Wedding Plans

Hello everyone. School is finally out! And I am happy to announce that I made it through the crazy semester with a 3.8 GPA. That is the highest I have received since entering college. I am so super excited. It goes to show that hard work really does pay off. :) Graduation was a bitter sweet day. Most of my dear friends have graduated and I am so proud of every single one of them. Tana Jenson, Katy Garvin, Brandon Larsen, Nicole Christensen, and Gerry Rheault.

Next: Kris and I are getting married! I am so excited. August 12th is the big day and we are doing it in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. Everything is coming together really great. Our families have been really helpful with helping us getting things together. And we get the keys to our new place next week and we can start moving in. I am so stoked to finally have a back yard. :) I have my wedding dress picked out and my mom picked it up last week. It is absolutely gorgeous. I fell in love with it immediately. I am so lucky to have found such an amazing person to spend eternity with. 

I'm back!

Hi again! I honestly have no idea where the title of this post came from. I am in a random sort of mood. The end of spring break is here and school starts again tomorrow. I am ALL caught up on homework (WAIT,... WHAT!!!??? I don't think I have ever been 100% caught up on homework, it feels fantastic) anyways,..... so I have a little free time to play and do some stuff for fun. (like update my blog)

So much is going on this week I am so excited. First of all my dear friend, Lizzy, got her mission call in the mail. She will be opening it tomorrow night and I am so excited to see where she will be going. I am so excited to see her grow and learn in the gospel. She is so amazing and I look up to her in so many ways. I love that kid!

This week I am playing in the student recital on Friday. I am playing a wonderful piece called Villanelle by Paul Dukas. It is so beautiful. It starts at two on Friday in the Thorley Recital Hall in the music building at SUU. :) 

    Anyways,.....  So last Thursday I was kinda having a crappy day. It was spring break and I was being a loner, busy working, and practicing. And out of nowhere my man showed up with roses and a box of chocolate. And the box looks like a pirate ship. He definitely made my day about a million times better!

well dear friends, that is all that is new in my fantastic life. There is only about a month left of school and I am all sorts of ready for a summer full of adventure! Peace out!

SPRING BREAK!!!

Hi everyone. It's been a while since I have posted. I get really busy then I forget that I even have a blog. hahahaha. I asked Katy to help me create a blog over spring break and now Tana has just reminded me that I have one. So here it is. Huzzah! Well, The Mikado is now over. For those of you who don't know Mikado, it is a comical opera. This musical has run my life for the past month or so. Rehearsal didn't get really intense until about the Saturday before opening night. We had a rehearsal from 10-5ish. By the end my bum was so SORE!!! The chairs at the Heritage Center are horrible. Anyways, moving on...... I love playing in orchestra pits. I could easily do it for a living (if I got paid that is). This past week has been a roller coaster. Running back and forth from class, work, rehearsal, and performances. But it was so much fun. I think the people who you spend all the time with in the pit can make or break the experience. And I got to be with some of my best friends. Which include Katy Garvin, Brandon Larsen, Dawnie Walker, Mike Wallace, Matt McClellan, and so forth. We definitely had a blast during rehearsal and performances. At Monday nights rehearsal Dawnie and I decided we need snackage. So we stocked up on Dr. Pepper, cheetos, and nutter butters. We had crossword puzzles, sudoku puzzles, and coloring books. Oh and the best part: SWEAT PANTS!! The rest of the week was such a blur. It went by so fast. And I was constantly on the go with classes till 6:30 in the evening and call time at 7. I was living the fast life (as I usually do).

My parents came into town on Friday for my dad's birthday. I was able to spend a little bit of time with them before the show started that night. They both came to see the show that night. (my dad and the opera really don't belong in the same sentence) but I am glad they came. It was fun to see them have a fun weekend. On Saturday My parents, boyfriend and I took a trip to St. George. We climbed around the narrows for a while and went out to dinner before I had to be back for the opera. This was the first time my dad was  able to meet Kris. And yes, they do like each other.

Now we are to spring break...... and most college students get to go home for a week, go on vacation, get away from school. You know, the basic spring break. But I have a wonderful job that makes me work all spring break. In a way I am grateful for it cause I can definitely use the money. BUT, this week is a little different..... Usually we do inventory during spring break. But last Thursday our entire system crashed so all the information since December has been lost. ALL OF IT! Purchase orders, receivings, prices, inventory numbers, etc. So this week is spent re-entering all sorts of information. My boss thinks we can get all of this done by Thursday morning so we can start inventory then,..... well by how far we got today (Monday) I highly doubt it. I don't know how we are going to do it. anyways, so my life during this spring break is spent fixing the bookstore system.

On a more positive note my best friend, Tana, is here to spend the week with me (and temporarily work at the bookstore to help us get back on our feet) that will make the week more fun. I am so excited to be able to spend this time with her.

Now that you are tired of reading this so I will bid you adieu.

Happy December!

Hey all! Happy December. (And yes, I do realize it is half over). I survived finals and I indeed passed all my classes. So grateful for that one. Now I just have to get through the second semester of Music History. But it should be fun. This week has been busy with work. Textbooks have been steady and crazy. But we are almost done. We should be done by the 22nd so I can go home for Christmas and hopefully stay for a while. So keep your fingers crossed. I just got home from a concert at Parowan High School (I volunteer and observe there frequently. I am hoping to be able to do my student teaching there under the fabulous Carylee Zwang) I think the kids did great! I am so proud of them. This next semester I am looking forward to being a soloist in a concerto night with the orchestra here at SUU. I am so excited for this opportunity. It should be great! Kris and I are doing great, as always. We made gingerbread houses last week. He made his look like a pyramid from Egypt with a sacrificial altar in the front (with a swedish fish as the sacrifice, and a sacrifice indeed it was) But all in all things are going great. I can't WAIT to get home and see all my family again. Until then I hope you all have a merry Christmas and Happy New Year. And please don't forget who this time of year is really about. Remember what Christ did for us, and without him we could not live an eternal life. He is such a wonderful example and I am grateful to call him my Brother.

Junior Year......

Hey everyone!!  Life is so much fun. This semester I am having fun trying to stay caught up with Music History and 20th Century music. I have loads of adventures. My latest endeavor is performing in an orchestra pit for Parowan High School. We are performing the musical 'Once Upon a Mattress'. We have had a week of performances so far and have one more week to go. The kids are doing a great job! Last Friday night during our performance the second valve on my horn decided to stop rotating correctly. After a few minutes of trying to thing of alternative fingerings to make the music sound good, I realized that the conductor had a screw driver on her stand. Then it was a quick fix from there. You never know what could happen in performances. I have loved playing in this musical, I have met many new friends and have had a blast doing it. And it is so hard to believe that Thanksgiving is in a little over a week. I am so excited to be able to see my family again. Its been way too long. Well, that is all for today. I hope you all have a wonderful week!