Gettin' In the Christmas Spirit

Yesterday when I came home (I just home from Baltimore) I walked in to find Christmas joy sitting right on my living room floor!! Over the brake Sam's Mom had bought us a $10 Christmas tree and some ornaments (What a wonderful lady) from Walgreens. We were so excited for our new tree that we just jumped right into our Christmas decorating!! It's such a fun activity and it really takes a load off your mind (if anyone is ever wondering how to be stress-free then just decorate a Christmas tree...it works...trust me!). I think we decorated for 5 hrs.! Great fun I tell ya! When I got my camera out to take pictures, I found out it didn't work anymore so I had to take pictures with my computer and that's not really the easiest thing to do! So sorry about the tight pictures...couldn't really fit that much in the pictures with my little camera! I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!

Sam's decorating the TREE!!!

Chelsea (that's Sam's friend), Sam, and me with our snowflakes

Me and the Christmas Tree (the before shot!)

Becky and our messy appartment

Me dancing in the appartment

This is our somewhat done door...my camera on my computer takes pictures backwards so that Sign really says "Merry Christmas" not "samtsirhC yrreM"

Me and the Christmas Tree (Don't we make a cute couple?)

These are my home made Ornaments...so proud was I!!!

Snowflakes keep falling on my Head

Our Christmas Chain

The Finished Project (Well just the tree anyways)

Thanksgiving With Da Fam

ROBE Party?!?!

This morning, very early...like 1:30 early...we got a knock at our door from our FHE brothers! They were all in their brand new, and might I add very soft, robes that they had just bearly bought at Wal-Mart! They were so proud and wanted to show them off...so they came over. It was so funny! They brought us chocolate and we joined in on the fun by putting on our own robes and having a robe party. Once it reached too late for them to be in our apartment anymore, we took our robe party over to Taco Bell. In some of these pictures you will be able to get a little hint of what our adventure was like. I love my FHE brothers!! haha! I'm sorry if all my adventures here are "you have to be there" type of things, but that's all I have! I'm sorry...I hope you enjoy them anyways because I know I do! Haha!

Inspiration!!!!

This morning was such a beautiful morning! It was cloudy (which I love) and it was just so great! So I kind of had a little inspiration from my next door neighbor Megan. I had woken up earlier then Sam (Suzanne's not here this weekend by the way. She went home for her grandma's funeral) so after I had already gotten ready for the day and Sam still wasn't awake, I decided to go visit the neighbors. Megan was the only one awake there so I sat and talked to her for a while. She showed me her sketch book (she wants to be a computer animator) and that's where the inspiration began! I wanted to draw...so I went back to my dorm and whipped out a pencil and paper...I didn't know what to draw though. Right as I thought that I looked out my window and there was the most picturesque scene I have ever beheld!!!! It was the playground and the huge tree outside my dorm. It was so pretty though because there was leaves everywhere! I loved it! It was quite romantic actually! And I was in a romantic mood, so I took my party outside on the park bench right next to the playground and tried drawing the scene I saw. It was fun! I get a great satisfaction in doing the arts! It was so relaxing! I think that's why I like singing and dancing so much! It's an art! Gotta love it!

The view from my window

The park bench I sat on

THE SCENE!!

The Great BYU Campus...Oh How Wonderful It Is!!

Right at this very moment me and good ol' Krisit Jackson are sitting outside on the grass on the GREAT BYU CAMPUS!! We weren't in a very studious mood so after our physical science class that we just had together we decided to plop ourselves outside on the grass and chill. We have two classes together, so maybe we'll get some studying done together out here. I'm really excited right now because I totally get internet connection. It's awesome!! We are sitting right next to the SWKT (Spencer W. Kimbell Tower)! That's probably why I'm getting such good connection. So I'll just take this time to show you guys a little bit of the scenery. It's really pretty up here right now and it feels so nice! "All you need is a light jacket!" (Name that movie!) So from these pictures you can see all the pretty leaves!! I love the leaves! One day on the way home from choir me and Sam (my room mate) and Becky Barney (friend from back home) saw a bunch of leaves and we spontaneously had a leaf war! It was really fun! I wish I could post those pictures, but they are only taken from my phone. Well anyways, enjoy these pictures! And to all those who are BYU alumni, I hope these pictures bring back happy memories!!! So long!

