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Peace Out San Diego: See you next year in 2015 <><><> love family vacation time <><> grateful

Things I miss in Utah:

 ------- do am missing my attractive tall boyfriend Sterling. I am glad he was able to drive and make it safely back home to Pullman Washington. We both are in the same time zone and i am glad we are able to text/ snap chat and talk on the phone. I love this boy and we have some good conversations. I love how he asks how my day is. He is a catch and i am grateful to be dating him. I can't wait to come back to Logan and see this boy everyday again :) 

-------marron jeep liberty. I miss driving my car and can't wait to have it back in Logan. Thanks to my parents for fixing my side window (it made it wierd sound rolling it up or down) and for cleaning the outside as well as the inside of my car. they are just to good.

--------roommate katelyn. She was able to make it safely home with her family for Christmas and I hope the best for her family during the holidays and glad and excited she made it back home. I also snap chat and text her....she is like I have said many times my sister in Logan. oh man we have some crazy snapchats. Good thing she has techonlogy also to keep in touch with her boy Braden. They are also another cute couple ( besides me and Sterling) ha ha I am happy for her and him and hope the best for their relationship.

-------closet of clothes. I miss having all my clothes. I still never know what to wear. I only brought four pairs of shoes. and wish i brought another pair of boots and i forgot my simple basic flip flops. who forgets flip flops going ot the beach. yeah this girl did. ha ha

--------NOT the SNOW suckers in salt lake and logan ha ha guess that is what I get when i go back home snow snow and more snow snow snow snow. 

-------my side ways bed ha ha my bed is kinda on a slant but you know what I think it is comfortable and I kind of miss it with all my pillows h aha

National Park in San Diego

drove to this national park in san diego it was beautiful and gave us another glimpse of the beach with lots of rocks. it was inteasting to see the different historical sites.

we were able to go inside a light house and see how small the rooms where for people.

my favorite part was the spiral stairs.

i love light houses and they are small and simple and give off light ha ha.

it was a fun sunday afternoon exploring with my parents and siblings.

even though at times we sometimes get on each other nervous or we can be annoying I still love them all. gotta love family bonding time. thanks to my mom and dad for making this trip possible. they work so hard.  I am grateful for all their hard work and for the effort and time they put into this trip. It has been definatly an excellent christmas vacation. we all needed to get out of utah for a few weeks and this just hit the spot. 

It definatly had a beautiful view. I love those buildings far away....simply beautiful. It was a fun filled day exploring the national park. My dad has more awesome photos on his camera that he took that I will upload sometime in the future on this blog post. 

church. church. church.

went to a San Diego ward @ 9:00

i love how even though I am in a different state i am still able to take the sacrament and renew my covenants. Loved the christmas program at this ward and the wonderful music they provided. 

had to take pictures by the white church walls with my siblings.

this is called: Sunday Smiles: (i know i am clever ha ha not really we are just smiling and its sunday)

I also love my sisters flowered top that she let me borrow.+ my favorite pink j-crew skirt + my new neclace that I purchases and was telling about in my Las vegas bound blog entry.

love these two and seriously they make each day a fun hilairous day. love these two.

I am especially excited for this cute sister of mine: she is beautiful and she will be taking Alyssa's spot in our apartment in Logan. I am excited for this journey that she is going to embrace on and hope she loves it in Logan and I hope she will be able to meet excellent and good friends just like i have. I love my roommates and Love the friends that I have made in Logan they simply are amazing. Two monsens living in # 328 ha ha better watch out katelyn and Amy ;) jk we are easy to live with.

Dad's Birthday Dinner At:

Melting Pot: 

This place was hands down best fancy restaruant I have ever been to:

Creating family memories. love my family so much and grateful for all they do> love them all!! 

Life is a Hoot ><><><><><> Keep smiling
awesome wall in downtown san diego.

I love my dad so much and appreciate all he does for me. I look up to him in many ways, he is honestly one of the best examples I look up to in life. I hope to be able to marry someone with those same qualities that my dad has.  He honors his priesthood and cares for the family and especially looks out for my mom. He always has a smile on his face. I have loved the memories we have had growing up and that I continue to have. Parents are special and I hope he has a wonderful birthday. Love you dad and thanks for all you do! Happy Birthday!!

