Christmas time is finally here =] Monday night rolled around and we were all sitting in the apartment doing nothing. SO we headed off to wal mart to buy us our chirstmas tree!! We are POOR so we ended up getting a ten dollar tree that's 3 feet tall. We bought lights and then we started looking at ordinments and saw how muc they cost. So sarah and i came up with making our own =] We went and got candy canes cuz i was out ( i eat them like crazy!!!) and the i sarah brought up the idea of doing popcorn garlin!!! So we bought some popcorn and we ran into Jordan at the store and asked him if we could use his popcorn popper. We then headed off to FHE.
WE HAVE THE GREATEST FHE group EVER!!! We had a lesson which was really good then i had the activity. There was like 15 of us so i thought we should play spaz!!! No one had played it before so sarah and i taught them how to play. We all laughed soooo hard we were crying!!! Our host family gaves us bags of M&M's for the treat too!!
AFter we went over to the boys house (casey preston jordan and ryan's) and played there for a bit and got the popcorn popper. We came home and put the tree up in 3 seconds. Sarah put the lights and tree topper on it. The i sat and made the popcorn garlin. Kali was finding recipes because we are planning a FACNY dinner for us and maybe for dates. Preston came over and helped but really he just played gutiar hero. we made snow flakes out of paper to hang in our windows
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
OH Christmas tree oh Christmas tree!
BRACE YOUR SELF FOR THE NEWS!!!
Sooooooooooo Joel and I broke up!
WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!
Yes that is right, you read it correctly....
Joel and i broke up.
lol Yes it is true. NO worries everything is GREAT!!! I've been having the feeling that i needed to break up with him for some time now.. i just wasn't sure that's what i really wanted. I guess i was just scared of what it would mean not to have joel around and have to go out and be social. I also have had a boyfriend most of my dating life and I was kind of scared of having to go out and date again. But with some help i was able to do it. Since i've been here, i've grown spiritually. I think that's why i was able to finally listen to the still small voice and rely on Heavenly Father to help me through the break up process..
You're prolly wondering why and my reasons for all this.... well, we were at the point of Should we get married or not? YES i would have been more then happy to be married to joel, but he wasn't a return missionary. There's a lot of controversy over the whole marrying a return missionary but my thing was, why would i want to be married to someone who didn't want to give up something for the Lord. IF he couldn't make the sacrifices now when he has nothing and doing nothing, what would he do when his family was at stake. Joel always told me he was going to go. So i accepted it. However, he has done NOTHING in order to go. Yes he has debt and he's working but he wants to buy a car and get even more in debt. He doesn't want to take missionary prep classes. He just seems to be dragging his feet more so then he should. So i took me out and now it's all on him to go.
Since the break up things have been mostly the same but with some differences. We are still best friends and we both care for each other. It's hard some days and easy others. We are both striving to do what the Lord wants for us. We may end up together. We both want that, it's just the time right now to make sure some stuff gets done.
Now i'm back in the dating life AHHHHHHHHH!!! lol with the semester almost over i'm not going out and trying too hard right now. I'm not really planning on going out and finding people either for next semester. The Lord knows what i need and what i can handle so i'm just going to have fun and not worry about "finding my Husband" like everyone else up here lol
OH 2 more friends are getting married in dec. that's 4 friends that were single at the start of the semester and 4 that will be married at the end. LOL gotta love EAC!!!
BATMAN RETURNS!
I was bored one night, sitting at home, and had a brilliant idea. My moped, other wise known as BATMAN!, needed something that made him batman. So i went online and found the batman logo and sat down to make one. IT turned out really good!!! I was proud of myself! I tried to make one so i could put the outline on my lights so that it would be like the batman spotlight... but it didn't work =[ He is still super cool though!!!!
It's getting reallly cold now so whenever i ride batman i have to wear a beannie, a jacket, a wind breaker, two pairs of gloves, jeans, high socks, shoes, and a scarf to wrap around my face. =]
surprise party!
A few Sunday's ago us girls were sitting at the table hanging out when there came a knock on the door. I answered it and it was our friends Casey and his fiance (sp?). Casey lives in apartment 101 with preston ryan and jordan. Those are the boys we go to for EVERYTHING!!! Ryan is one of our home teachers and Casey is the "PA" of our family home evening group. I have public speaking with preston and Jordan is just funny! We are all good friends. Well Casey was going around to all the apartments telling everyone that it was Jordan's birthday and to come say hi if we had time. Sarah was like oooo lets make him a cake. Kali, who loves to bake, said YAY and started looking through ALL her recipe books for a cake. Casey was like ooo cool that's nice of you, Jordan was talking about making him own cake so that will be good. Then sarah had the big idea of throwing him a surprise birthday party. We had random party stuff for some reason and kali and i were hyper so we were all excited about that idea. So we told casey to spread the word and after the fireside we'd have everyone come over to our place and have a party. Kali set away with making the cake. I picked up the apartment and got to decorating. Sarah had another big idea of using Fondant frosting. So we had to find a recipe to make some fondant. The girls stayed home from the fireside to finish the cake while i went by myself ( it was WAY WAY WAY good). Then i booked it home afterwards to make sure everything was set. half an hour later people started strolling it. WE had like 50 ppl crammed into out tiny apartment. Jordan was way surprised! it was HUGE hit!!!
