Brittany's Update

Okay so now it’s my turn to write. While Heather has been busy being engaged and in love, I’ve been busy myself. This year, I’ve been working for Residence Halls Association. I have the best job on campus! Basically, I help freshmen plan really big parties. I supervise a council of Heritage residents in planning the programs for the area. We have put on dances, carnivals, and more. Right now, we’re planning the Mr. Heritage contest. The nine freshmen on my council are pretty much the coolest first-year students at BYU. Here is a pictu

re of us with our advisor, Kevin.

Besides work, I’ve been preparing for………..MEXICO!! After the first study abroad program I applied for (Guadalajara) got cancelled, I got accepted into the Merida program! I will be there from April 29^th to June 16^th. While there, I will live with a Mexican host family, take language classes, and do a little bit of traveling to see the Mayan sites. Merida is 25 minutes from the beach and only 4 hours away from Cancun. So, a trip to Cancun either before or after the program is in the works. Needless to say, I’m super excited and counting down the days.

As for Heather’s wedding, she asked me to be her Maid of Honor, so I’ve been busy planning her bachelorette party, bridal shower, and helping wherever I can. She’s got her dress, I’ve got my dress, and her wedding is going to be awesome!

Next Fall/Winter, I will be living in the Colony with Stephanie and Jackie. Heather will be living in _______________ with Roy…the place is still to be decided. Heather has promised to take a few moments out of her new married life to spend time with us lowly single people. Stay tuned to find out if that happens. J

As for more new things…I joined what my dad calls the “multiple decades club” a few weeks ago when I turned 20 years old. Yep. I’m old. Heather showed up at my work with some balloons for me. It was a very odd assortment of “over the hill,” “yep! I’m a boy,” pirate-themed, and some birthday balloons.

Heather mentioned our new roommates in one of her last posts, but I’ll tell you a little more about them. First there’s Marybeth:

Marybeth graduated from BYU-I and works as a Registered Nurse at a pediatric clinic. She’s from Utah and her dad was my cousin’s bishop in the MTC! She is super nice, super fun, and just all around super. She has an awesome laugh and sense of humor.

Next is Heather…we have two of those now!

Heather spent most of her growing-up years in Oregon but moved to Utah during high school. She and Marybeth have been friends for years. She is a senior at BYU in the School of Family Life program. She spent the six months before Winter semester doing an internship in China. She is hilariously outgoing, beautifully confident, and just an all-around awesome person.

So, things have been good with roommates and we’ve had a few awesome and much-needed girls’ nights. The most recent was last Monday. Jackie wasn’t there because she was hanging out with Brent (as usual) but the other five of us were.

Okay so backtracking a little…I’ll talk about the last part of Christmas break. I went to Heather’s and spent like the last 6 days of break with her in good ole’ Missouri. Surprisingly, I don’t have any pictures. But, I’ll give a quick run-down anyway. The first day, we went shopping on the way back from the airport. There’s this awesome mall in Chesterfield, MO. The next day, we got manicures and I met some of Heather’s friends. Other things we did include a New Year’s party with her friends, a few movies (including Harry Potter), more shopping, sardines in Walmart and just all-around fun! The first time we went to the mall, Heather bought some jeans and the cashier didn’t take off the security thing. You know, the kind that is filled with ink in case you try to take it off. So, we went back a few days later to get that taken off. Break quickly ended and here we are now. Back in school and eager for April when Heather gets married and I go to Mexico.

Well that's it for now!

He's a "good guy"

So, this may all be out of order in time sequence, but I wanted to get this posted. There's still many more exciting adventures of Bralph and I, but here's what's newest going on with me. If you don't have a facebook, you might not know, but really, who doesn't have a facebook nowadays?

Anywho, I'M ENGAGED!

His name is Roy Hemmert and he's a graphic design major here at BYU. We met at the beginning of last Fall semester (2010) and he proposed January 18th at the Provo Temple by a bench we always sit on when we go to the temple. It was a total surprise and I cried a lot, but have never been happier! We are getting married on April 22nd in the SLC temple!

