Cuz we'll always be cougars

Okay, okay, I'm sure half the world has already seen all of these videos, but in light that ROC passes went on sell today and I'll be heading back to BYU (and BYU sporting events) in like three weeks (!!!!!) I have decided to share these uplifting Divine Comedy Music Videos:

Fail:

Good:

and last of all (of those I wanted to post...) Cougars:

I may or may not be completely and utterly excited to return to Provo.
Okay you got me. I am BEYOND excited. At this point on instagram I would use #hashtags... and if I did it would look like this:

#byu
#immacougar
#iamsoexcitedtogobackilovebyusomuch
#butimkindascaredofschoolsinceivemisseditforabout2yearsnow

When I collect my ROC pass in these next few days there will be photos of me being overwhelmed with joy. Be prepared.

Missionary Pictures, the 19 year old, and General Conference, OH MY!

So the other week my lovely friend Sydney came and visited me and took some pictures of me at the Draper Utah Temple. And not that I usually like to post pictures of myself on here but she did such a good job that I decided that I would post some of them on here after a few other things:

First:
I'm 19 now!!! Officially old enough to serve my Mission now. We pretty much celebrated my birthday on the 4th so activities wouldn't collide with Conference. It was a an awesome day spent with my family and with a victory from my BYU Cougars over the Aggies that was an extra present I very much enjoyed(; Saturday was my actually birthday and although I am now 19 it didn't really feel that different than 18 at first... I guess that "whole year older and WISER" thing didn't really happen when I woke up that morning.  Luckily, it was the start of General Conference, which helped with becoming "wiser."
Also, between sessions my family surprised me with a special gift, a two hour present named Waldo, an energetic puppy from Rent a Puppy, he was so much fun.

Second:
As mentioned before General Conference was two weeks ago (one my birthday!!!) I love General Conference. It is such a blessing to me that we have the opportunity each 6 months to gather together as a whole church and to hear the word of God through the voice of His servants.
Also I just love how much the General Authorities love their spouses. The way they talk with such adoration about them makes me so happy.
I summery I just love Conference, it brings me so much joy and extra peace and strength that I need in this insane world. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the true church on the earth and I am so grateful to be blessed to have had it in my life forever. I love this gospel!

Yup!

And now, some pictures! All credit goes to Sydney Stout check out her page!

lastly, some people have asked me to post pictures of all my Mission outfits... I don't know if I will because I already posted where I found stuff but we'll see!

Until next time! Adios!

sometimes it's hard to "hold [my] tongue"

But only sometimes.
Like for instance yesterday at the BYU game.
Now I am not someone who "boos" at Refs (come on guys that's like elementary school and I don't think I did it then either,) I don't complain about the players--everyone makes mistakes, everybody has those days, everybody knows what I'm talking about, everyone gets that way. But seriously! Mistakes happen, nobody's perfect. And I certainly do not criticize the coaches, I would never be able to do a better job then them and I don't think you could either (man who is yelling at Bronco up a few rows.)
Okay, and obviously I'm not the perfect fan either but the reason I go to games is to support my team, to cheer them on, and yell as loud as I can on 3rd Down Stops.
The first line of the Fight Song is "Oh, Rise all LOYAL Cougars..." Loyal. Not fickle, not fair-weather fans, LOYAL. And so I think there should be no name calling or yelling at the coaches or being the girl in front of us clapping for MT's Field Goal and then saying to her sister 'We're just going to lose anyway." NO!

Anyway, story.
A few rows in front of us were some men either in their late 20's or early 30's who were being kind of silly at the beginning of the game but then got kind of mean later. One of them had red hair and was being exceptional rude and it was getting on my nerves. At one point he yelled "Coach! Put in Hoffman!" Then I yelled to him "Hoffman suspended himself!" (of course I'm sad about that but I had to inform this guy right?) Then I was shocked, I never yell at other fans, never. Scary!
Later in the game he was being ridiculous again and I was about to yell, "Hey! Carrots! (as in from Anne of Green Gables expect not at all like what Gilbert was trying to do) Sit down!" But I used all my inner strength to not say it, although it would've been good.

So moral of this post is, don't be a fair-weathered fan be loyal. And even when people are being awful just try to hold your tongue.

what do you do in the s-autumn time?

so here's the thing... my summer has been pretty much taken up by this massive, amazing, totally new experience of a play. (Community Theater is a completely different thing than school plays I discovered)
Annnnyway... Although I went to girl's camp, EFY, and Trek it hasn't really felt like summer to me; no matter how many shaved ice shacks I go to or how many times I went to the pool.
With so many of my friends working it's sort of just been "meh."

Until this week. Now it actually feels like summer to me. (took it long enough. since, oh you know, school starts in a week.)

why has summer finally hit me?
-laying in grass
-chalking sidewalks
-swinging
-singing show tunes
and
-having absolutely no sense of time whatsoever.

best possible way to spend my day? ooohhh yes(:
IT WAS WONDERFUL!!!!!
(thanks Macey for hanging out with me)

But as I said earlier, summer is almost over and soon it will be Autumn (which is my favorite season) but with my favorite things starting,
-high school football
-jumping in leafs
and
-college football
it has kind of showed me how little of a summer I've really had.
and now a large chunk of my friends are off to college.
like her...

Sad isn't it.