The 24 Hour Rush to Rushmore

I'm sure your reading this and are thinking what in the world?? Well, last weekend me and three of my girl friends decided that we wanted to go to Mount Ruchmore. None of us have seen it and we all wanted too. (also it was only ten hours away and that was probably the closest any of us will ever live to South Dakota). Truth be told we have actually been discussing this for a few weeks now but we all wanted it to be very random and spontaneous. Well that is exactly how it happend. Last Saturday while we were having a late night "study party" (like we were actually studying) we decided to get in the car and drive to Mount Rushmore, mind you it was 12:30 AM!!!! so technically we left sunday morning! :) We drove all night and morning through Wyoming, which is the most boring state ever i have never seen so many cows in my life, and part way through South Dakota and around 11 am we were there! Yep, thats right we went there and got ready in the parking lot so we would look good in the pictures. (typical girls)! We stayed for about two hours hoped back in the car and drove home. We made it back in provo at 12:30am monday morning exactly 24 hours!!!! Wow we are crazy!

Here is us in the border for Wyoming and South Dakota

Now MOUNT RUSHMORE PICTURES!!!!

It got really cold as we started hiking so we grabbed our blankets and hiked around in them we made some people laugh it was awesome!

IT was definitely a crazy adventure

Ah Life!!!!

Ok... so I finally woke up today. It hit me that all of my guys back home are leaving! What is this!!!!! I saw pictures of Alex at the MTC and now I heard Andrew is going to Honduras (congrats by the way) but still more of my guys are filling out mission papers and it is so weird! I didn't expect this, I feel happy, sad, and joyful all at the same time. I mean these boys i have grown up with are all going to be gone for two years! That is a really really long time! So much can change from now till then and with me being up in Utah how many of them are going to leave before i get to see them again! I am missing their farewells and mission call openings and everything. There are a few people at BYU opening there mission calls but still its not the same these are my guys, my friends, and most practically my brothers! It is so weird to think when they get back how much they are going to change, how much i am going to change and how much life is going to change for all i know i could be engaged or something... Ah OK never mind i just scared myself with that thought! Any ways i guess this whole post is about how I realize how fast time flies, and how we are all growing up and changing. Seriously i am still trying to accept the fact that these boys are going to be living on their own, cooking cleaning and taking care of themselves! YIKES! they can't do that!Especially some of them in a foreign country, dang they are growing up too fast! :) (OK i feel like their mothers but seriously its just too weird!) today has just been a weird day i guess i realized that i have a lot of writing ahead of me! Dang with over 10 guys or so leaving this year i am going to be busy! Good luck to all of them and i know that they will do great! My North Canyon guys are the best and I am so glad to have had the opportunity to grow up with these guys, from joy school, to middle school, to high school, and now college we have been through everything! Ah this is just too weird!!!!! Congrats all of you for going out into the world and making a difference in peoples lives i know you will succeed!!

Snowboarding!

So i finally did it... i went snowboarding! And it was amazing!!!!!!!! Me and Rima have a friends jessica who is like an expert snowboarder and she offered to teach us how to do it and if i do say so myself we were amazing. I only rolled down the mountain once. And when i say rolled i am serious i face planted and somersalted down the mountain it was hilarious!!!!! I am ok though no scratchs or brusies my face was cold and a little numb but i survived and had such a fun time. I have found my new winter time activity!

This is me, melissa, and rima renting our gear! We were so excited!
Then we hit the mountains (that is me in the blue i look so legit!)

Then there went Rima after me in the red!

But of course you have your ups and your downs... we fell multiple times and we were so sore the next day from it! Snowboarding is hard work!

After a few times i finally figured it out!

It was definitley an experience but an enjoyable one. Below is the group i went with and we are all sitting on the ski lift and next to it is our awesome instructor!

Finally a nice group photo! Awww so cute!