November 15, 2011

This picture oddly reminds me of our relationship. Ha Tabi is always so absorbed in herself that she doesn't notice the creeper right behind her! And of course I'm taking pictures of it. 

I'm super excited for Thanksgiving. I can't wait to see my cousins and eat Prime Rib. I love love love it! I can't wait to go night sledding and see my pudgy. Well not my Pudgy. I want to see lil pudge and his fat fat belly. And I get laser hair removal on Wednesday... Which means I have to shave. ugh. ha And hopefully! I get a Hedgehog! But I don't know... 

One thing I am extremely excited about it church. Sam and Dallas will be there, or at least Dallas. I haven't seen them in forever! There was a time when we would all hang out! But now they live in Wyoming... 

Oh! So I get to register for classes on Thursday! I am so excited. I keep writing out my schedule and making sure it works out. I'll be taking 16 credits, and if I can slip it in I'll take English 2010 and then I will have all my requirements for an Associates degree, just need to get in more credit hours. The only thing that I'm worried about is my chemistry credits. Or actually all my science credits. I hope I don't have to take another science, I should be good but I'll have to double check. But it's all art and gym credits. I'm going to take Archery! That should be way fun! 

My family

Today I have thankful for my family. I don't know where I would be without them. No matter how weird they are or how cool they think they are, they are always there. Even if they defriend me on facebook, I know that eventually they will add me again. I actually miss seeing my family on a regular basis, sometimes. I miss not having movie nights with Tabi and having her fall asleep before the ending of Cloudy. I miss Tori getting up the next morning and punching us. "You guys always never wake me up!"
All these pictures are from Bear Lake. Even though I had just gotten my wisdom teeth out I still had fun. The nights were cold, but I had so much fun playing cards with Scott and being able to see his kids all the time. I absolutely love Addie and Ethan. They are so sweet and so hilarious. 
Even though I love college, I also love going home to see my family. I always want to see everyone when I go home, but I hardly ever do. I don't think I've seen my extended family since I left... Well I've see the Turner side once, and for like 5 minutes. None of my extended family has seen my hair except for on facebook. I'm glad that I'm coming home during Thanksgiving and I'll get to see most my family! 

Exhaustion...

I am exhausted! Thursday's are always so long because of Human Biology. It's a 3 hour class once a week. It sucks and I just don't have the energy to sit there. His lecture's are kinda pointless to because he posts all the questions and answers to the tests online so we can study those. Easy, long, boring class. 
Anyway, I just spent the last half hour walking around campus trying to find Jason Chaffetz. He is a congressman for Utah in case you are politically retarded. I actually would have been slightly excited to hear him talk, but I couldn't find him. I actually made a new friend by walking around. Her name is Emma and she writes for Greg, while I take all the pictures. We found out that we live really close actually. She went to Viewmont, where most people down here are from Riverton or Gunnison, I swear. 
So for Christmas I have decided that I would like a hedgehog. They are wonderful pets. Everyone that has one really likes them. They are easy to take care of and really smart.They can be potty trained and sleep most the day. They don't stink like rodents and they are usually really clean animals, only needing a bath once every couple of months. They eat cat food because it's high in protein and low in fat. They have their own personalities also. Every single one is unique, which I guess every animal and human does. Most like to be held to a certain degree. They have horrible eyesight so they get to know you by your smell and your voice. The younger you get them then there is a greater chance there will be a great bond. I already know where I would put it and how I would set up its cage. I think I want a male more, mainly just because I have names in mind. But I guess I could breed a female and make some money. 
I would absolutely love one. But we'll see if my mom agrees. I also decided that I want to be an ambassador next year and see if I can get the same job that I have right now. Then I would have a scholarship and one for my apartment and a job, earning money. 

November 8, 2011

So finally I post something! It's been pretty exciting since last time. I keep thinking that I want to blog more, we'll see, I'm making no promises. 
So last week was Homecoming... It was freezing! Taking pictures for football was horrible. I couldn't feel my hands and couldn't move my fingers, until my officer boyfriend (not really, he just always hangs around me during the games) gave me a hand warmer. It was a very nice gesture and I greatly appreciated it! I got some great pictures! Especially of ref's in the way of my lens. So there is one more home game, then there will be the "Top of the Mountains" where Snow football goes to Rio Tinto and plays. Greg asked if I wanted to go... Seriously, did he even need to ask? So I'm getting a sideline pass and I'm going to Salt Lake on Dec. 3 to take pictures. I am stoked!!
So this is the lovely month of registration. I am actually super excited. I am done with this semester and if I can get the schedule that I want for next semester it will be great! Hopefully I can take an Archery class and I'm planning on taking circuit training! It will be crazy! On top of that I would take Photography and 3D Design. It'll be a little crazy. 
So Ephraim gets freezing, but there is no snow yet. It's crazy and I know once the snow sticks then it'll be here until summer semester. I still love it down here! It's way fun. I love being on my own and having roommates that blast the heater, even at night when it's supposed to be colder. I was being sarcastic about the roommates. It sucks, but they are pretty great otherwise, except for Audrey's occasional sleep talking and wall punching and man talking. 

