All is WHELL.

When video-recording of crazy dancing roommates is done--that's when you know when Apartment 29 is back together again.
When windows have been decorated with funny quotes. . .Apartment 29 is right.
When you are getting less done and laughing about everything when you are home. . .Apartment 29 is happy again.
When popcorn is popped and the smell of popcorn permeates the air. . .Apt 29 has reunited.
When you hear screaming--"Stuck like Glue"--at 12:30 am, all is right in Apartment 29.
When there is late night laughing and looking forward to coming home. . .Apartment 29 is back in business.
When primary songs are turned into, "I will go, I will EAAAAAT the things my roommate cooks". . .Apartment 29 is filled with joy.

It's been a rough couple of weeks--but it seems as if we have weathered this storm.

It's nice coming home to laughter and smiles. . .

I AM having fun....

Just keep telling yourself that.

We are in Vernal right now. Party hardy. Being back to school is pretty awesome. We are all refreshed and ready to start a new semester; full of cute boys, funny stories, and general awesomeness.

We are watching Casablanca in Cec's house. Seriously, this is something that I would have never done last year. I LOVE it.

The Property, Main street, Dino Museum, Treasures, Wedding crashers, Invictus, Cecilly driving, 3 station town, Urban pop, road block in the heart, Kids and pancakes.

This weekend has been bomb. This whole week has been bomb.

Although our apartment started off a lil' rocky, everything is getting better.

We had a really funny instance in the car driving to Vernal. We were discussing our FAVORITE youtube clip ever,


Cecilly had the audacity to ask what HUN CAL FRO YO was. REALLY?!??!!?

Apparently no in the car (except for me) knew what it was. There was a long pause in the car, and I yelled, REALLY?!?!?! It was definitely a Harvard Sailing Team moment, we then went on to quote the rest of the video.

The 3/4ths of Apartment 29 in Vernal is having so much fun. It is awesome to get to know where Cecilly grew up--the place that made her so weird. :) It is so exciting to see people in their "natural habitats" you get to see how people interact. I love it.

Stay Too Legit to Quit.

vERNAL pICTURES

Raising The Dead

I’d like to think that this post is the beginning of many more posts, like raising our blog from the dead, but I don’t know if it will.  I can hope right?  Just because we haven’t blogged, doesn’t mean that we haven’t been doing anything.  We’ve been just as exciting and busy as we can possibly be.  I don’t want to describe everything, but I’ll put pictures of the times.  After all, one picture can tell a whole story. 

This weekend we’re sitting around in Vernal with Cecilly.  I really like it here actually.  The small town feel reminds me of home I think.  We’re missing a very important part of our party though.  Whitney stayed behind because of prior engagements with her sister.  Her not being around let us realize that she is the glue that keeps us together.  We’re all scatterbrained and easily distracted.  “ooh… shiny…”  when going to the walmart today for momma Fransisco, we called her about 5 times to remember what we were getting and verify that again and again. 

The time here in Vernal has been really fun and its not over yet….!!!!! :]  I love getting away from Provo, it’s so relaxing and freeing. 

Have you heard of this CHRISTMAS?!?!?!?!

Roomies are having an apartment Christmas of their own.

It's ok; we are from BYU, which means that we can change time. Ahem, Friday classes on Tuesday. Heh heh heh.

Thursday is Christmas, well for apartment 29 that is.
We are excited to open presents, eat like fat kids (well that was a given) and generally "reward" ourselves for a grueling finals week.

So eat it up, mark your calendars, CHRISTMAS IS COMING EARLY FOR APARTMENT 29!!!

Love Spells T-I-M-E

This last weekend was a strange one for apartment 29. However, it has seemed that our lil’ group has been divided, which is really easy in a four person apartment.
This story is so completely circumstantial, so ridiculous, you may not believe it happened in a 24-hour time period.

