New News

Ok so i just realized that you all don't know whats up. So i got invited to join the BYUI academic society and its really great!! You have to have really good grades to get invited. I have been officially invited to be a Scholar in the society and not just a general member. Its great!! When I keep my grades up and when it comes time to graduate i will get to wear a honors stole over my robes to show my achievment. AND there will be a special ceremony before the grad...to give awards to those in the society who graduated as scholars. I am so excited. This is my chance to break into a whole new world inside of this new world. Well thats all. Off to enjoy a friday night dance. MWAH! Jess

Updates for those I love!

OK so there is really nothing all tat new for this moment. I am kind of nervous about the new semester, but its the good kind of nervous. I got a hair cut and I would put pics on here but I can't seem to make it work on this darn laptop. Well for those who didn't hear...I ended my summer semester with all A's. 3.97 GPA..just one A-...so close to a 4.0. But I will get that 4.0 in the fall...at least now I know for sure that I can do it!! Well thats all...i love you all . MWAH Jess

Their tour of my New home

So i showed the family around the school and took some pics while we were at it.
OK so the one of mom is of her taking pictures of the flowers outside my favorite building...and the one of Dad is of him watching her take pics. They are so sweet...I hope someday have that in a marriage...such a good example! Then the building that is in construction is our very own Rexburg ID temple!!! It will be done in Sep...i have never lived this close to a temple before...it is right up the street...3 minutes away!!! I am soo excited. The one fo Dan is a pic in my fav spot in the gardens we have on campous. The students have jobs to upkeep the gardens and classes that do upkeep as well..the gardens are rather large..my fav spot is this fountain with lilies floating in it...lilies are my thrid fav flower....roses, then daffodils, then lilies. Anyway he was talking to me and it was such a cute moment i had to have it on camera. Then there is a pic of everyone laughing ...we do that alot together...and then one of matt being goofy..man i miss them already! Well gtg....I love you all. MWAH! Jess

Fun in Jess's Fav Park

So we spent some time, just us kids in my fav park while mom was at the docs getting an MRI. We had fun! So theres one of dan..playing frisbee and one of meg just after she threw and one of matt on the swings....one of meg on the swings...then one of megs friend Mr. Squirelly. he let us get really close 'cause we had food...we like squirells since there are none to be found in Japan..since they let cats roam free and the city is not a squirells best friend. Then there is a pic of me playing frisbee... and on of matt just after he threw the frisbee. Lots of fun going on...lots of teasing ( which lets us know we are loved) and lots of laughter( there always is when we are together) That is almost it for their visit..the next blog will be the cute pics that will make you all go AWWW>>>!

The animals and..well thats it!

So these are some of the better pics of the animals we saw. A one point we were no more than 3 feet away from these mammoth male bison...it was soooo cool. Then there is the cute pic of us all together in front of..if you can't tell..a waterfall which is the same waterfall in the other pic on here. Look at the cute baby bison!!! they were frolicking around as they crossed the street in front of us. You can't tell from teh pic but i actually only come up to about dans neck....he is soooo tall! Well anyway thats all form yellowstone. MWAH Jess

More of Our Yellowstone trip

So these are some pics of the pools and other things around the heat spots in Yellowstone..these were some of my favorites. ...not much of the family..i was so excited about this stuff i plum forgot!!! silly me! One is of the bacteria mats...i took a pic of the sign too...the pic with the orange stuff..yeah thats the baceria mats...so cool!!!! Then there was this little pool that didn't have a name..I called it the wanna be fountain of youth...it bubbled sometimes...thats the pic with the little pool with a seeming hole in te middle...sorta. The other pic is the famous paint pots in yellowstone..this was the best pic i could get with all the steaming it actually turned out quite nice. Well that is all for the fun steamy spots.

My families first visit to their college girl

So these are some of the pics from my families visit to little old rexburg ID. We had a blast...i couldn't believe how much everyone had grown ( you really notice those things when you DON'T grow!!) I mean i know i have grown spiritually and emotionally but height wise..nothing Anyway..we went to yellowstone and i found a deer...so most of these pics are from our trip...i wish i had pics of mom feeding the baby bear in this other park we went to that is called Yellowstone Bear World...sorry i don't though. The pic with the seemingly random trees is actually the first animal we saw in the park..a Bald Eagle...i couldn't get in very close with my camera though. The steaming rock is Old faithful before the blow. Then the pic with the ton of steam..or at least it looks like..well if you look closely to the left side of all that steam you will see it is actually a tower of water...really high in the air..this is old faithful in action! Then the pic of the kids is my cute siblings all watching old faithful..can you see how wet they are? it started raining 20 minutes before the big event and continued for some time after it blew as well! Then I put in a pic of the crowd from my angle...lots and lots of people!!!! OK well that is jsut some for yellowstone....MWAH! Jess

