Remembering Easter

In the midst of my studying and paper writing tonight, I stopped by my church's website so that I could look up a scripture for my Book of Mormon paper. 

However, I took a break from writing to watch this video that was on the front page and I'm so very glad I did for it helped me to pause and remember for a moment the beautiful and important weekend that is ahead of me. 

I am so grateful for this Easter weekend and for the opportunity it gives me to pause and reflect on that eternal blessing and sacrifice that our Savior made on my behalf. However, I am even happier that it gives us reason to fully remember that our Lord and Savior has risen, and because he has risen, we too can live again with him and our Heavenly Father. 

Love always,

Ems

p.s. go check out more of the new videos on the life of our Savior, here. They are all wonderful.

Lots to Talk About.

Hello, people of the blogging world. 

There is a lot to talk about, just as my title says.
We have....
boys
weekends
pictures
adventures
music
school
school
school.
And, some more school.

Let me tell ya, I love school, but it's gosh darn hard.
But still, I love it.
I've switched my minor...
in my head....
I never actually declared it with the officials.
I've decided, for now, on communications and possibly a double minor in French.
We will see how that works out for me.

As I told Becca on Saturday,
I think I'd rather clean houses all day then go to school.
Something is wrong with that sentence.

So, here's a quickie update on life in the room with a view.

We spent a weekend up in Park City a while back and Kassie about broke Caroline's finger in our adventures in baking. Kassie was traumatized. The rest of us were just trying not to die of laughter.

This was the night of technology overload. I was on the phone with my dad, texting Jacob, and also on goggle docs with my dad editing my essay. It was a lot to take in. Regardless, please just be so amazed at this conversation Jacob and I were having. Really, I'm still trying to figure out if this kid is real or if he's just pretending....

One of my favorite things?
Smart Water.
Especially when I get the otter.
Not so much when I get the lobster.

But really, how can you refuse to recycle with such a cute thing encouraging you?

One night, as we were sitting at dinner, Asa calls Alex and Alex sprints out of the Cannon Center.
Next thing I know, I'm getting a call from Alex who tells me I need to smuggle out food because they have a kitten and he's starving.
I, of course, made the boys do it.
So Jacob made this nasty meat sandwich....
And then he had to throw it away because you cannot take food out go the Cannon Center.
Operation Food for Kitten: fail.

I've never seen boys so in love with a kitten.

Here's another tragedy.
Mr. Collins got knocked off the window sill....
We replanted him in Javert's pot.
Hopefully that doesn't kill him.

One night I walked into our room and found our sink a war zone.....
Who knows what happened;
however, now I am an expert light fixer.

HALLOWEEN TIME!

We had an awesome Halloween. 

We dressed up as 80's rockers,

and our favorite ward boys had the most creative outfits. 

Exhibit A. 

Dallin and Michael dressed as Michael and Dallin.

If you knew them, you would be laughing a lot harder. 

All our ward boys. 

Included in the array of outfits are Winnie the Pooh, a Utah fan, thugs slash mobsters, a pirate, and a Hunter (because his name is Alex Hunter.... it's puny...)

Our very favorite Salt Lake City boy came and visited us!
We were so very happy to see him even though his costume was a bit pathetic....
And Nate is excellently photobombing in this picture.

So yes, that is the life from the room with a view.

Life, my friends, is good.
I love being up here at the good 'ole BYU.
There really is not a better school, and most definitely there are no better people than the people I have been able to become friends with.
Isn't it great to look around and realize how blessed we are?

Love always,
Ems

Halloween

No, this is not your typical Halloween post, because guess what I decided?

I'm not a fan of Halloween.

Yup, I said it. Not a fan. This is the Halloween I like....

Cute, sweet, innocent Halloween. I'm not a fan in any sort of the way of the creepy, scary, death-infested Halloween that is celebrated al the time now. First of all, it SCARES ME! Go figure. People, Signs, not even kidding, is the scariest movie I've seen and I almost cried. So as everyone else gives themselves a fright on Saturday, I will watch a love story. Maybe Ghost, just to be ironic. Probably by myself.... unless I find a like-minded companion. 

However, 

like every other blogger, I do love Fall. Aren't these pictures perfect fall?

both {via}

And I love rain and wish I had a boy to enjoy it with....
Well, sometimes I wish that.

Love Always,
Ems

It's not Saturday...{WHAT THE?!}

As I sat down to write this... I thought that exact same thing... kinda not so exciting to remember that oh you have this wonderful day but SIKE! You have to go back to school tomorrow! So obviously I can't do a weekend report... cause it's not the weekend...yet. :) However, we did have a fun Tuesday night! :) Here's the throw-down.

1. Went to the temple for baptisims with my ward {whom I love so very much, btw. We're all so close and all the girls are just the BEST}. Probably the best thing ever. :)

2. Headed over to the Hill's house to join friends in funtimes such as Apples to Apples, Who's Your Mama, and KEYS! Oh my keys.... it was soo very fun!{sometimes I really worry about these boys...}

3. Pretty much during my turn of keys, everyone decided to start tickling me.... I was DYING! I'm soooo ticklish! And if you don't know the game of keys here is the jist: One person holds a set of keys and turns and turns and then points at another person. That person then takes their open hands and proceeds to do whatever they would like that is VERY awkward/uncomfortable/plain weird to make the person drop the keys. They then call the next person to take their hand and continue to make the first person very awkward. Overall, it's a game of awkwardness with the only object being to make the first person drop the keys in order to have the awkwardness stop. phew. So they grabbed me around the stomach and tickled me like mad EVERYWHERE. It was terrible... but I got through everyone, making me awkwardness champion! {like we didn't already know THAT! Pretty sure I"m the awkwardest person ALIVE!}

4. This morning woke up and checked my facebook and had the NICEST message from Mr. R. :) pretty much made me smile about a gazillion miles a minute. So very kind {not to mention completely ADORABLE} of him!

5. My mom and I went and got my winter formal dress! And guess where we got it? Last Chance! can you say 'Totally ridiculously good prices??' cause I know I can! And not only did we get my dress, but we also got shoes, and earrings! SWEEET!

6. I realized today that there is only 1 month, and 1 week till Mr. West comes!!!! I'm peeing my pants with excitment.... :) Not really, but you get the point. :) {btw, he lives in Murrieta, Ca. Hence the picture below. :) Didn't want a bunch of confused readers. :)}

7. So very excited because Mr. R invited me over to watch UP after he does this window's yardwork for mutual. :) I have not seen the movie but I've wanted to for about a BAJILLION years! No joke! So I'm very very very excited. :)

So pretty much, I'm very grateful we have Veterans who gave us this wonderful random Wednesday off. :) NOt only that, but I really am super grateful to all the veterans who fought so very hard for our country to make it the place it is today. We really have it off great and I sure am thankful for that! Plus, I think being a solider is the hardest thing ever! Having to leave your family and not knowing if you will make it back. It really is amazing to me that people are so willing to do that cause it would be soooo hard for me to do that. So if you know a solider, or a veteran, or if you ARE a soilder or a veteran, I give my utmost respect to you and deepest gratitude. Thank you for always keeping our flag flying high and free. :) Happy Veteran's Day to all! :)

Love Always,

Ems