Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Mom... I'm sorry!

Ok Mom you can stop calling me everyday and telling me to blog, here I go!! ;) The past two weeks have been amazing! Why you ask? Because A. I got to go home to wonderful, beautiful, magical UTAH! :D B. Because my mama and Kate and Penny came to visit me for mothers weekend! Yay for family! The night before we left Alexa and I were SOOO excited, SOO hyper and we had to make cupcakes for enrichment and... ya we took some great pictures. This is the least embarassing of the bunch so... that's what ya'll get to see. :D Anywho We got in on Thursday night and the best mom in the world (mine of course) had made me meatloaf, (MA! The meatloaf!!) home-made mashed potatoes, and her delicious peach cobbler! :D Oh my heck had I missed real, edible food! haha Oh and Kate made me that orange thing on my head. That is just a picture to explain the craziness that goes on in our household. A very small part of the craziness. haha For more craziness look at Shannon and Jason's blog about Sunday and the gift I sent home to Tanner... hahaha :D So then Friday I went to breakfast ERNIES with some friends and then I went and checked out Kate and Penny from school and the fam went to Salt Lake to eat at the Lion House for Shan's birthday and just walked around temple square and went shopping at the gateway. It was SOO fun! Minus Jason had to go to his class/internship thing :( boo. But lunch was delicious and shopping was great! So then we got home and I went to Jana's apartment and we honestly had a blast from the past weekend! I got there and her sister and her were singing karaoke so we sang for a few hours and then went with her mom and sister to the BYU hockey game (her dad is the coach and her brother is the star of the team... haha) and it was SO fun! I told them a joke and her mom just started laughing and laughing and said "Oh Janna Millos (when we were little her little sister always called me Janna Millos so it has just stuck for them!) you have not changed a bit since second grade" haha what can I say I always have been and will always be a dork... I'm ok with that!! So Saturday was just as great because guess who performed at the velour. JOHN ALLRED! Oh man... it was the most amazing concert. Before we all went to brick oven (of course ;)) and then went to the concert. Afterwards I left to go home with Chambrey and Courtney and oh don't worry 2 minutes after we left Marissa Whitney and Alexa got a freakin PICTURE WITH JOHN ALLRED! ugh. stupid. haha but that's ok but the concert was still amazing right? I'll keep telling myself that. So I got home and Kate Penny and I did a little pampering. :D That's what this picture is, deep sea facial masks. (No we are not trying to be Elpheba.) And then the moment I had been waiting for for a month... sleeping in my bed. :D Don't worry it was just as fantastic as I had imagined. The best part about it? I didn't have to climb up a stupid latter to the top bunk to get to my bed! Sheesh. So Sunday between session which by the way... the most amazing conference ever! Holy cow! Every single session, every single talk was amazing! But in between sessions we took a walk up the canyon. Holy cow was it fantastic! Just beautiful fall colors and it was the perfect temperature. :) I love fall. So then it was back to Rexburg we came. But last week was a good good week! Friday our friends from Orem came up with their 4 wheelers. So Friday after classes they took Alexa and I to the St. Anthony sand dunes and we went riding! It was SO fun but SOOOOOOOOO cold. My goodness it was cold. That's ok though we got to ride! The next day.. MY FAMILY CAME!! la la la! :) It was so great. Friday night we all went out to eat at Gringo's and then just drove around town, went and saw the temple and then came back and watched episodes of Full House all night. :) Saturday we spent some time at the bookstore (Emily and I found some amazing hats) and then we went to the Comic Frenzy, a comedy show like Comedy Sportz in Provo and it was HILARIOUS! oh man so fun. Afterwards we took Emily to Papa Murphy's for her first day of work at the Rexburg Murphs and then we went into Idaho Falls! We did a little shopping, went to Olive Garden, and then went swimming at our hotel and then we found this cute old movie on tv. At about 4:30 in the morning the friends that came up to ride had to leave to get home by 10 (Travis had to take his grandpa to the airport) and I woke up to texts from Marissa saying the roads were absolutely awful. Yikes. Alexa was sleeping at the hotel with all of them and since they all left to go home she was alone and she called me around 5:30 asking if I would go over and sleep there so she didn't have to be alone. It took me about 20 minutes to get all the snow off the car just so I could drive 3 blocks to the hotel she was at... oh well what else could I do... walk?! ... :D haha so this is a picture I took from inside my moms car when I finally got enough snow off so I could drive. LOOK AT THOSE OTHER CARS! :D But I'm so glad I did because the view of the Idaho Falls temple from their hotel was beautiful! ready? Anyways we drove back to Rexburg and mom and the girls were going to leave right away but they stayed and talked for another hour or so, of course. But good news, the snow cleared up and they got home safely! I was sad to see them go but oh man mothers weekend was so great! :) This picture is Penny, me, Aunt Chele, cousin Emily (the best roomate EVER! :D) Kate, and Mom! :D Now let's just hope this week will be as good as the last two weeks have been.... :)