Christmas:

San Diego Temple

My parents and I while the rest of the siblings went to the beach we decided to go to the San Diego temple. We were the only three who brought our temple reccommends. It was another spiritual expereince and this temple is absoutly gergoous. Here is a picture of us in front of the temple.

love the san diego temple.

I went and did baptisms and did ten names and then one sister had two family names that I also did as well and she was way cute and thanked me after when i was done. it was really sweet and i love doing temple work for those who have passed. It simpy is an remarkble beautia tmful place and the San diego is a temple that everyone should put on their list of temples to see. it is one of my favorite temples with the Salt Lake temple ;) beautiful.

it was funny we went in about 7;00 and they didn't have the christmas lights on and then when we came out of the temple the christmas lights where on.

just look at his stunning photo: yes christmas lights in san diego at the temple. I love the temple and grateful for the change we were able to go. Love love love love LOVe the temple ;) 

Noodles & Flee Market

so i thought they didn't have a noodles.

nope San Diego has a noodles we were driving aaround to find somewhere to eat for lunch.

my brother drove around the corner and BAM saw a noodles SO THATS where we went.

my family is basically addicted to noodles like me. it seriously hit the spot and reminded me of home.

they even gave us free drinks ( advantages of working at noodles & company) 

oh man was it delicous. I even had my diet coke with lime. yum. um. yum yum.

my dad took us all to this SWAP meet which is basically a flee market.

they had probably over 100 tents and booths set up of people selling items. 

they had new. old. used. etc items.

this is my kinda shopping. it felt like small little thrift stores outside style shopping.

i bought a ring for o.50 cents and these 6 items for 0.50 cents each to make into a necklace :) 

my brother bought a watch/ colone/ another watch and sunglasses.

my sister bought a scarf/ perfume/ two rings/ and a couple broaches to make into necklaces as well.

my mom bought some new sun glasses as well

and david bought a game.

it definaly was a success for us. it is so funny because there were so many people and so many items any item you think of bam. they are selling it. It was an adventure and i found my cheap treasures. thanks to my dad for driving and knowing about it.

food. shopping.

my sister is so creative and clever. She was so excited for this pineapple so I took a picture and it actually turned out pretty cool.

love shopping with these folks.

they actually have an ALBERTSONS down here in san diego. which is wierd but way nice.

Beach Time:

went to the beach with the family.

the water was a little chilly but we embraced the cold.

brough a freesbee down to through.

beach chairs.

towls. 

swimsuits

snacks.

and that is all we needed.

oh man it is beautiful! I think i could live by the beach if that ever happens in the future i could. the weather has been beautiful. i do wish it was a littler warmer then 69 degrees but hey that is much better then logan and utah can't complain ha ha.

S.A.N. Diego Bound

• oh man i love San Diego
• the beach.
• the sun.
• the sand.
• the hotel by the beach.
• the waves.
• my family.
• relaxing.
• family pictures. 
• crazy moments
• lots of food. treats. walking. exploring.
• never a dull moment with my family. love them all.

My mom and I went and did an early morning run. Oh man have I missed the sun and nice weather to run in. I definalty DO not i repeat DO NOT miss the snow. I am loving and soaking up every mintue in the sun. it was a nice run and my favorite part is seeing other runners around. or walkers simply a hopping place in the monring and night on the board walk.

V.e.g.a.s bound.

vegas outlets shopping: david was so cute and bought us all christmas gifts. He picked out shoes for kimberly and richard and bought me two pairs of patterned leggings. That I absoutly love and can't wait to wear them in logan and run and lounge ha ha they are cute. I was able to buy my sister a cute sweater for christmas and one that i could borrow ha ha. What a kind sister right ;) then i bought a cute bubble necklace because I needed one and it was the perfect price and cheeper then the ones I fhave seen so it was purchased lol then we went to the expensieve side of vegas outlets and man everything is so over priced. i found these really cute boots i wanted....of course they were hand made but they were 1,2389 dollars not evening kidding. I about died. Diesgner clothing is way overrated in my opinion. it is disgusting what people pay for things sometimes. oh well i guess I am just a thrift shopper and i will stick with my low price items lol 

We stayed in vegas for the night.  It was a plced called Riveria.  It was a little bit out of my comfort zone ha ha well it is in vegas ha! I could never live in Vegas. nope never it is a day thing for me.  It as fun my Dad and Brother David and i all walked the downtown streets of vegas. It definalty is a differnet atmosphere here and it makes me appreicate my standards and what I believe. Seeing the vegas lights makes it pretty downtown. I found a lot of christmas trees and had to take pictures by them why cause it is vegas ha ha.

looks at these awesome stairs. Thanks for my dad for the photo.

we ran into crazy people downtown vegas. people dressed up and people barely dressed. variets.

