Not my week....

Ok, sooo....this week has been awful.  Probably the most stressful one so far and I'm afraid it's just gonna get worse.  I made some rules for myself, I am not allowed to stay out past 12....on the weeknights of course.  No more buying crap.  (Cap'n Crunch, Mt dew, guak, spinach dip, etc).  I also have to go swimming twice a week...or do something active, swimming just sounds the best.  NO phone while working on my homework.  NO jammin music (Taylor Swiff, Andy Grammer, Cher Lloyd, FUN, etc)  playing while I am working on homework, only piano music.  I get too distracted and sing when jammin music is on!! Haha, But anyway, today was silly, I splurged and got a burrito from Taco Bell....

Elaina is jealous....Hahahahaha But anyway, Yes, I have work, then we're going to watch a movie while we eat dinner, then HOMEWORK, HOMEWORK, HOMEWORK!!!

But yeah...this week has not been my week.  I have two tests this week, New Testament and Biology, then I have American Heritage test next week. :(  I hate life.........................................................cereal....

-Alex

One down, seven more to go!

This week completed one month of universidad! I'm not trying to say that I am not enjoying my time here at The Y but, you know it's nice to reach some kind of mile stone! And making it a month being so far from home and under the stress of college life is no small feat so wha hoooo! :) So yeah I still have a crap load of homework to catch up on! I think that is the hardest part of school for me getting my work done! There's just sooooo much to do all three timmme! You can never really be done all your work because there is always somethinge else to do.... At least for me. That and time management have been pretty rough (along with some personal things but I'm not about to post that on the internet) But it is getting better slowly but surely! And I am starting to enjoy my time here at BYU now!
This week was fun!
Monday was pretty uneventful. We had a nice sweet swap and spirtual thought by mama Alex and then we sat around and talked for a while! It was nice to just get to know the familia a little better!
And then Tuesday I didn't do anything special just black student union (which is so awesome and you don't have to be black to join haha). So that's always fun to go to that and hang out with Alexis(soar friend) and Veatriz.
Wednesday I was just going to have an intense study session but then me and Veatriz ended up talking.... For like ever! Hahaha Alex and Eliana called the po po because I wasn't back by like 3 am and wasn't answering calls/texts...the benefits of a dead phone. So that was refreshing and I think we both needed it.
Thursday I ran into Olivia! We were in the wilk and she was heading to my house to give give me a card and candy 'just to say hi'. How nice is that?! Totally made my day!
treatss
And I went to the temple with Dan and Lana from my stake. Which was much needed! It was a good trip.
Then Friday we were at the Latin partayyyyy!hahaha that was so fun! Check out my other blog post for that.
Saturday was just a lazy day. Haha Veatriz was supposed to get her hair cut but that didn't happen. So I just went over her house and we ordered pizza and watched movies.
Sunday was super good! We went to the Brigham City Temple dedication!it was soooo cool! It was my first one so it was really interesting! I really liked it though. Sooo cool and spiritual. The closing song we all sung together and it was so powerful! Sooo cool! Then I went to a dinner win a group of people from black student union. It was one of the girl's family friends home. They were so cute and friendly! I loved them! So it was a good week! I went to the library every night until it closed with Veatriz. Then we walked to wyview at like 1 am lol.
So yeah it was good! Hopefully I'll get better at this blogging thing! :)

Byeeyyyyyy
<3 Jodian

Movie Night!! :)

Hey y'all!

Wazzup? We had a movie night with our friends from 35 Felt!! :) They are seriously awesome. We moved my mattress and my Mac out to the kitchen and we all had pillows and blankets! DANG! It was so fun!! We never get tired of each other! Hahaha, but yeah, we watched The Goonies and drank Kool-aid and ate popcorn! Supa fun :D Hope all yall had a happy sunday... All of us went to the Brigham City Temple Dedication today (It was being broadcasted at BYU) and it was amazing! If you missed our Blog about all of us visiting the open house click this bad boy right here to get the deets. The temple is an amazing place!

HOLLA we cant even understand the asian kid when he talks. 

Our happy little family (: L-R Derek, Nick, Alex, Kevin, Elaina, Amanda, Sean!

Love yall!!!!

           Elaina & Alex

Party, fiesta!

So we went to a latin party last night! It was on campus and was sooo much fun! I never latin danced before so I had no idea what the heck I was doing but it was fun! I did learn how to bachata and merengue! I have to work on my cha cha now though. It was really bad! Sam (a soar counselor) and Sister Bates (served as a sister missionary in my ward) taught me. So fun! We have to go to a latin club sometime! I gotta bust out my moves haha

Getting ready

 

 

 

So that was this Friday night! It was fun!!! I'll write again tomorrow about this whole week!

