Here is what I really meant to say :-)

Ok, So I had some issues with the text in the below post so here is what it said:

Nothing too exciting has been happening Since last week- just trying to stay somewhat caught up with my classes is prooving to be somewhat of a good challenge.

Last Friday, I invited my friends Kelsey and Laura over for a "low key" dinner before the broom hockey fundraiser for the INN mission trips (needless to say we had plenty of time for dinner because broomhockey didn't even start until midnight- seriously.....). Anyway, I talked to Trinh earlier in the day and told her that I was having people over for dinner and she said she didn't mind but that Brian and Kurt (two fort boys) were coming over to do laundry (the fort boys frequent our house for laundry because they don't wanna pay $3.50 a load back at their place). So, I told Trinh that she should just invite the guys just to stay to for dinner. Long story short dinner consisted of: Me, Laura, Kelsy, Trinh, Mary, Kelsy, Brian, Kurt and Parker. I made Aunt Lori's pasta sauce, salad and garlic bread and needless to say, dinner was a hit! After dinner, the boys finished up laundry, left and the rest of us hung around until broom hockey.

The rest of the weekend was relatively calm with an attempt to study Saturday and then going over to the Fort later that night with the girls to watch Cinderella man (good movie by the way). Sunday was a little busier than normal with church, a host team brunch, cheering on the Fort intermural basketball team, and then studying for 4 hours....

The rest of the week hasn't been too exciting- just balancing work, school and somewhat of a social life. Although my wednesday shift at work was originally from 9-2pm was cut to 10-1pm so that was a bit of a bummer. But other than that, work is going well...

I feel like part of the reason that this week was so exhausting is the shift I have taken from usually getting a decent nights sleep to getting 6/7 hours a couple nights this week. Personally, I blame it on the fort boys (because what else is a girl to do, right?) First, on Monday night Nick invited us over around 10pm to watch Across the Universe (another good movie), and of course we don't even start the movie until close to 11:30 and don't get back home until 2 am, granite I was able to sleep in a bit the next day until 9:30pm, it was still a late night for my old woman self. Last night, I didn't get to sleep until close to 12:20 Ben came over to do some laundry and after some pretty entertaining conversations, Ben and I waited for Kelsy and Trinh to get back from their "studying mission to our friend katie's" that really consisted of them sneaking off to the Fort to saran wrap Nick's car- they definitely used up 2 costco boxes, and lets just say his car is protected quite nicely from the rain :-) ....

Of course, it is easy to say that I should probably be going to bed a bit earlier (or just "be home before the street lights come on" as Grandpa says), but honestly I don't see either of those things happening in the near future- especially considering on the days that I do have classes, my earliest classes get out at 6pm when it is already dark out....

Oh, and random fact of the day, I made my first double layer funfetti cake to bring over to the Fort for Jarrett's 22nd birthday... I am not going to lie, I was quite pleased with how impressed the guys were that I made a double layer cake (although I somehow forgot to mention that making the cake only involved some mix, eggs, and oil)....

OK, for those of you that have stuck with me thus far, I am impressed and I will wrap things up with a few pics from xmas break that I finally uploaded....

Where has the week gone???

Notice: Sorry that the text is underlined... After some copying/pasting I could not figure out how to get rid of it...

This last week has been an absolute blur....

Nothing too exciting has been happening Since last week- just trying to stay somewhat caught up with my classes is prooving to be somewhat of a challenge.

Last Friday, I invited my friends Kelsey and Laura over for a "low key" dinner before the broom hockey fundraiser for the INN mission trips (needless to say we had plenty of time for dinner because broomhockey didn't even start until midnight- seriously.....). Anyway, I talked to Trinh earlier in the day and told her that I was having people over for dinner and she said she didn't mind but that Brian and Kurt (two fort boys) were coming over to do laundry (the fort boys frequent our house for laundry because they don't wanna pay $3.50 a load back at their place). So, I told Trinh that she should just invite the guys just to stay to for dinner. Long story short dinner consisted of: Me, Laura, Kelsy, Trinh, Mary, Kelsy, Brian, Kurt and Parker. I made Aunt Lori's pasta sauce, salad and garlic bread and needless to say, dinner was a hit! After dinner, the boys finished up laundry, left and the rest of us hung around until broom hockey. The rest of the weekend was relatively calm with an attempt to study Saturday and then going over to the Fort later that night with the girls to watch Cinderella man (good movie by the way). Sunday was a little busier than normal with church, a host team brunch, cheering on the Fort intermural basketball team, and then studying for 4 hours....

