The Last Weeks of Summer!!

Well, it has been quite a long time, but if you saw everything I was doing, you would understand why I haven't blogged in such a long time. These pictures of our camping trip that we (Adam, Craig, Kyle, Justin, Melissa, Emily and me) took up Alpine Loop. It was the most uncomfortable sleep ever, but at the same time, one of the best nights of the summer!! We had to leave kind of late because everyone had to get off of work so our spot wasn't the best, but we made the best of it. We cooked our food over the fire and played games and talked almost all night long. We froze to death and woke up with frost on our sleeping bags, but still, I don't think I have laughed so much in my life!!

Adam showing that he and I have the same PJs, which are Dr. Pepper ones.
This is Emily and I in the morning, I think we look pretty good considering no one got sleep.
These are the rocks that we tried to sleep on. Now you know why no one really slept.
Our 'funny' picture the next morning.

This is me after we helped our guy friends paint their apartment. They chose the blue, I tried to get them to go lighter, and being the interior designer you'd think they would listen to me, but they didn't and now their apartment looks like it needs rubber duckies, but what can you do??

These are my new friends Sean and his sister Alyse.

Girl's Night!!!

So, lately Emily and I have come to realize that since we started hanging out with our new friends, all of which happen to be guys, we have turned into one of them! We spend our time playing frisbee, Super Mario Smash Brothers, Rock Band and watching action films all the time. Our meat intake has gone up, I'm sure, and we laugh about the dumbest things now. So, we decided that it was all getting a little out of hand. We had lost our femine side, so we said that we were going to have a Girl's Night! Everything chickie and giggly! So we got our couches together, got our foot bath, facial masks and pedicure/manicure sets and made brownies. We even watched Hairspray and The Princess Bride. I think the best part though...that we got the guys to come over and do it too. Well, some of them. Adam and Jordan stayed the whole night and our friend Craig stayed as long as he could stand it, but it was a lot of fun (as you can tell by the pictures)!! Anyways, now that it's over I am happy to go back to being "one of the guys." In some ways it is a lot more fun!! By the way, the masks worked really well!!

The Watersdown Mansion Murder Mystery Affair

I don't even know where to begin!! Emily and I had our second Murder Mystery Dinner, and I think it was an even bigger hit then the last! As you can see from the pictures, we always go all out. I would try to explain everything but it would be so long and difficult. Basically it was set in 1936, Yorkshire, England in a Mansion. The owner was found murdered and we, the guests, have to figure out which one of us did it. It only took 8 hours to get it all ready, crazy, I know, but worth it. Everyone had the best of time!!!! I can't wait to do the next one, although I know I need a break first.

Our Entry to Watersdown Mansion

The Cloak Room

The Library

The Dining Room

The Lounge

The Ladies: Randy (Me), Flo (Kelsy), Ali (Emily) and E (Kayleen)

The Gentlemen: Mal (Adam), Donny (Ben), Rog (Jordan) and Pro (Colin)

All of us together. We look great, don't we?Emily and me with our fake cigarettes.

Don't I look amazing?!?! I was an American Actress.

Jordan, thinking he's cool, as always. He was an architect and mountain climbing.

Consequently the killer too. Mother, what kind of family are you raising? Two Murderers, what are the chances?

Other then all of this for Pioneer Day we went tubing down the Provo River! It was so much fun!!

Rexburg???

This last weekend, I went up to see Emily in her hometown of Rexburg. I thought that I might as well, seems I have never seen it, and since she is the only roommate that I actually do anything with. I left on Wednesday after work on the Salt Lake Shuttle and let me tell you, I slept almost the entire way! Good thing, because college=no sleep. Emily picked me up around 11 that night and immediately we hit the town. (By that I mean Broulim's, which is like the only grocery store.) That night we only got some dinner and luckily went to bed at 1:30, early compared to the other ones. The next day, Emily's older brother can into town, so we spent the day with her family. They have the cutest kids, two little boys! (Although nothing compared to MY nephews and nieces!) Since her brother's family was there we got to rent a motel room seems their house isn't big enough for that many people-think small farm. That was cool so that we could do WHATEVER we wanted!!! We rented some movies at CleanFlicks, so we could watch all those rated 'R' movies that we always wanted to see, but without all the junk in them, but we did not watch them. It was thursday night, and that meant......Batman!!! Oh yes, we already had tickets to the 12 0'clock showing of "The Dark Knight." Of course we had to go sit in line early, and the seats weren't too bad. Three hours later, I was in a trance. It was one of the most amazing movies ever. Props to Heath Ledger for being so completely crazy, I can understand why they say it was possible that he couldn't sleep and accidentally overdosed on sleeping pills now. But the point is, it was spectacular!!! So now, at 4 in the morning we go to bed, only to get up at 8 to say bye to her brother. Once again, sleep deprived, we spent the day getting stuff for our upcoming Murder Mystery Dinner and Craigo's-the best pizza joint in Idaho. Also we watched the 6 movies we rented, each were amazing, although a little choppy sometimes, but what can you expect? On Saturday we went to the Musuem of Idaho which was doing a sequence on the Pharoah's of Egypt and then the zoo they have in Idaho Falls. I found out that the wing span of an eagle is taller then me...talk about depressing! But we also did some shopping and ended up staying up until 5 the next morning working on Emily's dress for said dinner. That Sunday we woke up early to get onto the Shuttle back to Provo at 9. I would like to say that I slept all the way back, but with the Shuttle filled to capacity, there was no lying down. And basically I haven't been able to have a good night's rest yet. You know how it is, you are in college with really amazing friends, and no matter how tired you are, you can't go to bed and miss out on the fun. Well, that is me in a nutshell!! Still, that was my little adventure to Rexburg. It was so much fun and they have beautiful weather right now!! I have come to the conclusion that I would like Idaho in the summer, but I would rather die then spend a winter there. Overall, it was amazing!! I would put up pictures, but we took all of them with Emily's parent's camera and then when we wanted them we couldn't find the cable and so for right now, they are up in Idaho still. Still, onto the next adventure I say!!!!

