Best of 2009

I have been blog surfing and I saw a lot of blog posts about the best things of 2009. Here's mine:

~ Finishing 2 semesters of college without any C's

~ Being roomies with my best friends


~ Road-tripping across the country with Ayenne's Fam


~ Getting accepted to and completing an internship at ISU

~ White water rafting without dying


~ Gallon challenge with Richard and Zac ( I would put a pic on here but trust me, you odn't want to see it)

~ Seeing Richard and Zac go through the temple and then on their missions


~ Dressing up for Anime Vegas with Richard's sis Emily


~ Visiting my Grandma who I never see for a weekend in October


~ Dressing up as "Aguila Rosa" for Halloween (Finally!)


~ Dressing up for HP6


~ Spending more time with close friends (and making smoothies!)

~ Deciding to go on a mission

~ Growing closer to my Heavenly Father than ever before

~Missing Richard, but finding happiness in the little things


~ Being in 2 Relief Society Presidencies and serving the girls in my ward

~ Finishing my last semester in Rexburg for a couple of years


~ Getting my mission call



~ Spending my last Christmas with the fam for a while
(visit Britt's blog for pics --> )

I'm so grateful for 2009 but am glad to move on to 2010. Hoping you and yours had a wonderful year, and if not, make 2010 the best year yet!

This is late...sorrry

So, I figured everyone who reads this blog already knows, but I got my mission call on Thursday. I'm going to the Canada, Calgary mission!

I"m so excited! and I leave April 14th.

Finals....

Oh how I hate thee... let me count the ways:

1) not enough time to finish things
2) teachers forgetting that their class isn't the only one
3) staying up late to catch up on homework
4) sacrificing food while you spend hours on things

Okay that's enough of a rant to last me a while.

I can make it through the next 3 days, right?

The only thing that's keeping me going is the fact that my bishop told me my call has been sent and is currently en route to my house!

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY

It still kinda feels unreal.

anyway, I'll talk to y'all next time

Semester's almost over

This statement has some good and bad connotations.
I'll start with the bad: I will really miss my roommates. ALOT. We have grown so close this semester. Most of the last 2 and a half years have been spent with Sarah and Emily and it's kinda sad to think that we might not be roommates ever again. I don't think they know how much they mean to me, how much I admire them, or how amazing I think they are. Next Thursday will be a really hard day and I'm just coming to terms with that.









Here's the good: my mission call is supposedly coming on said last day of school. I got all my stuff together and met with the stake president on Sunday. He turned in my papers on Monday and now they are in the hands of church headquarters. It is pretty humbling to think that the prophet and apostles will see my picture and choose where I am going to spend a year and a half. If you are wondering, I spent half an hour yesterday looking at all of the different places that I could go. There are 365 open missions right now. I think I would be happy going to almost all of them.

I have already felt an outpouring of the spirit, and an increase in opposition from Satan. He really doesn't want me to do this thing. All I have to say to him is, 'too bad' cause nothing can stop me now.

I'm Home!

So, I drove home yesterday night with some people from Vegas for Thanksgiving Break. I do not suggest driving 10 hours starting at 5 pm. Bad idea! It felt like the longest car ride of my life. I think that part of it was the fact that the sun went down about a half an hour after we started driving, so it felt like 9 pm at 5. I am very glad to be home though!
So today I got my license renewed and it took me 2 and a half hours. I forgot how much I don't like the DMV. The next thing that I have to do is my doctor's appointment on Monday and then the Dentist on Tuesday. Then I should have my paperwork ready to turn in next week! By my calculations (of course this depends on how fast the Stake Pres gets things in) I should get my call either Dec 23, or Dec 30. I am pretty excited to figure out where I'm going :) And I only have 3 weeks of school left! It will be probably the hardest 3 weeks of my life, but I know that I can do it, and hopefully I'll have good grades to go along with it!

Birthday

So for my 21st birthday I just had cake. I didn't have a big bash like most kids who turn 21. As you can see i blew out the candles in my pajamas. But I did make some new pajamas for my birthday.(Which is a story in and of itself, I made them without a pattern(I'm pretty impatient mom!) and cut them too small so I had to use some of the pink fabric from my Halloween costume as Hera to make them fit right. Now they are perfect) My roommate Sarah made me a tasty cake and I got to blow out the candles! Yay for birthdays.



Check out my sweet Napolean Dynamite Dancing skills t-shirt (thats kinda a mouthful)

These are my new PJs

Halloween

Today was quite an adventure, and needless (or maybe not so needless) to say, I didn't get an ounce of homework done (bad Nyssa!) But, I did go to the temple for baptisms, go shopping in my Halloween costume, eat pizza with my roommates and a bunch of my roommate's friends, see my school's version of Tartuffe by Moliere, buy cutesie fabric for new pj pants, get photographed for a friend's photography project {http://laulouwat.blogspot.com/}, and make hot apple cider. What an eventful day!



This is my roommate Sarah, and no, this is not just a bad case of "red-eye" she dyed her contacts with red food coloring. I think its pretty sweet!

until next time!

FHE Party

I went to my ward Halloween Party on Monday. Mt group went as characters from hercules. I was Hera the wife of Zeus. I made Hercules' costume and phil's costume. It was a really fun time. I LOVE Halloween!



