new running techniques, dance, ribs, soccer...week 2

i found a new way to make exercising fun! ... so ive been trying to get back in to running but its been a struggle. so i have a new solution... i run on the treadmeal and do suduku at the same time!!!! it was awesome! people were at the gym were like ...waaaaaaa? but i never once looked at the clock and i would tell my self i have to keep at this speed no matter what until i finish the sudoku so it would challenge me to concentrate and go fast on suduku and then after that i change the speed up or down or same but then i couldnt change it till the next one. i ended up running for a hour and i was sweaty but not even really that tired cuz all my thinking wasnt on the running but sudoku. and now i am going to challenge and see how many sudokus i can do in an hour while running!!! :)
so this week i had my first soccer game! it was awesome! i felt at home playing soccer again. its been about 3-4 years since ive played soccer, (about the time i picked up dance was the time i dropped sccer) well anyways i did all elementary soccer and 2years in middle school, and one year in highschool... so 9 years ive done it. but it was really awesome to play again. we won!... tho the other team never showed up so it was a forfiet. but we scrimaged anyways cuz our team is huge. i actually hurt my foot, but its feel better now.

this weekend i went to a dance party on friday night where they had prizes and stuff, andd i got a free shirt and some free pizza so that was rad. and then saturday there were a lot of little dance partys all around rexburg so we went party hopping. i love to dance!
because i kept swiching around my classes i started some new classes this last wednesday so i am playing catch up for missing a week and a half.. so thats not very fun.
dance team is really fun we already learned our first routine and this week will be learning the next... dance team moves really fast! my performances will be one at a local school and another at a concert byui puts on on november 13, 14, 15. so if any of you happen to be in idaho then.. come watch me dance!!!!
saturday i went shopping with breanne and she found her wedding dress! and then we celebrated by going to the texas roadhouse and i had ribs for my very first time ever!!!! i liked them

idaho adventures

Just so you all know i am going to byu idaho this fall and byu provo this winter. in other word i am going to both schools at the same time.

i left a week from last saturday and me and gaylene and breanne drove down all the way to boise, and there we met up trent and his family, eric, troy, david and his daughter diana, and us -breanne, heidi, gaylene. and that saturday we went to a water park. it was erally fun to catch up with the messingers and go swimming. then me and breanne left early and made our drive to idaho arriveing late that night.

we decorated our room really cool, we have a red wall (wrapping paper), and newspaper on another wall, pictures of oldfashion people in black/white (elvis, i love lucy, etc. and our beds are red white and black. i also have black/white pictures of grandma and grandpa, mom/gaylene when younger, me and breanne, pic of the sisters, bugle boys, etc. that i blew up into posters.

as for my roomates there names are aly, amy, breanne, rachael, and melissa. they all turned out to be really great! which is really nice cuz i havnt had the best luck in the past on that.

as for classes im taking improv/chorographying dance class, dance team, study skills, new testiment, and flower arranging. my tues and thurs are pretty much no school (beisdes dance team)-so thats fun, same as breanne.

yesterday i went on a all day hike with the ward. that was really fun and intense. breanne wasnt able to go but it was fun meeting new people and getting to know my roomies more. we ended up hiking up to a cave.
(the two in the first pic are my roomies aly and amy)




a few events ive done are tryouts, bonfire, swimming, a date- bowling/ pool (some of grandpas genes were showing off in that game... he would be proud), and the ward hike. (heres a pic from my date)


i just recieved my calling as a family home evening mother. i really like this calling. altho this is the 3rd time ive recieved it. my whole college experience i have been the fhe mother.

comparison: between byu and byui, i really miss the football games already and my friends in provo and fam, and byu in general but so far its been a good experience here and the teachers are really good! espeacially my new testiment one. its fun rooming with breanne too. im enjoying it here. i also am taking new testiment with breanne, and child developement with stacia marshall.

tryouts?! ...results! :)

so friday i tryed out for the dance team at byu idaho and it was really intense. they taught us a dance and then cut people and then taught some thing else and then cut more people, and in the end made about 4 different cuts. and somehow i made it through them all and... I MADE THE TEAM!!!!!!! so i am officially a college dancer now whoo hoo :) im really excited, all my dance classes are paying off. the dance team is called collegite (contemperary) dance team. and i will be dancing modern/contemperay, jazz, hip hop and lyrical! and have a big performance in november i think. anyways im still learning details. but im so excited!

augest highlights...

in augest i had quite a few highlights, one being the family reunion. where we all went camping adn skiing/tubbing for a few days. it was really fun playing pirates dice, smores, michelles baby shower with smelling dirty dipers, skiing, skiing and more skiing. Dr. mario was a big hit during the reunion too and i am prob addicted, i am ry serious about getting a n64 and that game soon. i love getting together with everyone! its my favorite part of my year.




inaugest i was able to go rafting twice, which is my favorite thing ever! i went with the family and that was awesome!we had the bus, and the hogi sandwhiches and it was great turn out and everything that rafting should be... tho it was weird that only 4 of the dickinson kids were there. a week later i also went rafting with breannes single ward, there i got on a boat with all boys and just me and we popped awilly and made it stand on one end, but the thing was i was sitting on the front end, while everyone else was in the back making it go up so i flew way in the sky and then as i reach the top dropped and smacked against the water hard! but it was def worth it! it made it even more of a rush because they never told me what we were doing just that i should sit in the very very front onthe thing and hold on.

right now im at the age that allot of my guy friends are going on missions so i got to say goodbye to alot of them some being cameron, gregson, michael, jeff, etc.



SKIING! this summer i def took advantage of the fact that i can go skiing on grandpas new boat. i ended up going alot of times. and really worked on getting up on one ski. and in the end i did it! i am a one skiier now!!!! i have a video at home so hopefully i can get dad to post it!

over augest i was also able to go visit with larryd's family and that was fun. celebrating birthday and dinners etc. one day i even got to go to oaks with them! :)



i also read all the twilight books and am now reading a book by the same author called the host. me and tammy got talking and thought maybe it'd be a good idea for who ever has read the first book or is interested we could all go to the twilight movie together at thanksgiving time. so read the first book.



i also introduced the tv seris: heroes to the family at home and got them hooked. we watch all the first season. one night staying up till 5 am, because they were so good. :)



overall my augest was a very fun end of summer playing and working for mom sorting pictures. :)