Roommate Reunion Dinner

For how well we got along freshman year, it's kind of interesting none of us lived together again. Maybe that's why we still love each other. Joelle and Dillon were kind enough to host the first ever...

Roommate Reunion Dinner!

Joelle, Jenni, Marie, Me, Melissa, and Sam

October 12th - Joelle's and Dillon's apartment is sooo cute. Joelle is a natural at interior design. Jenni is living at Sparks II and going on lots of dates. Jealous. Marie is waiting to head to Portugal in December. She lives in Centennial and works for BYU Postal Service. Melissa lives a block south of me in Northwoods. She deferred her mission until December. Sam lives across the street from the Village. I would never be able to handle her homework load.

The gang plus Dillon. He really is the seventh roommate. Love them all.

The next day I found a lollipop tree on campus. Yesssss. Emmy told me where it was and then we took turns taking a break from work and going to pull a few candies off of the branches. Emmy says it is interactive art. I fully support this art.

The people walking by looked so confused as I pulled a sucker of a string. Why would you not take the free candy? The key is confidence.

Before the True Blue Foam Slip N' Slide with Julia from upstairs.

Bill, Reagan, Lauren, Chris, Kirk, Me, David, and Julia.

After the True Blue Foam Slip N' Slide with the ward friends. We go hard. I love sliding down the hill next to Helaman into hoses of foam. What an event. I love BYU traditions.

And this is a panda, spotted walking around in the Wilk. Because.... why not? #collegelife

Snappin Through October

October continues with random shots from BYU life. Really I think of TMA 201 and 123 when I think of October. These things all happened though. It's the little things that make life interesting. I try to have a story everyday when I walk into work. What's life without a little crazy?

Snapchat is life. Honestly, the person who thought of this app is a genius. Sometimes I wonder if it will die out, but I never get tired of pictures. True honesty comes from less than ten seconds of an image. These are just a few gems. You learn to live in fear of the screenshot. *cough*Kinzey*cough*

Strange things sighted on campus: hipster, steam-punk Wizard of Oz group costume

Wreath of potatoes that sat on the outside HFAC planter box for several days. 

Have I posted this? I don't know, but I made it. It is so stinkin accurate. 

Letters from friends. <3 You know they are bestie when they fold it cool and include a Batman logo.

Love school. Hate homework.

Love ice cream. Hate calories.

You learn to live and love. We've been pretty good about not getting froyo across the street too often.

Freakin love Laura. The picture on the right is one of the posters we sent to Colton for Christmas. Oh church art. It's hilarious. Very missionary appropriate, at least more than the Pac Rim poster we sent.

1 Week of Costumes. Miranda wasn't as crazy as Soren's 31 Days of Halloween, but she did dress up the whole week before. I think this one was my favorite. The girl with the pearl earring is simple, classy, unique, and incognito. You almost wouldn't know Miranda is in costume. #crushedit

October Conference 2014

October 4th

Guess who is on her way to General Conference?! I took the Frontrunner to Salt Lake City and met up with Laura and her new boyfriend, Drew. Salt Lake was gorgeous and treated us well. I scored three great tickets from an older man walking outside the tabernacle. Thank you kind sir!

Travel by train!

Classic Laura and Emily pose.

Plus Drew!

We found our seats and they are super awesome!!!

Conference was wonderful! We listened to the morning session earlier that day and then met up in Salt Lake for the afternoon. Afterwards, we drove back to Provo (stopping at Lehi Inn-N-Out of course). Drew went to the Priesthood session with his dad and Laura spend the night with me. I am sure I have said it before, but I LOVE that Laura lives so close to me.

October 5th 

Laura left in the morning to have breakfast with Drew's family. 

Miranda and I drove back up to Salt Lake for the Sunday afternoon session!

Come join the ranks.

We met up with Jackson, our FHE dad and Miranda's cousin, in Salt Lake. These tickets were from our Relief Society President. It was so exciting to go two days in a row.

Driving back from a great conclusion to conference. We may or may not have been teasing Jackson for crashing in the backseat. He was out of it before we were out of Salt Lake.

I know that the talks at this General Conference were inspired. Not only did I spend the weekend with people I love, but I was able to hear God's word to his children today. It does not matter where you sit when you listen to General Conference. It can be a car, a family, room, a church building, or The Conference Center. It matters where your heart is. I was able to feel the Spirit and better learn how to improve myself and the beautiful world we live in. Please do not turn off your ears because you are not sitting in a pew. The leaders of the Church love you. They want you to be happy and God wants you to be happy (even if things are hard right now). Never doubt that.

P.S. Snapchat is life. Support your cougars!

(Noh!) Theatre

October 2nd

Into October at last! Reese, my acting teacher, offered the class free tickets to see him in Damn Yankees at the Hale Center Theater in Orem. Who says no to free tickets? Miranda and I went to see the baseball show about a man who makes a deal with the devil so his team can win the pennant. 

Just like back home. However, the Hale in Arizona is a little bit bigger and newer.

The show was great! I haven't seen this one before. 

October 3rd

Break out time in TMA 201. Our group had our presentation on Japanese Noh Theatre and it was sick. One of the girls in our group served in Japan so she had connections to somewhat traditional costumes. We had instruments that we pretended to play to Japanese music while the guys sword-fought with fans. For those of you who are extremely cultured, it was the story of Atsumori.

It was nice going first out of the four theatre presentations. We set the bar high.

P.S. Every first Friday is free bagel day at SouthEnd Market. Yay bagels!

Animation Night

September 30th

This semester, Marie, Jenni, and I all joined the Disney History Club to make sure we could hang out. This activity was animation night, where some of the club officers taught us how to draw Disney characters.

I think they ran out of name tags, so Miranda made us a joint one. It says "Emilanda."

                        

Me, Marie, and Jenni. We nailed it.

Me, Jenni, and Marie

Look how long Marie's hair is now! Gorgeous. I look crazy in this picture. After animation night we went to Applebees for karaoke. Marie blew everyone away of course. Karaoke isn't my favorite, but it is fun with these two.

Not a great picture, but Marie and I can heel click like a boss. 

Miranda Stew

September 27th

It's only September and I'm already being harassed about not wearing a jacket. In my co-workers defense, it was raining. I'm so happy without sweater-weather though. At least it isn't snow yet. Here we are on a group shopping trip getting the essentials: food, phone accessories, and hair products. What more do you need?

Leilani, Emmy, and Mykaela

Sometimes you buy so many vegetables that you do not know what to do with them. Miranda and I basically cut up everything we had and dumped it into my crock-pot. Since they were all of Miranda's vegetables, we decided to call it Miranda Stew. It was pretty good if I do say so myself.

Just another cooking adventure with Miranda and Emily.

Wa-la!

P.S. A gem from Elder Stock. He is my favorite person to email and write to. lol Keepin it real Elder.