A Night of Bliss . . . Almost

Hello all you people.

So, as most of you know, it snowed... a lot. For FHE last night we went to Rock Canyon Park by the Provo Temple and went sledding. Me and the other "group leader" went out and bought some round disc things. We had like relay races and me and another girl tried to snowboard... wasn't enough snow. It worked if I went down straight, but if you tried to turn it just dug into the grass. But it was still fun. Then when I went home I was checking the mail. I had my mail key which is attached to this like long metal bar thing. So I thought I would write Hi Brad in the snow and take a picture and send it cause he really likes pictures. It took me like... forever. But it was better than studying. Don't worry I still went to the library till 11:30. Anyway here are some of the pictures I took from last night.

Oh, I also added some from Sunday night when we were in Salt Lake for the 1st Presidency Christmas Devotional. We walked around Temple Square for a bit after to see the Christmas lights.

(Some of our FHE group)

(It reads : Hi Brad)

(Temple Square reflection pond)



(One of the trees at Temple Square)

!!!!!

IT'S ALMOST CHRISTMAS! .... that's all I have to say.

Procrastination . . .

Right now I am procrastinating. I am at the library "doing homework". But I'm so frustrated with this assignment my brain hurts. I just want to go home and watch a movie and eat something that I didn't make because I don't enjoy my own cooking. (By the way, my hate for red meat is confirmed... in fact I don't hate it, I DESPISE IT! UCK!) Does anyone have any words of wisdom for me?

Oh, I did just see a funny thing in my notes I wrote down that Dr. Crandall said today in class. He was talking about kinship and how the people we are closest to can bring us so much joy and yet so much pain at the same time. He said, "highest highs and lowest lows, though not drug induced." Hahahahaha! Then he was using this kid as an example and he said, "Ben's old enough to marry aren't you Ben? Ah, gentle Ben." hahahaha, that makes me feel a little better.

I'm Coming Home!

Hello all you people that I love!

I am coming home to see you now. I am on a plane... in the SKY! Flying over Colorado! Our plane has WiFi so I decided to document this really cool moment with a blog post. I know I just sent you all an email, but isn't this really cool?! I think so. I love modern technology!
ok well, see you all tonight, well not all of you, but I will see mom tonight.
:)
Happy Thanksgiving!

"My Favorite Things"

Some of the things that I love/appreciate/am thankful for etc.:

DISCLAIMER: THIS MAY BE ONLY FUNNY TO ME. BUT I WANT TO REMEMBER IT SO I AM POSTING IT HERE ANYWAY. k, now you may proceed.

1. The Smell of The Home Depot- a bit strange, yes, but Christy and I were in Home Depot today seeing how much she got for her gift card from College Game Day (Which was only $1...sad day) and a plethora of smells overcame me when I walked in: wood, flowers, electronics, cologne... It is hard to describe, but if you want to find out for yourself, just take a quick stop in Home Depot next time you're by one. You will NOT be disappointed!
2. Meteor Showers. I saw my first meteor shower/shooting star on Monday night. It. Was. AWESOME! Also, the other day there was a Meteor flash of light. It was HUGE, and lit up the entire sky like it was the middle of the day. People saw it in Nevada and California too I think. You have to watch this video. It's amazing!
   
3. My Anthropology teacher, Dr. Crandall. He is probably one of the most misunderstood men I have ever met. Most people think that class is boring. I, on the other hand, find great joy every Monday and Wednesday when I sit on the 5th row and just watch and listen to his strange but funny things he says. One thing I cannot convey on here is how he talks. It is unlike anyone I have ever met. He has an accent that I am pretty sure he fakes. I have never heard anything like it. It's not like British, but sort of like how a proper person should speak... ??? I don't know how to explain it, maybe one day I will TRY to do an impression for you. But I have tried many times and still can't get it right. Anyway, here are some examples of funny things I remember him saying:

• Once he was talking about childbirth among the Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert and he asked the class: "Has anyone here ever given childbirth? [No answer]. No? Well! Pleasant things await you. (BBBAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!)

• The Monday after Halloween, I was waiting for class to start, Dr. Crandall was talking to this guy sitting in front of me. He asked, "Were you a good boy on Halloween?" This kid was like 19 and he's asking if he was a good boy, he was talking to him like he was talking to a 6 year old.
  

