And now, for some words.

School has been hectic, so I guess I’ve been lucky enough to get one post out every month or so. I’ve been having a lot of fun, as I’m sure you could tell from the pictures. I’ll run though them really fast. The first one of Courtney and I was after I taught Gospel Doctrine for the first time. It was awesome! I thought teaching from Isaiah would be really hard but it actually wasn’t too bad. The picture to the right is my apartment, minus Jill, when our ward had FHE with President and Sister Clark. There are a few pictures from the Spirit Week Relay. Our ward had to complete 50 quarter mile laps. Every other ward in the school was there too, the ONE SIDED stadium was packed as well as the NEW TRACK and ASTROTURF field. We placed somewhere between 10th and 15th. It was a cold night, but it was really fun to see all the other crazy signs and outfits from the other wards. Mike came up a few weekends ago. There was a planned ICE CAVES outing on the Saturday, so he was lucky enough to tag along. If you’re wondering what the ice caves are they’re pretty much ice, in caves- self explanatory. There are some tight parts where you actually have to get on your back and slide through. At the end of the cave there is a natural slide about 25 feet long. We played on the slide for a minutes before making the trek back out. Afterwards we enjoyed hotdogs and marshmallows. (There’s a picture of Taylor Heninger sitting on a fatty block of ice, he was just getting near one of the tighter part of the caves.) Last weekend I made a quick trip down to utah. It was an 8 hour car ride so that I could attend a 4 hour concert. We got to Provo a little earl so we were able to stop by Aaron and Stacey’s for a while. It was Mike’s birthdays and as a present we attended the concert (Dashboard Confessional and Brand New). It was really good minus the 100’s of peoples sweat accumulated on my body. I was stiff for a few days after the concert. Our Ultimate Frisbee season is unfortunately over. We lost in overtime. We were ranked 3rd in the school out of 29 teams, not too shabby. But dodgeball season has started, and I’ve been asked to play on a team, so we’ll see how that goes. Halloween festivities have been taking place all weekend. The pictures are from a party we attended Friday night. The Edward Scissorhands costume has been in my head since about April, so it was nice to see it actually happen. There’s another Halloween party tonight, held by one of the many alarm companies here in Rexburg. The best costume wins a FREE CRUISE. They have another competition as well… Whoever can keep their hand on this van for an extended amount of time while eating and drinking will receive FREE TUITION for a year. Some pretty nice prizes are available so I’m going to start getting ready in just a few short minutes. The rest of the pictures are from Saturday night a group of us attended the Haunted Mill. It was over an hours wait (and we BUDGED!) and $8.00 to get in. In the end I can say, it was well worth it. We crawled on our hands and knees through small tunnels and were chased by chainsaws- SO FUN. The house was HUGE!!! I didn’t get a picture of the whole thing but it was a mammoth place. I guess that is pretty much everything in a nutshell over the last few weeks. I just got home from Devotional. Elder David A. Bednar spoke; I wasn’t able to get my hands on any tickets so I ended up watching It in the Taylor Chapel instead. He gave a talk on expansion and gathering places. The Manwaring Center is going to be expanded as well as a New Auditorium next to the Hart Gymnasium. The new auditorium is suppose to seat our entire school. This way, when apostles come to speak we won’t have to watch to via satellite in tons of different locations. He turned over some dirt in the new site and said joked about how hard and frozen the ground was. It has been so cold here. It was 10°F last night. We’ve had a few snow storms but nothing too severe. Next week Elder Oaks is coming to speak, so Friday morning I’ll hopefully be able to snatch some tickets. I haven’t received any packages yet like I previously requested... hint hint.

Say CHEESE!

I have taken so many pictures over the last few weeks so here is just a few of them...