I saw this cool carpet in one of the outlet malls and I had to take a picture of it with my boots. oh man i love patterned floors. definatly the best. 

walking the streets with these two never a dull moment. had to take this picture in the reflected mirror. 

We ate lunch at this delicious place called Magginanolia's it was way fancy and nice. I just wanted a simple side of spagahtii. They had rolls that they brought out and we dipped in basmalic and olive oil it was deliciou. Yum! david got mashed potoates and alfreado. and dad got a ceaser salad. Our server we could barely hear what he said it kinda mumbled ooops didn't make fun at all.

We had two rooms in Vegas since there is six of us. three beds just what we needed.

My mom and i woke up early around 5:30 got dressed and left around 5:45 and both wanted to go to the vegas temple. It was literally 20 mintues away and it was nice because no one was on the road and my GPS lead us straight there with no problems (usually i struggle with GPS) I love going to different temples it is something that is always on my list whenever I go to a new place. I love feeling the saviors love for me and knowing that I am in the Lord's house gives me a peaceful calming feeling.  It made me appreciate Vegas ten times more with a temple being there.  I was able to do baptisms why mom went and did a session. I honestly love the temple and love this true gospel. Words can't even express the love I have for attending the temple it is a place where I always want to be. It is nice to set a side the worldy things. I love the temple and loved being able to go with my mom. It was a little windy. I have more photos with my mom and I but can't find them at the moment...so this will do ;) 

 happy and grateful that we both had this opporutnite to attend the Vegas temple.

Then we went back to the Hotel and packed up our things and headed on out to SAN DIEGO

Cafe rio in St. Geezy

Cafe Rio in st. Geeeeezy:

it is taco tuesday and it was perfect we all were craving cafe rio and that is where we went for lunch. I saw this awesome mirrio and my brother and i took a photo in it. happy to be in st. George at Cafe rio. ha ha

I drove from Salt lake all the way to St George yeah for driving. it actually went by pretty fast!

all i needed was dark choclate kisses that my dad brought and my large diet coke to keep me going. played some country tunes.

i look in the back and my dad is out:

so is my brother:

good thing they trust me and i didn't just seem to drive off some where else :) ha ha yeah for road trips!!!

love traveling with my dad and david. good times for sure.
went to wal-mart and david and i just messed around.

they had these ducks that you press a button and they quack in the middle of the isle

so me being funny i started pressing the buttons and then he joined me and we got all the ducks pressed and moving ha ha it wa spretty funny. david for sure got a laugh out of it.

even some people that walked passed to lol 

David and I decided to go hot tubbing and that is what we did. we ran bear foot to the hot tub. and get there and we didn't have a key so we had to run back. and our feet were cold. frozen.

then we get to the hot tub.

and we are about to leave and david was like i don't have a towel....ha ha who goes hot tubbing and doesn't bring a towl. i put my towl in my coat when we left and was wondering if he was ever going to get a towl and then forgot to remind him......he was like oops. i was nice enough and use my towl for a little then put on my coat and he used my towl. such a nice sister.

i love this place that we stay at in st. george. it is way nice and even has an upstairs.

it felt a little empty though becaues it was just us three and we needed three more cause there was just that much room.

my favorite is they had christmas lights over by the fire place with a stocking. i love turned on fire places for warmeth ha ha.

peace out Utah. hello California:

california for christmas break. yes please. good bye utah.

hello family time. hello better weather then 20 degrees ha ha.

Salt Lake Temple Drive by:

Sister and I took a photo real quick cause it was pretty chilly. it was a christmas temple drive by while being in the car ha ha. so beautiful. My sister is simply amazing. love that girl so much! 

