ARGENTINA BABY!!!

I finally made it!! It looked kind of iffy for a while, but I'm here, in Argentina, and I can't say enough how happy I am here, I feel like I've finally come home!! When I got home after the semester ended I only had a week to be with my family, I ended up being sick the entire time!! I was afraid that if I didn't get better my parents wouldn't let me go, I did everything I could to get better, and finally on Sunday I woke up feeling 100% better!! Tuesday I flew out of Cinci, and barely made my connecting flight in Miami, I hadn't slept the whole night before so I was so tired that I slept almost the entire flight, which was so nice!! I woke up when we were 2 hours away from Buenos Aires so I watched a movie and it ended right as we landed!!

Once I got past customs I saw two of my Argentine brothers waiting for me, Nicolas and Kevin... I ran over to them and gave them great big hugs, its so great not being a missionary, I can hug them now!!! We got a taxi and went back to the house where I saw my mama Argentina, it seriously was a fantastic day!!! I was really tired but I tried to stay awake because I wanted to spend as much time with my family!! I missed them sooo much!! I was so happy to finally be with them again!!

I have a comp that has finished her mission, but didn't leave until Thursday morning, I had plans to go to the airport and see her there, well we didn't know it but she was given permission to spend her last night here in Almagro, her and my only other comp that is still in the mission who is now back in Almagro, came over, I was starting to fall asleep in the chair I was sitting in, and they walked in, when I saw them both I screamed so loud, I don't think I could have been any happier!! I just love seeing all these people, it is the best thing ever!!

Then my second day here I went to the church and the Bishop was there and he was telling me that a couple who were baptized during my time here in this ward are going to the temple to be sealed in a couple of weeks, I'm going on the same temple trip, I get to be there when they are sealed!! Also Nicolas is going to the temple for the first time because he is preparing to go on his mission!! Then in February Monica one of my last baptisms will be going to the temple, if she goes then, I'm gonna go as well!! I got to go see her today, I went to her house to surprise her and it was so good to see her!!

Seriously I know I have done the right thing in coming back, I love it here, of course there are things uncomfortable, it is like a million degrees, I'm back living with cockroaches and all that, but none of those things can overtake the happiness I'm feeling right now!! I love love love Argentina!!

Well I better go, we are getting everything ready for new years, I'm pretty sure this will be my best new years EVER!!!

End of semester CRAZINESS!!

Well I am still just as happy as I was a month ago!! I'm still going to Argentina, and to make the deal even sweeter, the school approved it as an internship, so everything is official!!! I also took three tests last week to pass out of three Spanish tests, I was stressing out about it because everyone talks about how it is a very hard test, and on the third test the average is usually a C or something like that. I had planned on studying for the tests all of Thanksgiving break, but I was having too much fun playing with my friend Keri's kids, I didn't want to study Spanish! Then last week I had a lot of other things to work on, I just never seemed to have the time to study for the test, when I did I felt like I was getting dumber and dumber, I would mess up on the simplest things ever! Thursday night rolled around and I wasn't feeling prepared for the tests at all, but my roommate and I decided we would wake up early and go to the temple Friday morning, then we had also read somewhere that fruit helps with memory, so we went and got smoothies at Jamba Juice, I had class and after class was over we met up and went to take the test together! We both felt a lot more confident about the test, even though the night before we were really nervous!! I couldn't believe how EASY all of the tests were, I walked out of there feeling super confident, but I didn't find out about what I officially got until today! I was so relieved it was all over and done so I wasn't too worried. After the tests we went to IF and went shopping! Then Saturday was a good day because I planned a bridal shower for my friend Ladd, it turned out GREAT!! I had a blast doing this for her, I'm so happy for her, she and her fiancee are perfect for each other... almost a little scary how perfect they are for each other!!
It was a great weekend! So this morning I went to go and find out my test scores, well... I did FANTASTIC!!!! I got a 98, 92, and 87 on the three tests!! I wish they could have gone over the ones I missed, because I remember not being sure about a few questions and hoping they could explain them to me. But no such luck, well I'm still happy with what I got, I'm hoping it will raise my GPA, I'm at the point to if I can raise it just a little bit more I can get a partial scholarship, here's to hoping all my hard work this semester will pay off!!
This week won't be as stressful as last week was, but it still has its stresses, I have 2 big papers due this week, a group project to present, and 2 tests at the end of the week... it sounds like a lot but I'm not too worried about it right now, I think it won't be too bad!! I am just very ready for the semester to be over!! Only 22 more days until I leave for ARGENTINA!!!!!