• Ohh yes, this is a good one. Ok so one day a week or 2 ago he was talking about something boring probably, I can't remember. But all of the sudden as he was in the middle of his lecture, some kid way in the back of the auditorium just burst out into a laughter of about 5 HA's. Like really loud! Like this HA HA HA HA HA! It was strange. So Dr. Crandall stops talking, looks out into the audience of students with this very strange look on his face. He didn't say anything for about 15 seconds which is a long time when you're in a lecture. Then says, "What was THAT?" He then waited for a couple more seconds and said, "He must be watching a movie on his laptop." (HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I am literally LAUGHING OUT LOUD RIGHT NOW!!!)
  

• About a month ago the TA's started doing iclicker quizzes in class. So the first quiz we took only about 55% of the people got the answer right. So Dr. Crandall looks at the results and says, "About 55% of you are lying, Ha Ha Ha! (he laughs very proper, its so funny). 25% of you are stupid." (bahahahahaha! that was one of the first funny things he I remember him saying. After that, I knew I liked this man.)

• About a week ago, we were taking another iclicker quiz. He read the question and answer choices out loud and then said, "Well the answer is obvious" (of course it is to him!) Then he waited for people to click in to the quiz and while he was standing there up on stage, bored, he turns to the girl in the front row and said, "What are you eating?" (She answers too soft for us to hear, but he was wearing his microphone and so he was loud.) He says, "A banana? Good for you!" in this proud tone. It was so funny, I just sat there by myself and laughed for a long time.

Ohhh what a funny man! So that is Dr. Crandall. There have been more funny things, well pretty much every day he says something funny. Oh, unrelated to Dr. Crandall, but this lady was subbing for my stats class. She was Asian so she had a bit of an accent. She was talking about getting rats to do experiments and she said, "I know it hurts, but we need the animals for science." BBBAAHAHAHAHAHA!!! that one I laughed till I cried! SO funny! So there are a few things. I will post more things I love/ am thankful for this next week since it is Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving you people!

All The Live Long Day

I just can't stop thinking about snowboarding...

That is all that is going through my head at the moment, and all I have to blog about.

(April of this year. It snowed a ton the day before finals. I took advantage of an opportune moment. Ohhh boy, that was fun)

3 Weeks!

I don't know if any of you are aware...

But I come home 3 weeks from today for Thanksgiving! Zipidy Doo Daa YAY!

Kimmy For Heisman!

So... we had our last flag football game of the regular season on Tuesday. I have been the quarterback for all of our games, even though I would rather be catching the ball instead of throwing. Let me just tell you like a little bit about what we have gone through. Ok? ok.

Well, for starters, we actually have a really athletic team of girls. Everyone who plays has played some sort of sport in high school I think. Which is why I think it is so odd that we have not won a SINGLE GAME! In high school I played wide receiver and even was on the All-County All Star team. (Shocking, I know..) So I am not use the pressure of playing Quarterback. I just like to catch the ball ok? So somehow I got stuck playing Quarterback because I am the best at throwing effectively and accurately. Not gonna lie, my passes are pretty ballin. Other than me as the quarterback everyone else just goes where ever. (Mistake number 1). We had one "practice" before our first game but other than that, nothin. (Mistake number 2). Which equals, no plays. So we just really go out there and I decide if I'm going to pass or hand off and the people that are not the best at catching/running are the vocal ones that always want to catch or run the ball. So I just give up trying and let them do whatever because I don't care. (Mistake number 3. Care more).

Ok, so our last game, only 5 of us showed up. So we played 2 girls down. Now I'm going to ruin the happy ending right now and just tell you we lost. So don't get your hopes up. We're not the Red Sox. (Wrong sport, same idea. Get the picture?) So anyway, we're thinking maybe we should just quit right now. But I needed to get my running in for the day so I just decided Ok, I'm gonna just have fun and not get competitive. (You all KNOW how hard that is. Especially Joe. I now refuse to play tennis with Joseph or dad because they make me so mad when I play). So we were just ya know, out there.. running around... messing around... have fun. So when we get the ball, I only have 1 person blocking for me. I don't know why either of the other 2 that could have blocked didn't... anyway doesn't matter. So just imagine your me ok? You get the ball hiked to you, and you see 3 girls running at you from the left, 2 girls on the right, and then the other 2 are covering my receivers..... HOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL???!!! So I pretty much have to catch, look for where they're going and throw within a matter of 3 seconds. Do you know how hard that is? It was scary. Well thank goodness for my amazing eye to see where my receivers are going, I throw the ball right in front of my right receiver and she catches and out runs the defense. Scoring our first touchdown of the season. Brought a little tear to my eye. So while she is running down the field, I am running after her yelling "YESSSS!! YESSS!! KEEP GOING, KEEP GOING!!! THEY'RE NOT GOING TO CATCH YOU! YESSSS!!" It was beautiful. I threw 2 more touchdowns later that night. One of which was with 15 seconds left in the 1st half, and then again with 3 seconds left in the second half. It was amazing. We got one more too which was pretty amazing. The other team had just scored and they were going for the extra point. Their quarterback threw the ball to the endzone and our girl intercepted it (In THEIR endzone) and then ran alllllll the way down the field to score our touchdown. It was awesome. So we lost but we had a good time doing it. We scored 4 touchdowns, 3 of which I threw. And I even pulled some flags on defense. (Which by the way I hate defense and never played in high school).