I love the temple especially during the christmas season. Love the time they put into putting up christmas lights, every year it is worth the visit to this temple. Love it! 

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sterling was so sweet and new I didn't have my car in logan so he said he would be willing to drive me home. I said what if my mom and sister kimbelry and richard meet up with us in Ogden. that was the plan.

we went to Ogden after he worked and went to Smith and Edwards to look at a pair of jeans for me since when we went on saturday it was soooo busy. the lines were packed. it was much slower. Oh man Sterling was so sweet helping me pick out pants and holding them for me and exchangin a size that was to small then one that was to big. oh man i could go shopping with him everyday. He said the jeans looked good on me and gave me many compliments.  I really do appreicate him and all he does for me.  He seriously is my best friend and we have had many good times together.  Bought a pair of jeans that he liked and i liked as well. I can wear them with my boots and have my boots under the jeans. so cute!

then went and had dinner at Noodles and Company he of course got the steak strognoff I got the Pene rosa......love our chats during dinner time. he know my love and addiction for noodles. and he loves it to so it works out well.

then after went to his grandparent's house where my family was going to pick me up.

it was Stran's birthday which is Sterlings cousin and they were eating dinner and having cake.

it was so funny. His grandma was taking pictures of Stran and then took one of stran and sterling and then said lets get one of the twin hats cause stering and i both were wearing our smith and edwards hat.....but they were different ha ha. He seriously was so sweet i love my hat. It was a cute photo to...his grandma told me to share his christmas sweater that he wore at the game with his Aunt kristy so I did then the grandma was like oh I have a cute picture of them on my phone...and as she looks through her photos she took one far away and then one close up so two photos....the day before i delted the close up cause it was terrible. i wasn't evening looking at the camera and stelring said it made him look fat so we both didn't like it he warned me before that she doen'st like when people delte photos....it was aweful so i did. gone good bye.

she was looking for it and then all of a sudden....says STERL....>STERL.....why did you delte one of those photos i took of you and Sarah. His face went red and about 4 mintues after the grandma thought it was him.......i was like " oops" and she said sarah that was you.....haha i told her why and then when she was taking the hat photo of sterling and i she said she would get an even close up picture ha ha i died of laughter.

my mom, kimberly and richard arrived and we were just cutting the cake. The grandma was cute and aunt and said let them come in and eat some cake...so they did.

it was a delicious cake and we were chit chatting and laughing. his grandparents really are so welcoming and love sharing their house with others. 

then we unloaded my stuff in sterlings car.

kissed him on the cheek while getting my stuff

and gave one last big hug.

and he opend my door and off i went with my family back to salt lake.

see you next year.......dont' worry we text/snapchat/ facetime until then...thanks to techonology ha! 

Sterling and I first christmas gift exchange:

this is the first time that I have had a boyfriend during the Christmas season. Lets just say it was by far the best. I love dating during the Christmas holidays and making memories as well as having many excellent laughs ha ha! 

Sterling and I both exchanged our gifts at my apartment.

we did rock paper siccors who decided who goes first and I won: so sterling went first

he opened my gift: i gave him a liter of coke with his christmas card written around the coke bottle. It was funny to watch him read it and keep turning the bottle around to finish reading the message. i am pretty funny and clever ha ha.  Then gave him an Aggie cup filled with snickers, gum, and hand sanditzer, then he opended my main gift for him which was a water purifer that he wanted when you go hiking or backpacking this water purifier lets you get water from a river, lake and you pump the water and it gets clean for you to be able to drink it. He was so excited and thrilled. oh man was it fun watching him open a gift that I got just for him. 

then it was my turn: 

While I was opening his gift I said wow this wrapping is so good ( he then said yeah my grandma helped me wrap it) okay that is cute asking his grandmpa to help him....simply adorable.

He was way to cute!

he got me my favorite color of laffy taffy which is yellow, and then a smith and edwards hat and smith and edwards sweatshirt..okay Mr. Hatch you are to cute! I love love love the hat!! It is now one of my new favorite hats and when he wears his and I wear mine dang we look good. (we both planned on wearing them the next day ) he said that he wanted to also let me pick out a pair of jeans to go with my christmas gift as well......oh boy did he spoil me this Christmas. Love this boy and loved shopping with him and he was helping me pick out a pair of jeans. He is so paitent and really would do anything for me. I would do anything for him as well. Oh shoot! love this boy!

