I'm an Intern!!!!!

Things have fallen into place and I have been so blessed to be able to get an internship position with a travel magazine!!! I am so excited. My friend Nolan and I were sitting in class going through his e-mail (making good use of our time) and he had gotten e-mails regarding internships for the journalism major. He asked if I wanted any and I was like, "Nah.." because most of them were out of Logan and I still have to finish up one more semester. Well we saw one needing an editor for a travel magazine here in Logan, UT!!! I was like, "Why don't you send me that one?!" I forgot about it and a couple weeks later (last week) e-mailed the guy and asked if the position was still available. He said he asked me to send him some a cover letter, resume, and two articles I had written. Then he responded asking me if I was available for an interview on Saturday. (You betcha!) So I was the first interview of the day, and very nervous. I went after the homecoming parade and that morning had woken up with a migraine coming on that reached it's high point during the interview. But, I did think that the interview went really good; however, he did act concerned that A) I wasn't a journalism major and he didn't know how this would benefit me and B) that I was graduating in one semester and didn't know where I would be. Well editing and designing layout fits perfectly into the technical writing major (let's be honest, like everything fits into our major if it has to do with words) and so he contacted me yesterday asked me to look into getting credits for the internship and today told me I got the position. So soon my name will appear in a magazine under the words, "Editor"!!!!! Ahhhhh!!!! I am so excited. I feel like it is such a blessing and that everything worked out so perfectly. Yay! I am so happy!

There was a wedding!!!!

Since I told Virginia folk that I would post some pics of Sister Karren's wedding... here they are! It was a beautiful day and the weather was perfect!! They did some fun stuff that I didn't really ever think of before but her diamond is a circle set in square shaped white gold. The circle inside the square I learned symbolizes eternity. I thought that was neat. He has the same symbol engraven upon his ring. :) Here are some pics!

Mission buddies for life! Sister Alison Lord (my MTC companion and Sister Karren's old companion), Sister Karren, and me... Sister Jarrett :)

My little niece who came to visit me, awe... love her!

USU HoMeCoMiNg PaRaDe 2008

My senior year and I was FINALLY in the USU homecoming parade! Whoop Whoop! I bought a road bike last December because I decided I wanted to start cycling. My friend Gwen purchased one also but shortly after sold it to go to nail school. (blah!) So I have had to ride by myself. I met this kid though who is on the USU cycling team and he called me to help out with the float and ride in the parade. I was like, "For sure!" I got to meet other cyclists so now that I actually know other people, I want to get more involved in this. Whoop Whoop!These are my wonderful friends who after getting no sleep the night before (throwing the HiP HoPpIN HalLoWeen BaSH) came to support me in me spandex. lol, perfect.

HiP HoPpIN HaLLoWeEn BaSh

Kjersten, Amanda, and I decided to throw a Halloween party this year and it was INCREDIBLY amazing! We had a nice turn out and people said that it was the most fun they have had in a long time. They even told people how much fun it was after they had left. LOL. Whoop Whoop. We should be professional party throwers. ;)

In this picture we switched roles and acted like each other. Kj decided to pretend to be me and pray, I am trying to be seductive like she is, and Linds & Mand are just being each other as dumb blonde's. Haha. Nice to know what we really think of each other right!?

Biking Again

Last week I started biking again. Well I had been on one really short ride prior to this one but I almost wrecked on my bad leg so I stayed away for a while deciding I'd heal a little longer. This ride was fun though, my friend Bethany and I tried to follow the Latoja trail and biked out to Newton and back. Still not very long but my ankle was getting shocks sent through it every time I would push down on the petal. After a while of not riding like this I decided we should turn around although I did not want to. I felt fine, it was just the ankle. Shoot. This is where stationary bikes come in handy because I said, "I will ride as far as I can until it hurts," but then it starts to hurt, I go a mile farther hoping it will get better, it doesn't and then I have to bike the rest of the way with it paining me. LOL. No bueno. Oh well, it was so fun and so nice to get out and be doing things again!
Apparently my ankle is still "unusually swollen" (I am told) so the Doctor and my physical therapist gave me a pair of socks that are supposed to help the swelling go down. This is how hott my legs looked on the ride with my special sock on. LOL.

Annika, Jen, & Dusty

I began baby-sitting my niece Annika when she was around 3 months old. I figured there was no time to waste and I began teaching her how to say, "Jen." Repeating it over and over. For some reason, she didn't catch on. However, when she would come to visit at Grandma & Grandpa's house she sure caught on and learned how to say, "Dusty's" name. Dusty is our family dog. What is harder, "Jen" for which I even told her she could say, "En" or "Dusty." Whatever. =^) Annika loves loves loves Dusty. When they pull up to our house she begins saying his name and when she looks at books with dogs, she says his name.

We went to Lagoon a couple weeks ago and I went on the Merry-Go-Round with Annika & Alisha. Annika rode a dog like Dusty (he is a yellow lab). I think that she had lots of fun. She was trying to take it all in more than she was just enjoying it. But she did smile and show that she was liking it. At one point though she grabbed onto Alisha's hair all scared like. I thought that she was going to jump off the dog. lol. Lots of fun. Good times, good times.