3 Concerts in One Night!

Two of my roommates, Whitney and Cari and my neighbor and friend, Jenna, all had concerts the Friday before finals week. All the performances started at 7:30 and were all at different places. I really wanted to see all of them so I set out to make the endeavor happen. And I saw all of them perform. It was awesome.
Jenna's was first and was in a Catholic church downtown. I sat in the very back so that I did not disrupt the performance when I had to leave early. She was in the University Singers choir at NAU.

Then Cari's was next with her viola recital. She had been taking lessons during the semester and this was part of her final. She did very well. I also know her accompanist, she goes to church with us and I had a class with her.

And Whitney's was last with her percussion ensemble. She's an education major--percussion. I got there while they were doing the last song. It was pretty neat and the video does not do it justice. This did go on for quite a while though and was a long for me. But it did sound awesome. And they had a lot of fun doing it. I was in the back for this performance as well cause I came in late. The audio quality would probably be a lot better if I was closer.




I'll post video later since they take so long to upload.

New Apartment

I just moved into a new apartment which is a whole ton nicer than the one I was just living in. But, come end of August, things will be changing again. We can't get a 3 bedroom apartment until September so I'll be moving into that one. I'll have 4 roommates, 4 of us will share two rooms and 1 girl will have her own room. Until then, I'm living in a 2 bath 2 bed. Another girl will share a room with me while we're here for the summer. And then we'll move into that 3 bedroom come September...its in the same complex so I don't have to move too far!


Nice sized bath connected to my room................My large closet, which I'll be sharing soon!

My large room. Its looked like this since Wednesday...but I have made my bed. I'm not looking forward to moving again so I'm trying to think of what I'll keep boxed up for a few months.

The living room with a fireplace and glass sliding door to the balcony. I was washing sheets and blankets this day.

The kitchen, not enough cupboards...................AND A WASHER AND DRYER!!!

An actual pantry! And the entry way/dining area.

There are quite a few closets which makes up for the pitiful cupboard space in the kitchen. There's only 4 drawers vertically by the oven below the counter...and they are so small that we can't fit a silverware organizer in there. We'll have to deal with it and just be glad for all the other space we have elsewhere.

This is why I love Flagstaff!!

Hello other Arizonians.

I wanted to show you what spring looks like. I think Flagstaff is the only city in Arizona that has all four seasons and I love it. I can't believe I didn't know what spring and fall brought my entire life growing up...besides getting a little cooler.

There are so many cool things around Flagstaff as well, the city has such character. And it is beautiful. I haven't seen so many tulips and daffodils in my entire life before I came to NAU campus. It's great to still be close enough to home but feel like I live in a place across the country. Here's some of the beauty I captured today when walking to work.

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The metal fandangly thing in the picture is something that was recently installed on north campus. I'm not sure what it is but it looks cool and sounds cool when the wind's blowing. Its probably a wind chime.

Spring always comes!!

Beautiful TULIPS!
On a snowy day. Flagstaff weather. Figures.

This is where I enter to work Mon-Thurs. I was actually capturing the snow.

The IWA Presidency. I just got released actually so this is all of us at one of our last activities.

This was the day before it snowed, it was cold and windy...though my ONE sweater doesn't show it. My ears were freezing that day.

And some cute sandals and shoes I bought. Unfortunately they aren't that comfortable...but they're cute!!

Bridal Shower!!

Then my friend had a bridal shower and I got these for her to decorate her house with.

This is the gag gift. I had to get something that was so random like myself. They're singing mushroom kids and the one on the left is missing his arm. It was $0.49!

This is the love note/treasure map I gave to Brittany that is in the bottle in the picture above.

I loved making this message in a bottle! I burnt the edges and drew this map. X marks the spot, where her fiance Dave is. She has to go through an orchard of apple trees, cross the river a few times, pass the pot of gold and silver cause he's worth way more than all the riches in the world, oh, and no biggy...climb a few mountains just to get to him!

