Sin

Today I committed a little sin. I went into Hot Topic. When Camie told me we should go in there to look for suspenders for the nerd dance I told her it was against my religion. Then I told her my mom wouldn't let me buy stuff in there. Eventually I stopped making excuses and her and I went on an adventure tonight!! First we stopped off at the DI. How I love Deseret Industries :) I got some way sweet pants, a shirt, and a bright green belt!! I thought we were set, but we had to make the last stop... Hot Topic. Before walking into the store I told Camie not to let them force me to do drugs and to protect me from any harm, but as I walked in my perception changed. We walk in and see the most glorious thing ever.... a whole section devoted to "The Undesirable Number 1" (aka Harry Potter) It was amazing!! Full of posters and shirts and purses! I just wanted to buy it all!! Luckily I have some self control. Otherwise that whole part of the store would have been mine!! Then we found our suspenders!! Mine are bright green and I'm REALLY excited about them :) I will put pictures of the nerd dance up eventually, but as for now I cannot wait for tomorrow!

Even the letters look scary...

Moral of the story: Hot Topic is not entirely a store of sin. Sure the music might be scary and I might fear for my life at times, but it also has amazingness in it. Thank you.

Goodbye Ryan!!

Dear Ryan, happy birthday. I've been obsessed with telling people happy birthday lately. Don't ask me why. Some people say thank you and play along others awkwardly try and tell me it's not their birthday. It's pretty much my favorite thing to do :) Anyways!!! Ryan has sadly left us! He came back to Provo last week and Geoff came over and they hung out with us for about 5 daysish! They made us dinner almost every night and were very good guests! And I went to bed around 3 every night! haha My sleep cycle is definitely off right now. I am pretty sad that Ryan is leaving on his mission and this was the last time we got to hang out. We went out to Denny's with a group last night around 1! Ryan has been a way good friend down here and is now headed out to Korea! Hopefully he will stop by and visit right before he leaves! Here are some pics from last night of him and Geoff that I just love :) 

Wrestling match!! 

Geoff won :)

Geoff almost smiled for the picture!

They were telling secrets about us...

We really will miss Ryan. And Geoff. Cuz Geoff will never come over without Ryan... But yes. Good luck out there Ryan! We love you!!

Motion stop

Pretty much I miss this a lot. The people, the friends, the school, the good careless times back in B-town :) I'm so glad they put this on Youtube!! How great!

Utah

Today is really cold. I'm not gonna lie it's hard to stand by Utah and everything when it gets this cold but hey, to those of you feeling down about being here in Utah and wondering, "why am I here?!?!" here is a post to boost some moral.

I love Utah a lot. I haven't lived anywhere else in my life and don't think I could anytime soon. I love having all 4 seasons very prevelently. I love the trees in Autumn

I love the crisp winter and all of the amazingness that comes with having 4 feet of snow in the front yard :) With the skiing and the walks to temple square and the endless amount of snowforts to be built and happiness to be had!



The snow may be cold, it may be miserable, you may want to stay inside all day and drink hot chocolate, but it is beautiful beyond my comprehension. And even if we get sick of the snow and the dusted mountains in all their glory, we have spring and summer just around the corner :)

This is a picture of the Provo River. When I was younger my family and I would
go down this river on tubes every summer!! The water was freezing, but it is one of the
most fun memories I have of growing up and spending time with my family.



(yes, this is in fact in Utah :))





Yeah sometimes Utah weather can be weird, and Utah isn't a place for everyone out there to live, but it's the place I call home. I enjoy the fact that I went to a High School that was 98% LDS and that we sang some actual LDS songs in our choir. I'm proud that I can go from looking pasty white in the winter to having a cool tan in the summer. I enjoy both sweating and freezing, even if it is in the same week. I find excitement in the fact that most money spent here in Utah is on repairing freeways and paying for snowplows. I love that they Olympics were held here and the spirit it brought to Salt Lake. I love that the center of downtown revolves around the temple of the Lord and that I live only seconds from any temple! I love waking up and not knowing weather to wear a sweatshirt or shorts. I love both being able to ski and wakeboard without having to travel very far. I love that my family all lives around me (with the exception of Michelle, but they will come out to Utah soon I am sure :)) and that I get to see them often because they are my world! I love that we have towns named after Nephi, Lehi, and other prophets from the Book of Mormon. I love that us people from Utah can pronounce Tooele correctly :) I love being called too innocent because I grew up in the "Bountiful bubble". Since when is being too innocent a bad thing? I just like Utah a lot. I'm not saying it's better than anywhere else in the world because I know that there are a lot of good places out there. I'm just happy to be from here and to have grown up with the people and in the place I have. I hope it has made me a better person living here and that I won't forget from where I came :)

