Suite Living In Utah

It's official, I am now all moved into my brand new apartment! I won't take credit for moving in ANY of my stuff because my dad and brother in law did it all! THANKS GUYS! There were a few random things that my roomies and I needed to purchase at Ikea so we made an Ikea run and finished all the shopping and decorated our super dang cute apartment! Thank goodness for living so close to an Ikea! Anywyas, I am living with two girls that were in my ward last year and they are so sweet and nice and like to have fun (just like me, YES!). It is gonna be a great year this year!

This here is Jessica, she loves her flowers. They might possibly be the cutest part of our apartment. They were her project that she NEEDED to purchase to make our apartment cuter. She bought the whole set (including the table).



She also has to have candy dishes. It was a good idea until we downed all candies in a span of about two hours. When she refills the dishes it's the same old story. We eat those candies FAST! The candy dishes NEED to go, we made an agreement. They are still sitting there. She will also be in the same missionary boat as me (WOO HOO) her boyfriend Zack will be serving in Spain in October. He likes his girlfriends candies too.



This is my other roomy Courtney. She was a modern major last year but is now a chemistry major. She shares the same love for dance as me, and that isn't all, she loves cupcakes too!!! I HAD to buy a cupcake pan and she put it to good use in our cute new kitchen and with my kitchen aid YAY!



Speaking of our kitchen.... My dearest mother bought me the most precious salt and pepper shakers EVER! I won't tell you who she told me that they reminded her of :). Do they look familiar? Besides the different hair color on the boy, I have to admit I definitely agree with her. I also got some cute wall decorations for $3 at Wal-mart.





We got a great deal on a kitchen table and chairs at Ikea! This is my dinner on our new table. Oh and look at our cool napkin holder! Did I mention Ikea is the greatest?



My roommates had a couch, a table, a bean bag, and some foot rests, my Mom and Dad had the recliners and bookshelves that our family has had for years, and I retrieved a big T.V and table from my sisters. Now we have a great T.V room! The only thing we need now is a picture above our couch! Any donations would be fantastic.





We got Cable after about a week of living there and this is me rejoicing. I never realized how much I use the internet until I didn't have it for a week.



Here is my room. I share with Jessica. We have a walk in closet and a bathroom. It's nice because our sink is outside of the actual bathroom so that someone can get ready and somebody can shower at the same time! We got cheap desks for our computers at Ikea too.



I'm also sad that this picture has a glare on my Studs n' Spurs calendar. *Sigh* September is the best month too! ok, ok, I'll give you a sneek peek ;) ooooh yesssss.



My poor roomate is VERY cutsey with her side of the room. I rather enjoy my spiderman obsession. I couldn't resist. SORRY JESS!



Our apartment has two pools and a hot tub so my roommate and I decided to go test them out. Long story short, the covered parking is VERY low. We wanted to take our picture under the covered parking so we were in the shade. I put my camera on self timer on the steps up leading up to the pool. When I clicked the button I hurriedly ran back under the covered parking...and forgot to duck. I bashed my nose right into it. This is our "awesome" lets go swimming picture. My roommate didn't know whether I was crying or laughing because my eyes were watering so bad and I couldn't feel my face. She was trying not to laugh at how stupid I am.. Thankfully my nose just bruised real bad. It isn't crooked or anything WEW!


MY NEW APARTMENT ROCKS!

I also started school back up again! One of my friends named Hua taught our ballet class for the first week until our real teacher arrived the second week. He used to dance for Ballet West but wanted to take college courses. We ended up having a lot of the same classes so we help each other out with homework and such. It was fun having him as a teacher the first week. He really wanted a picture of our class. People in my class need to be more friendly... like me.



"Who am I sir? A Utah man am I. A Utah Man sir and will be till I die, KI YI!" I have been waiting for Football season to start ever since it ended! I LOVE BEING IN THE MUSS!!!!! Best part of being in college by far! The Muss was CRAZY ROWDY at the first game! I had so much fun and now that I have a decent amount of friends I have people to go crazy with! Here is my group in the Muss. Aren't these ladies classy? Max Hall would beg to differ. Sorry Maxy, we like being classless Ute Fans.



My friend Saje and his group of friends had WAAAY better seats so...I squished in with them most of the game. I like sitting by boys cause they always know what's going on. I don't ask too many questions I promise. When we walked in they gave us free foam fingers. It is hanging on my wall now.



I also reunited with my friend Kelli and we had a girls night. There is a Frozen Yogurt place called "Spoon Me." It is VERY delicious. There are funny flavors there, one is called, "Orange You Gonna Spoon Me?" ha.



