12 hour drive, a wedding and a basketball game

Well this last week was a fun one! My roommates Aly, Amber and I all drove to Arizona for an old roommates (of Amber and Aly) wedding and we decided to make a vacation out of it! We left last wednesday and drove the whole 11 hours down to Maricopa. The drive was good/eventful. We stopped in Page, AZ (I just had to stop in my town!) and grabbed some dinner. Well, apparently my town likes to give people food poisoning. Poor Aly got sick for the rest of the drive that night. Too bad her car was a stick, which I don't know how to drive, so I couldn't take over for her.

Thursday was fun. We got to sit and relax most of the day and got to play with the new little baby Aly's sister just had! She's SO tiny and cute. Friday morning was the wedding. We had to get up at 5 am to go and do the bride's hair. Man were we tired...we did get to catch a few Z's right outside of the Mesa Temple while we waited for Jennie to come out. That helped out a lot. That night we got to go the Phoenix Suns basketball game thanks to Aly's brother-in-law. He gave us tickets that he got through work, 19th row!! It was one of the best games I've been to in a LONG time. This was the first time I have seen both Shaq and Nash play in real life. What a night! After the game we got to stand next to replicas of the players. This is me compared to Shaq:



Aly and I at the game in our Suns t-shirts!


On Saturday we left and decided to drive the Vegas route home which took us through the Hoover Dam. What a cool site to see! I've never seen the Hoover Dam so I made Aly pull off so that I could take pictures. Totally worth it!




Sunday we were able to make it to our good friend Katie Barber's mission farewell. She did she a good job - Aly and I were crying by the closing song! She is going to serve her mission in the Dallas, Texas area. She'll most likely meet my good friend Bart who's in the Houston, Texas mission. We will miss her, but she's going to be one amazing missionary and I am very proud of her!

Me, Katie, and Aly

That night I made it home in time for my aunt Lori's Oscar party! What a blast this was. I have never been able to make it to one of these fabulous affairs. Lori had the house all decked out, ballots printed up, and treats spread out. We had quiet the night! Here are some pictures:






After the Oscar's ended we were to tally up all the guess that we got right. Lisa of course won with a whopping 14 guess right. We think she's got some inner Oscar connection. Lori awarded her with her very own Oscar.



What a great week full of warm weather, weddings, and tiny gold men!

Update...

Well...things have been quiet interesting since I last wrote. My roommate was to be evicted, but then plans changed on the day she was supposed to be out. I guess the apartment office has to give her a verbal warning before she can be kicked out (crap...). So part of me is really hoping that she can get her act together and be good, but the other half is just waiting for her to screw up again. I feel horrible saying that but when she states that she "hates rules, hates obeying rules, and will do what she wants", my confidence in her becomes very low. Let's just hope things change. So far they have. I've only seen the guy once, but they were hanging out talking to my roommate Aly, and then he left. Hopefully this is a good sign.

On another note - Chelsie and I went to our friend Kate's house to get a facial by Nu Skin's newest product - The Galvanic Spa.

I LOVED this little baby. My face felt amazing after doing it. I was thinking about becoming a rep for Nu Skin and telling everyone about this new little invention, but timing isn't right for me, even though they are saying it's perfect timing to become a rep. Someday maybe, but not today. I do however plan on purchasing one of these because I am still amazed at what it can do! If you want more info click here.

Everyday is getting more and more boring here in Utah. I am running out of things to do to pass the time. I have been reading a lot. I am also taking an English class online through BYU-Idaho, which is going pretty well. I'm ready for it to be over though! I am not a very big fan of English even though I love reading. I also have to read a bunch for my Europe study abroad trip. So I guess I have that to do, but still...I can only stand reading for so long!

As far as this Valentine's weekend goes, I am going to be spending it with my friend Mike. We were supposed to have a big group all get together, but everyone decided to ditch us and all go away for the weekend. Thanks guys! Haha. No, I wish I could've gone away this weekend. I came very close to. There's some of my Florida girls that left for California today for one of their roommate's weddings. I was going to go, but there was no room left in their car and I didn't want to drive my own car down. Oh well, I do get to go to Arizona next week for about 5 days, so I am looking forward to that!

Happy Valentine's to everyone

Venting For Just a Moment...

Ok, so I feel that I can vent on here because no one that I don't want to see it can. So as many of you know, I am living in Orem for the winter while I am on my semester break from BYU-I. I am rooming with a really good friend of mine from EFY, Aly, and we've been having a BLAST since I moved in. Well, we have this roommate, I'll call her Katie*. Katie likes to bring home guys to hang out with often. Now I have no problem with her hanging out with guys because we all do. My problem comes when I want to go to sleep and I am bothered by well, let's just say I've been through some interesting experiences that I never thought I would have to experience, but that requires me to wear my headphones to bed. Yep, lucky me. Now, I am not one to tell Katie what she should and shouldn't do with her life, but when it effects me to the point of not being able to do my normal routines in the mornings because I'm afraid of being walked in on, or bumping into a guy, then it's an issue.

I have no idea what to do. My other roommates and I have talked about because all of us are uncomfortable with guys spending the night in her room all the time. One of my roommates said that she would talk to Katie, but has't yet seeing that there was a guy that spent the night last night and he's still here. I know it's past noon, but it still makes me uncomfortable. I shouldn't be uncomfortable in my own apartment. That's just not how it's supposed to work. I hate that I have 2 1/2 months still to go and the feeling that this is going to go on the whole rest of the time that I am here.

WHAT DO I DO!?!?!

Yes some would just tell me to "talk to her, I'm sure she'd understand..." No I can't talk to her. We don't really get along. I don't mean that we fight and stuff, we have just never talked like roommates talk. We both have every different lifestyles and standards and so it sets us on two different levels of life, if that makes sense? Overall, I just worry that if we were to confront Katie about this issue, it would cause more issues, and nobody wants or needs that in their apartment.

Katie is also a very delicate person. She suffers from depression - not sure how severe - and it causes her to sit in her room either sleeping through the day, or watching A LOT of TV. She should be at hair school and I think she's gone like 4 times in the last month. I worry about her I do. I wish I could help her, but all I know how to do is show her kindness and that she is cared for.

So, basically I am in a very interesting situation that I can't handle anymore...then again it's just life as I know it!