dancer's dilemma

wow. wow. i haven't done anything on here for a loooonnng long time. sorry 'bout that. school is ca-razy!!! i made it through my 1st semester of college just barely and now i'm starting fresh again. in everything. just a little piece of advice to future college freshmen: do not fall for the 'classic freshman mistake' which is: staying up late every night. it's not worth it. trust me.

so another discovery that has made it's presence known to me is the fact that i miss dance. a lot. i got into 2 dance classes this semester: beginning jazz and contemporary. i thought it was going to be absolutely amazing. which, i guess it is kinda, but not as much as i was expecting. i've been learning how to do pas de bourrées, and chassés, and ball changes, etc. all of which i learned when i was like, 5. i mean, in the past few years i've even taught these things to girls. needless to say, i'm a little bored and it's definitely, definitely not a challenge.
i guess my biggest dissapointment is the fact that i've worked all my life to be an exceptional dancer. my body has been through brutal beatings and that will probably come back to haunt me when i'm old and wrinkly. but that was a small price to pay for the talent that i was working towards. college hits and i realize that my whole life has been dancing, so i decided to 'take a break' from it. i stop teaching, i stop stretching, i stop dreaming dance. i come to college and for the first time in my life i can walk like a normal person without the gimp from a sore muscle. i think it's awesome. at my first college football game, i felt a real pang of loss. the cougarettes were doing their little thing on the sidelines and the whole time my body was twitching, yelling at me, questioning why i'm not out there with them. ever since then i've been in withdrawal.
with my very beginner dance classes and my unquenchable need to dance, how do i satisfy the thirst?

any advice would be lovely.


in other news: i have a new baby niece!! yay for babies! i won't get to see her for a while but her pics are sure adorable.

HALLOWEEN!!!

This halloween was the best yet! My roommate hil and I got our FHE boys to go as the Spice Girls with us. It actually wasn't that hard to convince them to do it. (I think they were secretly looking for an opportunity like this one!!!) So we made up a dance to Wannabe and it was the sensation of BYU. Everyone absolutely LOVED it. I don't have a video of it but I will post a link to facebook. The lighting is terrible, but you'll get the general idea!

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/video/video.php?v=1274677028048&ref=mf

Also, here are some pics from the night:

The roomies go as follows: Wendy=Wendy, Jessica=Peter Pan's Shadow, Celeste=Ballerina, Me=Posh Spice, Sarah=Beat up Utah Fan, Hil=Sporty Spice.

The boys go as follows: Me=Posh, Ramon=Scary, Johnny=Baby, Jared T=Ginger, Hil=Sporty, and Jared C=Bodygaurd/Beckham if he was being nice to me ;D

Dr. Pepper Pong!

This is how we 'mormons' have fun. Dr. Pepper pong! Haha. For the past couple of weekends, we've been going over to our FHE guys' apartment to play this game. It's so fun! The other night we decided to have a tournament and some of the guys got pretty creative ;)

The vid is super short (sorry) my memory chip ran out...

It was HI larious. I think they took the cake.

Here was my team... and my game face:

Crazy Fun

It's only been 3 weeks and it's already crazy all the time! I don't know where the time goes! In fact, I probably shouldn't be on here right now but oh well, I needed to update.

Our FHE family is pretty awesome (if you don't include the girls from the other apartment that don't ever show up.... not cool) and we've been having a blast all the time. That past FHE I taught them how to hip hop.... LOL I should have video taped it, because it was HI larious.

So here's a pic of my FHE fam and one of me and Hilary. She's one of my roommies. She's awesome. Period.

I'm a BIG girl now!

That's right! I'm now officially at BYU! (Acutally, I have been for a week) but things are finally starting to slow down. So far my roommates are amazing! We all get a long and it's been a blast so far. (And if you are reading this, don't you dare tell me that it's just the honeymoon stage and we're all going to hate each other eventually. Because it's not gonna happen!!!)

Voici quelques images ! Apprécier !

(French is hard. So I'm trying to use it everyday)

(We named our apartment DONTÉ. Somehow naming things just makes them more likeable)

NEW HAIR

Okay so I got my hair done last Saturday in Brigham City. According to Lace I desperately needed to get it done. (My streaks were terrible (: ) I don't know if you can tell in the picture-but here it is. It's really dark now-almost black. And it's supposed to fade a little so I won't look gothic ;D

Miss Summit County <3

so i did a very, very scary thing. i tried out for miss summit county. what possessed me to do this? i have no clue. but i learned a lot, met some new friends, and had a lot of fun. oh and i got 2nd attendant! ;D shocking. so basically the week of the fair, i was living at the fair grounds and going to every event that they had going on. i was super tired when the week got through but it was so fun!!!

so the top 2 are of me and my buddies jessica, tyler, and tessa. they were very good at cheering for me ;). the bottom two are of mom, dad, and lacey as well as a picture of the royalty.

and here are some pictures during the fair week:

the top ones are of our pretty formals during the parade and our grand entry during the derby i think. (waving made my shoulder pop and hurt!) and the bottom 2 are of me during the rodeo passing out free stuff (which was very scary. sometimes we had to have a police escort. no lie!) and of me after i did my talent (singing My Strongest Suit from Aida) on the grand stand. mom did amazing on my dress btw...

This first one is mom trying out her photography skills. not bad :) the next one is during the demo derby. needless to say i was a little nervous driving a brand new ATV (one handed) in front of everyone :P haha.