Hoppy Easter!

Lots to write about, and no time. It's a dilemma. It's just going to be short and sweet today (hopefully...), this girl's gotta go to bed!

First things first, I've never written a missionary really. I've been writing Elder Hanson though, and it's seriously so fun! I just love getting mail. Even though they changed the rule so missionaries can email, I'm making him write letters, it's so much better. 

Woke up to the sweetest note I've ever gotten on the desk next to my bed. Jean is the BEST roommate I could've possibly been matched up with, I'm so lucky. Seriously.

Weekly lunch with Kaitlyn is always fun.

On Thursday, I went to my lovely cousin Alaina's house to interview her and her hubby for a marriage prep paper I'm writing. It was so fun to be with her, and of course, talk about my favorite subject! I could talk about relationships for ever. 

Saturday I went downtown to have lunch with my good friend Danny. We shopped around, ate, and just caught up. SO much fun.

I went shopping with my mom as well to TJ Max, and found the most awesome red suitcase ever, and perfect for my mission! I never thought I'd be so excited about a suitcase.
When she took me to the train, we had some issues and I missed the train. Long story short, we ended up leaving my brand new suitcase at the station on accident! After driving away I realized our mistake and we sped back to find it there waiting for us. Big relief!

 Another stats test to study for! I'm soo lucky to have Alise in my class. We have our study sessions, and she keeps me on track and working hard, even though this whole week I've felt like this:

Love her.

On Sunday, Lacey cracked me up in Relief Society when, in her lesson about the Atonement, she made the comparison of His pain to "stepping on a Lego, or stubbing your toe...times 50!" She always makes me laugh.

 My mom made me a bunny garland of my own!! Now hanging proudly in our kitchen. I love it (:
She came over for dinner Sunday night, and I cooked us up probably the best crockpot meal I've ever made.

 Monday's FHE: Egg dying

My camera decided to focus on the carton of eggs instead of my rainbow egg...but it was a good one.

 Maybe shouldn't share how many packages I got this week...it's over 5, I'll tell you that much.

 These babies came in one of them!

 See that?? Crazy!! It's even less now. 3 weeks left of school! How the heck did that happen?!

On Tuesday I officially worked out all the issues with my papers.

Then on Friday, heard this from my Bishop. Yayy!! No more delays with my papers, they are officially completed. Can't even begin to tell you how happy I am to say that! Fingers crossed I get assigned tomorrow, because then I'd get my call at the end of this week. 

 Tuesday night we had a ward Passover Seder. A Seder is just the Jewish feast they have for Passover. The boys all work Yamakas, and loved it! The lady who led the Seder tied in our LDS beliefs with the Jewish ones. It was very interesting!

 Here is the food we had, with a menu of the significance of each item. I had NO idea what horse radish tasted like, and Zach convinced me to take a big spoonful. I WAS CRYING. It was not my favorite, to say the least. So spicy!

On Wednesday my sweet mom and sisters came to help me attack Heritage Halls with 80's Night flyers. Can't even begin to tell you how many stairs we climbed.
A boy was sitting in his kitchen on the first floor right next to the window. I convinced Libby to go and tape a flyer right next to his face. It was so funny, still surprised she did it!

Thursday and Friday were spent working at the 80's booth we set up. My favorite was working with Jessy, she was so sneaky and would get people to come to our booth! She would sit against the hall and ask people if they could help her with something, then would basically drag them over to our booth, where I would spout off some facts about 80's Night.
Here's a short random little video.

Here's what the booth looked like. Complete with flyers, candy, and blasting 80's music. It was great making a fool out of myself in the middle of the Wilk dancing my heart out with my coworkers. My favorite were the people who came and joined us!

 Genevieve murdering a Peep.

Genevieve, her cousin, her cousin's roommates, and I all went to the 9:00 premier of The Host on Thursday night! What happened to midnight premiers? Who knows. But I'm fine going to bed at 12 instead of 3.
The Host was incredible! We all loved it. But that's coming from 8 girls who read the book. I need a guy who hasn't read the book to go see it. If you meet these qualifications, go do so and get back to me on what you think (:

 Friday, Tanner, Mia, and I got slurpees and went to a field to play around. She's the cutest girl.

This was randomly on campus--world's largest cardboard castle, just because we can.

Friday was my last midterm, for Stats! I was thrilled to get an 80%. That may seem low, but for this class, trust me--t's high! Soo happy our studying paid off.

 I may have gone to see The Host again on Friday night. I also may have snuck in Cinnabons into the theater and consumed way more calories than I should have. It was my reward for surviving another stressful week!

 Saturday morning Genevieve and her cousin Spencer took us to their hidden gem restaurant in downtown Provo. It's nickname is China Hell, so I don't really know if it's considered a gem. But you get a lot of Chinese food for really cheap, so basically it's a college kid's dream.

 Next door was a pet store, and Genevieve was fascinated with these fish that would follow her hand around!

Then, it was time for 80's night. I cut up an old neon Iceberg t-shirt to make leg warmers and a headband, finally had a justifiable reason to wear my shiny $2 H&M shirt, and headed to work.

Let's just say...80's night was not as big of a success as I hoped it would be. Everything went perfectly: the band was incredible, the DJ was set up right on time and had an amazing display of lights and music, and the decorations were great. But...hardly any one showed up. Why you ask? I still don't know. I worked my butt off advertising the death out of this thing. Between free coupons, giveaways, and our great entertainment--I'm quite perplexed as to the reason no one was there!

I was so beyond upset and bummed when it started seeming like the 40 people we had there was all it was going to be. I'm just grateful that my amazing friends came and kept me from breaking into tears. It was rough. On a plus side, the night got better, I got over that fact that it was pretty empty, and we all danced and had fun. 

These guys were hilarious dancing, but I only caught a little glimpse of them:

It's still hard for me to talk about it, because it makes me feel like such a failure! But in all honesty, I have no regrets. I know I did everything and more in my power to make it a success, and for some reason unknown to me, it just wasn't. Oh well!

Here's one of the things I had decorated--our Cosmo bench! Equipped with a checkerboard backdrop and Cosmo rocking some shades. I love my friends!

We went home and played murder in the dark in our basement. For the last round, me and Genevieve unlocked our storage cage and hid in it. They are pitch black, so no one could see us but we could see everything! Taylor got murdered in front of us, so he leaned against our cage. We went and screamed bloody murder right behind his head. I've never seen anyone so scared! We got a couple other victims as well. It was hilarious.

Sunday morning, I got picked up to go home for Easter! We stopped by to talk with my Grandma Williams as well, love that lady.

Church was great, dinner was even better, and my Easter basket was the best:

Our Easter bunny likes to mix holidays (:

Now I'm back at college. This week will be a breeze compared to my last 2, so I'm happy about that! Hope you all had a lovely Easter! Stay tuned, the next post I write could be about my mission call (:

Side note: This post definitely was not short and sweet. I don't know why I thought I could make such a post, I think that's impossible for me to do! Oh well, it's worth losing some sleep over, right? Goodnight!