One Hungry Oscar's Baby Weekend!

Or in other words, a weekend with lots of fun stuff going on that happened to include the midnight premiere of Hunger Games, Oscar's night (a ward activity), and a baby shower!  Hence, a hungry Oscar's baby weekend!

On Thursday night, Kensey, Brittany, John, Joel, and I all went to see the midnight premiere of the Hunger Games.  It was my first midnight premiere ever and it was a lot of fun.  Probably not going to do it again (I was super tired the next day), but I still had a great time.  We got there about an 1.5 early and had a lot of fun waiting between playing crazy word games and ninja until the movie started.  Unfortunately some of our neighbors were making.....um......interesting comments during the movie itself, but overall it was a really good experience, besides being really tired the next day.

I really enjoyed the movie itself.  I was impressed by how similar to the book it was and I also thought they chose really good actors.  However, word of caution, please do not bring children to this movie.  It is PG-13 for a reason.  If you're thinking about seeing it and have any questions, just let me know!

Our Midnight premiere group

On Friday night, we had our ward Oscar's night!  Each family home evening group got together and created a movie to premiere that night.  Since it was a premiere, we all dressed up then watched the awesome videos.  Here's my group's movie.  We had a lot of fun making it and the audience seemed to really enjoy it.  This movie, however, brought down the house!  It was by far crowd favorite and it was so funny.  After we watched the movies, there was a dance which was also so much fun!  It was a great night!

Before the activity

Our fantastic paparazzi

Joel and me waiting for the premiere to start

The bishop and his wife hamming it up

On Saturday, my sister picked me up straight after work and we made our way up to Brigham City for my cousin-in-law's baby shower.  I loved getting to talk to my sister for the 4 hour car trip (there and back) and seeing other family at the shower itself.

Seeing my favorite nephew!

My cousins Paula and Maria and my Aunt Sharon

Overall, it sure was one hungry Oscar's baby weekend!

Monster Post!!!!

Contrary to what the title might sound like, this post has absolutely nothing to do with monsters.  That's right.  There are no Mike Wazowskis or Sulleys or even a Roz in this post (past that reference of course).  This is a monster post because I've been so terrible about blogging recently!  So here's a monster post about  my life as of the last 2-3 weeks.

Catching up with old roommates:  Towards the beginning of the month, I got to see my roommates from last year!  I love these girls so much and it was wonderful getting to catch up with them and eat delicious food at the same time!

Me and Chels

The dynamic duo

Camilla!

A sample of the delicious food we ate

My favorite things activity: So, right now Kensey and I are Relief Society Activities Co-chairs.  Along with our fantastic committee (Michelle, Yusse, and Jazmyn) we planned and had an activity earlier this month. We thought it'd be fun to have an activity that would help girls get to know people they don't normally talk to better.  So, with the inspiration from Sister Schoenfeld and our advisor Chelsea, we decided to have a favorite things activity.

For this activity, each girl brought their favorite recipe and a sample of it (the recipe's going into a Relief Society cookbook) and 2 other things that are their favorites.  As the girls came in, we handed them slips of paper that divided them into random tables.  Each table was decorated according to a part of the song from the Sound of Music (like raindrops on roses, etc.)

The night of the activity was kind of crazy.  Because of crazy class schedules and lack of keys, etc., we only had 15 to set up the activity before everyone got there.  But, we were able to get everything set up and looking nice before the girls got there.  Between me and Kensey, our committee members, and Joel (he had just finished a stake basketball game and was still at the church building) we got everything done in record time!

Once the girls got there, it was a great time!  We all got to know each other better and eat delicious food!  It was a crazy, but fantastic night!

The RS Activites Committee

FHE trip to Brick Oven: In order to support one of our FHE brothers who can't always come to FHE because of work, our FHE group went to his work for FHE.  It was a lot of fun and it was great to go support our "brother".

Getting sick:  Yeah, this was not the most fun part of the month so far.  Last week, I started getting a really bad cold and by Friday, it was a fever.  Brittany also got sick and had a fever.  You know the saying "Misery loves company"?  We both definitely experienced that.  Neither of us wanted the other person to be sick, but we were both glad that someone else was experiencing it with us.

Saturday Fun: Luckily, I started feeling better enough to have fun on Saturday.  I went over to Joel's apartment and we made delicious Indian food.  Then, we went to my old flute teacher's graduate recital.  She did really good!  Then, we went to our ward's activity.  It was super fun!  Especially the Korean dodgeball!  Overall, it was a great night!

Lunch with my sister:  On Tuesday, after work, I got to eat lunch with my sister and my nephew.  I always love spending time with them!  We had so much fun!

Miles showing me his artwork

My favorite sister!!!!