<3 FRIENDS <3
A few weeks ago Chantel and angel drove up to play with me for the day!! They are the greatest friends ever!! they drove 3 hours just to eat dinner play games and hang out. Then they drove another 3 hours home!!! AMAZING!!! They got up here around 2ish. We sat and talked. Then i taught them how to play POUNCE!! they loved the game. I won though =] no one can beat me up here... joel tries but i almost always win!!! Then i made my first ever chicken pot pie! IT was sooooooo yummy!!! We had a salad with it then had strawberry short cake (chantel's favorite) for dessert. We all played guitar hero and then we played imagine if.. Joslin (chantel's daughter age 3) ended up falling asleep while we played. Imagine if is just like dad's "what are you thinking" game but with a different twist. Around 10ish they packed up and headed home. I was sooo happy they came up and played with me!!!
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Saturday, November 3, 2007
1st friend to get married
Yeah so one friend down on the marriage list. Allison and brain are super fun. They were on our institue volleyball team. I met allison over the summer and brain got home from his mission when i was in hawaii. They got together like 2 weeks after he got back and got married on friday! CRAZY but sooo fun!! we had tons of fun with her getting married. =]
NEW ADDITION
we got a new entertainment center... the one we stole from the guys in the next building. We found the reason why they didn't care we took it.... they got a huge flat screen tv!! We love our new addition tho.. our apartment finally feels like a home now!! we love it!!!
GOT bad
YEAH look at how great my bruise got!!! crazy huh!!! thought you all wanted the update.. it's almost gone now and it doesn't hurt anymore =]
KALI IS GREAT... made us some chocolate cake!
For halloween kali is made us the best chocolate cake!!! She wanted to do it for halloween. It was all chocolate with pudding and whip cream in the middle and cake on top of it. She made tombstones with all our names on it and the other girls in the apartment. joel was the only boy with a tombstone. kali thought we should be buried together so she put us together in the front and everyone else was scattered on around the rest of the cake. She put gummy worms and pumpkin candies all over it too. It was way cute!! and super yummy!!!
DANNNNA DANNNA BATMAN!!
YES that is right!!!! I bought a moped this week!!!! It was an answer to my prayers... kind of.
Joel and i were at institute playing pool and ping pong when we saw the ad. I made him call and ask about. later that night we went to look at it.. and then i bought it!
It was $500!!! THAT WAS THE BEST PART!!! i'll be able to pay it off by the end of the semester! So i'll be in debt for like 2 months... while building my credit and now be able to get around. It's amazing!!!!! It is a really good bike too.
It goes about 30 mph... but i did get it up to 35 this weekend. It takes like $2.00 to fill up so it's amazing... and his name is BATMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!
one lost duck
We lost a roommate on halloween. there has been drama with sylvia and sarah and kali for awhile. I was cool with her and didn't have any drama. BUT stuff lead to another thing and sarah ended up calling her out on it on halloween. I was left behind to smooth things over ( i was the good guy in the whole thing so i'm ok with it ) and she said she was moving out. Her dad is sick and she's poor and she's never ever here sooooooooo she was ok with it. now we are looking for someone else!!
HALLOWEEN!!!!
SO halloween was a way way way FUN day!!! I went to school blah blah then i went to work!!!!! My teacher made me a super cute bottle holder ghost... and gave me a bunch of candy!! the kids here get to dress up in their costume then go on a parade around the neighorhood. Then it was time for the party!! i got to eat yummy food and play with the kids.
I came home and got ready. I was a way hot 80's girl!! I had tons of fun doing my hair big again. we went trick or treating with jo jo. Well we made him go get candy so we could eat it!!! then we went and ate sister garica's food. we then went to this party at this way cool house by the river on top of the mountian. It was like a HUGE cylinder!! It had to have a diamater (it was round) of like 14 feet. there were over 100 people crammed into the first floor dancing. It was way fun!!! then we left and the girls upstairs blasted music and we had a dance party!! oh so fun! i went to bed earlier the the rest of my roommates.. like always =]
Service baby oh service!!
SOOO today i went to my first service project up here. we met at the church and i got a ride since sarah had to work and kali is in mexico. I met this girl who played with me the rest of the day THANK GOODNESS! we drove out to bonita ( yeah that a city in AZ!!!) with like 6 other guys we didn't know. We were picking chillies! We got there at 10:15 and picked chillies all day. My arms and hands have cuts all over them. I filled up 16 ten gallon buckets of chillies from 10:15 to 3:45 with an hour break for lunch. LUNCH was good.. we had chilli!!! heheeh we thought it was funny.. we also got a little CHILLY sitting in the shade hahaahh =]
It was tons of fun and i'm glad i went! I made new friends, got to serve others, and now i know how to pick chillies. The guy who owned the place kept complimenting me and kept telling every one i was pro at picking them. He was a cute old guy!!