Time Keeps on Ticking

Well after many requests I have decided to FINALLY make a new post. But don’t think that I haven’t been wanting to post, it’s the fact that I’m in COLLEGE, REMEMBER? I’m either at class, doing homework, a devotional, bridge jumping, grocery shopping, running, cleaning, studying, or attending my church callings before I get to my Blog. Sad, I know… So my two new roommates arrived, Courtney and Jacquie, and they are completely fabulous, I love them so much. So the last few weeks have been full of concerts, bridge jumping, dates, long boarding, ultimate Frisbee games, and parties. We started a team called “The EH Team” pretty much all Canadians minus Courtney, my roommate. Taylor Heninger, Chris Jenson, and John Merrill are some of the Canadians. It’s been fun. APX Alarm systems does a huge party each fall where they give away cash and prizes and have tons of huge events. We went, and it was fun, but really cold. Mike was here a few weeks ago for the weekend. He was in a pizza eating contest and actually won! Angel Moroni got placed on top of the Rexburg Temple. It’s looking really good, it has another year to be completed but it already looks really nice. My Book of Mormon class stood outside in the rain and sang hymns while the Angel was hoisted up. My new FHE group is really fun too; we went skeet shooting a few weeks ago. I was able to go to Provo last weekend for conference, except didn’t actually go to conference. Mike was in the hospital for a few short hours after a football injury. I did some shopping with Stacey during the Priesthood session, I miss you Stace! Dahl is getting HUGE, he’s almost two, crazy. We had some bad hail just the other day, so of course Emily, Courtney and I went for a jog in it. I've got way too many pictures, and not really a lot to say. Now that I'm somewhat up to date with blogging I'm hoping they can be more regular again... so until the next time... I miss you all, SEND PACKAGES!

The Cherry on Top of Summer

Pretty much I will just list all the events I have done in the past week or so and post a TON of pictures. The trip up with Aunt Carol was fun, we listened to a book on CD for 5 hours! After arriving at Grandma Salmon’s I was wisped away by some friends to attend the firework competition somewhere in NE Calgary. The following morning Grandma and I made everything imaginable with crabapples. We ended up even making some crabapple sauce. Friday evening I attended the YSA dance with Alana Takahashi, Kandice Palmer, and Kaiti Pratt. It was cool to see everyone I use to know and how much they have grown up. On Monday we had a Salmon FHE at Bowness Park. Hotdogs were on the menu but there was nothing to cook them with. After searching the park grounds, and the trash bins we decided to improvise by using some fencing for some roasters, they weren’t the best, but they worked. Mike and I brought along our posse too which ended up causing a pretty intense came of Steal Sticks. Kandice ended up breaking her cell phone and the rest of us ended up bruised and scratched. Ultimately we decided for a group bubble bath (in swimsuits of course). The rest of the trip was filled with trips to Peter’s and Canadian slurpees. I paid a visit to Mike and Michelle Lyons, and they had once again moved. Aunt Michelle gave me a much needed haircut. Alana worked till Wednesday night, so we planned to leave for our trip to Rexburg early Thursday morning. Mike and Paul assured us that they would be up and ready when we picked them up from their friends house. At 5:45am I found myself tapping at the door. 15 minutes later Mr. Collins answered the door and took me downstairs where I found the two boys asleep on the couch. 20 minutes later we were finally on the road. 10 hours or so later we arrived in beautiful Rexburg, Idaho. After a brief discussion we decided to have a fire up at the sand dunes and roast hotdogs and marshmallows again. It was a clear night for star gazing, but almost a little bit too cold. It reminded me of what I get to look forward to in a few short weeks. Paul and Mike hitched a ride with a friend heading to Provo Friday morning, so that was completely luck. The 4 of us girls had the apartment to ourselves for a while. We discovered a fabulous restraint called Firehouse Grill, SO GOOD; It’s in Idaho Falls. Besides shopping, photo shoots, going to DI and eating, Saturday night we also attended I-Night Extravaganza ; the welcome back party that BYU-I puts on at the beginning of each semester. There was tons of events around the whole school, a bull riding contest, roller skating, sumo wrestling, bounce houses, and dancing, just to name a few. The girls left early Monday morning, which was sad but we did have a blast while they were here. I just was notified Alana got a ticket in Montana, despite that I hope they all come back very soon! I’m hoping that I have now somehow recruited a few more friends to join the ranks here in Rexburg.