Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving break is over... I'm actually kinda glad in a way. This break wasn't the best. Hopefully this post doesn't sound whiney....

I spent most of tuesday and wednesday sitting on the couch. It was good to relax but Andres was at work all day and I don't have any other to hang out with so i got kinda bored. Thursday started out with me and Andres hiking the Y. This normally would have been really fun but Andres and I were bikering so the fun was lost. Then around 3 we left for his sister's for dinner. Recently my acne pills have been giving me really really bad stomach aches. Unfortunatly I was having one of these stomach aches all afternoon. The ride up to his sister's house was really really painful. I just kinda sat there and tried not to puke. When we got to his sister's I was too sick to eat. After about an hour there I started to feel a little bit better and was able to eat a little bit of turkey and some yams. That night we came home early-ish so that Andres could go to bed. He had to be at work at 3am for black friday.

The next day I went back to sitting on the couch and doing the occasional homework. Jean came over for about 2 hours and we did some homework and extra credit for music. That night after Andres came home from work we broke up. It was really sad. He's been my best friend since i moved here so its been really hard. We both know that its for the best though.

The good news is that since Saturday was full of sporting events, I was able to get my mind off of the breakup. The BYU-Utah game was AMAZING! It was definantly a nail-biter! We were ahead the entire game until Utah scored a touchdown with 1:35 left in the fourth quarter. I definantly thought it was over when we were 4th down and 18 to go. Luckily Max Hall made an amazing pass. We made a touchdown with about 35 seconds left and were able to stop Utah from scoring. It was so happy! After the game I stayed at home and watched the Alabama/Auburn game! War Eagle! Then BYU basketball played #1 North Carolina. This game was really good. The night before our basketball team had beaten #6 Louisville. We stayed right with North Carolina the entire game until about 2 minutes left. It was a really good game and we got some good recognition.
Anyways, school is back in. Although its stressful, I'm just glad to have something to do. I'll really be happy when I get to go back home in a few weeks! YAY! It'll be good to have some time home to breath and hopefully get back to normal.....

LA/Vegas trip

So about a week and a half ago Andres and I went down to LA to visit my sister, brother-in-law, and niece. We left thursday morning and stopped in Vegas for the night. Andres served his mission in Vegas so we visited some of the people that he knew and then we stayed with a man who he taught. It was pretty fun. We were going to go on the Strip that night but we were both so tired that we hit the sack early instead. The next morning we got up around 9 and left for LA. It took way longer to get to LA than it should have because we got lost once and got on the interstate the wrong way once. When we finally got to LA I was SO surprised at how big Rebecca had gotten, SHE'S HUGE! Later that night Rachel cooked yummy Stromboli for us and we watched a lot of The Office.

The next day was when the REAL fun began! We got up and went to the swapmeet and got some cool stuff. Next we went to my sister's favorite sushi restaurant which was SO yummy. That night we went to see the stars on hollywood. That was really cool! We took a TON of pictures. Unfortunatly my camera acts funny....i'm gonna have to return it. Anyways, we also went to a really cool mall that was partly inside and partly outside. Here's a picture from Johnny Rockets of me and Rebecca. :)That night we got home late and crashed! Here are a couple of picture from that night for Rachel:

The next morning we got up early and drove back to Vegas where we went to one of Andres' old wards. This ward also happened to be Gladys Knights ward. I had Andres take a picture of her:) I felt kinda bad though cause it was in the chapel. After sacrament meeting we went to visit some people again and then went to The Strip. We couldn't take too much of that- Vegas isn't really the cleanest place. However, we did see this fun water show. As you can imagine, it was better in person, but here a part of it:

Then we went to the in-and-out burger before we finally came home. We got home really late, but the trip was really fun and totally worth it. We both want to go back in a few months.

I've been tagged!

Well, Rachel tagged me so I'm supposed to say 7 random/interesting facts about myself. Here goes:
1. I've had four pairs of front teeth. I'm sure all of y'all know that but they just keep getting knocked out. Also, I've broken several other teeth and my friends joke that they're in the "I've broken one of Chelsie's teeth" club.

2. My roommates always make fun of me because I'm the messiest one. I probably hear about it 3 or 4 times a week. Well, yesterday we had cleaning checks and guess who was the ONLY one who passed! Thats right, ME!

3. I am currently in class for 27 hours a week and only get 16.5 credit hours.

4. I want to be a runner. I enjoy races. My next race is called the Nutcracker race and is at UVSC. The cool thing about this race is that everyone runs in tu-tus. :)

5. My weakness is ice cream. Specifically moose tracks! If I'm ever down, a good cup of moose tracks will make me happy.

6. I really like to cook. Specifically bake. If you come over to my house there will most likely be some type of goody for you to eat. Right now there is a cake(it was just my roommate's birthday), rice crispy treats, and jello(my friend got her wisdom teeth out this morning.

