Happy Thanksgiving!

It feels wonderful to be home! I left Provo Monday afternoon and was greeted at the Sac airport Monday night by the greatest family-- mine! :) Anyhow, call me ridiculous but I did take some photos of our house because I was just so excited to be home in sunny California. It's gorgeous here! Growing up, I took the lovely weather for granted.

Mom made these delicious ranger cookies for me. She's the best!

I love our backyard!

I miss these hammock chairs. They're perfect for reading.

It's too cold to swim in, but it's still pretty!

I can wear sandals here. Woot woot!

Hi Jeeves :)

Miss this guy when I'm away, too.

Laker Cupcakes!

pre-frosting

It's funfetti cake + funfetti frosting. I died the cake batter as well as the frosting, and this is what I got. Let's go LA!

I'm an English Major

Today, I cleaned. It was the best. I actually enjoy cleaning. It relaxes me and gives the greatest sense of satisfaction. I decided to clean (this time, clean=organize) because my five subject BYU notebook is ripping. It's busting with papers; the poor little buddy. Anyway, I whipped out my little filing box to remove those papers/handouts/etc. from last semester's classes to make room for this semester's when I realized that the English class section is markedly fatter. All those papers...

See it? It's the thick white clutch in the middle.

Even though being an English major is always exhausting (on top of usual homework assignments, impossibly lengthy reading assignments every class, and unit tests/quizzes, we write paper after paper after paper after paper-- it's madness!), I love it. Let me repeat that: I LOVE IT. As I shuffled through handouts from my Brit. Lit. class, I found one Dr. Walker gave us the first week of school that is especially meaningful:

Amen to that.

Oh and, for kicks, he gave us this on the other side of the sheet:

:) (Lynne Truss would scold me for that)... :)

Oh Boy.

Friday:

Saturday:

Talk about a transformation over night.

This Time A Year Ago...

... I was at the Republican Gala in SLC! Even though we lost nationally, it was still a great night for Governor Huntsman & Co. Only a few of us from BYU Republicans went down to the Grand America on the evening of November 4, 2008, but it was an amazing experience. Call me strange, but I hope politics is part of my life for forever. We also became good friends with Trevor and Blake (now on missions in Nashville, TN & Bosnia/Hertzegovena/etc.). It's sort of bizarre that all my guy friends are on missions. Ok back to the point-- here' some photos of our rad night:

18 years & 8 months... just old enough to vote for the FIRST TIME EVER! yesss!

Yeah Cali!

At the Republican Headquarters in Provo.

Joe & Tine

We had some time to kill, so we explored the hotel...

Blake & Trevor

My two favorite people. Hello Harry. Hello Nancy.

I took this. From the front row. Still not sure how we managed that...