movie nerd/weekend update/basketball is great/I love when friends come to town/yep.

Blog!!! I promise I'm not giving up on you!! Not quite at least.. haha so I had yet another great weekend that just makes me like being here in Provo more. Which is always good!! Friday night I went to a dance for FREE in the Wilk! I know some people are saying, "wow... dance in the wilk. Such a lame freshman thing" To those people I have to say: then you haven't been to a dance with Ali Brand and I. haha We make it so fun!! I definitely love hanging out with that girl and am sad that we hadn't for a while until friday!! Then after the dance we went with some of her FHE friends and watched The Count of Monte Cristo! That is SUCH a good movie. I highly recommend it to everyone! It just reminds me of the good times when we'd watch movies like this with the fam. Other movies in common occurrance in my childhood included The Saint (very good!), Mr. Boogedy (not the really scary one, but a family classic that is quite often quoted and not very many people have seen it sadly!!), X Files (great quote: "bzzz powers out" haha) and of course with Nat and Shell... Moulin Rouge! I guess I could call myself a movie buff. aka a nerd. haha But i don't care! Nothing better than going through the day and quoting movies non-stop. haha Katelyn Bleak is the one true girl who will understand most all of my movie quotes. Other just think I'm talking strange for some odd reason...

Anyways!! I got back from my great night and then Elizabeth and I watched TV and found Work and the Glory to be on :) haha Then we chatted with roommates and got to bed around 4:30! Then Saturday night I went to the BYU Basketball game!! I love these games sooo much and luckily this time Ryan and Geoff got to come with us! I love when they come to town to visit us. They have made us dinner every night since they have been here and I am just so happy to have them here! They are really good friends! This is a pic from a different bball game but i guess it still applies. 

Anywho then Saturday night I went on a date with Ali's friend who I met friday night: Lewis! It was so much fun! We went classic skating and wore disco stuff!! Then we got frostys! Then we went hot tubbing at Lewis' brothers apartment! It was such a fun night and I am sad my camera was dead so I did not get any pics... but as soon as some come up on facebook I will put a few on here! But in the meantime... here's a pic to get you through the week. It is probably one of my favorite pictures of all time...

Markie and I are so awesome. 

New Classes :)

I have new classes! It is both a sad and great concept. Sad because I don't have classes with some great old friends and great because I have classes with other friends :) I will surely miss the good times we all had in American Heritage and Book of Mormon and Geology....but now I have a class with Alyssa!! You have no idea how psyched I am about that. We had AP Literature together Senior year and it was the funniest thing ever! (Despite the fact that we had to write 3 page essays every week in class) I had so much fun with her in there and I'm pretty sure we will have an equal amount of fun in Biology!! We got to class yesterday and watched the weirdest movie of my life... all about sea urchins and native people... so we had a good laugh. But not as much of a good laugh as this little number we have to do:

World's most valuable plant essay. What is the most valuable plant in the world today and why? hahaha I cannot tell you how EXCITED I am to write this essay! Pretty much it will be my favorite thing of all time. 

My other classes seem pretty good as well! We have reclining chairs in the planetarium for astronomy :)

And there is a guy in astronomy that looks just like Ryan Reynolds! Goal for tomorrow: sit by him. Yes girls, I'll let you know what it feels like to sit by a celebrity look-a-like. :)

Nextly!! Markie got me a little present from Peru!! She's the best isn't she?

