Sunshine, Sisters, and Aggies

This weekend was so fun! Brooke and Chanae came up to Logan to visit. We went to The Hub watched the Aggies play Marquette. We lost by ONE! One point. It was so sad! Sian and I were screaming the whole time and our voices hurt by the end. Jared Quayle and Tai Wesley both fouled out. That alone almost brought us to tears, let alone the actual loss. We are on the countdown until November when the Aggies start playing again. The only bummer will be that Gary Wilkinson will be gone. :( But the Aggies will still be great!

After the game we (Sian, Brooke, Chanae, Candace, Jared, Dusty, Matt, Ashley, Riss, Brittany, Hayley, Ryan, and I) went and played football and soccer on the HPER field. It was fantabulous. The sunshine was amazing! It felt so good compared to the usual cold. I actually got a little sunburned and it was great. Saturday we also sat outside for a while and got some more sun- which was good cause today it rained! Rain is but better than snow though, so I'm not complaining.
Brooke is one of the most hysterical people I have ever met. We were watching "Definitely, Maybe" last night and there is a part where they start singing "Happy Birthday." She wasn't really paying attention cause she was sending a text. She looked up and started to pay attention to the movie when they started singing it, so what does she do? She just joined right in on the song until she realized that she was the only one singing and it was the movie. I was the only one who heard her, so we both just started laughing. It was hysterical. Great times. Here is one more story of her great sense of humor... I sent her home with a book that I had checked out from the Kamas library for a book report. She texted me tonight and this is how our conversation went...

Brooke: "When is your book due?"

Me: " I don't know for sure, but I think Tuesday."

Brooke: "oh ok, I should have took it back by then. It's a great book." (yes, great english Brooke!)

Me: " Are you serious? I thought is was stupid!"

Brooke: "NO! Do you really think I would ATTEMPT to read it?"

Me: "I didn't think so, but if you did read it I was going to be impressed."

Anyway, that was the just of our conversation. It probably isn't even funny to anyone but me, but I thought it was hilarious. The fact that I actually thought for a second that she was actually reading it was hysterical in and of itself. She hates to read. I love it. And that's just the start of our differences. As Sian likes to point out Brooke is the cool one- not me. :) She is outgoing, I'm not. She is crazy (in a good way), I'm not. She doesn't use correct english, I do. Ha ha, just kidding Brooke. Anyway, this weekend was great because of the amazing sunshine, Aggies, and of course my sister. Love ya sis.

Spring Break!

WARNING: This will be a long post. :)

My Spring Break started on Monday the 9th and goes till the Friday the 13th. I decided that I was sick of school and I actually came home on the night of Thursday the 5th. I am just going to recap my last week for you. :)

Thursday March 5th:

I walked through my front door at about 10:00 at night. Hayden, Paige, Brooke, Jason, and my Mom and Dad were the only ones still awake. They were all sitting in the living room and when I came in they all looked at me like I was an alien. (Apparently they weren't expecting me.) I stayed up and talked with them till who knows when. 

 

Friday March 6th:

This day is pretty much a blur. I woke up at 11 and I stayed in my sweats all day. I played "Blink" with Taigen about 50 millions times, Brooke and I went running (in the snow!), and . . . I don't remember what else.

Saturday March 7th:

My Dad's 44th birthday! (He's practically ancient!) :) My mom, dad, and Jason went to Alisha's basketball game in SLC. I woke up around 10:30 and Haydo came up. We made some chocolate chip cookie dough...and then just hung out for a while. I took a nap (I decided the reason I slept so much was because all the late nights in Logan have finally caught up to me.) I went with Shantell to drop her dad off at the airport and then drove back. It was great fun. :) After Richie and Brayden were done playing old man bball at the church I went and hung out with them. I could only hang for like an hour and a half, but it was good to see them. They haven't changed a bit.  :)

Sunday March 8th:

I woke up (well actually Jason woke me up) at 10:35. I had slept through my home ward's church, so I decided to go to the singles ward-which starts at 11. In Woodland. Hayden came and picked up Jason and I at about 10:50. Yes, I got ready that fast. We came home from church ate lunch, and just hung out with the fam. I went to see my grandma for a bit and I went up to Chanae's house with Brooke and Megan. Chanae is such a funny girl. Love her. We came home from Nala's and Hayden and Paige came up. We stayed up till three a.m. discussing the torterous things my parents did to us when we were little. For example: making us sweep and mop our kitchen floor when we were in 1st (yes 1st) grade!, made us haul wood, weed the garden, and when we were being REALLY mean to each other we had to pick a 5 gallon bucket full of rocks. To this day I HATE, and I mean HATE, weeding, hauling wood, and especially picking rocks. (Have you ever picked rocks and had dirt get under your fingernails? Yeah, it's not the most pleasant feeling.) My parents found all of this quite hilarious and just laughed as we told them how picked on we used to be. :)

Monday March 9th:

I woke up around 10:00 again. (man I love no school!) and went on a short run. It was FREEZING cold outside! After my run I hung out with Taigen. My mom made pies- apple, cherry, walnut, and pecan. I made the design on the top of the cherry pie. It was pretty sweet. :) I then took Taigen to the library. I had to get a book that I had to read for a book report due next week. He wanted to get a movie. I ended up getting the book "Can You Keep a Secret" cause my other book wasn't there. My Great Uncle Marv and my Great Aunt Pat invited our family over for dinner and FHE. We went over and had the most delicious food. We had roast, cheesy potatoes, rolls, salad, and veggies. For dessert we had pie and ice cream and Aunt Pat made her amazing Texas Sheet Cake. My absolute favorite. No one can make it as delicious as her! 

Tuesday March 10th:

I read "Can You Keep a Secret" and found it to be quite hilarious. (Thanks Gen!) Although, if any of you are planning on reading it- ask me first. I'll let you know if you would like it or not. :) I also went back to the library and got my other book for my book report. I read that one as well- now I actually have to write the assignment- bummer. Alisha had another basketball game in PC so I took Zackery to his bball game. It was so fun to watch. Little kids are hysterical playing basketball. He made a basket and his team won, so all in all it was a great success! I also got  a phone call from Sian saying that she would be coming to Kamas that night instead of Wednesday morning. Of course she actually didn't end up getting here until about 10:00-but hey- at least she showed up.  :) The first thing that she said when she got out of the car was "Nicole, when you said you lived in the middle of nowhere, I thought you were kidding. Now I know you weren't!" 

Wednesday March 11:

I woke up from the worst sleep of my entire life! Thanks Sian and Brooke! :) Emily, Sian, Brooke, Hayden, Candace, and I went to the Gateway for breakfast. Then Sian and I went to Em's and hung out for a bit. I actually ended up falling asleep on Emily's couch. That thing was com-fort-a-ble! While Em went to get her bangs cut Sian and I came back to my house and that is when disaster struck. . . Zack (bless his little soul) was home from school. He was showing Sian all the crazy stuff he could do, basically being a show off. He went to our fridge and grabbed a brown paper bag and handed it to Sian (it's not what you're thinking) Sian felt the bag and then looks inside. . . and what is in the bag you ask? Two, of the most disgusting, smoked, nasty smelling, DEAD FISH. 

Then, Sian had this genius idea to tell Zack to go hide one in my room downstairs. I told him "NO!" and gave him what I thought was a mean enough glare that he wouldn't do it. But after some more egging on from Sian, he ran downstairs (while Sian blocked the door from me) and proceeded to hide it in my room. I was mad. No, I was upset. Ok, even that is an understatement, I was livid! Everyone else thought it was hysterically funny. I tried to convince him for 5 minutes to go back down and get the fish. When he finally did, he came back up without it and said "I can't find it." Now, I 

am told that I am a patient person, and I try to be, but when he said that he couldn't find the dead fish that was in my room, I about had a come apart. It made it worse when he told me that he had put it in my blue bag. Now, the blue bag is the bag that contains my CLEAN laundry. Not the dirty laundry that I need to wash, but the clean laundry, nicely folded and ready to be put away when I went back to Logan. Well, as you have guessed it is now no longer clean. Because Zack couldn't find the fish, Brooke went downstairs and found it. It was at the bottom of the bag. She brought the disgusting, stinking, dead fish up and put it in the garbage- where it rightfully belonged in the first place.

