Halosydne Amphitritie Kjersti-Puck

This fall the music department did Opera Scenes and Suor Angelica. The student directors of the scenes asked me to be kind of like a narrator for the scenes. Yes, this was my costume. I did wear the pink cons, I had my pink i-pod, and I did wear my pink sunglasses (speaking of which I need to get those back). Kjersti-Puck was a perfect part for me because I didn't really have real lines. I got to make up my lines every night as long as I got the general idea in, so every night was slightly different..."Whatever that Egyptian place is,...Egypt..." "Thanks for making me waste 5 words of my breathe" etc etc. It made for some entertaining lines, I must say.

Happenings in Cedar

I found my new boyfriend. I shall call him..uh,..Nutcracker?

I have loved living in this cute little house for the last year and a half. Although we've had a few problems with it this year we still love it!

I was walking home one day, and I realized that every single person at our house has a gray car. I thought it was really funny. haha

Happy 22nd Birthday Shaye!!! (October 11th...)

What'd you wish for?

You know those days when you have too much to do (homework, cleaning, practicing, homework, homework), and then instead of doing any of it you drive of the canyon to see the pretty leaves instead? Yeah, I know exactly what that's like. That's what Geneil and I did on beautiful afternoon. This is us on the "C" mountain in Cedar with Cedar City behind us.

I love it here. We drove all the way to the top of the mountain to go exploring/try to find my Uncle's cabin, but we decided to turn back due to the fact my car was getting slightly hot.

Happenings on Campus

Have you ever wondered what really happens in the music building?

Two people in a box?

Wait! Three? ...It was only a little squishy...

Don't worry, I only stole the golf cart once...

Now folks, this is what happens when you never get a lunch break. Yes, I am in class. Yes, you do see a whole jar of peanut butter. Yes, that is a pop tart, an apple, and a bag of vanilla wafers. I'm pretty sure I had a string cheese too. I'm healthy though, I washed it all down with water. :)

My Family

Clear back in September we took some family pictures...so I figured it's about time to post them. I have a cute family.

More YPM's!!!

The next YPM get together we had this fall was the back to school BBQ in September. Everyone was able to be there!!! (except for the 3 Elders who had already gone into the MTC.)

These are my beautiful sisters. I love them all with my whole heart. I realized this is the first picture that I've actually posted of all of them. I should start posting all my Nauvoo pictures. From the back left; Sister Ricks, Barrientos, Jones, Bingham, Solomon, Murdock, Reynders, Chambers, Carmichael, and Mckay.

me and my beautiful companion dear Sister McKay

This one is for you Elder Camp. :)
At the BBQ I got a bunch of videos that I should have gotten in Nauvoo, but I didn't. They "crack me up like a broken glass."



These are some of the funniest people I have ever met in my whole life. The first one is Sister Reynders. How she can pull that voice out of her beautiful self is beyond me. Next you have Gloria and Iris (aka Elder Strausser and Sister McKay) They would sit and have the most ridiculous conversations acting as southern grandmothers. It is hysterical. Sister Ricks...Oh man, she if funny. She is acting as Kiko in this video. Sister McKay had a different voice/person for everyday of the week. Friday was LaShawn. So in this video you will meet LaShawn.

YPM's!!!

I think one of the highlights of the semester was when all the YPM's came down to St. George/Hurricane for Elder Steglich's full time mission farewell. It was so fun to see all of them! They drove this bus down from Salt Lake. It's hilarious. I wish I could have been in the party bus.



We went to dinner that night at this place in St. George called Pirates Pizza something rather. I don't really remember, but it was lots of fun. It was all themed, and had an arcade and everything.

Sis. Murdock and Sis. Camp (They really aren't wench's, they just like to pretend)
This reminded me of that one part in Harry Potter when the night bus comes to pick him up and this in hanging in the front of the bus. I want one for my van.

Sis Murdock, Elder Lewis, and Sis Solomon

Sis Murdock and me

waiting for our pizza....

Sis Bingham, Sis Ricks, and me

arg. we are scary pirates.

This is one of my favorite pictures. So obviously the Elders weren't allowed to be alone with a sister in Nauvoo, but here we are all alone (not in Nauvoo). I guess it isn't really all that funny, but I like it. :) Here is Lewis, Shepherd, Ellsworth, Sheffield, and Guthrie. Maybe I should call them by their first names. I just love their last names so much.
Elder Steglich (who is still Elder Steglich. He just left the MTC and got to Armenia last week!)