Football, Football, and... More Football!!

FOOTBALL!!! I LOVE football! Taking pictures on the sidelines is the best!! Scary, but fun! You have to keep out of the way of the players and the refs, who are the biggest douche bags! Geez, they aren't the players, they aren't the favorites, they don't own the field. Football is awesome! Favorite thing about my job so far! I also really liked rugby.
Anyway, college is great! I love it. It's way more laid back then high school is! Except, one thing that I've learned is that most classes do take role. All my dance classes do, actually I think all my classes do except for art, but I think he does it, but just does it in his mind. I actually have less homework then I did in high school, my hardest class is biology and it's not even bad. My worst class is definitely Dance Ensemble though. As much as I love dancing, this is overboard. I'm not going to school to become a dance major, I just want to dance. We are required to take ballet and modern and SDE, then we have our aerial classes (the dance on the fabrics in the air). In a regular week I dance for 14 hours. On top of that Patty, my dance teacher, schedules well known chorographers to come, which is great, don't get me wrong I love it. Except! Except that she does it every holiday weekend. What the heck. It bothers me so much! But luckily we get Sunday's off so I can still run home for a day and see my family, but it just bothers me! She can't just do it on a boring weekend. Ugh. I'm not doing this next year, only ballet and some modern classes. My ballet teacher told me that 2 years ago Patty burned everyone out and no one returned their sophomore year. Personally I think it will be the same way, but I think we only have 3 freshman this year. Oh well, It's a good experience and I'll learn a lot!
So my mom and sisters came down today! It was way fun! We went to Devil's Kitchen and I got to see my puppies!! My mom cooked dinner and we had the best cookies ever! I finally get to go home (for one day because of dance) in 2 weeks and we'll go to boondocks! I'm so excited! I LOVE boondocks, especially because of all the people that come with! We always have a blast!

August 31, 2011

I. LOVE. MY. JOB!!! Best job in the world! It's like I'm not even working! This week I am required to take pictures of students studying outside, students on the new library patio, and the Rugby practices. So I went to practice today and it was so much fun. Rugby is an interesting sport and one I can easily fall in love with. I haven't taken any football pictures yet, but I think I'll like Rugby more because you get more facials.
Anyway, that was a sneak peek of pictures. I took over 1,000 pictures at their practice today. I was also supposed to go photograph this foam party... Yeah that never happened. Ha! My roommates made it there before I did and they were drenched, then some friends came running out and they said it was crazy, that everything was wet. So there was no way I was going in there with my camera! Sorry Greg, I'll photograph a different stomp.
So this weekend is Labor day weekend, and I'm stuck at the school. I have dance practices everyday except for sunday. Saturday and Monday practices are 6 HOURS long!!! We're all going to die! That is forever to dance!! So I can't wait for this weekend to be done with.

August 29 2011

COLLEGE!!! Crazy stuff! I'm so old! It's super weird living with roommates and not having the same classes every other day and not seeing all the same faces, but I love it! I get to do my own laundry and make my own food! Oh wait... I already did that before! Haha! There are way more mature people at college. None of that silly high school stuff. Tonight I watched 6 people run around a pool table hitting the balls together and giggling like 5 year olds! I see skate boards, long boards and bikes more than cars and just the other day my friends and I watched a beehive float down a river. I think I've actually become more of a kid! We had a "snow day" and had hula hoops, inflatable toys, and a slip n slide!
Anyway! I have this awesome job where I just take pictures! It's amazing and its so not a job! This picture was taken about 20 minutes from Nephi in a little place called Uinta National Park. If you enter then there is a little river and a small man made waterfall, but that isn't even the best part! (it's just where I got the best picture!) If you drive for about 7 miles up this road then eventually you see a sign that says Devil's Kitchen! Most amazing place! Not ever, just that I've seen here. It's seriously a mini bryce canyon. Colton and I just sat there amazed then I started taking pictures. It was red rock and on one side the sky was light blue and on the other there were dark storm clouds.
That's one thing I love about Ephraim, it rains. I think it's rained, thundered, and lightninged? every night that I've been here. It's in between 2 mountain ranges and so there are always clouds that are threatening to cry on us. I love it. I am so glad that I decided to come down here!
Oh yeah! I've grown up. My room has always been clean and I make my bed once I've gotten out of the bathroom in the mornings!