Midterms

I've never hated midterms so much as I do this semester. Usually I don't find them very stressful at all, but this semester they've all landed back to back & make me want to pull my hair out.

Today I'm relieved, because I finally took my Chemistry test. My score wasn't good at all, but I didn't expect it to be. I got a lousy 52%.

Confession: I came out of the testing center and laughed about it. I'm pretty sure that makes me a bad student. But seriously, I think that class is a joke. I did what I could, studied...did some practice problems...what else was left? ...So at the end of the day, after taking it...I really didn't care. I was just happy to have it over with.

Tonight I'm get to take another one...joy. But this one, I will Ace! Got to love Psychology!!!

Then this weekend, I get to read a history book...and by history book...I don't mean fun, interesting stuff...I actually really like history and enjoy my lectures in class, but our assignments make me want to pull my hair out. I actually read my TEXT book for the class and enjoy it...but this so called literature we're supposed to read is beyond awful. And then to make things better, I get to write a fun paper all about it.

Needless to say, fall break can't come soon enough.

Happy Birthday "Joyce!"

It's my bestest friend Jaynee's birthday today! She is seriously one of the funniest, genuine, caring people I know. Since its her birthday I'm going to brag about her, so here are some of the greatest things about Jaynee.

-She's very optimistic
-She's was an awesome roommate!
-She is gorgeous.
-When you ride in her car, you can always guarantee and adventure--she's the only person I know who buys several set of tires a year, has been pulled over for wreckless driving and then been asked if she stole the vehicle, and once she flew her car off the freeway and it survived it...no scratches, and no injuries from her many passengers.
-She is always willing to help & support me whenever I need her.
-She can "Joyce it Up" better than anyone I know.
-She has serious talent when it comes to random injuries--both giving and getting them. In high school Jaynee somehow managed to put a straw thru her forehead at a football game & cut her head on the bleachers at the very same game. Luckily, I haven't been the victim of too many of the injuries she's given, but right after she got engaged she managed to cut me w/her wedding ring--I guess it serves me right though, because I told Cameron he was doomed and he better watch out, because if she hit him with that ring it would leave a mark. I didn't know I would be the victim!
-She is very very entertaining
-She, like me, needs very little sleep--which means we've had great times decorating cars at odd hours of the night, pulling all nighters, and making runs to Walmart for ingredients to make Brownies, and even cutting out snowflakes til 4 am! She didn't bother to sleep the night before her wedding, we played to late hours of the night when WE called it quits...she wanted to keep the night going, I later learned from her dad that she went for a 6 am run the morning of!
-She's the greatest friend anyone could possibly ask for!

Happy Birthday Jaynee!

Thank you for being such an awesome friend all these years.
Joyce it up!!!

Happy Birthday!

I know I'm really late in the day, but just wanted to say...

...I hope all your birthday wishes came true!

Losing Streak

I feel that no one blogs anymore & its really depressing. I get on here and have very little to read. I get excited whenever someone posts...so fellow bloggers...please make my life more exciting by giving me something good to read!!!

Secondly, BYU is on a losing streak & it really stinks--so much in fact, that Saturday we left the game with 9 minutes left in the 4th quarter...how lame is that? Luckily I still enjoy going to the games & hoping they win. If not, its still fun being at the game with T!!!

{Funny Story}

Jaynee's super awesome husband Cameron, threw her a surprise party on Friday night! They live in her grandpa's basement & he's got a fire pit out back so we had a fire--roasting hot dogs, starbursts, and making smores...you know, all that normal stuff would expect at a bon fire.

Well, if any of you know Jaynee, you know, her birthday or any event involving her can't be mellow...or normal. She likes things crazy and exciting...

This party was no exception. Her grandpa has a sunroom that connects to both the front of the house & to the backyard. We heard pounding on the door to the front, because we had left the back door open. And who was there? None of other than the fire dept.--apparently they got a call about a fire from a block away so they had to come out to inspect. There was two of them, who came and looked at our pathetic fire (it was so small it was barely putting off any heat at all.) They chuckled a little--and were like well that fire is DEFINITELY legal. But unfortunately legal or not, since they did complain we have to make you put it out. We hate to ruin the fun.

Talk about a random visit, to make things better they told us that it took a long time for them to find out where it was even at and they had to get a spotlight out just to see the tiny smoke cloud it was putting off-- so how someone saw it from a block away is beyond me!

To make things better we followed them out and turns out there were a bunch of firemen outside all suited up in their full gear--not to mention there was the fire dept. suv out front, a fire truck, and an ambulance!!! Needless to say, the whole neighborhood & Jaynee's family were either showing up or calling the house to find out what was going on.

I've been to lots of bon fires and such, but I'm not sure if any will be more memorable than this one. --Next time, I think we'll just invite the fire dept. to come join us to avoid any future 911 calls, we offered them some food and drinks last night but they declined. haha.