Hades

Zeus Family

Meg and Hercules w/ Hades and Hermes in the background

Father and Son

The whole group

Phil

A Fate

Wood Nymphs

If any of you have heard a rumor..

Chances are, the rumor is correct. I have decided to go on a mission. So before yesterday I had a pretty clear plan of how the next 2 years were gonna plan out. I was going to wait for Richard to get back from his mission, finish my degree, and then find a job to support Richard, after he got back, with school. BUT, I guess God had different plans for me. I had a really strong prompting from the spirit at church yesterday that I was supposed to pray about going on a mission. Every talk, song, and comment in Sacrament meeting was pertaining to this, and I felt the Spirit so strongly guiding me to this decision. I have decided not to come back to school for winter semester, but to finish after I get back. It feels weird and exciting at the same time to know that I will be going. My plan is to put my papers in in November or December. So... that is that. Richard already told me he'd wait for me to get back so that is comforting. But yeah, that is the rumor, and that's what is going to happen very shortly in my life.

Conference Weekend

This weekend was a lot of fun. Two of my roommates went to Utah for the weekend. Sarah went Home because she was the maid of honor for her friend Cali. Emily went with some friends and got into all 4 sessions of conference. I'm totally jealous. So Lerin and I were home all weekend alone. I made chicken fingers and honey mustard and minestrone and (my favorite) Spice Cake!! Here are some pics




we also decided to have a bubble blowing contest...I didn't do that well. This was the only good picture I got!








oh also, if you want to know what Richard is up to, I made a blog for him. Its called Fishers of Men and it should be in the side bar --------------------------->

In other news, it snowed almost all day today! I would normally think this is pretty cool and a good chance for hot chocolate, but its supposed to be fall! My fall was taken from me and I'm not happy....(fall is my favorite season)

so yes, I hope you all have a splendid week..I hope mine is good too. Toodles!

Cookies for FHE

So, my apartment is in charge of the treats for FHE tomorrow so we decided to make no bake cookies. By we I mean me and my awesome roommate Lerin.





This was so much fun and I love my roommates :)

Here's a picture of my awesome kitchen

First week back

Let me tell you, this week has been pretty eventful! So on Monday I got a ride with my friend from Arizona to Rexburg. While we were in between Cedar City and Beaver the van's fuel pump died. So the van's engine just stopped working and we were stranded. A very very nice lady stopped to help us. She drove us to beaver where we found a place that could fix it. If you ever have car troubles in Beaver I would highly recommend going to the triple A place there. The people were so nice and got us going only in 4 hours. So we left Beaver and headed to Provo to stop for gas. About 20 miles outside of Provo the traffic was all stop and go and it was horrible! It took is an hour to go 15 miles. So then we stopped in Provo and got a little lost but found our way to Taco Bell and then to the freeway. I saw our old neighborhood and toys R us. Then we headed off to Rexburg and got there at 10:30 at night. The next couple of days we mostly unpacked our stuff and got settled in to the apartment. On Thursday was the first day of school and I had my french class. I'm pretty sure that it will be an easy A. That will be nice for a change! Then Friday I had my two hardest classes: Thermodynamics and Machine Design. I'm pretty sure if I just keep up with the reading and homework that I can do well in those classes. I'm looking forward to learning a lot this semester!

Anime Vegas

So yesterday I went to an Anime Convention. This is actually the second time that I have gone to one of these, and I had a really good time. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not a hardcore anime fan, but I do love anything from Hayao Miyazaki (the writer/director of My Neighbor Totoro,


Howl's Moving Castle


and Spirited Away),


not to mention Naruto, Full Metal Alchemist and Code Geass. But those are basically the only ones I've seen. I went because Richard took me last year and this year his younger sister Emily wanted to go.

I made her Princess Zelda Costume and I went as Princess Peach.

It is way more fun to go to one of these things dressed up because you don't feel left out (which I did last year), and everyone wants to take your picture. I saw Mario, so I had to get a picture with him,

and we also saw a boy dressed as Link so we got a picture of him with Emily.

All in all it was a really good time and I discovered that I like Japanese Rock. I'm definitely going next year!

We miss you Manticore

Our cat died today. We aren't sure how old he was but the other day he stopped eating and he couldn't walk. We left him in the bathroom and he died this morning. I'm glad he isn't in pain anymore and that his death wasn't long or drawn out. My fondest memories of him were when he would sit in the sink. He also stole by brothers sandwich once and a slice of pizza another time. He wasn't my favorite cat but he was a good pet. Rest in peace Manticore.

Every Superhero Needs an Alter Ego

Meet Kayleigh McArthur, an unassuming librarian who loves reading books to kids at story time. She lives in a small apartment in Manhattan with her lovable beagle Fred. Her life is almost like a fairytale except at night she fights crime as (insert superhero here).


Now that you've met Kayleigh I hope you don't really think that I cut my hair this short. (She is an alter ego and therefore looks different than the real me)

I straightened my hair for Anime Vegas, an anime convention that I am going to tomorrow with Richard's sisters, and I am dressing up as Princess Peach. Here's the real hair, and it is a bit shorter than before, I cut it about a week ago.



I'll have pics up soon of what I looked like as Peach.

Til next time, Up, Up and Away!