Pumpkins! Pumpkins! Pumpkins!

Me and Elysha decided about a month ago that we were going to carve pumpkins for Halloween. So we did it and it was such a blast.

Splendid Surprise

The past couple of days have been really hard and long for me. Last night I came home from 9 hours at school and walked into this wonderful sight on my bed-Thanks Tre!

Where would you rather spend Christmas?

OR

?

Apparently, it's a toss up.

One WiLd weekend

On Friday I woke up, showered and then got ready for the longest weekend of my life. First, Mom and I went to lunch at Cafe Rio and then we headed up to the U set up a giant cauldron for the Black Pumpkin Affair (a Crimson Nights Halloween party). After that, I went to Chemistry and then headed straight to work from there. This weekend was Witches' Night Out where I work. What that is is a bunch of crazy ladies come in dressed in all sorts of witch costumes and wait 3 long hours to be seated. Needless to say, it is absolute madness! I worked from 330 until 12 then drove back to school to help with the party. After that was over (at 2 AM!) we cleaned up the mess and then went to Village Inn for breakfast. We were there until 5 in the morning and then I drove home. Brent couldn't believe it when I was still in bed at 2pm (but, hey! that's less than nine hours of sleep). I woke up- got decked out in my witch's costume again and headed off for another fun-filled night at Archie's. I worked from 330 and didn't get home until 3. I am glad it's Sunday so I can spend the day recuperating.

Me and Dirty

Me, Ash and Ric at Village Inn at 4am

Tom, Rob, Erica, Me, Alison, and Peter

Hot Cocoa tasted so good that early in the morning

Called to Serve

One of my very best friends from high school, Tyler Shaw has been called to serve in the Albuquerque, New Mexico mission and he leaves for the MTC tomorrow. While I am deeply saddened by his soon-to-be absence, I am also very excited for him and the people that he will be working with. Tyler has worked extra hard to be able to serve his mission and this is just his pay off. I love you Tyler and you'll be in my prayers always! p.s. You had better write!

Tre, Me, Nuthaniel, Tyler, Teddy, Jessica and Allee

We went to a Haunted House as our last outing before Ty left

Tyler being his weird self- we were looking for him and found him in Nut's tub. :)

Nut, Me, Trevor, Allee and Tyler

Tyler wanted to leap over me and Allee, I don't know why but the boys loved it

Apparently, Tyler likes to hide/dwell in weird places

How Time Has Flown...

Some of you may have noticed that I haven't written a single thing on this pathetic blog since the first day of school. Well, this is because I haven't had one spare moment to do so (dang that chemistry class!) However, a lot of stuff has been going on and since it is officially fall break (!) I can sit down and catch up on the events that have happened.

A few weekends ago Brent and a few of his friends (Jake, Lynn, Jesse, Lauren and Liz) all drove down to Las Vegas just to get away. We were all surprised at this, because for Brent's whole life he couldn't sit in the car for over an hour without going insane, but he made it, and they had a good time. While they were there they swam a lot, because the house they rented had a pool and a lazy river and they also went and saw the body exhibition. Brent said that he had a good time, but next time he's going to fly on Jetblue and have his friends pick him up at the airport :)

This year at school, I am still doing UPC but am now on the Crimson Nights board. If you don't know what that is, it is a group that does large-scale programming for events on campus. We plan 3 huge parties per semester intended for groups between 7-10 thousand people. Brent and his friends usually come up and hang out with me, but he was in Vegas this time. Although it was a long day, I still had a lot of fun!



At one o'clock in the morning we all decided that we needed a shoulder rub. So we started a massage train. This is some kid idk, Heather, Kyle, Me, Steven and Erica. (Mom said, "Who's the short guy?" and I said, "You mean the guy on his knees?")