It all started on Sunday. Lil’ ames told Whitney and I that she was going to go to a party (Sat night) she didn’t come back until Sunday morning, wearing a DUDES SHIRT!!!! At first, I was baffled, but then I thought that Ames probably just borrowed it from a guy friend or something. (Honestly, my first thought was, ‘I’ve been that shirt on James before, it looks heckalot familiar”, but I discarded this thought as foolish.) Whitney, Cecilly and I skipped to church, but we knew all was not well in apartment 29. After sacrament meeting, Whitney decided that we needed to go get Ames and have her come to church. We all trooped back to the apartment, and Ames seemed so out of it. None of us thought she did anything wrong, we were just sad that she was missing church! Cecilly had me and Whitney sit down and we listened to President Uchdorf’s general conference talk, where he talked about knowing what is important in life. After the talk was over, Cecilly and Ames called Whitney and I into the room…

They had played a lil’ trick on us. It was essentially a test for the roomies, I think we passed. We were able to talk openly about what had been bothering us and what we needed to work on as an apartment and individually. This is what I took away from it: don’t act like a fool all the time, be responsible so not only one person has to, don’t assume everyone is ok…you have to ask, don’t judge people on what they appear to do, but what they actually do.

That last part really stuck with me. I had never really thought about what I thought about Ames. I guess, I have always treated her maybe a little differently than Whitney and Cecilly. And I really appreciated that we could all talk.
Amidst all this talking, we accidentally missed Sunday school and Relief Society. I think that resolving roommate issues was a more pressing issue because they are the little “family” that we have in college. It’s hard to go to church if you have issues with your family.

After getting home, we get a knock on the door…at first we thought it was James because he was our photographer for our roomie pictures we were going to do later that day. But LO AND BEHOLD…a troop of young ladies…the Relief Society Presidency.
As they made their way to our couch, we were baffled by their visit. We had missed two church meetings, but we had gone the most important, Sacrament meeting!
After many long and awkward pauses and questions, they ended up leaving, and we were confused as ever.

But, we had no time to lose. As it so happened, Apt 29 decided a couple weeks ago that this Sunday was going to be roomie pic Sunday. We chose James as our photographer.

Piling into the bug, we were happy as could be, it was a beautiful day and we were content. We swung by my house to get my camera. I was able to give everybody a tour of my house, which turned into James jumping on my bed, acting the inverse of his age. This was just the beginning.

Driving to Sundance (where we took the pics) was a huge ordeal. James literally was being a kid. He tried to put his feet on the dashboard, whined about the temperature in the car, distracted me while I was driving and made us re-consider asking him to be our photographer. I honestly did not mind his behavior, which I find rather hilarious and endearing, but the looks on the faces of my roomies told me they thought otherwise.

Sundance was beautiful. I was really psyched to get some great pics. Turned out that the batteries on my camera were dying. James was having too much fun with the camera, which he couldn’t figure out, and tempers started flaring; including mine.


When we arrived back to the apartment complex, Cecilly and I sought refuge in Apt 24. They were just chilling on their couches listening to Christmas music. Cecilly and I arrived in our footsie pajamas confused and agitated. It was so strange, I wanted to cry, laugh, yell…all at the same time. The day was just so strange that I didn’t even know what to feel. I was glad I talked to the roomies, happy I got to spend time with James, sad that he was being weird, laughed because it was funny, sad because talking with the roomies made me realize things I’ve been doing wrong…But talking to Ryan really calmed me. He put things into perspective and just talking to him and getting his thoughts on thing made me realize how silly I am…
We left calm and collected, with our minds at ease.

But still….
WHAT A WEIRD DAY.