Merry Christmas!! 

christmas break starts now.

Sterling and I both went down to his grandparents house friday night.

his grandparents are so cute and I always have a good time visitng them and feeling very welcomed at their home. They were watching the NFR down in vegas and we decided to watch with them.  His aunt kristy and cousin Nellie came and Nellie gave me this cute christmas gift which they didn't have to do at all. They are a cute PJ set. Pj top and PJ bottoms aren't they adorable!

then his grandma gave me high boot socks that I can wear wiht my boots so nice of her as well:

oh Sterlings family is way too good for me and they always make me feel welcomed wether it is visiting his grandparents in pleasent view or visitng his family in pullman washington. They are always nice enough to feed me and let me spend the night. to kind. always.

Sterling and I saturday morning went to his cousins soccer game at 11:00 she won! her team was actually very well. Sterling showed me this dot game he had on his phone and this was the first time that I played it I have seen him and Skylar and his aunt and grandma play this game but I never had an interest. Then i started to play it and had to beat Sterlings score so him and I were going at it with each other trying to get the high score. ha ha it was funny. i am addicted for about 3 or 1 week then i will forget about that game...but i will enjoy it now ha ha! my top score is 374 boo yeah! ha ha sterling still has yet to beat mine shhhhh! 

His grandparents were so cute and made us a delicious breakfast with bacon, chocolate chip muffins, hashbrowns, orange juice. yum! i was satisified!!

then we got ready and I had family names that I brought for him and I to go to the Brigham City Temple and do baptisms.

we went at the perfect time. I called to set up an appointment but the lady said they were full so to walk in and they would fit both of us in. we came right after a youth group was leaving. It worked out perfect. This was Sterlings first time doing baptisms at the Brigham city temple he went for the open house but hasn't been able to go. It was a special for him to go with me and to do the family cards my mom gave me to do. I had five names for him and I had three names for me.  It was a treat to have Sterling baptize me and do the conformations for me.  Oh man do I love this guy. he seriously is the best and the timing has been perfect and dating him has been the best thing for me. I loved when he said my last name before doing the baptisms and conformations. Being in the Lord's house and feeling the love the Savoir has for me and being in the Lord's house with Sterling was a treat.  The temple workers are always so cute and very helpful. I love their service and they brighten my day everytime I see them at the temple. They literally are the sweetest and I hope to be able to be a cute temple worker one day for when youth come in I can let them know they are welcomed and that they are loved ;)  

Then after the temple went to his grandma's house and changed

then off to Salt lake City we drive ha ha

Since my family is going to be gone this Christmas day and Sterling will be with his Family in Pullman I thought we should have a Christmas dinner before becaue my mom has these really cute Christmas plates and cups that needed to be used this year. We then have planned this for about 2 weeks ago and it was finally here yeah!

Sterling and I played a round of ping-pong while my mom was still finishing up preparing dinner

I beat sterling just saying ;) ha ha

then we all ate at the dinning room table with the Christmas Plates:

i had to take a picture and instagram it:

there is never a dull moment with my family that is for sure. wether it is the funny converstaions we have at the table, a joke that is said, my brother plays music tunes on his glass cup, etc it is always a time to be grateful. I love my family so much and loved that we were all gathered at the table and Sterling was able to join us. I love seeing how they interact with him making him feel apart of our family as well. He is just way to cute! ha ha 

dinner was delicous: home made lasgna (which is Sterling and My favorite food) then salad, rolls, egg nog, diet coke, dr. pepper, brownies, cookies, ice cream, yum yum yum! I was full to the bone

then after we all gathered in the living room and I put all the White elephant gifts that each person brought on the middle of the table.

then I wrote numbers 1-7on a piece of paper and passed a silver globe around and each perosn grabed a number.  Then who had number 1 started the white elephant gifts...which was my brother David ha ha he picked sterlings gift to start then the next perosn who had 2 went and so on. It was sooooOOOOoooOOO much fun. we all definalty got some good laughs weather it was the glass Duck richard open, the banjo nut cracker my sister opened, the tiger blanket that everyone wanted, the ginger bread man, the bobble head. oh man good laughs for sure. there was one gift left over for some reason we had 8 gifts. ha ha so I pulled up the White elephant story on sterlings phone and read the story and if i said LEFT they passed it left if I said RIGHT they passed it right....it kept getting passed and ended up with David ha ha Good times for sure!

here are the boys and their white elephant gifts:

here are the girls and are white elphant gifts:

tiger blanket was the best:)

it was a fun filled evening with my family and I was glad Sterling was able to come. i love white elephant gifts and always get a good laugh....memories created.  gooood laughs.

