"Lori size" Ice cream

The other night I was having a "PPM" (poor pitiful me which I got from mom) moment. So not wanting to feel alone I decided to share my misery by texting my friend Tag about how my life was so "terrible". After listening to me vent for a 15 minutes he told me that he had to go and do something but he would text me when he was done.  Little did I know that he would show up to my house a little bit later surprising me with a quart of fruit and these "Lori-size" ice creams( he knows about my anti-sugar stance) and it made my night.  I love the friends I have out here while I am far away from home. (You can see how small they are compared to my hand)

Titans Fall 2011

Last semester I  decided to coach a mens team, I am not exactly sure why I picked coaching over playing knowing full well that if i did coach I would not be able to play, but since I have injured my self I believe the decision was a tender mercy.  It has been going great though.  The boys respect both me and my coach molly and we love every minute of it.  Sometimes the practices are more frustrating that others, but learning and patience is essential in coaching.  Each practice we start with a routine warmup: 2 laps around the field, stretch, mini sprints, passing, trapping, headers, and volleys in three lines then we move into the drills of the day.  Molly and I are still learning how to quiet doew a group of 18 boys and our voices are not that loud, so I have been contemplating using "the whistle" but I felt it was too professional and I am only a coach at BYU-Idaho so the voice it is.  Our drills sometimes go well and others we dont plan well enough so we make them up as we go adding modifications.  Then we usually end with a run, depending if practice is monday or wednesday then a scrimmage o fun little game.  I love it and molly and I are the first girls to coach a mens team in soccer- making history =), but here are the pictures we took of the team dinner we had the other night.  =)  We are missing a few, there are 17 on the team, but some could not make it to the dinner. But top row: Jason, Leighton, Parker, Zach, Aaron, Ammon, and Harrison, the bottom row: Molly, me, Josh, Cody, Shane, Jerrick, John and Carson. =)

FHE "Mom"

All last semester I did not ever go to FHE...it was not my thing and apparently I was too cool for it, so my bishop must have heard that because this semester I got called as the FHE "mom" and now it frustrates me when people do not come because they have better things to do, so lesson learned, I understand.  Sometimes you go to activities whether they are beneficial for you or not, because it will support the person who has planned the activity.  A good analogy is being on a sport team, if you have 15 people on a team to make practice beneficial they all need to show up, even if they are professional players they still all show up to practice, because drills could not be as good without everyone there if only 2 or 3 showed up so go to activities whether you like them or not and support with a good attitude=) But tonight I am in charge of activity, so this is a shout out to my momma for the great idea.  "Don't Eat Ernie"...because we would be sad to eat Pete because there is a pete in our family=) also I realize I spelled Ernie wrong =)

Visit =)

This weekend I was lucky enough to have shaquille and his friend come up from Provo and visit me.  It was so much fun! I showed him the wonders of Idaho, and after that 10 minutes we just enjoyed each other's company ;) No I am just kidding, Idaho is beautiful in its own way.  I took them to the sand dunes and unfortunately forgot my camera, but they loved it.  IT is amazing out there, so quite and beautiful then we went to the haunted mill.  My voice is hoarse today because of so much screaming, it was scary,  the owners achieved their goal. Then today they went to church with us and we took a few pictures.  I was really happy that they got to come out here.  Idaho is a special place, and I love it here, I really would not want to be anywhere else....but we will see if I am still saying that come November =).

Field Trip

Today I had a field trip for my Science 202 Class-Natural Disasters.  I must say that I like field trips back in elementary school much better than in college.  One they were during school and two I had all my friends with me and three they were in Georgia where it was not freezing cold.  But it was interesting we went to different places that natural events or disasters occurred.  And I use the word event to explain that it isn't a disaster unless people are around. Something that was also fun, was that I got see the many colors of fall...well sort of, Idaho decided this year to skip right over that season, so in one of my pictures I am walking and on the ground there is a picture of fall leaves on the left and on the right is snow.  It seemed to fit perfect how fall came and went to fast that winter was just on the other side of things.  Our last stop was at Mesa Falls, they are beautiful.  It is amazing how water is so powerful in situations. But it was beautiful and overall I had a good day.

Sweats

Well today I bought my new pair of surgery sweats, they are burgundy with a BYU-Idaho logo, which gave me an excuse to by a new pair of sweatpants, because ever since the first surgery I have always had new sweatpants to lounge in, because honestly the clothes I come home in-I stay in for at least a week...gross...But thats ok, because these ones are extremely comfy and so that is all that matters=)

Also here is Ayla and me, just being us, because we love eachother because we are great friends!

 And lastly, excuse the flash, but this picture is for momma, here is me on the first day of school.  Sophomore in college=)

To Papa:

This post is dedicated to Papa Barnes.  Well I heard that you liked everyone's blog except mine because I hadn't posted in a while, but now this one is solely for you and to catch you up on my comings and goings.  It is a little surreal to be a sophomore in college.  I remember being a sophomore in high school and thinking then that I was "something", my how time flies.  But school started.  I can honestly say this is going to be my least favorite semester, not because of where I am but more of what classes I am taking.  I am trying to finish my foundation classes, so I have two sciences, one international, one religion, and one English, all of which are foundations.  I am taking only one core class and I love it, reminding me every day I have class that I have chosen the right career for me.  I am working on my associates with a major in Generals and a cluster in Nutrition since BYU-Idaho does not have nutrition as a major here, which is sad, because I love it up here.  But I would rather pursue my career than stay in a place that I like, I can always re-adapt.  Well my social life is just like it has always been.  It consists of jumping from one soccer game to the next, I try to not take part, because of my knee, but I can't help to not play at all, so Ill juggle or pass lightly with some friends.  Coaching is going really good.  The boys may not think I know what I am doing, but they will learn that I know what I am doing and I am right.  And if they don't learn that, they can run.  Na, I'm just kidding I am not that harsh, but I do enjoy it because I can say that soccer is something that I am the most comfortable in, I learn new things every day, but know enough to have productive practices.  I was telling Ayla the other day that if they had a major in soccer I would make a 4.0 always. =)  Let me see, dating scene is fine, no one has made an impression on me enough to want to pursue, but that is OK, I am only 20...which in "world" years is young but in "Mormon years" I am almost out of my prime years, so no worries I am working on getting married ;)  Just kidding, I am in no hurry....through all my years of surgeries I have learned to not plan really, so what happens happens when it is meant to happen.  So I live life carefree with a short outline of what I want to happen next, but with lots of  extra room for change.  Well, I hope this post will suffice until my next post, and I will try to write each week, mom told me it would be a good Sunday activity, so perhaps I will do just that.  But I love you both, Papa and Grandmother, hope to see you soon.  Also I will be sure to take pictures at every opportunity I can to make sure you get to look at pictures too=)