ARGENTINA!!!!

Well I have been really happy for the past couple of days!! I'm not really sure why, the other day as I was walking home from class I smiled and said hi to everyone I passed, and I sometimes just started laughing out loud!! I think of myself as a generally happy person, I've never really been depressed before, but I'm not ever in an overly happy mood like I have been in the past couple of days!! I'm just glad to say I'm happy where I am in my life! So many girls feel the need to have a guy to feel good about themselves, I know so many girls that sit around depressed and the second a guy talks to them, asks them on a date, or anything else they are all of a sudden happier than ever, and act like they have never been depressed!! I have always tried to live my life so that I'm not dependent on someone else for my happiness!! Its a good thing too, because if I were to wait for a boy to happy, well I wouldn't have been happy for the past 23 years of my life!!

Don't get me wrong, I welcome the day when I find my prince charming and I can start my family. But I'm not going to sit around pining for him!! I love where I am in my life, pursuing my education, and putting myself in the position to follow all of my dreams!!

I absolutely LOVE to travel!! If I had unlimited funds I would spend all my time traveling and exploring new exotic places!! Right now I am wanting to go to Africa, Russia, and Jerusalem... those are the next three places I plan to visit after I go back to... ARGENTINA!!!! Yeah you saw that right!! I'm going back to Buenos Aires!! This is something I have been planning for a few months, and I told a few people, but I tried to keep it under wraps until everything is final!! Well I will be going to Argentina to do an internship, that is actually the only thing that isn't 100% final. I have a position with a volunteer group, and today I bought the plane tickets, so I am for sure going, I just submitted all the stuff to have it approved through the school. I'm just praying it will go through!! But even if it doesn't, nothing changes... I'm still going back to my mission!! I am so beyond excited right now!! In just a little over a month I will be back in Argentina!!!!!!!!!

I'm just very happy, really I can't even describe it in words!! I just hope I can stay this happy, I like how it feels!! This next week is Thanksgiving break, I'm excited because I'm going to Oregon to spend the week with my friends Keri and Martti Rahi! I haven't seen them in over 3 years!!! It is going to be awesome!! Things are just going great!!

I hope all of you out there are just as happy with life as I am!!!

5K and halloween fun

So last weekend I went to Logan, it is fast becoming one of my favorite places, with some of my favorite people there!! I got there Friday afternoon, and spent the evening with my brother Paul and his family, they had the missionaries over, and I actually knew one of the missionaries sisters... it was really weird, small world! Then Saturday morning I woke up bright and early and went to pick up one of my best friends, Ericca, and we went to the FSA (families supporting adoption) 5k, now I was just going to support a good cause and get a free t-shirt ;). I had full intentions of just walking the 5k, and my sil Andrea told me that there would be other people walking, no such luck! Ericca and I were the only ones who walked the 5K, so needless to say we ended up dead last, in fact by the time we got back, they were handing out the prizes!! It was fun though, and I had a great time walking with my friend Ericca and catching up on life! So after that I dropped her off at her house and ran back to my brothers house to get cleaned up, and then I was headed over to one of my old roommates houses, Heather. Ericca, Heather and I all lived together our freshman year, I haven't seen Heather since before my mission, and since that time she has had a little baby boy, and is now pregnant with a little girl! It was crazy to see her with her little growing family, and as luck would have it, her twin sister Holly came over, so I got to see her too!! Since the last time I saw her she has gotten married and had a little baby boy as well! It was so much fun catching up and spending time with old friends!! I hope to be able to see them again soon!
We ate lunch at Heathers house, and then we took their boys to a Halloween carnival at USU, it was fun to watch their little boys play together! After that we took them to Lee's grocery store to go trick or treating!! I then had to run back to my brothers house, and as soon as I got there we loaded Jonas up into the car and took him to Macy's to go trick or treating, if anyone is wondering for next year, go to Lee's they have a much better set up for trick or treating! After Macy's we went back to their church building for their trunk or treat, we missed the trick or treating part, but got their just in time for the chili dinner, it was good, and Jonas had a good time running around in his cute Dragon costume! After the trunk or treat we took him around the neighborhood to go trick or treating the old fashioned way! He really understood the meaning of Halloween, after every house he would say, get more!!!
After all the trick or treating fun Andrea and I took him over to her mom's house (so I could drop off my laundry:)) and then after spending some time there we left to go to walmart to do real grocery shopping, it was a fun experience with Jonas running circles around us all hopped up on sugar-- it was a great form of birth control ;)!! We got home late, and I went straight to bed. The next morning, Sunday we spent our time before church cooking a bunch of meals for me to freeze and take back to school with me, I'm really happy about this because now I have meals to eat and I don't have to worry about doing any cooking!! After church we finished cooking the meals and then I loaded up my car and we headed over to Andrea's parents house for dinner, after dinner all the kids dressed up in their costumes and went "trick or treating" around the house!! I unfortunately couldn't stay to watch, but when I left all the kids were running around the house like crazy people! It looked like a lot of fun! But I had to head on back to Rexburg :(!! I'm already trying to figure out when I can make it back to Logan!!
For those of you who don't know, as of right now my plan is to move to Logan once I finish with school! I'm hoping to finish all my classes in the summer of 2012, and then I will do an internship in Logan the fall semester, then I will graduate in December of 2012, then hopefully wherever I did my internship I can get a job through them, and I will stay there in Logan and start my masters program the following fall semester! I really hope this all works out! I'm really looking forward to it! I'm really excited because when I move to Logan I will either be getting a place of my own, or I will live with just one or 2 other people, which will be such a nice change from living with 6 girls!
This past weekend there has been some major drama in my apartment, I still don't even really understand what happened! And as I was thinking about it, I realized I NEVER had drama with my roommate Kim, and it was just me and her that lived together, so I count down the days until I no longer have to live in an apartment with so many girls!!
All I can say is this semester can't end fast enough!! When I come back to Rexburg in the summer, I will be living with just 3 other girls, hopefully there will be less drama!!
Welp I should probably end this, I have procrastinated doing my homework for long enough!!

