Home Sweet Home

There is something so wonderful about being home! I love college, but from the famous words of Dorthy, "There's no place like home."  I really have not been doing anything terrible productive I admit though, my days flow from one to the next watching movies and sleeping, but perhaps that is because I had my surgery yesterday (which went well).  The only bad thing I heard was that I do indeed have to go to physical therapy...the worst, but its better to work hard for a month so that I can do it all by myself.  Excuse the fact that this post has no pictures, I have not been quite picture worthy with mostly sleeping the past 2 days but I am home safe and happy.  I am anxious to get back to work and I wait patiently for all of my final grades go in this semester so I can start the rigorous application process again for Provo. I love BYU-Idaho and I really do wish they had my program there the thing is, is that I love my major more than the small intimate feel of the Idaho campus so if I do get in it will be a blessing and if I don't this go around then that too will be blessing.  I am in a win-win situation here.  If I get in I get to continue the thing I love and if I don't then I get to play soccer, finish my associates and be a TA for two of my old classes so either way is ok and I will try try again after the spring semester.  Well these are the thoughts from Lori I will continue to update on my life decisions and I will add pictures next time so there wont be so much to read.

Gingerbread and Finals...

Well this week is not going to be fun, I am up at 12:15am right now working on the first of three speeches I have to give tomorrow for English.  I know I should have been working on it this evening but Sam and I could not forgo seeing each other.  But anyways...this week is going to be quite the one.  I hope that it goes well, but with 5 looming finals, 2 presentations and 1 paper I am not looking forward to it at all but I will not poop out this last week-I have worked hard all semester! 
Moving on to what i did this weekend I spent most of my time....do you want to guess with who?....well if you said Sam you are right! We spent Friday and Saturday eveing making ginger bread houses.  The first one turned out great and the other one...well I wont mention it, but we named it "Tornado Town" apparently frosting tornadoes exist inthe word of gingerbread house making, but besides the point it was a lot of fun as always and I look forward to our other baking adventures. 
I cant help to really like this song I am the best around and nothing is ever going to keep me down.  Bring it on finals!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV2l0k8bbf4

"Breath of Heaven"

This week has been pretty relaxing with finals just around the corner the teachers decided to be kinder this week.  But now it is over and it is time to crack down for these two final weeks.  I am anxious to go home for so many reason.  Mostly and first is to spend time with my parents and little sisters.  I miss them a lot.  But to keep on current subjects I will recap this week.  I spent most of my free time with my new "crush" Sam Drake.  He is just great and a lot of fun=) We made a lovely-ok so it may not be that lovely but delicious for sure-pizza on Friday night and it was a lot of fun.  His side of the pizza consisted of cheese, bacon, sausage, onions and tomato while my side was tomatoes and onions and cheese. What a carnivore.... But  continuing on our weekend endeavors Saturday night we went up into the Rexburg hills near Targhee to go Christmas tree hunting.  It was quite the adventure.  We were trekking through at least 2 feet of snow downhill and in the dark.  There was perhaps 15 of us there and the pictures are scarce,but there was one I could peak into....so I am the little creep in the background of that picture. =) Also I have a 100% in my science class which I cant see happening again in college so documentation and proof=) 
But other than those two events I had a quiet weekend of constant Christmas music listening and at the moment my favorite one to listen to is "Breath of Heaven" by Amy Grant.  I had a little issue today, and listening to it makes me know that Heavenly Father has a great plan for us even if we think we are inadequate. He knows our potential and He knows our struggles and will be there to comfort us.  This life is not meant to be walked alone and we wont have as long as we ask Him to be with us.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPbV_HTpyx0

Holiday

I cannot even believe the holiday is over.  Just yesterday I was packing to go to Utah for a break and now I am back already sitting on my bed doing my Nutrition homework....why cant school go that fast?  It was such a great time thanks to the infinite hopsitatlity of Drew and Jessie.  They were great, they made sure Ayla and I had an extremely comfy futon and air mattress to sleep on, they made sure we ate and not just ate but got enough fruits and veggies and drove us whereever we had plans.  They were great and I owe them alot, so thank you!
Most of the pictures from pie night and thanksgiving are on Jessica's blog, so I will let those pictures stay there. As for my other days I spent time with Jordan and Ayla and had a wonderful time, as always.  We went to the lights in Salt Lake and it was beautiful and once again a great memory.

Coffee Cake Success

Today I made coffee cake for the first time from a recipe on recipe.com, and I might say that it was delicious.  Not only that I got to eat it with two of my favorite people out here in Idaho-Peter and Jill. I love family=)

Pleasant Surprises: Flowers, Slippers, Scarfs and Snow!

 On Monday I came home to pleasant surprise of flowers on our living room floor addressed to me.  After a couple of texts to the suspected leaver I found out that Tag Knowles left them for me, just because.  Each time I receive flowers I cant help but think of Elaine off of Seinfeld thought process, she gets flowers and the voice over is her thinking "Great, how long do I have to hold these." Not that I agree with her, but that line always pops into my mind. I love flowers.
Another pleasant surprise is when  Molly got me a pair bright yellow soccer slippers, which I wear everywhere in my apartment, she got herself matching purple ones, and they make me smile every time I wear them.
  Now that the season has ended I decided to make Molly a thank you scarf, so in my moments of needed homework breaks I would work on some of the scarf and I am quite happy with the final product.
Lastly today on Saturday I woke up to a small blizzard.  Snow is everywhere, it had melted since last week, but I believe this go around it is here to stay.
  Overall this week has been one of pleasant surprises=)

SNOW!

This week was no fun with the finishing up of midterms to my team losing in the first round of the tournament it just was not a good feeling week. But mother nature, knowing that I was down, decided to send snow.  There is something so magical about snow, perhaps it is because the world is enveloped in white so it looks serene and clean.  Snow makes everything quite and muffled and the colors on clothes, cars and buildings stand out more.  I love snow, and I cannot wait until there is enough of it to go sledding on, sledding has become one of my favorite snow activities because of my sledding experience last year. But  here is Zach and I just goofing off with the camera enjoying our snow moments.=)