Flashback to December for a minute....

This is me and Jacqui's third year at Utah State, and also our third year being roommates. During our first year we started some traditions. One of the traditions that we started was to take Christmas pictures, and send out Christmas cards to all of our family and friends. This has been one of our favorite things to do, and we always start thinking of ideas of what we are going to wear starting in like September. We get pretty excited!

Our first year at Utah State our roommate Ali had a bunch of different Christmas themed hats. This is where we got our inspiration for our first Christmas photo shoot/Christmas card pictures. Jacqui was a reindeer, I (Lindsay) was a Christmas tree, our roommate Ali was an elf, and our roommate Lisa was Santa Claus.

Here our a few pictures to remember our first Christmas at USU:

For our second year we decided to wear ugly/cute Christmas sweaters for our Christmas card. We would have loved having our roommates in our Christmas card pictures again, but they never hung out with us and spent a lot of time in their rooms. So this time it was just us in the pictures. Well, and our pets...Smurfee and Tinny. And they actually turned out pretty great.

And now finally, this years Christmas card pictures. This year our apartment is like one big happy family. We are a pretty diverse group of people, and we think thats what makes it so fun! Our roommates agreed to take Christmas pictures with us. During the summer Suzy and I found a Christmas tree in the closet, so we decorated that. Jacqui and I decided that the theme for this years pictures should be good old fashioned pajamas. And by good old fashioned I mean that Jacqui and I were actually wearing onesies. I had forgotten what it was like to wear baby clothes until this night. And boy are they comfortable!

All the roomies

Back Row: Lindsay, Jacqui

Front Row: Chirelle, Clelia (holding Smurfee), Jap-Jaq, Suzy

Jacqui's favorite picture

Counting down the days til Christmas

 Suzy's favorite picture...so awkward

Milk and cookies for Santa

Reading before bedtime 'Twas the night before Christmas...'

We still love Smurfee

This picture is the perfect note to end on. We thought it would be fun to decorate sugar cookies for Christmas, so I (Lindsay) found a yummy recipe online and made the dough. When it called for 7 1/2 cups of flour I should've realized I needed to cut the recipe in half. Instead, we made over 70 sugar cookies. Me and Jacqui decided that each roommate had to eat ten before bed. Some how, I think we did eat like all of these cookies!

Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Peace, love, and confusion!

Sundance 2011!

We have been wanting to go check out Sundance since 2010 (at least), so this year we decided to make it happen with the help of Jacqui's friend Corey. He was volunteering at Sundance in Park City, so it was the perfect opportunity for us to go to Park City and check it out. We have been looking forward to going ever since we set a day to go. Neither of us have school on Wednesdays, so it was the perfect day for a field trip! We left Logan around 12 pm, and it was pretty cold and foggy. We were happy to get out of the canyon to find a really bright sun, not so cold air and no fog! We live in a fog bubble in Logan sometimes it seems like.

We stopped in Roy to visit Jacqui's Grandma. We got to see her about an hour before she passed away at 94 years old, which Jacqui was very grateful for.

We had about a half hour in Roy before we had to leave for Park City so we decided to have a little bit of fun. We decided to go and get a 'get well soon' balloon, and take it to Jacqui's sister Heidi at school. Heidi had a little cold, and we wanted her to know that we care about her and hope she gets feeling better. There is no better way to let someone know than by taking them a balloon to High School, and let them carry it around. We dropped the balloon off at the office, and left before Heidi saw us. We know that she wasn't embarrassed and that she really appreciated it.

We stopped for a quick lunch at Wendy's and then were on our way! The drive there was really nice...the sun was shining, we had an iPod full of music, and we were eating frosty's.

Eating frosty's on our way to PC 

Entering Parleys Canyon! Almost there!

When we got to Sundance one of the first big stops of the day was at Maverick. The reason this was a big stop, was because we passed this Maverick at least 7 times...and its not even a part of Main Street. We met up with Corey, and he helped us find a parking spot. We were a little worried at first because Corey was a little bit grumpy (sorry Corey, but you were. We were about ready to leave ha ha jk). But after he ate a styrofoam cup full of goldfish he was as good as new!

We caught our first bus, and it took us in a complete loop back to where we started...which is not where we wanted to go. So we caught another bus that took us to Main Street where all of the action was happening.