Then sterling and I drove back up to Logan. oh man i love the drive to logan to salt lake or salt lake to logan...it goes by so fast and is such a pretty drive. I loved being able to see the christmas lights while driving back home to Logan.

peace out.

peace out and see you next year 2014 roomie!

this was our last day. and yes (SHE HAD TO WEAR THE SAME THING AS ME) but see I am fine with it because I think every day we should wear the same kind of outfit ha ha! Don't we just look adorable. bascially sisters> best friends> roommates.

oh man i lvoe htis girl to death and so excited for her to go back home for Christmas break to spend time with her family and friends. I love that I have been where she is from and have met her family and seen her cute families house and area they live and to see friends that she was friends with there. I loved visiting her this past summer and it definatly was worth the trip. Have so much fun at home with your family and espeically her mom.  Your amazing! Safe travels my friend and I will see you when you get back for Alyssa's wedding reception in her beautiful bridesmaid dress! love yeah girl! Thanks to braden for taking this photo he did quiet well ha ha!

New Job:

i am so thrilled and excited!!

I emailed a few preschools during the first week of decemeber because I knew I needed a job after the Christmas break and realized the month of December I could just not have a job and relax a little bit ( which was nice but my money is dwindling) ha ha and i miss those pay checks. A few preschools emailed me back saying that they weren't hirring at this time. One preschool in particular River side preschool the director Kim Barfuss who I emailed said that If I go to the Logan city School Distract and get an appliation and send in my school transcripts she would look over my applicaiton and that they were interested in hirring two new preschool aids for this spring semester.  I did just that got the application filled it out, payed 5 dollars for my school transcripts and turned in the application. She recieved the application and I sent up a time to go interview at 11:30. I went and was suppose to interview with Kim but her daughter was sick so she was at home. I ended up interviewing with two of the preschool teachers one that works morning and one that works afternoon. They were both sweet gals and did the interview process they had about 5-6 questions they asked me.....the worst question and the quesiton i always get asked is what is one of your Weakness and what is one of your strengths.....i have had this question asked in most interviews so i know how to handle the situation and what to say ha ha.  It was fun to have them ask me quesitons and me telling about my background expierience and what I want to do with my career choice. Seeing the cute kids in the hall line up...made me realize this is where i want to work. I want to be around children again and especially preschool age.

said my goodbyes and off I went through out my day:

it was about 1 1/2 week later I get a call from Kim when I was studying for one of my finals i almost didnt' answer my phone because I didn't know the number good thing I did! ha ha she said that they wanted to offer me the job.....i then had the biggest smile on my face on campus because i was thrilled and excited....i wasn't going to be jobless anymore....i get to work with children....i get to work in my field of study...i get to see how these preschool teachers are and learn from them and get some pointers. i am thrilled! i said yes of course she said I needed to print of this 24 page application process and fill it out, basically with my taxes and background check things...it was a little rough but so worth it. Printed them ( sterling let me use the rest of his free money on his student ID card to print these paper's) Yupp best boyfriend award goes to STERLING. he brough it all the way up to campus when I needed it before he had to go back to work. what a sweetheart. Thanks Sterling. Filled it out and then turned in the 24 pages. then signed up for a background check and did the background check about 3 days ago. yeahhh! i am already to go and I start Januray 6th....I work MON- THURS 12:00-3:30 and get paid 9.75 an hour. Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I am excited for this expereince. and know i will learn a lot. 

I am grateful for this opportunity to work at Riverside Preschool.

its been nice this month to not have a job....but I am ready to work again...i love being busy! :)

Finals Weeeek.

favorite part of the first week of finals I was able to go to the Logan temple:

sterling is so sweet and let me borrow his car this morning because he knew I didn't have my final until 2:00 and i dind't have my car. I dropped him off at work and used his car and decided I would go to the temple then. love this place. love how close it is. grateful and blessed.