So, you can all vote now for Kimmy Meyers for the Girls Flag Football Heisman Award. Or, if you'd like to make a donation, I take cash or checks.

Bread, Soccer, and Cleaning Checks

So, what do these three things (Bread, Soccer and Cleaning) have in common you might ask? Absolutely nothing. Ok, let's start with bread. I, whom am a genius I might add, made my first real loaf of bread on Sunday. I am tired of buying bread and wanted some homemade bread and since Sister Emery can't fly-- let me rephrase that, won't fly-- 3000 miles to make me some bread, I decided to do it myself. If you look at the picture you can see how very large they were. I don't remember them being quite that large when she would make it. But I guess I just put in more love than she usually does. ;)


Soccer. Well, some of you may have seen on Joe and Julie's blog about the Real Salt Lake game they got cheap tickets for. So last night we went. We were worried it would be rainy (since it was raining all day in Provo at least) but it was not even wet there. It was a pretty fun game. We won 2-0. Joe and Julie left 3 minutes before the game ended and just as they got outside of the gate we scored our second goal. It was a cool one too. I don't know how to explain it other than they put it in the net. Sorry. But it was really fun. Joe got a couple cool pictures of us all I think on his camera so check his blog soon for those.
Ah, the stressful time of cleaning checks. So, Tuesday was the horrible day of tests, papers, and cleaning checks. We have heard only HORROR stories from Shelby when she lived here in spring. She told us about how they MADE her stand one foot on the toilet, the other on the bathtub and watched her as she cleaned the ceiling! ....!!!!!! What. The. Heck. So, Allison and I who did not feel like getting charged $30 for failing, cleaned for HOURS upon HOURS! I started at 5 pm and finished around 11 I think. I did have FHE during that but that was only for an hour. So it was like 4 or 5 hours of cleaning people. FOUR OR FIVE HOURSSSS!!!!! Do you even know what this week has been like? It is Mid-term week for me. Self explanatory. So the fact that I even spent that much time cleaning is amazing in and of itself. Anyway, our neighbors came over and were saying how we don't need to clean that much and blah blah blah. And I was getting kind of annoyed because first of all, why would you make fun of someone for being clean????? Does that make sense to anyone else??? And all of you know how clean and tidy I am. Mom tells that story all the time of how before I went to bed in elementary school I would get everything ready for the next day: making my lunch, laying my clothes out that I was going to wear. Even putting each sock in one shoe. (ok, that was a little strange). But I am just a neat and tidy person. I don't like living in a mess. So the fact that people were criticizing me for being clean really just set me off. So, then I come home today from class and find this note on our door: TAKE THAT! . . . [Punch the air] . . . BOO-YA-KA-SHAAA! [Hard-core break dancing is happening right now to the song "I Gotta Feeling"]

So, we won a free pizza from a local place that has pretty good food. But most importantly, we won Respect. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. And a valuable lesson was learned: If you make fun of Kimmy Meyers, you better be ready for God's vengeance. BAAHAHAHA!

:)

So, Peru eh?

So, I think I told most or all of you, but I applied to do a service project thing in Peru through an organization called YouthLINC through the state of Utah.

I'll just tell you / the world a little bit about it. Its July 2 - July 15. I realize I will be missing one important date. Sorry Alicia, I won't be home for your birthday. But it is only 2 weeks after all. Which is what I like about it. It is not all summer so if I get accepted and go I will still get to come home for a month in the summer. There were 4 places I could apply for: Kenya, Thailand, Peru, and Mexico. Kenya was the most expensive one ($25oo) then Thialand and Peru ($15oo) and Mexico ($1000). I talked to dad and he didn't really want me to go to Kenya or Mexico. Too dangerous I guess. I really wanted to go to Thailand, but the Peru one makes more sense. My friend/former roommate Jenny told me about it and she is going to Peru. Thialand is also in the middle of spring term which I will be staying for I think this year. So this way I get to still go to a cool country. One day though I really want to go to do a study abroad for a term like Joe did. I think it would be really cool to go somewhere in Europe.

