My Exciting, yet not so Exciting life!!

So i know i am terrible at this.. My plan for this blog was to be like my journal, and for me to write in it often so that i could look back and remember all the fun (or not fun) things that i did. however, my plan has not worked very well, mostly because i get too busy and forget that i should write... whether here or in my actual journal... it doesn't matter. I am just not good at this.. So i guess i will just give a recap of all the awesome things that i have done over the past few months!!

So starting off at the beginning of last semester i guess... school went well, as well as could be expected i guess. I was in the IBC. Which is the Integrated Business Core, where we as students (groups of about 25) came together and started a business on campus. We ran everything from finances, to adminisistration, and marketing.. It was fun actually.. :) Our business was called EnviroLight! We sold and installed energy efficient lightbulbs in apartment complexes throughout rexburg. It was actually a really good busines. If we could have continued it and not shut it down we would have made bank!! especially with the big complexes like The Ridge! We had so much fun as a company though!! We went camping at the beginning of the semester with our whole company, we had to provide food and supplies for our groups (of 6) but we camped as companies (4 groups). We went to Badger creek for 3 days and it was so much fun! I think that they 5 guys in my group were really glad that i was in their group because otherwise they would have eaten things like cold cereal and donuts. but we had good stuff like pork chops, dutch oven chicken and potatoes, cobblers, and apple crisp. what can i say.. i'm the culinary genious!! jk. But camping was fun.. not only did we camp, but we did all kinds of leadership activities and group stuff, it was cool. I think the best part was when we were doing this Inclined Log exercise, and we were supposed to walk up this log that was at like a 35 degree angle to the ground and it hooked into a horizontal log that was about 15-20 feet off the ground. We were supposed to walk up it and across the other one, without falling off and without grabbing onto our harness and stuff for support. One of the boys from my company said that he'd pay the person who could do it without touching $1 because the group before us said that no one had been able to do it... they said it was super hard. :) so of course i get nominated to do it first.. and i, being the incredibly challenge-motivated person had to do it. So i did it.. even though it scared me to death.. even though i was all harnessed in and everything. :) but then Clint, who is this big guy with the biggest bicepts i've ever seen, who happens to be scared to death of heights, decided that since i did it that he had to.. and he did pretty good, i think we pretty much tied for the $1. :) since then we have become really good friends. IBC was really fun and i had a great experience. Everything that i learned there will benefit me i'm sure. . . so far this class has been one that i feel is the most applicable in life itself that i've taken here at school.. I'm glad i got to experience it. especially with the awesome company that i had. They were great!!

So my roommates are great this year. I get along really well with them and they are really fun! We have done lots of fun stuff together. One of my favorite things that we did last semester was when we went bridge jumping. It was around the first week in November and it was snowing, and my roommate comes in and invites us all to go bridge jumping with her.. we all thought she was crazy.. but went anyway.. i mean who can say that they went bridge jumping in the winter!! not many people! So we went. It was SOOOOO cold.. but it was super fun! I don't know that i would do it again. but it was worth doing the first time! here is a picture of our adventures!!


Yeah.. what can i say.. I pretty much have some awesome roommates. :)

I went through my first "real" relationship last semester. I started dating Eddie Sommercorn around Thanksgiving. He is an awesome guy and i really liked him. He is in a band, plays the guitar and the drums.... although his taste in music is a little (ok.. ALOT) different than mine.. He likes that screaming scary hard rock stuff.. i even got lectured about the difference between "metal" and "hard core"... they all sound the same to me!! lol. oh well. He was really nice and i love his family. I have actually known them for a long time.. since i was like 10... thats a long time! :) But things just didn't work out.. We had different views on things, such as religion, education, and other things.. it just was not working for me. Oh well, it was a good experience and i learned things. I hope that things work for him in his life.. cause it would be sad if it didn't!!

Can I just say that i love my family!! I had so much fun with them over Christmas Vacation!!! I thouroughly enjoyed spending time with them!! They are so much fun! Christmas is always fun. We had our Annual Barn Trek, and that was really fun. :) It is probably my favorite part of Christmas. I love it! We gave out Stewart Family Pictionary games this year for our gift, and i thought they were really cool. We basically came up with all kinds of things about our family and turned them into a pictionary game. with game pieces, a board and all!! it was really fun to make. I like it.. :) We did all kinds of other stuff with my family too! I went to Island park to a cabin with the family and it ROCKED!!!!!!! we got there the day after Christmas.. There was 31 inches of fresh snow when we got there!! The snowmobiling was amazing!! I can't believe how much fun we had.. People were jumping off the balcony into the snow.. my mom was the funniest when she jumped off cause she plugged her nose... now that was funny!! My uncle Jason jumped the snowmobile and got like 8 feet of air. and then my brother Ben had to do it too.. he got just about the same amount of air.. it was cool.. then later i was supposed to turn the snowmobile around and the only way to do it was to jump it over the snowbank.. SCARY!! but i did it.. well kindof.. I went off and it scared me cause i got like 8 feet of air. and i leaned to far to the left and laid the snowmobile down in the snow on its side. good thing it was a soft landing.. it was hard to get unstuck though.. :) lol. my family all laughed at me!! but thats ok. they do that often. :) My aunt shelley got hurt on the tarp or the "Death Machine" as she nicknamed it when we went to get Christmas trees... She thought she broke her leg, but she just tore and pulled some muscles.. she is ok now though. good thing too cause she was hurting!!