Then on thursday us four girls went. Love going to the temple. It honestly has blessed my life and I have seen the tender mercies from making time to go to the Temple. love the Lord's house. I can't wait tell the day I go and able to do a temple session. There is power in the temple. 

we were a little blinded by the light. I love how Katelyn and i have matching scarfs. ha! she copied me

b.o.w.l.i.n.g 101

Saturday December 7th:
Bowling at Olympus Hills @ 11:00
Double Date Bowling: Bring it ha ha
It was an eventful day filled with fun and laughter. I was able to meet up with my best friend from high school Whitney Lucas and her boyfriend Jared Williams ( they have been dating for about 3 years crazy) ha ha It was so much fun and Sterling and I enjoyed the company. WE all realized we need more practice bowling.....we weren't very good at all. Least we got some good laughs the first round we played.  The second round we deiced we each had to bowl a different way: eyes closed, left hand, spinning, sitting down, one foot up, etc......One person choose that round and we all had to do that same way of bowling. Oh man was it easier then it looked. I pretty much well we all pretty  much looked ridiclous but we had again many laughs..............It was a fun double date and it was good to catch up with Whitney and her boyfriend Jared. I can't wait for the next double date in the future we will be planning.  It is crazy to think about 5 years ago we were in high school not even knowing these handsome fellows of ours. I was glad Sterling was able to come and to get to know Whitney a little more and meet her boyfriend.  We have an awesome friendship and honestly I know when we both are old we will still be friends! Love yeah whitney! good luck with your finals!

Aren't we both such an adorable couple! Oh man I love Sterling and Love whitney and Jarred together!
precious. indeed.


Here are a couple ways we did our different bowling ideas: I got Sterling and Whitney ha ha good times. It was funny on Sterlings phone he was able to do slow motion and got three videos of me. I will have to add them to this post when I get them from his phone...they were hilarious especially my hair whip..hahaha good times with friends.

Alyssa Bridal Shower

Congrats to my Roommate Alyssa she is getting married in about 3 weeks! On Friday December 6th in the evening we had her bridal shower at our apartment. It turned out way cute.  Kristen is very talented and you could tell she loved decorating and setting up for the bridal shower. Katelyn was awesome and delegated assignments to us roommates on things and items to bring.  The banner and the pictures turned out way cute.  Alyssa and Garrett are cute and I really do hope the best for them in their marriage. It was fun to help set up for the bridal shower.  I was able to make fruit kabobs which was fun my favorite part was testing all the fruit before putting them together (shhh) that is what the cook is suppsoe to do test to make sure it taste all right ha ha! then crackers and the veggie trays. I am glad I was able to help out because Alyssa deserve this and she is getting MARRIED ahhhh! so crazy! It makes me think of when my bridal shower will be hopefully not for awhile maybe the end of summer or begginning of fall. It is crazy! I love going to bridal showers and love the exciting feeling that the bride eliminutes.  It was fun to see the different gifts that she recieved....some i was shocked ha ha! Oh the joys of getting married and of course you have to have some of those scandlist gifts.  We played a game of What if...which was fun and brought laughter to the room. Great job Katelyn and Kristen and Haley for the awesome job of making this event for Alyssa a special event for her. Congrats Alyssa!

spending the Morning with my mom:

went to the Logan Temple with my mom this morning while my sister was at  her SOAR for her freshman year of school.

it was an excellent morning with my mom before my class at 2:00


took her to my favorite thrift store in Logan on main street and we thrift store shopped for a little bit.

love my mom and the amazing example she is to me!

I learn from her example and her diligence in serving.  She is always there for me when I need to talk to her on the phone or even through email.  My mom is one of the most kind, caring, compassionate women who love those around her.  I love all the good times we have had and the many more adventures to come.  Thanks mom for coming up to Logan. Love yeah!

Roommate Christmas

Roommate Christmas:

Is always the best time of the year with roommates. We did a christmas gift exchange were before the month we all drew names of who to get a 10$ dollar gift for....i kinda cheated and wanted Katelyn who I also had last year :) ha ha.  Katelyn had me. Alyssa had Amy and Amy had Alyssa it worked out quiet well.