After that disaster, Sian and I went to Emily's and ate dinner and watched the Jazz game. Then we packed our bags and drove to Bountiful to Sian's house. We met her mom N'Lice and her sister Jessica. Her mom is hysterical and it is so funny to watch those two interact with each other. . . 

Thursday March 12th:

Happy Birthday to ALISHA! Today she turned 13! I was at Sian's all day in Bountiful, so I didn't even get to see her, but I did talk to her on the phone and wished her a happy birthday. Sian made pancakes this morning for breakfast, then we all got ready and walked up the hill to Lindsay's house. We hung out with Linds for awhile- then 

we she had to go run her little siblings around we went to Sian's friend Becca's house. We watched the Utah State vs. Fresno State game.

 It was pretty sweet! Williams had an a-maz-ing game! It was way fun to watch. After the game we went back to Sian's and hung out, ate dinner, talked with her mom, discussed our Cali trip, and watched the final seconds of the Utah vs. TCU game. Pretty sweet. Then Em, Brooke, and I drove home. Brooke and I arrived home to two little chicks. Zack got them from his first grade class. They are so stinkin' cute! They are actually cheeping is I speak. (well type actually.) And I just found out that their names and Chip and Dip. But, according to Zack we have to have a "family meeting" to discuss what everyone thinks we should name them. He is such a funny kid.  Love him. And yes, I have forgiven him for the dead fish incident. 

Anyway, that's my spring break so far. I'm sure I've left out important parts. But my brain is on break too, and I can't remember anymore details at the moment. So, for those of you who have been telling me to blog- here you go! :) 

This Weekend. . .

This weekend my amazingly awesome sister Brooke and my equally amazing cousin Shantell came to Logan to see me! It was really fun. Friday night we went to dinner at Chili's with Em, Jared, Lindsay, Dusty and Sian. I saw my dad's cousin's daughter there- who I haven't seen since I was like 12 years old! We used to go to my grandpa and grandma's over Thanksgiving with each other, then she just disappeared. But don't worry, I found her at Chili's on Friday. :) I walked in and she was like "Nicole?!" It was fun to see her. . . anyway, after Chili's we went to Walmart and got stuff to make F'zookies.

After our F'zookies Sian and Huss left us and went to a party. (We had enough sense not to go-apparently it was pretty crazy.) Lindsay, Dusty, Me, Brooke, Jared, Caitlin played catch phrase. By this time it was about one in the morning and we were all a little delirious. It turned into a big laughing fest. Cause that's what I do when I am tired- I laugh, and I sometimes can't control myself and I just keep laughing. . . Anyway, Sian and Huss came back from her party and Sian, Shantell, Brooke, and I stayed up till 4 a.m. before we finally crashed.

Saturday we went to Walmart again, I don't exactly remember why we went there- but nevertheless we did. Then we went to all a dollar-where we found many great prizes. :) We got some sweet puzzles, which we proceeded to do when we got home. No worries, we only spent about 7 hours of our day on the three of them. One was of a red barn in the winter time with lots of trees covered in snow. One was a little waterfall with a barn and a fence. And, last but not least we did a High School Musical one because we had a rockin' High School Musical Party!!!! We started with watching the first High School Musical, then we watched parts of the second one (apparently we were only allowed to see the best parts.) Then we made pasta, garlic bread, and salad and ate while we watched the third one. Instead of being quiet and watching the movie, everyone felt the need to comment and make fun of the acting. It was fine by me cause I thought it was pretty . . . cheesy. It was way funny listening to all of their comments. . . Sian, Brooke, Shantell and I stayed up again till 4 a.m. Sian and I were so tired that we fell asleep mid conversation. When Sian woke up a while later she was kind enough to get Brooke a blanket so she wouldn't freeze- you owe her one Brooke. :)

We woke up this morning and just hung out, went to Sian's apartment to see her and Riss and then my lovely sister and cousin left around 1:20 when we left for church. . . I am happy to report that this weekend I moved up on the 'KG' list. I am now at #5 instead of #10. Even though Sian just barely met Brooke and Shantell this weekend, they are still ahead of me. :(

Shantell and I (Don't mind the bangs, they were being a little special yesterday.) :)