Sophomore Year in Photos - Part 4... almost there :-)

Most Recent Pictures First

My house is the yellow one. The blue house belongs to our neighbors FW & Brinn. Our Bishop lives across the street, Mormons everywhere!
Mal & I before Spring Ball. The only things we bought for this dance were our sunglasses.

Mal and I on the day of Spring Ball. We drove to Roanoke to try on dresses and see if we could find mal something. I think this picture is pretty representative of our personalities.. yes?

Tommy, Matt and Holli at the last SVU lacrosse game of the season.

Last SVU game of the season. The team they were supposed to play didnt show up so they played each other. On the ground we have Scott, the goalie, who was playing up this day and wrestling him in the grey jersey is Chad, the Coach. Best part about this game was that we could hear everything they were saying, basically all the trash talking they did. One of the most entertaining games all season.

I call this "Starving Artist". Megan and I would often go to the studio to paint after dinner. We had both taken Intro to Drawing together in the fall and were sick of drawing bottles from that class and then we had to do structure paintings for Oil Painting... Not even our Carbon Leaf Pandora station could keep us sane. (P.s. If you dont have a Carbon Leaf Pandora station.. you need to get one) Mallory and I on a Sunday Drive I guess, this may have been around General Conference time. We drove up to the Blue Ridge Parkway to have a picnic but there were too many bugs so we sat in my car and ate and got out to take a few pictures. This, ladies and gent's, is Mallory pretending to fall over the Shenandoah Valley

So this is a horrible picture of us both but this is Megan and I in Elon, North Carolina. This is the farthest south I have been so far. It was a three hour trip to see who else but our mens LAX team play Elon. Elon had some nasty fans but our guys were happy to have at least us. Clearly we were going a little crazy here.

Mallory & Scottie - Mallory was working or had a class during the games after we made shirts and so this was when scott was able to see his shirt. On the back it has his number and INCHWORM, his nickname.. Im sure there is a great story behind that.

Shirt #2 - Logan "Tin Man" Murray (Mid) aka Kentucky & I. Logan had two numbers during the season so I just had his nickname on the back of this shirt. His family was actually at this game and his mom asked to take pictures of our shirts.

Shirt #1 - Brayden "Big Mac" Duran, #3 - Attack. I was only planning on making a shirt for brayden when I saw Logan at Lee-Hi's (local truck stop, 24hr diner thats popular with us students) and he said I needed to make him one too, so I had two shirts to switch between games.

Megans Shirt was for John "Johnboy" Trout, #2 all the way from Vegas.

There is John, #2, in action, I think Logan is behind the cage. This was a funny game because the opposing team had a few players that looked like they had just been picked off of the football team and handed a stick, for example, #85.

On our hike Mal and I brought lunch. Lots of goodies including Pepperoni, Ham, Bread, Apple slices, Pineapple, Cheddar Pringles and Goldfish - YUM

Sophomore Year in Photos - Part 3!

Again, photos are backwards with the more recent ones first.


Hiking with Mallory around Panther Falls Spring Break - Hanging with Cailin

Happy 72nd Birthday Dad! (I made his cake)

Spring Break - I went to Boston to see Diana

Di & I in Boston

My side of the room in The Lofts

Bray & I

LACROSSE!! Basically, my social life for spring semester included going to all these games. It didnt help that I dated a lacrosse player but I really love the sport.

Super Bowl - Cardinals vs. Steelers or Awkward Angle vs. Crazy Face

How we stayed sane during our hours of Statistics Homework.

Mallory and Nate - Kelsy and Ryan from HSM

Rika and I - Sharpay and Gabriella, fighting over Troy as always. These were our costumes for the Disney Dance

Rika convinced me to go ice skating one of our first nights back. Also the night I met Brayden

Christmas Break - Camille and I kidnapped Mallory for her birthday

Cailin and I pulling a "Lady and the Tramp" as she called it with cookies over Christmas break

Sophomore Year in Photos - Part 2

These are backwards with more recent photos first.

A Joyful Spirit Crew at our Christmas party
Winter Ball with Mallory

Happy Birthday to ME!!! - Two Cakes!

Leaving NY for VA after thanksgiving

Mal and I over my birthday weekend, yes, it was a weekend celebration

At the mall shopping for my birthday and writing a letter to Santa

Halloween Dance with Mallory (Gangster Barbie), Dax (Tourist) and Myself (Soccer Barbie)

Halloween with the Joyful Spirit Crew. The 3rd "little pig" left earlier.

We suprised Ashley for her 19th Birthday. Ran into her room with Balloons and Silly String, kidnapped her and made her wear a batman mask to ensure her blindfold woudldnt come off and took her to Waffle house... did I mention this was all at 4:30am?

Sophomore Year in Photos - Part 1

This is Sassafras aka Sass, Oreo, Little Bit.. poor thing had a million names. Everyone called her something different but she was Sassafras :-) This was "our cat" down in Carriage. We werent really allowed to have pets but she was a stray so we fed her and gave her a bath once and of course played with her a lot. We did eventually find her a good home though.

