Home is great!

I like being home. It's really nice and fun and really warm. I like the fact that I can walk outside and not have to put on a coat (sorry Roxy, I mean hooded sweatshirt). I got lots of great things for Christmas, like a digital camera, new jammies and slippers, my DVD collection doubled. Surpridingly, one of my favorite things was an antique piece of music from the 20's with notes in it, and it is just the most fun song with the whole 20's style called "She's Got 'It.'" It's been really great to be with my family, and to see all my old Redlands friends. It is a really new experience coming back and and having things be the same, but different at the same time. I got to see my fifth grade teacher and mother of one of my long time friends get baptized tonight. It was really beautiful and very exciting. I also saw my most favorite person Sister Haimson. She is just so fabulous, and makes me feel so fabulous. I really like chilling with my family, but I do miss BYU and Roxy and all my friends.

OK, lets get down to the nitty gritty

So, in my last post, I said what do I need to do to make a boy ask me out. I say this because other people get asked out, but I always end up having to ask out the boy if I want to go out. Not one boy has asked me out this school year, so what do I need to do? This is an open question for all to answer to. Maybe I just need to go on an elbow touching spree.

so many things

I just took my 30 question super easy healthy living test and I got an A. And on the screen, it said "Fantastic" next to it. It made me feel good even though it was totally easy. Finals are sort of intimidating, like someone is kicking my shoe, and yet I'm not as scared as I should be. If I were more scared I would be studying harder, but I think I'll do fine. It will be so fun to go home and have all of us together. It's crazy that school gets out so close to Christmas, but that's the way it goes. Hey, all you married people who read this... what do I need to do to get a boy to ask me out?

"Don't worry... her heart's just imploding"

So the ward temple square trip is on Saterday, and I am so totally stoked!!!!!!!!! I really want all my favorites and I to stick together for the day, so that we can have a rockin' good time. My favorites include: Talmage, Tim, RHB, Andrea, Ashley (pink and blue), Danica, Jamie...really its my whole family home evening group. We shall laugh, play, eat, and go sight-seeing. Can I wait? Of course not, why are you even asking???!!!! I don't know, I thought you were joking. Well, I wasn't.

Home Adventures

We got home late Monday night, or should I say very early Tuesday morning... about 2 AM California time. Anyways the highlights of the break were:
Tuesday- sleeping in, seeing, my family, seeing Adam Cook, going shoping with Mom and getting SUPER cute stuff.
Wednesday- going on a walk... without a jacket. just shorts and a t-shirt. and getting food assignments. Mine were drinks, green bean casserol, and pumpkin pie. Judith and the kids came over too, and it was super fun. baby Justin has blond hair now, instead of black thicknesses.
Thursday- Thanksgiving. tasty everything, and so much derbey pie! Thanksgiving nap, and another walk. we then rented Nany McFee and Big. We watched them both, along with a little Spider Man II that happened to be on TV. I love Toby Mguire!!!
Friday- this was a nice day. I taught Kellie and Carlie a lesson for my Book of Mormon class. We hung out with Megan a little bit, then we went to the hill park! We played a craxy game where me, Mom, and Kellie were throwing two frisbees, then Dad came in the mix, along with a football. That was really fun. Then Kellie and I threw around a baseball. My pitching arm is still alive. We had leftovers for dinner, followed by Eloise at Christmas. Then Mommy and I went shopping a little, and now here I am.

Somthing that is weird about being home is that I miss BYU. I miss all my friends, because they are the closest friends I've ever had. I haven't said Boom Shadow nearly as much as I should. Or craxy. I love both places, so... I don't know. I'm glad I got to come home, and I'll be glad to be back at school.