Our first stop of the afternoon was to Music Cafe. We walked in after Corey, and the lady at the door asked to see our 'credentials'...We had no idea what we were supposed to show this lady, and if we even had any 'credentials' in our posession. We almost pulled out our resumes but unfortunately did not have them on us.  Then the other lady standing at the door, Corey's mom (who also volunteers), told the first lady that it was okay and to let us in.

The Music Cafe was a little room with a stage, and it was pretty packed with people. We were some of the lucky few to be allowed in, especially since we didn't have 'credentials'.

The first artist that performed at the Music Cafe was St. Vincent. This girl had a very unique sound, and we all really enjoyed her.

St. Vincent - Courtesy of Google Images

The next artists to perform were the Secret Sister's. They were these two girls that were absolutely adorable. They had such a unique sound, and they were both really good. They switched off playing the guitar and they both sang. They were really fun to watch, and were really funny as well. We even ran into these girls back in the green room after their set.

The Secret Sisters - Image courtesy of Google Images

We decided to stay for the third and last artist, because Jacqui and I recognized his name. Matt Nathanson. The only song of his that we really knew was Come on Get Higher...Corey hadn't heard it though, but I'm pretty sure that in the end he was glad he got to hear Scott Nathanson, or Nathan Scott perform. My (Lindsay) friend Amy really loves Matt Nathanson, so I was excited to tell her that we were at his concert. I was a good friend though and called her so that she could listen while he sang his hit song. It was funny because during the concert he sang the song Jesse's Girl, and he asked for crowd participation. Corey and I (Lindsay) knew the words to the song, and we were singing along, but Jacqui somehow didn't know the song. After the song was over, one of the ladies that was standing in front of us turned around and said to me, "You are just too young to know this song!" Which was silly because Corey and I had been singing along the whole time.

Matt Nathanson - Image courtesy of Google Images

Another fun thing about the Music Cafe was that we got free water bottles. Not just your average plastic water bottle, but a nice, cute light green Nalgene one...it even has the Sundance logo on it! They are pretty awesome.

When we left the Music Cafe we were all ready to go eat dinner. We went to a mexican restaurant that Corey found out about called El Chubasco (I think). It was really good food for a really good price. Supposedly it was named Best Salsa Bar in Utah! Which is totally understandable because they had a lot of different options for salsa, ranked in hotness by a picture of 1-4 peppers.

After dinner we went and got our car and drove over to a new parking lot so that we could visit New Frontier. New Frontier had a few different art exhibits/movies/other artsy stuff. There were a lot of really cool things to look at. James Franco had a small exhibit there, a movie he made using clips from the TV show Three's Company. He had voiced over all of the characters, and it was really funny! I'm glad that we got to see it, because I had been wanting to! There was also a 3-d movie that left us all in a trance...we were pretty sure we got hypnotized, it was so good! There was a cool thing using smoke and butterflies (hard to explain, but it was neat), and there was a cool thing that was reflecting images onto cd's. It was really fun to walk around and look at the different things and watch the different movies.

When we left New Frontier we warmed our hands by a fire outside of the building. Surrounding the fire was a lot of little crystals. We each took a crystal as a souvineer and memory of our trip to Sundance '11.

We walked back to our car and said goodbye to Sundance. It was the perfect get away, and we even got to see that Maverick one last time before we left town.

Taking pictures on the bus! (lindsay, jacqui, corey)

Goodbye Sundance 2011! We hope to see you next year, and actually watch a film!  Shout out to Corey McWill for showing us a good time and taking us on this adventure! Roger that.

List of celebrities and look alikes that we spotted:

• Felix from One Tree Hill
• Snoop Dogg
• The guy from the 'hide yo kids, hide yo wife' video
• Scott Nathanson
• Matthew McConaughey
• Will I Am (from the Black Eyed Peas)

Whose is who?

Back in the beginning of December we went on our first double date together (with boys, obviously). Before the date we had no idea who was going on the date with who. When they picked us up Jacqui made the mistake of sitting in the front seat before the seating arrangments were given...this caused a lot of confusion, Lindsay thought she was going to be driving their car at one point because of Jacqui's minor mistake.