LB, Kim, Me, Shaun, Tre and Jace.
-All the guys from the Bball team-

I've always been a huge fan of the television show So You Think You Can Dance but I never knew how much I loved it until me and my high school friends went and saw them in tour. Morgan had gotten us a suite for half price and we had such a great time! We've decided to splurge next year and get front row spots, because we know someone who can reserve them for us. I am so in love with Twitch!
The whole crew in the elevator (left) Kenzie, Me, Joyce and Al in our $60 (!) hoodies we bought doing the IV REAL sign the dancers always did this season (below)


Sadly last week, my younger cousin Ally was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis. It is a disease that is genetic and runs in our family; my other cousin Simon also has it. As of yet, there is no cure for this disease, but a lot of work is being done in the search for it. Mom and I went up to visit her and she is such a cute girl. She is so smart and aware of everything around her. She is in our prayers. We love you, Ally.

Olivia, Me and Ally at Eric's wedding 08.02.08

The 9th was Brandon's 27th (holy cow!) birthday. The family got together to celebrate on Friday, and I heard it was a good time. Sad! I had to HEAR about it, but this is the busiest season at my job, and I had work until 1030. When I got home me, Mom and Brandon played Scene It on the xBox a couple of times. Happy Birthday Brovver!




Happy Birthday!! October 12th was Tre's birthday. I don't know where time went, but he is 20 years old!


My best friend Teneil's son, Jayce, was baptized this month and he wanted me to go because I am his "girlfriend". I was so happy to see him making good decisions and deciding, all on his own, to be baptized a member of the church. Teneil has THE cutest kids, and since I have no nieces or nephews- I'll adopt them!

^ This is Me and Mehki. He is so handsome.

This is Wyatt (Emily's son) & the man of the hour, Jayce (nice muscles)

I'll try to post again before Christmas! :) Just Kidding (but seriously)

End of Summer Recap

Today was my first day of school, and it was a very interesting day. I went to my Chemistry lecture with about 400 other students and the teacher begins going over the syllabus. He begins reading his policy on conduct. It states that any student who acts rudely i.e. reading newspapers, cell phone ringing, come in late, etc. will be docked 2% on their final grade for each offense. Then he says "You may be thinking that there's no way I could remember the student who did such things, but I have a photographic memory and I have a picture roster of all my students." Then a minute later he says that he doesn't just talk, that he will ask questions. Right then he looks at me and says, "Rachel Sellers was is the density of water?" My mouth just dropped and he says, "Everyone, give her a minute she's a little shocked". It was nuts! Out of 400 students of course he would pick on me!

That being said, I decided that Summer is officially over, as sad as that may be. I wanted to give a recap of what an excellent Summer I had.

Tre and I went to visit his family in California

Mom, the King and I on the way to Viva Las Vegas!

Me and Elysha at Hogle Zoo- I hadn't been there since Kindergarten

Grandma, Grandpa, Dad, Mom, Brent and I went and surprised Uncle Steve on his 70th Birthday in Pasadena, California

Uncle Steve and Aunt Arlene with his Alma Mater: USC's band

Me- Lassoin' Grandpa in for a dance

Me + Brent = 2 cool 4 school

Dad and Mom- slow dancing <3

We all went boating with Mary, Randy + Kids for the 4th of July

I spent 3 days in Park City with 6 of my best friends

I got to see a lot of old friends at Jessica's baby shower

Me and all my friends got season passes to Raging Waters
and spent a lot of time there

We got to wear casual clothes to work for 3 weeks for Beach Party 2008

We had a huge water balloon fight at our company picnic- Teneil even (attempted) to throw a bucket of water on the owner, Joe. He got her back 10-fold

For the company picnic, there was a pie-baking contest. I decided to make this prize winning pie. The ingredients included: berries, watermelon, sunflower seeds, ginger, 1 tortilla, frozen corn, animal crackers, jalapeno mustard, grapes, whip cream, mandarin oranges and almonds. (if you want the exact recipe-just email me) :)

I got to spend time with my cousins, whom I don't get to see very often at Uncle Eric's wedding reception

Lastly, Mom and Me went to San Diego for the day for a trip to the beach before it was time to get back to the grind.

It's been fun, but it is time to get back to work, study hard and get good grades.