Home!

This last weekend I decided to go home one last  time before Thanksgiving! I can't believe I have to wait 5 weeks to go home again but hopefully it will fly by, and I will have lots of fun! Well home was just grand! I was able to work a couple hours earlier so that I could leave sooner! I was off for home! I went to my old high school's football game, where I watched my AWESOME cousin play like a champion...and I was also able to see one of my  most ABSOLUTE favorite people in the entire world! Dakota! She and I have been friends for a long time but she goes to Utah State and I am in Rexburg so we never see each other, so I was so excited to see her! It was a great start to my weekend! Saturday came and we worked with my dad most of the morning and then my mom took me and my sisters shopping! It was a blast! I bought the movie Casper, for Halloween. While we watched it I pinned Christmas crafts on pinterest! I guess you could say I am a little excited for Christmas! Sunday rolled around we slept in went to church had dinner and then I made the 2 hour drive back to school! It was great weekend and I love living close enough that I can go home on the weekends!

Driving Home! Beautiful sunset!!!

Me and Dakota at the football game! I love this girl!!

Also I was really jealous it had been snowing everywhere, but here! But it finally snowed today! I love the snow! It always puts me in that Christmas spirit! By the way Hallmark Countdown to 25 days of Christmas movies start November 19th...just in case you were wondering! :]

I-Jump!

So Saturday night was a way way way way awesome night! After doing homework all day, my roommates and some friends invited me to go to this place in IF called I-Jump  It is basically a place with no floor just trampolines EVERYWHERE and 3 great big foam pits that you jump into you! We played a dodge ball game and I have never sweated so much in my life, or been so tired but my adrenaline is what kept me going and I was running up and down those tramps like it was nothing, but trust I will be feeling that "nothing" tomorrow! There were these like 7-12 year old kids doing like triple and quadruple jumps everywhere and here I am asking if anyone wants to have a bum war haha! BUT I will say I did learn to do back flips into the foam pit and then I was so close on just the tramps, I can flip but I don't land very well...luckily they are bouncy! Although I was still pretty impressed! Sadly we were to busy having fun to take any pictures, sad day! It was one of the most fun nights I have had in a long time! I tell ya it is the weekends that get me through college! :]

What a joy!

Oh snap! School, is such a joy! haha! Actually this semester is one of the most defining semesters I have ever had. I really love it but I hate it at the same time! I don't like change, and this semester big things are changing and it is hard to adjust to but, I am grateful I can learn to have patience and enjoy this exciting time of my life.

Well this past weekend was conference and I was so excited to go home. It was the first time I had been home in 5 weeks and it was so comforting to be at home and pretend that school didn't exist. Conference was wonderful! I love hearing the talks! Here is one of my favorites that was given,CONFERENCE
They changed the age missionaries can leave for both boys and girls. Boys used to be 19 now they are 18, girls used to be 21 and are now 19. Crazy how things change but I know the Lord has a plan and this is just what needed to happen at this time in our lives.

Before I went home for conference, my little sister Holli came and stayed with me! She is so fun and over the summer her and I got really close...we were all we had haha! But really she is starting to get older and it is so fun to hang out with her! We really had a grand time!

Supported our ward in flag football!

Rode in the back of Katelyn's truck!

And of course ate!

I love my life!

The Lord gives his toughest battles to his toughest soldiers

Life is such a fragile thing. It can be joyous at times and devastating at times. Drastic decisions can be made that can't be taken back. It is hard to think that one day you think everything is great and the next everything can be taken right from under you. My sister, Heidi and her husband Kyle and his family, just suffered a devastating loss. Kyle's brother Cody sadly passed away at the young age of 17. Although I only knew Cody for a short moment in time, it was evident to see what a remarkable young man he was and is. I remember visiting Heidi in Alaska not even two months ago and there he was, as friendly and kind as you could be. He was taking some pictures for us right before we left, cracking jokes and making us all laugh. He was a great young man and will surely be missed. My prayers go out to the De Vaney family, cousins, aunts, uncles, and anyone who knew Cody. He was certainly a young man with so much potential, who lived such a short life. It breaks my heart to think of his family suffering, because, I know his family and what wonderful people they are. They are certainly a family that doesn't deserve to go through such an awful thing, no family is. It just makes me SO grateful for the plan of salvation and the knowledge I have that families can be together forever! 

~In loving memory, Cody De Vaney 

"Our beautiful son, brother, grandson, uncle & friend has passed on into the arms of his Savior, Jesus Christ. He will be loved eternally and missed until the day we are reunited and can hold him in our arms again.
Cody Mitchell De Vaney was born September 16, 1995. He had a heart of gold and always had a very loving and tender heart. Cody was passionate about cars. He helped build and race tw

o stock cars with his dad, brothers and grandpa. He was looking forward to attending a vocational college where he could continue his automotive passion. He also loved the Alaskan outdoors where he could enjoy his second passion, snowboarding.
Cody’s parents, Laura & Darren, brothers & sisters, Kyle, Lyssa, Dean & Brooke, sister & brother in law, Heidi & Aaron, niece, Skye, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins & friends are heart broken.
We look forward to the day when we will meet Cody again and be able to wrap him in the arms of our love. Cody, we love you. God be with you ‘till we meet again."