So much for consistency...

Turns out I'm not a stay at home mom who can blog when I'm bored, I actually go and do things with my life....SHOCKER. So I'm going to have to bring it all the way back to September when I went to SHEEP DAY!!! Honestly best day ever. Woke up at 5am to hop on a bus to Wyoming for the day. The first van I hopped into was full of veterans, people who had gone to sheep day multiple times and they were all 10 years older than me....my excitement was starting to fade. However some of my friends I made in my connections class were on another bus and made me come over and ride with them. Little did I know these kids would soon be my best friends:) After the long drive we made it up with Keven (aka our amazing driver) we began with the "wool"ey fun stuff. We did physical check ups, collected sperm, and other personally things.They had all 400 male sheep in a shoot and would let them out one by one, and all we had to do was just snatch one hahahah they're sheep.....you can't really just grab one. They definitely have a mind of their own and they don't see you as an obstacle AT ALL. They see you as a sack of potatoes that they can just ransack and skip away like its their birthday! There was one time when I thought, "I'm totally gonna get this one." Then the guy next to me called it, so I thought to myself again, "Well that man's got it, I'll wait till the next one!" The shoot opens quickly the ram comes out and WAHIIFHIDHIDSO goes the sheep and the guy goes for it....very weakly and misses it. My first instinct is, "Well someone has to get it!" I ran and tackled that sheep, thing is the sheep kept running but I was still attached...... I went skiing like it was the 2002 Winter Olympics in Park City!Another time I grabbed the ram by the horns, but he decided to take another route and stop and I flipped over him right into the nice pavement:) Whhaattaa ride! Overall, I was sore and SO happy the next day:)

Fun Fact. Got a cow onesie. I use it for:

1) Cooking Hamburgers

2) Drinking Chocolate Milk

3) Setting off the fire alarm

I found a new fiery passion. Swing dance. Its the only way I have met people, specifically men. It's just so fun getting thrown in the air not knowing if this man is strong enough to catch you. Honestly every Monday and Wednesday night the fun park is the place to be! Sometimes you get some REAL weirdos, but then you get the good ones and you spin around till you can't see straight! I don't know how many times I've done the dang airplane move, but it's a crowd favorite;) I don't really have another pictures of swing....maybe the next post, if it ever exists....

Over fall break my roommate Josee and I went to Moab! The first day I woke up to my tent full of random girls I didn't know, but I had a nice big bloody nose and i was dripping everywhere! I was thinking, "Oh please please don't wake up!" I got out safe. Phew! First day we went rock climbing, I lost about 7% of skin from the rocks, but I had so much fun! It was such a thrill to be hanging  over the edge! Second day we went river rafting, I was in the kayak with Josee the entire way down the Colorado river. Singing my little heart out as we went. We gathered around the campfire that night and told first kiss and bad date stories....oh i had quite the stories to tell;) 

Now I'm going to rush through some stuff to get to the good stuff.

 1) Did Cotopaxi, it's a 24 hour scavenger hunt. We went all around Logan, up to Bear Lake and Idaho. We had to do a bunch of challenges to get points, like sleep in a car, "true aggie" (it was fake I promise! haha), hike to the wind caves in the dark, stalk a car from Alaska (jk we needed their license plate.) Just all sorts of crazy, exhausting shindigs. Just do it and you will understand. 

Went to the HOWL, Halloween Dance. Never go unless you enjoy your personal bubble being popped aggressively. Buy a ticket and then sell it for more money on the Incoming Freshman Facebook page, its well worth it. 

Oh kinda went Skydiving on Halloween. FANTASTIC. I wasn't even nervous, I just jumped out of that dang plane and flew like a bird. Once the parachute was pulled out #blessed we did some flips and cartwheels. I HIGHLY suggest skydiving to those thinking about it:)

Ran Ragnar, a 200 mile relay race. With 12 teammates we each had 3 legs that we ran day or night! Love love love Ragnar! Vegas was pretty dang fun, but the Utah one is better:) I loved seeing all my old teammates though!

Competed in my first college horse show! It was crazy! Drove 7ish hours up to Montana in the 5 degree weather. Once we got to the show you just pull a random number out and that is the horse you ride! You have never met this horse before and you get a short description on what they are like. Once your class is about to start you hop on and can't touch anything and then you get led into the arena and go! You start jumping your random new friend! One of the rounds i had a pony named Lucky, we were doing amazing and then he came to a jump and refused three times so I was eliminated. I just shook it off and said "hey it's my first college show I'm good!" Turns out I was given a re-ride! The next horse questioned the same jump and I was like, "uh uh! You are jumping this and I smacked his butt and he launched himself over." I may have taken last, but I learned a lot from that ride and gained a whole new confidence as a rider that I could ,with motivation, make a horse understand my motives. At dinner a drunk guy came up and started talking to us and he was very impressed we "rode our horses all the way from Utah to Montana" and he kept asking us what Utah was.... a lot of inside jokes were made that night:) Our waiter was flirting with us a ton and served a desserts while saying, "You ladies ready for some hot loving?"

Now to the good stuff;)

1) I have the most amazing friends up here. Actually cried when I went home cause I missed them so much. Just some brief experiences, I won't say any names so no one gets left out cause I love you all!

Just the tender mercies of study buddies, best friends who buy you pizza consistently and give you a wake up call everyday so you make it to your 7:30 am class, swing friends, hockey squad, and all around blessed with the best roommates who have to put up with me:) I'm just surrounded by the best friends and they are great examples:)

Now for the learning part.... I've been working on my mission papers and I have the bestest friend that has helped me a ton. When I doubted whether it was for me or not they were there to cheer me up and i remembered that I REALLY wanted to go. I have seen through my life here at USU when I listen to cheerful music, I think of others before myself, and visit the temple I can see my life becoming so much more fulfilling! Coming up to college is hard to go from a straight A student to a B student, but I've learned that college is hard and I'm paying to further my education. I may spend a bunch of years up here, but I love to learn. Even if I fail a class and retake it, I'm fine because it's all about the new experiences and really learning something, not rushing through it for the grade. I have seen when I look at my life through God's eyes I can see that everything happens for a reason. When something goes wrong, it doesn't bother me because I know something better is coming. We are all human so why do we judge each other when I'm pretty sure we are all in the same boat trying to stay afloat:)

Till next time, Happy Holidays!