Fun week

On Wednesday this past week, Grant and I went to Spanish class in the afternoon as we always do. My teacher always asks for "juicy news," and on Wednesday she asked Grant if he had any. He said that he had two dates for Friday with the same girl. Pretty much the whole class knew he was talking about me, so they jokingly asked "Who is she?" Grant said "una chica muy especial." :) Then, two people who definitely know we're dating kept pressuring Grant and asking what "her" name was, but he managed to ignore them. Then Sister Deaton (our teacher) told him that he should bring "her" to class sometime, and he said "I already did!" She asked when, and he said "Every day." By then, everyone in the class was pointing at me, and Sister Deaton finally figured it out. She gasped and said "Amy! You lied to me! We need to talk!" She also said, "Amy, I have power over him. If he behaves badly, I can give him an F." It was super funny.

On Friday, Grant and I went to something called Comedy Sportz with his roommate Reuben and his date. It's basically a show with improv comedy, and there are two teams that compete against each other to be funnier. It was HILARIOUS. The show went until about 12:30, so we called it a night after that. 

On Saturday, Grant and I went to D.I. together to buy some old, cheap clothes that we could get ruined. We went to the Festival of Colors that afternoon with a few of Grant's friends from his ward. The festival takes place at the Hare Krishna temple in Spanish Fork (about a 20 minute drive away). We had to wear old clothes because the festival consists of tons of people throwing chalk at each other. At one point, we were part of a jumping and dancing mosh pit and we got owned by chalk -- you'll see in the pictures :)

 Rose and Taylor (a couple from Grant's ward) and Grant and me:

 Ash, Sarah, Amber, Maddie, Grant, and me (they are all in Grant's ward, too):

 Rose, Taylor, Grant, and me again:

We had tons of fun at the Festival of Colors (or FOC, as Grant called it :)

When we were walking back from the festival, a young boy told me "Stay beautiful, ma'am!" Haha I thought it was a cute compliment. When we got back around 6 pm, I watched the General Women's Meeting with Amelia and Meredith. They both stared at me like deer in the headlights when they saw how covered in chalk I was. 

Today I went to church, where we had a testimony meeting that was really uplifting. And tonight at midnight I register for my fall classes! Hope everyone had a great week!

Visit from the family!

Sorry I haven't posted anything in so long, but I had a good reason: Mom, Dad, and Josh came to visit me for their spring break! They got to Provo in the evening of March 14, so I met them at their hotel. We went to Krispy Kreme and got fresh donuts straight off the conveyor belt, went swimming, talked, and then I went back to my dorm to go to bed.
On Saturday, they picked me up and we went to take a tour of campus. We visited the Eyring Science Center, the library (Josh wanted to look at science books), and then we went to the Wilk to play pool in the basement. At 12, we left to pick up Grant from his apartment. We took him to lunch with us at Olive Garden and it was a lot of fun! He got along really well with everyone and we had a fun conversation. Plus, he told Mom and Dad that "Amy is a wonderful girl," which made me happy :) After lunch, we dropped him off and drove to Salt Lake to visit the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit. It sounded really cool, as it has a bunch of religious documents from 2000 BC, but it turned out to be pretty dang boring. Josh and I were counting the seconds until we could escape, and even Dad admitted that he was bored. We drove back to Provo afterwards and had a delicious dinner at Cafe Rio, then we played some more pool and ping-pong in the Wilk. After that, we swam at the hotel and then called it a night.
The next morning, I had to play the piano in sacrament meeting, so Mom, Dad, and Josh met me in the JKB for church. They came to Amelia's Sunday School lesson with me and went to Relief Society and Elders Quorum as well. After church, we had lunch in the Cannon center and then spent the afternoon relaxing on a blanket outside because the weather was beautiful. We read books and talked. We ate dinner at IHOP and then they dropped me off at the dorms so I could spend some time with Grant. Sadly, I forgot to take pictures the first weekend they were here, so stay tuned for pictures coming later in the post ;)

The next morning, they flew to Arizona to spend the week there while I was in classes. I had three midterms (Physical Science, World Civilizations, and Book of Mormon) that week, so I spent a lot of time studying and keeping up with my usual homework as well as spending time with Grant and my other friends! The week flew by. The highlight was Friday night: Grant and I drove down to Ogden around 6:30 in order to get there for a comedy show at 8. We decided to go to this show because it was featuring an absolutely hilarious LDS guy named Steve Soelberg who performed at a Humor U show we went to a few weeks ago. The show was so funny! Also, it was fun to be able to talk to Grant during the drive.
Here are Grant and I after the comedy show:

On Saturday around noon, Mom, Dad, and Josh got back in town, so I met them at the P.F. Chang's in the Orem mall, where we had a great lunch. It was fun to catch up with them about their week! After lunch, we went up on campus again to explore the library and play some more pool and ping-pong. Later that afternoon, we went to the Sacred Gifts exhibit at the MOA on campus, which has beautiful paintings of Jesus Christ's life by Carl Bloch and two other amazing artists. We ate dinner at Brick Oven that night, and we swung by Grant's apartment afterwards to donate our leftovers to poor, starving college students (him and his roommate Reuben). :)
Here we are at Brick Oven:

Here are some other pictures of the four of us from that day:

 After dinner, we went to BYU's production of Pride & Prejudice, the play. It was two and a half hours long, and I'll admit that it was slightly boring. Josh kept asking me in Spanish to kill him during the play. Poor Dad and Josh -- they were good sports to go see that with me and Mom. After the play, they headed back to the hotel and I hung out with Grant.

On Sunday, they picked me up and we went to my ward together. After church, we checked out of their hotel, ate at the Cannon center, and sat in my building's lobby, reading books and talking. We took a short drive around Provo to see the new temple that's being built and the apartment I'll be living at in the fall. At 4, I said goodbye to Mom, Dad, and Josh, and they drove to the airport. I am so grateful that they came to visit me! It is always so fun to spend time with them. They are three of the most incredible people in the whole world and I love them with all my heart :)

Another good week

Since I didn't blog last week, I should probably catch up. It was a fairly normal week for the most part. Here are some of my favorite parts:
When I went to buy some food at Taco Bell for lunch one day, I was waiting in line when I noticed one of the workers staring at me. We made eye contact and he raised his eyebrows at me, then he started walking over. I went up to the register because I thought he was going to ring me up, but he said "Oh, I'm not doing the register, I just wanted to tell you that you are beautiful!" I love getting random compliments and it totally made my day.
On Friday (Feb 28th), Grant and I went to see The Secret Life of Walter Mitty at the dollar theater. We ended up hanging out until about 2 am, then he walked me home. It was POURING rain, so we ran around in the rain together and got soaked. It was like a dream come true for me since I love rain (plus rain happens to be super romantic). It was so fun. :)

As for this past week, it's been pretty normal too. For FHE on Monday, we played volleyball on some sand courts here at Helaman halls, but the sand was absolutely freezing. We all thought our feet would go numb at some point but they never did, so we were in pain the whole time. It was fun though. That night, Amelia, Meredith, and I made fools out of ourselves by going to the Creamery in pajamas and buying french toast at 10 pm. We had a blast but we also got some weird looks!

Here we are with our french toast:

On Tuesday, we went to Cold Stone for dessert and it was super delicious! The rest of the week mostly consisted of studying Spanish with Grant every night, doing homework, and other random stuff. On Friday night, Grant and I had a "date night" that included studying for our Spanish test with Martinellis (the sparkling apple cider stuff) and strawberry puffs. I took the test on Saturday and it went super well.

On Saturday night, Grant and I went on a double date with his buddy from back home and a girl he works with (he set the two of them up on a blind date). The four of us went to a Humor U show and then got some ice cream. Then Grant and I said goodbye to them and watched a movie called Rudy. Amelia and Meredith had gone to a dance that night and Amelia met a cute boy there. He invited her to hike the Y after the dance, so she was gone super late and I had to stay up to let her into the building (she had left her ID card in our room and you need it to get into Hinckley after midnight). So we didn't go to sleep until 3:30 am (stupid daylight savings) and had to wake up 4 hours later for church. We're exhausted! But we both had a good weekend.

Since I spend the majority of my time with Grant, I figured I should probably post some pictures of us.