The rest of the week hasn't been too exciting- just balancing work, school and somewhat of a social life. Although my wednesday shift at work was originally from 9-2pm was cut to 10-1pm so that was a bit of a bummer. But other than that, work is going well...

I feel like part of the reason that this week was so exhausting is the shift I have taken from usually getting a decent nights sleep to getting 6/7 hours a couple nights this week. Personally, I blame it on the fort boys (because what else is a girl to do, right?) First, on Monday night Nick invited us over around 10pm to watch Across the Universe (another good movie), and of course we don't even start the movie until close to 11:30 and don't get back home until 2 am, granite I was able to sleep in a bit the next day until 9:30pm, it was still a late night for my old woman self. Last night, I didn't get to sleep until close to 12:20 Ben came over to do some laundry and after some pretty entertaining conversations, Ben and I waited for Kelsy and Trinh to get back from their "studying" mission to our friend katie's that really consisted of them sneaking off to the Fort to saran wrap Nick's car- they definitely used up 2 costco boxes, and lets just say his car is protected quite nicely from the rain :-) ....

Of course, it is easy to say that I should probably be going to bed a bit earlier (or just "be home before the street lights come on" as Grandpa says), but honestly I don't see either of those things happening in the near future- especially considering on the days that I do have classes, my earliest classes get out at 6pm when it is already dark out....

Oh, and random fact of the day, I made my first double layer funfetti cake to bring over to the Fort for Jarrett's 22nd birthday... I am not going to lie, I was quite pleased with how impressed the guys were that I made a double layer cake (although I somehow forgot to mention that making the cake only involved some mix, eggs, and oil)....

OK, for those of you that have stuck with me thus far, I am impressed and I will wrap things up with a few pics from xmas break that I finally uploaded....

A housefull.....

Sorry that I haven't blogged for about 4 weeks.... Between going home, snow, coming back to school and getting back into the swing of things, it has been a little crazy. Needless to say, I survived my first week back and it has been good getting settled back into things.

It was great having all of us girls back in the house, and to have our first "house meeting" of the quarter Sunday night. Clearly we had A LOT to catch up on- Brittany's travels to Spain, Germany and Switzerland, snow stories, Trinh's travels to Spokane to visit Liz and other random snowy adventures. Also, we still had to exchange our secret santa gifts which was great to see how creative everyone got with their gift giving. After completing secret santa, and going over boring house stuff- do your dishes, remember to turn off the lights when you leave a room, take your shoes off when you come in the back door through the kitchen (I will honestly admit I still struggle with this one) blah blah blah.... Four hours later, we decided to be productive and end the meeting so those who wished could continue to study (Although most of us did not move out of the family room and continued to chat it up until at least 11pm)....

Last Friday, Trinh, myself and our friends Katie and Melissa headed up to Canada to go dancing and funny enough we met up with a few of the Fort boys who were hitting the bars earlier that night in Vancouver. However, after chattin' for a few minutes, they bailed and decided not to pay $10 to get into the club- can't say I blame them when it is free for us girls :-) ....

Yesterday was pretty low key between work and my classes that got out early because it was the first day of Monday classes. Although the evening was made interesting when I ran some stuff over to The Fort for Michael to take home for me, and he suggested I stay for dinner. So I walked into the house kitchen to find Ben and Jory hard at work creating a baked penne dish with bacon and sausage... Ben put me to work choppin' peppers for the salad and then before I knew it I was staying for dinner.... It being my first Fort dinner, I was impressed to see all 16 of them plus myself and five other girls from the house "The Lily Pad" all crammed into their family room having a meal like a cute little family- heck even Michael and I ended up sitting across from one another.... After dinner, a myself and a few of the Fort boys headed on over to SHOP student leader training for the INN and then it was back home for me to watch Gossip Girl and attempt to finish homework (that I of course put off and finished today- but hey it got done right?)...

Well, I better go get ready for class- these Human Services once a week night classes take a little getting used to- my earliest class all week is on Mondays and my one class today at 4pm is 4 hours long. Aside of the long, and late classes; my classes are going great and actually seem to fly by....

Also, did I mention I got a job at Miller Market- a market on campus in Red Square... I love it!!! All I do is ring people up and chat with all the customers I know. Can't complain considering I only work three days a week and my boss, student manager and co-workers are hillarious....

OK, that is really all for now.... I'll leave you with a few pics from the Falalalalalalala INN before break (jim the director of the INN is santa every year):

Small Group
Laura and I

House

Friends: Dakota, Rebecca, Rebekah and Laura