A New Look

so I thought I'd mix it up a little and I made my own template! It was kind of exciting figuring out the html...or following directions on how to do it from another website, but it was still an adventure with many twists and turns. And now I have something to show for it. If you'll notice, I added a link on the right-hand side that will take you directly to my photo site. (I figured out how to do that one all on my own)
Life is going well, just school. I feel kind of boring just saying that, but that is kind of my life. Thanksgiving was really good. I went to a friend's house. His family lives here in Provo so I had a family dinner. It was really fun. We played games and stuff. Yesterday was fun too. I didn't really do that much. Some homework, played some games with friends, OH! and I made dinner for everyone. I had a leftover lasagna from the last time I made dinner group that I hadn't cooked that I had just stuck in the freezer. I pulled it out and invited my friends over and I cooked dinner for everyone. It was pretty good, especially for having been in the freezer for about 3 weeks. I felt very motherly, making dinner for everyone.
After that I went downstairs to a girl's apartment to watch The Fellowship of the Ring with them. THere was a whole group there and one by one, the girls that lived there went to bed, so Patrick, Bryan (his roommate) and I moved the movie to their apartment so they could go to bed and we could turn up the volume so we could actually hear. Then Bryan went to bed so it was just me and Patrick. THEN the DVD player was having a heart attack so we took out the DVD, cleaned it, and put it back in. This happened a couple more times before we gave up and put it in his laptop to watch the rest. THEN his laptop ran out of battery and we had to plug it in and reboot it all. It was quite an adventure, but the movie was pretty good. Kind of intense, but good.
So that's my life. OH! I forgot! I get to play the egg shakers for one of the women's chorus songs. I'm one of two or three girls that get to do it. I'm really excited. AND I get to conduct the opening song at devotional on Tuesday. So this week, Tuesday at 11:00 (Utah time, I think) you all should watch for me. I'll be waving my arm around on national television!
Hope you all had a good thanksgiving, and I'll see you at Christmas.

So it's been a while...

Well, I haven't written in a while, and I'm sorry about that. I guess I've just been really busy. I mean you know, I AM so popular (no. not really) but I have been doing a ton of stuff. School is going well, I took a huge midterm on Friday that actually didn't go very well, but I think it will all even out in the end. (Who knew Music History was so hard?)

Halloween was fun. My roommates and I dressed up like a cast from a TV show my roommate watches and we had a fun time trying to copy their outfits and personalities. All the characters work at a fashion magazine. I was the creative director (ironic?) and our friend Brandon was my assistant that will pretty much do anything for me so that I don't fire him (I'm kind of mean, I guess) so this is how it turned out:

Does he look scared of me? And um…look at my hair! It's huge!!!!

Here's a group shot of all of us:

So from left to right is Jes (the receptionist), Patrick (the editor in chief), Mark (the cute, nerdy accountant), Stephanie (assistant to the editor in chief who knows nothing about fashion), Me (creative director who is conniving to take over the company from Patrick's family), Brandon (my assistant who is just very funny).

So that was Halloween, nothing like you guy's costumes, but I did see some good costumes at the parties we went to. On campus during the day there was a pacman and a ghost (from the game) who were chasing each other all over and they even had a soundtrack with the little beeping. It was very impressive.

So last weekend I went to the opera with my friend Chris and we had a good time. We were already planning on going to the BYU Singers concert in two weeks but that night he told me that it should be a real date so I guess we're going on a date in two weeks. I'm excited. He's a good guy :)

Other than that my life is pretty normal. OH! My friend Jordan invited me, my roommate Courtney, and his roommate Nathan (who is dating Courtney) to his grandma's house for Thanksgiving. So I'm going to that, I'm kind of excited. This will be my first Thanksgiving turkey! Kind of a big deal.

Oh, also, my ward is planning a trip to the Salt Lake Temple to do baptisms and stuff. We did it last year too. I'm really excited to go again. I mean, it's the Salt Lake Temple!

So that is my life. I'm sorry I haven't written in a while. I'll try to keep up more often. Also I think I'll be putting pictures up on that site again. Here's the link