mostly for mom....

Because I find it so weird when people put pics of their dorms on facebook.... But everyone does. Grrrr. Anyways I think on my blog is a little less weird. And my mom hasn't seen how everything is set up yet. So....

My bed...

The blanket my Grandma Hathaway made me... And my snuggie shoved by the wall cause it's too hot to use... :(

My shelf...

My closet...

My closet... I love the hangers!

My desk...

A closer look at the adorable R my mom made me!

My mom's friend Jenn made this for me! She is super crafty and cute...

The other half of my desk...

Socks, laundry, shower stuff and such...

My mom sent a Halloween box! She sent us this cute decoration...

She sent a carving kit, popcorn, decorations & sprinkles & cute cupcake holders!

She also sent this awesome Happy Halloween sign! We love it!

We all had fun decorating our dorm :)

Thanks mom!!

what i've been up to!

First of all, this week called for a lot of this! Aimee and I both are addicted to ice cream and we eat some every day.


Last weekend on Saturday I went to Jake's house again! We spent Saturday shopping for shoes. I really need actual shoes and I want sperry's so bad!

OR....

WOULD BE PERFECT.

So I won't settle for anything else. But we didn't find any :( so I need to make a trip down to Utah and look for them there. When we were done shopping and goofing off at the mall, we went back to his house and went on a surry ride! It was SO COOL! And SO FUN! We went with his mom and dad one time and the next time around his sister Shalina and her hubby Dane came with us. Then his brother Tyson hopped on... Those horses can pull a lot of weight! We had a lot of fun! We stayed up until midnight watching Bounty Hunter. That's such a funny movie! We all really liked it. At midnight we all sang happy birthday to his sweet mom!

Brother Cromwell, me, Jake, Dane and Shalina!

So Sunday was Sister Cromwell's birthday! We went to church. We came home and baked two cakes, one for Jake's mom and one for a girl named Sarah from the Caribbean. Jake baptized her on his mission. She is here at BYU Idaho and is so nice. Jake and I go visit her every few weeks. After we made the cake and ate lunch everyone took a nap. Then we skyped Jake's older sister Kiralee and her family. I know Kiralee and her hubby Isaac and two of their daughters because I met them last Thanksgiving at my uncle Jon's house. Isaac and his family were there cause Isaac is my aunt Anna's brother. Small world! Later in the day Jake's sister Zhanae and her family came over. She has six ADORABLE little kiddos. Jake and I took two of his little nieces, Ziah (another coincidence, I have a cousin named Zya!) and Vennie, for a ride on the 4 wheeler. We went around and fed the horses. Then rode around for a while. Jake is so fun and cute with his nieces and nephews. I wish I got pics but I'm like the lone photo taker at that house so I feel weird when I take pictures....

On Monday for FHE we did a photo scavenger hunt. It was way fun!

Pumping a stranger's gas for them. Turns out my cousin Julie knows this guy!

Fit everyone in your group on one chair.

Fit everyone on your group under a picnic table.

On Tuesday Jake came and took me to the store to buy food and other things (life saver!). Then we came back to the dorm and cooked spaghetti and garlic bread. It was yummmmmmmy. Then we hung out with Aimee until the other girls came back from a dance. Then we went for a drive.

On Wednesday all of us girls were home, rare occasion. But while Jake and I were out Tuesday night my roommates decided that he and I looked like Meg and Hercules... Then that Aimee and her missionary look like princess Aurora and prince.... whatshisname. And Sasha looks like Mulan. So Meagan decided to be Rapunzel... So on Wednesday when Sasha got home from class she printed out princess pictures for us to color... It was actually a lot of fun I'm not going to lie lol. We all colored our princesses in Aimee's and my (mine and Aimee's?) room then hung them up around the dorm haha. We are such freshman. :)

Meagan coloring Rapunzel and her prince :)

Aimee coloring Aurora and her prince! :)

Sasha coloring Mulan and Shang! :)

Me and my drawing!

All of us!

And the finished products.....

i made it!

It has been such a crazy month! and it's only half over!

Anyone who reads this also reads my mom's blog so I'll just let y'all go there to read about me getting here and set up.

My roommates! Meagan, Aimee (we share a room), me, and Sasha!

So I started out taking 16 credits but just had to drop my American Foundations class. Everyone in there was older and more opinionated and ready for the class than I was. The teacher was intimidating and it was just a hard scary class. So now I'm taking 13 credits. There's still so much homework I feel like I'm never completely on top of everything. But it'll get better, right? :)

So my first weekend here was my birthday weekend. I felt so lucky and loved I got a bunch of letters and packages from family and friends. My aunt Trina's sister Tisha came by and brought me a cake and balloons and snickers from my mom. It was so fun to see her and so nice of her to do that!

Delicious!

From my family!

My first bff Brooke Taylor took me to the Cocoa Bean for my birthday! It's only the yummiest place in the world. They have amazing cupcakes and lemonades! Brooke is such a good friend and lifesaver. She's helped me settle here so much!! I love her!

