Adventures in Carriage House 313

ah college :)

it brings so many wonderful moments

like dying my hair for the first time at midnight...on the first day of school....black.
















i wouldn't trade this life for the world



also....it's going to be a great semester...i can feel it in my bones! :)

Back in The Burg

I had a lovely Christmas break of doing absolutely nothing to my heart's content. I read books...played with my family...and of course, played with The Boys. It was much appreciated after such a hard fall semester...

but now....i'm back!!

and it feels good :)

here is my class load this time around...

Photography
Piano (level 2)
Communications Practicum
Drawing
Family Foundations
Writing for Communications
Basic Auto



tomorrow's the first day! wish me luck!!

dangit.

I, Casey J. Ross, received my very first ticket on friday.

It was tragic.

So there I was, driving down a small Rexburg street after a party...talking to Liz...minding my own business...just trying to get home...when...lights. in my rearview mirror. police lights. awesome.

15 over.

75 dollars.

boom. roasted.

Boise Baby!!

so....last weekend....three of my bestest friends and roommates and I went to boise! It was so fun!!!
we went so my roommate, Liz, could take her family pictures. (I had tons of fun following them around and sort of being a second shooter)
THEN, we went boating with Liz's family!

first...i went wakeboarding! it took a lot of tries to get up but i finally did! i had like 40 seconds of fame. it was awesome. once i got up i was just screaming out of excitement so much that i fell down! haha oh well!














then...i went wakesurfing! i was WAY more successful at this one and loved it! it was cool. everyone should wake surf. all the time.














(i realize there is a rope in my face...haha)


at last...the four of us went tubing! holy googly moogly! i thought i was going to die a few times...haha but it was totally worth it :)



















all while...loving life on the boat with my roommates...and Liz's awesome family! we danced and laughed and all that good stuff...

















me and sarah
liz, kelle and me
i LOVE these girls!! :)










pretty much i put off everything to go on the trip and had to make up for the time this week but sometimes you just gotta live it up ya know?

welcome to failure

that's what my graphic design teacher said today.


awesome.

bears. beets. battlestar galactica.

my aunt sent me this in the mail.
she's TOTALLY awesome.

and i love it.
i don't care what anyone says....
it's hilarious!

i was pretty excited :)

summa time!!

well...because it is now august and i only have one month left until i go back to school (woot woot!!) i thought it would be good to do a little summer...update...post...summary...thing.... here's my summer in a very small nutshell...

• lovin' on babies

I'm seriously going to miss my nephews so much...they grow up so fast and i don't want to miss it!

• watching the first of my roommates to get married...who's next?

my money is on sarah (second to the left)...but who knows!!

• playing with rachel
  

we do all kinds of weirdo stuff...but i love it!

• lazing around...

doing who knows what...
lots of swimming...
but mainly nothing...


don't even try to act like you can resist that! i can't!!

• st. george with mitch and rachel

totally random day trip but so fun! also my first real kite flying... :)

• hanging out with the Boys

can't get enough of the boys...they make me laugh SO hard ALL the time!

• california trip with rachel

we had sooooo much fun! it was the best trip evah! i'm very lucky to have such a good best friend :)

• painting my hat rack

matt!! you rock! so hard!!! thank you again...a million times!
i love love LOVE it!

• The Jeep

oh good times in the jeep...also very windy times...haha

• trying to NOT buy shoes while working at DSW
  

uhh...if you know me at all....you know that didn't work out too well...

• reading everything i can
  

mmm...one of the best parts about summer...i get to read whatever i want! booyah!


pretty sure i did other stuff too...haha it's already been an awesome summer! i've loved every second of it! i plan of taking advantage of the rest of it....yes!!

YO!! i'm BACK!

So...it's been a while... These are my sorry excuses for not blogging for the past...forever....:

1. I'm really crazy and soooo BUSY. But, it was all for a good cause. I spent the whole winter semester deciding between ceramics, advertising, and history...so i worked extra hard. And the winner is....drum roll please....advertising!!


B. I got a boyfriend. Surprising...i know. THIS guy.


III. I love love love LOVE my crazy roommates! So, anytime spent without them felt like time wasted! haha they are a blast!

Quatro. I was having lots of crazy adventures and such like: whooping everyone else's butts on my amazing bball team, going to lots of insane dance parties, playing donkey basketball, playing football outside in shorts as soon as it got over 40 degrees, watching my roommates date (haha), writing missionaries, strengthening my testimony, being surprised my mac's visit, driving to boise, learning that i'm not as chicken as i thought i was, learning, having really funny and awesome roommate chats at 2 in the morning, pulling all nighters, going to the temple every week, making pots, eating too much cookie dough, eating too much pizza, eating too much, visiting the Berg for my roommate's wedding and much much more!! :)

5. Now, it's summer!! and i'm LOVING it!!! I didn't realize how much i miss the vegas sun!
or these babies....
















peace out.

i should definintely update this more often....haha

I'm already done with half of the semester!!! It's so crazy how fast time has been going! I'm so busy right now....i plan on working my butt off this week so i can have time on the weekend to play though (rachel time much? mmm....i'm excited.) My halloween was rather....non-traditional...haha. Our ward party was on monday so i threw together a sarah palin outfit for that (i have a couple pictures but i don't look like her at all in the pictures...it looked better in real life) it was really fun. there were some hilarious costumes there. But yesterday, on actual halloween, a lot of people didn't want to get dressed up so we just ended up driving to shelley to go to Erica's, one of my roomies, house. we played and watched a scary movie and played some more...it was actually pretty fun even though i totally forgot it was halloween until we got home and saw a ton of people in costumes...haha.



this is zane on halloween...it has nothing to do with anything...i just think he looks realllly good in this picture....bahahaa. hopefully he never sees this....awkward! ha. and yes, he is wearing my hoodie. zane did in fact NOT go to centennial.

this was the group that went to shelley...the boy girl ratio isn't always that off...


zane, me, mac, and liz. mac and zane mauled my face at the last second...haha. they're hilarious.

