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HAPPY 2010!!!

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:18:00 +0000

So I am super excited for the things that my life has in store for me this year!! As many of you know I'm getting married March 12th of this year; and I am so excited that I can hardly stand it any longer!! But I still have 64 days so here are some of the thing i'll be doing until that great day! (and a few things i've already done this year).

-I moved to New Mexico!!! ah I know, I know. My mom suggested a long time ago that I come and live with them, But it wasn't until a few weeks ago that I actually decided to do it! and i'm not going to lie it has been pretty hard. I miss Jeff so much!! But trying to look on the positive side: I get to spend time with my family before I run off with my new life and start my own family. and I am using this time to better myself.

-Last Sunday my mom and I joined Weight Watchers!! ha ha I am hoping to loose 20 pounds before the wedding!! ( at least that's my new years goal!) So far it's been pretty good. I've stayed under my points for the day and I've been working out everyday. Now I just have to keep it up lol, Wish me luck!!

-About two weeks ago Jeff and I got our first apartment together! It is pretty nice for a first apartment and it has lots of extra space, which is very nice!! Jeff will be living there alone for the next two months, Poor boy.

-We also finished registering for our wedding! It was a lot of fun but whoo, i'm glad that is done!
So for now i'm just chillin with the family and planning my wedding! Plus looking for a job... I have to interviews this week, so that's good right?

Engagments :)

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:34:00 +0000

So I thought that I would put a few of the engagement pictures my aunt took of me and Mr. Wonderful!! Only 67 days until I can marry my best friend! ah I cant' wait!!

I'M GETTING MARRIED!!! :)

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:52:00 +0000

So for all of those who haven't heard my great news yet... Last night Jeff popped the big question. :)

Here's what happened..

So yesterday morning Jeff and I are talking and he tells me that he is craving tacos and I was thinking that tacos did sound really good so we decided to get them for dinner, Jeff suggest that we go up to Manti and eat at a little place called fred's and so I said sure.

We Jeff left off to work and I went to class and around 1 in the afternoon I got a text from Jeff saying that his boss let him off work early and he was going to go home and shower. I was in the sewing lab working on a new quilt i'm making and so I told him to come and see me before he went home. He came over and asked me if I wanted to go and get tacos for lunch but I had just had lunch and was not hungry.

Well he went home and I spent the next few hours in the sewing lab, and the whole time I was in there I was getting text from Jeff asking me how long I was going to be there and if I was almost done..

When I was driving home Karen called me and I talked to her for a while and then told Jeff I was home and he could come over, when he got to my house he was dressed in his nice clothes and his hair was all done, and he had his watch on. (He only wears his watch when its something special) So I was thinking something was up, and I started questioning him, but he gave me some really good normal answers so I brushed it off and forgot. Well he was ready to go but I decided that I wanted to take a shower before we left, so an hour and a half later I was showered, had done my make up and was ready to go to dinner.

Dinner was good, but they were out of tacos. After we were done eating we walked across the street and looked through this cute old store and then went to get hot chocolate, because it was freezing outside!! When I thought we were headed home he took a random turn and I asked him where we were going and he told me that he was taking me to the temple because I had asked him a few weeks ago if we could go. So not thinking anything we drove up to the temple and he parked the car. But I was really cold so I asked if we could just sit in the car and look at the temple, but he told me No, we need to walk around. I thought that was a little weird because normally he would just let me sit in the car.

So we got out of the car and walked up to the gate and I was thinking someday when Jeff asks me to marry him this is probably what it will be like . . . little did I know.

So we get to the back of the temple and we are just standing there talking and Jeff starts messing with something behind his back, and then I knew what was going on. He was holding me close and said "there comes a time when every boy and girl needs to make a decision" or something like that and then he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him.

I honestly don't remember anything I said, but he told me I just kept on screaming and jumping up and down and saying shut up!! ha ha It took me by such surprise, and I thought he was joking, and after he put the ring on my finger I just kept on looking at it to make sure it was real, and asking him if we were really engaged.

Lucky for me he was not just joking around, and yes I AM REALLY ENGAGED!!!!

I am so excited to get married to my best friend and spend the rest of my life with him!!!! :)

My ring is GORGEOUS!!! There are 24 diamonds in the top and in the wedding band there are another 14 :) My man did good lol :)

If It Rains On My Parade, I'll Dance In It!

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:54:00 +0000

I am loving being back at snow college!! I am pretty sure that coming back was the right decision! I have made a lot of new friends and I have 5 awesome room mates! Who I absolutely adore!! They are so much fun to be around and they are all so happy and out going!

First there is Kylie (Ky) - she is on the drill team and super loud. All the time, you always know when she is home. She is always so happy!

Then there is Jodie (Jo) - she is so funny and always makes me laugh. She had dark brown hair but is a total blonde at heart!! She always just makes my day by saying something to make me laugh.

