Let It Begin!

I have finally reached the week of finals and just like every other college student, have started cramming in the studying like there is literally no tomorrow (Kinda wishing that were true :) Just kidding!) Anyways, I believe the stress of the upcoming week has punched my immune system right in the gut-because alas-I am sick. This is the first time I've been sick since I've come up to Logan, and of course it had to be during finals week :) Oh well......I need to get back to the cramming.

Deck the Halls!

Emily and I decided to have a little fun so we decorated our whole apartment for the Holidays and we then had a photo shoot.

I hung snowflakes all down our hallway and now every time I walk out of my room, I feel like I'm caught in a blizzard :) Oh and the nighty I'm sporting is courtesy of Mom :) I love it!

A Delightful Surprise

On Saturday I had flowers delivered to me. Unfortunately, nobody was at home, so they left a notice telling me to come pick up my flowers on Monday. For two days I wondered who could have possibly sent me flowers. When I finally got them on Monday morning, I found that they were sent by Dr. Newey, my oral surgeon :) A little strange........ :) ha ha ha! It made me laugh but for sure I love my flowers. They are beautiful!

Thanksgiving Tooth Troubles

During the break, I went home and had my wisdom teeth taken out. It was not fun at all-especially for Thanksgiving.

Day 1: Bleeding like crazy! And always putting ice on it whenever I could.


Day 2: I felt pretty good. The swelling was not bad at all and I even went to Jenny Payne's wedding. Yes, I was still on intense pain killers, and it was incredibly painful to hug people. I've never realized how much people like to hug at weddings. Probably not the best place for me to be the day after I get my wisdoms out. Oh well-I'm glad I went


Day 3: EXPLOSION! Everything was so much worst that day-Thanksgiving day. The pain was worst, the swelling was worst and the bruising set in. I managed to eat some mashed potatoes, but that's all I could handle at the Thanksgiving feast. I didn't even recite my annual poem :(

TWILIGHT!

This morning, Emily and I woke up early so we could go buy movie tickets for Twilight before they were all sold out. OH! MY! GOSH! If you loved the books, then for sure you will love this movie! AAAHHHH!!! EDWARD! Yeah-for sure I'm still drooling :) Ha ha ha!





Oh and for sure we sat on the front row. My neighbor pretty much hated my guts. I guess after the squealing, whistling, and the occasional outburst of "MARRY ME EDWARD!", he had plenty of reason to :)

Preparations.....

Friday night came, and Emily and I were really bored. I then had a great idea-so the rest of the night (now I know this is lame, but it turned out to be freaking fun) we made snowflakes and made Christmas chains. We are hoping to come home from the Thanksgiving break and totally deck out our apartment with Christmas decorations. It made me happy

Oh Happy Day!

Once again, I have neglected to keep up to date on my blog. There have been a couple things that have happened since I last blogged on Thursday.

First of all, I told you it was Anniversary on having my eyes get better. Well, I was determined for Thursday to be another great day for me. I had heard about this competition that was going on on campus (Bestor's Best Singer Competition-it is equivalent to American Idol, but it only happens here in Utah. Kurt Bestor, a world famous composer, pianist, and singer, is searching for a whole new sound for his 20th Annual Christmas Concert.) Anyway-at first I thought, "Naw-I won't go audition. I know I won't get it anyway. Why try?", but then I remembered that I needed to make it a great day. At the very last second, I auditioned! (I sang "Amazing Grace". I felt it was perfectly fitting for the day. "Was blind, but now I see"! :) ) Way random for me, I know, but I am so glad I went. I didn't make it to the next round, but hello! I couldn't care less. It was a great experience! Kurt told me that he loved my voice and especially enjoys the richness of it. He also told me that some people try to sound like their favorite singers, but he said that was not my case. I was totally original and he really liked that. What more could I ask for? Maybe next time though......
Oh and after I left my audition, a news reporter interviewed me. Oh yes-I was in the newspaper!






When I got home from classes and the audition, I came home to this scene.

My first thought was, "Oh crap. Someone stole our couches!". Then my roommates informed me that we were just getting brand new couches :)

Later on that night, Brynne, Emily, and I went to Enrichment night, and I had so much freaking fun! I found some new friends in my ward so....yeah that was pretty much fantastic. Afterwards, the three of us went to visit Brynne's friend D.J. Brynne and D.J. studied for their Biology test while D.J's roommate, Emily, and I played Rockband. That was also great. I've never played it before and I pretty much rocked the house with the vocals :) Can you tell I was pretty proud of myself? :) We went outside and found that Emily's car had been booted. Everyone was laughing except Brynne. :) We got the boot taken off after we had talked to the "booter" and discovered it was all just a misunderstanding. Oh happy day! Man-what a great day!

A Day to Remember

Well, last night I was talking to my little bro, Ty, and he reminded me that today is a fairly significant day in my life. A year ago today, I was scheduled for a doctor's appointment with my eye doctor, Dr. Bernstein at the Moran Eye Center. In that appointment, my doctor told me that he had no idea how the Trevino kids do it, but just like Jason, my eyes had miraculously gotten better. My vision had gone from 20/200 vision to 20/80 and with corrective lenses, 20/60. Dr. Bernstein then told me he wanted me to go out an get a driver's license. This day absolutely changed my life. So-Happy Anniversary to me!

Starting off the Holidays.....

