A little walk down memory lane...

We decided that we should visit some of our favorite spots before we left Logan. Mainly concerning our Taco Tuesday traditions! We will miss Tuesdays, but thanks to this post we can hold them in our hearts forever!!

Taco Tuesday at Cafe Rio

$1.50 tacos.

Cafe Rio at Chick-Fil-A

Buy one get one free combo meals.

We spent a lot of our Tuesdays at these two places. They fed us well and kept us happy while in college! 

Sleepover!!

We decided that we should have a sleepover on our last night living together as roommates. One of our favorite activities is to drag our mattresses into the living room, make a giant bed and have a sleepover! We got treats, sparkling cider, and rented a movie. We were set for our sleepover! Some of our roommates even decided to make a guest appearance!

 Toast!

 Roommate sandwich!!

 Roommate sandwich + 1 roommate!

 Roommate sandwich + some non-roommates!!

 We found the bums from redbox asleep in our beds..

 Yaaay for sleepovers!

 Jacqsay = Super Heroes!

 No, that face was not planned.

We realized we made the same exact face after the picture was taken.

We're twins, what can we say?

 

 All tuckered out after our big night!

OMG! Congrats! Graduation.

On Friday December 9th, 2011 I (Lindsay-sorry, this post is mainly going to be about me) finished my last day of my college career! I graduated - after 6 years of school (so maybe I took my time) and lots of hard work. I finished my last day of student teaching on December 8th, and then filled out some paperwork on the 9th and now I am just waiting for my degree to post. It's finals week now, and its crazy that for the first time I have nothing to worry about or do this week. Jacqui is busy getting ready for her finals, and I am just hanging out. Its so weird!

So lets back up a bit. This semester has been a lot of work. I student taught in a fourth grade classroom, and then in a Kindergarten classroom. I got to take over the fourth grade class completely by myself for about four weeks! I definitely learned a lot of lessons on what it is really like to be a teacher. It's definitely not the fluffy job that a lot of people imagine! But it was a great semester and I feel like I learned a lot. I learned a lot about myself and about my students as well! I will miss those kids. Luckily they gave me quite a few souvineers to remember them by.

On my last day of student teaching I came home, feeling a little bit sad and a little bit happy to be done. Jacqui was out of town for her brothers wedding (congrats Liz and Matt!!) and so I came home to an empty room. Imagine my surprise when I opened the bedroom door to find this:

She had to pull some tricks to get that in our bedroom while in a different city. So basically I have the best roommate/best friend in the world! It was the best way to end my last day of student teaching. Thank you again Jacqui! I am still trying to figure out a way to preserve the balloon and keep the giant card. (My family also surprised me with a decorated bedroom at home, and some really great surprises!)

On Friday I went up to campus and filled out some surveys and paperwork. It was fun to be reunited with a few of my friends that I have been going through the program with, as well as new friends that I met this year. It's crazy to think that I met some of my very best friends in this program, I guess I was just meant to be here! After we were done with our surveys and officially done with school my good friend Becca and I decided to celebrate at our favorite place in Logan.... Temptation Cupcakes. Normally I would take a picture of an event like this, but I think we were just way too excited to be done with school and to be eating cupcakes that I spaced it. We sat in our favorite little cupcake shop for over two hours, and enjoyed the hot sun coming in through the windows. I don't think my college career could have ended so perfectly!

Now I just have to wait for my degree to post, walk during the graduation ceremony in the Spring, and figure out what to do next in life.

Jacqui will be starting her final semester in January, and then we will be able to walk at graduation together! Which will be so great.

Thanks USU for the past four years, the great education program, the opportunities I have had, and the amazing friends that I have made! It really has been so great, I have been so lucky to have this opportunity, and I'm sad to see it end!

Christmas time!

It's no surprise any more that at Christmas time we like to dress up, take pictures, and send out a Christmas card to all of our loved ones. Every year, when Christmas is over we usually start brainstorming our next Christmas card. We take this seriously, along with Halloween costumes. This year we decided that we would find huge boxes that we could fit in, wrap them, wear bows on our heads and be presents! We know that we would be the best present anyone could recieve under their Christmas tree ;)
We always invite our roommates to participate in our Christmas card, the more the merrier (it is Christmas after all), and this year Misha was the only one willing to dress up with us!