So what I do if I get accepted is I have to do 80 hours of community service before I can go. And at least 50 hours at one place. Then that place will probably sponsor me to go and then I get/ask other people if they want to sponsor me. (I'm not really good at asking people for money though. So I'm gonna have to think about how to do that one.) So they say about half the kids get enough to cover the entire cost of the trip. Which is exciting so I might get it all paid for. But again, I have to get accepted first so this is still all up in the air. I don't want to get my hopes up too high just in case. But I think it would be cool if I do get to go.

So start saving your pennies people because donations to YouthLINC are tax-deductible. :)
So, what do you guys think?

Hip-hip Hooray!

Guess whaaaaat???

For work I have made 2 Squidoo Lenses. You can submit them to groups to get more traffic and I submitted my first lens when I first made it to a group called, "A Million Ways To Go Green." I forgot about it and didn't even really know what it was doing for my lens anyway. But I was looking around on Squidoo today and was adding my Lenses to more groups. I was looking at the pages and noticed that they have Lens of the week and featured lenses and stuff like that. So I was looking at them for each group and When I got to the last group, A Million Ways To Go Green, (WHICH by the way has millions of Lenses in that group because it is one of the most common ones, hence why I submitted mine to it) I noticed that my Lens was the Green Lens of the Week!! YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! VICTORYYYYYYYY!!
Finally, something has paid off for this job! You all know how frustrated I was at the beginning but things are going pretty good with it now (when I can even find the time to work!). So I was really excited when I saw that. So you all should go and look at my Lens: Green Tips For Kids. Granted it won't really pertain to you, but the more people that just visit my site the better it is for me and my Lens. So heres the link for it Green Tips For Kids

ALSO, you don't want to leave out my other lens do you? It is cooler, in my opinion. But here look at this one too: What Is Geothermal Energy. Just skim through it so you can say you saw it.

And if you want to you can visit our work site. Just so I cover alllll the sites. ;)
http://eggfilters.com
http://eggsupplies.net
http://geothermalsolutions.info
http://georgiageothermal.net
http://geothermalcontractor.info

Cool huh?

Please Feed My Fish!

Joseph and I are sitting here feeding the fish on the Health Pledge blog and I said I wanted it on mine. So, you're jobs are too make sure my fish get fed. It's ok if you don't feed them. They will live FOR-EVERRR! FOR-EVERRR!!

Here's the DL...

Hello fam! (I assume those are the only people who look at this painfully boring blog)

Just wanted to update you on my life.
Well, for starters, I took my first Stat 221 test today. I studied over 8 hours probably closer to 9 and took it tonight and got a 85% on the multiple choice. And there was a written part that I'm pretty sure I showed them wassup cause I ruled that part! It was worth 18 points so maybe I will end up with an A.

ALSO!..... I made my first APPLE pie tonight. Well, it is baking as we speak/type. My roommate allison helped me with it. We are really excited. AND, I only called mom twice for help. Some of you might remember that I made a pie once before in my life. It was the summer before I left for my freshmen year of college, so I guess that would be 2 summers ago. But anyway, I made it for Bishop Schweikert because I "accidentally" might have put his Oakley Sunglasses in Jello (Anyone seen that episode of The Office?) and so I made him a pie. (Don't worry, it was his OLD pair of Oakley's and I think it should be known that he has over 20+ pairs of sunglasses, so if you were thinking about feeling sorry for him, DON'T!) So I made that pie all by myself but I accidentally read the recipe wrong and put 3 Tablespoons of Salt in instead of 3 teaspoons.... oops. So that one didn't even taste good so it doesn't really count. Although that poor family ate it despite the HORRID taste. Poor poor Bishop Schweikert. Anyway, hopefully this one tastes better. I will let you know as soon as I taste it in about 21 minutes and 46 seconds. I'll put a picture of my very FIRST pie though because I forgot to take a picture tonight. I will take one after it is done though. :) K? k.




(Here is the GROSS pie from 2 years ago)

PS... I just checked my pie and I burned my pinky.. OUCH! :(

Rise All Loyal Cougars!