Off to the ice skating rink we drove, still confused! When we got there we were surprised to see our whole ward there on double dates as well. We got our skates on, and headed to the sheet of ice. We started going around the rink, Lindsay staying close to the wall and Jacqui venturing away. At first we thought maybe the confusion was over because Boy #1 was skating with Lindsay, and Boy #2 was skating with Jacqui. We skated around the rink for about 20 minutes getting to know each other. And then suddenly the boys switched places! Now Boy #1 was skating with Jacqui, and Boy #2 was skating with Lindsay. We didn't know what was going on, but we went along with it anyways, and got to know the new boy we were skating with. This kept on happening, the boys switching places about every 20 minutes! At one point they were off doing a trick together, so we asked each other who we were on the date with...neither of us knew!

When our ankles started getting sore, we left. We were now on our way to the store to get supplies for root beer floats. After we got our supplies we headed back to Boy #1's apartment to make our root beer floats. When we got to the apartment, Boy #1 stopped us at the door and explained that there was a big group date going on inside. He said that we could either join that big group date, or stay with our small double date and watch a movie (we could tell they wanted to watch a movie with us). He opened the door to his apartment and we were met with a very quiet living room and one single boy using his laptop. We looked at each other, holding back our laughter and wondering if this was his idea of a big group date....then we went into the kitchen and stumbled upon the 'big group date', which consisted of 2 girls, 2 boys, and a quiet game of cards. We didn't even hear them when we went into the apartment!

While we were waiting for Boy #1 to eat a burrito for dinner, we found a pad of post-it notes. We decided to write Jacqsay on the post-its and hide them around the apartment. We found one bedroom that was unlocked with no one inside so we hid quite a few post-its with our name on it in there. We thought it was pretty funny.

After Boy #1 finished his burrito, and we finished hiding post-it notes, the boys made us our root beer floats. Jacqui was sitting on one couch and Lindsay was sitting on the other couch. Boy #1 sat by Lindsay, and Boy #2 sat by Jacqui. We enjoyed our root beer floats...while we were drinking them we asked the boys if they would play one of our favorite games with us. We told them about the game- we would blindfold and duct tape the boys hands and legs togther, drop them off somewhere, and then they would have to find their way back. They didn't think it was a very good idea, but Boy #1 had duct tape and brought it out anyways. Boy #2 watched on as we duct taped Boy #1's ankles together. After he realized what was happening, he broke free and tried to get the duct tape from us. Naturally we each stood in different corners of the living room, and began tossing the roll of duct tape back and forth to each other so that Boy #1 wouldn't get it. Then Jacqui yelled out 'Monkey in the middle!' and the game intensified. Boy #1 told us he was surprised he hadn't gotten the duct tape from us yet. Finally Boy #2 intervened and stole the duct tape. It was so funny! We hadn't laughed that long in probably a few days.

We were all tired from playing monkey in the middle so Boy #1 showed us a few magic tricks, and then we decided to watch the movie Hot Rod. Again, Lindsay was sitting on one couch, and Jacqui was sitting on the other. But this time Boy #1 decided to sit by Jacqui and Boy #2 decided to sit by Lindsay. Now we were still really confused. The movie was really funny, we liked it a lot more than we thought we would.

After the movie we decided to play a game of telephone, so Jacqui and Boy #1 moved to the couch by Lindsay and Boy #2. Lindsay and Jacqui were sitting in the middle of the two boys, so it was easy for us to make this game a little more interesting. Everytime Boy #1 would start, Jacqui and Lindsay would mess up whatever he said before passing it on to Boy #2. It was really funny, for us at least. Sometime during this game Jacqui stole Boy #1's phone, and passed it to Lindsay.

The boys didn't want us to leave and kept talking to us after we finished telephone. Finally a little after 2, we decided it was time to go. Boy #1 decided just to stay at his apartment, so Boy #2 took us home. Boy #1 gave both of us hugs as we were leaving, and then he realized he didn't have his phone. He took Jacqui's coat so that we would give him his phone back. Instead of giving it back we both wore Lindsay's coat, and left with Boy #2 and Boy #1's phone. We got out to the car, and our conscience kicked in...we decided we should probably give him his phone back, and that Jacqui would eventually need her own (ugly) coat.

Boy #2 took us back to apartment, and walked us up to our door. He insisted that we both link arms with him as he walked us to our building. He walked us upstairs to our apartment, and hugged us both good bye.