Lama and a little key chain girl!! The girl reminds me of a Natalie Tran video and I may start to carry her around and do this:

http://www.youtube.com/user/communitychannel?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/2/eaMmwOxWjJo

Have a good week everyone :)

Great weekend :)

So this weekend was pretty much amazing! It all started thursday :) I took the little ones bowling with my mom and little brothers!! Zach was such a cutie bowling and Marquel was just a natural. I think she beat me... I am not meant to bowl. I tried to sign up for a beginning bowling class this semester, but I couldn't get in. I need that class in order to beat my mom! She was awesome! haha

I know this one is blurry but try and see through that and it's an adorable picture!

Love that little boy :)

Friday was an amazing day as well. My family decided to donate money to the University of Utah hospital because my dad is on the board there so for donating we got to go pick out a room and have our plack hung up there! It was a really neat experience. I am happy that we have the chance to donate to the hospital that gives so much. I was also REALLY happy that all of my family was there. We hardly ever have the opportunity where all of us are together (including my brother in laws and nieces and nephews) and it was just really amazing to have that again. It reminded me a lot of our Jamaica trip where everyone was there and having a good time just enjoying each others company :)

Friday night was quite a night.... I headed down to UVU for a party with Syd and Kylee!! It was so much fun! We went down and hung out in Ky's cousins apartment for a while and watched the weirdest Kesha performance ever! She looked like a man... then she hit a bunny piñata with a stick for a while... it was strange!! Then we headed over to the party! Much to our surprise we ran in to a few familiar people. First there was Tyler and Wyatt!! They occasionally danced with us and it was good to have people we knew there! Then we saw the one and only Batman... okay so I guess his name is Thomas. But we met him at the howl and are obsessed with how attractive he is and we saw him at this dance party too! It was so crazy!! And we only talked to him for a second...dang. But don't worry girls, I scout him out down at the Y :) haha Then after the all night dancing amazingness I drove home! My mom and my friends were really scared about me driving home, but I just sang at the top of my lungs and kept myself awake and hyper and it all turned out alright. Home by 3 A.M.! haha

Saturday was wonderful :) I woke up ready and excited because we were going SKIING!!! So I hadn't been skiing in 3 years.... so naturally, I was kinda afraid I'd be snow plowing on the bunny hill all day or I would not be able to get off the lift again (embarrassing story), but I did pretty good!! It was Hunters first time going too so that was really cool for him! Bradford taught him well and was so good with helping him out! Then when Hunt would get sick of going down snow plowing Bradford would speed down and take him like this!!

                                            

   
All in all it was a great day! And when I got home that night a made a hot tub run and was just about to call it a night when I went over to Syds to play dancing on the Kinect. I am definitely not a good dancer so I just hung out and chatted. :) haha But on the way home was pretty much the scariest thing of my life. So I was going down Syd's hill and made it to the Blvd and took a left and just as I did someone parked on the boulevard turned around and started to follow me. I thought at first they were just going the same way as me, or it was a cop so I should drive slow. So I drove slow and they hung behind for a while and then turned up my street. My street is pretty secluded and not very many people take a turn up it, especially without signaling or anything. Then I turned onto the next closest street to my house and he turned too... now I was really freaked out! So I started calling friends and asking if it was them and everything but it wasn't... So I called my dad and he said just to pull in and shut the garage real fast. So I stuck with that plan but right around the corner from my house there is a really steep part of the hill where EVERYONE slides and it's always icy so I turned on my traction and went through with ease (gotta love my truck) while the car behind me couldn't make it so he turned around!! I was so relieved, yet still pretty scared so I rushed home, turned on the alarm and went to bed! It was definitely a scary ending to my night that I would not repeat over again!!

Then I did a lot of nerdy and random things.
1. I did 3 puzzles. One 1000 piece puzzle and two 500 piece puzzles!!
2. I played Halo Reach both with my family and by myself :)
3. I listened to the Broadway version of Lion King a lot!
4. I got in the hot tub a ton!
5. I got Hunter saying "Ta ta today junior!!!"

So overall amazing break. I'm nervous for this first week of school, but here we go!!