finals week=death

What more really needs to be said besides the title of this blog post? FINALS WEEK =DEATH. For real. Everyone on campus has the crazy stressed look on their face. Why are finals such a big deal? Yeah, I don't really know. I've discovered a few things that help me stay relatively stress free, or at least as stress free as I can be during the craziest week of the semester.

• eating lots of ice cream. (ice cream is basically a cure to any problem in my life)
• turkey, bacon, quacamole asiago bagel and a maui mango smoothie (the little shop in the downstairs of the MC knows my name, yeah, i'm a regular!)
• diet coke.
• watching movies when I should be studying, everyone needs a break once and a while. 
• getting new music, seriously, it's the best.
• watching awkward couples make out right in front of me. Okay maybe that's not one, but I just witnessed it. super awkward 
• day dreaming about how wonderful the summer is going to be
• a new haircut (ahh it's short!))
• spending time with my friends/roommates that I will miss when I go home!
• Studying actually helps relieve stress too... weird.

well there it is, this is a list of how I'm staying sane this last week, that I might add WON'T END! I need to be in Texas.. NOW! 

peace out Rexburg. 

[new hair cut, don't make fun of the fact that I can never have open eyes in pictures, I'll learn eventually..]

Happy Birthday to my big brother Ben!

It's April 5th, and it's also my big brother Bens birthday! He is the big  21 today! Ben has been kind of a challenge to live with for the past... Long time. But I'm so proud of him for working hard to turn his life around. I love Benjamin so much, and I'm proud of how hard he is working on changing his life around! I can't wait to see him soon :)

Happy birthday big brother!!! :)

shooting!

Today my friend Jim took me shooting for the first time! I did so good! I'm kinda bummed though because we didn't get any pictures of us while shooting, but I do have a picture of the target! All of those shots are mine by the way! Notice how close I got to the bullseye... Don't forget, this was my FIRST time shooting. I am so legit.

Mud Lap Tag

Living in Rexburg Idaho people usually come up with crazy things to do, since there's really not a lot to do here... The latest crazy thing that I did was playing in the mud.... It felt like I was a little kid again! Except, I really never got that muddy when I played in the mud when I was younger, if I ever even played in the mud? I'm not sure. Well anyway. My old roommates and some of their friends were playing a game called lap tag, and they decided to make it more exciting and play it in the mud! Hence the title of this blog, "mud lap tag" yep. A bunch of us college kids played tag in the mud. The game only lasted about 20 minutes because turns out, when it snows in the morning the mud will be cold in the afternoon! So we were all freezing, not to mention covered in mud!! Here are some pictures to see just how muddy we got. Enjoy :)

Before

After

Me and my friend Sophie

My clothes are definitely ruined, but it was so worth it. I have 15 days left of this semester, and I'm going to fill it with the most exciting adventures ever. So be sure to check back soon! :)

[Update on the last few weeks!]

Bonfire!

Love my rooms Liz and Jones!

Fishing!

Playing in the snow!

Getting stuck in the snow!

Tye Dying shirts!

Sleepovers!

Working out with Liz

Being the Mario-Kart Champ on Nintendo 64

Playdough parties!

Kenneth Boone Haynie

Happy Birthday to MY Kenny. I can't believe this boy is already 14. Words cannot express how much I love this boy. I wish I could be with him on his birthday, and make him to go Stake dances ;) But since I'm all the way in Idaho when he is all the way in Texas, all I can do is write a sappy little blog post about my favorite person in the world. And I'm pretty sure I can truly say he is my favorite person in the world. Here's 14 reasons why I love this boy to pieces.

14. He is SO funny!

13.He is talented at basically everything!!!

12. He inherited the brains that sadly, I did not.

11. He is an absolute STUD!

10.He is nice to everyone!

9.He still drives with me even though there have been.. Incidents :)

8.He texts me whenever I text him!

7.He will talk to me about everything!

6. He's a great youngest child.

5.He loves the Gospel

4.He's started texting... More than me!

3.He's so random when he's with his friends

2.He's the best little brother I could have ever asked for

1. He's my best friend

Now, don't you just love him already? I sure do. Happy birthday to my Kenny! I can't believe he's already 14. I love that boy so much! Aren't I the luckiest girl in the world to have such an awesome little brother? HECK YEAH I AM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KENNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Celebrity Crush

James Franco.... I feel like there is nothing else that needs to be said about him. What a freaking stud. My roommate Austrie was kind enough to post this beautiful picture of James on my facebook wall. I thought I would share it with all of you, and by all of you I mean Austrie.... Since you're the only person who reads this ;) Well anyway, here he is, JAMES FRANCO :))))))

Happy Birthday, Grandma Sarah!

This is a shout out to the best Grandma in the world! It is Grandma Sarah's birthday today! She is one of the kindest, most loving, fun, happy, awesome, wonderful, amazing people I've ever met! I am so lucky to have her as a Grandma! I love her so much, and just wanted to give her a shout out on my blog.... Love you Grandma Sarah!