Alyssa made this delicious steak strognoff....the noodles where the best part in my opionion.

katleyn made some garlic bread

Amy had a couple brownies for us

and then I made the ceaser salad

it was a delicious meal and it was fun to all sit down with the roommies and eat our dinner.

We then did our gift exchange:

Amy: got a ipod wrist band to wear while running

Alyssa: got mugs with red flowers for hot chocolate

Katelyn: got the game scrabble (WHICH I LOOKED EVERYWHERE FOR and finally found it at the Ogden DI about 4 weeks ago and was so excited) and then black leggings

Me: I got an awesome sock bun to make a perfect huge bun with my hair, and foundu for two

Oh i love these girls and it has been a joy living with them. It was basically also the last time we were all going to be together with Alyssa since she is moving out in a couple weeks cause she is the married women. Amy had to go study so Katelyn Alyssa and I decided to embace the cold and go hot tubbing and that is just what we did. it was fun to social with these two. oh man good times.

then we put all three of our beds out in the front living room for a MEGA bed yeahhhH!!!!

we were planning inviting all three of our MEN over but Garret couldn't come so that ment braden and sterling couldn't come. bummer we all just wanted our men to come over and watch a christmas movie. oh well. turned on the television and i was out (sleeping) ha ha

roommate Christmas was another year of success! love the girls love the gifts!

jazz game & temple lights

Date Night: This was seriously one of the best group date activites yet.  Sterling and I went downtown salt lake a litlte bit earlier then the two couples Katelyn and Branden (her boyfriend now yeahhh) and kristen and ben (who are also now boyfriend and girlfriend) so excited for them both anyways. It was such a fun eveningn with Sterling and myself. We were able to walk around Salt lake Temple and see the pretty christmas lights. I love how it gathers so many people, even though it was snowing and a little bit cold everyone embraced the cold and went to see the lights. I love this about Christmas being on the temple grounds and seeing the beauty of the temple and all the people that gather to see the lights.  I love walking around with Sterling one I always feel protected and two he is just so tall and attractive i love walking side by side with him. He probalby thinks I am crazy....i perfer walking on his right side. If I start walking on his left side i will switch and move over to the right. it is funny.  We took some awesome pictures:

Sterlings Misison presidents in South Africa are now the Mission Presidents for the Salt Lake area which i found interesting. He was talking to two sister missionaries asking the new presidents name and then put in a few good words about them.  You could see the love Sterling had for his mission presidents and was excited for those two sister missionaries to have them.

Then katelyn and Kristen finally arrived with their dates...they said the roads were awful. Which we both were glad they made it safely.  We walked around for a little bit and took more pictures with them. It was nice to walk around with just Sterling and I then meet up with friends and walk around with them.  here are some of are awesome temple pictures we took:  I just love the christmas sweaters and really think that was the best part ha ha! They are all borrowing mine except Katelyn. I laugh and love when people borrow my sweaters ;) It makes me happy and they are all excellent christmas sweaters....who wouldn't want to wear them. i would want to wear them even in the summer....but don't worry i put them away until christmas time.

We hoped on the trax to the jazz game at the Energy Soultion Arean: The trax were packed!! ha ha so many people. we had the nose blead seats but it still was way fun up there. then after half time we decided to move down.....and look how close we got:

 It was way fun moving up closer, the guy who checks the tickets didn't even say anything to us. We all looked like we knew what we were doing ha ha! Yeah for us.  We even got on the BIG Screen TV at the game with our chrsitmas sweaters and dancing.....we got on twice...funny thing Sterling was on the very end and got cut out two times ha ha he said his pant leg was in the photo but thats about it....he is just to dang good looking that is what i said...he was like man they just don't want to show my aweful sweater ha ha!We took one final group pictures closer to the court: While people were taking the picture this one cute lady was like. Pointed to Sterling's sweater i think you win the ugly sweater compeition ha ha we all laughed. he really did look good in the sweater and he was a good sport for wearing it....oh man I do love this boy I am dating. He is just the best:)

Thanks katelyn, Kristen us girls planned this date and it was a success! YeahhhhhhH!