That's How We Roll (not just the fat kid kind of roll)

Ward party. Funny. FUNNY. Our apt arrived 30 minutes late because we all have lives and things to do, but we got there JUST in time for everyone to applaud our entrance (okay, so they were clapping for someone who won some gingerbread decorating contest, but w) and a prayer over the food. After sneaking to the front of the line, we flirted with the food server guy, decided to hook Ames up with him, and then giggled to ourselves as everyone around us kept their volume to half of ours. We had a friend that joined us... name slips me. Well, Nelly & Whitney went back for fifths or something, so while they were absent I slipped under the table and waited for their return. Once they were seated, insulted me having to "go to the bathroom" (where they THOUGHT I was), then I GRABBED Neltje's legs.
She YELPED. The room of 15 round tables and probably 50/75 people went dead quiet. I could only snicker as I stayed under the table and imagine the mortification she was experiencing.
Well, it got people to come to our table and talk to us, even though we're quite certain they all think we're terrible people behind our backs.
I nearly died on eating the meat because someone decided to say a really sarcastic phrase right as I was eating, so naturally I inhaled my food and spent 15 minutes trying not to die. :)
All in good fun.


Last to arrive, first to leave the ward party.
That's how we roll.

We don't need friends...WE HAVE EACH OTHER..and our VENT MONKEYS

So last night....I had seemed to misplace my 12 pack of Mountain Dew, I was beyond heart broken. That stuff is the LOVE of my life. I don't know what I would do without it. And Whitney, being the best friend she is...tried to calm my spaz attack. I thought I was going crazy...she then made a brilliant statement..."IT'S THE VENT MONKEYS!!!"

Guess what...I looked by our vent...guess what was there....MY MOUNTAIN DEW.

I just want to say...I FREAKING LOVE THESE ROOMMATES. I don't know what I did to luck out to hvae such a great group of girls.

Besides the fact that we all stayed up past our bedtime...these girls rock.

I wasn't feeling too great last night...but that doesn't stop my roommates. Does anything ever stop a bunch of fat kids that want some cake? Yeah, that's what I thought. I was amazed at how they so selflessly were willing to make me laugh even though they all had problems of their own.

One roomie exclaimed, "ALL YOU DO IS COMMENT ON YOUR ROOMMATES' STATUS'! WE ALL HAVE A CRUSH ON EACH OTHER....AND WE NEED TO STOP".

You know...mayhaps not. It's an apartment crush, and its too bad there isn't a guy version of our apartment...because I would recommend that we marry them.

You guys are the best thing since Diet Mountain Dew...and that's sayin something. But don't think that for a minute I am going to give you guys a hug...(our apartment has this awesome "Personal Bubble" policy) Some think its a little much--but it works.

Just a little shout out to all of you! :) If you guys liked Diet Mountain Dew, I would share with you...that's how much I love you guys.

Stay Too Legit to QUIT.

Dance lab ditching, temple giggles, Freddy Krueger's Christmas, night stair-running

Ready to RUN!!!

Neltje came as wingman to dance lab... but we ditched anyway. Off to la temple went Whitney, Neltje, and myself. We hit a FIT of giggles when I whispered to Whitney & Neltje if they had seen Mr. Krueger's Christmas. That led to a sick questioning about Freddy Krueger's Christmas... fits of giggles ensued. We should never go to the temple together again.

We is ready to RUUUUNNN!!

Night running is our 2-day habit. Work hard, play hard. We've gotten the latter down, but the first.. oooh...


Midnight came around and I was just about ready to shower. I didn't have any shampoo or conditioner, so I made a silent li'l resolve to hit Wal-Mart. I half-heartedly asked Neltje if she wanted to join. Affirmative. Whitney. Li'l Ames and Coben were already going to go, so they hopped on board.


Off we set in the U.S.S. Cecilly. That's right--the boat. Off we sailed for a two hour shopping experience for a total of twelve items.

Chocolate covered cherries: relive days of fat childhood.

Yummy snowman donut!

