Warehouse Dance Party

A few weeks ago there was a dance party in a warehouse that a bunch of my friends and I went to. It was possibly the most fun I've had at a party ever!

Cash, Me, Caitlin, Stacia, and Marli

Can you spot me in this sea of fun? :)

Belated Birthday

So I know it's a bit late (almost 2 months), but here are some pictures of my birthday weekend. I had a bunch of family come down to help me celebrate :) Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, Nathan, Breanne, Elise, Danelle, and Tela. It was so great and thoughtful to have everyone come down!

The amazing chocolate birthday cake Grandma made
Me and my bestie

The whole gang in front of my house...

My birthday was actually on a Monday and my family left on Sunday. On my actual birthday I also went night rappelling in the rain with my roommates and some boys. If I ever get the pictures from my roommate I'll post them... most likely under another "Adventure List" title.

Mae/ Allred Concert

A few weeks ago Marli and I made a little day trip down to St. George. We heard Mae and Allred were performing on a Thursday night and decided to make a day out of it. After class I drove a company car down (yes, a Mustang Convertible!!!) So we drove down with the top down, had dinner at Olive Garden, went to the mall, and had a blast at the concert! If you've never heard Mae or Allred before, you NEED to look up some of their songs!
Marli and Me


The warm, sunny, November drive with the top down!!! So fun! :)

Summit League Conference Tournament... so far

So we flew in to Fargo, North Dakota on Wednesday. We qualified for the conference tournament where only the top 4 teams from out conference got to compete. We have the number 3 seed. Wednesday was a full day of travel- driving to Vegas, flying to Chicago with a 2 hour layover, then flying to Fargo (which in case you were wondering is bitter cold!). Thursday we basically walked around the mall (Fargo's only real attraction), had a mini practice, and then a banquet for all of the teams.

These pictures were taken at the banquet. Obviously the top one is my team. And the bottom picture is my teammate/roommate Tara Sawyer :) We don't even get to play until tomorrow night. Another full day of waiting for us. We play North Dakota State first and WHEN we win we will be in the Championship game on Saturday night! Wish us luck!

Wheelchair Basketball

Ballin'

It's Disability Awareness week at SUU and as one of the many activities that the school provided to raise awareness, they held a wheelchair basketball tournament! Now this is harder than you think. There are real rules:

• After every 2 "rolls" or about 6 feet you must dribble the ball.
• You can not be rolling when you shoot
• You cannot use your feet in any way to assist you or the ball
• Any contact with another persons wheelchair is a personal foul
• All other basketball rules apply (e.g. back court, out of bounds, 3 pointers)

It was so fun! And my team made it all the way to the quarter finals. Not too bad for a first timer!

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

All month long our team is warming up in pink warm up tops for Breast Cancer Awareness. And this Thursday we're having a benefit game where all proceeds go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. I love that our team is doing what they can to help... and looking cute while at it!

We also all wore pink bows...Alissa did her hair a little crazy so we had fun with hers :)

The Girls of the Purple House

I don't know why, but our house has been nicknamed the Purple House. It's just a name that it's had for a while and people know it as that, so it stuck. Anyways, all of us roommates finally found a day that we could all take pictures a few weeks ago (we all have pretty busy lives) Don't I have some gorgeous roommates??

East Elementary Eagles

Dear Student Teacher,

That's how my letter in this mornings mail started out. I just got my student teaching placement and I'm so excited! I will be student teaching starting this January at East Elementary School in Cedar City, Utah. I will be in either a 1st or 3rd grade classroom with one of two teachers. I seriously can't wait! I am so close to being graduated and licenced and out in the real world of teaching!!!

AHHHHH!!! I really can't contain my excitement! Just ask my roommates who witnessed me dancing around the kitchen as I read this :)

True T-Bird

I'm sure every University has some equivilant of the True T-Bird. The night before the homecoming game everyone stands at a certain place (in our case touching our statue) and kisses at midnight after we count down. This is my last year here at SUU so it was basically now or never. So I asked a friend of mine, my roommates boyfriend's friend, if he'd help me to reach this goal of mine.

As you can see, I'm not one for doing things halfway, so rather than just touching the statue of Old Sorrel, We were standing/sitting on the top of it with a few other couples.

This is with Zach Wall a couple of minutes after midnight, after all of the couples "making out" cleared out of the way. Now I can check that one off of my list of things to do this year ;)

Pretend Camping

Another adventure list item we crossed off: pretend camping. We brought out our extra couch by our fire pit and made dinner and dessert (hot dogs and s'mores). Then the plan was to sleep out on the grass... but then we thought better of it and just brought out love sack and recliners out to the patio and slept there.

Adventure List

So this is my last year of college (Thank Goodness!) And I really want to make the most of it. So my roommates and I came up with an "Adventure List". We wrote down a list of things that we have wanted to do in Cedar City-or in general- but haven't gotten around to yet. And we're slowly crossing things off of our list.

