Little Things That Make Life Great

• October: fall weather and pumpkins!
• BYU's homecoming dance: wear black and white, prepare to be painted and dance all night with new friends :)
• The combination of two of my favorite things resulting in Justin Bieber's new OPI nail polish line
• A new friend leaving candybars and note thanking you for just being a nice person when they didn't even know you were having the worst day ever. 
• The rare times the testing center screen says congratulations after your score :)
• Taylor Swift releasing new songs
• BYU finally winning a football game :)
• Learning the dance from "the worst music video ever"
• Amber's mom giving us earplugs so maybe we will be able to sleep.
• Getting texts from my family and friends that are far away
• The quote wall in our hall
• Did I mention JB songs? "you smile I smile" so precious
• Getting a job just because people like your sister
• Living with people who make me laugh all the time aka amber, may and annie :)
• Listening to the Wicked soundtrack while I run and being so so excited to see it agian in the spring
• Being surrounded by amazing people who share your standards
• living in a world full of Brandon Sanderson books and believing that I will one day have time to read them all
• My swipey swipe aka dinning plus meal card: jamba and subway everyday :) thanks Dad
• Movie nights with the 3200 girls
• Having a roommate who makes me acknowledge that I am procrastinating my hw so I stop blogging

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Our Room!!

The view from my window!!

Today was the first day of classes so I feel like college is real now!! I love all of my classes so far. I just hope I will be able to keep up with the homework. I don't have much time cause we are meeting Courtney for dinner but I will upload a few pictures of the dorm room before we leave.

Moved In!!!...kinda

We are officially moved in! It is exciting but a little strange. I keep thinking that I am going to go home in a week because with orientation it feels so much like EFY.  I am scared/excited for classes to start on Monday. It will be nice to have a set schedule. We just got back from olive garden for Brynn's birthday celebration. It was so much fun and so so yummy! We are having so much fun meeting new people so I need to stop blogging and go PLAY!!! Bye!!!!

Changes

First you should know that this is Paige speaking. No need for Amber to be held accountable for my random ramblings...We move in on Wednesday. I am excited but I would be lying if I said I wasn't nervous.  Perhaps is it silly of me because I won't be very far but as time progresses the pit in my stomach is ever more present. It isn't the distance that worries me I am still close to home. It isn't even the stress of fitting all my belongings into a tiny dorm room. No, this is a result of the changes big and small that have happened or are soon to happen in my life.  I will no longer wake up to a chore list carefully prepared by my mom every Saturday or need to hide my favorite hair product from my sister. These are funny things to miss but if I inherited anything from my father it is the love of tradition and all things familiar.  Some of my best friends have already started their new lives in Minnesota and Logan. While I know we will forever be friends we will each meet new people who will hang out with us every weekend and eventually learn all of our pet peeves and favorite things. Even though these changes may be hard to deal with I wouldn't have it any other way. The new places, responsibilities, and experiences will help us to mature and become the people we need to be.
A short list of some things I will miss..

• watching movies on Sunday nights with the family
• my bed
• two closets and a dresser
• being within walking distance from Chelsea's house
• mom's cooking
• waking up to Tanner playing the drums
• the Draper temple
• familiar roads (with no sense of direction I am sure it will take me forever to master even the simple streets of Provo)
• listening to whatever music I want as loud as I want right when I wake up
• Frogurt (though I am sure it won't take long to find a replacement)
• taking LONG showers without wearing flip flops
• Staying up way too late talking to Kels while she writes Ryan
• Taffy and Belle
• knowing that dad is waiting up for me to come home every night

WE STARTED A BLOG!!!

Why? Because we have nothing else to do. We are about to go 80's dancing but that is not for another three hours. So in our boredom a blog was born. We want you to read this daily. It will enhance your life by providing wisdom and wit.