Weekend fun

Well it has been a little while since I posted, I don't post very often because my life is very boring, and well no one reads my blog, so I don't feel very motivated to write in it! I have been up to my usual, studying!! I have actually finally caught up, and even gotten ahead in all of my classes!! I'm also proud to say I have A's in all of my classes up to this point, and well I'm hoping to keep it that way!! I have been having fun to though, don't worry!! I went with my cousin Barbara this weekend to Idaho Falls and we had fun walking around the mall and then we went out to eat, which was my favorite part because I found out Idaho Falls has a cafe rio, only one of my favorite restuarants of all time!! Friday night I also went to guitars unplugged and had fun dancing and enjoying all the acts. I then spent the whole day saturday cleaning my apartment, and I mean really cleaning and scrubbing!! I felt very accomplished that night as I went to Stake conference because my house was clean and sparkly, all my homework was done, all my clothes were clean and folded, and I was able to just come home and relax and watch a movie!! I love that feeling!!
So I am feeling a little frustrated, I have been really trying to watch what I eat lately, I have told most of my roommates, and they seemed very supportive, but lately they have been making treats like cinnamon rolls, and bringing home candy to share, which would be nice, but it is so hard for me to say no to things like that, that i love, and well NONE of my roommates eats sweets, so they just sit their on the counter staring me in the face, in fact one of my roommates gave me a bag of halloween candy her mom sent for all of us roommates, she said she gave me the bag because no one else eats sweets... I was like um I don't either remember I'm trying to be good, and she was like well yeah I know. so the bag has been sitting on my desk un touched for the past 2 weeks, i plan on just taking it to my nephew this weekend and giving it to him for halloween. Then tonight my roommate make a HUGE thing of cinnamon rolls, I mean there must have been like 30-40 rolls that she made, all for our little FHE group. I asked her not to bring any home unless she and her sister were planning on eating them. Well of course they come home with a full tray, that will just sit on my table staring me in the face until they either go bad or someone gives them away!! I'm just feeling really irritated because I feel like the people who would support me in my goals, are just trying to put as much temptation in my way as possible!!
Well on a lighter note; today has been a crazy day, I walked up to campus, which is different, I usually drive because I live so far away, but I wanted to be good and get some exercise! I had 2 great classes, then I went to the library to get all my homework done, it was great I didn't expect to get as much done as I did! I was supposed to go to the gym with my cousin Barb, but she wasn't feeling well so I just stayed in the library studying, and I'm happy to say I got all my English homework done for the WEEK!!! I was so happy! When I finished all of that I came home, had some lunch and went to my room and decided to do a workout video, I put in Jillian Michaels 30 day shred, and it kicked my trash, but I was still asking for more, so I put in my other video turbo jam, I hadn't done it in so long, and I forgot how much i love it!! It is funny, Jillian and Turbo Jam are the same length, but for some reason turbo jam feels like it goes by a lot faster, it is just so much fun it hardly feels like exercise (oh but the next day my body is sure gonna feel it!!) It felt so good to exercise, I have been so caught up in doing well in school that I haven't really given exercise its proper due, but I just felt so good and happy and alive after I finished that it is my goal to put exercising as a priority!!
Well now I am just in my room writing in my blog, I started working on a paper I need to write for my New Testament class, it is on obedience. It really is one of my favorite topics, and it wouldn't be hard to just give a talk on it, but I have to write it out word for word and turn it in, which is hard for me because I don't like writing out my talks, and I have no idea how to start it! But it will be fun to write once I get past the initial hard part!
Well this post is sufficiently long enough!! I think i will end this and go to bed!!!