So thanks to my phenomenal cousin, Andy, I have just found my new favorite website! Jib Jab! It makes for a great time, and I'm going to reiterate what Ands said on his blog-for this upcoming Christmas season, visit elfyourself.com. I sent the elf I made to some of my family, and so far, they all seem to love it! Oh-and yes I'm one of those people who listens to Christmas music before Thanksgiving :) It's not because I don't absolutely love having a day of Thanks (even though I'm not going to celebrate it quite as traditionally this year, because, indeed, I'm getting my wisdom teeth out two days before. Oh yes-my Thanksgiving dinner will consist of nothing but mashed potatoes. And my Thanksgiving poem that I recite every year will probably sound a lot like a drunken girl with a lisp. I think it'll be a great event!) but it's because I just absolutely love Christmas music! It's just.......the most wonderful time of the year! (name that song!) :)

The African Children's Choir

On Tuesday night, I had the privilege of watching the African Children's Choir perform right here in Logan. It was truly the most incredibly rewarding cultural performance I've ever seen. I sat in the front row, which proved to be the best seat in the house. During the show, a few children came down from off the stage and had some of the people in the front row stand up and dance with them. I was one of them. I loved every second of this performance-I just wanted to take every one of those kids home! (All of these kids are orphans or were abandoned. The African Children's Choir performs all around the world, and with the money they raise, the choir gives back to the kids by providing each child with food, shelter, and a proper education.) I wanted to post a video of the choir, but unfortunately, my computer skills are not up to par. Until I get that figured out, you'll find off to the left side of my blog a small sequence of videos. The last two clips are actual video clips they showed us at the performance. Please watch them! These children's happiness and enthusiasm are absolutely contagious. You really can't help but smile

Their slogan: Helping Africa's most vulnerable children today, so they can help Africa tomorrow

Weekend at Bernie's

As my title implies, i had a pretty crazy weekend-I loved it! I decided to go home for the weekend, which is good cause I hadn't gone home for about a month. I expected my Friday night at home to be quiet. It didn't turn out that way. My pal, Natasha, picked me up to go hang with a couple of our friends from B-Town (I know theses names might not mean anything to you, but they do to me-Jake Taylor, Angie Madson, Sara Busk, Andy Simmonds, Natasha, and me-oh and I saw Corinne for the first time since she's been back. Man I love that girl! I'm so glad she's home.) We visited for a couple hours, went Christmas caroling, watched the new episode of the Office (which is hysterical by the way-if you have time-go watch it) and the ending of Freaky Friday. At that point, Natasha and I went back to Farmington and had a sleepover. The next day, Dad, Mom and I picked up the Cobalt from the repair shop. Then we split ways and Mom and I went shopping at the Gateway and got me ready for the upcoming 10 degree Logan weather. We stopped by the Beattie/Simmonds house to say hello to everyone there, and then we went to the Hall house for a Bridal Shower for Julianne Gardner. After that, Mom and I went grocery shopping and as soon as I dropped Mom off, I headed to Target and splurged on myself a little :) There's no harm in that every once in a while :) When I got home, Tia and the kids were there, and Mom and Dad were leaving, so she offered to hang out at her place for awhile. We went to the D.I. where Tia took advantage of the system-free stuff-and after walking around at Lowe's, we went to the Uzelac home and had dinner. After dinner, a show, and Kaylie styling my hair, we had to go pick up Ty. He'd just gotten back from a big swim meet down in St. George with the school (he did really well) so we headed over to Viewmont. Tia then dropped Ty and I off at home. Sunday was just like any other Sunday though. Church, dinner, and then Mom and Dad drove me all the way back to Logan. What a great weekend! (Oh and if you're wondering what this picture has to do with anything, it's just a free shirt I got at the GAP except I altered it a little bit by adding in a name. If you had the experience of seeing the present I got from my dad Ray on my 14th birthday, you'll get why this is freaking hilarious :) Enough said

Upping the Ante

So a couple months ago, my roommate and I got into an argument about the upcoming election. We eventually settled to make a bet. I bet on Obama winning (even though I don't support him, I was pretty dang sure he'd win) and Emily bet on McCain. Well, we all know who ended up winning-so tonight, November 4, 2008, I collected my winnings :) Mwah ha ha ha!

HECK YES!

Heck yes everyone! K-so I just fixed my boy problem. If you want more details, call me-it's a great story :)

Night of the Dead

The day after Halloween was probably more fun than Halloween itself! There was a Masquerade downstairs, which ended up being......less than fun, so since we were all dressed up, we decided to go have a photo shoot all around campus. It was SO much fun! (Oh! P.S. The Howl was for sure a blast! We got there around 9 P.M. and left at 1 A.M. It was a great party)

Before all the action.....


Check out our masks! We made them ourselves! Yeah-you can say I'm talented :)



Awwww.....poor Emily


We had some fun on the John Dear tractor ;)







Atop the "A"


Contemplating.....


The Horror!


We found a hobo in the garbage


I should be a model :> ha ha ha ha!


Photos in the fountain


Best Buds



We met the challenge-though-not really. We decided it would be inappropriate to become Ultimate Aggies (Ride the statue of the bull naked)-plus, there was a cop watching :)




Just a little scandalous


Check out the craftsmanship! Can you tell I'm proud of myself?


Having a cold one :) Come on people-it's only creme soda