Happy Holidays!

Just a little reminder of what the holidays are truly about! I love this time of year!! Sure the gifts are fun, the Christmas lights are pretty, the food is yummy. But I only hope that this holiday season I will be more opt to give of myself, and look for the true meaning of Christmas this holiday season!

Pretty sure I gained 500 LBS....

No joke though Thanksgiving was filled with food. laughter. food. games. family. food. shooting guns.Santa turning on the Christmas lights.decorating.sleeping in.staying up late.and did I mention food. Seriously though I am so incredibly blessed with such a WONDERFUL family! They are all my best friends and I love when we get together, there is no one else in the world who can make me as happy as my family! I just can't wait until everyone is here, Heidi, Kyle, and Erica, then it will be a real party! Dew pong anyone!? Anyways, Thanksgiving was just what I needed...a break from reality and lots of care free fun! We were sure to keep plenty busy so I will highlight the top six of the last week! Here we go!

1. Driving home! There is no better feeling than getting in the car and knowing your next stop is HOME! That was definitely a highlight, not the driving but actually getting to go home! 
2. Relaxing! Wednesday was a day of rest! I did not get ready at all, hung out with my sisters, played some wii, hung out with my Dad, decorated the outside and just relaxed! It was perfect!
3. Thanksgiving! Stuffing my face is sure a highlight! Nothing like Grandma Stockings homemade dressing, and my favorite apple pie. Pretty sure I ate enough that week to keep me full the rest of the year...
4. Shooting guns with my family! Every year my dad grows a giant pumpkin in our garden and the past couple of years a couple of my uncles and my dad get out their guns, invite the kids out to the field to shoot the pumpkin! It is becoming a fun tradition and it is pretty fun to shoot at, especially because it is pretty big and hard to miss!
5. Black friday shopping! I never have really gotten into going all night, unless there is something I really want. This year I was after movies, and a printer and I got both so I was a happy camper! Holli and I are the only ones who really enjoy it so she came with and I loved hanging out with her!
6. Christmas decorating! Day or two after Thanksgiving we always get all our Christmas decorations out and  decorate! We went shopping for decor, and made the house feel like it was really Christmas! 

Hol dog's a pro!

me not so much ;)

Dad means business

Waiting for the printer! It was well worth the wait!

Santa Clause is comin' to town!

29 days til Christmas!!!!

Ward Talent Show!

So our ward did a talent show this past week, and my apartment and two of our friends did the most hilarious idea, well I thought it was pretty funny! We did something called i-pod idol it is where you put ear phones in turn on a good song and then just sing. It is so so so funny! So check it out...it's pretty good if ya ask me! :]

Enjoy!

Weekend update!

Welllllllll this past weekend was blast, as usual! I just have to say I am so blessed with such great roommates and friends! Honestly they are all so fun and we always have a blast together! I can't believe I am saying this but I don't want this semester to be over! :[ A majority of the group is peacin' out and it will surely not be as fun...but I am sure we will still make it great! Anyways back to the weekend haha! We had so so so much fun! It was random and unplanned as usual but it was still way epic! Friday night we went to dinner and then played capture the flag with nerf guns in a building on campus! It was so fun! We left our flags there seeing if anyone would take them...no one did! I was pretty excited! On Saturday night we went to something called i-cover which is pretty much people singing covers of popular songs except I realized I must not be popular because I didn't know any of the songs...but I don't think a lot of people did so I felt a little better about that. Haha, afterwords we came back to our apartment and watched Blind Side...wonderful movie! Sunday was another great day! I went to my cousins primary program and they were so stinkin cute! Made me miss primary! Then I went my church and on Sunday night we had our usual Disney movie night and we watched the saddest movie Charlie...if you haven't seen it be prepared to cry! :'[ I bawled no big deal! As usual the weekend has to end, but its always ok...another weekend is right around the corner! And hey, only one more full week of school until Thanksgiving! :]

Happy Halloween!

Girls of 408 are sure clever! After spending two weeks trying to decide what we should be for our ward Halloween party, we came up with the perfect idea! We would dress up as a guys apartment! We are pretty good friends with this one apartment and it was PERFECT! We had people getting us clothes, my person just gave me my stuff...I said my friend wanted to dress like a cowboy and wanted to borrow his belt buckle and hat, he said of course and brought it right over! haha little did he know...haha! We spent like two hours getting ready for this thing and I am not going to lie we looked pretty good! We cut out cardboard letters and numbers that said...A P T. 1 0 1 and we each had one around our neck with a name tag that said our names! When the guys saw us they were pretty shocked, and we were feeling pretty good! After that randomly, I don't know what has gotten into me lately being so random and all, but we decided to go to this haunted house called the haunted mill. Freaking scary! I got my pants stuck, while a creep was breathing down my neck, crawled through black tunnels, was chased practically through the whole thing, and was pretty close to peeing my pants a couple of times...luckily I didn't! All in all my Halloween was pretty rad!!

Apt. 101 portrayed by Apt. 408!

Sledding/Girls night!

Wow! What an adventure this last weekend was! I am not normally a spontaneous person, I like to have a plan of what I am going to do...this last weekend was not the case at all! It was so fun, and I was so sad to see it end! Let me just take you day by day see if you can keep up! ;]

Friday:! It snowed...A LOT which = one happy Staci! Honestly walking in the snow does suck, but I still love it! Don't be fooled it is of course gone, but for the weekend it was wonderful! I only had one class on Friday and then didn't work until 3 so I had a day full of my snuggie, homework, and pandora Christmas music...judge if you must! Friday night, started out like any other...me and my friends asking what should we do...it was snowing and everyone just wanted to play in the snow! So what do we do? Decide to go sledding out in the dunes! Heck yea! It ROCKED! We went to Wal-Mart, bought random things to sled on for example an air mattress and headed off...not before getting ice-cream at thors of course! So our journey began...Roger was a trooper, my car, he trucked his way out there and only got stuck ALMOST once! We went sledding, watched a girl dance in the middle of the road...random, and made giant snow angles! After about an hour of freezing we decided to go back and find something else to do...on our way back we passed a haunted straw maze. The group decided it would be fun to go so even though we were freezing cold, we decided to check it out. Well we wanted to make sure the place was still open, because it was snowing, so we sent our guy friends to check it out...mistake #1. They come back, and I the driver, notice something following them...myself along with three other girls in the car start freaking out. Turns out the chainsaw man was following them...At one point my friend was pinching me to start driving away, while everyone else was screaming. I back out and contemplate leaving the guys or being brave and waiting...my choice was to start driving away! I didn't drive very far before the guys started running. Laughing their heads off they tell us this exact statement, "the guy looked bored so we told him there was a car full of girls up ahead and he just followed." WOW! Laughing about it the whole night we went back to our apartment, chilled and watched a classic, Sweet Home Alabama!

Saturday:! Snow was leaving and I got really sad, but its ok it is still early in the year, there is still a month or two before Christmas! Saturday was a really chill day! It consisted of no make-up, p.js all day, and watching t.v, and eating. Two of our roommates had dates, one was out of town so there was just three AWESOME girls to hang out. We decorated our apartment, built and amazing fort, got lots of junk food, did facemasks and watched a movie. What an awesome night!


                                                                                 Sledding!!

Girls night!

Our awesome fort!!

I love being a college student! I want to make the most of it, because there really is no other time like this in our life time! So I better enjoy it while I can!!