Halloween Costume

For all those that are wondering what I am in the pictures below I am Verua Salt from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I was helping my friend Kate with the food and I had to take off my fur jacket. Sorry I forgot to mention that in the post below!

Halloween at the Lowe's

My friend Kate from Disney and her husband Peter hosted a Halloween party at their house this past weekend. It was the first time in like a year I think that ALL of us Florida girls were together. What a fun night! Kate made an amazing tortilla soup, apples and carmel, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, and other goodies that we could not stop eating the whole night! It was so fun to see everyone, even some people I haven't seen in years! I love it when I am able to get together with these girls because I feel that everything that's going wrong in life or in the world disappears. That's what I truly believe best friends are. These girls are my best friends and love them! Here are some pictures from the night:

Some of the Florida girls

Yummy food

Kelly in by far the most amazing costume of all time!

Cooper, Kate and Peter's adorable dog

Sarah making a funny face!

Ling (Kelly) and Ping (Me) reunited once again...all is good in the world.

All the Florida girls plus two extras!

A Craigslist Find

So my friend Kelly an I are looking for and apartment for this upcoming winter semester (Dec-April) and we decided to look on the wonderful world of Craigslist. Kelly stumbled upon this posting by a UVU student:


SEEKING FEMALE ROOMATE 20-28 (FREE ROOM) (PROVO)

Reply to: briggs000@gmail.com [?]
Date: 2008-10-21, 8:45AM MDT


I realize this may be an odd posting, however, it is legit. I am a 25 yr. old male UVSC Stident seeking a female roomate. My sister is moving out of our 3 month old townhoome that my dad owns, so there will be an open room until the end of next summer. I don't want to sound like a jerk, but I am a good-looking and super-clean guy, so I would expect the same in return. I will let you live here for free. Send a picture and let me know a little about yourself please.

My name is Briggs and I would prefer that you be open to the idea of an occasional cuddle or make-out (kidding, well kind of, my attempt to be funny) but not a necessity.


We thought it was kinda funny and we got a kick out of it!

Guitars Unplugged

I've been working on this show here at BYU-Idaho for the last month called Guitars Unplugged. It's one of the biggest shows during the semester. It was a lot of fun, but very stressful to pull together. I was over all publicity. This past weekend we had the three shows - Thursday and Friday were all the acts that the audience then voted on to be in Saturday's Best Of show. Saturday was the big huge production! Boy was that an amazing show! Here are some shots I took on Thursday and Friday night of the performers.

BYU-Idaho Fall 2008

Ok, I am so sorry that it has taken me forever to do a new post about school. It's already been a month and I have nothing up yet. So things have been going really, really well. I really lucked out with roommates. They are all adorable and we all get a long really well. There's Emily, Kelly, Jessica, Holly and Sabrina. I got two of them hooked on Grey's Anatomy. Sabrina watched seasons 1-3 in the first 2 weeks of school! She's now a die hard fan like I am :)

I also lucked out with a good ward and an FHE group. My ward consists of a lot of young boys...the pre-missionaries, but there are also so return missionaries. We got a group full of RM's that are awesome and a lot of fun! I am really looking forward to getting to know them better over the semester. Classes are going really well. I am actually doing exceptionally well in all my classes which is interesting since this is the semester I decided to get the most involved in. Here are some pictures of my room:



My graphic design and photography classes are keeping me busy but I am loving them! My favorite class by far though outside of my major is Teachings of the Living Prophets. I am taking it by an amazing teacher that really makes learning about the living prophets interesting. He also has a very good sense of humor so that makes going to class a lot of fun! Another way to prove how much I love this class...I got my first A grade in the testing center on his test. Haha. Yes I am a second semester sophomore and have yet to have received an A on any tests in the testing center.

Like I said earlier I got myself really involved this semester in things on campus. I am doing Talent Board and I am an Assistant Manager over publicity for the biggest show on campus, Guitars Unplugged. I've made signs, flyers and the t-shirts for this event. It was challenging at first but it really came through and a lot of people really liked what I was able to come up with. Here is the poster I designed. (p.s. the background is supposed to be a royal blue. No idea why it's orange?)



I also joined what's called Photographics Society. It's a group that studies photography and teaches cool tricks that you can do with your photos in Photoshop. I've only been to two meetings but I have already learned a lot and I am excited to start taking pictures. Another cool thing about this group is you enter in photos that you have taken and you have a chance to win money and other cool prizes. So they hold about 3-4 contests over the summer. It's really fun!

I have also been having a lot of fun down in Utah with my fellow efy friends. I am going down again this weekend for General Conference which I am very excited for! Overall this semester has been really good. I can't wait to see what the rest of the semester will bring!
The efy girls
The efy gang