School School and more School

So I have been so busy with school lately, I don't remember ever spending so much time in the library or studying, it is just crazy! I remember before my mission I would just kind of slack off but still get good grades, I don't know if my ability to slack and still get good grades is gone, or simply if my ability to slack has worn off!! I spend all my time in the library or in my room studying, I haven't had time for any social fun at all, of course that has in part to do with the fact that I am almost always going out of town on the weekends!! In fact my original plan was to go out of town this weekend, but I decided to sacrifice this mini road trip to stay in Rexburg for a weekend, I think I'm going to go to Latin dancing, you know try and be social and meet new people!
I do love my classes though, well except for my English class, that one sucks!! But my child development classes and Spanish class are awesome! I'm learning so much and I love it! I'm so excited about the major I have chosen, I just can't wait to start really getting into my sociology classes, I feel like they will be hard, but a lot of fun! I just love to learn!!
So something I have been looking into and planning on is going back to Argentina! I have talked it over with a few of my teachers here at BYU-I and I will either be going in January or August to do an internship in Buenos Aires, and the cool thing is I will be living with a family from my mission! I'm so excited about going back, right now I'm just trying to decide which semester will be best!! Both semesters have pros and cons to them, I've decided I'm gonna go to the temple tomorrow and try to figure everything out, because if I'm going to go in January I need to get everything filled out and sent in quickly!
Well I think I'm going to end this post, and go slack off, I don't have anything due for a couple of days and I was planning on studying, but I'm going to go and slack a little, I haven't really watched tv in a long time! Maybe I will do that for a little while!!

Mini Roadtrip

Well this weekend I went to Utah with 3 of my roommates, it was a lot of fun, the 4 of us get along great and we really enjoyed each others company on the drive, then we all sort of went our separate ways, 2 of them are sisters, we dropped them off at their older sisters house, and then Ladd and I went to her fiancee's house and there we stayed the night, the next day I went on to Provo and saw a few friends and then enjoyed the Relief Society broadcast, it was AMAZING!! Really it was just what I needed to hear!! Then after the broadcast I went out to dinner with some of my old MTC group, it was great seeing them after 2 years!! We had a really good time, well this morning we went to church and then came home, it was a fun little trip all in all, I'm just not ready to start school back up this week! Ever since I've started I have been going going going all day long, just studying non stop and waking up super early and all that fun stuff. I got all my homework done before we left for Utah so I wouldn't have to worry about it at all this weekend, and man it was sooo nice being able to sleep in, take a nap if I wanted to, and not having to worry about getting assignments in, I'm so not ready for the week to start back up again, living in the library, and not getting enough sleep... but well that is the life of a student!!
I do love school though, even with all the stress, I love to learn new things, it is just so exciting!!
Welp I should probably end this now, since it is pretty late, and I have to wake up early tomorrow!!