Toes.

Tyler has many talents and this is one of them.

Last night we were bored...should have been doing homework but we weren't, so I asked Tyler if he wanted to paint my toes that needed to be redone. I was totally kidding, but he was like yeah, sure! So I kinda thought it would just be something funny, because he's never painted toes before, but he actually did a really good job. He did a base coat, 2 pink coats, and a top coat. I was really impressed...the cotton balls between my toes were even his idea. They look better in person than they do in the picture, I was very proud. Forget paying for pedicures, I'm hiring Tyler!

Colorado Adventure.

Friday morning we decided to go to the BYU vs. Air Force Game on Saturday in Colorado Springs. It was really last minute, but was very fun and very worth it. Tyler served his mission in Colorado Springs and so did our friend Jeff so they had connections for a place to stay. It was a great, cheap trip! We took lots of pictures so be prepared for some serious picture overload.

Seeing a game at Air Force was really cool especially because it was September 11. They made it nice and patriotic. They flew in kids who were in the Pentagon day care that day and shared their story as well as 2 firefighters, one who lost 2 brothers (also firefighters). Both died when the towers collapsed. One in each tower. 

BYU played horribly & got smoked by Air Force, but we still had a good time.

This is on the drive back to Utah. The boys got burned really bad at the game, so they both had VERY red & shiny faces. It was really funny.

Colorado is absolutely beautiful & especially beautiful this time of year so we took a break and took these pics...

 

We had just got back in the car from our first stop and Tyler thought we should take this one particular exit...I protested, but thankfully Jeff listened to him and not me. We got off the exit and saw one of the prettiest places I think I have ever seen...gorgeous trees...beautiful lake...bridges...etc. So we took these fabulous pics! and then some...haha.

So Tyler decided he wanted to throw the leaves--not very like him. It was really funny cuz he wanted a picture of it, but since it was a yellow tree behind him and yellow leaves you can't see all the leaves flying in the air which made the picture pretty funny I thought.

 

The place was seriously beautiful, I don't think the pictures even do it justice.

Don't ask why we're standing like this, I set the timer and ran and the boys told me what to do. I didn't have time to think about it. lol.

Jeff had a little too much fun with the road signs.

This video I will warn you is a little dumb, it was way funnier at the time. One of those you had to be there moments. Tyler thought I was taking pictures not filming & he was pretty into his jumps.

 

Overall I loved Colorado, it was so fun to go and see where Tyler was for 2 years. It was also great to get away...although it was way too short. Yesterday we went over to Tyler's brother Russ's. He asked me if I liked it enough to live there...and there is very few places I could say that about outside of Utah, but Colorado Springs definitely could be one of them! It was so much fun & such a great place. 

2 Years

2 years ago (yesterday) Tyler and I first started dating. Its crazy to think its been that long. Time really does fly. We decided to celebrate the occasion...and let me tell you, it was way more fun than 1 year. Last year we sat on the floor of my apartment and did homework, because we both were swamped in it. I actually think we may have gone to dinner, but I don't remember, probably because I was too stressed about school to enjoy the meal.
So...this year. We went to Olive Garden & we enjoyed it. No hurry back to homework. And then, we watched Killers. It was a nice low key way to celebrate!

Oh and he even bought me flowers! I love gerbera daisies so in the past that's usually what he's gotten me, but this time he got really smart and bought gerbera daisies in a pot...so they won't die as fast--when they do, it will probably be my fault :(

Thanks Tyler for such a great date!!! I love you.

A Winning Weekend

BYU won on Saturday which means it was automatically a great weekend in Tyler's opinion. That is all that is important! The game was VERY fun even though the first half was extremely hot--it was worth it, it feels great to be back in the stadium cheering on our favorite team again!!!

We saw this on the way to the game...I thought it was pretty funny!

  

Labor Day was really fun too. We had hopes of going boating, but since it was in like the 60's we decided it was not such a great idea. Instead we went up to the outlets in Park City. We both found some great buys, so it was a very successful shopping day, but the holiday couldn't end there--there had to be more football of course!!! We had a fun little party at Misty & Russ's and watched the Boise State vs. Virginia Tech Game.

Meet The Science Geek

I'm pleased to present...

The Science Geek. 

Tyler is taking NOTHING but science classes this semester.

(gotta love the dental hygiene pre-req's)

He is hating it, but personally I think he makes a cute geek ;)

It's That Time Again.

 Just a few more days :) I can't wait!

Handi--I Think Not!

Tyler & I went over to his Sister's house after the funeral Saturday.

When we left, we pulled out on state street in Lindon behind this guy.

Naturally, I had to take a picture.

Can someone PLEASE tell me how this works?

Handicapped & riding a motorcycle?

I think not.