life is going nice

So, I've looked at myself, and realized that I love being up here in college, with all this crazy weather, and all these amazing people who I love, and the fun things I get to learn and do. Although I am so glad I get to be here, I am way excited to go and visit Redlands. I want to wear shorts, see the mountains, go on a walk, teach the family "cricket owl," eat delicious home made food for days in a row, see fun people like all the young women, Adam Cook, and Kate Hill. I need some fresh stories about her. I'm excited to be able to drive places, and maybe even rollerblade a bit. The ride will be interesting to say the least, just because it will be very full in that car for those 9+ hours. But it will be fun. I hope we sing (charlie will sing with me).
So, I have come to adore Monday nights, just because I get to play with about 15 of my favorite friends. And usually I linger with a few others for a few hours afterwards. It's like a crazy tradition that has been since the beginning of the family: Tizight like unto a dish. It will be sad how the dynamics will change when my brothers start going on missions.
I had my first head-cuddle with my brother Tim yesterday. Blaine and Roxy don't love me enough to head-cuddle with me, but that's OK, because Tim's hair felt funny on my hair. Oh, last night, everyone went around and said something they like about me because I was spotlighted. There were some nice things, like I have a pretty smile, I dress nice, or I'm funny. Then there were some wierd ones, like I have a great imagination because I can build a fort(Tim), or I'm craxy (Ben), or I have duck lips sometimes (Talmage). Roxy said she likes the wierd sayings I make up, and Wayne said he likes all my nicknames, like Jules or Julikins.
This week is going to be crazy homework filled, if I could only get off the computer. I get to go observe children this week. I'm really excited about that.

There's a penny in our butter!

Oh....mymymymymymy....

Preference was so amazingly fun. I can't tell you how much fun we all had. Ice skating is a really good excuse to hold hands... especially Roxy's. I only fell once, and took out Talmage with me. But Ben was right there to help me up. It was great. Lots of other funny things happened, and some awkward things happened, like the combined efforts of Ben and I to almost kill a girl. oh, I felt so bad. Anyways, we had a blast. They had the comedy sportz team there, and we watched some of it. The ref was the bishop from Sons of Provo. He is real funny. On the ice, my hands started to freeze, so Ben let me use his gloves. H tried to teach me how to do that stop thing, but I was a failure. That's OK though, beause he held my hand to make sure I didn't die. Lots of other stuff happened. Thanks to the best brother in law, we got home some time before midnight. Talmage and Roxy and Ben and I stayed outside and talked (and did other random things) until about 1:45. It was really fun. I got lots of good pictures, and I can't wait to get them developed! I am soo obese! =)

waiting for tonight

I can't do it, I can't wait for tonight. I am way totally stoaked for preference!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ice skating with my three favorite people will be so magical. And HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHYLA!!!

Yay for writing until my eyes fall out

I really like writing my novel. I'm writing about my dreams, and so its kind of a flow of consciousness. I kind of just write and write, and I know a lot of poo is coming out, but I think some good stuff is coming.

My crew got off work early tonight, and Wednesdays are visiting hours. I usually get home when boys are not aloud anymore, so when I was walking to my room, I heard man voices and I was disturbed for a few seconds... then I realized I am stupid. Anyways, Roxy and I were sitting here writing our novels, when we get a knock at the door, and guess who it was? Red Head Ben! He came in the last like two minutes of visiting time, just to visit! I felt so special! Can you tell how excited I am by the amount of !!!!s Anyways, I cannot wait for Preferecne!!!!!!!!!!!!

the final answer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So lets get started. It was a fun evening at Shelley's house. Once we got home, Roxy started listening to her ten messages. We listened to a few of RHB old ones because they are just too humorous. But it turns out, there's a new message. In it he tells me to call him, even if it's one o'clock, because he says "it's going to be pretty cool." So it's 12:30 and I call him. I'm like, " Hi, it's Julie." and he's like, " Hi, what's up?" and I go " I don't know, what is up?" and he contemplates his wording for a moment. Then he says, "Will you meet me in your lobby?" and i say "Yeah." So I go down there and he kind of sneaks up on me. Then he gives me a plate of snicker-doodles and says, "Julie will you marry me?" and I said, " No you fool! You haven't even been on a mission yet. You pretty much can't go to preference with me anymore, so therefore, the other option of Talmy is now open." Just Kidding, he said, "I wasn't quite sure about my answer." So at first I'm thinking he can't go with me anymore, so now he's giving me these consolation snicker-doodles. But then he's like, "I think you need to look a little closer." So I start moving the cookies, and lo and behold there is a note card on the bottom that says YES! I was sooooooooo happeeeeee. Then we stood outside and talked for a while about my failed plan and his feeling dumb by just saying yes over the phone. We talked about life and about what dance we want to go to. In the middle of it all he sang a song from The Lion King. Pretty much I am totally stoaked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Preference madness

