byu vs utah

this past weekend was the big BYU vs UTAH rivalry game.
contrary to what my recent posts might make you think, i dont go to many football games.
before this year I believe i went to a total of 3 games in my life, serious. and now in the past 2 months i have doubled my number! to add to that i finally am understanding football for once and enjoying it :) thanks to the ute.
my lack of experience with college football and rivalry games i have never been to town during a byu/utah game and let me tell you.. it was intense.
I just don't understand how nuts fans can get and how rude people can be because of a game. Saturday was an experience, especially going to BYU and playing volleyball for the Y but dating a ute and having gone to more utah football games than byu games, i felt like i was cheering for both sides!

red vs blue..

The game went back and forth and the forth quarter got pretty intense especially after a yawn worthy 3rd quarter. it went into over time 20-20 and byu finished the game 26-23.
I have never seen so many zoobies in my life rush the field.

crazy zoobies. :)

he was a good sport and actually smiled for a picture after the game.. but you can see the sadness in his eyes. I'm sorry!! but i had to capture the moment :)

the rivalry will continue...

pink skies, crepes and football

i finally feel like my energetic self again
yayy!
i didn't feel too sick just the occasional cough
so this weekend consisted with some football, battle of the bands and crepes

the sunset one night was beautiful and pink up in salt lake

i have been craving crepes with sugar and lemon juice for a while now and i decided that friday we would make them and cross our fingers that they would turn out.
the first one- looked terrible. but the first one in all batches of anything usually turn out bad anyways.. the rest of them were very good. i loved it.
i forgot to take pictures until the very last crepe was to be eaten and i quickly snapped one but i promise all the others looked a lot better and they tasted so good!
i want to make them right now.

(our sad last crepe)

after crepes we ran over ot the wilk on campus to watch our friends in Goodnight Annabelle perform.
they did a fantastic job. it was so much fun.

Saturday i went to another football game...

yes it was a utah game too.
i know i know. what am i doing? but it is a lot of fun.. i just sing hymns and the cougar fight song to myself the whole time :)
here are a few words that my dad and i had with each other about the game..


haha what a funny guy. he's joking... i think :)
it made me laugh.

here we are in the front row of the muss. i tried to blend in so i wouldn't get beaten up and i had a disguise on with straight hair so i couldn't be recognized

what a beast.

this is what everyone in the BYU Student Athlete Building is talking about...
this girl is a beast. and she didn't get thrown out of the game.
just one yellow card she tries to argue her way out of...
BYU soccer girls are the best.

mormon messages

i was just on lds.org and watched the Mormon Message from Henry B. Eyring "Choose this Day"
{its very good please watch..}
and as i am watching i realize... thats my friend!
hahaha
Erik.
I laughed out loud. i had no idea!

(this is erik.. now look for him in the video)

i hate being sick.

i have been feeling sick since Thursday.
luckily i have awesome friends to take care of me when i am not at home..
i need to get better asap. like now.

halloween

I wasn't sure how this halloween would work out.
I had been sick since thursday {just in time for the weekend} so friday i just stayed home and coughed alll night.
{side story: i took a muscle relaxer to help me sleep through the night on friday and i did this went to bed early, then i open my eyes about a half hour later and i thought i saw 2 people in red shirts. one crouching next to mandys bed, the other by the dresser. i sit up and start yelling "who is that, whos there? what is this?" Mandy, who was just falling asleep shoots up and runs to flip the light on, no one was there. But i remember seeing them...here's the thing. i wasn't scared, i just didnt know who was in the room. i fell right back asleep. i think it was just the muscle relaxers and all this flu medicines i had been taking that day. I still freaked mandy out and we slept with the light on and she left the room and watched cast away with our other roommates.}

so on saturday, i was at home all day cleaning and just laying low and luckily Ki had talked me into going out that night instead of staying at home sick on halloween.

Ki, Carpe and I dressed up as flowers last year and this year we wanted to be something fun, we decided on skunks.
My awesome mother made us 3 our skunk costumes and they were a hit all night. Everyone laughed and thought they were such great costumes. Thanks mom!

ki and carpe
the skunks.

we went to pick up a scary movie and look who i found :)

kevin :) i havent seen him in what seems like years. we were babes together and grew up like a brother/sister

we also had a skunk walk...

hogle zoo

Last Saturday Mandy, Nat and Liz went to the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake
and of course it had to be pouring rain the day we picked to be at the zoo but it was still so much fun because mandy and i wore our ponchos all day :)

mandy and i won the way to the zoo

i love penguins :)

mandy looking good in her pink childs poncho

mandy is obsessed with sloths...

at the pie after

i have a great mom

i don't know what it was about this week
okay maybe i do know.
I just won't share...
but it was a bumming week!
anyways guess who found out about that?


yup. my mother
she's great thanks mom! she sent me cookies and cupcakes from the sweet tooth fairy. they were amazing... i don't know how i got so lucky with an awesome mother but i did.
i love you mom! thank you!

delicious

youtube is awesome

I have never been into youtube before unless someone tells me of a video to watch. These are some that i have loved introduced by other people...

stanky leg baby



remember how i posted the song Colors by Amos Lee the other day? This is a cover of Amos Lee's song Sweet Pea (also in the AT&T commercials)
this guys is so good i love his voice



mandy showed me this one and it is one guy from Yale who recorded himself and harmonizing. He is amazing.



this one just makes me laugh :)



this is the top 100 youtubes

i need to remember

the things that i love.
for lunch i grabbed a loaf of bread from the wilk on campus and can i just tell you how delicious these little guys are? It's a wheat loaf that is warm and soft on the inside accompanied with honey butter. while i was eating this it got me thinking that i absolutely love them. (i know my mom loves them too) and i was thinking about all these random little things that make me happy which i needed today...

tiny loaf of wheat bread and honey-butter

smores and bon fires at the beach

the PBR
I can't wait for it in January with my family and friends

these children and their smiles and laughter are without a doubt at the top of my list

i love big bulbed lights that string outside throughout a yard

cute old couples still in love

this view of the timp mountain. its my favorite peak here

marley my protective puppy

and i love this new song that lau introduced to me this weekend
called Colors by Amos Lee featuring Norah Jones
perfect song for the way i was feeling today

pictures that have made me smile lately..

especially this one <3
and any from Africa

october.

the temperature dropped and yesterday i would have said it felt like winter, but today is better because it actually feels like autumn now.
I love all the trees changing colors and how utah has real seasons compared to where i grew up in california it was pretty much the same all year long.

I really hope this fall i can go to a pumpkin patch and pick out pumpkins with friends and have a pumpkin carving night.

I also hope I can find time this year to take a drive into the canyon and take pictures of the fall season and capture all the leaves changing. I didn't get a chance to last year, so I am hoping this year I can get out there on a sunday and drive to park city.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
-Brian Tracy

"if you are going through hell, keep going."
{winston churchill}

Character cannot be developed in peace and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

i've needed to hear a few good quotes lately


"we must not let our passions destroy our dreams"
Presiden Thomas S. Monson

i am obsessed

with oreos.

i love them so much.
but only regular oreos
i do not like double stuff
my favorite part is the cookie..
i could just use a tad bit of the filling and be just fine

I even found a magnet i need to get myself for our fridge.
Even my roommate mandy has jumped on the oreo-love-train

maybe i should be an oreo for halloween..
i'm still trying to find a good costume.

what should i be?