Entering the store, the fat kids were naturally attracted to the holiday assortment of fat goodies to stuff our faces with. Snowman-shaped donuts captured our hearts, so we journeyed to find more clearance food items. All to no avail. In the meantime, Neltje, Whitney, and I schemed to get Li'l Ames and Coben to fall in love--sending them off scurrying for a lemon. Naturally, they returned with the most grotesque looking lemon. But this lemon was of dire importante-ness! Our apartment smells like "butt," according to one anonymous roommate.
Plush pillow animal friends got Ames to giggle in delight; Neltje naturally headed for Hostess. Whitney was attempting to keep the demons under control; I was busy losing my credit card; Coben was all eyes for Ames. Naturally. Who thought that a 1 a.m. outta control Wal-Mart run would cause credit cards to be lost?? Who knew? But Whitney works miracles and FOUND it!
Checking out. Exiting the parking lot. The boat steered clear of the copper in the lot. He was there when we entered and freaked us out, but we had dismissed him from our mind to occupy our attentions with more delightful giggling in the store. But he was back. And we were determined to dodge him.
He thought otherwise.
After nearly running a red light, we carefully obeyed the laws of the land. I actually have an internal radar connected to all police cars on the system, and I can read the policemen's minds, so... um.... I'm actually the world's best cop in disguise. Like Batman. I actually can um... drop my voice four octaves to match his, so...
well, I delightfully screamed, insisting he was following us. Turn right. He follows. Slow down, he slows. Change lanes. Oh my gosh, we have a shadow. Yep, we're sunk. Like the Titanic. Our ship hit an iceberg when those red and blue flashing lights brightened our back window like Christmas lights. Only... watching the Christmas lights on our tree gives a LITTLE more of a thrill than watching police lights in the rearview mirror... not sure why.... Well, LUCKILY I actually got a license again (after losing it) and my car was repaired after failing inspection today. So... we were A-OKAY. He followed us to get on my grill about expired license. One step ahead of you, doooood.


Canyon Terrace. No parking spots. One open on the road which requires parallel parking. Only my greatest fear next to being attacked by gorillas. Nelly and Whitney taughted me how to parallel park!! JOYOUS!


Then the tots are cooked, donuts halved, music played, and nothing productive happening until about 3 a.m.


~*Giggle~*

I'll be home for christmas

Thanksgiving break was not what i expected.  the time at home is a story in itself, but the rides there and back were honestly, hell.  On the way up we left early, skipping all classes so that we could beat the border closure.  We made it past the border only to be stopped in snowville.... where we went on a closed road.  I'm sure it sounds really simple and not that bad but the roads were really bad.  --> that is all we could see out the front window.  Brock Johanson is my hero.  he made it through the snow and iced roads.  It took us 12 hours to make a 6 hour drive.  We got stopped by a cop on the closed road and they made us take the back roads to get to boise.  The back roads were worse than the closed road.. hence the reason they are NOW closed.  The whole trip was scary but the trip back to utah was worse. 
The weather was better, and we were more prepared, but the stories that we heard were horrible.  We went through nevada because the I 84 was closed and the I 15 clas closed as well.   the roads were bad but wayy better than before.  We received a phone call on the way back to utah saying that austin's brother's relative was killed in pocatello, so to be careful.  I was sad for them , but had no connection so I didnt understand, or so I thought.  I learned today that that boy who was killed, was one of my friends in High School.  he was dating one of my best friends too.  Its hard to comprehend something like this.  He was 1 month off of his mission.  they spun into oncoming traffic and he was the one who got out to shovel the car out of the way, when he was hit by another out of control driver and died at the scene.  I should be doing homework, but its hard to concentrate, i guess i'm still in shock.  I dont really want to drive home for christmas.  But i'll be home for Christmas. 
http://www.ktvb.com/news/Young-Meridian-man-dies-trying-to-dig-car-out-of-snow-110952524.html
  Dallin ... Loved by all and remembered forever. Forever in the hearts of those you touched :')
~A~

I think I threw up Christmas...

