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

ZACHY BOB'S MISSION CALL

SO THIS HAPPENED LIKE THE SECOND WEEK OF SCHOOL BUT I JUST HAD TO RECORD IT! IT WAS PROBABLY THE FIRST LAST MINUTE EXTRAVAGANZA OF THE SEMESTER. 

WE ESCAPED ON A THURSDAY NIGHT TO RUPERT, IDAHO TO OPEN ZACHARY HARMANS MISSION CALL. IT WAS A TWO HOUR DRIVE THERE AND BACK AND WE MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE GOTTEN LOST ON THE WAY HOME. WE GOT TO MEET ZACHY'S FAMILY AND GOT FED SOME DELICIOUS HOME COOKED DINNER.

ON THE WAY DOWN WE ALL HAD TO MAKE OUR GUESSES FOR WHERE WE THOUGHT ZACHY WAS GOING..

BUT WE SOON CAME TO FIND THAT NON OF US WERE EVEN CLOSE TO BEING RIGHT...

PUSAN, KOREA MISSION!!! HOW AWSOME IS THAT.. WE ARE ALL SO EXCITED FOR HIM :)

MAE I?

THIS WEEKEND WE MADE A LAST MINUTE DECISION TO TAKE A 4 HOUR ROAD TRIP DOWN TO PROVO TO SEE THE MAE CONCERT. IT WAS SUCH A BLAST WE HAD ALEX CROMAR, MEGAN FIELDING, KELSI JOHNSON, SPENCER ALLEN, TODD SHUMWAY, AND KEGAN MACHEN. WE DIDNT GET HOME UNTILL LIKE 4 AM THE NEXT MORNING BUT IT WAS SO WORTH IT.

TRAVELING DANCE PARTY!

ALL MY BEAUTIFUL FRIEND MEGAN FIELDING WANTED FOR HER BIRTHDAY WAS A DISCO BALL AND A DANCE PARTY.. AND THAT WAS EXACTLY WHAT SHE GOT! ABOUT 20 PEOPLE SET OUT TO MAKE MEGANS BIRTHDAY DREAM COME TRUE. WE CARRIED A HUGE STERIO AND THE DISCO BALL AND WENT DOOR TO DOOR TO SHARE THE PARTY WITH HALF OF REXBURG. 

PICTURE THIS.. 3 BOYS KNOCKING ON YOUR DOOR CLAIMING THAT THEIR ELECTRICITY JACKS DIDNT WORK AND ASKING IF THEY COULD TRY OUT THEIR NEW STERIO IN ONE OF YOURS. THEN ONCE THE MUSIC BEGINS 20 KIDS COME STORMING INTO YOUR APARTMENT TURN OFF YOUR LIGHTS PLUG IN A DISCO BALL AND START DANCING TO TECHNO MUSIC. 

WELL THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED TO  A VARIETY OF KIDS THAT NIGHT. AND EVERY APARTMENT WE WENT TO WE ACCUMULATED MORE KIDS. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A FEW PEOPLE IM PRETTY SURE WE MADE EVERYONES NIGHT. THIS WAS DEFINITELY ONE OF MY FAVORITE MEMORIES FROM THIS SEMESTER.

HALLOWEEN PARTY

THIS YEAR I WAS KIND OF A LAMEO WHEN IT CAME TO HALLOWEEN. I THINK IT WAS THE FIRST YEAR I HADNT PREPARED A COSTUME. SO WHEN THE WARD HALLOWEEN PARTY CAME UP  I HAD NOTHING TO DRESS US AS. THEREFORE MY ROOMMATE ANDREA AND I MADE AN EXECUTIVE DECISION TO DRESS IN OUR ONESIES AND ACT LIKE CHILDREN THE WHOLE NIGHT. CREATIVE..

BIG JUD'S

DOESNT THAT NAME HAVE "LET ME CLOG YOUR ARTERIES" WRITTEN ALL OVER IT? WELL THATS BECAUSE IT IS TRUTHFUL ADVERTISEMENT. I GUESS THAT THE GUY WHO MADE THIS RESTAURANT WANTED TO CREATE A BURGER THAT WAS BIG ENOUGH TO FILL HIM UP. THAT GUY WAS OVER 300 LBS. BUT IT IS AN IDAHO TRADITION TO EXPERIENCE A BIG JUD BURGER. SO A BUNCH OF US WENT AND EMERGED OURSELVES IN SOME IDAHOIAN CULTURE. 

AWKWARD FAMILY PHOTOS

ON A TENDER GROUP DATE MINI GOLFING WE DECIDED THAT WE WOULD TRY OUR OWN VERSIONS OF AWKWARD FAMILY PHOTOS WHILE WAITING FOR THE OTHERS TO FINISH THEIR GOLFING ROUND.. THESE WERE A COUPLE WE CAME UP WITH. I AM APPARENTLY WAY TO OBSESSED WITH THAT BLOG.

GENERAL CONFERENCE

WITH THE HELP OF AN ANDERSON I WAS ABLE TO GET GENERAL CONFERENCE TICKETS THIS FALL. I LOVE BEING ABLE TO GO TO THE CONFERENCE CENTER TO SEE THE PROPHETS SPEAK IN PERSON. I GOT TO SEE MY SISTERS AND JOSH MCCAN! AS WELL AS SOME SUPER NICE PROTESTORS.

NICKS MISSION CALL

NEVER HAVE I EXPERIENCED A MAN SO ANTSY BEFORE IN MY LIFE

NICK WAITED 18 YEARS AND 8 MONTHS TO RECEIVE HIS

MISSION CALL

AND IT WAS FINALLY HERE

BUT HE HAD TO WAIT 3 WHOLE DAYS A TRIP TO UTAH AND A LONG TWO HOURS TRYING TO GET EVERYONE ON SKYPE AND THE TELEPHONE TO OPEN IT

SO IN ORDER FOR HIM TO FIGHT THE TEMPTATION TO OPEN THE THING WE HAD TO BE CREATIVE..

FIRST I TRIED TO TAKE IT AND RUN AWAY

 BUT NICHOLAS WAS DEFINITELY NOT GOING FOR THAT SO HE STOLE IT FROM ME AND CAME UP WITH A BETTER IDEA..

 SO 3 DAYS GOES BY AND THE TIME HAD FINALLY COME

HE OPENS THE SEAL

AND READS IT ALOUD...

AND NICK WAS CALLED TOO.. DRUM ROLL PLEASE

FORTALEZA, BRAZIL!!!!!! 

NEVER HAVE I HEARD SUCH A PERFECT MISSION CALL FOR A PERSON. ITS THE MISSION WITH THE HIGHEST BAPTIZING RATE AND NEVER GETS COLDER THAN 60. ALSO, HE WILL BE IN THE MTC WITH MY GOOD FRIENDS JAKE BUCHANAN AND WILSON SIVERTSON. I AM SO EXCITED FOR HIM :)