Even though high school was a long time ago...

I can't help myself.... I joined this group on Facebook. Pathetic? Maybe. But hey, I still bleed blue.

DEW Tour 2009

Since my last post was about football, and this one is about BMX, you might be thinking that I am a total tomboy. Which would be false. And to reassure your doubting minds I will next post a picture of the latest love of my life... After I say how much fun the Dew Tour was!! I loved it because it was something I had never done before, because I think these guys are amazing athletes, and I kind of love the laid back culture of extreme sports. You swear that they aren't going to be able to pull out of their mid-air contortions in time to land without killing themselves, but they do every time. Its ridiculous.
I didn't see Ryan Scheckler (famous and awesome skateboarder who I love), but I did have some adventures none-the-less. I did a little under the table wheeling and dealing for our tickets and saved some money, and I also did a bit of sneaking around and playing the innocent and dumb but friendly blonde to use an ATM that was in a closed off area of the Energy Solutions Arena, so that I could get the cash to make my aforementioned sketchy deal :)
Another awesome part of the day was the fact that I got to see my cousin Chloe! She was visiting from Houston, TX and I hadn't seen her in years so it was fun to spend time with her.
We also went to the Farmers Market where I got an amazing loaf of bread. I LOVE good bread. I need to start learning how to make the good stuff.
Back to the subject of purchases... yeah, I now own these and I'm in love with them!

BYU vs. OKLA

OH MY GOSH. BYU, ranked No. 20, beat Oklahoma, who were ranked No. 3! It was the first time BYU had won their first-away-game-of-the-season since 1996 and the first time that BYU had beat a nonconference top 10 team since 1990! It was an awesome game, 14 - 13, and even though it was an away game, all of Provo was making noise to cheer them on. I watched the game at Legends Grill in the student athlete building, and there were well over a hundred people there, it was so much fun :) We kept up all the traditions of doing our particular cheers at the correct times. The only thing that was missing was that ridiculous, yet actually quite endearing sound of a cougar (the animal kind) hiss-growling. We sang the fight song twice, and everyone was hugging each other at the end. When we left Legends, even the police were celebrating by turning on their lights and sirens just for fun :) Then they had to leave to direct the thousands of students in the streets yelling and honking their car horns and crossing the cross walk back and forth in droves for no reason other than to share the celebration with people lining the corners. There were still people in the street when my friends and I got back from the bonfire we did after the game. And now, even though it is 12:45 a.m., next on our docket of fabulous activities for the evening revolves around a confirmed rumor that the team is landing in the Provo airport at 1:45 a.m. Audrey, Dani and I are just biding our time until then so we can go meet the team (I feel so cool even just saying "the team" as if I know them) with all the other (hopefully) hundreds of fans through whom this information circulated. I AM SO EXCITED! ......
.......Meeting the players at the airport was awesome, there were hundreds of people there, with a DJ and everything. It was a total party. We got to high five the players as they walked past and Coach Mendenhall gave a small speech over the sound system...:) We are such good fans :)
Also, please take a moment now to study the beauty of the picture posted above. Wow.

Lake Powell!

Lake Powell is my happy place, and this was either the second or third time that I have been this summer! Joy! My parents, Lynne, Keith, Tyler, Jamie, Kael and myself took a trip there for the day this past weekend, and it was such a blast!

Of course we got going way later than we had planned on - I woke up forty-five minutes late, when everyone was at the door ready to go, my dad forgot his swimsuit so we had to stop at Walmart to buy him one, and then my mom gave us all quite a scare by losing her purse for twenty minutes or so.... thank goodness there are honest people in the world who turned it in! Eventually we got on the water, and really, the delay was to be expected because i don't think this family is ever going to be able to change their late/never-a-dull-moment ways :)

We went cliff jumping and climbing, we got thrown around on the tube so much that we continued on even after we made a hole in it, and several people whipped out their awesome wakeboarding skills :)

I for one am still so sore that this morning I could barely move. I am pretty sure that we all beat ourselves up almost as much as a person possibly could in one day in the name of fun and adventure.

I know I keep mentioning alternate career paths, I suppose it is a result of my nervousness for my future adult type job hunting, but if I don't find full-time employment in business after I graduate next year, I think I will look into becoming a park ranger/water police man, i mean woman. I know that I would at least have a totally sweet tan!

MIA

Yeah, so I haven't posted on this thing in a while, so I just thought I would refer you to Adam and Andrea's blog, because we have all been going to St. George a lot for the weekends. Many fun times have been had, but since I am lazy, you can refer to their cute and frequently updated blog. I am pretty sure that I haven't been to my ward in about a month, but I love going home! Its so relaxing to pretend like all of my responsibilities in Provo don't exist. Which is so like me because I am totally one of those escape reality as frequently as possible people whether it is by leaving town, reading young-adult fiction, or watching So You Think You Can Dance clips on YouTube.

Weekend Fun!

I had such an excellent weekend! And it even kind of started on Thursday night. I love not having class on Friday! First I went to Cheesecake Factory, and Transformers 2 at an IMAX Theater, and on Friday I went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open-house, Saturday I went to Lagoon to visit Lauren at work and party-hardy, and Sunday I went over to Ash and Devon's house for dinner! My life is charmed :)

Its official - I'm a clencher

So about a month ago, I thought that I somehow mysteriously dislocated my jaw. I couldn't open my mouth very wide without lots of pain and like a cramping on the left side of my jaw. I decided to not freak out and decided that if I had to get my jaw wired shut to fix it, I would at least lose a lot of weight :) Anyway, a week later, the other side started hurting, and after continual problems for the past month, I woke up this morning and realized that my jaw was clenched so tight I could it took concentrated effort to open my mouth. So now I am in the market for a mouth guard. Lets just pretend that I am an athlete in my sleep or something, and not think about how ridiculous I am going to look and how nasty that is going to be... I don't have the guts to post a picture, because I would still like to be in denial....