BYU wins!

One of my favorite parts of going to BYU are the football games. Yesterday was our last one, but it was a great game to end the home season with! We beat our rivals, the Utes of University of Utah, in overtime!

The best part of the game was storming the field after BYU won!

We had assigned seats for the whole season, and as result made friends with Andrew who sat behind us. He kept us laughing the whole season!

We love BYU football!!

We got mashed in the middle of the football players! But it was totally worth it!

run a half marathon. check!

Let the adventure begin!

Whitney and I took a road trip down to St. George for our half marathon. We had a fun time driving down together.

Little did I know I would get my first speeding ticket driving this car...

Of course we need healthy and nutritious snacks on our trip down!

pretty sunset on the way down

Thanks to Whitney's brother-in-law, we had a nice FREE dinner at Brick Oven pizza. We had some good pasta that night!

Before the race

Right before the race began, I saw my cousins Lisa and Kevin. We were shocked! It was good to see them and run with them, and were able to meet up after the finish.

I fell in LOVE with St. George. Snow Canyon is one of the most beautiful places I've been to. It reminded me of Moab!

I saw the St. George Temple, which is also very beautiful.

Such a small world! I ran into my brother-in-law, Jared, at In-N-Out burger on the way home!

Nothing like In-N-Out after a half marathon!

Halloween!

apple pie...get it?

The week before Halloween, my friends Ben, Kaile, and Eric and I went to Eric's family's house and had a very nice dinner with an extremely competitive pumpkin carving contest after. Lets just say every one else there had planned ahead and spent hours carving theres, so we were the amateurs. It was kinda embarrassing, but we won the genius award for being clever at least.

They had the coolest Halloween favors, like these cute monster sodas. Ben and I got a kick out of them.

My ward had a fun Halloween party. Kids in my ward were pretty creative with their costumes...

Courtney and I were matching fairies! We loved our costumes, which we made ourselves!

Me with the white versions of Will Smith and Carlson haha

HOMECOMING!

Homecoming 09! Such a fun week! BYU has a bunch of fun activities prior to the homecoming football game. There were activities like Hiking and Lighting the Y, Mr. BYU, dances, etc. I went to some events, but the weekend was my favorite. (Quick side note: if you want to see me publicly humiliated, watch BYU tv. My friend Courtney and I were interviewed after Mr. BYU and we were the dumbest blondes you could ever ask for.)

ANYWAY.

Friday night!

Friday was the night of the dances. My date, Mark, and his group of friends decided to take us to a nice dinner at Macaroni Grill and then the casual dance at The Loft. It was such a fun night! The dance at the Loft was the best dance I've been to so far here at BYU. We were painted with neon body paint that glowed in the black lights when we walked in, so it was such a crazy environment! I loved Mark's friends...they were SO funny!

During one of the slow songs at the dance, one of the BYU football players tried to jokinly cut in while Mark and I were dancing. Mark didn't give in, so I told him he should feel very proud that he fought off a scary Somoan. However, I didn't tell him how disappointed I was that he ruined my opportunity to dance with a BYU football player, even if it was for just a half a second! ;)

Saturday- GAME DAY

Courtney and I ate lunch with her dad, grandpa, and family friend. We went to Iggy's sports bar and grill and happened to run into the entire TCU fan section. It's no fun being engulfed by a Purple Blob!

Courtney and I at Iggy's.

Ok I PROMISE we aren't traitors...we just thought their signs were really really funny. So we just had to take a picture with them!

It was a beautiful night for the game! Too bad it didn't turn out so good. TCU crushed us, but we still managed to have fun at the game.

Courtney, Me, and Emily

ESPN College Gameday came to Provo! My friend Riley and I took a picture by the bus to prove it!

birthday celebration!

Happy Birthday, Courtney! We went to the Spaghetti Factory for dinner to celebrate. It's always nice to have a reason to eat out off campus!

Me with the birthday girl!

Celeste, Me, Courtney, Nikki, and Whitney

Costume 5K...80's style!

It's official! Whitney and I are registered for the St George Half-Marathon on November 7th. We are very excited! Meanwhile, between training for it, we've signed up for a couple 5K races. Our first one was a Costume 5K. Whitney and I ran with my friend Kyle. When we left this morning he didn't have a costume. Since Whitney and I were in our 80's outfits from the Loft, we did some quick thinking and threw together a fabulous outfit for Kyle. We picked up a mullet at Rite-aid and then i grabbed my hot pink short shorts and extra headband. Throw it all together and you have the perfect outfit!

We re-enacted our finish. In reality Kyle smoked us, but we all still had a good race! Tina the Fat Lard! I saw my old EFY counselor from two years ago! hahaThese guys won first place for the costume contest. They actually ran in those outfits! When we passed them (haha!) I asked them to "shake it" for us, which they gladly did. They were good sports :)

run, girls, run!

I think the altitude here is messing with my head or something, because for the first time in my life, I run everyday. for fun. You don't believe me? Trust me, I dont blame you, I wouldn't believe it either. I guess having a running group makes all the difference. We love to run because it is the best possible stress reliever. I run with Courtney, Emily, and Whitney, and we go either real early in the morning or pretty late at night. sorry mom, i'll try and change the night running :) Anyway, we have so much fun on our runs, and I brought my camera one night to prove it.

We have our running game faces on. (Courtney, me, Emily, Whitney)

Whitney and I have an intense race up the flights of stairs! I won of course

We pass a couple of our favorite places on some of our runs, like the MTC :)

But the Temple is our favorite.

everyday life at byu.

I met Courtney at Foundations of Leadership Conference before BYU, and we have been inseparable ever since. She is from Idaho, but I don't hold that against her ;) The is always something fun to do at BYU! One day, at the fields right by our dorm, BYUSA hosted a True Blue football event, with blue jello, blue foam, and a blue slip and slide. This resulted with many blue people. I had to take three showers to get it all off, and even then my fingernails were still stained! But man, was it worth it!

Every night I usually hang out in Whitney and Nikki's room and we always have good time. A typical night consists of cereal, laughter, music, and a little craziness!

And of course, there's the creamery! Whenever I can't finish my ice cream I just give it to my friend Parker who always has room for more!