Monday, September 27, 2010

football.


i love football season. now i must admit that i don't know a whole lot about the sport (sad, i know...), but the boyfriend has taken on the task of teaching me so that i can sit and watch a game with him and be able to follow along, and know with what's going on. i will say i do know enough to enjoy a game.

here are some reasons why i love football:
  • happens in my favorite season...fall
  • it's an entertaining sport to watch
  • i love supporting my hometown vikings (woot, woot)
  • the crazy fans
  • superbowl. enough said.
  • bundling up in sweatshirts and gloves for the byu cougars
  • hot chocolate
oh how i love football!


Sunday, September 19, 2010

no title.



this week this blog has not title. why you ask? it's because i don't really know what to put for it.
maybe i should title it stressed, because that's what i am!!! i think the picture says it all.
i wish i would've been told what it would be like to work a whole day AND take a full semesters worth of credits. did i mention that they were online? oh yeah...they're online, which makes it even harder and more time consuming! if you've read in older posts you would see that i made the announcement that i got my associates from byu-idaho. boy was i mistaken. i started getting tons of emails and letters telling me that i was missing classes. 

i'm sure some of you are saying "duh paige...of course you have to take all your generals to get your associates degree" 
well, i knew that...but when i asked them about that and the girl that i spoke to said i didn't and that i was good to know. i thought sweet this will be great!

false

instead now because i truly didn't get the degree i am finishing it online while working and living 4 hours away from provo. hmmm. my plans were not this. i'm still trying to develop some sort of plan as to how i can juggle human anatomy, british literature, and advanced writing all into one week and still be able to breathe by the time friday comes around.

sometimes being in college really isn't very fun.

Saturday, September 4, 2010

a whirlwind of a month...



oh my goodness so much has happened since i last posted...i've been horrible at blogging! now that things have really calmed down, i plan to blog regularly so that i can keep ya'll up to date!

so here are some things that happened since my last week of efy:

#1 - efc (especially for counselors) to disneyland

i love disney.
i forget how much i love it until i am once again walking that main street with a castle as my end point.
what a fun trip this was! chris, amber, whitney, and i decided to leave early on sunday instead of monday with the rest of the crowd. we wanted more time at the beach. so we made what we thought would be a 10 hour drive, but ended up being about 13...we forgot that all the californians head back from vegas on sunday and got stuck in that yucky traffic. what a long night!

we stayed at my aunt lani's in san deigo that night and then went to the beach the next day. it was so much fun. i love that area. after we met up with all the efy people at huntington beach and enjoyed the rest of the day. tuesday-thursday we played in the parks and rode rides until we were sick to our stomaches! california adventures has this really cool new water laser show called world of color. if you ever get the chance to go to disney, you must see this. so cool!

here are some pictures from the trip. there are a lot more, but these were some favorites :)


in line for the thunder mountain railroad


enjoying california adventures at night


waiting to watch fantasmic


just a taste of what the world of color is like


#2 - minnesota with the boyfriend

so i took the boyfriend home to minnesota this past week. we had a blast. i showed chris around minnesota and took him to see what makes my home, home.

  • we went to the mall of america and shopped and rode some of the rides. 
  • we hung out by my pool and played some water basketball. (well, i attempted to while chris owned me every time...). 
  • we helped out with my home ward's temple day. chris taught about the temple in the dominican republic
  • spending my birthday at the lake
  • surprise birthday party for my 22nd birthday
  • got fat at the famous minnesota state fair eating lots of friend goodness
  • seeing mr. tim mcgraw in concert
  • getting paid $30 to watch up
  • eating on a rooftop in uptown
home was so fun. we didn't want to leave because we knew that as soon as we did we would have to come back to real life, which includes trying to find work, school, and moving in to our new places. but it had to be done and we were excited for it!

here are some pics from home:


us being goofy


our rooftop lunch with my dad


tim mcgraw concert

#3 john mayer concert

oh how i love john mayer. it's almost as much as i love jason mraz. almost. chris had tickets to the john mayer concert with some of his good friends and invited me to come along. i gladly accepted :)

it was my kind of concert too. blankets, food, jacket, boyfriend. perfect. 
john is a funny...somewhat crude...entertainer. he put on a great concert and it was a fun night for both chris and i to have before we had to face real life again.

here are some pics from this night:


our dinner for the night


the cute couple picture


the group we went with (minus alex...)

#4 - new house

i'm in a new place and i love it!! it's a cute little townhouse that my friend amber and i are living in with 2 other girls. when we found it about a month ago we fell in love with it right away. we got such a good deal on it though. it's brand new, just built last november, stainless steel appliances, washer/dryer, private rooms, garage, sweet club house, comes with all furniture, it's great. plus it's close to everything. we really enjoy it.

here are some pics of the new place:


the outside


the family room


my kitchen (favorite part of it all)


my room

overall things are great. i'm excited to be in this new chapter of life. chapters are good. i'm excited for school to start in a week and for chris and i to start real life dating. he's a really good guy and i can't wait to be around him more and have more adventures :)