Then there is Bree' L (Bree) - she is also on the drill team and for the first week and a half I thought she was super quite and shy; but really she is not she is a lot like Jo and Kylie and she is so funny and super nice.

Down stairs there is Jayleen (Jay) - I have never met anyone with so much natural energy... but not only does she have tonz of her own energy, her mom gave her these natural energy pills that she likes to take which totally make her go off the walls. It is so funny to watch her dance around and laugh over who knows what she is talking about. She is so cute and nice!!

Then there is Roxanna (Roxy) - But I don't know her like at all. I NEVER see her... maybe like once a week... When she is walking around on campus. (Normally with her boyfriend) they are really cute together.

The 2nd week after I moved in there was a night that it was raining really hard so Jo, Bree, Ky, and I ran outside to play in it and there was a huge group of girls blasting music and dancing in the parking lot of our apartments. So we went and joined them... even though we didn't know any of them :) it was a lot of fun and we made some new friends, after we got bored of that Jo and I went puddle jumping and then when we were so wet that we were having a hard time keeping our pants up we went home and put on our swimming suits and Jo, Jay, and I went and jumped into the hot tub. It was such a fun night!! I LOVE COLLEGE :)

Oh how they change. . .

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:08:00 +0000

So I've put up a lot of pictures from all the different places I have lived in the past year, so I decided to take a few pictures this morning of the house I have been living in for the past little while... I've been living with my cousins in lehi :) there house is beautiful! I am going to be so sad when I leave!!

dresser thing next to my bed

Cailie and my bed

My shelf

My closet

The front room/ Piano room

The entry way

The family room/ T.V. room

Thank you so much Cliss, Neal, Cailie, Aubree, Nollie, Storey, and Quincy for letting me live with you guys! You are all so funny I am going to miss eating dinner will you all!! :) I love you

If You Need To Crash, Then Crash And Burn Your Not Alone

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:01:00 +0000

Wow, what a crazy past few months I have have. . .
In the past two months I finished my summer classes at Snow College, Went on a crazy two day road trip with my cousins and sister to New Mexico to visit my family,was in the car when it hit a dear, got stranded in Cortez's Colorado, read the book "the notebook", hung out with my family, saw a hot air balloon, took a ride on a camel, flew on an airplane by myself, packed up every thing I own, moved from Ephraim into my cousin house in Lehi, lived out of a duffel bag for a month, got a closet, unpacked all my stuff, took a tour of different hair schools, got a spray on tan, decided to go to hair school at Evans, Dropped out of college, became a bum with no life, looked for jobs, got a job interview, didn't take the job, rode my bike around with cailie, took crazy pictures, went to Idaho Lava hot springs, floated down a river, got allergies, a cold, a sinus infection, and asthma all at once, took some strong drugs, punched cailie in the back in my sleep, had crazy dreams, went on a road trip with Deidre to Ephraim, got my laptop fixed, cried, broke my phone, fixed my phone, ate a cookie monster cookie, went to the nickelback concert and also saw saving able, papa roach, hinder, got beer spilled on the back of my legs, lived with lauren for two days, painted my nails yellow, went to a rest home and made some new friends with some old ladies, decided I wanted to take a break from school and be a nanny for a year, cried, talked to my mom and decided that I didn't want this, called Snow college and got back in. . . Welcome to my life.
This weekend and next week: Pack up everything I own again into my trusty astro van henri, move into park place apartments, register for classes, find a job, start over again.

Snow College <3

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:24:00 +0000

So I actually am very glad that I was sent to snow college. I am having a blast! I love this cute little town, and the school. My classes are wonderful. I have made lots of new friends! My closest ones are Victoria and Carly. and Jeff ( who i am curently dating! :) )

My room

Kitchen

My desk

Jeff and I :)

Victoria, carly, and I

(our vogue shot)

Starting All Over . . . Again.

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:38:00 +0000

So as many of you know, and don't know. I will be attending Snow College this summer. I move in two weeks down to the apartments called Oak Tree, in Ephraim. I'm not really sure how I feel about this move, as most everyone knew I have been planning on returning to Southern Utah University. Which I was EXTREMELY excited for, but things happened and my parents changed their mind, so I will now be going to snow. I have to say I am not really excited for starting my life over all over again, this is my third semester of school, at my third school. And I will tell you as much as I hate having to start all over I am very glad that I have gotten the chance to go to different schools (this will be my 9th school I have gone to in my life), because I have met many wonderful people and I have a lot of friends from all over the world. And as cool as that is it is also really hard, cause I leave and don't normally see them again. So anyways, here I am about to start all over again for my third time... and I will be totally honest and tell you that the sooner it gets time for me to be moving the more excited I get. When I went down to get into the school and find a place to live and all that stuff, I met two girls that are both my age and they are total dolls!! and they showed me around and told me about everything that happens and about all the cute men. ha ha After hanging out with them all day I figured that this change was not going to be so bad. and that it all is going to depend on the attitude I have going into it. I sadly learned that the hard way, when my parents moved me home during the middle of my school year at SUU and sent me to the LDSBC, I was not very happy and all I could see was the bad in everything, It wasn't until I figured that I was stuck where I was and there was nothing I could do about it so I might as well just have fun while I'm here. and so that is what I am planning on doing when I move to snow, I don't really have a choice to go where I want to go, so I'm going to make the best out of being at snow.