 

 

P.S. I was on the phone sorry!!!!! 

<3 Jodian

 





Short Hair, Don't CARE!

HOLLLLLLLLLLLA Elaina cut her hair (:
Its supa short, and fauxhawk-able!! I'm am so stinking excited about this, I feel like the real me. Much, much better. Its been just another week for us, but hey - TGIF.

The Hair!

Anyways, me and Alex stay up WAY to late. She kinda loves feeding the ducks, by throwing whole slices at their faces and watching them freak out. 

Le quack. 

We also enjoy food (duh) and I love to cook, so we enjoyed cheesecake, steak and home made mac n cheese, I bought some OLD SCHOOL WAFFLE CRISP ( they don't carry that back in Dallas) and me and her kinda had a melt down. We order pizza late at night, I make dumb faces, and I can tie hijabs. Who knew? 

3 AM hotness

The Cereal of the Gods

DEREK MAKES DA BOMB COOKIES!

I'm also feeling under the weather.. so anyone who wants to come take care of me, that would be awesome :) and I would just sit there and bark you orders.. haha. ORDERS OF LOVE!

Anywhoooooo, Me, Alex, Jodian, Veatriz and some friends of our are going Latin Dancing tonight on campus, and we are SO PUMPED! I'll update that later. Till then!

                  - Elaina

My camera doesn't zoom....

So....this week has been LAME....ish. My classes are just getting crazier. AND CRAZIER!!! ....I'm not a fan....and my job is great, but I hate walking home afterwards....Ugh, I dread the walk everyday! But oh well....Anyway, Elaina and I have gotten into the habit of cooking the biggest meal of the day after I get back which is around 10ish! I'm sure that has to do with me slowly, but surely gaining the freshman 15. I thought that because I walk EVERYWHERE I wouldn't get it...but the way it's lookin, I'M GETTING IT!! Hahaha!! Oh well! I'm gonna start going to the gym. (I know....weird, Alex is saying she is gonna go workout....but it's true, so don't make fun!)  Anyway, Elaina made me steak and macaroni and cheese tonight!! YUM! We invited Kevin over to join us. Ha, he's so dumb! :) We love him so much!!! He's da bomb! Then later Tj came over, LOVE that kid too :D Hahaha, then once the guys have to be kicked out, we just hung outside of 35 and hung with Tj, Nick, and Derek. It was way fun! AND then we ate some CHEESCAKE >:) Anyway....Have a grrreat night!!

- Alex! :)

Church Callings!

Happy to report we got another calling in 49! Along with Alex being FHE mom, I got called as a Relief Society Teacher. I am super excited and can't wait to start! Just a quick little up date, see yall later.

Also I purchased these makeup brushes for under 20$ online. They are beautiful, and work amazingly!
Real Techniques Core Collection Brushes and Case- 

P.s Derek Winstanley just dropped off the best cookies ever! We love you guys (: Thanks for the sweets!

Lazy Sunday

Today was a chill day for most of us, Alex went to be with Oli all day, Jodian and Veatriz hung out most of the day as well. Which left the four of us at home and sleeping or doing some homework.
Amanda and I did, however, make an awesome meal for the guys. Lemon peppered garlic chicken with rice and veggies, and oatmeal cookies for dessert. Not bad for a bunch of College kids, huh! :)
**They made the rice haha
It felt good to cook today, I miss it a lot around here.. I just don't really have the time to get it all done. Plus there is hardly any room in our fridge. Six people should need two fridges!
Hope your Sunday went awesome!

Tj, Amanda, Nick, Kevin, Me, and Derek eating Sunday dinner by the roasting fire! Sean taking the group pic... Good times. 

Brigham City Temple Open House :)

Today was a great day. There was the Lost and Found sale in the Wilk.  It started at 9, but our stake was bussing everyone to the Brigham City Temple Open house! So, Amanda, Elaina, and I woke up early, got church clothes on and ran to the sale for 15 minutes!! GREAT deals!!! :D Got a ton of jackets, a water bottle, a lunch box, sunglasses, shorts, and a scarf!! LESS than $20!! Haha, but anyway, we RAN home to drop off that stuff, and then hopped on the bus to the temple.  It was a great bus ride.  We got to hang with Kevin, Derek, Nick, and Tj. LOVE those guys :) Lots of singing, talking, taking pictures, and just having a great time.  It was two hours there and two back, but it was so worth it.  The temple is beautiful.