4th of July!! Well, I must admit that Emily and I know how to celebrate!! We woke up in the morning and made some red, white and blue french toast to start the day's festivities. But don't think that's all, we had the whole works, the sausage, bacon, eggs and orange juice. Yummm... We did invite Jordan to come along with us because, come on, it is a celebration that should be shared with family and friends. Well, we then decided to head down to Center Street where the Freedom Days Festival is for 3 days. I love being around all the bustling people who are enjoying the holiday just like us. We got ourselves some Texas Twister lemonade drinks, and boy was it good! Jordan decided that he had to get a sword, of course, and Emily wanted a Henna tattoo. We had some Italian Ice as well and just had a blast looking at everything. Oh, and Emily got an Native American Pipe Flute CD. I love it!! Especially since it has The Last of the Mohicans theme song on it. One of my favorites!! But with everyone getting something, I decided (and they both agreed) that I should get something as well. And so I was looking around and I saw this rock necklace. I was like, oh my goodness, I love this, and it is my color!! So, I bought it. Enough said. Well, we can home and got to working on our Independence dinner. We had ribs, corn on the cob, baked beans, deviled eggs, chips and queso, and cookies. We are going to continue that today with some potato salad and Rocky Road brownies....my mouth is already watering. We then plopped ourselves down to watch Independence Day, the movie, I mean, come on, how could we not? And right at the end the fireworks started shooting off. It is pretty cool because from our apartment you can see the Provo City ones, and Stadium of Fire, so two fireworks shows for free. Got to love it. So yes, that was my 4th of July. I enjoyed it immensely!!! I hope that everyone else's went as well. I must admit, I am happy to live in America with all of our freedoms. Thank you to all the men who fought for it, and those who fight now. God Bless America!!!

Busy Week!

This week has been pretty busy. As all of you know, Jordan came out on Wednesday to college. I was and am very excited!! We had a blast our first day!!! Lisa was kind enough to let us borrow her car so we got him all situated and in his apartment and with food. Then we spent the whole day together going to the mall, catching a movie, walking, talking and laughing our heads off. I never realized how much I missed him until he was here. He has done really well for himself already here. He opened him own bank account, got his own job, signed himself up for New Student Orientation and registered his bike all by himself. He only needed my occassional help to tell him directions. Now he is looking for service opportunities and ways to make new friends. I wish I could have been more like him when I got out here. Mom and Dad helped me with everything and I cried for my whole first week when I was here alone. He is one strong man.

Well, other then that, Emily and I decided that we were finally tired enough of the lavender kitchen walls that we had, so we painted them!! I always wanted yellow somewhere, so we bought the supplies and did it this Saturday. I really love it!! It brightened up the room and had us clean and reorganize some things, which really needed to get done. If you look at the pictures and think it is really bright, don't be fooled, it isn't that dark. We did leave a little purple above the cabinets for an accent and rememberance. Also it was really hard to paint up there. So we added some lights and I think it looks pretty cool. We like it at least.

Lastly I went with my friend Brett to the Mormon Miracle Pageant. I thought I had never been, but I am pretty sure that we went as a family a long time ago when I was really small. I only remember the angel Moroni coming to Joseph and then sleeping through the rest of it, but I was excited to go this time!! It was really amazing to see the way it is done, and I always love to here of the Restoration and Book of Mormon stories. Isn't the Manti Temple beautiful? I think it is one of the most beautiful!! Anyways, I thought that I would share and forgive the picture for being blurry, but flash photography wasn't allowed.

Orem Summerfest!!

Finally, I have something to write about. Emily and I went to the Orem Summerfest, somewhat like a county fair, and we had a blast!! We went on the rides, had ourselves some BBQ, saw a show, bought some things from the booths, had ice cream while watching the parade, and ended with fireworks. We got these really cool Indian sari type things. They are a skirt, shirt, dress and more all in one. I really love them!! I also got myself an Indian style bag that is bright and lots of fun. Emily, on the more daring side, got a fake tattoo. I never have been into that sort of stuff, but, hey, it's fun. The rides were amazing, well, for fair. We went on the Zipper, man I love that ride, and we laughed so hard that I couldn't breath. Then there was this other ride, it looked all casual and easy, but when you get on the centripical force pushing on you really hurts and makes you sick. We both felt a little queasy, and some other guy actually did get sick. It was disgusting!! My advice, never eat before getting on rides. We we hastily left that one to ride a sling shot one and basically I was crushing Emily and I couldn't stop myself because it was forcing me. In the end, it was fun!! Then we watched a little of the local talent, some kids dancing and singing to High School Musical, wow that brought me back. Then we decided to go to the local grocery store to get some Drumsticks to watch the parade. You know, I have never seen floats like that, not in person, only on TV. I wonder how they do it...? But after that it was time for the fireworks. I LOVE fireworks!!! It just reminds me of summers with the family. Overall, we had a blast that day!!! And now we are needy for this Saturday's the Pleasant Grove Strawberry Days. Fresh strawberries.....hmmmm!!