I'm so glad I live so close to my sister Julie and her family. What better way is there to kick off the season than with a delicious fresh-baked apple pie? (Baked by Julie, no less. That makes it sure to be delicious! And it was.) Yep, you guessed it. There is no better way. :) Other than coupling that with getting to visit with her family!!! We had a concert, watched silly videos on bestofyoutube.com, and watched Toy Story 3!
I made these for Sarah. Shhh! Don't tell! They have her initials on the back.
Meet Penelope! She's a 2000 Ford Focus. What a steal, for $2,500. Even better- Mom and Dad bought her. I just get to use her.
I'm pretty sure she'll have a name change when Dad starts driving her.

Snow!

Is it snowing yet?

Now?

Third time's the charm!

I went to visit Julie and her family on Saturday and we took down the trampoline to get ready for winter. Julie said, "Ok. I'm ready. It can snow now." Then I made snowflakes Sunday night, and woke up on Monday to: Winter Wonderla.... Ok, so it was just Rexburg.

Crafts, snow, and Halloween fun

"Oh! My beauty spot!"
1920s Flapper girl, if you haven't guessed yet.
Grocery bags have many uses!

In honor of the snow we had this week, I'm posting these pictures of snowflakes that I made in Wels, Austria.

This one may be my favorite.

We also made this cute light set from an old set of Christmas lights and these cool plants called Lampions.
We had a Stake Harvest Festival and I won a prize for the finger painting contest! The original coloring sheet just had the pumpkin on it, and I made up the fence and background.
We are so lucky to have such beautiful sunsets here!

I made these earrings for my sister, and since I love the clear stamps I bought at Porters, I made a cute card for them to go on.

Then I decided to put the card in a handmade box.

And it made the perfect wrapping, so I just tied it up with a bow! :)

My lovely bike

This is my lovely bike. Thank you Jeff and Julie!!! I ride it almost every Tuesday and Thursday to get to my 7:45 D&C class. I think I will name it ... I don't know. Any suggestions?

Creative Outlet

Here is a picture of my niece, Rachel, on a hike to Wardsworth, the weekend before I came up to school.

I am now at BYU-Idaho, and enjoying a tough semester as an English Major. I have

ENG 333: British Literature

ENG 314: Advanced Writing, English and the Humanities

ENG 252: Fundamentals of Research and Presentation

Doctrine and Covenants (Forgot the course code thingy)

GER 202: Intro to German Literature

And ENG 318 R: Advanced Creative Writing- Screenwriting (Which I am now Auditing only, since I was recently called as Relief Society President)

So, despite the many opportunities for writing, I decided I need another creative outlet.

I tried designing a website for the business, only to find out that I will be designing a website for my presentation class. So I went to the Book Arts Lab and bought supplies to start making 12 books, for under 10 dollars. Since this may be the only time I ever "get a book published" I thought I might as well take advantage of the facilities and Student discount. :)

Just for fun, here are some random pictures.

The camera couldn't do this amazing sunset justice.

The view from my German class is amazing, when the sun shines on the Temple. It looks a lot closer and cooler, in person. (Notice the dark circles of exhaustion under my eyes? Ugh.)

Well, that's all for now. I need sleep. Hopefully soon I can find time to post pictures of my awesome bike from Julie and Jeff!

A walk, a scoot, and a trip to the Zoo

Mission Post

Well, well, well. Long time no see! I am back from my mission! And I have to say, the Germany, Munich/Austria mission is the best mission, ever! :) So for awhile I think at least every other post will be a flashback on mission times. Yes, I'm one of those missionaries that wants to show everyone her pictures and tell all her stories until everyone begs to talk about something else. :)

MTC-

Make the choice to make the change. Yay for DearElder.com! And MTC food! And Sister Carpenter and Br. Kopischke! I arrived at the MTC Dec. 3, and was the first one out of the conference room where we said goodbye to our parents. I found out I was to be a Solo Sister, like Laura, which meant that no other sisters were being sent to my mission at the same time as I was, so my "companions" were two sisters going to the Frankfurt mission, who had already been there a few weeks. Sis. Dexheimer and Sis. Mortenson. They weren't in my district, so I was with seven elders in the same classroom, every day for nine weeks. Good thing they were all hilarious. :)