(so i am really sorry i am a terrible blogger... i had such a fun time on the cruise and disneyland... just check out adrians blog... its awesome! and hopefully i will be able to do something about it later...)
okay so its hard to believe... but i am really in provo! and i start school tomorrow! aahhh!! i am really excited though! and i am officially a byu cougar! yay!! and i have moved in to an apartment with danielle and it is so much fun!
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on monday me and my mom left tucson and drove all day to st. george. i have to tell you... i dont think i was quite ready to leave... mentally, emotionally, physically... it was really sad leaving home. its kind of funny because i have been at ea for three years.... and i didnt even move home last summer... so ive been "gone" for quite some time... but this just seems so much more... i dont know final? (i even gave up my room to austin!) i suppose me coming home every weekend for two months this last semester didnt help... but really i was having so much fun in tucson hanging out with kelsey and devin and zac... and watching ben 10 with austin... helping mom.... seeing dad every day... and dustin and adrian were so close... just chilling with the fam, going swimming and watching movies. me coming to utah is like really leaving.... im gone gone. you know? there were definetely a few tears shed on my way out of town. okay anyway...so once we got to st. george we stayed with her friend (and roommate from college) tracy. she had a such a beautiful house and she was really nice and super funny... we went to dinner and then spent the night with her. it was so funny to listen to her and my mom catch up... even though they rarely see eachother, it was like they just picked right up where they left off in college... just laughing and having fun.
then on tuesday we slept in a little, said goodbye to tracy and drove on in to provo. we stopped and jason and laurel's house, which i have to add is stinking cute! (they have been remodeling and fixing up and it is an adorable house... they have done such a good job!) i also got to see their daughter... isabelle for the first time every!!! and she is just a doll!! ...i think she looks like erik... kinda weird i know... maybe its just the richardson-ness in her lol! then we went to my apartment! i live in this cute little apartment complex called cinnamon tree. me and mom unloaded my car... as fast as possible because it was really hot!! (i was expecting cooler weather...but it was in the high 90's. yuck... oh well i guess its better than 110) then we went over and met paula at her house (i hadnt see this house so i got another tour of a house...second for the day... but i didnt mind) then we chatted with her for awhile and then we left and met jason and laurel and isabelle for dinner...at carraba's i believe... (random little side note... if you go there you have to get their frozen raspberry lemonade...delicious!!) after that mom dropped me off at my apartment and she took my car to paulas... and i had fun unpacking and everything... danielle was home from work. and that night me and danielle and her fiance jared and his friend tim all went to the movies and saw hulk... it was pretty fun! :)
*this is the view from our front door! cute!!
*the black and white squares are my bulletin boards... i painted them to match... cute, eh? and i think i need something else above my bed... i think i am going to do a little quote painting or something. oh and austin look! do you see the little puppy you gave me? ;)
*if you notice.... dan has a brown comforter with black pillows and i have a black comforter with a brown pillows... we are all types of matching!! :)
on wednesday... me and my mom walked around campus for awhile... met up with paula again.... had lunch with her. oh i went to a counselor to talk about classes and stuff... that was pretty interesting. and i think i had dinner with paula and mom and kevin... paula's husband you i met then. he is a really nice guy.
thursday we... me and mom took lunch to my cousin marcor.... it was a nice little visit... a little bit awkward... but that was to be expected right? mom took me shopping (wednesday and thursday) and got me all settled...i have groceries now! yay!! :) and!! me and dan went and visited our old roommate from thatcher ashley... and that was so fun!! ash is so cute and she has the cutest apartment! so we must have done something else... but its been a long week.... i dont really remember!
friday i slept in a bit then went and got my books and student id...then i met up with mom and paula at her house and had lunch. then we all went to "get smart" the movie... which was stinking hilarious!! i met her parents for the first time... in i dont know... 20 years? they were very nice... paula's mom reminded me so much of my grandma neilson!! we went to dinner afterwards.... i saw slash "met" paula's son david... i probably havent seen him since i was 13 or 14... that made me laugh. and then i went and got ice cream at the malt shoppe with tim... jareds friend (actually we had been talking on facebook for awhile...so it was nice to have another friend up here). then i went back to the apartment and dan and i decided to redecorate!! so now our living room is terribly cute... we duct taped the wall... put our new pillows out there... got this wicked sweet fabric that we are using as a rug... and everything looks awesome now... not that it didnt before... but this is just so fun!! :) ...see danielles blog for details!! lol. ...oh yes and i said goodbye to my mom... *tear tear!!
*its duct tape!! how sweet is that!?
saturday.... my mom flew back home. danielle and i spent hours tanning... and now we are both a little red and sore... and i have more weird tan lines... this is getting ridiculous. i started reading "the host" by stephanie meyer and i am loving it! i am having a hard time not reading it! so we had a nice relaxing day... went out shopping for a bit and then me and danielle and jared went and saw "kung fu panda" ... which was a really funny movie to. apparently i like to go see movies. haha...
and now sunday....i went to church for the first time!! our ward is really cute and small right now since it is just summer.... but the smallness was familiar and somewhat comforting... everybody was really nice. actually annika is one of the relief society presidents... and she made sure to introduce me in relief society! (thanks!) oh yes!! on tuesday the bishopbric were apparently making their rounds... and stopped by and introduced themselves to me... and today the bishop stopped me (by name... i was thoroughly impressed!) we walked across campus to our building... and i wore shoes that i thought were broken in.... apparently not, i have a couple cute little blisters. bummer i know. i went to paula's house for dinner... it was kevin's birthday... i felt kind of bad... i didnt take him a card or anything. whoops. there were a lot of people there! i met his kids... and paula's kids were there... and her brother in law and his family and her parents... and a couple other random girls (like me) who werent related... lol it was funny we sat at a table pretty much by ourselves. it was definetely the cool table though... actually one of the girls... olivia... is paula's other secretary so it was nice to get to know her a bit more. okay so apparently in utah its the cool thing to do to have "ward prayer." haha this really makes me laugh... our ward gets together every sunday night at 8 on the "grassy knoll" to pray together... yep im in utah. haha! i guess its more of a social thing than anything else... but still it makes me laugh!
*oh and dont worry.... edmond made the long journey safe and sound! phew!!! :)
....and thus my utah experience begins....