New Mexico House :)

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:10:00 +0000

This is the house in New Mexico that my family will be moving into sometime in June. It is a beautiful house! It was a model house, and It is furnished so mostly everything you see in the pictures will be staying. I am very excited for my family I think they will love it there and have fun starting another life. But on the other hand I am VERY SAD!! I will not be moving with them, because I am going back to Cedar City to continue my schooling at Southern Utah University. Which I am very excited for. But at the same time I am hoping that the time will go by slowly, so I don't have to move yet. I have never been more than 4 hours away from my family, and even then I could just get in a car and go and visit them anytime I wanted to. Now I'll have to catch a plane or drive for about 9 - 10 hours. But it will be a fun adventure.

Master bedroom

Kitchen

Master Bathroom

Master Bathroom/Closet

The Loft

Front Room

T.V. Room

One of the Bedroom

Kitchen

T.V. Room

What is my true eye color??

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:30:00 +0000

Blue

You are an exciting person, your eyes reflect your sheer love of life. You love having fun and being with friends, but you have a deep soft side.

WEEK FOUR!!!

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:47:00 +0000

Monday September 8th, So I realized that morning that I was going to have extra lunch because I was not going be in cedar for the weekend and I didn’t want to waste my meals so I texted my dear friend Breanna Tuttle, a girl I grew up with and was best friends with for a huge chunk of my life, well of course she came with Jacky and I and we had a great time catching up on tonz of stuff that was going on in our life’s! Well later that day she invited me to go to family home evening with her and her ward that night! I didn’t know what my ward was doing so I said yes and she told me to meet her at the church at like 5 or something like that. Well I thought that it would take me longer to walk there than it really did so I just went and sat on the grass by myself to wait until brea and her roommates got there to pick me up. Well when I was sitting there this random guy came and started talking to me. It was pretty cool because he was really cute and super funny and nice. Sadly I haven’t seen him since that night and I cant remember his name lol but maybe someday I’ll run into him again and I think that time I will get his number so I can ask him on a date! Lol

Tuesday September 9th BLOOD DRIVE!!! Yay!!! If you really know me you know that I love needles and blood! Yes I know that’s not very natural and you probably think it is gross but I just love it!! Well all my lameo friends down here in cedar are scared of needles so I just ended up going by myself! But even thought I was alone I still had fun and I meet some crazy cool kids. I also met one on my cousin’s (Cailie) friend! It was pretty crazy because she knew who I was but I didn’t know her. Weird. Anyways it was fun!!

September 11th, it was my uncle Alan’s birthday! And Nicole had her baby!!! Yay! I can’t wait until I can go and see her!!!

September 12th, after classes were over for the day Justin and I headed back to Salt Lake City yet again! But this time we took a detour and went to his best friend, Lance’s house. And from there Lance drove us up to salt lake. It was a pretty interesting drive. Lol, not even going to lie. I pretty much just sat there in the middle of the two boys and listened to them talk. Ha ha they make me laugh. Once we had got to salt lake we went over to Justin’s house because his mom wanted to meet me. Ah, lol just kidding she was really cute! And they gave me a tour of their new house. Very nice, and very big!!! And then after that they took me to my house were i went and changed my clothes to go to a football game. I was planning on going to the skyline football game and watch brad, vivanna, and Alex perform but it didn’t work out so I ended up going to my high school’s football game. It was a blast to get to see all of my old friends that are still in high school and all of the alumni that had come back to cheer on our high school team!! Good times!!!

