Spring at last!!

Well I am so hoping that the sun stays out this time! I had a hard time adjusting to the whole hardcore-blizzard-in-the-middle-of-April thing! haha The weather is so beautiful right now and I am surrounded by the beauty of Utah! ...the mountains, the trees, the grass, the river behind my apartment! It's gorgeous up here! I am really excited to get home next week though! Well...actually I will be stopping in Las Vegas to visit Angela and all them and to meet the famous "Elder Coffey" that I have heard so much about! : ) I am so glad that all of my sisters are finding guys for me! It makes my job easier! haha thanks Drea and Ang! I have really been missing my family and home lately so it will be nice to take a little break before starting back up for summer semester!

This is me on the day of my FIRST BYU PIANO RECITAL! : ) What an exciting day that was! I was so nervous and I had worked so hard on my pieces! My mom, grandpa, aunt and uncle were driving through so they were all able to be there and Michelle and Joey came as well! It was really nice having all that support! : ) I even met a couple people there that were really nice and it was just fun talking to some new people about piano and what they plan to do with it and stuff. It went really well and I am excited for future recitals!

Last Sunday was Easter of course and I had to teach the lesson in Relief Society! (That is my new calling). The lesson tied in really well with Easter (Section 121 of D&C) so I wanted to do something cute to give everyone and make the lesson unique from the typical reading out of the manual. I made these little baskets with the saying and filled the bottom with candy. I think they turned out really cute and everyone loved them.

("The Easter egg is hallow. Just like they found the tomb. For it is meant to represent that Christ had Risen...For me and For you!")

Something that I learned this year on Easter was how real and specific the Atonement actually is. My eyes were really opened up to that. He really knows what pain I am suffering. Not just the general stuff but he knows what it is like to be alone at night, to fail a test that you studied so hard for, to lose a child that you never were able to meet, to suffer through an addiction, to feel so overwhelmed when you are trying to be "supermom", to lose a friend or loved one, to have cancer drain the life out of you and everyone around you. It is SO real and so amazing and I am so incredibly grateful for the gift Heavenly Father has given to each one of us that we DO NOT HAVE TO SUFFER ALONE. Ever.

That has been such a comfort for me as I have been struggling lately with a bunch of things, but trusting in the Lord and going to the temple has really given me strength to push onward! Life is great! : )

Happy Birthday!.....To ME! : )

Well yesterday I celebrated my 21st Birthday! ....I am getting way old. It's weird. It is kind of a bitter sweet thing I suppose. I am excited to be getting older because that means new adventure and new experiences are ahead of me. Yet I am going to miss the years where I didn't have as much responsibility and life wasn't so serious! From conference though I have learned to be happier and I need to work on seeing the good in ALL situations and circumstances! Conference has been so good! The day was really awesome! Michelle invited me over for breakfast and then we watched the first session of conference. After that I went home and got ready for the day and went to check the mail. I had 2 packages and a couple letters!! I was so exciting! I never realized that mail would be such a big thing, and I don't even know why but it is really fun to get mail...; ).

Sheldon came over and helped me open them. He probably thinks I am a freak (if he didn't already that is)! : ) I was going crazy because I was so excited that I had presents and stuff! haha


Tracy sent me all these and they were SO much fun to open up! So. Awesome! Thanks Lady! : )

Angela and the kids sent me some a package as well and it had a nice card, a journal, some pens, a bracelet and some beach stickers that apparently Kayla said I would love them for my birthday! : ) thanks so much Ang! I had a letter from Jared just wishing me a happy birthday and a another card from a family back home. Sheldon brought me a card and a really pretty necklace! I really like it!

....I got a GPS too! Now I will be able to get around a little better! : )

After Priesthood session I went over to Auntie's and then we went over to Derek and Michelle's for the tradition of dinner! It was delicious! and then they revealed my birthday cake! It is SO cute! haha I love it! Terri said that she got this one because she knows I am trying to find my prince at the moment! ; ) (Annabelle is one of my many nicknames!)

After that we watched 7 lbs. with Will Smith and it was so good! It makes you think about life. Anyway it was a really great day and thank you so much to everyone who called, sent stuff, and came to see me! I really appreciate it! It was weird not being home for my birthday for the first time but I am glad I have friends and family up here that care enough about me to make my birthday special!

oopsie! : )

Well I feel like a major slacker that's for sure! I know I have been horrible with keeping up with my blog and a lot has happened over the past few months so I am just going to put up some pictures that help to illustrate my time!

Let's start with Christmas...

Michelle and I started an ugly ornament tradition a few years back and each year I don't think it can get any worse but as you can see....I stand corrected. : ) sick.

Ashlee and I had a lot of fun over Christmas! I don't think I have laughed so hard in my life! I unfortunately do not have all of the videos and pictures that I want to put up but I will put up those when I get home later. (YOU WANT TO SEE THEM, TRUST ME!) ; )

I have acquired a boyfriend and we just celebrated our 4 monther the other day! It has been a lot of fun so far! : )
In February we went up to Las Vegas to visit Ang and my mom and I am so glad that I was able to convince Drea and Jason to come up as well! It was so much fun seeing everyone and getting out of Provo for a little bit!
On Valentine's Day Angela, Christian, Drea, Jason, Sheldon, and I all went down to the strip and watched the fountains at the Bellagio. It was really awesome!! I loved it!

I wanted Ang to take some pictures of me and the kids and I am so glad she did because she is so good at photography and I love these! Thanks Angela!

