friday friday friday!

Today is a great day!

2 great days in a row?! Wow... so great.

Last night was interesting though. Being the activites co-chair is definitely not the easiest calling ever, but i mean... It's fine. It was disastrously fun activity last night! Good thing I live in a great ward that is super easy-going or people would have left or something I'm sure. Oh well, people came, wore green and ate some food so life was good :)

Anyway, today is good day!

 No, not because the Geography TA's don't have hours on Friday.... 

(who doesn't have hours on friday?! There's like 5 of you guys!) 

But because I made some yummy food. Seriously. I stalk food blogs like it's my job and just am always wanting to make yummy dinners but I never seem to have the time! 

BUT today being the wonderful day it is allowed me some time to make some delicious pasta and cheesy potato things.

I made Parmesan Potatoes

and

Quick Pasta Carbonara

Delicious right?! Right! I have been craving some yummy creamy cheesy sauced pasta but am too cheap to buy cheese and cream at the store! But Smith's had a huge sale on cheese and I snagged myself some Parmesan cheese.Then I ran into the dilemma that basically every cream based sauce uses cream... and I didn't have any of that. BUT this amazing recipe right hurr uses cream cheese instead of heavy whipping cream! What, crazy! I know, it sounded a little weird and close to gross... but I decided to try it. And guess what! It was so great! Really, I think this works great in my little college budget! Well, except the cheese part... buts still!! Frozen peas, bacon, and that yummy cream sauce made with cream cheese... Oh so great! I highly recommend it. Plus, anything with bacon in it is just amazing.
Oh and the potatoes were easy cheesy. My mom made some similar all the time, and they are just great! Really, I love them. Super simple, super tasty, super great :)

Anyway. I hope everyone is partyin partyin partyin YEAH on their Friday. Which comes after Thursday.

greenday

I love today. I love seeing everyone walk around looking all festive in green. Why do we even celebrate St. Patrick's day? This isn't Ireland. Why not celebrate all of Switzerland holiday's too eh? Eh? I don't  know but it's great. A great day for a party! Like such as a ward party!! Come to it because we have millions of foods for every single body, errr... every single one of you!! Food for thought: I hate getting ready in the morning, but I love it when I do. Because then I feel all pretty, oh so pretty, for the rest of the day. I hope you are singing that song now! Anyway, today is going great because it started off with my favorite class ever and I already finished my American Heritage essay (holler.) and I am not starving because I made myself a lovely sandwich and I feel pretty. Such a great day is it not?! It is. and Feeling pretty makes every day a great day unless it rains on your feeling pretty self. That ruins it. And, let's just not think about the weekend, because it will be full of boring studying and failing tests. So there, I am done thinking about the weekend until tomorrow when it is the weekend. Tomorrow is Friday Friday Friday, gonna get down on Friidaayyy (oh, the most horrible song on the earth, and I am SURE most of you have heard it by now unless you have been living under a stupid rocks because it all up over the internet and the FB. So for those of you described above currently residing under rocks, I will post this video for you all to enjoy/laugh at. Except I am seriously considering NOT posting it because it will defile my blog, and we wouldn't want that now would we. I think it is time for me to get out of these parenthesis...) But to day is the day of green. And I love green. And the green grass that is growing outside my apartment. Love it. Spring is coming everyone. Springtime, flowers and happiness :)

Oh, and here is the song for all y'all. Super catchy, super bad. Lyrics, voice, cheesyness. Everything.

WHICH SEAT CAN I TAKE?!!

wow.. the troubles plaguing 13 year old children everywhere...

made my day

Every tuesday I go to an elementary school and volunteer at a Kindergarten class. I don't love it, but it isn't the worst thing I have ever done. I think if the teacher wasn't so scary I would like it more! Seriously, she is the scariest kindergarten teacher ever. But I have definitely learned that... 

A. I don't want to be a kindergarten teacher... I can't treat people like they are kids all the time. It's just not me.

B. My kids WILL be smart. We will practice writing and reading at home and they will not be the slow ones who can't focus. I refuse.

And C. I cannot wait to have adorable little kids. Seriously. I hope they have big adroable eyes and cute little clothes on their cute little bodies. Ohh its going to be great :)

Anyway, today the kids were writing/coloring in their journals, and since they aren't the best at writing it can be pretty hilarious. But today my most favorite kid EVER wrote the greatest thing in his journal!! and I quote...

"sno foLen on My heD and rachool heD"

in case you don't read kindergarten it says "snow is falling on my head and on Rachel's head."

and then above it he drew our green bodies with purple snow on them and a blue hat. It was the cutest picture thing ever and my heart melted a little. He says I am his friend and tells me all about his life. It is wonderful.

Seriously, this kid is the cutest.

via

Pray for Japan.

happy birthday to the best mom ever!

Yep today is Pi Day. But most importantly today is my amazing mothers BIRTHDAY! My poor mothers birthday usually gets overlooked and under-celebrated due to the fact that we are almost always traveling on her birthday. It happens to always fall on the weekend before or right during spring break. BUT we all love her still. Yep she is just the best. She is the most self-less person I have ever met and she will probably spend her birthday in the Hospital with Tara getting her infection all checked out.
Growing up I never realized how much moms actually give up. Moms always get the butt of the bread, the last of the dessert or sometimes nothing at all so that the kids can have everything. My mom is the greatest mom ever. If you know her you are a witness that she does 5 million things at the same time and can think at a 100 miles an hour.
The older I get the more I hear, "Wow, she looks just like her mom" or "She is just like Becky" And those are 2 of the biggest compliments I can get. I am proud of the fact that i get my love for deserts from her and thrive off of having 20 million things to do. Actually, I really don't thrive off of that... but that's what happens :)
ANYWAY.
It's my moms birthday and she rocks. Give her a call and let her know how much you love her. Because you probably do. I have never met anyone who doesn't love my mother!