This is Chelsea and I. We were neighbors, and pretty much twins while she was here. We even did a road trip back to NY early on in the semester.

R-L we have Diana, Mallory and Natalie. Out of the crew from Freshman year Mallory, Amber and I were the only ones left at school. All of the guys (Josh, Stephen, Kenny, John, Geoff, and Jordan) were either on missions or about to leave on missions. Diana and Natalie both moved out to Utah though at different schools. We were lucky enough to find a weekend that Natalie could fly out and John could drive down from PA to see us but we didnt tell the that Diana was also flying out. We convinced natalie that we were going to the mall in Roanoke and had to tell john we were going to get diana so he wouldnt think we were leaving him out of stuff. As we pulled in to the airport Natalie got a little flustered and wondered if we were putting her back on a plane but then she saw Diana and all made sense. We had a great little reunion and hopefully we will get to do it again, maybe even before Natalie gets married in december.

This is one of the first nights back to school. While I was in Carriage - apartment style housing, Mallory was in The Lofts which were the girls dorms. They had some sweet closet space which Mal loved once she discovered what a great hiding space it made. I eventually moved into the Lofts for Spring Semester.

Mallory and I at the Washington DC Temple. We are in the DC temple district and every October the school does a service trip where we all go up there and do some weeding, planting and you know all the christmas lights? Yup! We get to put those up. It was a really cool experience especially since I hadnt been up there since My family was sealed there in '97.

Homecoming! Chelsea, Myself and Amber went with our friend Shaun and had loads of fun this year.

Chelseas last day in BV with Shaun and I. Sad day to see the Maymester crew break up.

Time to Catch Up

So I have not written on my blogspot in a hecka long time, time for a little life re-cap. Brayden and I have broken up...enough about that ha. Classes are going well and ending soon. Homework, work at the Student Union, work at Joyful Spirit and my internship at the Paladin keep me very busy. I have one week of classes left, and then finals and then... MORE SCHOOL!

I am staying for 2 summer terms: May and June. In May I will be taking a class called America and The Enlightenment taught by Professor Knight (who Ive heard is very good, Im excited for that!) and in June I will be taking Jogging. These are two GE's that will be helpful to get out of the way. Next fall I have a super busy schedule, Im so excited for that though because I love being busy. I will be taking Managerial Finance, Principles of Macroeconomics, Principles of Organization and Leadership, Volleyball, Astronomy, Newspaper and Teachings of the Living Prophets. This is a total of 17 credits if insitute will transfer again because it is a class I have previously taken, but the curriculum changes every semester based on General Conference. I will be continuing my position with The Paladin but it will not be an internship. Now that I know the ropes, I think it will be a lot more fun next semester. Im excited to continue using all the things that I have learned this semester and all the forms I made - it really feels like mine now.

I almost forgot the most exciting news - I have a house to live in for the summer and next year. It belongs to this guy who used to live here in Buena Vista. The girl I will be living with knows him and was able to get us the house for $300/month. Im really happy that I found somewhere to live off campus and that I can decorate and not have to have room checks and all that jazz.

School.

I wasnt sure exactly what I should title this but "School" works, since that is pretty much all I do. Classes have been going for about 2 weeks now, it seems so crazy to think that I started my 4th semester at SVU 2 weeks ago, but its true. All of my classes are fun, and pretty easy to handle except for that information technology one - I have a feeling that is going to be kind of hard as we get into it. I really love my institute class (Teachings of the Living Prophets), I don't know why I was so stubborn before to take one. We have moved to the new ward building that they built on our campus, its so nice to have our own ward building now. We start church there on February 1st and my ward moves from a 1pm start time to a 9am start time (more like home, but it will take some getting used to). We also have Relief Society first to allow another ward to have their meetings in the chapel and then we switch, I'm hoping I will still have the want to get up even though relief society is first. Besides that, I have decided to not become a Body Attack instructor. I kind of decided this towards the end of Christmas break and thought that it would allow me more time for my internship and that is exactly what has happened. I really don't know how I would have balanced it all now seeing as I do not have that much free time now and that is without Body Attack (though I really cannot wait until classes start). My internship, with the school's newspaper, got off to a rocky start (we could not find any of our money... anywhere!), but is now smoothing out. I have to make a lot of different forms and contracts for advertisements and such for the business and those I work with in newspaper. It is really fun, and I hope to do the same thing next semester(...and maybe the semester after that as well) Other than classes, church, and my internship not much else is happening. I have met some new students and made a few new friends, and I will have to post pictures from the disney themed welcome back dance (I was Gabriella from HSM, Mallory was Kelsi, Rika was Sharpay, and Nate Pence made my week by actually coming dressed up as Ryan) but for now... I think I'll take a nap before institute :-)

Back to School

I'm here! I'm home! I am almost unpacked! Ha its taken so long to unpack everything, there are still things that I just havent decided where they should go. Its going to take all day, thats for sure. I still have to get a refrigerator and maybe a microwave but I have a good feeling about living in the dorms. I woke up this morning and haha I was happy to not be in carriage. Its weird but whatev. Ill post pictures once everything is organized and pretty looking :-)