Learning to Ice Skate is Tricky Business

My roommates and I went ice skating for Claire's (one of my roommates) birthday in an outdoor skating rink. Needless to say I was terrified but I got the hang of it pretty quickly thanks to my awesome roommies! Thanks girls!! ♥

A Night in the City

My roommates and I all went to Salt Lake City at temple square to look at the lights, go ice skating outdoors, and many other various adventures. Ice skating pics coming soon! :D

Gingerbread Houses Galore and More

Tis the season! My friend Dane took me on a double date on Friday night and I had so much fun! (The other couple was Skyler Draper and Alysa Hoskin) First, we went to Jason's Deli where we dined on fancy sandwiches and free ice cream. Delish! Then we went to their apartment and had a gingerbread house making contest. The icing was like glue and we got it all over each other! I'm pretty sure Dane and I won the contest though :) THEN we watched the Blind Side. If any of you have not seen that movie, I would recommend it 100%. It is wonderful. Well there ya have it! Gingerbread houses galore and more. Here are the pics.

Library Sittin'

I'm sitting at a small desk on the side of the wall on the 5th floor of the Harold B. Lee Library. Not much is going on here. Not much action, that is. But I look up and see endless other little desks behind me and in front of me with students' heads bent over notebooks and textbooks and slim laptops, absorbed in their work. Some are staring off in space, probably thinking about the finals next week. Other students leave when they have finished, and more take their place. Here is a library of learning, a library where I'm pretty sure a copy of every book in the world rests comfortably in the impossibly immaculate organized shelves on every floor, in every room.

There are tables here too, with plugs so students can sit and hook up their laptops and begin their work. I often like people-watching here in the library. The tables fill up not one at a time, but student by student. "Full" or "taken" to some students is when there is already one person at each 4 person table. You watch them ask with eyes downcast if they can sit at a table, and they sit at the opposite corner of the student already occupying the table. It's a fascinating effect. We students like our space.

Here is where I can study and focus and not be distracted by all the yummy snacks in the dorm kitchen. Here is complete silence. Here is where inspiration happens and where ideas are discovered and where solitude is man's best friend. Here is the library of learning. Library sittin'. The best place to be.

Temple Trip!

My ward took a "field trip" to Temple Square in Salt Lake City and looked at all the Christmas lights! We also saw the Joseph Smith movie in the Legacy Theater. It was absolutely amazing. The spirit at Temple Square was wonderful. There was a man playing the bagpipes outside the gates; that was a cool touch to the Christmas atmosphere! Well, here are the pics. :)

Laryssa and I

Here we are!

Family Pictures

Another freshman named Lauren in Heritage Halls took these roommate family pictures. Aren't we so cute? ;)

A Most Eventful Halloween

The Penrose 89 girls. Newsies, a chinese woman, and me, Bellatrix Lestrange from Harry Potter. Oh, and of course, Narcissa Malfoy, my partner in crime. I was Bellatrix for all 4 Halloween parties that I went to. This Halloween weekend was a blast!!

Pumpkin Carving Galore

I went pumpkin carving twice - once to someone's house who had invited a TON of people and I ended up seeing Summer and Benjin from back home from Tennessee! My pumpkin I carved there was a ghost on one side and a cat on the other. You can see the cat here. The OTHER pumpkin carving event was with my roommates and our family home evening brothers - that was super fun. Annie and I carved a pretty awesome pumpkin that we name AkonDerulo, because he's a gangsta pumpkin. :)

Bunny Graveyard Adventure

The title says it all. One of our family home evening brothers went to a cemetary tucked away near campus and in the southeast corner where the caretaker's house is, exists at least 10 tame bunnies that live in the field. We got up close and personal on a roommate adventure and we've got pics to prove it!

Me and My Crazy Awesome Roommates

So. Ward Talent Show Night. We did a music dance video to Justin Beiber's Eenie Meenie My Lover. Using these costumes. Videos will come soon. They other pics are just us being silly and enjoying each other! LONG LIVE PENROSE 89!

Homecoming Weekend!

Friday night I went to a semi-formal dance at the Aquarium in Salt Lake City. It was super fun. We went to an Italian restaurant then to the dance, then all 10 of us went to someone's cabin and watched a movie and partied! My friend Seth from my Physical Science class took me.
Saturday, I went to the BYU football game with 2 of my roommmates and one of my family home evening brothers. Then afterwards I went to another semi-formal dance with my friend Wesley! He's on the break-dance team so he had to wear a casual outfit but we still had such a good time! He taught me how to waltz which was super fun. We went out for ice cream afterwards.
Homecoming weekend was spectacular. Here are the pics to prove it. :)