This left us even more confused. We still have no idea which boy we were on the date with. Whose is who? Maybe you can figure it out.

After telling our parents (and many others) about our funny date, Jacqui's dad said it reminded him of an episode of Seinfeld where Kramer and a midget go on a date with two girls, and don't know which one they were on the date with.

We will add the clips from that episode of Seinfeld that reminds us of our date when we find them...so stay tuned!

Memories From This Semester..

Well, since the semester is almost over with finals starting tomorrow, we figured we would write some of our favorite memories from this year so far!

We will start with the night we moved in to our new apartment. We both got to Logan around 10 pm and were excited to be here. Jacqui spent the summer in St. Thomas, and Lindsay spent the summer student teaching in pre-school, so it was nice to get back to normal. We started moving things up to our apartment on the third floor, walked in, and much to our surprise had NO power! So basically we had to move all of our stuff in in complete darkness. None of our new roommates were here and the only light we had was the lights from our cell phones. It was actually pretty funny. When we were down at our cars about to make probably our third trip up, we saw a group of people (mainly boys) go into our building and walk to the top floor (where our apartment is). We followed them up, thinking that either the two girls that were with them were probably our new roommates, or that they lived in the apartment across the hall from us. We opened our door and were met with all of them yelling 'surprise!' We stopped in the doorway, and everyone was laughing. We then asked the girls if they lived here, and they said no. They then asked us if we lived there and we said no, that we just followed them up to see what they were doing. It was really funny, because we turned their little prank back around on them! (As a side note, we actually ended up being friends with some of these boys later) That night we ended up staying up way too late, sitting in the living room with our front door open (so that we could have light from the hallway) and talked. It was interesting getting ready for the first day of school with no power, but we managed! Luckily one of our roommates took the initiative and got the power turned on for us! Thank you Clelia!

The firts week of school was pretty exciting for us. We were back in Logan with 2 years under our belts, and experts at our game. We went to FHE on monday night, got to know some people, reintroduced ourselves to our bishop, and then started walking home. As we were walking through the church parking lot there was a group of boys standing by a truck, getting ready to leave. They started yelling hello to us, and asked us if we wanted a ride. In true Jacqsay fashion we just smiled and waved (continuously) as we walked by, and pretended we had no idea what they were saying. We reached the sidewalk, and were out of their view. We started laughing, because it was a really funny situation. Then a few seconds later the truck pulls onto the street, and pulls up behind us. There were 3 guys in the pickup, and 3 in the cab, all with hands full of scones. They asked us once again if we wanted a ride, and we told them that we couldn't take rides from strangers unless we saw their temple reccomends first. A girl (or 2) can never be too safe. They thought we were funny, but showed us their temple reccomends anyways. We chatted for a few minutes, and they offered us a ride once more. We kept stalling until this boy got out of the front seat. I looked at Jacqui and said "Look who it is, we haven't seen him forever." (We like to play a little game where we pretend like we know people, when we really have never met them. It confuses them, and sometimes they actually fall for it, feeling embarrassed that they don't remember us. We have been mastering this skill for quite awhile now, and are actually really good at it. Now back to the story..) Jacqui instantly played along, and gave the guy a hug, and then I gave him a hug. He was trying to figure out where he knew us from, because he couldn't remember us. His friends were pretty upset that he 'knew' us, and ended up leaving him, throwing scones at him as they drove off. He was pretty happy, smiling from ear to ear, thanking us and saying that it was the coolest thing ever. We were pretty pleased with ourselves, and walked home with him.

Our school puts on a lot of fun, free activities during the first week of school. One of which was a concert, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. It was being held outside on the street that runs down the center of campus. It was huge! It was a really fun concert, and the perfect place for us to pretend like we knew people. As people passed us we would pat them on the backs, and when they turned around we would give them a thumbs up and say 'good job'. It was pretty funny. But then, one of the boys we did this too stayed. So of course we pretended like we had already met him, said we met him at the outdoor movie, and then he actually remembered us. He stuck around for at least a half hour, standing right in between us. We couldn't get rid of the guy. This was the start of our backfires. After Backfire The First left, we decided we needed to make new friends. There were some boys in front of us, one of which was cute and short...and we decided that they would enjoy their concert experience much more if we grabbed their shoulders and made them dance. They loved it! We ended up jumping, dancing, and swaying with them for the rest of the night. Sometimes we do things to make other people happy.