Saturday September 13, this was the day I had been waiting a long time for!! HOMECOMING WITH BRAD!!! YAY!!! I had such a good time!!! Ha ha okay before I get to far into the dirty details of homecoming I have to tell you about my adventures that morning! It was quite the eventful day! Alright so I woke up at 6am and got ready to go and watch all of my cute little sisters and cousin in the fashion show. So everyone came over to our house and we started on our way well the car was almost on empty so my mom went to make a quick stop (because we were already running behind) well after we had filled up the mother ship with gas my mom got back into the car and started to go. Well she turned the wheel to hard and ended up running the side of our car into a bug red pole. Ha ha ha! So not only did this dent in the side of the car it also popped our tire!! Well lucky for us Noel and I knew how to change a tire and we had vivanna miss discount tires with us!!! Ha ha so we all climbed out of the car and got to work in our high heels and everything. It was really funny and I’m sure that the people driving by probably got a kick out of the sight of a bunch of girls in high heels changing a tire. Well after we had been working on if for a while this nice Mexican guy who didn’t speak English came and changed it for us. Well because we were running late we called my grandpa to come and get us and drive us down. But because he was planning on just driving back home to cedar right after the show he had me and vivanna take his car and he drove the rest of the girls down ha ha ha ha ha now if you have even seen my grandpa’s car then you will understand why this is so funny! Wow It’s just really hard to explain that work of art… let’s see the day we drove it, it had a mattress on the top and like a table tied down to the rear end of it! It was quite a sight. As my grandpa calls it’s a “gypsy car”. Ha ha my grandpa thought it was pretty funny that he was making us drive it! Well the fashion show was a blast. And after I drove my uncle’s car back to Michelle’s house and vivanna and I had fun taking pictures of her doing flips for my photography project. After that Noel came and picked me up and we went back to my house and got all sexy and hot to go on our day date with brad and chase! For our day date we went ice blocking! It was a blast but I am like really scared of it so I mostly just sat at the top of the hill and took pictures! Lol after that they took us home so that we could get ready for the dance that night! Noel did my hair and I thought it looked gorgeous!!! Once the boys had came and got us we went over to chase’s dad’s house and his parent’s and sister went with us to a construction sight to take our homecoming pictures! Ah can I just say that chase’s sister is so freaking cute!!! And is such and amazing photographer!!! I want to be as good as her someday!!! This is the link to look at my homecoming pictures!! They turned out so cute! (At least I think so lol) http://www.samanthastanton.com/homecoming/preview.html
And if you wanna look at her sight this is the link! It’s really cute!!!
http://www.samanthastanton.com/
After that we went to the olive garden for dinner but the wait was to long so we got our food to go and went over to chase’s mom’s house and ate there! It was a blast!! When we were done we went and met up with all of “the crazies” aka the Seegrist cousins Alex, Vivianna, Mandi, and Stewart. It was so much fun to be at a dance with all of them!!! And the dance was so much fun! After the dance we went over to brad’s house and ate ice cream and watched Mr. Dees. Hum I think that’s what it was called. But I ended up falling asleep on brad’s shoulder. And I was woken up to noel telling me that it was time to go. It was a great night!! Thank you brad for everything, your amazing!!

Sunday September 14, I went to church with my family and then drove home with Justin. That night because Justin was tired he had me drive and so I learned to drive a stick shift!!! yay

My Homecoming Pictures

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:09:00 +0000

hey guys so i think this only goes for like a month so check them out!! they are so cute!!!

http://www.samanthastanton.com/homecoming/preview.html

Chase's sister took these pictures for us! She is such an amazing photographer!! ah i just love it!!!

WEEK THREE!!!

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:34:00 +0000

Wednesday September 3rd was Caleb’s birthday! I was sad that I wasn't there!!! It was really weird to me.

On Friday September 5th Justin and I drove up to salt lake together and that night I got to go and visit brad, Connor, and Phil!!! I was so overly excited to see them!!! We just hung out in brad's kitchen and talked. It was a lot of fun!!! Ah I love those boys!!!

On Saturday September 6th I went and visited Karen and we went out to lunch at Wendy’s and just talked about everything that was going on in our life’s and then we went and picked up Melissa and then went and got noel from her fashion show! After we had picked up noel we went and got Connor and Phil and drove up to this church to go and watch brad perform for something but we missed it by like 5 minutes! I felt so bad!! After that we went over to our park! (The park we used to go play at when we slept at work) and Chase (best friend the 2nd) Paislee, and Chroie (boy) showed up!!! Ah let me just tell you that was like seriously the best day ever!!! Because I missed them SO MUCH!!! They are seriously my best friends ever!!! That was such a fun night!!! Karen and Melissa also were with me and we made up this amazing corney dance!!! It was a BLAST!!! I love those girls!! ha ha

On Sunday September 7th I drove home with Steph, Amanda, and Megan (she is going to Dixie). It was a crazy fun car ride!! Ha ha. Caleb was ordained to be a deacon! I was so mad that I had to leave before church! I’m so proud of you Caleb! Keep on making the right choices! I love you!!! It was also allie's birthday! I was glad that i got to be home for that!!

