Green and Rainy Christmas

Christmas in LA this year was wonderful, other than the rain but I can't complain too much because in Utah there was a blizzard.

It was so good to see Kiki. She is growing up so beautifully.


The were so many presents Christmas Day, the living room as a mess but it was great.


Falina got lobster for Lutie's birthday dinner. The kids loved playing with them.


Lobster dinner. I loved so many people being here.


We played Nerf wars to celebrate Nick and Lutie getting older and it was a lot of fun.

For Jen

Playing Kinect

New York

I know this is a few weeks late but I went to Rochester, New York over Thanksgiving to visit my sister. It was so good to see her because I haven't seen her in about a year.

This picture of Peter and Eli was just cute. Eli came to wake me up while wearing this pilgrim hat and Peter was representing BYU (5 seconds after this picture was taken, Peter threw the hat on the floor).


This was on Hill Cumorah. It was freezing there. Utah is colder and dryer than Rochester. Rochester is more humid so the cold went straight through my layers. Jen was awesome. She was freezing and she still walked me around to all the different sites in Palmyra.


This is the Palmyra Temple. It is so beautiful. You can't see in this picture but the stained glass is of the Sacred Grove and is awesome.


This is all of us (besides me, taking the picture) on thanksgiving day.


Also a few days ago when me and my roomates were at the grocery store, we saw these cute bottles of Martinelli's for $1 each so we each got them and partied it up like it's 1999.

Fall Fun

A few weeks ago I went to my first corn maze fair. Just a warning to all those who have never gone to a corn maze before, don't wear nice clothes. I went with a friend, Michelle, to a corn maze and I realized that I was over dressed for it. I wore these super cute flats and a nice coat (you can kind of see in the picture below but not as much). Anyways, at a corn maze there is lots of sawdust and dirt so by the end of the night I smelled like dirt and had woodchips stuck in my flats. But it was really fun. Here is a picture of Michelle and me at the end of the maze. We beat the other team.


The fair was lots of fun.


For Halloween I was Lady Gaga. I went to a stake party with my roommate, Karen, and a friend dressed up as my back-up dancers. haha I also realized that for the past 3 years I have been a diva for Halloween.


I just remembered that I never blogged about conference but it was way fun and Albert came up for it. He spent the weekend in Utah and we stayed at our aunt's house near Salt Lake. Albert comes up for almost every Conference and I love his visits so much. I am always really excited for like the whole month before he comes. This is a picture of us in the Conference Center before the second session.

What is our world coming to...

I don't know what people are thinking when they speak.

Michelle, a friend, and I went to Arby's last night. We went through the drive through and after the man told us how much it cost we did some quick math and realized it wasn't right. When I asked him how come it cost so much he replied, "Because you guys eat too much." Really? That attitude was unnecessary and he had charged us twice for a few things so the total was wrong. Then after we got our shakes (which were supposed to be chocolate) we tasted them and they were gross. They didn't taste like chocolate at all. They tasted like vanilla shakes. The man said that's what chocolate tastes like. I know the difference between vanilla and chocolate.

Then today, I introduced myself to this girl sitting next to me in class, she asked me, "What year are you in...you look old." Again, was that necessary?

Moral of the story...don't eat at Arby's and don't be friendly to people in class. haha

I'm alive

Does this animal look terrifying...I think so

(ok it's not the one that wanted to eat me last night but I'm sure it's similar)

Yesterday I went hiking up at squaw peak with 5 people and it was dark by the time we were on our way back. Somehow I got separated from the group for a few minutes and when I had just been rejoined with the group, we heard a cougar growl from about 10 ft away from us. Immediately we shined our flashlights at the cougar and froze in our places. No one really knew what to do so we just decided to walk away slowly. Then we heard another growl and decided to get weapons. 2 boys had huge knives and 2 people grabbed rocks (I don't know how effective the rocks would have been but its all we had). I didn't have a weapon because I was shining flashlights at the cougar (I think I got gypped though). Another 20 minutes later we were at the car. Scariest moment of my life.

Cuties

So I have been back from Uganda for a few weeks now and I am a slacker. While I was here I spent a lot of time with my niece Ali and my nephews Trevor and Phillippi so here are a few pics of us.

This was at the San Diego Zoo...she makes a very cute caterpillar.


We were having a sleepery party (she was a little confused about the name haha)


I spent a week with Trevor and Phillippi. This was outside of a pool in Bakersfield.


And finally, I made a quilt this summer out of fabrics I bought in Africa. Tell me what you think.