Some other great news is that I quit the Phonathon! As much as I "enjoyed" being the annoying person that called U Alums ultimately asking for money, I had to quit even though I actually did get paid a very good amount of money. The whole summer I had been sending out my dance resumes to tons of ballet studios in Salt Lake. All of the studios ended up putting me on their substitute lists which is REALLY LAME so I got desperate and applied to tons of different places including Victoria's Secret. There is a new Bakery that opened last semester that I LOVE that is just like Panera Bread or Paradise Bakery. It is way close to my apartment and I applied! They ended up calling me as a waitress there! The day of my first shift I got called by a lady who got my number from my cousin (who dances for the company called Odessy). She was opening up a new studio and needed a new Head of Ballet Teacher because her old teacher couldn't do it. I met with her and I figured that making $20 dollars an hour for 4 hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays was WAAAY better than being a waitress at a Bakery. Basically, the day AFTER I worked my first shift at the Bakery I had to quit. I was sorta sad because I was very excited to get food half off at the bakery. My manager was actually very cool and said that if I wanted I could just work Saturday mornings just so that being waitress was on my resume. It could also be another long term job that would give me more job experience. SWEET! Now I am a ballet teacher and a waitress on the side! Come visit me at The Corner Bakery and come watch my girls in their recital at the end of the year! I am so blessed!

Welp, that is all for now! TTFN TA TA FOR NOW!

Ca-li-fornia girls...

I'm sick of Facebook. Blog is better. I'm gonna start posting my new pictures on blog instead. This is more fun anyways. This post will give you a tiny taste of the end of summer California Adventure I have been talking about for months. My sister Aimee let my best friends and I stay at her loverly house in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA. When we showed up to her house my niece Brinley was singing, "California Gurlz" by Katy Perry at the top of her lungs in the shower. It was an awesome kick off to an awesome trip. Thanks to Aimee's brilliant idea's we were NEVER bored and we were very busy the whole time.



DAY 1: Huntington Beach
Not to brag or anything, but I found the most DYNAMITE parking spot behind the shops (free parking, may I add, AND I parallel parked the best I have ever parallel parked in my whole life). We walked around the shops and bought a few little trinkets (mostly at Forever XXI) and then went and bummed out at the beach. It was fantastic.



We went for a little swim in the beach and met a new friend who played soccer at Texas A&M. He was staying at the Hyatt for a wedding he was going to and invited us to come swimming with him and some friends at the Hyatt. Normally I would never have gone but #1 I've always wanted to go to that Hotel, and #2 I saw a really good looking worker there while driving by it at the beginning of the day. What else were we supposed to do? Turn down the offer? OH HECK NO! We decided to use this guy and spend the rest of the day swimming at the Hyatt (which was totally beautiful). This is Adam, our new beach friend/photographer/guy we used to swim at the Hyatt.



The Hyatt:




DAY 2: Chinatown, Olvera Street, Hollywood, Rodeo Drive, and looking at the massive houses driving through Bel-Air and Beverly Hills. May I add that I THOUGHT there were rich people in AZ? These houses were FILTHY. They were so dang huge I felt like a reject.

Yes we bought cute Best Friend bracelets on Olvera Street.


Chinatown:


I am real excited about this one: Me and the Hollywood sign. YES!


We had dinner reservations so we drove around Sunset Blvd for something to do and we saw a 711 and a Rock and Roll Cupcakes. Slurpee's and delicious cupcakes were a VERY good mix before a big dinner. The flavors were Cookies and Cream, Red Velvet, and a chocolate one with Heath Bar. YUM.



Aimee told us of this sweet restaurant that she went to called Saddle Ranch Chop House. One of THE COOLEST Bar&Grill places I've ever been to. There was a Bull in the middle of the floor and people would go ride on it. That's me wishing that I rode on it. Being a ballet major and having already had tons of bad luck in the past, I decided riding the bull would not be a wise decision.





They had massive Dessert trays and appetizers. We got an appetizer and a dessert tray to share. My favorite part about the Appetizer was the sweet potatoe fries and the marshmallow dip. Sounds interesting and gross but I was in heaven.



Dessert was smores (Is that not the greatest idea ever invented?) They give you a tray, and outside where fire pits that you went to to go roast your mallows on. They even give you caramel and chocolate dips!





DAY 3: 1/2 shopping 1/2 Laguna Beach day.
We went to the spectrum and did some shopping at H&M and Nordy's, ate lunch and headed to Laguna beach!! It was nice and relaxing there. We lost track of time and I was almost positive I would have a ticket on my car but LUCKILY when we got back we had 1 minute left on the parking meter!! WEW!





Day 4: Aliso Beach/Beach Bonfire

We are the most giggly girls EVER. I laugh so hard when I am with them!