JUSTIN DRIVING US TO SALT LAKE

CONNOR AND PHIL

ELISSA GIVING KAREN A LOOK HAHA

"A NINjA"

MY GANG (PART OF US ANYWAYS)

CHASE TENDS TO LOOSE HIS KEYS... ALOT HAHA

BUT LUCKLY FOR US WE HAD THE MASTERMIND PHIL WITH US! AND A BROKEN TRUNK

HA HA LUCKY FOR CHASE WE COULD JUST WIRE IT BACK SHUT

CHASE CLIMBING IN THE TRUNK

BOY AND I (HE LOOKS LIKE HE'S IN PAIN!! HAHA)

BEST FRIENDS

JUST CHILLIN'

HA HA HA HA HA OH MY CHASE'S FACE IN THIS JUST MAKES ME LAUGH!!

NOEL AND BOY

NOEL AND BEST FRIEND

KAREN ME AND MELISSA

BRAD AND I HA HA HIS EYES ARE CLOSED IN LIKE EVERY SINGLE PICTURE!!! HE SAID THE FLASH WAS TO BRIGHT HA HA

THEY THINK THEY ARE SO COOL!

MELISSA AND KAREN ALLIE BABES BIRTHDAY!!

THE POOR BUTTERFLY WE HIT AND THEN SMEARED OVER THE WINDSHIELD
STEPHY POO DRIVING US TO CEDAR CITY

AMANDA DOING THE HONK HONK BOTTY DANCE (YOU KINDA JUST HAD TO BE THERE... HA HA HA )

WEEK TWO!!!

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:23:00 +0000

Monday, August 25, 2008

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!! WOOT WOOT!!!

Ha ha only not really! I actually really like my classes. They are much better than high school classes!! The classes I’m taking are nutrition, the history of dance, photography, university 1015, and institute!!! My favorite is by far photography!! I’m thinking that I want to major in it! And maybe get my minor in nutrition or nursing... hum we will just have to wait and see what happens!!!

One thing I loved about the first week of school was the free food!!! Ha ha not even going to lie!! There was just like free food EVERYWHERE!!! No joke!! It was pretty sweet! But I am kind of scared that I am going to become a freshman 15!!! I hope not!!

On Tuesday august 26th a comedian came and performed for us! Justin and I went and watched him, he was so funny!!! We also had a club fair and I went and join like every single club ha ha it was pretty great but I ended up not doing anything with like half of them!

(Spencer also got home from his mission this day!!! I want to go and visit him so bad!!!)

On Wednesday august 27th I tried out for our school's dance team called the "Orchesis" it was really fun! But there were so many girls, like 60 girls, and so there was like no room to dance at all!! I didn't make the team but I am proud of myself for trying! And I got to met tonz of new girls which was a bonus!! Because I made lots of new friends that night!!

Friday august 29 that night Justin and I went to the carnival bash they had on campus, after that we drove up to Leeds to have a movie night at Ashley’s house, and after that he came to Reed and Merri's house with me and we waited for my family to show up! They were forever late!! So Justin and I slept at my aunts house (don’t worry we didn't sleep together! lol he was down stairs with all the boys and I was upstairs in the girls room!) the next morning we all went swimming for Caleb and Allie's birthday and then we went back to merri's house and took showers and got ready for the day after that we all went shopping so I could buy a nice new camera for my photography class and after that Merri took us dumpster diving!!! One of her many expertise!! Ha ha I’m not even going to lie I had a lot of fun in that dumpster!! It was a paper one just in case you were wondering, we were looking for coupons to Tai pan trading! Well once we had all climbed in Abby found a huge bag of shredded paper and tore it open and we had a huge shredded paper fight in the dumpster! I’ve never done that before and I had a lot of fun!! So if anyone is trying to think of a fun free date idea!!! Ha ha just kidding!! But if you’re taking me out then I’m game!!! :) After that we all went to Tai pan and got to buy something I just bought a bowl and a cute little sign that says dream and is now on my shelf in my bed room! (I was pretty surprised to see Justin jump right on in with me and start digging with us! He actually found one!! Yay!)

Justin and I drove home that night so that we could go to our church the next day and after church my dad brought the little kids to my house so they could see where I lived and then they took me back to merri's house with them. And I spent the night there again. Wow its funny how you get used to the quite. Because after a few hours of listening to the little kids screaming I was going crazy! It seems funny to me that it would bug me now because I have been used to hearing it my whole life and I used to be used to it... well it would at least take like all day of listening to the screaming before I got irritated by it.

(I'll try to get the dumpster pictures soon!!)

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON
MERRI SITTING IN OUR SHOPPING CRAZYNESS
THE TROUBLE MAKERS
DONT MESS WITH THE BOY
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALLIE AND CALEB

WEEK ONE!!!

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:09:00 +0000

Wow!!! I’m so bad at this posting stuff! I still need to finish writing about my senior trip!! Lol okay so this is my attempt to catch y’all up on what has happened to me in the past like month... well I guess from the time I moved to cedar city... :)

Alright here is goes....