Jacqui, Misha, Lindsay

Cute presents under a cute little tree :)

Merry Christmas

We look very angelic!

hmmm

We have to have at least one awkward picture...

And its no surprise that we are both wearing mis-matched socks! haha!

Always laughing

This picture is proof for all of you who think we can't have a serious conversation.
Even while in giant boxes, with giant bows on our heads we can have a serious conversation!

Still laughing...

Trying to stand up while in boxes...

Teamwork!

Merry Christmas!!!

Love, Jacqsay

Hockey Games

We love hockey games. It's one of our favorite activities at school! And this picture pretty much speaks for itself....

Happy Mini Thanksgiving!

It's that time of year again....time for Mini Thanksgiving!

We always look forward to this time of year, we have so many things to celebrate and be thankful for! Of course since it is the week of Thanksgiving we had to celebrate in mini style! This has been a fun tradition for us to do over the years....this is year 3 of it! So much fun.

We spent our Sunday sleeping in, going to church, and getting ready. We prepared our own mini thanksgiving (MT), just getting ready for one day when we will make our own big thanksgiving! As we waited for the baby turkey to cook in the oven we made our mini white-chocolate pudding pies! We got prepared for MT by making a pilgrim hat and a feathered indian headband. We like to dress up, and take turns being each character every year. We made homemade mashed potatoes and corn. Maybe next time Jacqui will make candied yams!

We got the table all set with our mini bowls, silverware, lunch trays, and fancy glasses. Jacqui was the pilgrim so she got to carve the baby turkey this year. The dinner was delicious, the company was great, and we made peace over dinner!

The table is all set!

Baby turkey, mini corn, mini potatoes, and mini pies

Jacqui (the pilgrim) carving the baby turkey!

Just a pilgrim and indian ready for the first thanksgiving!

Making peace over dinner!

Happy Mini Thanksgiving to everyone!

Team Mound

So, on Friday night it snowed in Logan. It snowed a lot! We weren't prepared to be snowed in to our apartment....we needed food and supplies. Not to mention Mini Thanksgiving was coming up and we hadn't shopped for that yet either! So we decided to venture out to the store. We traveled down the icy, cold roads at like 20mph. Luckily Jacqui is such a calm driver in these conditions. We got all of our supplies and even a subway sandwich for dinner (thanks Lindsay's mom for the gift card, we appreciate it lots!).

After dinner we went upstairs and watched a movie with our friend Spencer and his roommate Tim (who just did homework the whole time). We watched a movie on netflix that one of Spencer's friends recommended called The New Daughter. It was the scariest movie! All of us were so tense and scared the whole time! It was bad news. After the movie was over we drove Tim up to campus to get his car.

When we got back we noticed that there were two snowmen that were made in our apartment complex. We decided that it would be super funny to move one of the snowmen from its spot on the grass, to the front door of the people that made it. So we went and got on our snow coats and went across the parking lot to accomplish the task! There was so much snow outside, we were sliding all the way over there.

The snowman was too big to move all at once, so we had to take it piece by piece. Now, let me just tell you. This snowman was nothing short of a masterpiece. It was human size, it had a sombrero, hair, a full face, and a scarf. Our intentions were not to ruin this great snowman. Just to move it. So, back to the story.... So Jacqui started jabbing at the neck of the snowman so that we could move the head first. She couldn't get it to budge. So Lindsay just took two hands and pushed on the head. As the head started falling off the body Spencer just stood there doing nothing, and Jacqui didn't catch it in time. So it just smashed into the ground....completely destroyed. Whoops. Right as it hit the ground, we heard the door of the snowman builders apartment open and heard someone yell "Hey! NOOOOOOOO!" They were in complete distress upon seeing their decapitated snowman. So naturally the three of us start running back to our apartment to get to safety. We were being chased! We felt like we were running in slow motion because we didn't want to slip and fall. We made it into our apartment in the nick of time, with our chaser right behind us, pushing on the door and trying to get it! It was quite the adrenaline rush!!