My most favorite activity in California is having a bonfire on the beach. I love it love it love it. We roasted hot dogs and mallows with my sister and her family and it is ALWAYS so fun to do. Did I mention that I LOVE beach bonfire's? Well, I do.



Day 5: Drive home (insert sad face). At least we got good treats and good music!






SEE YOU NEXT SUMMER CALIFORNIA!!!

8 Summertime Events...

1. When I arrived in AZ my friends (knowing how obsessed I am with Guitar Hero) all helped plan a "Rocker Night." We all dressed in our best rocker gear and played Guitar Hero all night. We even had a contest where everyone voted who the top three rockers of the night were. The winners had created avatars of themselves on the game. Unfortunately there were a few cheaters who voted for themselves/payed people to vote for them COUGHCalebBartonCOUGH but we made avatars anyways!!







2. Play dates with Willie's Sister Sarah and his niece Kaylee! Sarah likes the food I make her (I'm not that good of a cook but she enjoys it so what the heck you know?). We went to movies, swam, just chilled, went on adventures, made a package for Willie full of lots of "American Spices" as Willie calls it, and I was the photographer for Kaylee's 2nd Birthday! I LOVE THE HAYNES FAMILY!



3. Being on the Big Screen at the D-Backs game HOLLA!!! While walking back to the light rail afterwords, I felt an arm around me and a voice saying, "I liked your dancing on the big screen!!" Thinking it would be someone I knew, I turned to face this older guy that I didn't even know.. It was just a little bit creepy. D-Backs game was a success!



I went with my awesome friends Eric Hunt (above), Alex Adams, Chloe Nielsen, Christiaan Scmid (Below), Daniel Walter, Caleb Barton, and Emily Rogers (Not pictured)



4. Taking master classes from So You Think You Can Dance winner Benji Schwimmer and Jason Celaya who danced on Alter Boys on Broadway. They are both members of the church and they taught Hip-Hop, Contemporary, Broadway, and some Ballroom. It was nice to get out of my Ballet shell this summer and learn some new things and it was SO MUCH FUN!

This is Benji


I completely butchered up the Ballroom dance he was teaching us and he danced as my partner for a bit to try and help me...He looked at my hand and told me he liked my CTR ring! YES! I was freaking out just a little bit. I told Alex (who also took classes with me) that I messed up on purpose just so I could dance with him.

This is Jason


His classes are so great because even though I'm TERRIBLE because I am too much of a ballerina to get "low" and be relaxed, He still made me feel like I rocked. I pretended I was pro and did the best I could (notice how we are both sweaty) I worked really hard! It was an awesome experience.

5. Writing Willie and getting 2 letters from him this whole summer. Even though it isn't much, I cherish every single one!! I miss his GUTS but guess what?! He has been out 6 months this month!!! It feels good to have a good chunk of time behind me.



6. Tim McGraw/ Lady Antebellum Concert with my mom!! AKA Best concert EVER.

Just look how cute we are...


This is Lady A. What do you want me to say? They were so amazing.



Tim Pointed me out in the crowed. I think he liked my new cowboy hat. Or maybe he was checkin' out my hot mom. I'm not sure, but it for sure looks like he is pointing at us.





WE LOVE YOU TIM!!!

7. California for 4th of July Weekend.

These are my sand castle helpers: My Nephews Ryker and Taggart. My Nieces, Brinley and Taryn were also great helpers but they were off finding some sea shells, feathers, and other sand castle decorations at the time of the picture.



Angels game with the boys! My brother in law got 4 sweet tickets to the Angels game. It was a boys night out but they resorted to inviting me because no other boys around were old enough to enjoy the game. I was happy to go! Taryn wanted to go last second while we were packing up the car and Taggart said, "Taryn it's BOYS ONLY!!!" When Taryn asked why Aunt Hannah was going, Taggart said, "Its boys only and Hannah, Taryn."

A bunch of people around us caught the foul balls and me and dad enjoyed some fries and a Ruby's Shake, while Taggart and Jason enjoyed Angels dogs!





Fourth of July Ribs! Messy but delicious!



Fourth of July Fireworks! We were right under the "Firework Blasters" as Aimee called them. Coolest Firework show I have ever seen. Before the fireworks they had a band that sang a ton of great songs and Brinley could not sit still, she was dancing so sassy! Dad decided to go dance with her. They can really move their hips!





8. Being with my best friends again FINALLY! Cali trip is coming shortly...


The summer is coming to a close... Mom and Dad packed up all my things (for my new apartment at the U) into a Uhaul truck and went to Utah early to go visit Leslie and almost new baby. I'll be flying out there in a few weeks after I go to California with my best friends. I don't want to go back to school but it's coming... too soon. Summer wasn't long enough.