No, I am not replacing Brittany. Her and I will still be horrible people together and prank and hang out and still be "meant for each other." I'll just have a ring on my finger, be living with a man, and not be a virgin anymore! haha...ok, sorry, that was probably too much information. I just had to throw that in there in honor of what Stephanie and Jackie always say when they talk about how things will be like after I'm married.

Anyways.... Yeah, that's what's new with me in my love life. Also, I would never recommend planning a wedding in one semester while going to school. It's so hard not to blow of school stuff to do wedding stuff, or slack on going to classes cause you just want to hang out with your fiance.

So once I'm married off, it's Brittany's turn! :)

VEGASSSSSSS

So, last semester (Fall of 2010), a few roommates and I started getting cabin fever of Provo and planned a trip to Las Vegas for a few days. It was super fun! Expensive, but totally worth it.

We (Steff, Britt, Jack, and I) took Stephanie's car and got a hotel room at the Sahara Hotel. We had to get some random guy to pretend he was Brittany's boyfriend and sign us into our room cause we aren't 21 yet. And that's only the BEGINNING of all the stories!

First night we just kinda wandered around the hotel and casino, laughing at the guy we saw in a BYU t-shirt sitting at one of the blackjack tables, and taking funny pictures. Then we found this gift shop thing across the street that was huge, and took pictures of all the crappy stuff we found in there. For example:

The next day...ok all the days have mixed together now in what we did so I'll just say, "and then" and you can all understand I mean "sometime within these 4 days."

We slept in, went to eat at a busy denny's, and got henna tattoos.

Worst waste of $25 ever. Stupid henna...lasted not even a day... grr

Anyways, we then toured all the hotels and casinos,

looked for a place to eat, and walked the Strip once night fell. We ended up eating at the Hard Rock Cafe (of course!), and got bought a round of drinks by the drunk guys at the booth next to us. Woo hoo for virgin drinks and fake tattoos!

Don't ask what I'm doing...I don't know. I was getting over being sick that week, so let's just blame it on that...

Like I said, we then walked the Strip. DON'T LOOK DOWN or take what the snappers are giving you. That's what I learned on the trip. But there were cool performers in costumes along the strip you could get pictures with. ("Is it a guy in a suit??" "No, its a real spongebob")

And finally, we must mention Matt. The odd Indian guy in the hot tub who read our palms, told our future, offered financial benefits to us, and advice about school and studying abroad to Brittany and I. I even got his name and email and where he was staying in the hotel! He insisted..don't judge.

Well, that's all I have time for now, so enjoy!

~Heather

Wow it's been too long...

Not like we have a ton of followers anyways, but it has been a super long time since we posted ANYthing. But for those of you who will actually notice something new and interesting happening on this blog, thanks for staying tuned in! Or just happening to look at this blog in rememberance of the awesomeness it used to be.

Man, where to start. I think I'll post in seperate sections on some of the new happenings since...well...summer I think was when Brittany posted the last thing.

So, NEW ROOMMATES!

Well, the ones worth mentioning. This is Jackie (left) and Stephanie, both crazy cool people. 'Nuff said.

This is Mindy. This picture kinda pretty much shows her true self. Let's just say, she was not a happy camper living with Brittany, Jackie, Stephanie and I. Apparently we can be messy people at times (but in all fairness, "messy" to Mindy was like clean to anyone else...)

'Nuff said.

This is one of the Christmas pictures we took in our ugly sweaters. Cause we're cool. The other girl I didn't mention is Amy, who is now serving a mission in St. George, UT. She was pretty cool, very clean roommate, very healthy and athletic. Yup.

Now we have two new roommates (Amy went on her mission, and we scared away Mindy...or stressed her away... either way, she's away now). Their names are Mary Beth and Heather (...yes. Another Heather. yes, it can be confusing at times. and yes, I know, I can never escape all the Heather's, seeing as I have 2 sister in laws, and my VT companion is Heather as well.)

Anyways, these girls are fun and I'll miss them. Why? Well, just tune in to our next post and find out!

New stuff!

A brief update from Brittany...

