Ashley an Erins wedding

It's 2009!

Happy 2009!
My blogspot got a little face lift to start off the new year with! over the next few days I'm ganna be catching you all up with whats been going on over winter break! I had a great time at home, with the random snow storm and all! but now im back in New York cheering ever single day getting ready for nationals in FLORIDA!! SO EXCITED!!! I cant wait to go stay at Disney World! its going to be amazing!! I'm very excited to see what the year 2009 will bring me! 2008 was quite a year! a few friends got married(Haley, Courtney, Channing, Peggy)! I moved to New York! I graduated from Clark with and assosiates degree! I got to intern at Prevention! and much more! I just cant think of off the top of my head right now! Some things I look forward to in 2009 is of course the trip to Florida! and maybe on to Italy!!! Shauna Church is getting married! Congrats to her, sad that i wont be able to make it to her wedding. Im going to try and get healthier and run in at least five races this year! thats my goal and I'd love to make one a half marathon! I also look forward to all the fun new adventures and life experiences that come my way!
But for now Ill start catching you up on the last month of 2008! SO Keep checking back for new fun picture filled posts!

SNOW

Its snowing! I was wondering when it was going to come!! And its suprisingly not that cold! the cloud cover makes it a lot warmer than some of the days that we've had before!

Here are some pics of the little bit of snow that we got! It might even be more in the morning! and this is some of the decorations up at my school right now!!

Finished!!

Im FINALLY done with all of my art projects!! The only thing i have left to do is my history final on the 9th! And portfolio review on the 10th! Im so excited to be done! My focus now is trying to figure out how to get all of my art projects home! Next few days ill be packing, and finishing up some unfinished business here.
I only have two days left at Prevention :( Im ganna be soo sad once its done. I was looking online and Men's Health is looking for an intern for next semester and i really want to sign up for it!! but i dont know if st johns will give me more credit for it.
So over all my semester was packed with art work, cheer and internship!! NOT BAD!! I've loved it out here! Cheer has been a disappointment but everything else has been amazing! I've learned soooo much and Ive made a lot of cool friends in my art classes!! Its overall been great!!
The only thing that sucks is that i need to learn to control my eating! it got out of hand this semester, but i think now that i know whats around and whats available Ill do better next semester!!

Wednesday night we had mutual at Lauras house and we made enchiladas and bisquits with strawberrys and whip cream! it was soooo good!!! and then she showed us an little insprational movie! it at www.thejoymovie.com! It was really cool! you should check it out!

I go home in 8 DAYS!!! YAY!!!

4's

SO i got this off of my sisters friends blog! but i was bored and had some time so i thought i'd do it on my blog too!!

All 4's4 Jobs I have had:
1. Student
2.Design Internship
3. Second Councelor of Young Womens
4. cheerleader

4 Movies I have watched more than once:
1. The Notebook
2. Disturbia
3. Surfs up
4. Transformers!

4 Places I have lived:
1. Vancouver, Washington
2. Battleground, Washington
3. Queens, NY
4. ?????? we shall see

4 TV Shows I watch: I watch way to many but here's just 4
1. Chuck
2. Smallville
3. The Office
4. Gossip Girls

4 Places I have been: in the past say year!
1. NYC
2. Cape Cod, Mas
3. Seattle, Washington
4. San Fransisco, California

4 People who facebook me regularly:
1. Martin
2. Katherine
3. Tracy
4. My Sister

4 of my favorite foods:
1. Pizza
2. Dark Chocolate
3. Ice cream
4. Peanut Butter!

4 Places I would like to visit:
1. Paris
2. Rome
3. Greece
4. Egypt

4 Things I am looking forward to in the coming year:
1. Having lots of fun adventures in New York!
2. getting really close to being done with my degree!
3. finding a job in the city...good luck right!
4. visiting sister in Texas!... maybe or she'll just have to come visit me, in NYC or Rome whichever! :)

Thanksgiving!

This is all of us at Thanksgiving!!