The next exciting thing that happened this year was that we got new furniture! We went to the DI to get a TV for our apartment, but happened to fall in love with something else...

Yes, we know that you are probably jealous of our orange DI chairs

These chairs have brought us much comfort and joy!

When we saw these orange chairs we were instantly intrigued. But when we sat in them, we knew they had to be ours! At $15 dollars a piece, we knew we had to act fast because there was no way these would stick around for long. And we were right. About five minutes after we pulled off the tags and claimed them as our own, we watched a man try and find the price tags so that he could buy them. I guess some things are meant to be!

The next memory we will write about is a funny one, not surprising. Our friends from apartment 8 invited us over to their margarita party. They said it was also a welcome home party for their friend Dave, or as we know him Davey Crocket. We had met Dave in passing maybe 2 or 3 times, but we didn't know him very well, and he didn't really know us either. But we thought it would only be appropriate to buy him a welcome home gift. We went to Wal-Mart before the party and tried to find the perfect gift. And thats when we set our eyes on a fiesty betta fish. We thought it would be pretty funny to give Davey Crockett a fish for his welcome home present, we figured he was ready for the responsibility! We got some colorful rocks, fish food, and a cute little jar to put the new fish in and we were set. We decided to name the fish King Trident (not to be confused with the gum) because of his wild ways. We showed up at the party and presented Davey Crocket with his new gift. The smile on his face and the dimples in his cheeks said it all. And no one expected any less from us. But, I am sad to say that this story has a sad ending. Over Thanksgiving break King Trident passed away unexpectedly from natural causes. He will be dearly missed, mainly by Davey.

King Trident (September 25, 2010-November 25, 2010)

Roommate Pictures: We decided that since our apartment is such a diverse crowd and we all get along so well that roommate pictures were needed. We somehow managed to round everyone up at the same time and get a few quality pictures together. They turned out pretty great...

Confetti/Funny Picture

Clelia, Chirelle, Lindsay, Jacqui, Jap-Jacq, Blair, Smurfee, Suzy

After conference on Sunday we decided to take a drive up in the mountains to see the leaves changing colors. We also walked around at First Dam. It was so pretty, and such nice weather! The kind of weather that you miss (since its freezing cold now). Here are some pictures from that afternoon.

Driving up the canyon

First dam

Leaf confetti!

Roommate Halloween Party: For Halloween we decided to have a roommate party. We made carmel apples, and watched a scary movie, Casper the Friendly Ghost. It was fun for all of us to be able to hang out, rarely are we all home at the same time!

Carmel Apples!

Carmel Apple Power!

Yum!

Mini Thanksgiving: This was our second annual Mini Thanksgiving. The week before Thanksgiving break we always celebrate by eating Thanksgiving dinner, but everything is mini. We make a baby turkey, mini pies, and have mini portions of mashed potatos and corn. We dress up for the holiday, switching off each year who gets to be the Pilgrim and the Indian. It is one of our favorite traditions, and we know that it will start getting big soon.  

Carving the baby turkey.

Cheers!

Making peace over dinner!

A few other things worth mentioning:

• Butterscotch finally warmed up to us. He seems to not mind our pressence, and we found out he has a sense of humor
• Nick Nack got engaged!!
• Smurfee entered into a complicated relationship with Logan Meyers
• We spent a friday night curled up in our chairs watching Dateline and drinking warm milk, in bed by 9.

As we think of more memories (which there are many more) we will post again!

Peace, love, and confusion!

Well, it's funny you should ask...

We actually met in the womb. Our parents got divorced after we were born when we were still babies. Lindsay went to live with mom, and Jacqui went to live with dad. We never knew about each other. Fast forward 12 years, and we meet each other at Girl's Camp. We really didn't like each other, and were constantly playing tricks on each other. Lindsay put honey in Jacqui's hair while she slept, and then feathered her. Jacqui put all of Lindsay's furniture on the roof of her cabin. Our leaders got fed up with these sorts of actions quickly, and decided to put us in the same cabin until we learned to get along. One night there was a really bad rainstorm, so we started to talk with each other. Lindsay pulled out a picture of the dad she had never met, and Jacqui pulled out a picture of the mom she had never met. Both pictures were ripped down the middle, and we put them together, finding that the two pictures were in fact one picture. We immediately bonded after this, finding out that we were in fact fraternal twins. Jacqui pierced Lindsay's ears, and Lindsay cut Jacqui's bangs. When girls camp ended, we decided to switch places with each other in attempt to reunite our parents. It worked! They got remarried! But sadly, they are now getting divorced again.