After the fun of knocking over the snowman head, and not even completing our task we decided that we needed a new prank. We decided to make a snowman blocking the entrance to the C building....so after waiting for about 15 minutes for our chaser to leave, we went to work. We tried rolling a snowman, but quickly found out that we weren't up to the task! So instead of making a snowman we made a snow mound! All of this 'mound' talk relates back to the scary movie we watched earlier. And this is all how Team Mound was created!

We did a pretty great job building the mound, and it was really funny! Hopefully the residents of C building enjoyed it!

Team Mound!

Our mound. It kind of looks like a castle.

Double Double Toil and Trouble (Halloween Weekend)

Yay!! Halloween. One of our very favorite holidays. We both love to dress up, and we love to think of costumes to wear. We decided our costume for this year probably almost a year ago. We just have so much fun planning these things. How could you not when there are so many great things involved? Like fake eyelashes, glitter, cute outfits, fun makeup....the list goes on and on.

So. Last year we were sailors, and we loved our costumes! They were pretty cheap, especially considering we NEVER buy our costumes from a costume store. We put them together piece by piece. And its safe to say that our sailor costumes were a lot cuter than any of the acutal sailor halloween costumes last year. So this year we decided that we would be siamese cats. As in conjoined cats. We had so much success when we dressed up as siamese mexicans, that we figured why not do it again? And we chose to be cats because they are cute, and we are cute, and we like to dress up cute. Make sense?

Naturally when October 1st came we decided that it was time to start shopping for our costumes and putting them together. We found our cat ears, and started working on our tu-tu's. Things were well under way for Halloween, and we were excited! Now lets move forward to Halloween weekend....

Friday:
We drove down to Salt Lake and went trick-or-treating at my (lindsay) mom's work. It was really fun to see Taylor (lindsay's niece) dressed up in her Halloween costume. And we got some yummy treats! After trick-or-treating we got ready to go to a concert.

At in-n-out.

Yes, we asked for hats.

Yes, we got many strange looks from other customers.

Yes, it was worth it.

Concert!

Kate Voegele and Parachute!

We were more than excited for this one.

So much fun!

In the concert!

We made our way through the crowd a little bit.

Thanks to a mom that was drunk, and there with

her young daughter and husband.

She felt bad for us because we were short and let

us stand in front of her!

It was definitely our gain!

After the concert under the sign!

This concert was so much fun!

Both of the bands were amazing!

This was such a great way to start off our fun weekend!

Saturday: Halloween Celebration.
On saturday we shopped in Salt Lake for awhile before heading back up to Logan. We went to stake conference on saturday night and then came home to get ready to go to The Howl (the biggest Halloween party in Utah, that happens to be thrown by our school)! We couldn't wait to get all dressed up and go party. The Howl is always so much fun, and it is definitely something we look forward to every year. Lindsay's friend Amy and her roommate Jessica also came up to Logan to go the Howl with us! It was so much fun to have them here! It was also pretty funny that our costumes coordinated.... who knew we would all be wearing homemade tulle tu-tu's?

Roommate picture before the Howl!

(Jacqui and Lindsay-siamese cats. Misha-fairy. Julie-geisha. Aubrey-pirate)

Friend picture before the party!

(Siamese cats. Amy-white swan. Jessica-black swan)

So cat and swan like!!

Siamese cats/BFFs

Our cat costume turned out really cute!

Amy and Lindsay

BFFs since 3rd grade.

This picture is from the after party at Rancheritos.

We went there to get breakfast burritos with Amy and Jessica before they drove home.

And we happened to run into a lion and a monkey that we danced with at the howl.

They were pretty excited to see us again,

and the monkey made us take a picture with him,

we didn't mind.

P.S. the monkey and the lion made their costumes from baby halloween costumes!

hahaha!

And of course we ran into B.B. Gun at Rancheritos.

We run into him everywhere!

Ohhhh B.B. Gun.

And his costume? Who really knows what he is.

We have a few ideas....