I know right, She doesn't look like a grandma...

I love my momma :)

the sun will come out...

 TOMORROW!!

mmm... yeah :)

If only...

 

It rained like this...

what a weekend!

This week was crazy.

Really, school is definitely starting to get to me... it can be so overwhelming sometimes

But thankgoodness the weekends come to make everything all better!!

Friday:: My dearest Becca Hitchcock came to town!

We went to Zupas for lunch 

(oh my goodness so much tasty. If you have never been there, go now. It's fantastic.)

That night we went to her cousins wedding reception. It was darling and had some yummy punch and yogurt clusters with candied nuts/pretzels/marshmallows inside. Seriously, yogurt clusters are the bomb. I ate too many, thats for sure.

ZUPAS!!! I'm drooling thinking about this place.

don't you test these besties

sassafrass

My feet were hurting so unbelievably bad because I murdered my toe.

See?

and please don't judge my nastynast feet...

Yeah, I fell up the stairs to my apartment. Not only was it incredibly embarrassing. But it hurt too.

So after the reception I just couldn't do it anymore and had to take my shoe off. Heels and a torn up toe don't go too well... I may have looked like a complete idiot but ... Problem solved :)

Saturday::

I had an intermural game. So fun.

Went to Gma&Gpa Schlappi's and hung out with the family/watched BYU own wyoming. Such a great game.

Then we all got together like the good ol' days. 2 things.

1. Sammy's is delicious. I had never been there before... Oh yes.

2. I miss all these girls so much. High School was so great. and now we all have our own crazy lives and never see eachother. So this was a great and much needed night.

So happy together again :)

Anyway, I love my weekends. They really save my life
AND I have had the best weekends lately.
Seriously, lets think about my past weekends
I went home, then Disneyland, last weekend Drew came to town AND I went to the ice castles, this weekend BECCA was here. Hallelujah and THIS weekend I am going to Vegas for the tournament and to see my wonderful family.
Woah baby. 

What a wonderful life :)

all growed up.

Here at the callege I have learned myself quite a bit of knowledge... 

Really, thanks parents making me stay in school so I could get here.

 I have learned lots of sturff all about liquid nitrogen, George Washington, food, and ya know, the basics :)

But today I learned something new... something life changing. 

And I'm about to share with you all the knowledge I gained today. 

Are you ready for this?!

Never be optimistic while getting dressed in the morning.

Why? Because the weather man will hate you. 

And I know, I know, being optimistic is great! 

But today I learned the hard way that being optimistic while deciding how to dress that day is no bueno...

Here's the story:

This morning  I did my usual morning procedure that consists of looking out the window right when I wake up and then checking the weather before I clothe myself. AND even though it was clearly cloudy in the outside (ha, clearly cloudy... that's weird) and the weather said 90% chance of rain, I  decided that I would ignore all those minor details and dress like I was going to be frolicking around campus in the fabulous weather that we were blessed with yesterday :)

Because we all know yesterday's weather was amazing.

Anyway... Moral of the Story is:

I froze and got rained on today whillist not wearing adequate clothing. Not fun.

I think it's time for mom to come up here to putah and remind me how to clothe myself...

just another update on my amazing life...

Rrready?

This weekend was a success.

It started out with a movie night. We had to make our own entertainment center since we don't have a dvd player... it's quite sad, but it worked. Ha, also I don't recommend this movie.... it was decent, just not great. I'll probably forget what it was all about in a month or so. But, it was fun nonetheless to eat mint chocolate chip ice cream and snuggle in blankets with my awesome roommmie Val.

Saturday it snowed.

AND lookit what we found outside our apartment! Super cute right? Uh, yeah... BYU is a great environment

 oh and we bought these awesome BYU walmart wannabe chuck taylors. Just supportin our Cougars!

Aren't they great? Yeah, they are

Don't ask me why, but I was loving the snow! Don't worry though... it'll probably never happen again.

Later we got to go sledding with two of my most favorite people on earth.

 Yep, the Drew Hooper came to provo for the weekend! He's coming up to the Y next fall and wanted to come hang out for the weekend. Val and I were lucky enough to hang out with him and preston for 2 hours. It was great.

Then we made this huge beyond huge snowman.

Okayy, I lied. We didn't make it. BUT it's GINORMOUS yeah?!

aren't we just the cutest? yeppp

see all that snow on his face? I think it's safe to say I won the snowball fight :)

Saturday night we continued the snow activities and went with a bunch of people to the Ice Castles in Midway. You all should go because A. They are cool and B. They are cool.

Lastlyy on Tuesday night, aka last night we went to the ReAL Salt Lake game!! 

Travis came with and it was a blast and a half.

Thank goodness for Val bringing a blanket and letting me wear this beanie because I'm sure it was like -20 outside. I froze.

Anyway. This was definitely a picture overdose butttt life has just been so good to me lately so I had to share!!

Now off to writing my essay on abortion that I am not very excited about... 

I am more than willing to let someone write it for me. Any takers?!