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• My own room
• Home Cooked Meals
• Dance Party with the Boys
• Christmas Shopping
  
• Christmas Caroling
• Mom's Caramels
• Chocolate Hazelnut Milkshakes
• Seeing Friends I haven't seen in a while
• Making Gingerbread houses with graham crackers
• Missionaries over Christmas Eve
• Re-enacting the Nativity
  
• Christmas at Grandma Julie's
• Lord of the Rings Marathon
• Re-reading the Hunger Games
• Lots of Laughs
• Family Puzzle
  
• Sleeping in
• No Homework
• 4.o This semester :)
• Visiting Farmor
• Visiting the Home Ward

Pretty Much Home is Awesome!

It's cold in here...maybe not...

So the past couple of weeks my apartment has started 3 fires in the kitchen. Today's actually set off the fire alarm. I was in the shower and I could smell something burning. I figured it was just someone cooking in the kitchen and something was on the burner. Then the fire alarm goes off. And I'm thinking Holy Cow, I am in the shower with shampoo in my hair and the fire alarm is going off! But the alarm stopped and I couldn't smell anything more so I finished my shower. When I got out my roommate Britt is standing in the kitchen by the stove and there is shattered glass all over the stove top.

Britt accidentally turned on the wrong burner and the burner that had a cake in a glass pan sitting on it got hot. The cake caught on fire and the pan shattered. I guess it was quite an adventure!Here is the burnt cake...

Don't worry nothing was permanently ruined and the kitchen just smelled of smoke for a while.
We laugh about it now... We were just trying to keep the apartment warm in this negative degree weather!

Olive Garden and Good Friends

Last night was our ward Christmas/Closing Social. We had it catered by Olive Garden...yes you read that right! Oh my gosh it was AMAZING!!! Olive Garden is my most favorite place to eat, so I was pretty psyched! There were breadsticks, salad, and all types of pastas! Then to top it off there was CHEESECAKE for dessert! Oh man...I was literally in heaven! It was delicious.

Not only was there yummy food but there was great company! I love my ward and the friends that I have made. There was a lot of laughing but it made me sad that some of my friends are moving and graduating. I'll miss them. But hopefully they won't be too far away!

Here is Britt and I. I LOVE her will miss her like crazy come winter semester!

Casidy, Britt, Marisa, Kali, and I before we left

This is my favorite picture from the whole night!
Marisa, Britton, Me, and Kimberly.
I love the four of us! And Kali took this picture right after our big group hug!

I have been so blessed to have met so many amazing people here at BYU-I. So many have changed my life and taught me so many things. I will never forget the friendships I have made. And I am so grateful that the Lord has placed these people in my life!

It's Definitely Winter in Rexburg!

Today the high was 16 degrees. Yes, that's right. The low was ZERO!!! But I'm pretty sure when I left my apartment this morning at 7:30 it was below zero. At least there wasn't much wind because that will subtract maybe 10-15 degrees off the temp. My nose hairs froze on the way to class. Sorry if that's too much info but I'm just telling you like it is. It is really a very interesting experience when that happens...I can't even explain the sensation. And it's even more interesting when you have a cold...
Yesterday was just as cold, maybe colder. I went to the Temple and by the time I got there I couldn't feel my legs. It was nice to walk into the font filled with nice warm water! And I made sure that I thoroughly blow dried my hair afterward before walking home so I wouldn't have icicle hair.
No matter what I do I can't seem to get warm! How did the pioneers do it? I'd have died. Pretty sure.
Anyways...winter is definitely here!