I am finally done with my hectic, stressful, last fall semester at BYU-Idaho! It was also my last hard semester as well. Next spring, I will only be taking 7 credits and hopefully find a part time job on-campus or somewhere in Rexburg. I'm excited for my last semester!
I also officially have an internship! Even though I didn't get either of the two church ones I wanted, I am even more excited for this one I am doing. I am working for Fluid Studio, a graphic design and advertising firm in Bountiful, Utah. The owner, John Dye, is so flexible and let me decide how many days I wanted to work and for how long I wanted to work for. I only want to do a 1 credit internship (100 hours), since it's unpaid. So I plan on working only a couple days a week, 15 hours a week, for 7 weeks. I am living near Provo, so it will take a good hour to get to Bountiful so I only want to drive there a couple time a week! This internship was my backup plan if I didn't get the church internships. I am way happy to be working for an actual firm, which is where I want to work someday, than doing intense writing jobs for the church. I wanted to write for the church to improve my writing skills, which every student majoring in Communications needs to be a good writer. But they would take a lot of commitment, working 40 hours a week, and I would only have free time on the weekends. I would still have to drive about 45 minutes one-way each day! So yeah... that would be tough. I want to enjoy my off-track! Plus I'm taking a couple of online classes, so I really am happy with doing this internship so I can have time to do some homework!
I finished all my BYU-Idaho finals last Wednesday, which was so nice because it gave me all of Thursday to pack up my stuff. Alan flew into Salt Lake on Wednesday night, then spent all of Thursday with my brother Aaron and his family. He then got on the Salt Lake shuttle Thursday evening and drove to Rexburg. We left Friday at 10 in the morning and drove all the way home. It took a little less than 10 hours. In the past, the roads have been so bad driving home that it is impossible to not slide everywhere. It is scary with all the snow and wind blowing! But we got so lucky, and the roads were completely dry the whole way home! I could have driven home myself!
It has been so nice being home. I have just been relaxing and doing random things. On Monday, it was my mom's birthday, so I made her this delicious, 3-layer coconut cake. I found the recipe
here. It's Paula Deen's, so of course it's good! There's this filling that you put in between each layer, that soaks into the cake to make it very moist! Paula Deen normally has her cake sit for 3 days so it gets super moist, but my cake layers were so small compared to hers, I only let it sit for a couple hours and it turned out fine. The one thing I didn't have time to make perfect was the frosting. It should have had time to harden for a couple of hours, but I only let it sit for maybe 20 minutes, so it was way runny! But I covered the whole cake it coconut flakes and it looked alright. I'm just glad it turned out and my family really liked it!
Yesterday was my birthday! I really don't know how I feel about being 22. But I had a very fun day. My Grammie gave me some of her homemade rolls to eat for breakfast, which is the best breakfast ever! I got a birthday letter in the mail from Geoff, which means he took time out of his busy schedule to write me an extra letter! So sweet of him :) I also like how it arrived on my birthday... he has good timing! My best friend Holly and her family are in town, so they brought be balloons in my favorite colors (green and blue) and took me out to lunch! Then my mom and I went to Wenatchee and I got some cute shirts. I came home to a heart made with powdered doughnuts on the front window of my car, and my Aunt Mimi also decorated some of the doughnuts as cute snowmen! I had a great day!
Here I am, a static mess, in Holly's birthday balloons.
One of the cute, powdered doughnut snowmen!
Also, here is a video birthday message that my cousin Leisha sent me of her daughters, Emma and Nora. It pretty much made my day! Emma is perfectly on pitch! I love these cute girls so much!
I have the best family and friends, ever! Thanks to everyone who made my birthday so special, including all of you who said happy birthday to me over Facebook! It made me day all the better.
