Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. -Dr. Suess

Blogging TWICE in one week!? Yes I know.. I'm surprised too :)

I love that I've had enough free time!

 This weekend was celebrating Chantal's Birthday and recovering from Mid Terms so it was quite the weekend.. just one big party! Just the way I like to spend my weekend..

The first pictures were actually ON Chantal's birthday at Red Robin! Delicious.

& luckily Elana got us some fantastic party hats so that we could be dressed for the occasion..

ha soo cute.

THEN last Friday.. we threw both her and Danielle a Luaa 21st Birthday Party "Non-Alchoholic" Alchoholic Party. (Although Danielle was only turning 19.. we figured she wouldn't mind the non alchoholic drinks)

Blake was nice and let us use and decorate his house and completely fill it with people.. What a good guy.

We bought Marguirita glasses and put icing and sprinkles on the outsid filled them up with ice cream...

[Now those.. were so fun bringing over to Blake's house.. they balance really well on cookie sheets.. and we blended RIGHT in with our hula skirts and leighs.. ha everyone was yelling at us from their cars on our walk over]

& filled the cooler up with IBC rootbeer and cream soda..

& played lots of "Mountain Dew" pong :)

Sound like a Mormon 21st Birthday Party? Because.. oh it was. And it was awesommme..



Before everyone got there I even got to "Leigh" Blake..

:)

Don't you worry.. we kept it clean. :)

& then the rest of the night was a lot of dancing, black lights, cake, ice cream, soda, pizza, and good friends.

I couldn't have thought up a better way to spend my Friday night.

Happy Birthday Chantal & Danielle!!

I LOVE you both!

THEN last night Blake took me on the most perfect date EVER.. :)

I've been telling Blake I wanted to have a picnic by the Temple forever.. and so Saturday he took me bowling ( I pretty much did really awesome by the way if anyone was wondering.. Blake miggght have only doubled my score.. it's all a little blurry) .. and then he brought me to his house to make dinner with him.. and he packed everything up..

& SUPRISED me and brought everything to the temple so that we could have a picnic!

& it wasn't just any picnic.. he had to wait until it was dark so that we could have a candle lit dinner picnic by the temple :)

Complete with Spaghetti and Meat Balls.. I told him I felt like we were Lady and the Tramp.. haha

But it was SOooo

 PERFECT.

& then he pulled out his laptop and we watched a movie and celebrated being able to relax and not having to worry about Mid Terms anymore!

I know every one is probably like PLEASE spare us all of the mushy romantic stuff.. but everyday he amazes me more and more. I love suprises. & I love my boyriend.. I got really lucky.

But anyway.. I hope everyone had a good weekend!

I'm going to start posting recipes and fun stuff again soon so I don't bore everyone to death with my life stories I promise!

So.. I'll blog again soon.. Love you all!

"A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life" -Charles Darwin

 So a couple weekends ago, Blake and I and our friends Dave and Gaby took a little road trip to the national park Craters of the Moon!

I'd never heard of it before.. but it really is a NATIONAL park.. that doesn't get enough attention it was really cool!

Apparently Idaho is just one big volcano that is overdue to errupt, which makes me feel awesome about living on top of it. :)

But no one seems worried.. so hopefully it doesn't errupt in the next couple years before I finish school..

keep your fingers crossed!

So basically this national park is just a bunch of caves and where the lava has flowed over the ground and created a lot of cool rocks and crevices for miles and miles! It's HUGE!

 Our first stop.. was definitely.. the Please Touch table. Of course we will touch.. and there was a letter from a guy who had taken a rock from the park apologizing. What good LDS people we have around here..

Moral of the Story? Touch this Table. Don't Touch the Dirty Rocks. You've got yourself a deal Craters of the Moon.. :)

Then we got to climb through caves all morning! It was SO cool!

And I only fell.. twiceish. I never knew that climbing through caves was such a good work out! But trust me.. it definitely was..

I couldn't really get a good picture of these caves but trust me, they really were giant.

Biggest caves I've ever got to climb through!



& little did I know.. But Blake is a little cave expert, he was climbing all over those things. ha I was impressed.

& we all may.. or may not have gotten lost in the barren volcano ridden wilderness once or twice.. 

But it was a fun adventure of climbing and crawling and picnics and exploring and sight seeing and the most bruised butt I've ever had!

& now I can check that one of the list of National Parks.

:)

Then.. Blake took a bunch of his friends to a rock query for a bonfire, with huge table top walls completely surrounding it!

It kind of reminded me of the canyon in farmington.. but in this spot the rocks were so high and all around us!

Shelby & Aubrey are awesome friends and came to hang out with me so I didn't just have to be with all the boys. :)

Love Her :)

We roasted hot dogs and starbursts and all just hung out by this humongous fire. [what good boyscouts we had] & it was just a really fun relaxing night..

Another great thing that's been going on in my life are my roommates. :)

They are SO fun and so sweet.. and have been such a blessing in my life this semester.

& last Wednesday was Chantal's 21st Birthday.. so it's just been one big party for a week!

Elana made breakfast and decorated the house, Chantal opened presents ALL day, and then Nicole, Elana, Chantal, and I all took a road trip to Idaho Falls for dinner!

We went to Red Robin and had the funniest waiter who was APPALLED that Chantal was ordering water on her 21st birthday...

SO we are having a big "non alchoholic" 21st Birthday Party for her tonight!

[At Large House if you are in Rexburg Tonight! :)]

Then this last weekend.. Chad, Jessica, Dave, Gaby, Blake, and I practiced our golf skills! Blakes trying to get good so that he can tell my Dad he golfs.. ha

We figure mini golf is pretty much the same..

[we also raced Go Karts & it was the FIRST time I'd ever ridden them! I was informed that I was not American.. ha butttt.. thank goodness now that I have. It was fun.. and i'm proud to be an American]

Chad made two holes in one! & made mini golfing extra fun with his extra obstacles :)

 

I loved this water fountain! & was telling Blake to go do something fun by it, and when I turned around Chad was throwing Jess in! :) YES.. thank you for an excuse to take a picture of the pretty water fountain. [& for being such fun friends.. thats also defintiley a plus]

[This picture is for my Mom.. because she LOVES pictures of Blake kissing me.. even on the cheek. :) jk LOVE you Mom!]

Blake even drew me a cute secret picture on the bricks.. :)

Did the Mini Golf Course owners like that.. oh.. of course they did.

& lastly.. these were my suprise from Blake because I was stressed and grumpy the other day..
I have the sweetest boyfriend I could ever ask for..

Mid Terms definitely made for a busy week.. I can't wait to get to celebrate summer!

But I hope everyone is having the best summer ever! & enjoying the warm weather..
I miss you all SO much!
Have a wonderful weekend!