Ok, so I have decided that my loyalty is with BYU since I do attend it. We had a pretty good game yesterday. If only we had played like that last week. PS... Did anyone else know that the BYU/Utah game is over Thanksgiving weekend?!?!?!? AHHH! What do I do, what do I do?!



Some kid gave us balloons. I was really excited.

A Once In A Lifetime Event... no pun intended

What day is today?
Today is Ben's Birthday!
What day is today?
Today is Ben's Birthday!

Just wanted to give a shout out to Ben Johnson!
Have a HAPPY HAPPY Birthday Ben!
Love you!

HOW!?

Does this bug anyone else that we lost to FSU?!?!?!?!? AHHHH! It's more the fact that we could have beat them but we didn't. That and we beat Oklahoma so it just does not make sense we would lose to FSU. I hate losing at home. It is my first time experiencing it in my college career... and ya know what? It stinks. I just need to get this out so thanks for listening guys.
But maybe I will tell people I was secretly rooting for FSU because I'm from Florida. Is that wrong? Alicia would do it. Joe Wouldn't. Mike would have been rooting for FSU anyway. Christy would not have even thought about it. Since I'm most like Alicia I will just take her approach. After all, we are twins aren't we? Separated by................... :)
Yes.

9/11

Here's a Mormon Message from 9/11. I liked it so I thought I'd post it. The man in the video is the father of one of the kids in my statistics class.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkWc_EKLs4E

Let's Start At The Beginning...

It was a cold day in January... I was born. I flew to the end of the table and was yanked back by the umbilical cord. And THAT was the beginning of my adventure days.

Ok, now we will skip 19 years and 8 months ahead.

Christy, Dad, and I had a really fun time on our cross country drive from Florida, "the land of milk and honey", to Utah, the land of the greatest school in the history of the entire world as we know it. It seemed like a long time ago so I can't remember exactly the order of things... which is kind of embarrassing if I accidentally screw up the order of the states we visited. Anyway, we drove and drove till we got to Atlanta. Blah blah blah... Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois (I really should be looking at a map), Missouri. Ok, Missouri. This is where I will really begin.
So, turns out I really really like St. Louis. Who knew? Sure, I was only there for a few minutes, but it was the best few minutes of the day.
Ok, so then that night we spent the night in Independence, Missouri. It was the biggest coolest hotel room ever. Brand new carpet! (I could smell the sweet scent of newly done construction, it was great) That first night I just layed on the ground, spread eagle, then did some exercises because in "the days of the [exercises], were the days of [working out], and Kimmy was Queen of the worker outers!" (anyone know what that is from? haha)
So the next day we visited the visitors center at Independence, saw Liberty Jail, Far West, Adam-ondi-ahman, Winter Quarters, and that one tabernacle that I can't remember the name of right now but where Brigham Young was sustained as President of the Church, and then drove to South Dakota. LONG day, but it was awesome. I think my favorite part was Adam-0ndi-ahman. It was really fascinating to me. If you ask Christy and Dad, I just kept saying, "I have questions about this place, I just don't know what they are." and "I just don't understand." They would say what don't you understand? But I didn't even know what I didn't understand. I think it was just one of those experiences when you know that there is something bigger that you can't comprehend right now, no matter how hard you try. It was so cool there. I really didn't want to leave.
Winter Quarters was really cool too. There is a picture I took with the names of early saints who died and their ages. It really brought it home to know that those were actual people who died. Seeing the name and ages, a lot of them children, was really emotional and sad. But it made me grateful for the pioneers in a way I have never before felt. I was really glad we stopped there. I could go into so much more detail but there isn't room and I'm not sure you would continue to read... if you've even read this far.
The next day we saw Mt. Rushmore. That was pretty cool too. We went hiking and found a bunch of rocks dad wanted to bring home. We got really dirty but it was fun. Then we saw some buffalo, my favorite, and some other animal I can't remember. Elk maybe? Oh and this was the day dad made up the song about me and the chipmonk.... AHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Next day, we went on a hike. It was a pretty area and nice weather.
Over all it was really fun trip and I was sad to see it come to an end. It was a lot of driving but it wasn't terrible. Christy and Dad did a really great job planning it. I think it was a trip the three of us will never forget.

This was my "First Day Of School" Picture
(That's for you mom)

These obviously are in opposite order... I'm still trying to figure this whole blogging thing out









Winter Quarters

Winter Quarters Temple

Adam-Ondi-Ahman

Far West