So You all know that I was asking RHB to preferecne, but my plan went horribly wrong. I went to five balloonst o his roommate to give to him, but he didn't show up. Luckily, Charlie came by, so he took them up to his room for me. But then we missed his call, because we gave him a mysterious phone number to call at a certain time, so we could read him a mission impossible thing. So he left a message that was so cute. He was like...Hey, this is ...Ben, I'm not sure what this is exactly, but I think this is the right number...so sorry I was not home I guess. So I'll talk to you later, or something.
Then he called again the next day and said...This is agent Fisher trying to report for duty. Sorry I keep missing you and I'll keep trying. Bye.
So I called him today, and I was like "hi Ben, this is Julie. You know those mysterious balloons and that mysterious phone number? That was me." and under his breath I could hear him go, Yesssss. It was so awesome!!!! so he said yes, and I dont know what dance we're going to, but I think we're going to have a lot of fun. Now if only Roxy would ask a certain someone...

The Preference Fiasco!

So, you all know that I was asking RHB to Preference, but my plan went horribly wrong. I went to give balloons to his roommate to give to him, but he didn't show up. Luckily, Charlie came by, so he took them up to his room for me. But then we misses his call, because we gave him a mysterious phone number to call at a certain time, so we could read him a mission impossible thing. So he left a message that was so cute. He was like... I dont know who this is, but I guess I was supposed to call, so...yea. then the next day he called again, then Roxy called a few times, but it was no use. So I'm just going to call him and put that old plan to rest. Too bad it didn't work, but he got some awesome balloons out of it.

SNOWWWWWWWWWW

I can't believe it snowed today! It was my first snowfall of Provo, and Roxy doesn't think so, but I think she is craxy. The snow was so beautiful, and I called my mommy and my daddy an my Carlie and told them... I hope the news reaches my Kellie. Anyways I really like Back to the Future. Michael J Fox is a studmuffin, but I also really like the George guy. He is just really awkward and cute. While we were watching one of his awkward parts, Roxy said, "Hi, this is Wayne... Wayne Robison..." and I couldn't stop laughing until, like, sixteen minutes ago. I am very excited for mom to come to Provo, and to get slaughtered at racquetball. Quiet, YOU!

Preferance!

I have been trying to decide for a few days now which guy I want to ask to preferance, and this morning I finally decided. RHB!!! But how shall I do it? That is the real question...

Good Grades feel good

I got a 55/60 on my MFHD paper that I turned in a few weeks ago! That was a great consolation after the traumatic experience of writing and turning in my other paper today. But everything worked out in the end. And Roxy took my phone to music 101, so maybe if I'm lucky, I'll get a new picture of him, and yet another shapeshifty.

PICTURES

I just got the piectures that I had developed! They are great, and everyone should go look at them on the facebook.

Horray! Horray!!

I finally figured out how to make a links list on the blog! now I can read all of yours with ease!!!!!!!!!!! I just took a sign language test, and I only missed two! I felt very smart.

I love fun dates!

