Spring semester is OVER! almost.

As the semester comes to a close (2 more days for me!!!) I thought I would write a 'semester end post' of some sort. Recently I have been going bridge jumping at monkey rock. It has been an absolute blast, the thrill of jumping off of bridges is quite amazing and I wish I would have done it earlier! I also feel like now that the semester is pretty much over I am finally starting to make friends, what is up with that?! Better late than never I guess.

My sister Cassie decided to surprise me and show up at my apartment last Monday. I had

absolutely no clue she was coming. It was quite fun to hang out with her and Gummel for the

amount of time I was able to free up for them. For future reference - the week before finals is not the best time to visit any friend in college. Anyway we went to the dunes, got some ice cream, and went to Monkey Rock for a swim. Also Tanya had the privilege of almost getting towed. That most definitely sucked, tow truck driver guys are jerks and there is no doubt about that!

I have had immense amounts of fun with my FHE family this semester. We were definitely blessed to get some really fun girls in our family. Coincidentally, one of them served with Will in Chicago on her mission!

Welp I don't really know what else to say in this

here post, I guess I just wanted to write something before I went to bed and lost my 'umphh' to blog. I shall close with a quick semester testimony - I am thankful for my awesome roommates, I'm pretty darn sure that Jesus loves me or else I don't know how I got such good ones. I am looking forward to rooming with them again this coming semester, we have too much fun together. I am grateful for the opportunity that I have to attend the Lord's university and gain not only a secular but spiritual education at the same time. I'm grateful for my loving family and my awesome parents. And umm I'm extremely glad that I was born into the church and brought up the way I was so that I.....crap my brain totally died. Hopefully this blog makes some sort of sense, I really need to go to bed I am already sleep deprived and I have two finals tomorrow. GOOD NIGHT AMERICA!

zbert out.

The Amazing Change....and Hawaii!

When I was probably 15 or so I remember it was my week to do the dishes. This particular

night there were a lot! I loaded the dishwasher until it was completely full but a bunch of pots and pans remained that needed to be washed by hand. I hated washing dishes by hand, it was defined as extreme torture in my vocabulary. Luckily I came up with a great idea, I took all the dishes and stuffed them into a garbage bag, took the bag to my room and put it in my closet. The next week, when it wasn't my turn to do dishes anymore, I took them out of my closet and put them in the sink. Crisis averted! It is interesting to see the changes in attitude that we experience towards situations as we age. I was talking with Kalob's sister in law Jessica last night about vacations and how as children we were dragged to all of these historical sights and museums. Now that we are older we want to go to them and we enjoy learning the history of historical sights and the like. This same attitude can be applied towards church activities and involvement. Church was torture as a child and I would try and do everything in my power to not attend. Now I love it, I enjoy Sacrament Meeting, I enjoy Sunday School and Priesthood and I look forward to the lessons that are taught. To an extent - haha one Sunday we had church, went home teaching, had a ward social, fireside, and priesthood meeting. That was too much but normally its great. :) I am thankful for the Gospel and the influence it has had and continues to have in my life. I know I would not be the person I am today without it.

Yesterday (when I started this blog) I returned from Hawaii after a few flight delays and a couple hours of sleeping on the floor in the airport. It was an awesome time! My first impression driving around on Oahu was that it was ugly, it reminded me of Idaho. I was disappointed, haha! It was incredibly fun though, we went to the beach every day. There were four lagoons right outside of our resort. On Monday we did absolutely nothing, we stayed at the resort all day and swam in the ocean and the many pools. It was fun but I was looking to actually see the island. When Tuesday came around I was asked what I was going to do that day and because I assumed that it would be like the last I moaned...."probably nothing!" Kalob's dad took offered to take us to Waikiki and I graciously accepted the offer. Kalob and I walked around the 'Waikiki Strip' as I am going to call it and laughed at all the rediculously priced clothing

and other items we found. One place had an 11,000 dollar watch! HOLY WOW. Waikiki beach is way sweet, it is so pretty and perfect for surfing...something I didn't get to try, sadly. Wednesday all the boys went to Pearl Harbor. It was incredibly neat, I thoroughly enjoyed learning about that piece of America's history. We went to the USS Arizona Memorial, checked out a submarine, and toured the USS Missouri Battleship (aka Mighty Mo). 50 years later, there is STILL oil coming out of the USS Arizona, they guesstimate it will continue to come out for another 100 years. I think that is absolutely crazy! On Thursday Kalob and I went to the Polynesian Cultural Center with Grandma, Grandpa, Jess, and Lance. The PCC teaches you all about Polynesia and each island is represented by a fake island/town thing.

It was pretty fun. In New Zealand they had us play this stick throwing game that was created to increase hand-eye coordination in children to prepare them to be future warriors. Smart cookies back then, who would've thought about doing that today? Most of the jobs there are extremely embarrassing and I could never do them. I now feel bad for Martha! (Even though hers wasn't that bad) My favorite part was the night show, it is like a musical. And I just love Musicals. FALSE! I do not love musicals (or miss Jim Halpert)...Martha wrote that part. :) My real favorite part was actually the shows on the islands themselves, especially the cocunut show in Samoa. The guy was crazy and showed us how to open a coconut and how to juice it and what not. After he was done another guy climbed a coconut tree, that was neat! I wish I had his mad skills. The night show was okay but like Martha said it is pretty much a musical and that made it kind of boring.

Friday morning we all went snorkeling at Paradise Cove and swam with sea turtles! There were a lot of different kinds and colors of fish swimming around. This is the day that Kalob and I became horribly sun burned. I thought I was going to make it through the week but alas I was stung by those nasty little rays of the sun. Oh well. We all hit up Outback for a nice little family dinner and Kalob and I created a pretty sweet tip castle for our waitress. Saturday we lounged around the resort in the pools all day and then had a family dinner with the Grandparents and Jess and Lance. Brogan, Blake, and I went and watched all the firework shows that were happening on the island from the resort window. There were 3 different shows going on at the same time, it was pretty cool. I soon learned that my flight had been delayed to 3:15AM and that sucked! I packed all my junk and when I woke up at 1 to head home I learned it was delayed again until 4:15AM. I was taken to the airport early and I just slept on the floor of the airport and waited for my plane to arrive. The flight home was great. Hawaii was sweet but it is nice to be back with my roommates in Rexburg.