Lark, Jessi and myself

Hello, everyone! Aren't Lark and Jessi just lovely?












It's good to have friends! (I had to put my glasses up in the picture below so I could look straight at the camera instead of at the frame of my glasses.)

The other night after my program management thing that I had to do (which was not so bad after all, I must say), Lark and Jessi asked if I would come with them to get ice cream. I figured I would. After all, the only class I had was canceled the next morning.

So, we went to some ice cream place. The boy serving us really liked Jessi's hair. Lark and I discussed whether or not Lark would look alright with curly hair. Somehow, I asked the boy if he knew about Rob Gardner (he'd been talking about music), and he had! I couldn't believe it, and we talked about music for about 5 minutes. Then we left.

What would you do if you were in Rexburg and wanted to do something with your friends or family?

Below are also a couple of pictures that Lark took of me after I was done with my program. I was very happy and excited to be finished with it, and I am so glad that Lark and Jessi were such good volunteers and helped me with everything at my program. Am I lucky or what?














These are not the most flattering photos of myself, but I figure it's all I've got. I wonder who designed that amazing poster that's in my hand?

a visit home

I was so happy to see my family this past weekend! I am so lucky to have such good siblings and parents.

I had a great time going to "The Price of Freedom." The only thing I forgot to do? Get pictures with all of the cast!! Emily, wouldn't it have been just smashing to have had a picture with Jordan Bluth? I think so.

So...

What did you all think of my friends? I think they had a most enjoyable time with all of you.

What did you think of Miss Jessi? Wasn't she fun? I hope you can see why Lark and I like to have her with us whenever we are doing something fun.

Speaking of Lark, can you all see that she is like having another sister while I am here at school? It isn't very often that one can have a friend like her. They are few and far between; I am so happy that Heavenly Father blessed us to meet each other at Badger Creek.

It can be hard to be away from home at times; Lark and Jessi make it quite a bit easier. My roommates (especially Kim, Mo and Ashley) have also been very kind to me. I wish you all could get to know them, too!

It was hard to leave you all, but thank you so much for jumping up and down and waving goodbye to us--it made us feel very grand!

Well, I have a lot of pictures and not a lot to say about them.

Just continue to scroll down and read, and you will see what it is I'm talking about.






Adam really seemed to enjoy reading "The Tale of Jeremy Fisher."



Let's see...just a few more. When it was time to wake up Ephraim for church, it took about ten minutes to wake him up!!


Even when I patted him on the back, he just sighed and continued to rest. I wonder why he threw out the blankets? I thought that perhaps it was because his green ones were being washed. What do you think?


What a cutie!

After we left, the sunset over the mountains was very pretty. I wish I could have taken a better picture, but, it is what it is. I hope you can kind of see how pretty that sunset was as we made our way back to Idaho before the snows came.

I love it when...

I love it when program management gets canceled...especially when I've slept in and would have been late, anyway. If I had a picture of myself from this morning, it would be funny. I got back under the blue cozy-blanket right after I received a text from Jason-Greg-Wiggle telling me that class was canceled.

It just seemed to good to be true.

Well, I visited Lark last night, and I got to watch a rainbow come and go.


Isn't it beautiful? It went across the whole sky in a perfect arc, but I couldn't capture that with my camera. The best part was everyone in the apartment complex coming out to just watch it. One girl, especially, was very excited. She had come out of her apartment to take out the trash or something, saw the rainbow, squealed, jumped up and down, ran back into her apartment, and spoke (loud enough for everyone to hear): "You all need to come see this rainbow!"

It reminded me of being at home with all of you.

boo at the zoo

I decided to go to the zoo with Lark and her sister, brother-in-law, niece and nephew. Also a boy named Adam came along. He's very kind, and I hope that he and Lark will go on a date.

Well, while we were at the zoo, I got to see some penguins.

I also saw some really cute monkeys, but I was unable to get a picture.

The goats were probably one of my favorite parts. This picture is pretty fuzzy, but you can sort of see the goat:

I really like Lamanchas. If we were to get a milking goat, a Lamancha would be fun to have--they act like little puppies!

What kind would you want to get? Nubian? It would be fun to make their own noises back at them, I suppose.