So I moved into my apartment on Tuesday August 19th, 2008. My Hot Mamma and my Father Pavio helped me move all my stuff into my room and set it up! Oh and Brother Joners of course! It was pretty crazy and I was dreading that night because I new that I would have to say bye to my parents!! Well about half way of putting all my things away my roommate, Kristal, showed up! Picture at the bottom!! We get along pretty well...but we are very different!! Ha ha so we mostly just keep to ourselves, which I am actually totally fine with. But there are lots of times that I wish I had a roommate that I was best friends with and could stay up late telling her about all my boy dramas and all of that!! Ha ha I used to tell her about the guys I liked and all that but she is very opinionated and tells me exactly what she is thinking, and I guess I just don’t like to hear it so I stopped telling her. Lol

So the night I moved in I went and watched the play fiddler on the roof! My love Adan got me and his roommate like 40 dollar tickets for free because he was stage crew! Bonus!! Ha ha his room mate is very funny and cool! So we had fun goofing off together during the play esp. during intermission! Ha ha good times! After that we went out to Denny’s for a midnight snack because Adan said that I needed to go crazy my first night here! well I didn't get home until about two that morning and when I got home my room mate was waiting up for me... I guess she hadn't left the room the whole time and she wanted to talk to someone. Lol, she is not a very social person.

So then for the rest of that week (August 20th-23) I had freshmen orientation!! Oh my so boring!!! We spent all day, everyday that week in stupid classes getting lectures about the same things over and over again!! It sucked! Lol but I met TONZ of new people and most of them I am still friends with!! Pretty sweet! That is one thing I totally love about it here... it's like everyone's goal to be friends with everyone!!! so where ever you go everyone is asking you what your name is and everything it's great I think I have like 40 new people in my phone that all say .... Suu at the end ha ha and it's so hard to keep everyone straight!! It’s like new names and faces overload!!

Um I met Justin Hyatt on Thursday August 21th. And we like instantly became best friends! We pretty much spend all of our time together! um how we met is my best friends and I (Jacky, Steph, Amanda) were going to dinner and our friend Matt ran back to get our other friend Kyle to come with us so the 4 girls went across the street and we were laying on the grass taking pictures of our self’s well matt came back and was like Kyle wont come because he is watching a TV show about big foot! (ha ha totally just like Kyle) so matt was like but this is Justin and he is going to come and eat with us. Lol ya so that is how we met. After dinner that night we were all just walking around campus not really sure what we should do and I suggested that we go see the green show... Well no one had seen it before so I made them... It was a lot of fun. And after we went back to juniper to watch a move I think it was like zoolander or something like that but I was exhausted and I ended up just falling asleep. Lol

Um that Saturday August 23rd all the freshmen got split up into groups to do service projects... My group went and weeded this guy’s yard... it was kind of more like weeding the mountain though. Ha ha um the guy was the guy that started the Shakespearean festival. Crazy cool huh?? I know!!

MY NEW HOME

MY ROOMMATE KRISTAL

MINE AND KRISTALS ROOM

MY DESK

MY SIDE

KYLE MAKING A MEAN FACE

BEST FRIENDS

JUSTIN

SUU HERE I COME!!!

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:01:00 +0000

As Many of you already know i will be attending Southern Utah University this fall!!!
ahhh let me just tell you how excited i am!!! But holy cow i am scared!!! I have never lived away from my family for more than like maybe two weeks at a time! and now i'm moving 4 hours away from not only my family but all of my friends!!! which is probably the hardest thing i've ever done before!!! But as many of you have said to me i'll make plenty of new friends and i'll love it down there!! ha ha! and lucky for me my amzing aunt Merri and uncle Reed and their wonderful family that live only like 45 minutes away from me!!! and the best grandpa in the world lives like 5 minutes away form me!!! which makes me totally happy becasue i have not been able to see them enough! but now i can see them all the time!!! yay! so sorry so short and i didn't give very many details but i still have alot to pack before i leave tomorrow!!! ah i'm going to miss you all SO much!!! keep in touch!!! i love you!!! Love Kenna!! xoxox

In Loving Memory of Craig Decker

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:20:00 +0000

November 22, 1982 – 7/5/2008

It is with tender feelings that family and friends bid farewell to our beloved Craig, who died while sailing with his parents at Utah Lake.

Craig Hammond Decker, 25, was born November 22, 1982 in Murray, Utah to Lyle and Marie Decker. He was a vibrant young man who was loved and respected by the many people whose lives he touched.

An Eagle Scout, he graduated from West Jordan High in 2001. He and Mark Hendricks were Drum Majors of the school’s award winning marching band where he learned to inspire and lead with love. His loving leadership continued as he served as a missionary and branch president in the Argentina Neuquen mission, as a youth counselor for EFY, and as a devoted member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In Jan. 2007 he lost his right hand in a fireworks accident. He said, “I will not be a victim.” Two days later he returned to his studies at BYU in Neuroscience. Craig overcame his trials with optimism and ingenuity, and continues to be an inspiration to many people through his YouTube videos under “captaindanger384.”

