five freaking flawless days!!!

wednesday 4/4/12

ladies night at rio tinto stadium baby! 

you dont understand how much i look forward to real games

why? cause it means being with my best friends, being catered with the finest foods, watching the game in the best seats in the house, and the caramel brownies! 

this past wednesday was our last shabang for a while. 

we all go our separate ways in the next week 

(me: europe & the south pacific study abroad. lily: real internship & london study abroad. rach: italy study abroad. brookie: marriage life!!) 

and we wont all be living in the same city unto next winter!! :(

and it sure was the best night ever! syd and ally came along and they are just so much fun! 

 

brooke put together a little video on the ride up...

(sorry mom for the absence of a seat belt. it was restricting my dance moves!)

thursday 4/5/12 

first off, we watched emperors new groove in spin class and as i giggled over kuzco, pacha and yzma,

 i was reading mockingjay! it was honestly perfect, three of some of my favorite things: 

comedies, the hunger games series and working out.

but for the most joyous part!!...MADELINE ROSE DAPPER

maddy and i have been best friends for a long long long time. 

she hugged me and told me i was "like home"to her and i couldnt agree more, being with her is home.  we took a zillion photos on campus at 9:30pm and she plopped her phone into the fountain while doing so. we had yummy sandwiches at gandolfos (my first time! yum!). we went on a lovely run, like old times. we peed our pants from laughter in the tanner building while singing to eminem. we stopped by a birthday party and ate yummy cake (happy birthday trev!). we went to chad's house and she met my friends! we watched wolverine at some randos apartment that her man was friends with and the jokes rattling off by the people there were hysterically awful. and we fell asleep mid conversation after a long awaited, much needed pillow talk.
thurday night was happy, it was home!

 i love maddy so much and can not wait to have her here with me in fall! 

 

friday 4/6/12 

woke up, ate some b.fast with annabel and steven (they're newly engaged! yay!) and went to class!

after a productive day, maddy, chad, ashton and i ran a few errands.  

which led us to the provo beach resort! now who doesnt love a good photo booth sesh?!

i for one, love them.  infact i collect them! (yes, yes i do suffer from over sentimentalism) 

anyways, our shots literally define 'the good, the bad and the ugly'

then after watching grey's anatomy and a sad goodbye to madeline, it was time for

annabel wallace's  bridal shower!! 

when i am with these lady friends, hysterical silent laughter is a guarantee!  

annabel is a goddess and we all couldnt be more excited for her june wedding in the san diego temple!

 p.s. the grandmas were a hoot! syd and i were dying!
thanks annabel for being such a great friend and being gorgeous and being engaged! love you!

(p.s. how stinking BEAUTIFUL are brooke and annabel's engagement rings!!!)

after the shower, i made my way over to the 'enda semesta palooza' 

we got reprimanded publicly for dancing too hard. sorry im not sorry, resident hall association!

and of course the good times kept on coming...

luke's exclusive cabin! 

the night can be summed up with these words:

popcorn. cookie dough. 007. tk's body. spa. backstreet boys. justin timberlake. boy>girl ratio.

 saturday 4/7/12

we got back from the cabin around 4am so technically it was saturday and waking up 3 hours later probably wasnt the smartest idea!

but who the heck cares cause 

!!!!!!!WE WENT SKYDIVING IN MOAB!!!!!!!

 emily nixon, anne collins, ashton strauss, megan francis, anne capener and i jumped out of a plane!

 with the help of paul & jimmy (or gunther?) we had seriously the most perfect day ever!

the 3 hour drive wasnt bad at all! we arrived in moab around 11am and left around 430pm!

taking only two jumpers at a time allowed us plenty of time to lounge in the sun, eat more snacks & become a little too close with the workers (it got creepy!) 

however we LOVED paul.  paul is the sassy head honcho who was a total jerk over the phone,

and turned out to be our best friend who was obsessed with us! 

he over used cuss words, called us all 'mamasita,'and had too much fun giving us crap!

 skydiving is one of the coolest feelings in the world!

the 20 minute flight up in the worlds crappiest plane, reaching 10,000 ft. is beautiful, 

moab is beautiful!!

 (however i couldnt stop thinking about 127 hours and how aaron was stuck in those rocks! awful!)

anyways, once you reached the top, the door opens, you climb out, 

and BAM you're doing flips through the air!

when you're free falling and you cant distinguish which way is up, is def. the most exhilarating thing!

after a maybe 40 second free fall, the parachute is pulled and you're gliding through the atmosphere!

doing spins and drops and stops! 

its like the craziest roller coaster on the planet times a gazabillon!

 to have had my first skydive with my dad for my 18th and his 50th birthday was so special!

and to have had my second skydiving experience with some of the all time greatest girls 

at byu was un-freaking-real! we had an award winning day that will never be forgotten!

sunday 4/8/12

He is risen! He is risen! happy easter!! happy easter! yahoo! 

this morning begun with a bang by going to church! 

we took the sacrament and all i was thinking about was Christ and His atoning sacrifice for me.  

i feel super lucky to have a testimony of His son, my Savior.  I brings me a lot of peace. 

after church we went straight to brandon's to continue cookin'

anne capener was the queen of the kitchen!

she made ham, potatoes, salad, deviled eggs, muffins, cupcakes, cookies, and rice krispie...

all from absolute scratch!!!

we are talking home made dressings, fresh cut veggies, and def no boxed cookie dough!

it was incredible! she was an out of this world domestic perfectionist! gosh i love her!

we even had a little easter egg hunt in the back yard!

i was so happy to have spent my easter away from home in a way that felt like home!

huge thanks to brandon and anne for doing so much! 

and the day was concluded with some slack lining, trust falling, all the aboving fun!

i cant even put into words how happy life is right now!

my family come to provo in two days!

i move home in six days!

i go to europe in three weeks!

i go on a study abroad to fiji australia and new zealand in two and a half months!

and i get to move back up here to provo after all that fun and live the coolest cats in the dev, baby!

boy oh boy i could not feel more thankful for this blessed life i am ever so lucky to live!