Extra Extra! Nov 1-8

Monday was a little crazy! I was trying to get homework done, and make sure FHE was going well, and escorting home teachers up to the Lofts to come give blessings. All was well though!

Tuesday was a day we have been waiting for for a while! Our school buys tickets to see the broadway shows that come to Richmond. So we bought tickets for Newsies like a month ago! We left at 2pm and went to Carytown for dinner and ice cream. It was a lot of fun! Our whole group consisted of two cars with Me, Cody, Reva, Kadee, Emma, Jackson, Catherine, Maggie, and Alex. I really liked the show. I thought the set and choreography were incredible! I wasn't a huge fan of the lead girl, but I really liked the show over all! It was also in a super pretty theatre!

 I love this SVU family of mine!

Wednesday was crazy! I wasn't feeling to well by the time we got back from Newsies. I was so out of it Wednesday. I was working on homework and enjoying the 75 degree weather in November! I live next to a river and there is a floodwall that everyone goes running or walking on. I had never been there, so I went on an adventure! Of course we got there right as it started to kind of rain, but it was very relaxing!

Thursday it was another gorgeous day outside! I sat on the front porch of main hall for a while in the evening. It was lovely. We also had our big group RA meeting which are always pretty funny.

Friday my classes went pretty well. I had a Spanish test that I didn't do too well on because I was sick and half out of it. I worked on homework and Kaylee and I made a Sheetz run. I got my first frozen hot chocolate since being here! It was delicious :) After dinner I ended up sitting talking to Catherine and Alex for almost 4 hours! I went down to the Stoddard Center to watch a showing of the newest Mission Impossible. I missed the first and I was a little lost the rest of the movie, but I still thought it was cool! 

Saturday I slept in a bit and then met with my partner for Acting 1 so that we could go over our scene we are performing Monday. It went pretty well. I went to Lunch and then worked on homework a bit. We took a Walmart trip and ate dinner. Catherine and I then went to the play here at school. It was called You Can't Take It With You. It was amazing, like always! The set looked incredible and the actors did an amazing job! The theatre professor was actually in it! He did great! After the play we watched While you were Sleeping in my room. Man, that movie never gets old! I LOVE it!

Sunday was Ward Conference. Can I just say how much I love Ward Council. I always leave so inspired! The stake president and the Bishop spoke in Sacrament meeting and it was incredible. I loved the other two hours as well. For dinner, I was invited to one of my professors house. It was so nice having a home cooked meal at an actual house! I had such a fun time! Once I got back I just hid in Reva's and Cody's and got some homework done. It was a very fun week!

This is Halloween Oct 26-Nov 1

It was a fun week!

Monday we had a combined Halloween FHE. I had each group leader come up with a halloween carnival game. We bought pies and had a costume contest. One group person made a whole bunch of homemade treats and..... Hot drink!! It was a little taste of home :)

Tuesday was a pretty relaxed day. I went to classes and worked the dinning hall and just relaxed. I spent time with some friends and life is just good!

Wednesday was crazy as always. I had a wonderful institute class on the history of Relief Society. Acting and choir were fun, and spanish we watched a movie! It was such a pretty day and we haven't had the best fall colors this year, but I still love Virginia!

Thursday was such a weird and funny day in Art History. She had us walk around campus and draw and write down all the greek and roman architecture we saw. Now, my campus is super super small so this activity should last like 15 minutes right? Well she basically gave us a full hour. It was a little ridiculous but fun. It was nice outside! After that I went to Lunch and then hung out doing homework. Spanish we just finished up the movie.  I had a weird thing happen on my way to Spanish tutoring that night though. I forgot where I parked my car and as I was circling back in the parking lot, I tripped on this root or rock or something and completely tore my shoe!!! It was not my finest moment.

Friday was a sad day. Cross Country went out of town for their final race. I love the people on cross country and I missed then a whole heck of a lot!!!! So I was miserable ;). I also was starting to get sick so I full on just slept from 2:30-4:45. It was the best. I went to dinner and then that night we had a movie night on the second floor lobby. We watched The Sixth Sense and HalloweenTown High. It was a lot of fun!

Saturday I went on a little adventure with Catherine to see if she could rent a car to go home so her, Genny, and Alex could go meet their new baby brother! But it didn't end up working out. I came back and then FaceTimed Stephanie, who was here last year, for almost 3 hours! It was super fun! I ate some food and then had a quick RA meeting. I then was kind of dragged to the Halloween Dance. I still wasn't feeling 100% but I was doing pretty good. We made a quick makeshift costume and I was a fairy. Emma was Sadness from Inside Out, but what you have to understand is that she IS sadness. Its hilarious! All the mannerisms and way of talking are the same. Its great.
This was the skirt I wore to be a fairy!

 I love this picture :)

Sunday was also awesome! I had ward council and then sat and talked to one of my girls. Church was good and we had a great Relief Society lesson about making anywhere home and how to keep Satan out of that home. It was really up lifting. Then John John and I went for a drive to go see the end of the leaves on the parkway. Again, they just haven't been the best this year. I had dinner and then spent the majority of my night in Reva and Cody's room. I left and went on a walk with Jared and said hi to my girl Jordan who was out of town for the weekend. Once I left their apartment I went up to my room and Kaylee and I sat in the hallway for a while and I checked on another room and finally got to bed.

