FOOTBALL SEASON!

It's football season, and I am lucky enough to get to work the football games! I work in the VIP tent, and there is just bounteous amounts of surprises in there, becuase who knew watching BYU could be such a luxurious experience!?

It's crazy, these people eat a NICE dinner before and then at half they come back for hot dogs and popcorn and then after we have vacuumed the whole place, they come back after the game for veggies, chocolate milk, and cookies to watch the post-game show. IT"S INSANE! But pretty awesome for me because I just walk around and take out trash and sweep and then vacuum my eyes out until we are all finished vacuuming the whole thing, which is turf carpet so it's kind of a pain, but then after that, I get to go clean the stadium!

Cleaning the stadium is SO FUN, even though it is disgusting and nasty. We are just running around LaVell Edwards Stadium in the wee hours of the morning, dancing to crazy music and dodging pillars in our crazy trash-filled trucks and bonding with real live grounds people! I also get to walk the field after the game and see how it played because then during the week I'm in charge of writing up a little evaluation for the athletic people so if media approaches them with turf questions, they can say something intelligent. I don't really make the evaluations, but I get to learn about them so when I write them up they sound a little better than if I didn't even know what tensile strength was (who knew such a thing was even important!?)


Also, Brenda and Ryan are officially together people! Just thought you'd all like to know haha. She is always glowing:)

I love my calling. I don't think I ever experienced trying to piece the beginnings of a ward together on a scale like this, but I know there are people who are still doing way more than our little presidency is doing. It's really great though, and this ward is shaping up to be quite good.

LIFE IS BUSY! But good. And, shout out to Summer, who made dinner for me and my roommates tonight. Best Southwest Chicken I've ever had on this side of the mountains :)

Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!

It happened again, ladies and gentlemen. Fame met fortune, and by that I mean good fortune.

I was walking across campus the other day on my way to work and reading the Daily Universe when I opened to a page that proclaimed the arrival of none other than BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY at UVU and I was so excited and so badly wanted to go see him, it almost made me cry that I would be at work and then at class during the time he was giving his lecture. I am no good at science, but Bill Nye certainly helped me through the hard times from Hinkle to Vavra.

I really really really really really wanted to go see him, but I just had to go to work and then I had to go to class and then I had to go back to work, so I just admitted defeat and went to work and turned on the devotional and listened to Elder Anderson give a nice talk on honesty.

Some good he did. I was so consumed hahaha that I emailed my professor and told her I was having some scheduling conflicts with a certain appointment and that I might be late and would that be a problem becuase I would do my best to get to class by 2:30?

Well, she said that would be fine and so when I left work like i usually do to go to said class, instead I drove my little Oldsmobile over to UVU and went to the lecture that had already been going on for an hour. I was surprised there were so many seats and I just kept inching my way from empty seat to empty seat until i was literally int he very front seat and BILL NYE the REAL SCIENCE guy was was standing right in front of me! I was just basking is his gloriuos science passion and he was saying so many great things and I knew i could just hop up after he was done and snap a picture with the purse real quick.

AND THEN! I realized there were so many seats open because their occupants were on the other side of the stage in a LINE that had already wrapped itself around the room!!!! I was devestated becuase I knew i had to go back to class, but I was so close to glory with the purse but I could not wait that long!

Haha never stopped me before! I went up to these students that were standing by the stage and I was dressed professionally and so I blended right in and I told them with great passion the story of the purse and my great passion for BILL NYE and they were so nice and so sympathetic--but told me to go talk to the kid on the other side of the stage. I did and I repeated my story and I had to talk over the din of people who had suddenly started talking because Bill had stopped but he was like... sure, just stand behind these three contest winners!

IT WAS AWESOME! I shinked a line of a billion people and BILL NYE and I took a picture and he held my purse even though he didn't want to! (and even though he isn't in that picture.... he really did hold it. haha)



The point is... BILL NYE! THE REAL SCIENCE GUY!

And I still made it to the end of class and I still went back to work and I can still repent for a little bit of dishonesty (Elder Anderson never did warn against wily rhetoric....)

