Converting to Slowpitch

Well it's official I played in my first real slowpitch softball tournament. Even though I'm not sure about the whole slowpitch thing yet, we had a lot of fun. I played in a women's league tournament in St. George with a bunch of girls from Cache Valley. We played 2 games on Friday and 5 or 6 on Saturday. It's been a long time since I've played that many games in a day and my feet were definitely not used to it. Everyone made fun of me when I would say how tired I was though because I was the youngest girl on the team by over 5 years. It felt really good to get back on the field though and especially back to 3rd base! It's been way to long! And I still haven't struck out in slowpitch so I guess I'm not doing to bad :)

New School, New Friends

Alright it's been a REALLY long time since I've blogged but I feel like I should get going again. SUU is going good my favorite thing is probably the campus. It is SO pretty!! Some of our favorite things to do are go bowling, karaoke night at Applebees, watch Vampire Diaries, and play raquetball and basketball in the PE center. We also love playing slow pitch softball and we have a really fun team!

Classes at SUU aren't huge but it's definitely different from the small atmosphere at SVU where every class was a discussion. I miss playing softball A LOT but it's also nice to have so much free time. The thing I miss most about SVU is probably my roommate Rylie. It's been so weird going to school without her and I miss hanging out and talking with her! Thank goodness for skype!

Right now my next big decision is a MISSION! I'm not sure yet if I'll be going but I'm really excited about the age change and it's something I've always though about doing. I've been talking to my Bishop about it and I will let everyone know when I make a final decision. :)

Overall though, classes are going good, and I'm excited to get to know more people!

Kilee and me at the SUU football game

Spring Semester

Well so far nothing huge has happened this semester. I'm really happy to be back out on the softball field everyday and I LOVE being able to play in shorts and a t-shirt in January!! Our first game is on February 21st and i'm SO excited!! I'm also very excited for the superbowl today, GO PATRIOTS!!!! So since I don't have much to say, here's a few pictures from the last month.

Me and Rylo

School on the Hill

Rylie tend to pee her pants . . . Alot!

SVU Knights

Beautiful Buena Vista

Favortite/only ice cream place in town lol

Rylie's really scared of Spiders

What we snack on in college . . .

The dreaded stairs!!

Christmas Break!!!

I had a long christmas break and was able to be home from December 15th to January 3rd, it was really nice since the next time I will be home is May! While I was home I watched a LOT of basketball, including USU, WSU, ISU, and the Mountain Crest girls. I also hung out with Kilee a ton, went to Hardware ranch with my moms family, went on a skiing trip to Park City with my family, partied on New Year's Eve, played bball against the freshman, welcomed my cousin Ben home from his mission in Tokyo, went to breakfast with Bri, Jordi, and Dani, while they were all home, hung out with Paige and Perri, went to the lights at Temple Square with my family and my cousin Natalie, and went to the USU Football Bowl Game in Boise with Kilee and her family!!

Are you sure this is the right gear?

Ninety Nine 90, the canyons highest peak :/

~Me and my Brothers~

Orange Bubble Life- A little caustrophobic!

Ki and Me snowboarding :)

The Gondolla was a little sketch!

Temple Square Lights

Me and my cousing Natalie

Me and Kilee at the USU Bowl Game

Finals :(

I can't believe it's already finals week!! This is when I'm really regretting not doing all the reading homework for my classes but if I get through these next four days of torture I get to come home!! I'm really not excited for some of these test though, I have five, yes five finals in three days. Talk about ridiculous! But I'm really excited to come home thursday night and then on friday I get to see the MC girls basketball team and saturday were going to the USU bowl game :)!!!!! So let the fun begin . . .

~Greatest Uncle and Aunt Award~

Alright sorry guys this post is a little bit old but it was a lot of fun so I'm still going to write about it. When I came out to Virginia my parents told me that I wouldn't be able to fly home for Thanksgiving and so the only time I would be able to come home was for Christmas. This is what I had been planning on my whole time here until I got a surprise text from my Uncle Cody. Cody told me that he wanted to fly me home for Thankgiving and surprise everyone. At first it was just going to be our secret but we had to tell a few people along the way haha. I was SSSSOOOO excited!!! I really needed a trip home and it was so fun to surprise everyone who didn't know including my mom and the rest of my family, Kilee, Perri, and Hannah.

First I surprised my family at Thanksgiving dinner. My Grandpa picked me up from the airport and drove me to my aunt's house where I used my uncles Ipad to skype my family. They all thought I was skyping them from Virginia until I asked them if they wanted to see where I was eating Thanksgiving dinner and then I turned the camera so they could see my aunts house. They all screamed and ran outside. It was SO much fun!! After we ate dinner and then surprised my Dad's family I couldn't wait to get home to surprise my friends.

First I went to Kilee's where I just walked into her front room where her and her family were sitting. Her face was so priceless!! She was completely shocked and after a lot of explaining and a little bit of apologizing for lying she seemed pretty happy I was home. Then we went over to Dani and Perri's. Dani knew I was coming so she came outside to meet me and after we talked for awhile she went inside and started videoing perri. When I walked in Perri threw the chips that were in her hand down and walked out crying. I was a little bit confused but after chasing her into the next room she seemed really excited too!! That night we all had a sleepover and went black friday shopping and the next day I was able to go get ice cream with my friend Paige, and then later with the softball girl where we surprised Hannah because she didn't know I was coming. It was so much fun to see all my friends and family. I had missed them so much!!

So I owe a HUGE thank you to my Uncle!! Thanks Cody your the BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And thank you to my Grandpa for picking me up, my Grandma and Aunt Donna for their help, and Mathew Thurber for letting me stay with him, you guys are awesome!!

Me going to suprise everyone

My family skyping me from "Virginia". . .

~My mom and brother after they figured it out~

My Mom, me, and Baby Emma

*Me and Donna's twins in our SVU shirts*

*~Birthday~*

So November 20th was my 19th birthday and it was a little weird since it was my first one away from home. It was a lot of fun though! Rylie's birthday is on November 23rd so we decided to have a big combined birthday party. We had cake, ice cream, music, and food and it turned out really good!! Rylie gave me earrings, a ring, and a scarf for my birthday and I gave her the movie Anastasia (because she is obsessed) and a chargers teddy bear. I also got a pair of toms :) and a new phone from my parents!! And it was a ton of fun getting packages and letters from my brothers, family and friends in the mail!!