My first thanksgiving away from home! how sad! But it actually turned out really nice! The whole week and weekend I've had the suite to myself, which is sooo nice because I've been able to layout all of my projects and not have to worry about them getting ruined. And its nice not having to clean then up every night.
For thanksgiving day I ended up going to Sister Lee's house with Laura and Jessie Ransom, the sister missionaries, Mary the first counselor for young women's and Susie the secretary. Also there was Sister Lee's niece, and her nieces friend they all are from Taiwan, and then two of sister lee's friends. One was from Taiwan and the other is from Peru!
Before we headed over there I went to Laura's place and helped make the rolls and the stuffing! We made corn bread stuffing! It was sooo good!!! Once we got to sister Lee's house she had everything ready! The food was amazing! It was funny though because all of the people that cooked are from Taiwan and didn't know exactly what they were doing, so they sounded like they had a fun time making the food! The girls were telling me how they made like two different batches of sweet potatoes because the first ones were unsuccessful! They don't speak that much English, but that's why sister lee's niece came to live with her so that she could go to college and learn English! The food at dinner was amazing though! We had turkey mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, souffled corn, carrots and peas, fruit salad with pomegranate seeds! i love pomegranate seeds! and there was rolls and stuffing that we brought, and green beans with bacon, and gravy, and for dessert i had a piece of pumpkin pie! It was delicious!
It was really nice because we ate dinner at 3pm and i was home by 6:30pm so it was short and sweet! and i still had time to come home and get some homework done!!

This whole weekend i have been working on all of my homework projects, but i keep working on just little bits at a time and i feel like I'm getting nothing done. Especially when i keep having interruptions cause of having to cheer at games, or this morning i went to canal street to go to pearl paints and when i got there they were out of everything. so i had to then go all the way to Utrecht and buy the stuff and i got like 5 things and walked out paying 50 bucks, man art supplies is expensive. But I'm almost done, i keep saying that but with every little piece of homework that i do i get closer and closer to the end!! and then i get to come home and see all of my friends and family!! yay cant wait!

Me and Sister Frosham

Me and the two girls from Tawain!Me and The sister missionaries! Sister Frodsham and Sister B? her name is long, she's from London, England!

SOOO CLOSE

To being done! I only have a few more project left to finish and then Im done with my first semester being away from home! First semeseter at St.Johns and first semester living in NEW YORK CITY!!!

Last Sunday I got to go listen to Elder L. Tom Perry. He is such a sweet guy! It was really cool to listen to him! He told us that he and one other person started the Rego park ward. Which was the first ward ever in Queens! Its because of him that there is now a mormon population in queens! isnt that cool! My ward wouldnt exist without his work! He is so connected with the leaders of the church since he was little. Prophet Grant stayed at his house when he was little! Also His grandpa used to watch over Joseph F Smiths cows! He is a really cool guy!!

Today I had a game. My shoulders are killing me. Since i am a base now and im huge because i cant run. My shoulders and neck kill from holding brittany for so long! Now dont get me wrong brittany is a great flyer i just cant hold her up for that long. i hate cheer. Practice is so frustrating. Coach doesnt know what she is talking about and pushes us until we get injured. Since the beginning 13 people have been injured enough to where they had to actually sit out of more than one practice. I really dont feel like were going to nationals at all. Coach doesnt know what she's doing. And i hate going and getting injured every practice. There has not been one practice where I havent gotten hit in the head. Its horrible. I hate it.

So this will be my first thanksgiving with out being with family! Im really not that sad about it because i have so much work to do that its all good! im excited for some of my suitmates to get the heck out of here!! YAY!! i love it when my roomate gone!!

I cant wait to come home!!! except im having a hard time finding a place to take my dress to :( I dont know who to trust and i hate going somewhere where i cant understand them. oh well Im praying that i will find a place that can get it done in time! well see!

