catch-up

wow i am so behind in blogging. sorry, world.

i have important things to do these days. school is taking over my life.

being an RA is pretty busy too. trying to make all the girls happy. be their friend. kick their butts when they do bad things. its a stressful life i got going for me here.

BUT, aside from being sick, all is well. school's great, work is great, my boyfriend is SUPER great, my family is great. haha. here are some highlights from the past month:

Scotty came to visit me two weekends ago :) way fun. minus his car breaking down 20 minutes after he got here. stupid. but we still had fun... everything we did just had to be in walking distance from my dorm! for example... BOWLING!

mind you, my right hand is still swollen and useless. so bowling with it didn't really work out because a) my fingers and too large to put in the holes and b) i can't hold more than a pound without wanting to cry haha. so i had to bowl left handed. i was bracing myself for an extremely embarrassing display of bowling... hoping to get at least 40 or so. BUT NO. i got freaking 120 with my left hand. that's better than i've ever done with my right hand hahaha. weird, huh? i never break 100. maybe i should start trying other things with my left hand.

my hot boyfriend
we played 3 games... i won 1 :) woooo!
cute cute. he's coming again this weekend for general conference! should be fun. i'm way excited. this week will be the slowest of my life... it feels like i haven't seen him FOREVER! i dont know what i would do if skype didn't exist.

Saturday, i got the opportunity to go to the relief society broadcast in salt lake city! we made a whole day activity out of it haha.

we started the day off at the draper temple with baptisms...

abby, me, heather, and alyssa
then we had lunch and shopping at IKEA :) mmmmm. so good. and so fun! we all decided we are ready to have our own houses and decorate them. so much fun stuff there. then we went to nordstrom rack... very dangerous place for me. but i only bought necessities :)

then i got to see my parents for like 10 minutes in salt lake! they were driving through to take grandma barnes to the airport. i dont have any pictures of that. but it was so good to see them. i miss my parents so much!
then onto the broadcast! it was so good. after every single talk we were all like "wow.. that was so good!" hahaha. and Thomas S. Monson is so cute and so funny. i love him. his talk was perfect for me... i liked it a lot.

my friends are so cute! this is me, abby, heather, alyssa, alisse, and audrey. oh the power of a-names. it was so good seeing all of them.

well, i've procrastinated my homework long enough!

i have books calling my name.

ashley