My Best Friends Wedding

So this was the weekend just before the 4th of july. We had a lot of fun. We watched the sunrise on her wedding day and although i don't have pics of that I do have pics from the night before when we were all hanging out in her hotel room( her family paid..wasn't that nice!) Me and my other best friend liz shared a bed so katie could sleep her last few single nights alone. We made a midnight run to wendys one night...for a shake and fries...then we drove around town with the windows down and the music up!! we were in bountiful utah. The temple was so beautiful and the day was pretty just a bit too hot for all those involved in the picture taking. The first pic to the left is me, katie( she is the one in the black) katies cousin and lu...we like lu..lu is the one on the right on the bed...and obviously me. The pic on the rigt top is katie and jerom just outside the temple as they came out...they looked so happy. The othe rpic is my two best friends beign silly and mimicking this really cute wedding pic we saw when we met with her photographer...liz is on the left and katie the right. OK so more later. Jess PS sorry this is so behind i just have been so busy!!!! having fun and getting those good grades we all love to see. !!

The Fourth

Well i just realized that I spelled wedding wrong on my last blog...silly me! I have a lot of pics from the fourth of july but you will have to wait until this weekend when I have more time to load them on. Just know that I had a great time and life is still wonderful. And to help you all feel proud of me (I feel proud of me...plus I figured out that mom and dad were always right)...my midterm grades came through (which means I have finished the classes I was in and have started new ones...this only happens in the summer semester though..confused?...heehee) 4.0 that was my GPA. All A's. Well I gotta go I have class in 45 min and I have to pick up my fencing uniform. MWAH!

Weding

heheh..got you all with the title! Shame on all fo you for thinking this blog was about me!! hehe. Anywho...my friend got married this weekend...i was down in utah so i could do my best friendly duties. It was kinda sad to know she wasn't like us anymore. She looked so happy when she came out of the temple. So that made up for it all! Well it was a lot of fun, we drove around the night before the night before her wedding ( no i did not repeat myself) and got a midnight frosty and fries from wendys. Then we drove around town with the windows down and singing along, quite loudly, with our music. It was fun. Then we watched the sunrise on her wedding day..cause thats what katie wanted. Ok well thats all for now. I love you all! MWAH!

Fun Weekend!

Hey family! Well It was a fun weekend. You probably can't tell from the pics! We didn't bring a camera! The one with the girl in the pink shirt is my friend liz. We got her all ready for this ball they were having. She wore pajama pants to keep warm and decided to keep her cell in her pants pocket! She is a riot! I spent the night in her apartment...this was friday. We did the usual...dancing like crazy people, icecream, popcorn and a good movie. Oh and we spied on liz at the dance...called her cell and made fun of her dancing!! It was fun. Then on saturday Liz and I were walking towards the school to meet someone and a cousin of a friend of ours pulled up next to us and asked if we wanted to go to a bonfire out on the dunes with them. Of course we said yes..it was saturday and our plans sucked compared to jumping off high piles off sand into more sand and then roasting marshmellows with mostly strangers!!! So we went out to the sand dunes and we had so much fun and met a lot of new people....one really cute returned missionary on my part...heheh! ANyway then we went and put a tv out on one of the lawns in front of some apartments and we huddled under blankets (it was cold!) and watched a movie. It was fun! Well thats all for now...MWAH! Jess

My Dorm!

OK so this is my dorm. All the walls are white so i put up pics and my fav. church quotes on my walls. There is some of daniels art up there to! He is so good. So the other pic is my message board...and i put my magnedoodle up with the number for pizza hut so we can call anytime. I love having lotsof stuff around me, it makes me feel at home...i will post some more later today or on sunday. I love you all. MWAH!

Here in Idaho

OK so the girl with me is one of my close friends from japan. We met up here and i hang out at her apartment when i am not doing homework. Her place is so much fun. We are in this really great park we discovered one saturday. The other pic she took when i wasn't looking...silly girl. By the way that ring around my neck is matt's old ctr ring..he wanted me o have it to remember him by...i love that kid! I still don't have a pic in front of the school sign. I will post it when i do. And some pics of my dorm for your viewing pleasure. School is still going great. All A's! I love it here. and for those who keep asking (mom and meg) no boyfriend....yet. I love you all.

Moving Day

Hey everyone...These pics are sad! They are back in May when I left for university...some pretty sad faces huh?! If you can't tell i was seriously crying but trying to hold it together until I got on the bus. Poor matt, and I thought I was sad.When they went to church the next sunday, my little sunbeam who usually sat with us was with someone else and mom said they had to take matt out so he could stop crying...talk about breaking my heart. They said he is doing much better now, he tells me that being able to have me room makes him feel closer to me. Sheesh..and he's only 10; those thoughts are deep! And you think meg is crying hard... You should have seen mom! hehehe! I like the one with all of us. We really couldn't stop hugging. When i got on the bus dad let me look back as long as i could see them, of course I was crying, then he reminded me to always look foward in life. What a great family!!!! This is really as sad as I got...I mean I had some rough nights but life's been pretty sweet to me.