Homemade Candy

One of Kourtnee's hobbies is to make homemade candy, so while Jake was down today she showed him how to make some suckers. They weren't too bad for his first time :)

My New Apartment

Emery and I have been living in our new apartment for 2 weeks! It's weird to think I'm living on my own (yet I'm really not, I still rely on my parents for SO much. Especially food...since I don't have a job yet). I love our apartment, it's a little bland right now, but hopefully we'll spice it up a bit. The only problem is that it's a half hour walk to the middle of campus and both mine and Emery's classes are on the south side (our apartment is barely north of campus, by the stadium).
But anyways, here's the grand tour! Come on in...
Welcome to the family room. (the most bland of all the rooms)

And here's the kitchen. It's a pretty nice size and fits the three of us roommates very nicely.

Here's mine and Emery's room!! (that's Em in the corner studying like a good little college student) We tried to coordinate our colors as much as possible. Brown and green. She's on the top bunk because she has the walk in closet and I'm on the bottom.

These are some fantastic decorations that Emery thought would spice up the room.

Here's my desk.

And here's Kourtnee's door... yes, that's usually what it looks like... But when she does come out she's a very sweet girl.

So far college is fantastic and I'm loving it!

First Foto Fun

I got a brand new camera on Monday! My old one stopped working over a year ago, so I saved up my birthday money and bought myself a Nikon Coolpix S220. It's a beautiful plum color and very small; only the size of a credit card and maybe a half inch thick. I already love it. These pictures are from my first photo run with Tanner and my new camera!

Some of these pictures are actually ones Tanner took with his camera, but I wanted to include them because they're amazing.

(haha so we've both been working out a lot since we don't get to see each other as much with living an hour apart. We decided to show off our muscles but we were both laughing so you can't really tell... I almost have my six pack though. Not to brag or anything ;) )

Those last three pictures were a little scandelous...haha. I wasn't sure if I should put them up on my blog, but they're here anyways.

BYU Color Guard...

We just finished band camp at BYU.... I don't really know what to say. It's about 10 steps down from high school guard. And it's incredible how immature these college girls are. I feel so much older than them, even though I'm not. For example, there were themes for each day at band camp. Tuesday was "80's" day...
Wednesday was "Movie Themes" and the color guard girls decided to be 101 Dalmations... I thought these girls were in their 20's? Some of them are even getting married? And we're dressing up like dogs! Are you kidding me?!

Thursday was "Blue and White" Day and we had to wear these ridiculous skirts. So Emery and I tried to make the most of it and got a little carried away. Probably too scandelous for BYU... haha.

I don't know how I'm going to make it the rest of the year with these girls... And not only that, but the work is SO easy and SO boring. In high school it was actually challenging. We did things I never thought I could do, but after a lot of practice I got it. Here all we do is carves, dropspins, and other boring work... Why am I wasting my time with this?

Sunday Dinner

We had some friends over for dinner today...they helped with the dishes in mine and Emery's matching aprons. Need I say more?

New York: Day 1

"It's a beautiful day to fly across the country!" was the first thing Roxann said this morning. We arrived at the airport at 7am, and being a Wednesday morning, the airport wasn't busy at all. The lines for security were short and fast, and the plane left right on time. (I found out later that apparently the Salt Lake City airport is the most on time airport in the world)

This is the fantastic view from the airplane window. Although you can't see it, we flew right over my house!

The flight was great with hardly any turbulance. There were tv's in the headrests which made for a more enjoyable 4 hour flight.

We arrived at the airport at 3 in the afternoon, a half hour early, but we sat on the tarmac for 40 minutes waiting for 'the people movers'. Once at the terminal, we were picked up in a fancy black Denali. The driver was way nice and told us everything we needed to know about New York. On our drive to the hotel we drove past a cemetary that was absolutely PACKED with headstones. It was insane how full it was! There's absolutely no way they could fit that many bodies that close together. (I tried to get a picture of it, but of course it didn't work while we were driving.)

We also drove past the towers seen in "Men and Black". I didn't even know that was filmed in New York, but here's a picture.

Our hotel is located on 32nd Street/Korea Way; and it's definitely Korean. It almost feels as though we're in a different country. Every sign is in Korean with English subtitles; most of the people are even Korean!

Above is just the view from our hotel window. Woo! And below is just some apartments we walked passed that were colorful. I'm SO excited to be here :)

This is a picture of my first experience in a New York Subway. This picture pretty accurately portrays the musty feelin inside the subway.

Brooklyn style pizza in Brooklyn!

College, Here I Come!

It's official! I've graduated from high school! It was definitely a long and bumpy road with my senior year being the most difficult, but I made it. Now I have the whole world ahead of me... I'm both excited and nervous, but I can't wait. I'm headed off to BYU in the August, majoring in nursing. I'm going to be rooming with Emery and I'm so excited! We're going to have a lot of fun. It's going to be hard to leave though, especially because Tanner is staying here and going to Weber for a year before his mission... but I'll be coming up to visit a lot :)

I'm so grateful for the experiences I've had and the people who have blessed me, this year especially. I have no idea what is in store for the next few years, but I can't wait!