B and Me

          My goodness, where do I even start when talking about B? She is such an example to me. I have learned so much from her. She is a light in my life. She is a testimony builder. She is so kind and sweet to EVERYONE. We had many late night pow-wows while sewing the guy's quilts together. As I had mentioned in another post, we walked to the temple. That day was so much fun. We laugh hard.
          We first hit it off when K and J left to go to a One Direction concert in Arizona. We listened to "I'd Eat it Anyway" from the Imagination Movers. We are crazy but it's okay because it's fun. Another time we really bonded was when we almost pulled an all-nighter and then at 4 am we realized that we forgot to check the mail that day. We were expecting a package (Z's Christmas present) We tracked it online and ran out to the mailbox, IT WAS THERE!! We were jumping up and down and we wanted to (and I think we did) wake up K to see them. We were so excited that we even wrapped them that night.
          She is a fantastic listener and she is patient. Most of the time I feel like I talk too much but when I talk to her, she genuinely cares. She cares about what's important to you and remembers them.
          She loves to sew. I just wanted someone who liked similar things and there she was. She also loves to bake. She loves making cupcakes and I love eating them, but she mainly makes them to give away because she is just that kind.
          She and I were the ones that Z took to the temple the most. She got me going to every fireside and she also got me going to Friday Forum every week.
          She is a very special person. I love her so much.

My Adventures with K

          I can't even express how much I love this girl! This is she and I when we went to "find snow" one weekend. We found a deer leg on the ground, maybe a little too much information. We laughed at the thought that we could take it back to the apartments and knock on people's door with it or when we put our arm around someone's shoulder, the leg would be on their shoulder too. Gosh, we are mental! She didn't want it anywhere near her truck. We also had fun finding trails.
          She is my sister from another mister. We do late night pow-wows (talks), series marathons (supernatural!), and we in turn groan when one of us says, "I've GOT to clean my side of the room today...". One of the first ice breakers that brought us closer was planning our roommate J's surprise One Direction party. It was real late and we were laying in our beds and all the sudden 5 minutes later we were jumping on the edge of our beds, excited to have plans.
          We tease her that she has a "goober-face", then a "sassy-face". She is sooo much fun. There was one time when we played the game "Curses" and one of the cards told her that..."You are a leprechan, whenever someone touches you, you must tell them 'You're always after me lucky charms'." Then another curse told her that in addition to doing that, she must now talk like Elmer Fudd! Now is sounded like, "Yo aways aftew me yucky chawms!" It was so much fun. She is a team player. I was really lucky to room with her.
          Another time we focused on learning more details of each other because J was planning a roommate game show. If you didn't get the answer right about your roommate, you'd get a cupcake in the face. (It didn't actually happen, but we practiced) "What's your favorite book?" (Shackles of Honor) "Who was your first crush?" (I won't say :) ) Ha Ha....I still remember the answers as if we just did this the other night.
          If that's not crazy enough, we also memorized the song "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen. We played the air guitar, air piano, any other air instrument, spun around like ballerinas, and knew how to rock it. Anytime the song came on, we each knew our part. We were going to have a crew lip-sync competition but that unfortunately never happened. I was also very surprised that she liked oldies music. I didn't think anyone else knew the songs I listened to. It was especially fun when we would rock to oldies while cleaning our room together which just about happened daily.
        I love this girl to death! She is incredible.

Failed attempt to get to the "M"

In another post I mentioned that R, Z, B, and I hiked to the "S". We wanted to also hike to the "M". It was rough finding the right roads to get closest to it and even when we did, we would have had to cross through people's backyards. It was a no go. We finally ditched the idea and went up the canyon a little bit and hiked around. We found another really cool boulder but only R climbed it. We saw some pretty cool views and luckily we got a picture. (That's a Frisbee disk around my neck FYI)

(Z, me, R, and B)

Temple Trek

So like I had previously mentioned in another post, B and Z and I made it a priority to get to the temple at least once a week. We three were the original temple-goers. It was really fun when we went twice a week. There was a brief period when the Manti temple was closed for cleaning and so we had to figure another way to go. So Z was nice and offered to take B and I and whoever else wanted to come to drive up to the Provo temple so we could still make our goal. We had to go to Provo two or three times before we could come back to the Manti. Towards the end of school, R and J came with us more. This was a picture that Z and I took one of the times we went.

More pictures from the park

These pictures next are of another time at another park. We came back from Mt. Pleasant and driving by, there was a cool looking park. They had a fun jungle-gym.

Relief Society Bonfire

Our ward relief society put together a bonfire testimony meeting. It was pretty fun and the fire was really a bonfire but not a lot of girls showed up. We mingled mainly with the bishopric and had smores. Due to daylight savings, it wasn't dark when we started the fire and by the time it ended, it still wasn't dark. It ended up being only a mingle with no testimonies shared. It was still fun though. I got back from the bonfire and Z helped me make this "Ramen-Donut" that I saw the idea for on Facebook, it was a total fail.  It was a fun night though.

Temple Service Project

The institute was holding a temple service project and everyone car-pooled over to the temple. R and I went, the others had other obligations. It was snowing and so some people helped in the greenhouse while others like me and my next door neighbor M, helped clean the gutters outside. Such a beautiful day to be at the temple.