Today... was a good day. It was super awesome, way chill, and there were lots of awesome people there to share it with. Roxy Xinyi Blaine Red Head Ben and Talmage and I went on a date today. First we hiked the Y, which was amazingly beautiful, and it was so fun. Then we went to a sushi place and had some great Japanese food, then we ran over to Ream's to look over the selection of root beer. I took lots of pictures, and captured many timeless moments, like all the boys standing on top of the trail markers. I am in LOVE with Ben... well, you know what I mean. He is so awesome and gentlemanly. He picked me a flower, and did lots of fun things like that. When I was holding Xinyi's hand and walking down the Y, I slipped and fell on my kazinkis, and when Ben saw he ran up to where I was. Then when Xinyi told him that I need a hug, he gave me a great hug that was longer than I expected it would be, then he grabbed my hand and said, "why do we fall?" and I said "so we can get back up. " It was so funny. Oh, and every time we got out of the back of Blaine's truck, he would jump out really fast so that he could help eveyone out. Then he would open all the doors for us, and he went out an got my debit card with me when we were at the restaurant. Oh, and as we were hiking up to the Y, I had brought a backpack with water and a jacket and my camera, and as we were like 100 feet away from the Y, he looks at me and says, why are you holding that backpack? and I said, because no one took it from me, then he was like, hand it over, and he carried it for the rest of the time. Then when we were by the bottom of the Y, he and Blaine started picking up the trash that people had let roll down the Y, like waterbottles mostly. While we were there, we saw big horned sheep. It was pretty cool. Then on the way down, Talmage found a piece of grass that had some flowers growing off it, and he looked at is and said these are pretty. And when I saw them I started freaking out, and I told them that they were colombines, and that they were my favorite flower. Then Talmage asked if he could put the whole big thing in my hair, and Ben was like, why don't you pick them off, and then he did, then Talmage was like, hey you're stealing my thunder, then Ben gave them back to Talmage, who then gave it to me. I felt special. Laying down in the bed of the truck was an awesome experience. Blaine was really paranoid about the police giving him a ticket for people riding in the back of the truck, so he made us lay down, which was not great becasue everyone kept hitting their heads on the metal everywhere. But we sort of had to lay on top of each other, and I didn't mind that so much. When all the activities were done, we all got out at DT, and the three boys walked Roxy and I home. Chivalry is not dead at BYU. When Roxy and I got in the elevator, I almost died because I was so happy. I haven't had that much fun with a boy in a long time.

horray for halloween!

I can't wait for Halloween. There is a dance on Friday, and Roxy is going as a beauty queen, and I am going as a flapper. We are going to wear each other's dresses, and it is going to be fabulous. Last night, at like 11, I decided I wanted to play around and put on flapper makeup, whatever that is (it ended up being about 5 punds), then of course I had to put on the dress. And since I was putting on Roxy's dress, she had to put on my dress. Then we had to go look at ourelves in the full length mirror in the hallway and take pictures. Then Roxy let me talk her into letting me do her makeup and hair, and I must say, she looked even more beautiful than she normally does. It was a kind of a "if you give a mouse a cookie" ordeal. Maybe we shouldn't have done it becasue it was so late, and we were almost late to out 8 o'clock classes today, but I don't care. We had a rockin' good time, and now we know how fab we are going to look on Friday. It will be sososososososossosososoosososo fun! What are you going as?

The Many Affairs of Family Home Evening

Last night was a magical night. I love all the people in mya family, but especially Talmage, but even more especially Red-Head Ben. He is so awesome! He ran a marathon in Saterday, and that is so... awesomely impressive. We had a fun time in FHE, and afterwards, I thought that me and Roxy were just going to go home because I thought I didn't feel like doing nything, but then we just got to talking, then we started throwing around a vollyball, and that got really fun. But when Danica had to leave with her vollyball, Ben went up and got his soccer ball, and we played a soccer version of haccy sack. It was fun, even though I stink at it, and I got injured. The injury part was actually good, because I got free hugs from boys out of it. Ben and Blaine to be exact. There was one time last night where somehow me and Ben got into a staring contest. It was kind of wierd, but kind of cool. It was funny, as me and Roxy and Ben and Blaine were playing with the soccerball a kid was walking though and he was like, "What a lame date!" Then Blaine said "well, at least we're doing what the stake president told us to... to go on a date every week. But we have been slacking." Then I was like, well here we are, motioning to me and Roxy. Then, somehow we came to the consensus that we are all going to hike the Y on Saterday. So it will be mine and Roxy's first double date together, and with two really awesome guys. It will be sososososososos much fun, I think. After Blaine left, Ben was such a genleman and walked us home. It was great!

You know what...