Back to School

Well I made it safe and sound out to Idaho, it was a super long trip, my old mission companion, now roommate Ladd flew from Vermont to Kentucky to help me drive out, it was great seeing her and being able to show her around Kentucky! We drove straight through, so we were in a car for 26 hours straight!! But I'm glad we did it that way because I hate stopping, its like prolonging the agony. We drove to Logan and stopped for the night at my brothers house, she left me the next morning to spend the weekend with her fiancee in Provo, and I stayed in Logan on Tuesday trying to catch up on my sleep a little, and getting to spend time with my sister-in-law and cute little nephew Jonas!! I was very excited to eat at Cafe Rio for lunch, pretty much one of my favorite places EVER!! Then that night I was able to have dinner at my friend Ericca's house, it was great I hadn't seen her since before my mission, and I love her and her family, they invited me over for dinner and then Ericca and I went to her institute class, I ended the night with her treating me to a really great ice cream place, it was fantastic! I'm so spoiled to have such great friends and family!
So then Wednesday I woke up early in the morning and drove the rest of the way to Rexburg and got to see my cousin Barbara and her husband, they came and helped me unpack my car and then I spent the rest of the day unpacking and getting things all organized!! Then Thursday I had no time for rest, I started classes right away, and I have been going strong ever since! I haven't had time to sit for even a second and just relax!! I started out taking 18 credits, after adding and dropping classes I'm now down to 12, haha and one of them is an online class, so I'm done with class everyday by like 11:15, it is great!! The only thing is all of my classes have a TON of work to do! I'm going to be living in the library this semester, and no one is going to be able to believe that!
I also was able to finally decide on a major, and I'm so excited about it, I am now a Sociology major and I am clustering in Spanish and Child development, I want to be able to work with adoption agencies around the world, more specifically central and south america! I'm really excited and as far as I have figured out I should be done with school by spring of 2012, yeah I know its far away, but hey that is what happens when you dilly dally and can't decide on a major! But I'm hoping school will go by quickly, I'm so ready to be done!!
So talking about school I am so frustrated, well I'm trying to turn over a new leaf and get things done early so I don't have to stress about procrastination and stuff like that, but like I said this week has been crazy and despite my best efforts I find myself falling behind! Well I was so tired last night that I decided to go to bed early, like 9pm early, and I decided to wake up at 5:30am to work on my homework, well much to my surprise I did wake up that early and I went to do my homework only to find out the school website is down, EVERYWHERE!! So I did what I could without the internet, which really isn't much! Then I came on campus hoping things would be different here, no such luck! They say it should be up and running soon, but I'm here in the library waiting for it to come back up, and it still hasn't and my class starts in half an hour! I have my stuff done for this class, but my class right after it is the problem, its my spanish class and the homework usually takes me a couple of hours to do, well I can't even access it, so I'm hoping he doesn't collect the homework today, he says he only collects it every so often but it is always the day you least expect... so I just KNOW with my luck he will decide to collect the homework today! I'm praying hard that he doesn't though!
Well this is a very long post, I guess I didn't realize how much has been going on in my life, and I really haven't even brushed the surface!! One exciting thing is I have a new calling, I was called to be the second counselor in the Relief Society presidency, a little stressful, but well the others in my presidency seem awesome so I'm really excited to work with them! I love living with Ladd, she just got here on monday, and it has been so much fun! I'm also excited for next semester because I'm going to be living with my friend Emily Cotton, probably one of the best people I know!!
Well that is all I have to say for now I guess, heres to a better day today and getting caught up on homework!!
CHAU!!

MOVING!!!

Well I'm still trying to figure things out about this blog, one day I will have it looking all cute and set to my personality! But the blog has taken a back burner spot because I am currently in the process of moving! The time has finally come after almost 6 months of waiting, I am headed out to Idaho to go to school! I'm so excited, a little nervous too because I haven't gone to school in 2 years, and I haven't been at BYU-Idaho in like 4 years!! And I'm totally not used to the cold weather, I've been packing all my stuff this morning, and looking at all my old winter clothes that I haven't seen in years! I'm really going to freeze to death! But I am so excited to get out there and reconnect with old friends and make new ones!! I love new beginnings!!
So I don't know when my next post will be, but I know I will no longer be in Kentucky when I make it!! Here is to happy packing, and traveling and then unpacking!!

Welcome to the world of blogging

Well I have been feeling like starting my own blog for a while now, but I haven't followed through with the thought until now! I enjoy reading other peoples blogs and decided to finally take the plunge and join the wonderful world of blogging! My only fear is my life really isn't that exciting, and I probably won't have much to say, but well good thing this blog thing is free!! I can't wait get my blog all pretty and personalized!! I hope you all enjoy!!!