"That's a lot of Christmas decorations." 
"They must love Chirstmas." 
"Maybe Christmas loves them, it looks like if Christmas threw up, this would be the result."  
"Poor Christmas, I hope he's ok." 
*conversation that took place in my dream*




Behold Apartment 29. 
Tree. 
Lights. 
Love. 


Did Christmas really throw-up in our apartment? 
Yes. 


After receiving many threatening texts/phone calls from a certain roomie, I finally arrived back at the apartment. And O how I had missed it. From the dirty sink to the uncomfortable couch, I was glad to be back. Not even within five minutes of my arrival, I was ambushed by the roommates insisting that we ABSOFRUITLY HAD to decorate the apartment for Christmas. It seemed to me that it was death or decorating. I chose decorating. 


As the Christmas music played, spirits rose, and all the lethargy immediately left my body. I was...we were decorating demons. 


We were as Christmas elves filled with the spirit of the holidays. We were on Christmas mode for about six joyous hours. In that time: 


The tree was made with care.
Ornaments were hung.
The nativity was placed on the window with love. 
Even the stolen STOP sign was decorated (more like vandalized...but its ok, because its STOLEN). 
Christmas lights were hung. 
Banana bread was made (not Christmasy but, we did it) 
Christmas cookies were made
People were stalked. 
Crap Corner created. 
A "snowman" was made...but the snow sucked so...lame sauce
We vandalized the windows of all of our "friends" (all in the Christmas spirit of course)


We did all of this and it was ONLY 10 pm. We were high--on CHRISTMAS!!!! 
We were so joyous that we made James come over to the apartment and anticipated his arrival by sittin' at the windows looking as joyous as fat kids when the cinnamon rolls they are baking are just ready to come out of the oven. 


And all is well in Apartment 29. 

I Miss US Alreaaaaady!!!!!

How are we going to survive the next 5 days without each other???? JUST SAYIN'.

**~Giggle**~

Our Roots Just Aren't Deep Enough

To celebrate the joyous Thanksgiving holiday, we decided to MAKE a Gratitude Tree. Out we set w/ scissors (danger danger!!) and tracing our hands. *Note: No fingers were a casualty during this activity*. The original idea was to have random people from the apt complex walk by and add their hand to the tree, but we got a li'l exclusive about whose hands we wanted on our tree. Maybe that is the reason why just one week after putting our tree up  the wind blew it violently around, causing the trunk to split right up the middle.

Unfortunately, we placed more faith in our tree and neglected to get a picture earlier while it was still whole.

Bad things happen when you get exclusive. 

*~Giggle~*

HP...just sayin...

Hoppin for Harry Potter!

12000 Calories. 14 Acid Pops. 2 Gallons of Butterbeer. 31 Galleons. 42 Chocolate covered wands. 6 hot chocolates.  And 156 Red vines later…

We were the proud viewers of Harry Potter SEVEN, part one (mind you). Harry Potter. Harry Potter. Harry. Potter. Harry. Potter.

No sleep on Thursday. We had dressed up like “easy little school girls”. Its kind of hard to dress up as exact Harry Potter characters if you don’t look identical to them. However, Beegie did beat all of us “easy school girls” and knocked his outfit out of the park. He had an awesome cape and really did look like a wizard. Props to him.

The whole group of the crazies!

We drove all the way to American Fork *which is about 30 min north of Provo* because EVERYONE and their mom in Provo wanted to see HP as well. It was definitely worth it. Luckily Beegie drove us. We got there and the line was huge (and we didn’t even get the midnight showing, we got 12:11, which is an utter disappointment). We would have been way late, but my awesome mom saved us a spot in line! Very kind of her, no?

Sittin in a circle just being wizards. 

Standing in line was probably the best part of the night. We were all insane and even out of all the crazy HP fans, we stood out. We were screaming spells and incantations for the time we were out there. I am one hundred percent sure that everyone in that line hated us….except for maybe…CHRIS….(I will let Cecilly talk about that one). There was milk spilled and people laughing and wands that were taken away. It was truly magical. 