In spite of personal difficulties he sought to bring love, light, laughter and faith to more people than ever imagined. His life was an active expression of his faith in the Savior, Jesus Christ. His written personal goals were:

1.People are always more important.
2.Do what you need to do when you need to do it whether you want to or not.
3.I am not a victim, ever.
4.Purity is power.
5.Leave it better than when you found it.
6.Life is a joy, a journey in becoming like my Heavenly Father.
7.Live with purpose.

http://www.craig-decker.com/

Memory Game

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:45:00 +0000

1. As a comment on this post, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you know me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses.

If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.And if you're just a "lurker" that I don't know very well, please use this as an excuse to comment and say hello!

DAY TWO : Kirtland, Ohio

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:59:00 +0000

That morning I was woken up by something being stuck in and out of my ear and sliding across my face... of course it was my grandpa. At the end of his cane he had a string tied to it for him to put his hand in. Well he thought that it was very funny to keep on letting it touch my face because I would try to swish it away. Well I was getting very mad because it was much to early for me to be awake... so I told him that if he didn't stop I was going to take it off of his cane and he was never going to see it again. Well he just laughed and said then you'll just get my dirty sock rubbed in your face tomorrow morning. And kept on letting that stupid string go across my face until I finally got out of bed... later that day I took the string off of his cane and hid it in my bag...

We had a nice continental breakfast and then went and got ready and started to pack up everything. When we were packing our bags Jonah was playing on the cart and when we tried to take him off so that we could load our bag he would cry so we ended up putting him on top of everything and pushing him around. Once we were outside my mom made me get on with him and they push us around the parking lot. After playing around on that for a while we loaded everything into the car and headed off to go see some church sights.

Our first stop was at the visitor’s center in Kirtland, Ohio. We then went to the Kirtland Temple, which is currently owned by the Community of Christ (formerly known as the Reformed LDS church). It was such a beautiful building!!

For dinner that night we went to an Amish town and ate that Mary Yoder's diner, it's an Amish restaurant in Middleton, Ohio. My mom and I were very disappointed when we found out that not only did they have electricity. But they had the bathrooms with the potty’s that flush by themselves and the sinks that turn on and off and the paper towels that come out when you wave your hand in front of them. But despite all of that the dinner was sooo yummy!!! I mostly just ate bread with peauntbutterhoney!!! Oh my sooooo good!!! :)

That night we slept in a cabin at a KOA somewhere by Niagara Falls!

DAY ONE : Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:25:00 +0000

MAY 9TH- (HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAREN!!!)

So after staying up pretty much all night making sure that we had everying ready, me my mom, dad, grandpa, and Brother Jonah caught the 6 a.m. flight to Cleveland, Ohio. I was so excited to go on the airplane but I was totally freaking myself out about it. It turned out to not be as bad as I was making myself think it was. And I actually enjoyed it a lot!!

Our first stop was in Dallas, Texas. We mostly just walked around, got some food and watched Jonah play on some toys in the kid’s area. This was one of the nicer airports. But it was very crowded!!!
When we finally landed in Cleveland it was about 3:30 p.m. (we had lost 2 hours). We picked up our rental car and started our drive to Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. To the Davidson’s house (they are a young family that used to live in our basement). On our way there we picked up a pizza and it was probably the best pizza I’ve ever had in my life!!!

So when we got to the Davidson’s we just sat around and talked about everything that has happened in the past 4 years. And darling little Collin played the violin for us. Wow, I was so impressed by him! Then he showed off his magic tricks and his pro baseball skills!! When everyone was getting ready for dinner Malia and I played Tea party. She is the cutest little girl ever!! After dinner and talking a little bit more Leanne put her kids to bed and we broke out the junk food and cards.

That night we slept in a very nice hotel that was somewhere between their house and Kirtland!

B BABY!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:57:00 +0000

SO I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT I SPENT ALL MY FREE TIME ON MY TRIP STUDYING FOR THAT TEST AND THEN I WENT AND REDID IT..... AND I GOT A B!!! :) :) I'M PRETTY HAPPY!!!! GRADUATION HERE I COME!

wow, sometimes life just sucks!!!