Heather has been nagging me for a while about writing something on our blog. So here ya go, Heather. I wrote something. :)

I guess I'll give an update about what we've been doing this Spring. I've been working as a Heritage Halls Conference Assistant for BYU Housing. Just as the title states, I help with conferences such as EFY and Women's Conference. This includes (but is definitely not limited to) preparing the buildings, check-ins, roving, towel exchange, check-outs, and working at the front desk. This is Rochelle (a desk attendant) and I doing check-ins for Women's Conference:

The next picture is of my co-workers, all of the Heritage CA's. Our managers took us to Tucano's, a Brazilian restaurant during training last week. We're an attractive bunch, huh?!?

The job is a lot of work, but it's super fun, my co-workers are really cool, and the benefits are sweet! I get my own three-bedroom apartment and a meal plan for FREE! Plus an hourly wage. Because I work close to 40 hours each week, I'm not taking classes on campus. However, I am taking one independent study class, PDBio 120 (The Science of Biology). In regard to this class, motivation has definitely been an issue... Anyway, I miss having roommates, but I LOVE having my own place! I have four extra beds, so for a while, I had three mattresses stacked on my bed. I get the bathroom all to myself and cleaning the apartment is only necessary once every few weeks. And cleaning the entire place takes less than an hour. Having to share an apartment with five other girls again in the Fall will be bittersweet. I've accumulated enough stuff to fill almost the entire apartment. I converted the three bedrooms into a storage room, a getting ready room/office, and a sleeping room. When my old roommates/friends left after the winter semester, they gave me all of the stuff they didn't want to ship or store. It ended up being a LOT of stuff! I have a plethora of random items including a couch, 2 TV's, 2 DVD players, a Nintendo 64, a computer, and lots of food. So yeah...I'd rather not have to re-enter the real world of sharing an apartment and paying for my own food and rent!

As for my free time, I spend most of it at Heather's place and I almost feel like I'm an actual roommate. :) Last weekend, Heather was kind enough to make room for me and we both squeezed into her twin-sized bed on Friday and Saturday nights!

So now about Heather. She works at the Creamery and is currently taking classes, including a polynesian dance class! She has four roommates, all of whom are AWESOME! Becca and Kari were our roommates in the Fall/Winter. The other two, Avery and Alyssa, have lived in Heather's new apartment for the past year and they are so much fun! Avery is from Utah and is an Anatomy TA and Alyssa is from New Mexico and is our FHE mom. Also, our new ward is AWESOME! Everyone is so friendly and welcoming. Way different from our freshman ward.

So. Now a few of the fun things we've done lately. For Becca's birthday, we went to Brick Oven Pizza Restaurant:

The next picture is of Avery, Heather's roommate, and Chad, one of our FHE brothers. He served a mission in Carlsbad, California and is from Illinois.

The food was greasy but delicious!

Becca and Ben! Ben graduated from high school early and lived in Heritage last Winter, so that's when we met him and became friends. He is one Chad's roommates and therefore one of our FHE brothers!

One Saturday, Heather and I got 50-minute massages for $15 (thanks to coupons!) and then walked 17 blocks to get Mexican food. Another day, 10 of us went to Comedy Sports, a comedy club in Provo. (I had coupons to get everyone in for $5 each) It was really good! I will definitely be going back. Hopefully, pictures will be up soon. We had a barbecue for two FHE siblings' birthdays and went to another barbecue at Bippy's ward. (Bippy is Heather's brother). I went to the opening night of Iron man with some of the other CA's and then I went to it again two days later with Heather. One last fun happening: Heather is learning how to drive a stick-shift! Bippy is teaching her. We went to a parking lot yesterday and she did SO well. Way better than I did my first time. :)

So that's just a brief summary of our recent happenings. I've spent every weekend so far with Heather and her roommates and I'm so excited to move in there in the Fall!

~ Brittany :)

Farewell to Fall and Winter

So, I'm sitting in Brittany's new dorm as she unpacks the MILLIONS of new things she accumulated these past few days, and its been making me think about this past two semesters. I guess I always get a little sentimental at the end of something when change is about to happen because even just seeing my dorm and my room completly empty almost made me tear up.