Writing on the football stadium bleacher seats. It's been discovered that if you flip certain chairs up and certain chairs down you can spell things out.

Playing night games at Discovery Park (a tricked out park that overlooks the town)

And wiffle ball. Thanks to my roommate Kim Duke's idea we turned it into glow in the dark wiffle ball. We used glow sticks as the bases, and wove glow sticks into the ball. It was quite the success...

...until of course I was running home, trying to score, and took out my roommate, Haley.

I felt so horrible! I mean when I play games, I usually am able to contain my competitiveness. And in all fairness she was clearly hovering over the plate (which isn't legal for this very reason)... she's fine. But I felt like a total jerk!

I've already posted some other things off our list, like rock climbing. And needless to say there will be many more posts pertaining to the infamous "Adventure List"

Frisbee Golf!

Some friends of mine decided to play some frisbee golf around campus this last week... It was a ton of fun (and I need a better frisbee)
Well my roommate Marli got a frisbee stuck on the roof. So of course we figured out a way to get onto the roof to get it down... Needless to say the next night we got a huge group of people to come out and climb on the roof with us to star gaze. You couldn't really see many stars from there, but it was pretty awesome to hang out on top of our student center!

Back in action

So life in Cedar City is going full swing! I'm working my 2 jobs, playing volleyball, and in my last semester of classes (next semester I student teach- then I'm graduated!) But most importantly I'm out having fun =) This last Saturday one of my roommate's boyfriend took us rock climbing out west of town. It was probably pretty boring for him, but just the perfect amount of challenge for me.

(Two of my roommates Kestri and Haley)

Sorry this picture is crooked. I suck. But Not too bad for only my second time rock climbing! (I decided I need to invest in some real rock climbing shoes)

And of course, it wouldn't be Cedar City if we weren't going to bonfires! This one got to be pretty huge... Note to self: don't let ignorant boys put a propane tank in the bonfire. This way you won't need to put out additional fires!

More excitement to come. My roommates and I are throwing a White Trash Bash at our house next Friday =)

Labor Day Weekend

I went up to Elise and Lane's for Labor Day weekend. It was a blast! I had to puppy sit for my friend which I thought would be a problem. Turns out Danelle loves puppies =) I got to spend tons of time with the awesome McKellar fam. We went for a drive up around Logan on Sunday and had a beautiful picnic in the mountains (below)!

And I got to take Dannelle to the swimming pool and park. It was so much fun to have her all to myself! =)

In Dublin's Fair City

Alright. So I guess it's time I put some pictures of Europe up... So my friend Lindsay Heim and I backpacked trough Europe on our own in May/June. It was basically the most amazing and cultural experience ever! We started out in Dublin (after an 11 hr flight to London, then 2 hr flight to Ireland). We stayed in hostels and rode trains, ferries and the subway everywhere. Dublin was fabulous! It was everything I imagined... We had planned for one day to rent bikes, taking a train to the edge of town, and take them out into the countryside. I've always wanted to just be in those rolling green mountains. But it turns out you can't take bikes on the trains. So we switched it up and rode out to Howth- a gorgeous little seaside village.

Standing outside of our hostel, Camden Place, with all of our gear on :)

We were walking around Dublin looking at the different houses/ doors, etc. and we didn't see a cross walk around. So we asked this police officer if we were allowed to cross the street here (not wanted to get ticketed for jay walking in a foreign country) ... he laughed at us for maybe 10 seconds before saying we could. Lindsay and I felt way stupid. Apparently there's no such think as Jay walking there...

Some kegs that were just sitting on the street!

One of our many PB sandwich lunches... but the view is amazing!

On the cliffs in Howth, where we were eating our lunch

As long as you stayed on the path they really weren't that dangerous. But these signs were posted all over

I wish the camera were able to capture how gray-green the water was... and so cold!

Self explanatory... but the most beautiful stained glass windows were inside!

Oh the doors! Why can't we have doors like this here???

Temple Bar District. We went into a couple of pubs and listened to some amazing live music and met some pretty cool people!

Oh yes. And how could I leave out out last night in Dublin. The plan was to take a night ferry from Dublin to Wales and then the train to London. Well... we forgot to double check the time for our ferry and showed up an hour late for it! We calmly asked when the next ferry was thinking we could just hop on the next one. Well, surprise! It was the last on of the night and the next one isn't until 7am the next day. Of course I'm near tears at this point. We don't have a place to stay and this is going to throw us off an entire day! But the security guard was nice enough to let us sleep in the passenger waiting area. Well as you can see this isn't exactly the Ritz. We slept on skinny little metal benches with our Virgin Atlantic pillow and blanket. There was a floor to ceiling window- that looked right out to the street- which was a little disconcerting, the lights were 24hrs so they never shut off, and it kinda smelled like a bathroom. But hey! It was free and there was no way we'd miss our ferry the next morning (probably because neither of us could fall asleep for longer than 20 minute increments.) Hands down the worst nights sleep I have ever had! ... But oh so worth it in the long run! :)