All of them are, but this one kinda brought me back home because it looks very similar to the Kansas City Temple. It sorta made me homesick, but it mostly gave me a GIANT reminder of my goals - To marry in the temple for time and all eternity, and to always stay worthy of being able to enter the temple. And reminded me that we can have eternal families. The celestial room and the sealing room made me so happy. But, yes, the open house was such a great experience. I loved it!!

- Alex :)

Ohh nooo.....

Sooo, somethin crazy has already happened. Elaina introduced me to a friend of hers. I thought he was pretty cool, I was kinda interested, ya know? Elaina got a whole double date planned out and everything! I knew he was polynesian too, so I asked my Dad if he knew of this guy's family....I was in for a surprise....turns out the guy I was interested in is like....my cousin, or something. All I know is we're related.....My great uncle is married to his great aunt.....Weird.

-Alex

Friday Night Lights

Hellerrrr!
i guess i should introduce myself! I'm Jodian. (pronounced jodi-ann :) ) I am from south Jersey about 20 minutes from Philadelphia and 2 hours from New York. I've always wanted to have a blog but have never done it. So when it was 2 in the morning and Elaina and Alex suggested making a blog for our dorm I was super excited! So here it goes! Basically our dorm is all about having fun!!!! So we're here to share about all of our fun and not so fun experiences from our freshie year here in Happy Valley.


Today was a particularly beautiful day. Not just because it ends the week and starts two days of no school, but i went to a PARTAYYYYY! This was my theme song while I was getting ready. So good!!! So I went to this party in Lindon with my girlies Eliza and Olivia! They are my Jersey girl buddies! Holla! And they're so good at taking care of me and making sure I'm doing well and have fun things going on for the weekend! plus they're super gorgeous inside and out! See I can prove it!

 

Eliza

 

 

Olivia

 

 

 

So we had a lot of fun! Some wierd guys saying "You did good tonight. God bless America" and "You go girl". Ew I had to tell him don't touch me. a drink called "dream orgasm".... yeah don't ask. It was good though! and miraculously no alcohol or drugs!(We can thank the mormon population in Utah for that) lol but anyways we partied it up! It was so much fun. First college partayyyy!!! I hope there are many more to come! :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

<3 Jodian

 



 

 

DINNER TIME YALLLL!

Alex is a Master Chef! Tonight we made beef stroganoff and had a big family dinner! Seriously so good, and go amazingly cheap to make. Hungry man Kevin came over for the eats, and we planned an AMAZING FHE activity with 49 Fox, 45 Fox, 35 Felt, 39 Felt and the rest of the FHE families. I'm not going to give away details, but its going to be so fun! I'll make Alex blog about it later yall, but just trust me on this one, its going to be the BOMB LIKE TICK TICK.

Here is some pictures from tonight's meal!

 PO-TA-TOES

"We should have our own reality show!"

I know right... We are so funny. 

 Not appetizing in the begining, but giiiiirl give it time and it turns into this 

DELISH, CHEAP, AND EASY, mmmmmmm.

 Me and Kevin making mashed potatoes!

Dinner was so good! Thanks Mama Alex :)

-Elaina

Friday - FLYDAY!

Today went freakishly well for me, I got an AWESOME PACKAGE that I have been waiting on all week. It was the NAKED pallet by Urban Decay, if you haven't heard of it - seriously worth the 50$ I spent on it.

Seriously, fifty bucks for all this?! I know. FREAK OUT.

 I freaking love dope2111 on Youtube, She does amazing makeup tutorial videos. Highly recommended. :D

In other news! Me and Alex took some chocolate chip, peanut butter chip, oatmeal cookies to 35 Felt Today... Seriously, the guys are the bomb! We (Alex and I) are going To EviDANCE tomorrow night with Derek and Kevin! We are super excited.. It is supposed to be an awesome show!

aren't they so cute :3 haha, married in 22 years!

I had a ballin' lunch today, if you are eating on campus, and you love goat cheese... hit up the cougar cafe in the cougar eat and get one of these bad boy paninis. With tomato basil soup on the side :)

FREAKING YUM

The beginning of stake conference was today, and it was the first time for me to attend an adult session! It was definitely different for the group, but the talks were centered A LOT about being virtuous, and making sure we are all worthy to attend the temple. I think we all try to help each other out with that. This weekend is going to be one of those MORMON CHURCHY WEEKENDS. 35 Felt, and 49 Fox are going to the Wilk Lost and found sale in the morning, then to the temple open house. Its going to be awesome! 

