of fun but it was quite windy....
Where Stephen and Afton live there is this great bakery that we stumbled upon and went inside. Ever since I have watched "Cake Boss" on TLC I have wanted a lobster tail and here my dream was fulfilled. The thing was huge and delicious.... I shared.
We went to a playgroup to the fire station, which was really neat to hear about all the firetrucks and everyone but Mom, Zoey, and I got to take a ride on the firetruck.
We went to the library, it was good to get out of the house and just relax in the library. I love this picture. Brooksie is so cute!

My favorite part of the trip besides hanging with the family was going to New York and exploring the city. We got to see so many things and here are a couple.
The Temple.... hidden away in the craziness of New York but the most amazing building you will see in the city!
We went to the New York Natural History Museum and saw some amazing things, here is a life sized whale..... SO HUGE!
I don't know what this guys name is because I am not a huge "Night at the Museum" fan but we had to search for a good 20 minutes to find him. Worth the search? Oh yeah!
We went to CHINA TOWN.... my favorite place in the whole world..... why? Because the fabulous purses that you find. Mom and I showing our great finds!
We had some good time.... I love this picture because we are all happy to be together even after a really long day in the city
We ate at an amazing Italian restaurant in Little Italy.
We rode the subway, thank goodness too because New York is a lot of walking!
Saw Ground Zero where they are drastically changing everything, it will be amazing to see when it will be completed.
Went to battery park and saw this globe that was between the Twin Towers, it is amazing how it looked this good after what happened.
Of course went to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
Here is the beautiful lady now...
I love the fun times we have as a family and am so blessed that we are able to see so many wonderful things. Thanks everyone for making this vacation amazing!