How to entertain yourself in Rexburg

 GEOCACHING
      -an outdoor sporting activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device^[2] and othernavigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world. 
A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook where the geocacher enters the date they found it and signs it with their established code name. Larger containers such as plastic storage containers (tupperware or similar) or ammunition boxes can also contain items for trading, usually toys or trinkets of little value. Geocaching is often described as a "game of high-tech hide and seek", sharing many aspects with benchmarking, trigpointing,orienteering, treasure-hunting, letterboxing, and waymarking.

Geocaches are currently placed in over 100 countries around the world and on all seven continents, including Antarctica.^[3] After 10 years of activity there are over 1,532,000 active geocaches published on various websites. There are over 5 million geocachers worldwide.

(Wikipedia)

We are in the process of creating our own Geocache :) Our team name is the 'Star Cachers' (get it!) We're putting straw stars (we're made about 80 so far) into a small sliver canister along with a note for the future geocachers who'll find it. 

The Silver Lining/and/or Blessings in Disguise

Today a bumblebee flew into my hair as I walked home from class.
Why me? I asked in my mind while passerby's stared at the crazy girl whacking her head. But thankfully, after swatting it out (or so I thought) I walked home in peace.
12 minutes later, while preparing to take my Child Development quiz, I hear a buzzing sound coming from my bangs (yes I had a small freak out/panic attack). I then leapt out of my chair and  'whipped my hair back and forth' for about 3 seconds, but the killer bee was still hanging out in my hair! So I grabbed my scarf, trapped the evil insect inside and threw it on the sidewalk outstide our dorm. And I then killed the bug with a bouncy ball while screaming.

This is my life.


So then I proceeded to take my Child Development Quiz on a brand new chapter that I had studied for last night around 1:26 am (more like skimmed through while listening to different versions of Lil' Wayne's 'How to Love', Sam Tsui is a genius)
....(ok ok I really did study Mom!)
But with every trial there comes a blessing:
        Because of the incident with the Killer Bumblebee, my heart rate and energy had increased rapidly, thus making my focus more precise and resulting in a wonderful score of 95 on my quiz!


Moral of this strange story:

Don't worry about the bumblebees in life, they are put into your hair for a reason :)

The Most Memorable Salt Lake City Excursion

General Conference was incredible. Just incredible.

Haley, Carter, Adam, Shelby, Jared,  Me, Sarah, Jackie, Maddie

Sarah and I stayed with the Hatch and Quist families for the weekend and we're eternally grateful to them for making it possible for us to come to conference!

Carter Hatch is Jared's roomate and Shelby Quist is his cousin. They both go to BYU-Idaho and we all got together and drove down to Salt Lake City for General Conference weekend. It was pretty much the ultimate Road Trip.

watching "The Creep" and other
hilarious YouTube videos

We would stay in the hotel at night and pretty much live in Temple Square during the day, so fun! We would hold signs and ask people for their extra tickets. Our record: 50 tickets in 20 minutes!
Between the two families, BYU-I kids and Sarah, there were about 14 kids altogether. 

isn't he amazing?

oh YEAH!!

Being in the conference center for the very first time was such a memorable experience. The Spirit was so strong when we all stood for President Monson. It was such and wonderful memory!


Every second of this weekend was so memorable. I don't remember a time when we weren't smiling, quoting, singing or laughing!


Being surrounded by these amazing families made me miss my own, our hotel parties reminded me of our crazy fun trips to Florida and Lake Powell.

Batmanning                    All of the above                  Planking (14 kids in a row!!)                 Toweling

At night we would release our energy that had been pent up all day through swimming, playing 'Slaps' and 'Ninja Destruction' and most interestingly; the art of ‘planking’ and many other poses.
We became addicted to thinking of more creative poses rather than just the normal "Plank". We came up with Batmanning, Toweling, Walling, "Kronking" (see fb) Koalaing, Dogging, and Tip-toeing. We weren't able to walk past a chair without toweling or dogging on the tables. This was our entertainment for most the evening, and it was most epic.

Walling                  Koalaing             Toweling              Dogging

After the morning session of General Conference the college kids (Jared, Carter, Shelby, Haley and I) drove to Jared's Grandma's house for the afternoon session and dinner. We took a walk outside and went GeoCaching for a bit. We found the geocache, wrote in the log, and played with our new found treasures! It was such a fun day. When we got back to Rexburg, Carter, Kenzie and I went Stadium Singing and the weekend ended on a beautiful note (pun intended)

It was the best weekend of my life!