We were then herded inside…where we poured ourselves 5 cups of Butterbeer…which I am sure had at least 2% of alcohol. It definitely gave us the kick to end our night right…

Butterbeer=craziness

We then sat in utter awesomeness for about two and a half hours. (Despite the promiscuous 12 year olds and the sketchy high schoolers behind us). My mind was blown, probably the best HP yet. It was very true to the book. When we drove back, we got into this deep conversation about HP teaching us life lessons. Granted, it was only me n’ Beegie because everyone was squished in the back.

HP brings friends together forever. 

No sleep. Sugar shock. But being able to spend 8 hours of my life with some of the craziest/funniest people ever…

PRICELESS. (no amount of galleons could ever make me take that night back)…
Just sayin…

Stay too legit to quit. 

Harry Potter 7... nuff said
--A--

-Basically this will be us tonight.. minus the asian ;]

Happy Birthday Ryan; I'm trying to kill you

I had a brilliant beyond brilliant idea for all of us to make a big, huge cookie for Ryan's birthday because we like him. People dropped like flies, but I was dedicated to this cause. All it took was constantly looking at the pictures of this massive cookie to get me motivated. After coercing Gibbs to get me chocolate chip cookies, I began making my delightful treat at the glorious hour of midnight. Stuck 'em in the stove. Neltje and I had a wonderful chat in the kitchen. I checked on my cookies for the fifteenth time only to see that not much was going on there; I turned off the stove, then turned it up again. And it clicked on. Dang the bad luck. Because I'm a little *special,* I put it in the oven but it didn't actually COOK for an hour.

Finally at 1:45 they finished, and Neltje and I tried it. She commented, "Happy Birthday, Ryan; I'm trying to kill you." Nothing like sweet roommates to make you feel better about your cooking skills. 

*~Giggle*~

OUR diet starts tomorrow

Recently, our apartment may have become obsessed with one little YouTube video. Boys will be girls (courtesy of the Harvard Sailing team). Ever heard of it? We may or may not have watched this video about fifteen times…in the last two days. Hey…we’ve got lives. We SWEAR. We have become obsessed with this video because…alas…it may be true. Girls can sometimes be psychotic. This video is true. It goes through how girls hang out and analyze things. In the opening seconds, one of the guys calls his girl and the conversation is as follows: “Hey honey. How's it going? What are you doing? Who are you with? Where are you are you? Are you doing something cool? I wanna know what you're doing and who you're talking to. And I wanna know everything that you're doing. And I don't want you to act like I'm being annoying. I just want you to answer all my questions.” Sound familiar to any girls out there? It’s because it is. Guilty as charged. Considering recent circumstances involving members of our apartment and one unmentionable boy—this video speaks to us all. Go watch this video. If you are a guy, this will shed light on the ever crazy world of girls. If you are a girl, this will make you laugh because it’s so true.

Stay too legit to quit

Welcome to the pad!!!!!

Today was a much needed day of fun!  Not only did we get the best free food I have ever eaten, but we also got to leave a note for our dear friend beegie. :]
We went to the party and I would like to clarify something Neltje said... we didnt not steal m&ms... they made me hold the stolen m&ms... but its ok "we're not mad!!"  2 chinese fire drills on the way home completely made up for it!
You're probably wondering why in this picture I'm holding a bag of pads..  would it help if i said there's only plastic bags in that bag??  yeah i guessed not.  But Beegie was curious and kept asking us questions about pads v.s. tampons! Weird, yes... but true.  There were more awkward questions that I would mention but you would turn red, so i will spare you.
We (I) left the present for Beegie in his house right behind the door with a note saying "Dear Beegie, if you have any questions just call... we're here for you during this very confusing time.." and this was the reaction that we got... "You guys traumatized my roommates...for real michael had a spasm attack, david cried and lucas has a twitch now..." But we DIED laughing. 
--and thats just the way it is--A