Fall and Summer!

It's been so long since I blogged that blogger won't cooperate and I can't seem to get all the pictures I wanted and this is definitely not the order I wanted for them, but life. is. good!

We had a ward activity called Six-Minute Speed Bonding (Unfortunately, we did not call is SMSB, but it was a roaring success nonetheless). We just had 6 different 6 minute games and it was joyous, but the BEST part was we had everyone wear something ridiculous just to get them out of their comfort zone since the objective was bonding. As nearly everyone was wearing random dress up clothes from my past, It was yet another moment where I thanked the day Mom told me to bring my dress up box to college.


Haha, just imagine! This kid had no idea he was wearing a mu-mu from my great-grandma's closet!

The girl on the left is my 24th roommate, Mackenzie. She is as dear as the dearest I've ever had and feisty as they come. We love her!

And of course, Brenda and Kelcey are still around!
(Side note, since I know you are all anxiously awaiting the update: Brenda came home from the summer where she reunited with her missionary, only to inform us she wasn't so sure about it anymore! We are still waiting in suspense to see what adventures will arise on the journey to Mt. Doom! Also, she is CRAZY! Way more large and in charge, and with as sharp as ears as ever. What a dear soul!)

2ft. Prosthetics is still thriving. We had a recruiting fair and I think it will help us draw in some good potential. Bueno.

I hiked Mt. Nebo with a bunch of peeps and Summer!!

It was GORGEOUS and so fun!

(NEBO) (If you couldn't tell)

It was SO pretty and So fun and the best part was, I was with Summer!

Summer and I also went with Elise and her little sister to go INDOOR SKYDIVING!!! I tried with all my might to get pictures on, but it wouldn't work so alas. It was AMAZING and we were just flying in the air!

Also, Elise threw me a surprise party.

School is SO busy, but good. I am in a creative writing class and a memoir class and a Shakespeare class, so I write like crazy ALL the time. Also--accounting. basdfljaoiusadf. Thank goodness for LaDon.

I was all excited to make a blog of all these adventures I'm having with Summer before she did because I thought she would, but nope! She is just having a joyous college life, and so donuts are the next best thing. Which is great!!! I always knew having Sum at BYU with me would be the best thing ever, and it is.

St. George in 3 weeks and counting!

I'm still alive. Quite, in fact.

Sorry for the lack of blogage. And I don't have any pictures this time. My camera is MIA.

Here, instead, is a listing of reasons why at this moment, I feel perfectly ebullient:

School starts tomorrow.

I got a substantial raise.

I have a hammock on my porch.

Elise is back.

I ran up Pikes Peak.

Charina, Jimmy, Sum, and I played laser tag/capture the flag in the dark of the night.

I moved into the nicest apartment in Regency.

I ran 23 miles through the most beautiful mountains in the whole world .

God's hand organized my roommate situation--again.

SUMMER IS AT BYU!

The gospel is true.

My ward holds potential to become the friendliest in the kingdom.

Sarah and Kim did a triathlon yesterday. Beast.

There are more Roys closer to me than there are other Roys closer to each other in other parts of the world (Sorry other Roys. We wish you were here)

Marathon approacheth.


See? Life is ebullient!

LIFE! I'M LIVING IT!

What a life! I cannot believe summer is drawing to a close, but there is still so much of it, and I feel very strongly that not a single second has been wasted. Here's a recap of recent seconds:

I went to ZIONS! There is a canyon within that is so cool and so coveted that you have to get permits the day before to go in and they only give out so many, but the dad of the girl who invited me got permits for 8 of us and we went joyously galavanting in the Subway!!! IT WAS AMAZING! There were pools and boulders and caves and narrows and water and tree branches and rapelling and all of the wonderful things that are great about canyons and it was SO gorgeous. I had so much fun, and we spent the rest of our stay in her paradisical cabin in the midst of these beautiful towering aspens. It was so great! (Sorry the pics are not so good, i screen shot them off facebook and that's as ambitious as i got) (No matter, even a high quality picture would have failed to do this place justice!)