I learned how to snowboard this year!!! I have been wanting to learn for a while.. but i finally did it.. thanks to a great teacher!! :) Shortly before Christmas, i went and delivered my friend Josh his Christmas Present... which happened to be a clutch lever for his dirt bike. (since he's broken his everytime we went together!!) but i went to his house to deliver his present and ended up talking with him and his family for quite a while! we talked about everything from our families, to hobbies, school, snowboarding and eventually we were talking about snowmobling and i invited his whole family out to my house to play on the snowmobiles and the tarp. it was like 8 at night! But we had so much fun. I have probably not had that much fun in a really long time. It turned into a fight between josh and nicole as to who could stay on the tarp and it was hilarious!! We played for a few hours and about 11 we finally deciede that we should probably get all the kids home to bed!! Later that night we were texting and he asked me if i still wanted to learn how to snowboard.. I said that of course i did and we planned it for the next weekend after christmas! I was so excited to learn to board that i couldn't even sleep the night before.. ( i might have been excited to hang out with him too.. but i was excited to board.) We went to pommerelle, which is about an hour and a half away. It was so much fun. Dallas and his brother Dallen came with us and we had a great time. Josh decided that the best way to teach me was to take me to the top of the mountain and send me down a black diamond run... granted i wasn't scared of it, except for the fact that i didnt have any clue as to what i was doing on the snowboard.. but i picked it up fast and was able to follow him around the rest of the mountain for the rest of the day!! It was so much fun.. enough fun that i would totally do it again!! here are a few pictures from our trip.. and a video of me!! :)

Josh teaching Dallen!
Dallas!

Josh






So this semester at school has been pretty much amazing so far too! I am in the Integrated Marketing Class, and i am having a good time. We are working with this company called WholesaleChess.com. They sell all sorts of Chess stuff. It has been interesting to learn about them and their company. I am also taking a candy making class this semester and that has been really fun. I have made some good candy so far and plan on learning how to make lots more! It is definately a really fun class.

I am working for my Uncle Jim at the Pharmacy here in rexburg. i deliver prescriptions around town and out to Terreton. It is a really boring drive, but i just listen to the radio and enjoy myself. :) plus i love to drive. It is actually a fun job. I like it. and i am super grateful to have the job!!

So i went ice skating last night and it was really fun. I am funny, cause i had been telling everyone about how great an ice skater i was.. and i have now discovered that i am not that great!! lol. Not good enough to be on the hockey team, thats for sure! I wanted to try out, but i didn't cause they play at weird times (like 5:30 am.) but i'm ok with not being on the team.. maybe i'll just go watch a game or two.. :) But i was excited to go and i had lots of fun. My roommates invited like the whole ward, and one of the guys came from George Town apartments, his name is Spencer. He was not very steady on skates and so i helped him out.. :) lol. We ended up hanging out the whole time. It was really fun. He is from Canada, and just recently got back from his mission. He is fun and i enjoyed myself. I hope that i can become better friends with him and the other guys in my ward.. i've been kindof anti social lately and i need to stop it!!

The best thing about last night though was THE SNOWMAN!!! oh my goodness.. i was so excited about this! My best friend Sheila and I have been wanting to build this snowman for years now and last night just happened to be the perfect night to do it!! ok.. so you are probably wondering what is so special about a snowman.. lol. oh there is everything special about this snowman!!!




This snowman was built on the 3rd floor of the apartment building next to ours. And it was built directly in front of my friends doorway!! lol. so close that it was nearly impossible to get in or out of the door!! It was also facing the door, so when they opened the door to their apartment they would be facing a SNOWMAN!!! It was not easy building a snowmand on the 3rd floor, where there is no snow! We had to make him elsewhere and then haul the giant balls of snow up the stairs.. We used a really big tobogan sled to get them up there and then assembled the snowman.. It even had a face, a hat, and a scarf. :)

The best part of the whole thing, however, was after we built it. Sheila and I sat on the cement wall on the other side of the parking lot and just watched people as they found the snowman. It was absolutely great.. here are some excerpts that we heard!!

....DUDE... A SNOWMAN!!!
....How did that get there!
....That's just GENIOUS!!
....That must have been hard work!
....How am i supposed to get home? (from the girl stuck inside the apartment!!)

Oh man.. It was probably one of the best pranks that Sheila and I have ever pulled. And it was great that we were able to enjoy the reactions, cause usually we don't get to do that! It was definately worth it! I had so much fun building it. and i laughed so hard!! :)

Well it is really late and i have to teach the sunday school lesson in the morning!! so i should probably get some sleep! So i am going to say that i will do better about writing ... but i am not promising anything!! Oh.. but if you want to check out the most updated cakes on my cake site check out www.cakesoncall.blogspot.com. I just updated it today.. so i guess goodnight and hopefully i'll post again soon!!