Another semester has come to pass.

It's hard to believe I'm halfway through my junior year. I thought that I knew what I was doing with my life, but now I don't really know. I hate it when you think you're doing what you're supposed to and then something happens that causes you to question everything. ah! Oh well, that's life I suppose. Well since I didn't do a very good job at keeping this updated throughout the semester, I am going to try and do a little updating and share with you some of the fun things I did. I guess I'll start with the most recent. Finals ended on Friday!!! I thought it would never come, but it did. Cedar City does the Messiah annually the weekend after SUU ends. I have played in the orchestra the last couple of years, but decided to sing in the 170 person choir this year with my roommates.

Geneil's family came up from California to hear her sing a solo (which, by the way was freaking incredible), and to take her back for Christmas.

The Wonderful Perkins Family. (I'm a honorary Perkins. :) )

The amazing Kiki (she really is amazing)

Geneil and Annie :)

Annie and Taliah :)

Shaye and Annie :)

Shaye, Annie, Geneil and me

Annie's sister Heidi, Annie and Geneil

Annie and me :)

Heather plays the cello in the orchestra. She's also in my ward. I really like her.

So you may be asking why so many pictures of Annie? Well, that was the last time we will see her...for a year and a half (there were only a few tears, right Geneil?)...as great as that is, it is also sad. We love Annie so much! She will be leaving for her mission on Dec 29th for the Slovenia/Croatia mission Slovenia speaking!!!! Annie I love you! I have always looked up to you. You are so good. A good person, and amazingly good at everything. You will be an incredible missionary!
This is Annie celebrating her 21st birthday with some chocolate cake, of course we're at the Pastry Pub. :)

I'm so glad we got this video of Annie. I love her!!! See you in 18 months!

H2O

You know what I hate? The fact you're supposed to drink half your body weight in ounces of water everyday. Then you're looking for a bathroom every hour. Does it look like I have time to find a bathroom between every class? No. I don't. Ok. I'm done. That's my vent for the day. Oh by the way. Just in case you didn't know. Today is the last day of classes, and I'm not in a very good mood. Have a good day. Drink your water.

Random Thought for the Day.

Have you ever torn apart an envelope and wondered why it is shaped in such a funny way?

Well, I have.

P.S. That slightly strange video just below is for a presentation in a class I have to do

on Friday. It kind of has to do with a man named Thomas Morley. He may or may not look like this:

What a fine looking man he is. I bet he was excited to get up everyday.

Hi. It's been a while.

I should be doing homework right now, but the notebook is need is at home, and I'm in the computer lab right now, so I'm going to blog instead. Plus I'm going to The Diary of Anne Frank and the Shakespeare festival in a few minutes so it'll be a quick little update.

My life is soooooooo good! Although school is hard, long, and busy, my weekends have been so amazing!

I'm just going to post a bunch of random pictures to give you an idea. :)

Well It's the next day, and I'm just barely getting this up. The Diary of Anne Frank was really well done, but it was also kind of depressing. It gave me lots to think about.

We celebrated Geneil's half birthday at the Golden Spoon! GO HALF BIRTHDAY'S! (By the way, The Golden Spoon in so good! An their little mini servings, which are still pretty big, are only 116 calories. Yeah!)
My good friend Karyn (on the left) came to to visit from Salt Lake last weekend! She's not in school this semester, and I miss her a ton!!!! It was soooo good to see her! She's kind of obsessed with ratting hair, so Geneil was kind enough to let her do so. Sorry the picture is sideways. Saturday morning we headed down to the St. George temple. It was great, as usual. But it did make me miss Nauvoo even more. Nothing is quite the same as the Nauvoo Temple. Of course we had to head to Cafe Rio after. Yum. Pork burrito. :)After Cafe Rio we went to The Sweet Tooth Fairy. It's the best cupcake shop ever! I highly recommend them. Their first store was in Provo, and now they have one in St. George, and Draper! That's Shaye. :)

CUPCAKES! (try the strawberry shortcake)

My cute friends Annie, Karyn, and Geneil. :) I kind of like 'em.

Well, that's all for now. Well except this last picture. These are the girls I'm in the relief society presidency with. We're actually all in order from president to secretary. We had enrichment at my house Wednesday night. We did our visiting teaching, and then had a fire pit with s'mores and starbursts!

Joy, Kjersti, Cheri, and Heather. They're great girls, and I'm looking forward to working with them.