And we had to kiss the lips on her fiance! Ridiculous. Haha!

We also played this game where the bride to be was on her honeymoon and was to get ready to go out for dinner. Then her hotel has a blackout and she has to get ready in the dark. Most of those crazy getups are mine. Fun stuff!

Treasure Maps

And that map above inspired me and my friend to make another. She loved how I had burnt the edges for Brittany's message, she had to make one for her lover too. And her lover is a chicken named Vladimir. But Brittany's not my lover. So we still need to drop off this message, in a glass bottle of course, at the Chicken Dumpling Gang's house...and we used the alias names Aimus (Amos) and Theeadoor (Theodore). Shhh, don't tell anyone you know who we really are. If you've seen the movie, The Apple Dumpling Gang, you might laugh. We'll see if these guys can read our map and meet us at the picnic table at Lake Mary...that's what the X is marking.

We may have had something to drink...nah, I don't do that stuff. How can anyone think that? It's delicious cream soda, we had to drink it so we have a bottle for our message...and for bottle blowing!

My crazy friends! Someone's always playing on this piano and singing to someone.

FHE: 2nd Ward's Variety Show
Bottle Blowing

Introducing:------> Bottle Federation
a.k.a. B-Fed

My roommates Shelby, Cari, and I did bottle blowing. We were a hit. We had only played the F scale and everyone was clapping like mad. We still had 3 more songs to play. We even did the harmony in "Choose the Right". This is actually after we performed, we played for some friends who weren't there to see us the first time.

We also played Ode to Joy and Mary Had A Little Lamb. In the beginning after the scale we played an appregio and a chord. The crowd loved that too!

Lovely TIMES!

I went to Vegas this weekend

I took these pictures off facebook so they might not be the best quality. They were taken on someone else's camera for once. Anyway, Vegas was a lot of fun. I went with three other friends, one of them, his mission companion had his homecoming in Vegas so that's the reason of the trip. And besides that, it was a road trip. It was my first time walking down the strip and it really is Sin City. But I think all the towns in Nevada are beautiful, probably because the doll rolled in from the casinos gives them some money. And we visited this guy who came home, Derek, his dad's house who lives in a mansion. Crazy how big that place was. P.S. It's snowing in Flag today, has been all morning and there was snow on the ground when I woke up at 8!Around the Jacuzzi/Pool at Derek's dad's mansion.
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam once again. On the way to Vegas it took us 2 hours, no joke, to cross Hoover Dam traffic was backed up so bad.
Easter bunny!
At Derek's homecoming party.
At Derek's dad's house in the theater room. There were 4 flat screen TVs and then a projector screen came down over those. We watched a short clip of the Eagle's in concert. It felt like we were actually there. There are 21 speakers in this room.
The boys giving me a massage, this was a room in the house. He has a massage therapist that comes every so often.
An Aston Martin Vantage V8, and I think the car next to it is a Mercedes SL500.
Out in the back yard, around the BBQ.

The M&M Store in Vegas.
Going up the escalator to the 2nd level of fun!
Eiffel Tower.

March Fun-ness

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Lately I've been having some grand fun. These pictures include an Institute Spring Formal Dance...I did not know my date until the day of the dance. There's a story to go with the hike we went on before dinner...a ridiculous friend of mine pulled a horrendous prank. Don't want to go into details. Needless to say, most of us did not finish the hike.

Then after the dance we burned Jorge, a pinata. It was delightful and he burned fast. The next day, Saturday, I went on a ward outing and we went to Grand Falls (it's by Leupp AZ). And last night me and my roommates woke up my roommate Shelby at midnight for a belated birthday surprise. There are some pics of that. We went to the top of the hospital parking garage, it had a good view and was a random place to go. I've also put some videos of some of these events.

Jorge's last time on earth...

It's dark, cause she was obviously sleeping but you can still hear how we got her up! For some reason, the night we all needed to stay up, we were all so tired and wanted to sleep.