In all reality, I have NO clue what 2012 will bring. I've always had a pretty clear picture of what my year will look like when it comes to school, changes, where I'll live, what classes I will be taking, and my plans on school recess. This year though, I honestly have no idea what changes I will run into, where I will be this summer, if I will renew my apt contract, if I'll even like my classes. At this point the only thing I am looking forward to is finishing this semester AND FAST. But then what? I don't know..
I wanted to apologize for not posting in a while. I've been very unhappy with the way my blog has been looking. As you may have heard, I uploaded the blogger app on my phone, and for some reason all of my pictures were saved in my phone gallery. I thought that it was a huge waste of space so I deleted all of the pictures off of my phone to later log onto my blog and see that ALL of my pictures on my blog had been deleted as well. I was upset because I would have to go back and look for all of the pictures and re-post them. I had most of the pictures saved onto an external hard drive so it would just take a long long time to re post everything I lost.
If that wasn't already screwy enough, my hard drive on my computer was having some issues. I went to the apple store the day after I lost all of my pictures on my blog. I have been backing up my computer on my external hard drive for about a year now so when they told me I would have to get a new hard drive for my computer, I was totally ok with it. I had all of my pictures (that weren't on my computer anymore) saved to my external hard drive and I had my whole computer backed up so there would be no problem right?
Of course not, because nothing is that easy when it comes to technology. They restored everything from my computer which was FANTASTIC, but for reasons UNKNOWN they wiped my WHOLE EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE. I have only what was on my computer from my last update. Pictures, videos and data that were only on my external hard drive were ALLLLLLLLLLL gone. You better believe that many tears were shed after figuring that one out.
I went to the apple store with my very buff dad to get it all figured out. They ended up keeping my external hard drive for two more days for the geniuses to try and revive all of the stuff that was lost. I got it back and they gave me a new external hard drive to do additional back ups if something like this happened again, and then gave me my old external hard drive with all the stuff they found. None of it is organized and some pictures and data copied like 200 times. Going through my external hard drive to find everything that was lost will take about a year to do. I still have no clue if they found everything because it has taken me an extremely long time to go through it already. So don't expect my earlier posts to ever look good.
ANYWAYS, that is why my blog has been under serious construction, but I am going to keep posting like it was no big deal. Even though maybe losing some things FOREVER sucks, I still had an amazing holiday season, and I really want to tell you about it.
Saje and I went to temple lights. It was freezing, but it was so pretty as usual.
Saje and I went to Harrison's Pre-School Christmas show to watch him sing, and then we made gingy houses after!
We made our own little graham cracker man to complete the master piece.
Harrison kept getting in trouble for eating his decorations. He did such a good job! Thanks for letting us come Harrison!
I finally flew to AZ where I got to spend quality time with my family and also my friends. I am going to apologize in advanced for not having any pictures of my family.. it seems as though I didn't document the adventures we had, but I really did have fun times with them. My uncle Carl was my buddy during this Christmas. I was glad to have him around, and it was so good to see him! I had a ton of fun playing with my niece Capri, going to movies, and going out to eat with my parents!
My mom made me these pancakes when I woke up one day... If you think your mom is cool, you clearly haven't met mine.
Alex and Carolyn (my two best friends) have decided that they are going to serve missions. I am happy and excited for them, but I will miss them so much! At least it's only a year and a half. They are turning their papers in within the first few weeks of January so they could get there calls and leave while I'm stuck here at school! That meant that over Christmas break, it might have been some of our last times together (with all of us being unmarried) EVER. We went on plenty of adventures together because of this.
We always wear matching jammies for Christmas. These are our new jammies! I think we went to QT about 100 times over break.
We also went to the temple lights, saw a movie, and saw all of the nativities from across the world!
Alex has horses, and I don't know why we have never taken advantage of that earlier, but we finally went! My horse's name was Babe.
We got a big group of people and their siblings to go hike Camelback... turns out everyone and their dog decided to hike that day too. We could not find any parking so we went to a park in Scottsdale to play around and eat our lunches.
On New Years Eve, I stayed at home to play some games with the fam, and then my friends came over and we went to an airplane hanger party. There was a DJ, dancing and we went CRAZY! They even had a photographer so we took advantage of that situation.
Sadly, I had to leave Arizona to get back to Utah for work. I have never been so sad to leave, I saw so many of my friends (shout out to ANNALIESE MECHAM) and got to go on many adventures!. I REALLLLLLY didn't want to go back to reality, and freezing weather.
One last thing that I did before break ended was a Casino Night! Saje's Boss had a surprise birthday and his wife hired a bunch of dealers to come be in charge of random tables. Saje taught me how to play Blackjack. Basically, never take me to a casino. End of story.
The only part about school that I am looking forward to is well... My new backpack. ADI! (short for Adios...)
Hello... you forgot about your awesome birthday party that you have every year. How are you not looking forward to THAT?!!
ReplyDeleteThe pic of you and Saje at the temple lights is super cute.
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I still can't believe it about the Apple store "geniuses" and your external HD. I hope all your pics really are there! Lame about the blog, though. I hate that kind of stuff - makes you feel sick. Good thing you brought our buff Dad to set them straight.
ReplyDeleteI like your matchy matchy green square outfits at the temple. I'll bet by the end of the year your old ballet girls will actually appreciate REAL ballet music. Silly girls. Maybe show them Mr. Holland's Opus.
I can't believe after all these years you gals just now rode those horses!! Super fun. I want to join in next time. Can I be an honorary 4th bestie one day and come play with the horses too?
That's funny Harrison ate all of his decorations. He's so funny. Your jump pose = amazing.
P.S. my word verification to post a comment is axiagneo. Sounds like an HP spell. Coo.