7. I love to play! I love all types of games! I have a kickball, volleyball, fooseball table, chalk, and cranium turbo! I am the game lady!

I would tag somebody but my only friend who blogs is Rachel, and she tagged me! :)

long time, no talk

Well, I haven't really been feeling like a lot has been happening so I haven't written in a while. I've decided that I'm going to try to get back to posting now. Lets see... recent news...

School has been going well. I am VERY busy. It seems like I'm in class during the entire time the sun is out. However, classes are really fun and I don't normally dread going to class.

Also, I have a boyfriend. His name is Andres, he's fun. He's from Connecticut. We've been dating for about 2 months but we just recently decided to become exclusive. Here is a picture of us from the other night right before we went in to Olive Garden for dinner. It was yummy!

Also, Andres and I got a little gerbil. His name is Gilbert. Here he is. He's pretty cute but he bites. His bites don't hurt, they just startle you. Anyways, now both Andres and I are scared to touch him. Hopefully as he gets settled in to the new home he will bite less.

Last night a few of us went up into the canyon and drove up and around on the mountains. It was really cool. There were a bunch of places with AMAZING views. One that I really liked was from the other side of Y-mountain but we were way high up and we could see provo through a small slit between Y-mountain and another mountain. It was really pretty but couldn't be captured in a picture because it was night time. Anyways, here's another picture...

Anyways, this semester has been pretty fun. I'll try to keep y'all !

EFY- week two!:)

So here are some pictures and quick commentary on week 2 of EFY!

This is all of the girls with Timothy! Aren't we cute? I thought so.

The boys all wanted to pick me up. I was somewhat surprised that they could and I could stay modest. It was pretty cool.

Me and the boys again. Aren't we cute? Timothy told me that about have of them had real live crushes on me... weird!

All of our darling youth! I loved these kids! They were my only 16-18 year old group.

These are a bunch of the counselors. Timothy is to my right, and then is Blake(My co-counselor of week 3), then is my good friend Linnea who happens to be with me in the el ed program at BYU. On my right is Terrell. He is absolutly hilarious! And all of them go to BYU! YAY!

So after the variety show on thursday the boys in our group wanted me and Timothy to fight. This is me getting pumped up for the big fight!

Unfortunatly I found out the hard way that Timothy took Jujitsu. or however you spell it. This was his most effective move of the day. He put me to the group four times with this one move.

At the end we were still friends! :)

These boys wrote a song for us that they sang on both the last night and the last morning! It was really sweet! and they gave me the original text to it. Who knows, maybe one day it'll be worth millions!

EFY- week one! :)

These last 3 weeks of EFY have been absolutly AMAZING! I have had so many awesome experiences with my girls and have made so many new friends. I can't even begin to say everything that is exciting that has happened so I'm going to post a bunch of pictures and just give them captions. Tonight I'm only going to do the first week because its 11:45 and I still need to write a lesson for tomorrow and take a shower! Anyways, here goes:

This is a picture of all of the girls in my group for the first week. We were in a trio and the other counselor is right next to me. This group was AMAZING!

These are the counselors in our first group- Nicole, Travis, and me. Travis is a professional comedian so needless to say the week was hilarious! :)

This is Vanessa and Codi! These girls are the sweetest girls ever and they absolutly crack me up! I miss them a lot!

Our group name was Love Thy Neighbor and this was our banner! WE WON! :)

These are the beautiful ladies that I was able to be a counselor to! The worst part of my job is having to leave them! I miss them a lot!

A couple of things...

Well it seems like alabama moves so slowly, but i guess a couple of things have happened in the last little while. Well, for my brother's graduation a bunch of people came in to town. On memorial day my sister, walter, and gary (walter's brother) did the cotton row run which is a 10k race! It was really fun! Walter and Gary ran together and my sister and I ran together. I decided that I could probably keep up with her since she was 7 1/2 months pregnant. We did really well until almost mile 5. A little before mile 5 my sister started getting cramps so we had to walk the rest of the way. I also made these shirts for everyone to wear! Cute, i know!

Then, after rachel and walter left we went up to kentucky for my cousin's graduation! It was really fun! It had been more than 2 years since i had seen my cousins. I had a fun time! My little girl cousin is 14 now and it was really weird but cool to be able to go shopping with her. I also had a really fun time playing with their dogs and it was a good time for me to get some reading done for my elementary literature class.

In other good news, i only have a week and a half until EFY starts! I'm so excited!