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:07:00 +0000

So for those of you who don't already know... (in 2 hours (3am)) i am leaving with my father, mother, grandpa, and baby brother to go on a trip to the east side of the united states! We are going for my fathers graduation from Boston university ( and just in case you were wondering, no, he was not living there. he was doing it online) and they are taking me for my senior trip!!! well i have to say i am totally pumped!!! but I'm not going to lie i am freaking myself out about flying! ;$ i have made myself sick all day thinking about it! ha ha so anyways let me tell you why my life sucks right now... because some of you are probably wondering why i put my title as "wow, sometimes life just sucks!!!" well as many of you know graduation is coming up!! in 25 days to be exact. well i have been working on a make up packet ( government ) so that i will have enough credits to graduate! so long storey short. i have been trying to finish it really fast because it had to be turned in 3 weeks before graduation so they would have grades in time. well trying to work my fastest! all of the information was kinda going in one ear and out the other.
So today was my last day to take my exam (or else i wouldn't have enough time) so my dad called and told them i was coming in to take my test right after school! well my dear loving grandpa drove me down to Provo and i went to take my test... ha ha ya! holy cow!!! i started reading those questions and had zero idea what any of them meant!! ahhh so i tried my hardest, crossing out the questions that sounded like they would be wrong and just praying that i would at least get a D-!!! so after and hour and a half of reading questions i had no idea about. i went and turned it in to get it graded!!..... i got and "E" ( the same and an "F") oh my! i about died!!! so pretty much there is a 90% chance that i will not get to walk with my class which is SOOO depressing!!!! because i have worked my butt off to graduate!!! so after calling my best friend and balling my eyes out. i have decided that it's just life and I'm going to have to live with it. :( who knows maybe it will all work out and i will get to take it again the minute i get home!!! and they will let me walk!!! if not i have most defiantly learned my lesson!!! i need to stop being such a procrastinator!!! and learn some MUCH BETTER studding skills!!!!
so ya that is why sometimes life just sucks!!!
well i am hoping to keep my blog updated wail I'm on my trip so you guys can see how much fun i am having!! i love you all! love McKenna

JuSt fOr FuN <3

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:08:00 +0000

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? My middle name Lynne after my aunt Merri Lynne
2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? two days ago. i was laughing so hard i actually started crying! but the last time i "sad" cried was when jonathon died.
3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? it depends on the day.
4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE LUNCH MEAT? pizza
5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? nope.
6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Yes.i think so.
7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? no not really.
8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? nope!
9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? I've always sorta, kinda wanted to. But i'm not going to pursue it.
10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? frosted flakes
11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? No
12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? it depends but prob. not.
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE ICE CREAM?Chocolate w/ Peanut Butter
14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?i dono, haha prob what they're wearing.
15. RED OR PINK? Pink.
16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVOURITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? my nose, and laugh
17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? my grandma, but i miss karen a ton!!
18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? n/a
19. WHAT COLOUR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? tan pants and blueish green american eagle shoes.
20. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE? my grandpa's eggs!!! (he made me breakfast this morning!!) i love my grandpa!
21.WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? janae talking to gundo, and a really loud sound coming from the classroom next to us... i think it's wood working?!
22.IF YOU WHERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOUR WOULD YOU BE? navyblue ;-)
23. FAVOURITE SMELLS? vanilla, cookies baking, babies haha i know that sounds weird but they have i good smell.
24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? melissa
25. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? of course!
26. FAVOURITE SPORTS TO WATCH? dance, cheer, hot guys playing about anything!
27. HAIR COLOUR? strawberry blonde
28. EYE COLOUR? blue
29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? well i have them but they make my eyes dry so i dont wear them.
30. FAVOURITE FOOD? anything mexican!!
31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Happy Endings (unless i'm with a cute boy! )
32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? 27 dresses
33. WHAT COLOUR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? blues with white under
34. SUMMER OR WINTER? summer! i hate hate hate snow and the cold!
35. HUGS OR KISSES? both, depending who it's with.
37. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? n/a
38. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? n/a
39. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? none i have WAY to much to do! i dont have time to read.
40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? Don't have one.
41. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON T.V. LAST NIGHT? american idol
42. FAVOURITE SOUND? Baby laughter.
43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? nota
44.WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? tomorrow i am leaving to go to new york and boston and all over!!!
45. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? color guard
46. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? cedar city, utah
47. WHAT SUPERPOWER WOULD YOU LIKE? To fly.

fAmILy LoViN'

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:52:00 +0000

ashton getting his new years kiss and caleb coming to save him?!
mine and annies's feet. (mine are the super white ones hah)
Merri and I on new years.
Seegrist Kids
jonah in a trash can

Mandi and i
Annie and dani
i'm not sure what they were doing...
oh baby?!
Me: "Allie, what are you doing?" Allie: "just relaxing..."

So this is a few years ago... we were trying to make a movie!
This was at efy...it was snowing super hard out side so we all decided to get our feet warm... Cailie: "my upper upper thigh is getting REALLY HOT!!!"
Danielle and I
wanna kiss?!

annie and I

Grandpa with a mop on his head haha
new years 2008
girls night out!
we got alex to let us put make-up on him, do his hair, and dress him up like a girl! :) good times!
what a lady!!

melissa's camera :)

noreply@blogger.com (DaNce tO ThE MuSiC) — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:31:00 +0000