Fall and Winter semesters were a lot of fun, even though I am very glad to have those classes over with. There were the pranks, the dancing (for me--Christmas around the world and getting my head kicked open. story for another time), Brittany's RHA conferences (stories for another blog time Brittany?), friend's visting, apartment hunting for next fall, lots of birthday parties, and... um.....hmmm..... wasn't there more? Well whatever, sorry if we missed something big but both mine and Brittany's minds are drawing a blank. But it was fun nonetheless!

This past week has been insane. What with finals finishing, packing all our crap, saying goodbye to friends we won't see for a long time :( moving, and long hours at work, idk about Brittany but I am so tired. And guess what?? The new term starts this Tuesday... fun stuff

The night Matthew was leaving, Alyssa, him, Brittany, and I had a Martinellis celebration in honor of finals ending and people leaving.

After a lot of all the crazy stuff, Brittany, Bri (semi-roommate from these past semesters), Teddy and I got the chance to relax a little and go to the mall.

Even though Teddy, Eric, Alyssa, all our roommates except a few are gone, this next few terms have promise. What new memories will we make? What is my new off campus housing going to be like with a new roommate (yeah, Brittany has left me for 4 months. grr)? How is Brittany going to like her new job? How often will we all see each other? Is Sterling ever going to show up after Mattew leaves in June?

Well...here we go!

~Heather

In lovely procrastination

So, I'm totally supposed to be studying for geography for my final that is in about 7 1/2 hours, but I really have no motivation to. I'll pass the class and so for whatever reason I have the hardest time caring (sorry mom, if you're reading this. I promise I'll still study tonight and do well...)

Anyways, since it is midnight thirty, and Brittany is fast asleep cause she's the good student like that and I'm the insomniac (spelling??), I thought now would be the perfect time to tell you all about my dear friend Carl.

Brittany has provided my late nights with much humor even after she is unconscience, due to her alter-ego, Carl. She talks, giggles, grunts and twitches in her sleep a lot! Sometime she will wake up and it won't be her though---it's some deep, gruffy voiced version of Brittany that glares at me and makes me afraid for my life! After multiple times of this happening in the middle of the night and in the early morning when she first wakes up, I decided to give this other side of Brittany a name, and Carl was officially born!
(Don't worry Brittany, I cropped off the bottom half of the picture)

Sightings are rare and I am usually the only one priviledged to meet Carl, but our friend Ben Wright has seen him awaken shortly at around 7:45am when she just crawled out of bed.

One night, I was up late reading and studying for geography (hey! much like I will be doing tonight!) and I was sitting in my desk chair, but facing my bed, away from Brittany. Because of the amount of intense studying I was doing....*cough*... I didn't notice Carl turn over in the bed at all and next thing I know, he's yelling "What?!" at me, peeking out from under Brittany's eye cover she sleeps with, not moving a muscle but just staring at me. Creepiest thing ever!! It scared the crap outta me, all I could do was laugh! At that, Carl blinked, glared some more, and asked again, "What??" so through nervous giggles, I asked what back. "Didn't you say something to me??" "um....no? I've barely even been moving so I didn't even make any noise" "Really??" "yeah...I'm sorry?" "Hmmmm....*mumble**grumble*" and he rolled over and went back to sleep. In the morning, I asked Brittany if she remembered that. Not at all.

That's another thing about Carl: he comes and goes without his host body even knowing he was there! She never remembers anything I say that she does, and I think she still wouldn't believe me to this day if Ben hadn't gotten that sighting of Carl as well.

One more story, then I'll end this long post. Another night, I was again up late studying (pretty sure it was geography again. man I can't wait to get this class out of the way!) when I see out of the corner of my eye Brittany sit up quickly, reach for something invisible, and smack her hand on the shelves just above her bed, when Carl yelled out "Crap! Ouch!" When I started laughing, he glared at me again (he must really hate me, he always glares...) and I asked what he was doing, Carl grunted as he laid back down, "I thought something was falling..." I told him, no, nothing moved and asked if he was ok. That's when I thought Brittany was waking up enough to be Brittany again because her voice was getting less gruffy and back to its beautiful self, so I asked, "Are you going to remember this in the morning?" Carl/Brittany laughed a little and said maybe and went back to sleep. Morning came. No recollection whatsoever.

I love my roommate :)

~Heather