If you are thinking that this story sounds like a movie called "The Parent Trap", we have never heard of it.

Now that you know more about us, we will start filling you in on our daily lives, which are pretty exciting. We are waiting for the day that Oprah or MTV discovers us and offers us our own reality show. When the day comes we will call our show The Mountains. Here are the stories of us living in The Mountains.

We will start with Halloween...

For Halloween 2010 we came up with the brilliant idea to be Sailors! We knew that we had the most creative idea and that no one else would even think of it. We began dreaming the ideas of our costumes in our heads, picturing a big boat that we could set sail in (similar to Noah's) as well as a lot of fishing nets and anchors. Our boat ended up being made out of cardboard, duct tape, an old pillow case, and butcher paper...not quite suitable for sailing the seven seas, or even down the canal to our neighbors for dinner. But don't get us wrong, we couldn't be happier about the turnout (it's still in our living room as we type). Next, we had to find costumes. Instead of spending all of our money on a pre-packaged Halloween costume at some silly Halloween store, we decided to throw our own together. We found really cute shirts (dresses?) at Forever 21, for a very reasonable price. Added a pair of tights, tattoos (thanks to our tattoo artist Suzy), and sailor hats with iron on patches. Our look was complete! Mal-Pal came up from Salt Lake to accompany us to the Howl. Kirsten also joined us. We trekked up the mountain to campus (without our boat- it couldn't withstand the light rain), and stood in the longest line you could imagine. Good thing our precious friend Poncho was there to entertain us. He was without costume and a twirl. We didn't think we were going to get into the Howl since they oversold it by like 600 tickets. We waited in line for two hours before starting a riot. For usual entertainment, and to pass the time in line, we played our favorite game Operation Old Acquaintance, where we pretend like we have met strangers previously. They get really confused because we are professionals at this game. We finally got into the Howl around midnight, which was very unfortunate because it ended at 1 a.m. But this didn't stop us! We headed straight to the concert (We The Kings). We danced with at least half of the boys in attendance at the concert. We danced with Elvis, some cowboys, a boy in a towel, Hot Rod, and many more. Some of them ran (only like 2 people, really), most of them couldn't get enough. Many of these boys were probably confused when they got home and found that our tattoos had rubbed off onto their skin and clothes. But don't worry, it didn't get on our cute shirts (dresses?). The Howl was a success, as all of our days are. We danced our hearts out, and made many peoples nights. Job well done.

Now for the pictures...

Sailors in training, we salute you!

The pirate trying to steal our boat...unsuccessful!

We are cheerful.

Ready to set sail!

First Mates

Setting sail on U.S.S. Jacqsay!

Summer Sleepover Fun!

We decided to head up to Logan to visit our old roommate Ali and have a sleepover. It was fun to get the whole family back together, so we decided to take a few pictures. We went to summer fest and even got our picture taken jumping off the A! It was a fun little trip up to Logan!

 Frozen Yogurt at Tummy Yummy

 Rainy summer day!

 Jumping off the A! 

It only took us one try :)

 Family pictures, sweet little Allen!

Who's who?

Recreating our jumping off the A picture!

Goodbye USU Year One

Our first year at Utah State went by way too fast! We had so much fun together and so many great memories! Lindsay and Jacqui spend hours cleaning our apartment on the first night, and celebrating a great year! After such a fun year we were all excited to come back next year!

 With all of us moving out, our apartment was a mess!

 Sad to leave!

Rice krispie treat tradition.

 Having a little bubbly to celebrate a good year!

 Cheers!

 Our cups matched our shirts.

This was not planned!

 Just cleaning!

 Rice krispie treat tradition!

 We decided to go to USU graduation as one last activity together as roommates!

 Sad that the year was over.

Last stop, picture with the teacher statue on campus.