Thats just a little about my day, ttyl guys :) 

Love, 

      Elaina 

 

 I make paper hearts, btw, one of my only talents. haha. 

Kevin's suite looks super expensive :P

Who ya gonna call?!

Yes. I am a ghostbuster. This is what I did at work last night!! I mean....who knew I would be able to find a job where I get paid for ghostbusting?? And at BYU. Who knew?! :o Ca-razy! :) Hahaha, I got a great sense of accomplishment when the ITB was cleared of all the paranormal activity....


Happy Friday guys!!

-Alex!

McDonald's Adventure

So it was quite the adventure! We met up with boys from 35 Felt, Kevin, Derek, Sean, Nick, Nick, and T.J. Long story short we had a heart to heart conversation regarding each of our love lives and finished the night with a late night walk to McDonald's. Apparently in Utah butt smacking is completely unheard of...watch out. Also, if you try to karate chop a metal pole with your hand the pole won't feel a thing, ask Derek. My beliefs have been confirmed you are never too old to play in the McDonald's play place, just make sure you don' t take pictures or exit through emergency doors :)

-Amanda

FREAKING A

Amanda locked me out of our room - probably unintentionally - but still. WHAT THE CRAP. Now I have to sleep on the tiny love seat. Ehhhhh. SO lame. I don't feel the love!
teeheee, she owes me now!

Goodnight Yall,
                  Elaina

Yohee! ;)

Yohee everyone! :)

Is you good? Is you ok? Cause I wanted to know!

I am gonna kinda, introduce myself real quick.
My name is Alex, and I am here at BYU with some fun roommates. I have absolutely no idea what I wanna major in.  I love food. I love sleep. I love to sing and act silly. :) Hahaha, Music makes me happy. I love meeting new people. And I am a Mormon ;) Hahahaha!! Just thought I would turn that little spiel into a Mormon Ad.

But, anyway, I am so STINKIN excited for this blog!! We will be here for about 8 months....so I thought why not start a blog for the 6 of us! Elaina and Jodian agreed. So. Yeah! So excited!!

First of all....my classes are freakin hard. But oh well....I'm can't seem to get tired of All About Us!! Listen to it. Love it. And listen to it again. And AGAIN!! Hahaha, It's way late (and early in the morning)! I have been jammin to crazy good music for....a long time with Elaina and Jodian! I know. BAD. But...YOLO. No class till 1 tomorrow!!! :D

I have been livin the life eating lots of Pasta-Roni, using a WHOLE block of cheese just to make a pan of macaroni and cheese, drinking lots of pink, orange, green, purple, and every other colored drinks, shots of kool-aid, making lots of cookies and brownies, eating RACHEIN and peanut butter by the spoon full (wonderful snack by the way), and well. Dumb stuff. Hahaha!!

I have learned a lot while I have been here too. I love BYU. I was actually sitting in Archeology today and the entire class was so spiritual. We talked about how science and religion do go hand in hand. My professor, who is an archeologist, talked about how spiritual her excavations can be. It was an amazing class, and that is how everyone of my classes is here. I love having a prayer at the beginning of class, I love hearing people share their testimonies in Biology, or Polynesian dance, and well every other class. It is amazing. I feel so blessed to be here. I know I am here for a purpose, I don't fully know the purpose(s) right now, but I know I am here for a reason! :)

So, yes. Follow our blog!! You'll be in for a treat!! There will be some good laughs, some ups and downs, and everything in between.

-Alex

Get Some Sleep Kid

Seriously, I've determined that we don't sleep. It's 3:10 in the morning, and me and Alex are listening to He is We, while she browses pinterest. Seriously. Like. What the crap.
Today is a Wednesday (or was a Wednesday anyway, more like Thursday morning) and we haven't gone to bed before 3AM all freaking week! Oh well, YOLO right?

Tonight we (Elaina, Jo, and Alex) decided it would be dope fresh to start a blog; following our freshman year. Welcome to it! Things are good here at the Y. The milk is cheap, the WiFi is strong-ish, and weather is really nice right now, and I'm enjoying that while I can. Three weeks into the fall semester of freshman year and all six of us are buried in homework/quizzes/reading during the week. The weekend is a whole different story, maybe I'll tell you about that some other time. ;D

All I know is for sure (a Rene Decartes approach), Cher Lloyd created one of the best songs in the known universe. Want U Back. Google it. Now. The English Version Bro; Don't Play Games.

The blog will be updated by a whole mess of people, have fun with our stories.

Always,

      Elaina.