Before leaving I had to get my usual haircut from Angela! : ) I always complain in the process but I always end up loving it afterwards!

Because it is obviously too cold for frisbee Sheldon and I go and play dodgeball and it has been SO much fun! I love it a lot! It is so intense and awesome! Every Wednesday night you can count on us being there!

After a few weeks I invited Chad and Ritchie to come and play and they showed up like this! It was hilarious! haha They are so hilarious together, they definitely got a few looks that night!

Chaddy strutting his stuff. : ) It has been a lot of fun being up here and hanging out with him more! He makes me laugh constantly and I can always count on him to come to any ultimate game! : ) (...and now dodgeball)

We started doing a monthly girls night with Kylie, Terri, Bonnie, Kimber, and Jenny. Our first one we went out to Olive Garden and then back to Terri's to play games. It was a lot of fun!

"I'll be the Poo!" haha
Auntie was a little upset because she didn't win any of the games! : )

I will try to keep updating more regularly instead of putting it off! So until next time....

Yeah we were born that way! : )

Ok so I know I haven't updated in awhile and I apologize but I have been a littly busy....if you know what I mean. : ) haha ok anyway last Tuesday we played in the championship game and WON!! We are the Ultimate Intramural Champions of 2008! I am still so excited about it! We really had the best team and it was SO much fun! All of us got along so well and had a blast and we won in the process! We recieved an amazing t-shirt (which is why we wanted to win in the first place) and the title of Ultimate Champions. I am so sad that it's over and especially since it is getting so cold we won't really be playing at all which absolutely stinks! I don't know what I am going to do with my life. ; )

For some reason everyone was like scared of the camera or something so Michelle and I had to make up for that! : )

I absolutely love our team! Everyone is so awesome!

Total intimidation factor right here.

Number one that's right.

Mitch and Sheldon with their game face.

Who are we?
Bourne Ultimate.

Halloween!

Yeah I'm not really in to the whole Halloween thing but it was pretty fun this year! I like the cute kind of stuff just not all the haunted scary part of it. So let me just say thanks again to Kylie for dragging me to the Haunted Forest! ; ) It was actually pretty fun because we were laughing a lot. Anyway so my auntie is so awesome! Yes you! : ) She puts out in her front yard all these gravestones for how everyone in her family died and this year she made one for me!! I was so excited when I saw it! Thanks Auntie! : )

On Halloween we had an Ultimate game (our 3rd Tournament one) and we won!! We are now in the top 4 and hopefully we can make it to the championship! That would be so awesome! After the game Michelle and I (Michelle broke her ankle by the way) got invited to like 3 parties....yeah we are popular like that.... but basically ditched out on them because we had a coupon for some chex mix and we were kind of craving that! : ) Yeah I know we are dorks! We did actually go to one of our friend's parties and it was a lot of fun! There were a lot of pretty good costumes and some crazy people so it was good. So then we just went back to her apartment and ate some check mix and watched Transformers and yeah it was pretty fun! Nothing all that crazy but it was good!

This game is awesome! : )

Ok so tonight we played our 2nd Tournament game and won! It was so awesome! We have been playing really well lately and on Friday we go into the elite 8 double elimination tournament! I am so excited because we could actually win the championship! I can't help it but this game is so amazing! : ) I am pretty much obsessed and could play all day long! I took some in-action shots the last few practices and got some good ones!

This is Gary. He joined the team a little later than everyone else but he is so awesome!


Here is Dallas and Sheldon battling it out for the frisbee...Sheldon apparently really hurt is chest area after doing this.

I just thought I would show the aftermath of the game. It is so worth it! and most of the time if i get beat up I at least make the catch which makes the pain that much sweeter! : ) It's all about the sacrifice!

Brandon and Bryce dueling it out.
Here is Casey who actually flew over Michelle in order to get that! It was pretty awesome!

Here is Sheldon.....in style

This is Bryce or as I like to call him....Mini Bootcamp! (...Ashlee ; ) )

Sheldon flying through the air as usual.

I love our team! We always have so much fun and we have been doing good about the whole winning thing lately so I hope that we keep that up! : )

Who are we? BORN ULTIMATE!

Crazy Busy!

Sorry everyone for the lack of updated stuff! I have been going none stop with school and everything else! I have had a pretty exciting couple of weeks though! Last weekend I was able to go to conference! Angela sent me some tickets that she got from her stake and I was so excited! It was such an incredible experience! The conference center is gorgeous and just being there I was able to feel the spirit so strong! Then when president Monson came in the place went silent and everyone was on their feet. It was so awesome! The talks were really good too and I definitely found some things that I need to work on!

It was a pretty rainy day!

Thanks Ang!! : )

Yesterday was our big Homecoming game against New Mexico and just as expected we won! It was a pretty good game! And as usual it was a lot of fun! It got so freezing at the end though! I couldn't feel my fingers at all! Luckily Michelle and I are really close so we didn't mind cuddling up to help warm ourselves up! : )

In other news.....a couple Friday's ago I went on a date with this guy on my ultimate team. He is definitely one of the best players and he is hilarious! His name is Sheldon and the date was way fun! We carved a pumpkin and wrote this random "story" and then left it on Michelle's doorstep, knocked on the door and ran. It was pretty funny! The best pumpkin I have ever seen too! We were just lauhing the whole time about random things and how I am pretty much the biggest clutz/ditz that ever walked the planet! : )