It was a just a good week! Life is great! It was an interesting month of October full of fun, and sadness, and trials and lots of blessings! God works in mysterious ways but his plan is always the best.


I also got a letter from Alley! It made my day!

The fastest week ever! Oct 19-25

Monday I had to say goodbye to Mom and Camille! It was kind of sad, but i'm so glad that they were able to come out. I had a good day though over all!

Tuesday I hung out in the Rogers apartment that night attempting to do homework.... it didn't go horribly well. Haha.

I have been struggling a little bit about some stuff so I got a blessing from my home teacher on Wednesday. It was amazing! The gospel is SO true everyone!! I just love it. I also had a good late class and everything was great!

Thursday I just kind of bounced around. I sat in the art hallway and worked on some homework and I worked the dinning hall and then did room checks. I went to dinner with one of my girls at subway and then ate again at a Mexican restaurant in town with another one of my girls! It also was just such a pretty night!!

Friday I worked the dinning hall in the morning and it was cold! We had a wonderful forum where Hank Smith spoke. He spoke all about being of good cheer and how that is a commandment! It was awesome!! I then went and helped swipe again for lunch because the second RA couldn't be there. I went to spanish and then Cody and I had to run to Walmart to get decorations and candy for the Lofts trick or treat that evening. We had a great time and then we decorated the whole Lofts in about 45 minutes. The kids arrived and they were about the cutest things ever! After that activity, I organized my closet and then went to bed at 10:30.. it was awesome!

Saturday I went to a school Leadership Retreat that was put on. It was so good! We had two speakers and some group activities. It was super fun and I learned a lot about being a leader and what's important. It was just super great! Afterwords I hung out with Kadee in her room and we decided that we should go out to eat. We went to the taco place. So good. Afterwords I dropped Kadee off and then went back to Lexington because I was going to The Rockbridge Symphony Orchestra concert. There are a few people from our school in it, including John John, and it was great! There last song was a Wicked Medley. It was.. wicked! haha. But really it was super great! Afterwords I hung out in Reva's room and then went on a drive at like midnight. It was great!

Sunday was stake conference which was good. They focused a lot on prayer and the importance of your patriarchal blessing. After I FaceTimed my family, ate, and then hid in my old room (which is now the hide out room because no one is in there) to work on homework. I then got caught in Reva's room and my homework really didn't get done... but it was good! Oh Kadee and I went on a walk to the fields where we could see all the leaves!

Mom and Camille! October 12-18

Monday was kind of a rough day. Kadee and Jeremiah and I did go on an adventure to Lexington though! FHE was good. And Fall is coming!!

Tuesday was the temple trip. I drove a full car of girls. I ended up not going into the temple. I spent the day at the visitors center and I got to watch Meet the Mormons! That is a really great movie. It made me remember all the good the gospel brings. We ate lunch at Cafe Rio and then drove home. I ended up in Reva's apartment doing homework then I went with Cody Rogers while he drove the dorm loop shuttle for a bit because I wanted to vent! HAHA

 Writing this post makes me really want Cafe Rio again!

Wednesday was a good day! Like a really good day! I just felt good about a lot of things. It was my longest day because I had my late class but it was good! Kadee and I did spend a few hours doing homework and people watching in the rocking chairs on main hall. It was so nice outside!

Thursday was another good day! I ran around all day going to classes, doing homework, working the caf, and taking John John to Lexington to pick up his car. I also wore the same shoes as my friend Kat. She is awesome!

Friday was fun because it was the day that Mom and Camille showed up! They came after my classes were done and we walked around campus and then went to my room. We ate in the dinning hall and then we went to Walmart to buy stuff for the hall hang out we were having that night. We had a relaxing nail party which was a blast! Mom and Camille left about 9:30 and my girls didn't leave till I kicked them out at midnight! So fun though!

Here are some of my cute girls!



Saturday I went and picked up Mom and Camille at their hotel and we were off to Lexington for food, walking, food, walking, and more food! We got delicious tacos and ate lunch at the park. Then we walked to the gelato place! Then to a bakery and around W&L campus! It was so pretty outside and really fun! We went back to Mom's hotel so we could all take a nap :) It was the best! Then we went to dinner at cook-out! I dropped them back at the hotel and I came back to school to go to an RA activity. We decorated cookies and watched Hocus Pocus! Man, I love the RA's!

(Mom has most of the pictures... So I will have to get those)

I had ward council and then wen to lunch on Sunday. Mom and Camille came to church with me. It was a really good Sunday! We came back to my room and then ate dinner in the dining hall. We then decided to go on the parkway and then come back to my home. Reva and Cody came up to talk to Mom and after about two hours they went back to their hotel. I ended up going to Cody and Reva's house and sat and watched the last Harry Potter on TV. That movie is so great!

Im so happy Mom and Camille could be here this weekend! It was so much fun to have the see my home and meet my SVU family! I truly love it here! And I love Mom and Camille!