I was thinking a lot about stuff today. Yesterday was a great day because I just love going to church, and our FHE family was so righteous, and there was ward choir practice, then we went to Gradma's and had a rocking time, then Roxy and Ben and James and I got to sing "I Believe in Christ" and it was beautiful and inspirational, then we got to play at Holly's and Caleb's, then Cari and Ben and Roxy and I had a fun walk home. Don't you love runon scentences? Anyways, after we got home and had a chance to settle down, Roxy started doing her homework, so I was quietly fiddling around on my computer, and I started to be sad, and I couldn't figure out pourquoi. After a while we went to bed, and I was just laying there trying to figure out why I felt this way. I had crazy dreams last night. I wonder if it had to do anything with anything. Anyways, today I had an hour to kill between classes, so I walked around on the trails aroud by the duck pond. I really liked all the nature, and just the crisp air and everything. It made me feel better. When I settled down on a bench by the duck pond, I watched a mommy and a cute little girl feed the duckies. That made me real happy.
When I was walking between classes, I caught a glimps of some far off mountains, and they looked like the kind you could see from Redlands, and it made me feel kind of funny. Then I thought about Everyone there and... I didn't get homesick, but I just thought about home. Later today, I saw a guy who looked like BJ Laurence, and I felt sad that he is a little older than me, but he can't go to college yet, then I thought about what if I had to stay, and that through out any trace of homesickness. I love it here. I wonder what it's going to be like when I go back for the summer.
Speaking of going home, Thanksgiving is coming, not soon, but it's coming all the same.
I need to go on more dates, and I need to hike the Y. It would be cool if the two could mix.

My date with talmy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it all started at the early hour of ten o'clock. when i left my roommate was still in bed. shelley and rick were a little late, but that gave me and talmage a little bonding time before he met the family. the minute we all stepped outside, was the minute that changed my life forever. jk. talmage couldn't stop talking!!(about the weather) he said it smelled like thanksgiving, but i think that thanksgiving smells like delicious food. so we got to bowling, and straight away talmy went for the fourteen pounder. he said he was feeling extra masculine today. i was not feeling to masculine so i went for the eleven pounder. crazy bowling was, interesting blah! but we were all great at it. i think talmage put perhaps too much thought into it, maybe that's why he came in last. on the other hand, maybe it was a way of showing how much he loved the date. all in all i won, and that's all that mattered. we came back to the lobby, and roxy the roommate joined us for a rousing game of curses. i must say that it put a laugh spell on all of us. really, the only jewel that came out of it, was ricks fwench piwate. once shelley and richard parted our path, that's when it became interesting. roxy, talmy, and i went to lnt and got delicious sustinance. afterwards, we indulged in a cone of ice cream at sugar and spice, making the total amount of ice cream for the day two pounds. we took a very lovely stroll past the duck pond, then through an extremely scenic route. it reminded me of the good old days at oakglen. we then proceeded to the maeser building, where we picked up penelope with an accent. she is a lovely specimen of ten dollar bikeage. it's a love love relationship between talmy and penelope. on the way we parled much about hiking. the beautifl snow and weather was also a topic that drew out everyone's opinion. today, was a good day. roxy the roommate (the real boomshadow writer) thought so also. the end of episode 1. join us next week as we write about red head ben!!!

Sad, love, excitment

I'm kind of sad because my friend corn pops, or Kyle as some call him, is leaving work tomorrow to go work someplace else. But since I don't work on Fridays, today was my last day to work with him. He was the only person on my team who I would look forward to talking to. But everyone on my team is really nice, and I'm glad I have a fun group to work with.

I love love love the weather. I love how the clouds settle down ontop of the mountains right next to us. They look so besutiful, the mountains. They are still so green, and yet there are some trees turning for the fall. I love that. All this real weather is crazy for my Californian state of mind. The coldness right now is the dead of winter there. But I love it, and I can't wait for more weather to happen. There is just one thing I need to do before it gets too weathery, and that is hike the Y. I love hiking so much, and I've done so little of it, I just want to get going. But there is never a time when I can find someone to do it with me. I would really like to go and watch the sunset or something. Hiking Timpanogas to watch the sunrise sounds crazy, but that is something I want to do too.

I'm going on a date with a boy named Wayne on Saterday to the world of dance. We both have to go for our dance classes, so it's a perfect match. We might get icecream afterwards too. But I feel kind of bad becasue the concert is making him miss the football game. I guess someday we'll both get over it. I plan on dating all the guys in my FHE family eventually. They are all really great, and I am very excited to be in such a wonderful FHE group. My "mother" and "father" are totally awesome, but you can tell who is going to be doing most of the organizing by the way Danica handled Monday, but thats OK. We are going to have a really great year.

Hello everyone!

I don't know if I'm going to keep this blog, becuase I don't think I will ever write on it, but it's just too cute to get rid of, so the thinkin' cap will stay on for a while.

lovebug

This is my first blog, and it will be a fun thing. I am a lovebug.