3:45 a.m. Home at last, and happy as two cats can be. We would be even more happy if someone scratched behind our ears!

The Howl was a blast! Even though we were black cats, no one was scared to cross our paths.They had a concert that we stayed at most of the time! We all danced our little hearts out until we were either injured or too tired to move! They also had snake charmers with real life snakes, and free diet coke! It was the perfect Halloween party.....everything we ever could have wished for! We are thinking that because we were cats for Halloween that they should rename the Howl and call it the Meow. Just an idea for next year :)

Back to School

We started this semester off with my birthday. Jacqui decorated my room and surprised me with homemade peach pie! There were pink balloons everywhere, confetti all over the place, and pink streamers hung from the ceiling in our room (some of which are still there 2 months later). It was so much fun to come back to school to a decorated room. The roommates also made brownies for me! It was really fun. Jacqui is such a great friend.

This semester I am doing my student teaching. My first block is in a fourth grade class (which by now I have already finished) and my second block is in a kindergarten class (that's where I am at right now). I will graduate in December. It's pretty exciting and scary.

Jacqui's semester is a little less busy....but she definitely has enough to do. She is taking 9 credits (one of them is hip-hop that has reminded her how uncoordinated she is), so thats nice for her. But she is also working a couple hours a day, and she has a lot of volunteer hours to do as well. So she is keeping pretty busy too. Jacqui will graduate in the Spring, and we will be able to walk together then!

We are living in the same apartment complex this year, except now we are living in the basement apartment. Which comes with a few extra bonuses like: a patio, spiders, bigger kitchen/living room and a higher heat bill. So far it hasn't been too bad, and most of the spiders are dead in spider traps anyways! This year we have four other roommates. We are living with Clelia again for the 2nd year and two of her friends moved in as well, Misha and Aubrey. The other roommate that lives with us is a girl Aubrey became friends with over the summer, Julie. It has been really fun and we all get along pretty well.

Here are some fun things we have done so far this year......

This was us at a concert that they had on campus.

I believe it was the band A Rocket Summer.

We were so close we could touch him,

and we almost died in that crazy crowd!

Luckily we ran into the trusty J.Honda,

and he watched out for us and made sure that

we were right by eachother the whole time!

Relief Society canoeing, bonfire activity!

So fun, and we were so tan then....

Roommate day at the football game!

(Lindsay, Aubrey, Clelia, Julie-Jacqui took the picture)

Roommate picture at the football game!

(Lindsay, Jacqui, Clelia, Julie, Aubrey)

This is what we were doing at the game,

taking a nice afternoon nap in the sun!

Conference fruit pizza tradition!

Enjoying a nice conference afternoon picnic at First Dam.

Conference weekend at First Dam.

We look like we are glowing because we were spiritually enlightened.

Conference weekend at First Dam

(notice the sun shining and the short sleeved shirts being worn)

Roommate bonding at Aggie Ice Cream

(Lindsay, Misha, Jacqui)

Misha is a great photographer...

Enjoying each others company and some Aggie Ice Cream

Roommate Halloween party!

Caramel Apples!

(Top row: Lindsay, Misha, Julie

Bottom row: Clelia, Aubrey, Jacqui)

For our roommate halloween party we made carmel apples, which were delicious. And then Jacqui and I tricked our roommates into watching the scary movie The Roommate by putting the disc in a Casper the Friendly Ghost movie case. It was priceless. Misha left the room before the movie started, Aubrey left the room within fifteen minutes of the movie being started, Clelia fell asleep. So only three of us actually watched the movie! It was pretty creepy. Perfect to watch with roommates!

And this is a picture of the first apple that I ever recieved as a gift from a student.

I feel like I have finally made it as a teacher!

Sweet Rachael in my fourth grade class gave this to me,

along with a fake flower (because it will never die).

So sweet.

As you can tell, the school year has gotten off to a great start! We have been having so much fun, and we are trying to take advantage of our last year up here. It's crazy to think that this is our fourth year living in Logan! Time just seems to fly! We will probably be doing posts about our first few years living here, so it will be fun to catch up on all of that..... take a stroll down memory lane.