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.

So its been awhile....

Well, there have been really good intentions in the past months to update this blog. When we last left off we were ending spring semester of school. Lets do a quick update on the summer of 2011.

We spent our time working I (Lindsay) was a nanny to two fun little kiddos, and Jacqui worked at a few different jobs-worked for Chrysalis in Logan, did food storage research, and worked as a dietary aide at an old folks home. We had a few sleepovers in Roy and in Salt Lake City, because best friends can't spend a whole summer apart. Contrary to what "the pilot" thinks we should be doing.  (He thinks we should seperate in order to get married, but did we listen? Absolutely not!) We went to some concerts (a Twilight concert series concert, and KATY PERRY). We went swimming with the kids I nannyed, and we were even late to a Weber Institute class (in pure Jacqsay fashion-fashionably late fashion). It was fun to actually spend the summer in the same state! It's hard to believe that summer is actually over, and that we are half way through this semester of school. But we'll save that for a different post!

For now, we'll leave you with pictures from the summer!

Sleepover! Hair Wraps!

We love summer.

We love summer.

Confetti!

When we think of _____ we hang ourselves with our hair wraps.

Before the Katy Perry concert!

Our mom still dresses us the same,

just like when we were babies.

All of the girls before Katy Perry!

All in all it was a pretty great summer. Great friends, great memories! We miss the sun, summer clothes, and tans...but we are excited to be back at school too!

All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone.

Well, it has been exactly one week since the Spring 2011 semester of school ended. Exactly one week since we moved away from Logan. Now this is normal, every year when the school year ends everyone cleans up their apartment, packs their stuff and moves somewhere new. This year Lindsay moved home to Salt Lake, and Jacqui moved home to Roy. We are only about 35 minutes away from each other, but that is a lot different then sitting chairs next to each other, or sleeping on bunk beds!

Anyways, the reason we haven't posted on here much is because we decided (along with our friend Rhiannon) to make a documentary about our last two weeks of school. Well, the documentary is done and 28 minutes long haha! It's pretty much like episode 1 of the Mountains! We will be on Mtv soon!! So I (Lindsay) will go ahead and write down some important events that happened during the last two weeks of school, and then post our documentary at a later date.

We will start with Friday April 28th. This was the day that I attended my student teacher orientation and found out that I filled my card out wrong when I applied to student teach, and pretty much ruined my placement. I was placed in a 3rd grade and 5th grade classroom, but I am supposed to teach Kindergarten for one block. Leave it to me to screw that up haha! So now they have to find me a new placement! Whoops!

That night our school was hosting a free Sean Kingston concert. We were all pretty excited, they shut down the main street that runs through our school and put up a huge stage! They had a concert going on from 3pm until 8pm when the big S.K. came on. It was a pretty sweet deal! Except for the fact that it was freezing cold and snowing on and off... But that didn't stop us, and we went anyways! Kirsten and Rhiannon came with us too! It was really fun. We thought we were going to freeze but we were sweating the whole time. It was packed, and we got pushed everywhere! I broke my phone, Jacqui got elbowed in the face, Rhiannon got bit on the arm, and Kirsten got separated from us for the whole concert....that pretty much sums it up haha! Our theme for the night was to do it from behind...not in an innapropriate way like you are probably thinking though...

The three best friends that anyone could have....smashed together at the concert.

Me and Rhi

Me, Rhi and Kirsten

The big S.K. Man of the hour.

After the concert our good friend Sheep-Goat invited us to come to a fire up in the mountains. We brought along our roommate Clelia and her friend Aubree. It was a pretty good time. A few notes about this fire....the marshmallows were too big to cook, and my hair almost got lit on fire...Rhiannon risked her life to get the flame out of my hair with her hands, Jacqui was there to help her! Thats when you know you have good friends!

Rhi and Sheep-Goat bonding in their matching hats!

Rhiannon sandwich at the fire.

Kolby photobombed us (from behind).

Aubree, Clelia, Jacqui and a boy whose name I don't remember..

Me and Rhi

Clelia being a party pooper haha! She hates it when I take her picture!

During our last week of school we had to study for finals. Well Jacqui had some big finals that she was worried about that she had to take on Tuesday and Wednesday, and I only had one final that I was a little bit worried about on Thursday. We spent a lot of afternoons either studying or taking naps on the quad. There isn't very much time in Logan when the weather is good, so when it is we have to take full advantage, and taking naps on the quad is one of our favorite things to do. It is so important to us that on our last day of institute we decided to take a nap on the quad instead of go to class...CTR, always. Between studying, naps on the quad, taco Tuesday and spending quality time with good friends we were pretty busy. After Jacqui's final on Wednesday we drove down to Salt Lake to hang out with my cousin Whitney, her husband Adam, and their adorable baby Regan. I wish I would have gotten pictures this day, because that baby is too cute. We went swimming with Whit and Regan and my bro Ty and his wife and baby Tay joined us. It was a good day!

Thursday was a big day for us. I had my final, it was Cinco de Mayo, and our last day in Logan! I went and got cupcakes with Rhiannon, our last cupcake friday (thursday) and then we all hung around outside because it was so nice. Then me and Jacqui decided to rent a double bike because we have been wanting to do it for like 3 years now. We went and rented the bike, and tried to ride it in an alleyway. It was soooo hard! One of the hardest things we have ever done! It took a few tries for us to gain confidence, trust, and learn to balance and then we were off! We were pretty much professionals. It was so much fun! We can't wait to do it again! Michael Moss, Blake, and our roommate Alex came downtown to see us ride it and to try it themselves.

For our last night in Logan we went to Taco Time to get 59 cent tacos...it was Cinco de Mayo after all! Of course we had to wear our sombrero's! After that we spent the night cleaning, packing, and hanging out with our friends. It was a really fun night, and the perfect way to end the semester.

Happy Cinco de Mayo Fill-Up

Happy Cinco de Mayo Matty Patty Cakes!

Jacqui, Alex, Lindsay

Tacos for Cinco de Mayo!!

Michael Moss took this picture on my camera....

Blake took this pic...

Riding bikes in Michael Moss and Butterscotch's apartment!

It was really sad to see this year end. We had so much fun and made some really great friends. Its a hard transition for both of us to be home, but we already saw each other two times since we moved out haha! We are going to make it a weekly tradition so that we can at least keep this blog going! We are excited for the summer and excited to reunite with everyone in Logan in the Fall. Thanks to all of the really good friends we have made this year: Rhiannon, Michelle, Fill-Up, Matty Patty Cakes, Michael Moss, Blake, Cake John (and his friends), Chazz... there are definitely many more!

And on one last note, congrats to Tyler and Corey for graduating from the University of Utah! We are happy we got to be there to make glitter signs and celebrate with you!!

Corey and Tyler waiting to graduate. So serious. 

Corey loved his glitter sign! 

Ty loved his glitter sign too! 

Congraduation boys!!

Next year this will be us graduating! Hopefully we don't have to make our own glitter signs haha!