Dad's birthday

Dad's big 60th birthday celebration the day I came home was a pretty fun way to end finals week. I was the designated photographer and Dad kept telling me to take more pictures.

Beautiful cake.



The classic Dad eyes-closed picture.

The classic head tilt.




Trying to blow it out with his nose.

New pants!

New England apples!



Dad's gift. Nice job, Wendy.

Writing on the Wall

Back in September my RA, Brianna, decided we needed to have a floor theme, and chose "For Good" which apparently is something from the musical Wicked. She made big construction paper letters that spelled it out and put them in the floor lounge. Since then, various members of the hall have taken the liberty of rearranging them when Brianna's wasn't around. (Eventually she gave up trying to fix them.) The latest endeavor by my friend Candice and me, taking a break from studying for finals:


My personal favorite.

Christmas in January

After discovering that I must have left my USB cord at home, and that Kristin's computer has a memory card slot that makes it much easier to upload pictures, I'm finally back on the blogging map!

Our little Christmas tree (a Walmart special). It was fun to string the popcorn--we did that while we watched the First Presidency Christmas Devotional. We also got blue and white lights. Go Cougars!

Back in October, each room in my hall decorated a door. This is ours. Isn't it adorable? When we took it down to put up wrapping paper we didn't want to throw it away so it got relocated to the closet doors.


My friend Natalie's birthday was Dec. 19th, same as Wendy's, and she wanted a Lunchable, so I happily obliged. I don't know why I took a picture of it, besides I was feeling goofy that night. We had a party in the basement that ended with an impromptu haircut for Natalie.


The adorable gingerbread house Logan and I made over the break from the kit that had been sitting in the pantry for about 4 years. The gingerbread man got whitewashed thanks to Logan.

A bird's-eye view of the lovely gumdrop roof.

Winter Wonderland

Last week we got our first real snow!

It was b's foggy too.

This is the view from my window. Pretty sweet, huh?

I wanted to take this little tree home with me.

The rare dwarf orange, native to Utah.



Even Brigham's getting in the mood!


That's a b's lot of snow.

Can you see the Y?

Thhanksgiving

James didn't want to look at the camera, as usual.

Matthew did.

What kind of face is that?

I took one picture of him on the swing and he thought it was funny and wanted me to take more.