Then today we went to our friend jason's football game (we actually go every week) and made shirts...it was a blast and a half but they lost...big time. haha.

Mikelle, sarah, me, liz, erica (shalynn went home this weekend) and zane on the end...haha

go hawks! woot woot! we yell A LOT at the games...it's fun! i like it. he is the QB so we're always like, "look at the butt on that quarterback!" haha (mikelle is dating him...FYI)
liz and i's football season is over :( i miss it. it was soooo much fun! and i'm a lot better at football now! ahhaha. luckily basketball lasts the whole semester so i'm excited about that!

we still have nice weather! yay!!!!

so pretty much since we are halfway through the semester i have to register for my classes. problem. i still don't know what i am doing with my life. why can't someone just tell me what to do? haha. just kidding....i'm glad that i can choose anything i want...it is a good opportunity, i just don't know what i want! gay! so right now...i am a declared art major and history minor. the art part scares the crap out of me because i'm a bit UNDERqualified. so some of the other possibilities are:

communications major with an emphasis in advertising...my friend stacey is doing that and loves it...it would put me more into graphic design kind of stuff....could be fun but i have absolutely no experience in it which could cause troubles...

elementary education-my friend sharla (who is soooo funny and one of my favorites up here) is trying to talk me into this one... i honestly think i would like this i'm just so not good at...talking. which is sort of necessary.

history major...i could even have an emphasis in art history...but...i don't know.

political science? maybe....bleh.

home and family...i LOVE that kind of stuff but i soooo don't want to be all like "i'm going to college so i can be a mom." not cool.

university studies. not an option. i don't know why i even wrote that...typed that.

or i could keep my art major. so...any input would be awesome...ideas, opinions....anything. huuuu...it's pretty frustrating. BUT i'm loving life despite that weighing on my mind all the time. i applied to be an efy counselor today...we'll see.

my roommates continue to be tons o' fun. i'm glad that i have them! i hang out with the girls two apartments down from me too...they are a hoot! i get along with them really well so i ALWAYS have someone to play with when i don't want to do my homework! haha.

uhhhh....i'm sure other stuff has happened i just can't think of it right now! i do miss home a lot....i want to come home at least for a weekend. i wish thanksgiving would come faster but that means my sister's wedding will come faster!! crazy!! anyways, i love you all and i miss you!

It's getting colder.....uh oh

Fact. It's supposed to snow this weekend.

Fact. I'm so NOT ready for winter. haha.

Anyway, this monday was my birthday and it was a blast and a half! Honestly, before coming...I was kind of being a bum like, meh, my birthday is going to blow because I won't even have friends yet...blah blah blah. But, it sooo wasn't like that. I actually got presents too! :) haha. I got two coloring books (i do a lot of coloring these days), Kanye West glasses (kind of an inside joke with my roomie sarah, or anyone who has seen mitchell davis), candy, food, a princess crown, a basket of cookie ingredients from Liz's grandma and...oh yeah, haha, tennis shoes from my mommy and daddy. yay! We went to Idaho Falls to go shopping and out to dinner...then we went to the sand dunes so i could have the "star party" i have to have for my science class. So, we got there and it was cold and the sand was all wet from rain (on friday when i went with Liz, Kelsey, Mac and Zane, the sand was perfect and we could jump off the cliffs of sand and it's wayyyyy funnnnn. haha) Anyway, pretty much Sarah and I were the only ones who did have some kind of boy to be all snuggly with so we were like whatever! and went treking through the desert/sand dunes. It was awesome. There is one really huge hill that we decided to climb up and then we rolled down it...hahahha it was so ridiculous. i thought i was going to die a couple times and i had sand EVERYWHERE like, worse than the beach because you have more clothes on. ha. The best part though was when Sarah and I would get to the top of the sand dune we would sit there and sing songs as loud as we possibly could...and we can get pretty loud! If you know anything about me, you know i love to scream...sarah does too so it works out. At one point we even screamed the Barney song, popcorn popping, and 99 bottles of beer on the wall. hahahha we are so funny. It was really fun though. I had soooo many people call me and text me and leave me messages on my birthday! I'm so grateful for all of the amazing friends and family that i have!

I had a birthday cake that liz made me...but no one had a lighter so i had to pretend to blow out the candles! it was actually rather funny....and i don't have a single picture from my bday because the sand dunes killed my camera... :/ don't tell my dad. oops.

Conference was so flippin good! I thoroughly enjoyed it this year and i look forward to the ensign. :)

uhhh....i'm trying to think of what else has been going on...liz gets ALL the boys. seriously, there is no hope of me ever going on another date when she's around (david doesn't count because he hasn't met liz yet. hahhaa) Don't get me wrong, i am so unbelievably happy that liz is my roommate. she is so much fun and i love her. oh! and liz and i are playing flag football and basketball with our ward girls...it's fun! i love it.

Aren't we cute?

I suppose that's all for now...