Going Home:

  I can't believe it's almost a week till I go home! That was really quite fast! It's bittersweet. Mostly sweet! ;) 

BITTER: 

-Things at home changed ( Aka: NO GAGE :( )

-No college partying (I'll miss my friends and being surrounded by kids your own age all the time.. the random 'partying') 

-No more late night snack runs with my favorite roommate...No offense to the others... I love you guys almost as much... lol ;) 

-I'll miss everyone (and they'll change well I am gone)

-No more falling asleep on the living room floor talking with Morgan, or Juli when they sleepover

-No more 'pillow' talk with Nichole at night time (who will solve my late night problems now?)

-No more 'random' adventures (Actually I'll probably come up with some)

-Can't steal Nichole's cute clothes (Did I just admit to doing that?)

-I'll miss my fast, super high speed internet

-I'll miss the fancy new-ish treadmill they got in the workout room

-Haven't relocated my MP3 player yet and I'm running out of time to find it

SWEET:

-Seeing family and friends from home

-No more homework

-Driving! (I hope the 15 passenger van behaves itself)

-Money in the bank (Hopefully I can mange to get two jobs so I can afford to play when I come back) 

-Home cooked meals/ a full frigde and cupboard (If I want to bake something they'll actually be sugar and stuff there)

-Chicken!!! haha It's been a LONG time since I have had meat

-Clean, spacious house

-Nice Dishwasher

-FREE(-ish) Laundry! (Free for me, not so much for my parents)

-No more high altitude so running outside will be so nice

-Can party with my sisters! (And brother that is home)

-I'll have an excuse to use my Skype! 

-Juli is probably coming to visit me! (Hopefully)

-NYC, Boston, the beach!

-Fresh veggies from my mom's garden

-Stores that are open past 11:00...haha!

-CITY!!!!!!!!! 

-Kitt Romney (I sometimes miss that nasty little ball of furriness) 

-I'm SO EXCITED!!! :D 

Broken Things

Sigh, I  am so ready to go home today! Everything is breaking left and right this semester. I don't pay almost 1000 dollars a semester for this!!! Don't get me wrong.. I love living at mountain pines, I do however have some serious complaints.

At one point both of our toilets were broken for a whole weekend. That was not the best of weekends. Having to  bug our neighbors all the time. We currently are suffering from having no hot water! This means no hot showers, no way to efficiently clean dishes, heck no way to efficiently clean anything. Germs like cold water. Heck even if we could clean the dishes; our dishwasher leaks a bit sometimes. I kind of find that one funny, because people don't see the water so they walk in the water and make funny faces. Our freezer I think doesn't always work the best because the ice cream is often way too soft. The shower was broken for a few days, while the bathroom light was brunt out. We have no other way of getting light in there other than the light blub no windows or anything... That was a awkward time. Showering in pitch darkness while the drain isn't working unless you hold it down. Ninja style much?! The garbage disposal had a glass rock from a fish bowl stuck in it for a few days and made a nasty sound when you turned it on. Nichole and I spilled bleach on our carpet one day. Don't worry we 'fixed' it. Actually I think that might be it (for the literally broken things at least. It's spring semester, aka the 'love' semester. There is a saying out here 'ring-by-spring'. It holds true. The relationship drama is currently at a all time high!! The semester is ending... Heart breaks left and right.

EXPOSURE: My little Mom

My little mom is the: sweetest, cutest, littlest, best lady ever! No offense to all my readers but your mom can't be as awesome as mine! The worst part is she doesn't see it. 

She is whole 58 inches tall! Has awesome hair that always looks prefect I wish I had inherited that gene! She always has the cutest little outfits too. I have a little roommate that is her height and she makes me miss my mom all the time. 

I want to look and be JUST like my mom when I grow up! I would NOT mind at all looking like her at all...she's hot! BUT more importantly I want to be the kind of mother that she is. My mom is super woman! She is a hard working, goal driven lady! 

She manages 7 kids, a naughty cat, and a husband. She has the most amazing garden. She does all the driving us around. She cooks us amazing food. She keeps the house clean. She does her church callings. She is an amazing friend to her friends. She makes sure we all make it to practice on time. She writes a AWESOME blog. Takes us to our doctor appointments. She also takes time to listen to us and be our mom. And much much more that  we often don't even see and notice. 

She is the kind of mom that encourages you to get out there in the world and try things. She wants us to have friends and awesome experiences. She drags us all over to beach, NYC, hikes... Even when we are complaining we always have fun! Weather we admit it or not. I would not have come to BYU-Idaho without her pushing me to do so. :)

 She's also always willing to go out of her way to make sure we can see our friends. I can remember countless times where we've run back and forth over town dropping some of us kids off at friends and picking up other  kids friends to come over. I don't even want to know how much gas she's wasted just driving ME around. Plus she is always willing to let us have a party! (I think I got my partying side from her) It always used to crack me up that she would tell us that if we needed to get out of an awkward moment or didn't want to go somewhere we could blame it on her. You know the whole 'my mom says I can't go' phrase.

She is really the BEST! I love when she used to let me miss school and chill with her if I was having a bad day. Or she'd let me go shopping with her. Or we'd just eat some of Dad's candy on her bed when he was out of town and we needed a chocolate fix. 

I want her to know that she is the most amazing mother in the world. I'm grateful for her. And to know that anything bad I do, I get from Dad! ;)

Why every girl needs sistas! (A Picture Blog)

My sistas drive me NUTS! But I love them! They are all so beautiful and funny and awesome! I am so very pumped to see them all agian and spend some time with them! Start stealing each others stuff, having cat fights, watching chick flicks, telling secrets, doing each others hairs, having adventures, watching late night movies in the man room, running, eating candy,... :) sigh! It's gonna  be awesome! Here are some pictures I found of some of my favorite sista times! :) 

The time Madeline and I worked SO hard to get this HUGE box home from the book bindery! We had to stuff it into the back of the 15 passanger van! We walked through the bindery with it over our heads! Then on the way home we were so distracted we ran out of gas! Almost got stuck next to a creepy field. 

