Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving this year was AWESOME!!!!  Our family doesn't always celebrate Thanksgiving together. Alright we never do, so Melissa offered her house for the crazy Fieldings to get together this year and it made all the difference.  We were still missing half the clan, but it was still wonderful to see everyone.  Thanks Melissa and Brian!

Here Melissa, Rochelle and I are pulling the Nathan! : ) 

Connor seems to have gotten his facial expressions confused.  When you say smile he closes his eyes tight.  Dolly says she has to wait until he opens them again to take the picture, but I couldnt resist it was too cute.  No wonder he does it though, with Dolly laughing so much!!! : ) 

I wanted to take a picture of Ella so I waited and waited and waited for her to take the sippy down.  Then I realized she wanted her picture taken while she was chugging!!!  She got so excited when the flash went off.  She is all girl and so cute about things when she gets excited!! 

I wish you could see Mom's whole face, because isn't she beautiful?!!?  That color just makes her look so good! 

I love my dad so so so much.  I'm grateful for him and all he does for us.  Really my dad does everything for us.  He is still making sacrifices for his kids and none of us live at home.  I love him.  You're the best Dad! 

Now this little girl has me wrapped around her finger.  I still cant decide if its just me she really likes or if she treats everyone she kinda likes with so much love.  But it makes me feel so good. When I left Melissa's house yesterday Sarah just held on and looked so sad.  When I finally set her down she just moped off.  She does have a flair for the dramatic, but I love it.  

Yesterday Scott went to a mission buddies sealing so he was looking sharp.  ; ) Well, Melissa's girls do NOT understand boys, so when Scott started talking about how all the girls at the wedding were just gonna swoon over him Emily put him in his place.  Clearly Scott needed to defend him self.  So as he was talking Rochelle walked up the stairs to see Scott looking in the mirror and saying, "Who is that guy?" I think he may have been winking at himself!  Well Rochelle had a good 10 minute laugh over that.  So next time you see Scottie please ask, "Who's that guy?" : ) 

This is Andrew and Meagan's baby Jordan.  I've never seen such a solid kid before.  I guarantee he's gonna be 6'5 at least.  He's huge!  He's only 5 months old and over 18 pounds. So cute.  He just smiled the whole time!

SNOW ANGELS

Every year at the first snow fall I make a snow angel and dedicate it.  This year happened to be a really big snow angel.  Look at the size of that thing!!!!  Oh by thing I guess I mean me :) aren't I Enormous!! 

Happy Snow!!!! 

GOLD

My friend Nicole is having her Golden birthday this week, so we celebrated in style on Saturday night.  We decided if we were gonna go to a golden party we were gonna go all out.  So we first stopped at the DI to see what golden treasure we could find.  These were some amazing things that we out of price range. 

Clearly we could not afford something so amazing!

Sadly the nice DI boy who took the picture did not capture that I still had my mid-calf length wool socks on. :(

Poor Kelci is here in Logan for her very first winter.  She is from Arizona and I dont think it quite dawned on her that snow = slippery.  So when we went to pick her up she ate it pretty hard and here is the evidence.  It was awesome.  She's a good sport about it. 

We spray painted many things to prepare ourselve to go in GLAM.  Here is our shoes and my head band.  I actually fell in love with my gold shoes and have now worn them every chance I get. :) 

Kelci, Brooke and I 

They had some funny competitions.  Here we are seeing who has the cutest ears.  Guess who won!?!  Yes I have the cutest ears!!!!!  I may not be able to hear a thing, but they are at least asthetically pleasing! 

These four girls are my main girlfriends here in Logan.  If I am doing something, it is probably with them.  I like them alot.  We are all in the same program, so we're together a lot.  But it is great! 

SLC & UV

This weekend Kristen was in town on break from PA school is Arizona.  So I decided I would take a trip to SLC to see the girl!  I talked to a friend at UCMT the day before I was headed down to SLC and I decided I should stop by and visit them.  I cant believe how much I miss them. 

So here are just a few my favorite UCMT people. 

I had just got a massage so I look a little drugged. :)

This is Jake.  We shared an office the whole time I was at UCMT and he is such a good friend.  I miss him quite a bit.  He always helped me get through my stupid boy problems.  I miss that. 

And of course here are two of the cutest girls in my life.  Hanna and Kristen!!  We had a good time at dinner and then just being together for the rest of friday night.  Its so good to have such old friends. 



Celebrating Success!

 My roommate Sarah passed the GRE a couple of weeks ago and so here we are at Charly's getting some icecream to celebrate.  She was super nervous, but she did amazing.

I actually saw her right after she came out of the testing center and she just had this dazed look on her face.  So I stopped her and asked her how she did.  When she told me how well she did we actually jumped up and down in the middle of the street.  It was pretty funny.  We were at one of the busiest intersections on campus, but it was too exciting to not let the whole world know about it!!!!

This is Ashley.  She is not a roommate, but she is sure funny.  She's on the women's Rugby team, so I'm glad she's funny or I'm pretty sure she could kick my trash! :)

So introducing two of my three roomies.  To the left is Sarah, in the middle is Bethany.  Janey was at home.  She's quite the home body.  Sarah is vegetarian and Bethany is Vegan.  Its interesting.  They are super chill about it though.  Sarah is super liberal but funny.  And Bethany is such a hippie.  They are really great.  I am blessed with awesome roommates.     

Bollywood Party!!!

 My ward had a Bollywood Party last night and I'm not gonna lie, it was AWESOME!!!!!!!

The relief society presidency did a great job.  There were lights and all sorts of bright colors. 

This is Tamma, my relief society pres.  I like her so much.  We kinda have the same sense of humor and I think she's great. 

Here is Keezna and Kandi.  Two great girls.  Kandi was talking and just ended up looking like she was going for sexy.  I wish I looked half normal when I talk!! Keezna just graduated from flight school here at USU and promised to take me on a flight soon.  I am so excited!

 Here's Kandi again.  She's way funny. I like her bunches.

Here are the girls who came.  They're pretty crazy, but we had some fun! 

And last but not least, here we are attempting to learn a Bollywood dance.  Can anyone tell how little coordination I have?  Syncronized dancing + Alycen = awkward!

Fall Travels!

This weekend I went to the happy little Utah Valley for my friend Caitlin's farewell. 

The weekend had kind of a shaky start as I woke up on Friday super sick.  I ended up delaying my visit to Provo til Saturday, which was kind of a bummer because Dolly and I had a whole day planned on Friday and I had to miss it. : (   But other than that, the weekend was a good one.  I got to see some good friends and Melissa's family, which was fun. 

Here are some of the pictures I took!

I took my roommate to SLC on the way down and as we drove through Salt Lake we found this BEAUTIFUL tree.  I feel like I need to buy one of those really fancy cameras because this picture does no justice to it.  But it was beautiful.  I love fall!!

The Olive Box!!!

For those of you who dont know, this is the box where Mom stored all of the family pictures.  Many childhood afternoons were spent dumping this box out and rifling through these pictures. 

Rochelle let me take a few moments with it because she had transferred the pictures to a new waterproof box and she was going to throw it away.  I'm so glad she let me take pictures with it.  Lots of memories!

This is Caitlin!  She's awesome.  She reports tomorrow at the MTC.  Then this skinny little white girl from Provo, Utah will be headed to Los Angelos seeking the spanish speaking population. 

Between you and me, I fear for her, but she'll be ok! : )

These are some of my Provo friends.  I miss them.

Oh and this happened earlier last week.  I thought I would prove I do go on dates sometimes, but who really needs to know what he looks like!!! : ) haha.  teaser.  just for you Doll