Melissa's Blog

the other day was the ward talent/variety show. the theme for the night was "dress up like a celebrity" so my roommate shayne wore this custome and was shania twain and played a piano piece. i clogged to "Toss the Feathers"! its been almost a year since I've performed and I forgot how much i love it! i'm getting out of shape but i made it through the whole dance. dad was so awesome and edited this song so it would be shorter so i could do a solo routine. thanks dad! youre the bomb!

i really should be studying for my finals right now but i can only do so much studying in one day! i bought some dark chocolate because years ago dad gave me some to study with. supposedly it helps you study or something. so i used that as a good excuse to buy some! i love dark chocolate :) can you guess what i'm studying?? this morning we had an IRC (Institute Representative Council) breakfast at 6:30am. it was SO delicious. I ate about 10+ pieces of bacon ( i lost count) i haven't been fed that well for quite a while. and the hashbrowns were amazing. i am so thankful to be a part of the institute committee! its really been a blessing because i've been able to get to know so many awesome people here and make friends really quickly. it feels like i've been here at ISU a lot longer than just one semester. oh so no real update on the "nose hairs" guy. ha oh well. we still talk but we kind of have to because we are both on IRC. i'm really excited for next ye

cool shot of ben and nathan look how much redder my hair looks in the sun! probably one of the best shots of lindsey and i we just LOVE jumping. it took about ten shots to get this picture. we never could jump all at the same time. my friends from rexburg came to visit me a few weekends ago. we went on a picnic with sphaghetti and french bread haha and then attempted to fly a kite with hardly any wind. before ben and nathan came to pocatello, lindsey and i found a place to take a walk, so thats what we decided to do after we flew the kite. it was quite the adventure! here are some pictures! oh and after we got back to my apartment i accidently locked both of my keys in my bedroom so we spent the next three hours trying to card my door and do whatever we could to unlock it. finally my roommates fiance carded it! i was SO thankful that he got it open! unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of us trying to get it open. we have a funny video though, but i think lindsey wouldn'