For my birthday I got to go to Idaho Falls with Jake Cromwell! We had such a fun day!! We went horseback riding, swimming, then to a demolition derby! His mom made us such yummy food and dessert too! I was so spoiled the whole weekend. I had so much fun!

Jake and I! :)

Horseback riding is so much fun. So! Much! Fun! I rode their horse Shade.

Jake and I on the horses!

It was such an awesome weekend. Jake and his family made sure I had a great time there. :)

This weekend I went up to Bear Lake with the Cromwells! Another super fun weekend!

This is the view of the lake form their mountain cabin. Super pretty!

Jake and I went 4 wheeling with his mom, dad, and older brother Adam then we went to their lake cabin and got it all closed and ready for winter. When we were done we went back to the mountain cabin and watched The Kid and Nacho Libre or something... Both were funny but I liked The Kid better haha. After that Jake and his little brother Tyson and I went 4 wheeling again. This time I remembered my camera!

This is what we were driving through. It was amazing!

There was a beautiful view of the lake once we got up higher on the mountain.

Another pretty view we found.

I loved all the colors so much! Louisiana is just green all year. Which is also pretty... But this was gorgeous!

Sunset.

It was amazing.

Before it got dark we went to this place that had some hills and jumps! I didn't get a recording of Jake and I going over this jump but here's Tyson going over it! He did it three times and of course the third one was the highest and that's the one I didn't catch.

nauvoo trip!

Before we actually went to Nauvoo we visited my mom's old missionary companion Elizabeth! She has the cutest family and they are so much fun to hang out with. I wish we could have stayed longer!

This is the only picture I have! My mom still hasn't given me her pictures from the trip so this is all I have...

After the Raubachs we finished the drive to the hotel where we met Grandma and Grandpa Hathaway and the Mouritsen cousins! Jon and Anna and their kids met up with us a little later!

This is Sari and Destry at the first hotel we stayed at. They bought these cute pj's and also got matching zebra converse! It was super cute.

We went to so many fun places. I don't have many pictures, like I said, but here's Sari, Destry, Heidyn, and I at the visitor's center in Nauvoo.

And here is Heidyn and I on our second day at the visitors center waiting to get in to see a play!

One of the places to visit in Nauvoo was this outside park place. They had games to play it was tons of fun! Sari, Heidyn, Destry and I all tried the stick pull!

Heidyn and Destry trying it out!

Sari and Destry! No one won, they tied every time!

Heidyn and I!

Only Destry had the mad balancing skills required to do this game!

We went to a cool store and bought souvenirs and popcorn and candy! Upstairs they had the old relief society room. It was cool to see.

Heidyn, Me, Destry, Sari. While everyone else was buying their stuff we waited in the shade and ate our snacks!

We ate strawberry and watermelon candies that turned our tongues hot pink!

We went to a pioneer place where they showed us how the pioneers lived when they first got to Nauvoo. It was soooo interesting!

Here the older missionary was telling us about how the pioneers got settled.

We went to Carthage jail. This is the room where Joseph was shot. It was a very sad tour.

Heidyn, me, Destry, Sari.

We went on a walk to see a family grave stone. It was so pretty and fun!

Logan, me, Taylor. It was so fun to see these guys again. I rarely get to see them and they are such fun!

We got to ride in a wagon getting pulled by horses! It was so much fun. We went in two different groups.

This is Heidyn and I waiting for our turn to ride in the wagon. This picture just cracks me up cause it's the story of our lives lol.

We went to the pageant. It was amazing! They do such a great job.

We met an awesome sister missionary. She was so sweet and fun. She should be home by now...

This was Matthew halfway through the pageant. As if I wasn't already hot enough in the humidity! That boy is like a heater! But I'm going to miss cuddling with him when I go to college. :(

We were spoiled and got to eat out every night for dinner.

Destry, Me, Heidyn. Not sure why Sari is cropped out of this picture? Sad. But we had such yummy yummy food and it was a lot of fun to catch up with everyone. All the teen cousins sat at one table. It was fun.

Some group shots we took...

At Jospeh Smith and Emma Smith's grave stones. Everyone who came on the trip, minus Grandpa cause he was the photographer.

Family picture (with Ben in it!) at a cool statue....

Everyone outside the Nauvoo temple.

In one of the places we stopped for lunch I found this garden that was so pretty!

This picture is my background on my phone, ipod, computer... Everything! I think it's so pretty!

It was such a fun trip. I love my mom's family and I love when I get to see them they are so much fun to be around. My Grandma worked so hard to put this trip together and it came together wonderfully! Everyone had a ton of fun.

To make it even better, my grandparents decided to take an extra two days (maybe even three I think!) to drive to Louisiana and drop Heidyn off at my house cause we didn't have room for her in our car! I am so grateful they were willing to do that because Heidyn is my best friend and it has been so much fun having her here. That's my next post. :)

For the drive home Ben, Logan, Heidyn, and I were in Grandma and Grandpa's car and everyone else drove with my parents. I don't know about the other car but in my car there was a ton of this going on....

And when we weren't all asleep we were singing loudly and goofing off taking ridiculous pictures :) I know, Grandma and Grandpa are super lucky they had us driving home with them.

It was such a great trip!!