A nice break!

So today around 2 Crystal, Andriene and I left for Utah! We had such a fun time driving down together! I love those two girls! I am so excited to be with my family again! After not  seeing them for around 2 years, it's nice to be so close to them. I do miss MY family and I hope they pick a GREAT Christmas tree this year without me... I don't know how they are going to manage pick a good one without me! ;) I am so excited for Thanksgiving! I have no homework over the break besides interviewing my little sister Jordan for an English paper, but that's not really homework! While I am in Utah I really want to go to Temple Square! I love it there and it's all dressed up for Christmas! I can't remember the last time I saw it all decked out for the Holidays! I can't wait to hang out with my Aunts! They are all amazing and I have missed them soooooo much! The girls and I went bowling after FHE on Monday. Needless to say, I am much better and Wii bowling. But we had a great time! I am so going to miss Crystal and Andriene when we all go home! Especially Andriene, because she is not coming back to BYU-I! :( These two girls have become two of my very best friends and whenever I get married, I can guarantee that they will be in the bridal party! Speaking of getting married, I totally pranked my friend back home! I convinced him that I was engaged! That's crazy, I am not getting married at 18. Well I better go to bed!

Love

Sydney

And so the nostalgia starts!

Being at college has made me realize several things. First, I have a fantastic family. They are so amazing! Second, I am so grateful for my chores at home. Third, food is dang expensive! Fourth, I am  not good at staying stress free. I need to relax a bit. Fifth, I have come to appreciate how hard my parents work. I never had to worry about anything growing up. Sixth, high school was easy, in the way that I never had self esteem issues and I had good grades. I know I am pretty and that I am an amazing person, but there are so many amazing and GORGEOUS people here, that sometimes it's hard to feel fantastic about yourself. I have also realized that the gospel should be first in my life. If I put it first, everything else will fall into place. I have strengthened my testimony so much in the last 3 months I have been at school. It's amazing! I really do love Rexburg and I am sad to be leaving my friends! Especially because Andriene is not coming back to BYU-I after this semester. She is moving on in her career and going to a different school! I will always love her though! I am so excited to be going home to Wenatchee in less than a month. It's crazy to think that my first semester of college is nearly finished! Time has flown SO fast! I don't want it to end! I have had so much fun and I can't wait for my second semester!

It's been awhile!

Hello!

It's been awhile since I last wrote. Well I finally got my temple recommend! And it has been snowing on and off here for the last couple of days. My roommates and I decorated our apartment for Christmas and we have assigned Nov 8th to be our apartment Christmas day. I got sick again. Just barely after I got over my sinus infection, but it is just the flu. Last night Andriene had to go to the hospital for pain in her stomach. I think she is ok though. On Sunday I made dinner for us and our FHE brothers. I made a lasagna and rolls and candied squash! Yesterday we had FHE at the first counselor in the bishopric's house! He is super funny and his family is really nice! I'm doing alright in my classes. At this point I just want to go home. I miss my family and my home. I do really love it here, but I want my family. I am really excited to go back down to Utah for Thanksgiving! It will be so much fun! I can't wait! This Sunday we get to watch the re-dedication of the Boise Idaho temple! Well I am going to listen to my Mom and get something to eat so I don't get more sick than I already am.

Love,

Sydney

There's no place like home, and I'm feeling it.

I just want to go home. I miss my Momma and my Daddy and my little sisters and my big comfy bed and my annoyingly cute dog and cat. I miss my home. I don't want to be sick anymore. I want all the aches and pains to go away, as well as the horrible cough that attacked my lungs after I told the doctor I didn't have a cough. I want to cuddle up in my bed with my Momma's cross country quilt and pet my kitty and watch a movie on my laptop and just lay in my bed for hours. Then I want to hug everyone in my family and tell them how much i love them. I really miss my sisters. I want to be able to yell at them and tease them and hug them. I miss them so much! I just want my family. I want Jordan to glare at me for something I said, and I want Shelby to cry at something I said, even though I didn't mean it that way, and I want Kacey to say something that is so funny we eventually forget what she said, but we never forget how funny it was. I want my Mom and Dad to hug me. I just wish that I wasn't sick and that my family lived closer to me.

Sydney

And so begins the Winter season.

I have a sinus infection!! WHOOP WHOOP! I started feeling like crap the day before Halloween and then on Halloween life just sucked. So yesterday I went to the Doctors and finally got some antibiotics! I have to take three different kinds! Life is just fabulous right now! I'm  at the stage of being sick where everything aches and I'm shaking all the time. Last night I didn't have any homework (WHAT?!) so I went to be around 8:30 after I had taken like an hour long bath. I'm starting to feel a bit better with the help of my meds, but would you all keep me in your prayers?

On a happier note, I was Wendy Darling from Peter Pan for Halloween! Crystal was a Ladybug, Andriene was a Bumblebee, Erica was a Wizard dressing like a Muggle, Anna was a doll, and Alli was a Jack-o-lanter. We went and got Froyo in our costumes and then watched a scary movie called The Haunting in Connecticut. It was supposedly based off of a true story, but I didn't see it. It was good! And at night I'm a little freaked oiut, but I think that I'm getting used to scary movies! Which is weird! I'm growing up! I can go all the way to Utah by myself, I'm in College, and I can watch scary movies! Man! What an adult!

Today is great because my English class got canceled (that's not great) because my professor (I love saying that!) is going to a wedding in SLC. So that means I only have one class! But I do have to take my American Foundations test today... I am not looking forward to that! There are 70 questions and all of them are on the Constitution. Sitting down for that while I am sick is going to be hard.

Yesterday before my math class I was talking to a kid that sits behind me, and I'm not sure but I think he asked me on a date, but I already had plans. I felt bad, because he is super nice, but I guess I just wasn't supposed to go to that concert with him, because I got sick.

But while we're on the topic of dates, everyone back home who thinks I am going to get married soon, I haven't even been asked officially on one date yet, and I've been at BYU-I do for nearly 3 months! You better start praying for me! ;) Just kidding! I don't want to get married yet!

Well, I'm gonna go eat some delicious "I'm sick" food for breakfast and then drag myself to class!

I hope you all are feeling much better than me!

Love, Sydney