Tonight

Last night I went and saw the much anticipated TWILIGHT!! It was fun! I went with some friends from class, Katherine, James, Martin, Christina and one of Christina's friends! We went in James, H3. He must be rich to have a hummer in New York! But it was awesome! We went to a theather in, i forgot, somewhere, but it was like in an actual neighborhood. It looked like the beach at home. We passed lots of little shops! and I even saw a Micheals craft store. Random. but anyways the movie was alright. I think they did a good job of cutting out things that werent necessary from the book. But there were a lot of differences too. The way they shot some stuff was like what? all of the cullens did a really good job except Edward sucked and Jasper looked like Edward Scissor hands the whole time. he was really awkward. Edward, didnt play his character well at all, he sucked. You could tell he was fighting back his accent and he didnt look at Bella the way he was supposed to. Oh well it was really nice to see home a little bit through the movie! I cant wait to come home! Bella did a good job, I like how the actress played her suprisingly. The teenagers in high were really good too! jake and bella acted really close, when in the book it wasnt like that. And in every scene they have together there touching in some way its weird they should be like that yet. But whatever. I Love the books so much better and edward was so bad in the movie the books will never get ruined!!! Stephenie Meyer has a little camio in her movie which i thought was cool!

This is me at MOMA. they have a wierd new thing thats a video projected onto three huge walls. and the walls are bigger than movie theater size walls! (thats why im red it was projecting Tulips getting smashed by a tractor tire)

Today I went to my internship and did tears all day! it took like 7 hours which is ridiculous. But at least I got them done. and then I got to leave early, and go to MOMA. Today I found out that I dont have to go to my internship at all next week which is amazing because I have so much homework to do. and i also found out that I wont see Jessica for two weeks cause she's going to Ireland! Oh yeah also today, I got a christmas card from Rodale and they gave me a gift certificate to the amish market! isnt that the best!! I love the amish market and RODALE AND PREVENTION!!!

Since i got out early I walked around in the city a little bit looking for something to eat! I was thinking of buying food on the street but then i was thinking i would get some new york pizza but then i came across a Chipotle and I grabbed a burrito instead! but as i was walking around i took some pictures!!
There was a random Elmo hanging out! it was really wierd!

This is the city for you!!

SAKS FIFTH AVENUE WAS ALL LIT UP FOR THE HOLIDAYS!!And of course the beautiful Rockefellar Center!

Life

Today as I left my dorm to walk to class, it was snowing! Not hard just white little flakes swirling around in the air. They melted as soon as they touched the ground. Its getting colder as the days go by! I only have like two weeks left of school left and I still have so much to get done. And I find it hard to find the time to do everything I need to do. 

Yesterday the Sister missionaries came to eat lunch with me. Mondays are their P days so they were able to hang out for a little while. Sister Frodsham has a degree in architectural landscape, so she was telling us all of the trees and shrubby we have on campus, she also took like 20 pictures of all the stuff around. It was nice to show them around and have some company during the day! Coach cancelled practice yesterday!! which made my day so much more relaxing! I ended up getting some milk from the store and then taking a nap before I went and worked out and did homework.

I had such a good weekend this last weekend, because Maia my roommate was in nevada for her aunts funeral so I had the whole room to myself!! It was so nice! 

Twilight is coming out on Thursday and I'm so excited to see the movie! I'm rereading the book again, in between my homework, and everything else I do! Its such a good book! I LOVE ALL OF THEM!!

Obama

Today Obama won, The first African American President. Pretty crazy huh! I honestly didnt know if that would ever happen. Its going to be so different having a democratic president. Well see what "Changes" he puts into effect. I just hope it doesnt have to do with taxing lots of small business, so they get rid of part time jobs. I also hope he doesnt end up screwing over Iraq for pulling us out before we get our job done over there. It will be a crazy four years. Good luck getting us out of the recession and back to the economic power we are supposed to be. well see if he can do it!

So once obama was announced as the winner people on campus started going crazy, They were all cheering, OBAMA OBAMA, it was crazy, they were so loud. There was like a dance party going on outside it was ridiculous. New York is such a democratic state. Its so wierd. Well it seems like a lot of people are happy that obama won. Lets just see how happy they are in four years!