GRANDMA JACKIE

MY GRANDMA JACKIE MILLER PASSED AWAY YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. SHE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER ABOUT 9 MONTHS AGO IN HER LUNGS AND LIVER. SHE WAS ONLY GIVEN ABOUT 6 MONTHS TO LIVE BUT I KNEW SHE WOULD STAY WITH US LONGER. THIS YEAR WE WERE ABLE TO HAVE A HUGE FAMILY REUNION AS WELL AS THANKSGIVING AT HER HOUSE WITH THE WHOLE FAM. SHE ALWAYS BROUGHT THE FAMILY TOGETHER. WHENEVER I SAW HER I COULD ALWAYS COUNT ON A COMFORTING HUG AND A WARM KISS ON MY CHEECK. SHE WAS ALWAYS LAUGHING AND SAYING THE MOST HILARIOUS THINGS. I AM SO GRATEFUL THAT I WAS ABLE TO BE HERE AT BYU-IDAHO AND BE SO CLOSE TO GRANDMA IN HER LAST YEAR OF LIFE. I WAS ABLE TO VISIT HER AT THE HOSPITAL A COUPLE TIMES AND WAS ALSO ABLE TO BE BY HER SIDE ONE MORE TIME BEFORE SHE PASSED. I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR HER INFLUENCE IN MY LIFE AND FOR HER RAISING SUCH AN AWESOME SON, MY DAD.

THE VISCOUNTESSA OF COUPE

YEP, THAT WAS MY DUBBED FENCING NAME.. YIKES

I HAVE TO SAY THAT FENCING CLASS HAS BROUGHT AN UNEXPECTED JOY IN MY LIFE. IT HAS TOUCHED ME IN A TENDER SPOT. JUST LIKE THE FOIL..

TOUCHE!

TARGHEE

THIS PLACE IS MY WINTER DREAM COME TRUE. 

THANK GOODNESS I DECIDED TO GET THE SEASON PASS. THIS PAST WEEKEND MY FRIENDS AND I DECIDED TO GO BOARDING AND SKIING UP AT THE TETON MOUNTAINS. ME AND MY ROOMMATES NEXT SEMESTER, KELSI JOHNSON AND MEGAN FIELDING WENT UP WITH KURT DANIELS AND LOREN MCCLEVE. BUT WE MET A BUNCH OF KIDS UP THERE. I COUNTED ABOUT 20 KIDS FROM MY WARD THAT WERE UP THERE PLUS SOME OTHER FRIENDS OF MINE. IT WAS SUCH A BLAST. I KEEP TRYING TO FIND TIME TO GET BACK THERE.

"SPIDER UP THE WALL!???"

THAT SOUNDS SO QUEER ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY

BUNNY BUNNY

OUR FRIEND TURNER WILLIAMS JUST BOUGHT A BUNNY RECENTLY. AND WE HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE IT AS A GUEST A COUPLE DAYS IN OUR APARTMENT. IT WAS VERY CUTE, BUT WE DID NOT APPRECIATE ITS PEBBLY POOPS EVERYWHERE.

THANKSGIVING IN RIGBY

THIS THANKSGIVING WE MADE A LAST MINUTE CHANGE TO OUR ORIGINAL PLANS TO SPEND TIME WITH OUR GRANDMA IN RIGBY, IDAHO. GRANDMA WAS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER ABOUT 9 MONTHS AGO AND SHE WAS GIVEN ONLY A COUPLE WEEKS BEFORE SHE PASSED. IT WAS SUCH AN AWSOME EXPERIENCE TO BE WITH THE WHOLE FAM AND COUSINS FOR GRANDMA. WE HAD A BLAST SITTING AROUND, BEING LAZY, HAVING COUSIN SLEEPOVERS, AND PLAYING GAMES. BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WAS FOR GRANDMA TO KNOW THAT WE WERE ALL THERE WITH HER. 

THIS WEEK WE DID A LOT OF THIS..

AND ON THANKSGIVING WE WERE SPLIT UP JUST LIKE OLD TIMES.

WE HAD THE KIDS TABLE

THE YOUNG ADULT TABLE

AND THE ADULT TABLE.

WE HAD SUCH A FUN TIME BEING TOGETHER AND BEING A FAMILY. WE HADNT SPENT A HOLIDAY WITH THE WHOLE FAM IN A LONG TIME.

VOLLEYBALL SHOW-DOWN

MY FRIENDS KYSTON MANU AND KURT DANIELS ARE ON A COMPETITIVE VOLLEYBALL TEAM FOR BYU- IDAHO. AND THEY MADE IT TO THE FINALS! SO PRETTY MUCH THE WHOLE WARD CAME TO CHEER THESE BOYS ON FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE.

AFTER A LONG AND CLOSE 5 GAME STREAK OF MATCHES THE BELOVED KNIGHTS FELL A POINT SHORT OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE. THERE WERE TEARS AND SIGHS FROM THE CROWD BUT THE SUPPORT OF THE WARD SUPERFANS HELD STRONG. WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE KURT AND KYSTON WIN OR LOSE. THEY MADE IT A LONGS WAYS AND WE WERE PROUD NO MATTER WHAT.

AND THEN WE WENT TO CELEBRATE THEIR SUCCESSFUL SEASON WITH NO OTHER THAN SAMMY'S :D