Krisit's sleeping

She's Awake!!! Yay!


THE LEAVES!!!!!

The Great BYU Campus

Ten Bucks to anyone that can guess this building!!

This girl's not dead, I promise...she's just sleeping!

Three Cheers for Mary!!!

This picture explains my mood today! I feel just dandy! Happy as a school girl! Let me tell you why...my 2nd surgery that I've been dreading all week is over! Yay! I was so nervous when I went to the doctor today because I actually knew what was coming this time! But I did fantastic! It was great! I didn't even cry! I was biting my finger extra hard though which did help with taking the pain away from my toe. So I'm just happy that's over. The doctors said they don't know what's wrong with my toe though because it's not healing like they thought it would. They said that what they originally thought the infection was from was not it anymore, so they don't know now. Ah! Scary! They gave me some more antibiotics though so hopefully it will be okay. I don't want to get my toe chopped off. That would be an unpleasant experience. Anyways, all is well in this area for right now. Hopefully this is the last I have to blog about my toe.

I'm Lizzy!

Thanks to Whitney, I now know which Jane Austen heroine I am! I'm Elizabeth Bennett!! Suzanne was Lizzy too! This is what it said..."You are Elizabeth Bennet of Pride & Prejudice! You are intelligent, witty, and tremendously attractive. You have a good head on your shoulders, and oftentimes find yourself the lone beacon of reason in a sea of silliness. You take great pleasure in many things. You are proficient in nearly all of them, though you will never own it. Lest you seem too perfect, you have a tendency toward prejudgement that serves you very ill indeed."

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A Few of the FHE Buds

So tonight for FHE, we realized we didn't have anything planned, so what we did is those who wanted to (which was probably about only 1/4 of our group...haha actually it was me, Suzanne, Sam, and two of our brothers) came over to our place while we tried brainstorming ideas of what to do. This didn't work out so well so we just took out my computer and started taking pictures. That's how we spent our FHE tonight. It was a wonderful idea on my part...actually thanks to the blog because I probalby wouldn't have thought to take pictures if I didn't have the blog on my mind! It was fun!

Update On The Toe

On Wednesday I went back to the doctor to get my toe checked up on. This wasn't a very pleasant experience either!! Geez, I'm never going to want to go back to the doctors after this is done. So I sat down and the conversation started out the same as it did last time...he asked me if I was alergic to any anesthetics and I told him no again. I wondered what he was asking me this for because I already had my surgery! The nurse then handed me the same clipboard and paper and told me to sign it to give the doctor permission to take out a little sliver of my toe nail. I then began to think that they were mistaken and they had thought that they had never done the surgery on me, so I said "Oh you already did that last week". The nurse then informed me that they had to do it again to kill the roots!!! I immediately began freaking out because I didn't want the doctor to stick me with the needle again because IT HURTS, but the doctor then took off my bandaid and took one look at my toe and said my toe had a "hot infection" still and that I needed to come back next week for the surgery. Ahhhh!! Scary! I don't want to go back! Oh well, it will get me out of my comfort zone (which is something that we've been learning a lot about in choir...we are required to do something every few weeks that will get us out of our comfort zone and then to write about it). The doctor wrapped my toe up in a big wad of gauze and then gave me some stuff to soak my toe in to help the infection go down. He told me to soak the whole toe even with the gauze on it and especially at night...so that's what my pictures are of. I have to wear a bag over my foot at night so I don't get my bed all wet from the wet gauze. haha! We joke around about it here.