Here's what we do when we get bored of studying in the library:

I hope everyone has a great week! :)

Schoolwork, housing, and a Jazz game

This week has been pretty normal for the most part, and I've been busy with a lot of schoolwork. We had our second midterm in Spanish, which Grant and I studied a lot for. It went really well for both of us (though I did beat him on the test ;). I went to the basketball game on Thursday night with Lauren and Amelia, but I didn't take any pictures. However, the Cougars played Gonzaga (the #25 team in the nation) and won! It was a great game! We had to get there two hours early to get seats in the student section. The whole Marriott center was packed and riled up :)

On Saturday morning, I woke up at 4:20 am to get to Monticello apartments by 5 am with my friends. We decided that we want to live there, and the new tenant signings were at 9 am. It's very competitive to get into Monticello, which is why we decided to get there so early. Lots of people even camped out! I went with Amelia, Meredith, Mikayla, and Lauren. We waited in the cold for four hours until they started the signings, then finally signed our contracts by 11. Amelia, Meredith, and I are sharing an apartment with one other random girl in the fall, and Mikayla and Lauren are sharing the apartment next door, since they are staying for spring and summer also. Monticello seems like a great place to live, and we're really excited about it! It's also a relief to have that huge decision made and out of the way for a while.

When we got back from Monticello, we took a 3-hour nap, due to the fact that we had gotten 4 hours of sleep the night before. After my nap, I showered and got ready, then went to pick up Grant. We drove to Salt Lake, where we went to his older sister Monica's house and I met her and her husband, Thomas, for the first time. Grant's brother Brian and sister-in-law Aubree were also there, but I had met them before. We ate dinner together and then went to the Jazz game, which we unfortunately lost. It was a fun time even though I was really nervous :) We got back to Provo by about 10:30.

This is Aubree, Brian (Grant's brother), Thomas, Monica (Grant's sister), Grant, and me at the Jazz game:

It's been a fun week! I have a couple of midterms coming up and some papers due, so this week will be pretty busy. I hope everyone's doing well! :)

Pictures, as promised

Here are the pictures of me and Grant at Big Band Night :)

(I don't like this one as much because I didn't realize how awkward my hand looked)

Valentine's Day ♥

Sorry I'm a week behind on posting! I've been super busy because...I have a boyfriend now! (as you all already know) :) Grant and I made it official! We spend a lot of time together, and when we're not together, I'm doing homework or hanging out with other friends. Since Friday was Valentine's Day, Grant gave me a beautiful rose and some chocolates. Here it is:

Grant had been planning a surprise for Saturday, so we didn't do anything particularly special on Friday. We played some pool, had dinner together, went to a fun arcade called Nickel City, and watched a movie. At the arcade, we won tons of tickets and Grant let me pick out a prize. I got this cute bear (or is it a mouse...?):

On Saturday, Maria, Clark, Will, Rosie, and Addie came to visit me in Provo! We went swimming at the rec center and then we picked up Grant and went to Chick-Fil-A for lunch. It was so nice of them to come visit and it meant the world to me :) Unfortunately, I did not take any pictures.

On Saturday night for his big surprise, Grant took me to an on-campus event called Big Band Night. It was a fancy thing where they served us dinner and then had the BYU Synthesis band perform 1940's-style music that was kind of like jazz/swing. Everyone was dressed up nice and danced to the band's live music. We had a really good time and we somehow ended up being the only ones at our table even though each one seated about 10 people! We got pretty lucky :)

Funny story: Grant and I are in the same Spanish class, and our teacher always starts class off by asking if anyone has "juicy news." On Friday, I showed her the flower Grant gave me. However, she doesn't know we're dating and I didn't tell her that it was from him, so when I showed her the rose and told her that a boy gave it to me, she said "tell him I'm very proud of him!" Grant and I were trying not to laugh, and he was tempted to say "gracias!"

I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day! :)

Oh, and by the way, they did take some photos of us at Big Band Night, but they're not up on Facebook yet. Once they are, I'll post them on here!

Fourth week down

This post is going to be short and sweet! I have already finished four weeks of winter semester. This week, I had my first Physical Science test, which went really well! I have a couple more tests coming up during the beginning of this week, so I need to do some studying.

This week, I haven't been up to anything very out of the ordinary. I've been on a few dates with Grant, the guy from my Spanish class. On Friday, we watched a movie and on Saturday, we had an 8-hour date that consisted of pool, shakes, running in the freezing cold from Center Street to the Maeser building, a Humor U show (hence the Maeser building), piano playing, goofing around on Facebook, and watching Sherlock. It was a fun date :) Also, before my date yesterday, Amelia, Meredith, and I toured two different apartment complexes. We'll probably tour a few more during this week so we can start finalizing our options and hopefully sign a contract soon!

So, since my last post had no pictures, I figured I had to put one in this post. Grant did take a terrible picture of us on our date, and as this is the only picture I've been in all week, I guess I have to include it:

I don't know why he decided to make such a weird face, but there we are! 

I hope everyone has a wonderful week :)