fall festivities

The weather surprisingly has been cloudy/rainy all week!! we had a pretty dry weekend but still a lot of clouds and cold. Anyway, this weekend turned out to be pretty fun and busy! Friday we didn't have practice (yay!) but instead we went as a team to watch the cross country team run and support them and afterwards had a BBQ in the parking lot.

Saturday consisted of homework till 1 or so then we got ready and went to a pumpkin patch around 3 and spent the rest of the day there and carving pumpkins! :) I haven't had a chance yet to upload those photos so those will come later this week. Also I was up at 3:15 am this morning to go with the track team to help at the rock n' roll 1/2 marathon in pasadena and didn't get back till 9 am! We did get to see a few celebrities though! I will save that for when I have the pictures up too.

Baby Monkey

This weekend was nice, I watched the Killers with Zach on Saturday and it was so good! Really a cute movie. Sunday was homework and I went a track team pool party with my friends Alyssa (aka queso) and Mandy from track. Well the pool party turned more into a indoor party because it was raining the entire time and like 65 degrees! It was actually kind of nice to have the rain :) Cameron, a freshman this year on the team, hosted us at his family's house. They had the best food! Complete with big screen to watch some football, and a game room to goof around in. It was really nice of his family to feed all of us that showed up and let us in their home, it is so nice when we actually get to go to a house and be around a family especially those of us whose families are far away. 

Afterwards I had dinner with my roommates and 2 other girls on the track team who live in the same court as us at our resident advisor's apartment. We had some yummy enchiladas, beans, and chips salsa and guacamole and a whole lot of laughs. Our R.A. Sarah is pretty cool. 

So I don't have pictures of anything sadly but I do have a video to share! It's been raining on and off since Sunday but it's kind of nice :) I had a great practice today too! and a bunch of us are carving pumpkins and watching Halloween movies on Saturday so I have something to look forward to :)

Good Times

Nothing super exciting this week, we did have a "study" day on Wednesday which meant no classes but besides that pretty average week. Well as average as it gets living with my 4 roommates who drive me crazy at time but most times we are just crazy together. Our apartment is rarely quiet when the 5 of us our home together because we are usually laughing at everything. I wouldn't have it any other way though. Even though sometimes someone forgets to do their dishes, or close the shower curtain, or put away the straightener after they borrow it. I love living with these girls because they are my best friends and when I come home after a full day of school, work and track they are there to encourage me and remind me to laugh and enjoy life. 

Unfortunately I do not have a picture of all 5 of us! :( sad! But this weekend we are taking some roommate pictures... I guess there is no time to take pictures when you are having fun!

10/10/10

So this weekend turned out to be a very busy one but a good one. My friend Alyssa and I made the best birthday card ever for our friend John for his birthday and this is what it looked like...

John, for your birthday we baked you a cake!

then on the inside...

The thing is though we got hungry and ate it

It's the thought that counts though, right? Happy Birthday!!

Haha yeah ... not going to lie, it was a pretty good card! And we did bake him another cake , not just the one we ate.

In other weekend news, Zach and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary on Sunday, 10/10/10

we went to outback steak house for a nice dinner together :)

Then we went back to john and zach's where alyssa, tiffany, and I had a surprise party planned since it was his birthday that day too.

Here is the video! He walks in and the place is decorated but Zach and the other two roommates and myself are just sitting on the couch playing super smash bros so he doesn't think much of it until everyone popped out!

His face is the best! he was so surprised :) a job well done!

So as promised here is one of the videos. This was on our way to Yosemite and these three in the back were just too funny. They did this dane every time california girls came on ! haha. On our way back to Azusa we had a lot of fun amongst the different vans. It started with the all boy van driving by us with butt cheeks pressed to the glass and of course our guys in the back of the van had to get them back so we caught up to them and returned the gesture. Well after all that fun was done with and the giggles ceased we communicated with the boy van to drive up with our van and get along both sides of the other APU van ahead of us. And so we sped off to catch the next track van ahead of us who then proceeded to get moonage at the same time on both sides! After speeding off eventually the van caught up to ours and the other van that mooned them and got their revenge. From then on it was a huge dance party in all the vans and non stop laughter. It was so hilarious and a really fun ride back to the 95 degree weather that awaited us

It's about time!

Sorry for the long delay in posts... it took a long time to get settled in haha. But hopefully this will be a more regular thing from now on. I was thinking I would just give a few highlights of my first month back at school to fill you in

TRACK

Track has been in full swing since day 1! 6 practices a week and 3 weight training practices in addition to that each week. Although I am a junior this year I am getting a lot of firsts in APU track this year because Freshmen year I didn't join till Oct. and last year I was in South Africa. One of those was our team trip to Yosemite Valley which consisted of a 5 hour drive aka bonding time!

a 14 mile hike!! yuck!

high ropes courses

kayak races... so fun!

and so many many memories and laughs! Our team is a really great one this year and so far it has been a blast! I will try to post some pretty hysterical videos of the ride home and tell that story tomorrow!

Things I would like to share soon: our apartment, meet my roommates, and just life in Azusa!