Festival of COLORS

Well here it is 3 AM, I'm exhausted, and yet I can't sleep. Probably from being so stressed with school. (3 weeks left!) I have found that writing is one of my ways to relieve stess, which can be surprising since I wasn't too fond of writing a couple weeks ago when I had 2 research papers due ;). I'm also a music addict and I'm pretty sure I almost always have music on. Anyways, so I guess I'll blog about my fun weekend I had recently...

So last year I heard about something called the Festival of Colors. I saw all of these pictures on Facebook and I thought to myself 1) What in the heck is that? 2) That looks way fun! and 3) Why wasn't I invited?! So this year I told myself I had to go and try it out. I struggled with figuring out plans of getting there, but it all worked out and I had a blast!

I went down with my roomate Hailey and her friend from work Stephanie. We met some of her friends in Salt Lake and then drove down to American Fork for the celebration. We stayed for about 3 hours and enjoyed the music, participated in the throwing of chalk, avoided getting killed by the crowd surfers, looked around the temple, and inhaled so much chalk that I think the incense started messing with my brain function... ;) haha yes I started getting loopy by the end and apparently was very entertaining when I started singing songs! :)

In the end, we were successful in completely covering ourselves in numerous colors of chalk! It was super fun and there's something about getting all dirty and acting hippy-ish that is awesome! It was cool to see another religion's practice. They were all about the "PEACE AND LOVE!"

You're probably wondering how I cleaned up after all of that mess? Well it took a lot of scrubbing. Funny story: so I came home to my parent's house to shower and change and when I walked in the door my dad looked at me funny as I casually said hi and started walking in and said, "What in the hell happened to you?" It was super funny! My dad thinks I'm crazy :) But hey.... it's college! haha

Here's some fun pics from the trip!

Before...

The beautiful temple!

Hailey and I

The group!

LLAMAS!!!

Well to end this post I guess I could complain about how much I hate this cold weather.... haha but my buddy up in North Dakota reminds me that it could be worse!

Check out this goof who I miss a ton! :)

Anywho.... let's get on with APRIL!!! :)

*Time for a Change*

So I know people have thought I've been all talk when I've said, "Oh ya, I'm gonna chop off my hair and donate it." Well I can now say I have OFFICIALLY done it!!! Yes, sadly my long hair is gone. I will miss it, but it will always grow back. I'm glad I could help those who need my hair more than I do. After my neighbor's daughter passed away from cancer, I knew I wanted to donate to locks of love. She was my inspiration and I miss her so much.
 So I ended up cutting off 15 INCHES!! Can you believe it?! Yeah I was pretty shocked. I haven't had my hair this short since my soph/junior year of high school so it was a change, but a good one. If you still don't believe I would actually cut off my hair, here are some pics to prove it :)

BYE-BYE long hair!!!

Spring Break Fun!

Last weekend I was lucky enough to get away for a little bit with Jordan and Jennifer to St. George for a few days! We headed down Saturday morning and got there late afternoon. With the long drive, we had some interesting experiences and tried to keep ourselves entertained. We kept a documentation of the drive on a piece of paper that we taped onto the dashboard. haha We got the duck tape to hold down part of Jen's car that kept flapping in the wind so we used some extra :)



Oh the crazy things that happen when 3 college girls get together!

After getting settled into our hotel we went swimming for a little bit and then headed to the Pasta Factory for dinner. We met up with our friend Stephanie that was also down for the weekend with some friends from BYU. Dinner was yummy and it was fun to catch up and get together like old times in  high school.

So after dinner I found out that the little red phone booth that everyone always get pictures with was right by this restaraunt so we decided to have a little fun and take some pictures in it!

Next we decided to stop for some groceries and then headed back to the hotel to watch Stardust. I don't think I lasted 5 minutes before I fell asleep, but I'm sure the other girls enjoyed it :)

On Sunday we decided to find a YSA ward to attend and ended up at the Bueno Vista YSA ward. The ward was super friendly and welcoming and we had a great time! My cousin actually knows quite a few people in that ward since she grew up in St. George so I thought that was kind of fun. It's amazing how many different connections you can make with people. After church we went to the pool again to try and get some sun. Sadly for us, the weather wasn't super warm when we were down there and was kind of stormy, so we didn't get much sun. I did get a little bit of a tan line on my legs so I'll take what I can get! It was much warmer than Logan though and it was nice to wear spring clothes and flip flops! Sunday was a very relaxing day and we spent most of the day watching movies and we went for a nice drive. Jennifer is a scary driver though :) We did survive! haha

Since it rained most of Monday, we spent the day shopping. I love going to the Outlets and looking around! We bought a lot of fun things and had a great time! Here are a few pics from shopping.

Jen is a babe! But 2 belts? Definite no! haha

We thought this was a fun store for our missionaries :)

Engagement rings? haha aren't they fun to look at! ;)

For dinner, we met up with my cousin Heather and went to Outback Steakhouse! It was delicious :)

Heather and I

After dinner, we decided to go see Unknown at the movie theater. We had some extra time before the movie started so we decided to play some arcade games and then took some fun pics!

The movie was awesome! It kind of reminded me of the Jason Bourne movies, but the main character that's also in "Taken" did a great job!

Tuesday was our last day in St. George and we were all super sad to be leaving so soon. We packed up all our things and checked out of our hotel.

We were fortunate enough to be able to go do baptisms for the dead in the St. George temple. It was a really neat experience and the temple is so beautiful! Here are some pictures we took on the grounds.









I love palm trees!

After visiting the temple, we did some final last minute shopping and before we departed we headed to Fiesta Fun! We played some arcade games, rode go-carts (which I won ;)), played some mini-golf, and then had a picnic lunch! Of course it was a beautiful day the day we were leaving, but we enjoyed as much of the sunshine as we could. I am grateful for the chance I had to go and for such great friends who provided a lot of laughs and memories.



Love these girls! Thanks for a fun trip :)