Talk about wonderment! Following that joy, I met up with the Carters and Mom and Bum in Monroe, where we participated in a series of wonderful activities, all organized and put on my none other than CJ!!! Mom and Bum ran in the Milk Run, mom placing 2nd in her age group and PRing,a nd Bum WINNING her age group!!! YOU CAN WIN IT!! I was SO proud!

Here are some action shots of CJ calling out raffle winners, which was expertly done and cleverly performed, so I loved every minute of it.
There are no words sufficient to describe the perfect feeling of contentment while laying on the grass at the Monroe middle school football field, little kids running around like free birds and all of us waiting for the fireworks--which proved to be phenomenal--while the sun set quaintly upon us. It was definitely Monroe Magical. The Carters were excellent hosts. Did i mention there are 6 of them!!!? SIX!! That's a whole family, people! And every last one of them is wonderful and dear to my soul.


Upon returning to Provo, we experienced a series of torrential downpours, which left our already moist city in a state of overflowing liquid.
Recognize this parking lot? It is the one near Buy Low and Wyview and my friend, not knowing it was so deep, drove his car through it and got completely botched :(

In other news, and speaking of news, 2ft. Prosthetics was on CNN!!!! As in, we made national news! The story can be found in the post beneath this one.

We are also looking to form several promising partnerships with other non-profits and some great PVC manufactures who think our idea is really novel and great and would be willing to donate PVC to us for research and development. Woot for Grounds, where I got the hook up in the first place!


Easily the highlight of my week was the galavant Kim and I took into the mountains on Friday night-- we brought hammocks and ran up into Rock Canyon a ways and set up camp for the night. I slept in a hammock!!! It was so so so wonderful and free bird.
In the morning we got up and ran farther up the canyon and beyond and it was a run that easily rivals some of the most beautiful i have ever done in my life! It was GORGEOUS and i was 100% more endeared to Utah than my already growing endearment. 20 miles in paradise, and I was still able to go to the driving range for my first time that night and whack the heck out of some golf balls.

Also exciting is the approaching ward activity we have, which has been in the works for weeks. It's a 3 day boating trip, but I wanted to think of an awesome name for it that we could just use for ads and announcements and general bonding of rallying around a cool name. I thought, but I entirely attribute this idea to CJ- she suggested I make a descriptive sentence of the activity and take the first letters to make a word. My president Allie and I then came up with

Most
Epic
Boating
Adventure with
Tribes
Entertainment
Food and
Love

or, as now commonly known and thrown casually around the YSA 18th ward,

MEBATEFL!!!

It is a glorious thing, which i love, and I am in charge of advertising, which has been the most fun thing ever--today at church I wrote MEBATEFL! on a bunch of little slips of paper and put them in all the hymn books on the hymn we were singing. Hahahaha, what a joyous surprise!

That's all. Sorry if this post was overwhelmingly excited or joyful, but it directly reflects my state of existence at this time, so onward!

Oh yes, and one month till THE ASCENT!!!! Much excitement!

We're On TV!

KSL came and filmed for a special they did on THE TEAM (aka 2ft. Prosthetics!) Watch it at this link:

2ft. Prosthetics on KSL

Woot! Friend us on facebook, follow us on twitter, check out our website and support THE TEAM!

More to come on a fabulous, adventure-filled, joyous Monroe endearment weekend!

Just for Fun

I love everything about blogging. I love doing it myself, I love reading other people's blogs, and I love that every person's blog is so different and true and wonderfully distinct to its author.

This particular post is to inform you that I recently finished sewing a dress for myself. I got the material in Japan... actually... it was on the flight between Japan and San Fransisco when I realized I was covered in a billion blankets that probably would go to waste, so I tucked them away to America for a better future.

Anyway, when contemplating how to let you all know about the adventure that was making and wearing such a dress, I could only think of the dear, dear blogs I love so much.

So, please enjoy the following posts, and know that anything that follows is all in good fun and tender appreciation for the (all too recognizeable) authors of the blogs I so love to follow, and faithfully so.