The beach! How can you not have fun at the beach? This picture isn't from this trip. But last summer Amanda and I had a combined beach birthday party! It was so much fun!

Shampooing and Conditioning in the rain! :) Fun times! Tell it stopped raining then we had to fight over the drain pipes! ;)

Hiking! Always fun! Although we are so very competitive in my family sometimes it feels more like a race to the top. :)

Ruining Family Pictures/ causing my parents anxiety! :) 

Last but NOT least don't forget those little girls! We wouldn't be the 5 sistas without them! :)

If you could go back:

If you could back in time, what would you change?! This morning I was so sure of like a million moments in life I would change. Maybe this is because it's been on my mind lately, but mostly this came to my mind because I saw the movie 127 hours (would not recommend it) in the movie he wished he could go back in time and tell people where he was so he could have been saved and not have had to cut his arm off. So I got to thinking and if you really think about it going back would be a pretty bad idea. The mistakes you make get you to a point in your life that you need to be. A lesson that you need to learn. Something that although potentially painful, needed to happen; so that you could grow.  Here are some examples: 

1. This Morning: I didn't get home from Utah until very early this morning and I did NOT want to get up for psychology in like 3 hours. But when my alarm went off, I eventually forced myself to get up and go. At first I was mad because when I got all the way to the building, I learned my class was cancelled, I wanted to go back in time and I should have just stayed in bed. It ended up being a great thing because I got to use that time to get juice and visit with Juli. If I went back in time and stayed in bed that wouldn't have happened. 

2. Hurting friends: My least favorite! I don't like when my mistakes hurt others. I made a mistake a few days ago that really hurt a dear friend of mine. At first I wished and wished I could go back in time and change it. Thinking about it now without that experience I wouldn't have learned how to be a better, different kind of friend. I wouldn't have learned not think about only myself so much all the time. Although I hate to hurt people and I try to avoid it. I learn so much every time I do. I become a better person. It  just sucks it has to happen the hard way. 

3. Failing Tests: College life is full of this for me. I hate failing, I always feel so dumb. I always want to go back in time and study harder or cheat cause now I know the questions so I could find out the answers and then go back and take the test again. BUT if I never failed the tests I wouldn't learn how to study. I wouldn't get that awesome feeling of accomplishment when I pass one. 

4. Heart Breaks:  Often the things we want to go back and change are huge. Basically the plot of any major chick flick.... Heart break = Suck! But are also somewhat necessary and something that we shouldn't wish to go back in time and change. You can learn a lot from them. For example: If someone hurts your feelings by doing or saying something you can learn more about who you are. And about who they are. How people treat each other says a lot about them, and how you acted or got to that point where they hurt you (or vice verse-a) says a LOT about you. 

5. Sunscreen: Sometimes these lessons we learn can be small and simple. I was looking at old pictures on the Facebook and was reminded of an awesome beach birthday party from last year. Everyone that went got BAD sun burn. It was so funny to go to work on the following Monday because you could tell who went to the party. We were walking around like old people making faces every time our burns were touched, or we moved in the wrong way. We all wished we could go back in time and change that. Simple lessons = simple solutions. 

Weekend = Legit!

This weekend has been for lack of better word: Legit! 

- Movies a plenty: Arrived in Utah Thursday and it's only Saturday night... I've already been educated in almost over 10 different movies. I have no idea how I got through life without seeing some of these movies!!! Uncle Owen is great movie watching buddy! He doesn't do the 'That happened to me once comment' my old man likes to throw in. One day i'll look back on it and miss my dad saying that... but for now I am going to harass him about it. 

- New Skills: I learned how to play Racquetball! It's pretty legit. I like the fast pace, although the competitive side of me expects to get a lot better so i can kick some butt. 

- Long Lost Family: It always surprises me how little I hear about what is going on in the Baird side. I got to see some aunts and uncles and cousins and grandma I haven't see in what feels like a life time. It's interesting to me to see the different the different personalities in our family. I felt out burnett-ed. ;) 

-Won over my Uncie "O"'s love: That's right! He trusted me to take his car to the 7 11 and get him a soda. How many of you have gotten that trust? I doubt many. It's impressive! I know! 

-Out of the Berg: It's been therapeutic to be out of there! I needed out for a few days! To be reminded of how the real world lives. 

-The pill couch!:  I swear it's the most comfortable couch in the world! It reminds me of being home, and my family! Don't ask me why, it just does!!! 

-Snack-ens and Real food: My aunt can cook! Plus snack-ens a plenty! I've decided that calories don't exist in Utah! I hope that theory holds true when I get back to the Berg of Rex. 

My top dream jobs:

We spend thousands of dollars and countless dollars going to college to try and figure out what we want to do to make money for the REST of our lives. That's pretty intense if you stop and think about it. 


1) A sassy old fashion receptionist: I would love to wear the big framed old glasses, my hair in a bun, have a huge typewriter, and when people came in I  would sit behind my desk and be on the huge old telephone. When they tried to talk to me I could just sigh and roll my eyes and point them into my bosses office.

2) Disaster date actor: It's basically being paid to be professionally weird! I would LOVE that! You get to act like a fool and get paid for it! 

3) Rachel Berry: It would be so legit to be Rachel Berry from Glee. She has such an awesome voice!


4) Ice cream tester: This would be the BEST job ever!!! Ice cream everyday, all day!