Adventures at the Harold B. Lee

With finals coming up, I have been spending an unprecedented (for me) amount of time in the library (named after Harold B. Lee). On Saturday, Jess and I decided to make a marathon out of it. We left for the library around noon with lots of food and a determination to complete the impossible (and the insane) goal of 12 hours of studying. Of course, this mission was well documented.

12:40...We started off all smiles, ready to get some work done. I had my massive stack of flash cards to memorize and she was working on statistics. Notice the nice sun in the background, yeah...that didn't last long.


2:43...A couple hours later Jess was dying (from a cough) while Erik was already struggling, but he made it the whole time with us. Around this time we ended up convincing a bunch of people to join our group. It turns out studying with friends isn't so bad.


4:34...All our friends had left, Jess was at a review session and I was left alone...with my Sweedish fish!


5:54...A little over an hour later I was still on my own, and getting very hungry I might add.


6:44...After dinner we both were feeling a little better - smiles were seen again as we geared up for the next 5 hours.


9:47...Those smiles didn't last long. At this point we had the back corner of the periodicals section to ourselves. Tori had joined us after dinner and stayed until midnight, our party was irresistible.


9:48...And we were going a little crazy. haha


10:39...Toward the end we had a rice krispie treat break...delicious!

11:50!...We had made it! Who knew that at 11:45 they blast music in the library to get everyone out? Well now you do. This wasn't so bad after all, I did get a lot of work done, and having friends around made it a lot easier. Will it ever happen again...probably not. haha

Thanksgiving

I realize that Thanksgiving was last week and that I am a little bit behind on this but I have to do it anyway. It was so much fun being home and seeing everyone. I love getting together with all of the little kids and seeing how much they have grown. I am so grateful for my family, especially now that I don't get to see them every day, it just makes me realize how special they really are. I am so thankful to have so much family in Vegas. My aunts and uncles are like older brothers and sisters to me (since I don't have any real ones). I am grateful for my parents and everything that they have done for me and for everything that they have taught me. I believe that I am where I am today mostly because of their example and their teachings. I am grateful for the opportunity I have to attend BYU and for all of the experiences that I am having up here. I am thankful for the friends that I have made and the people I am fortunate enough to associate with. I am so lucky to be born in this country, into a family that has been taught the gospel. I honestly cannot comprehend my life without all of these things.

On Thursday morning my sister and I ran a 5k. It was a good reminder that I actually do like to run, as boring as the gym gets, and it is always fun to run with Dani.

Poor Drew, he was stuck outside all afternoon keeping the rain off of the turkey that was frying. His sweater looks good on him though (I picked it out for him!)

Our dinner table (pre-food...I should have taken an after picture - it was a disaster! haha). Matthew did the napkins (he was very proud of them) and Danica did the place cards. My favorite part of this picture is all of the random chairs that had to be brought in to have enough seats for everyone.


The pies on display before the judging process. I have to give props to all of the men for making some pretty delicious pies. The winner was James but I think Grandma meant for Drew to win, she just couldn't seem to remember which number belonged to which pie. haha