Life Update

A few weekends ago, we decided to hike Stewart Falls!  We were super excited--until we got there and it was covered in snow and ice.  After assessing our hiking shoes (or lack thereof), we decided to go on a "hike" to Bridal Veil Falls.  It was basically a stroll along a pretty path--but then Addison wanted to climb up so we all ended up climbing up!  It was really fun!  Here are some pictures...

Me, David, & Talicee at the bottom

Talicee & Katelyn

David & I heading up

The falls--that little red shirted person is Addison

David, Me, Amber, & Katelyn at the top

Jeffery, David, Talicee, & Katelyn at the top

Climbing to the falls

Me at the falls--apparently this was stupid and dangerous but I didn't get the memo till it was too late!  Oh well.... I'm not dead!

Me climbing back up

Katelyn, Talicee, Amber, Jeffery, Me, and Addison at the bottom

Roommates! :)

Jeffery, David, Me, Amber, Addison, Talicee, & Katelyn at the bottom

Our path--you can see why I called it a walk!

We also had Eric Petersen's birthday on April 1 so we decided to decorate his car!  We were just going to saran wrap it and oreo it--until we realized that he accidentally left it unlocked (I'm pretty sure he'll never do that again)!  But it was pretty sweet if I do say so myself!  His car is still covered in oreo goop today!  Here are some pictures!

He turned 24! 

The inside

Katelyn & I working on the outside

Katelyn, Me, & Amber after we finished

Tada! :)

So... other things that are happening... well I finished my sophmore year at BYU!  It was a pretty awesome year... I'm going to miss my classes but I'm excited to move foward!  Finals week was crazy--as usually!  Above is a picture of me working on my final music project--a book!  It was a stupid project (like epically pointless and time consuming)!  It was a story about a boy who went to the market with his grandma (my teacher commented how it was "full of surprise" and I was like, "What surprise...")!  My other finals were pretty laid back too--I think my hardest was my D&C final (sad, right)?  But they all went okay!

Easter was pretty relaxed this year too!  Amber, Katelyn, Talicee, Eric, Addison, John, and I had Orange Chicken (we found on Pintrest) and fried rice!  Then we went and hung out at the park and played games.

Me, Amber, & Katelyn outside our apartment on Easter Sunday

Eric & Addison at the park... bahahaha :)

So... right now, I am at home hanging out with my family!  I surprised them with a visit... their reactions were pretty priceless.  My mom just bursted into tears and my dad just basically ignored his boss (who he was on the phone with) and was like, "What are you doing here?"  My brother was just lime, "Oh... why are you here."  Typical Matt.  I'm really glad I came though--even if it is just for a few days!  It is a nice break from Provo.  Here are some pictures of me surprising my mom at her work.  They're from my Aunt's phone b/c I'm a loser and forgot to bring a camera with me.

Hiking to Hot Springs

Last Saturday, we went hiking for the first time this year (b/c it was like 60 degrees)!  Weston & Amy took us down to Diamond Fork Hot Springs (in Spanish Fork Canyon) to hike!  It was a super fun hike and it was covered in ice--which created a whole new adventure!  Below is a picture of ou:

Top: Amy, Weston, Sarah, Eric, Katelyn, & Amber
Bottom: Me, Addison, Allan, Tailor, & Kirsten

Me, Amber, Addison, Weston, & Amy hid on a rock and attacked the other half of our group with snowballs! 

Weston & Amy :)

 

Arrival! 

Everyone at the springs!
Amber, Amy, Me, Addison, Katelyn, Tailor, Sarah, Allan, Kirsten, Eric, & Weston

It was super hot so we all just sat outside of it for like the first 20 minutes until we found someone's short (questionable) plugging up a hole which let cold water in to cool it down!

Some guys next to us took a group picture in the springs for us! :)

Me & favorite roomie!!! :)

Rock above the river!  So pretty!

Some of my roommates!

Basically, I forgot how much I loved hiking!  We plan to go hiking like every weekend this summer!  I can't wait!

Life Again

So, it's been a while (as is typical).  I don't know if much has happened since the last time I blogged.  I feel like my life is pretty much same old, same old!

Over Presidency Day, we went to Salt Lake City to explore!  It was super fun! :)  We went to the Pie and got the most giant pizza EVER (seriously, it was huge)!  We also went and explored temple square and we got to go up to the observation deck at the Church Office Buildings!

Addison, Me, David, & Eric 

Katelyn, Amber, & Kirsten

Biggest Pizza EVER

Grossness grease... I basically had to blott the grease like a lot!

Amber, David, Kirsten, Katelyn, Me, Eric, & Addison

The view from the Church Office Buildings

I also went to the temple last Wednesday (my roommates and I go every week)!  I decided to do some family names (my Aunt Liz sent me 75 names for our ward temple week).  It created much confusion though--because I was only baptizing the names, not confirming them (because I didn't really wanna have to double dress).  So I was baptized and then went to the desk to pick up the names... and they didn't have them.  So I waited until they did have the names!  A temple worker brought them to me and I left.  As we were halfway out to the car in the parking log, we heard, "SISTERS!  SISTERS!"  We turned around and saw the temple worker who gave me the names.  He ran up to us and was like, "I forgot to record we anything with those names... can you come back?"  It was kinda hilarious... I don't think I've ever been chased down by a temple worker before!  We went back with him and all was well however!

A couple of days ago, I was at a park with a friend!  We saw these giant gun things and decided that it would be fun to climb on them (I thought it was illegal to climb them but apparently not...)!  So we climbed and played around on them.  When I decided to get down, I missed the railing to jump off and ended up smacking my leg SUPER hard!  It sort of hurt (like initially it hurt but then it was okay) so I didn't bother going home and looking at it--I just continued on with my life.  When I was getting ready for bed like an hour or so later, I looked down and saw this GIANT bruise.  It was slightly a lot disgusting!  Anyways, it basically looks like I'm being abused if you just looked at my leg... I'm covered in little bruises along with Giagantor (that is the giant bruises name... I know, original).

Slightly disgusting huh?

On Thursday, Vick (Hill) and I decided that it would be fun to climb the fence behind our apartment.  Neither of us had done it but we both decided it would be faster.  So we did!  It wasn't too tall--maybe like 6 feet.  However, at the top of the fence, someone had cut the links (it was a chain linked fence) and so it was just like straight, sticking up metal.  Vick went over first... and when she got to the top, she was like, "I think my pants might have ripped."  I was like... oh I'm sure its fine.  As she jumped down, we just heard "RIPPPP..."  She was like, "Maybe you should just walk around..." but it was too late--I was already there!  So I tossed my bag over and climbed up to the top.  When I got to the top, I could tell if I went over, my pants would most defiantly rip.  However, I am stubborn so I was just like whatever!  As I jumped down, we heard "RIPPPPP...." again!  So basically, we just sat on some random person's car in the parking lot until we could stop ourselves from laughing.  It was probably one of the most ridiculous, pants-ripping situations I've been in in a while!

Other things... Amy & I gave Fred and Phillip a makeover... here he is:

We added a battle axe, peg leg, and eye patch 

Blurry Close Up

Other random things... we made an apartment meme for apartment introductions in our ward.  Here are a few of the pictures we used for it (if you want to see the whole meme, go to my roommate's blog):

What Our Non-BYU Friends Think We Do

What We Actually Do

What Boys Think We Do

What Our Professors Think We Do