Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from January, 2012

My Two Homes!

I've been thinking about my two homes a lot lately. Of course there's Virginia where I lived from the time I was three years old until just five months ago when I came out here to BYU! I love (almost) everything about NOVA. I love living so close to Washington D.C. I love the monuments, the museums (most of the time), the fact that I can tell people I've been inside the White House, the fact that as long as my Aunt Becky has her magic badge we can take tours of the beautiful Capitol building, and secretly laughing at all of the obvious tourists when I'm there. When I went home for Christmas, it was as if I had never left! I enjoyed every minute of the time that I was able to spend with my amazing family and reconnecting with friends! We went to D.C., went to the temple, saw as many tackily (is that a word, probably not but I'm using it) decorated houses as we could followed by a trip to get homemade donuts which were SO good, stayed up late talking/watching Modern F

Performances, Parties, Harry Potter, and Epiphanies

Well I'd say it's been a quite successful long weekend here in Provo. This MLK day holiday is one of the TWO we get for the entire semester. So it all started on Friday after class when my friend Kaylee and I decided that we wanted to go get some Jamba Juice. So were walking up to the Wilk, and we see a crowd gathering in Brigham Square, so we decided we would check out what was happening. We reached the circle and lo and behold none other than VOCAL POINT was standing in the center of the crowd!! We heard them sing a couple of songs and it was absolutely amazing! They are seriously incredible!! Such a great start to the weekend! That night, my friends and I went to see Divine Comedy and they were hilarious as usual! Their sketches are so creative! Then we watched Harry Potter 7.1! It was my first time seeing it, and earlier this week I finished reading the last of the books! My friend Anna and I have birthdays two days apart in July, so we decided that we were going to celeb