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Yesterday, Feb. 2, I turned 18 and a half. When I got home from school, I found this on my table:

and this in my freezer:

My b-friend is probably the most thoughtful/clever person ever!

Those of you who forgot, don't feel too bad. You can all redeem yourselves in august. :)

'Tis the Season

Though this holiday season doesn't feel quite as "christmassy" away from home, finals are gross, and a white chritmas is more of a nightmare of mine than a dream, I'm still finding ways to enjoy it. On Saturday we all went to see the temple lights in Salt Lake which was cool(I still like Mesa's better). Then on Sunday, me and my roomies were feeling pretty crafty so we decorated the apartment with our very limited resources. The result was lights hanging everywhere and the transformation of our TV stand into a fireplace. Don't get jealous..

On Monday, Jacob got us a real live Christmas tree! Who's ever heard of such a thing?! Our decorations for that were pretty limited as well, so we began stringing the popcorn.

The finished product...it even smells good.

Halloween

Me and Jacob were Mario and Peach... I think we pulled it off.

CaLiForNiA

Last weekend we took a sort-of last minute trip to california. We went to Six Flags on Friday and Disneyland/California Adventure on Saturday. It was a BlASt! Here aree some pictures of the excitement:

O and I know we match in all of these, but I swear we didn't plan that.. just kinda happened.

Seasons?!

It's the weirdest thing- the leaves actually change colors here! Seeing as I've always lived in

Arizona, I've never really experienced the change of seasons. So this is all really fascinating to me. I love it now, but we'll see how i feel about it when i experience a for real winter... ehhh. I'm NOT looking forward to that.

Oh and I also find it funny that there are real DEER on campus... just prancing around.

p.s. that's no googled image. it's 100% legit. pretty amazing!

My New Home!!

This is me. I make my bed each and every day.

This is my roomate. She's such a slob...

But I do like to steal her clothes when she's not looking. My sister also lives with us, but she doesn't like to be seen in public with us, because we're freshmen.
This is our kitchen. Devaun cleans it when she's bored (which is almost always!)
This is our most valuable possesion!! we all chipped in and bought this baby. Then we counted down the hours 'til the girl brought it to us. That's not even a lie. (we were realllllly bored). It's saved our lives and allowed us to watch The Sound of Music 1 and a half times.

And this is our bathroom. I'm sure the long countertop and big mirrors will come in handy while all SIX of us try to get ready in the morning.

So that's our FaBuLOuS apartment. It's actually a lot better than when we first moved in. After scrubbing every square inch down (well that was mostly devaun's doing...) and putting air fresheners in every room, it's really growing on me. I'm also really enjoying living with devaun and kami (our other 3 roomates always seem to be out...can't imagine why?). I swear we don't lay arounn ALL day. We sometimes go on bike rides or workout or walk to campus... honest.