The Glygs

These are my glygs. I’m not going to tell you what that means. But they’re probs my best friends.

Wedding Reception

My friend Tina got married on Saturday!

I didn’t realize it until I started collecting pictures for this post but I share so many high school memories with this girl.

From orchestra….

to dances…

to parties…

to student government….

to madrigals….

and sterling scholar…

to graduation!

and now she’s married!

Congratulations Tina! You deserve to be so happy!

Happy Birthday Harry!

I have nerdy friends.... OK fine I'm a nerd too. Yesterday was Harry Potter's birthday (obviously). We celebrated by drinking butter beer and trying to re-create the cake Hagrid made in the first movie. Oh, and we sang to him.... in British accents.

Roommates

You hear a lot of things about roommates before you go to college that could easily freak you out into getting your own room or living with a family member. I was lucky enough to have 2 (sometimes 5 including the apartment next door and 1 more including Forrest) really fantastic roommates my first year at the Y. 

So my roommate Christine..... yeah I never saw her. For as fantastic as she was (is), I'm quite sure that I saw my home teachers more at my apartment than I saw her. Okay, lie. I saw her maybe once a week. And that once a week: man, we made some good memories. Anyway, I needed to blog about this priceless roommate moment that my journal could not do justice. Venice and I decided one day to put a dummy in her room... in her bed... you know... since she was never there.

Look how real it looked! (Er... once it was in her bed)

 The view from her door.

When she came home (some 5-10 days after we did it), she walked to her room, opened the door, immediately shut it, came out and said, "who is in my bed?" 

We all thought it was pretty great. Love you Christine!

T-Shirt Recycling

What do you do when you’re out of High School and have 30 t-shirts that would suggest otherwise?

You have your mom make you an amazing quilt!

My mom spent hundreds of hours of labor making this blanket.

She gave it to me for Christmas. She calls it “The Quilt That Stole Christmas”

I absolutely love it. I love my mom. It now graces my bed at college.

Every patch (aka t-shirt) has a such a meaningful memory. Here are a few:

Being Glinda, Auntie Em, and an ensemble member in Wizard of Oz.

Sadie’s 09 when we were all different sodas

Utah Ambassadors of Music, European Tour

I love that these still have the collars on them!

Student Government

Among other things.

I’m so happy with how it turned out.

Once upon a December….

Dancing bears… painted wings… things I almost remember… and a song someone sings, once upon a December….

So what has happened this month?

Well….. we straightened the hair of a certain curly-haired boy…

We also had a Taco Party…

complete with guacamole….

juarritos…

dancing….

and of course tacos….

Then I got a visitor….

We went to the BYU-Oregon game….

and BYU won….  

We walked the grounds of Temple Square….

Then we started studying for finals….

This picture was not posed.

Christmas break…. please come sooner!

I’ve almost survived my first semester at BYU…. what?!

Halloween Fun!

Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays! It must be the whole changing your identity thing. Actually, I think I just associate it with our Halloween decorations at home. I asked my mom if I could come home for a weekend just so we could put up Halloween. I don’t think she would do it if I wasn’t there and I couldn’t bear that thought.

Here is the parade of costumes this year:

Bryn was a zombie flapper.

Megan was Velma from Scoobie Doo.

Venice and Forrest were Esme and Count Olaf.

Professor Trelawney.

The Party.

We had a pumpkin carving contest and I got my “Y” pumpkin :)

For our ward party, Venice was Dolores Umbridge so obviously we had our differences throughout the night.

Harry Potter nerds forever!

Happy Halloween!! (Thanksgiving and Christmas around the corner….. YAY!)