Well seeing as how I have a little more time now to blog I guess I can add some pictures that I took at the beginning of the semester. So yes I am a little behind but hey speak easy ok. These are just some pictures of my apartment when I was going to school. Pay close attention to the white tiger rug that we have it was probably the best feature of our apartment.

Finals are over!!!!

I am so happy that finals are all over with this semester. I usually love school and learning, but it feels so good to be done. Now I get a couple months to work and take a break from school. My favorite class over the semester is a toss up between my ballroom class and my visual media class. I love both of them, and love learning more about them. Now I have more time for myself to work on some things that I've been wanting to over the semester.

Here is a picture of me and a girl named Alex right before our ballroom competition.

Vegas!!

Ok so this is going to be a huge blog I've been dogging it for a couple of weeks with finals and Thanksgiving break, but I did take some pictures!

Over Thanksgiving break I got to hang out with my family and eat some good amounts of pumpkin pie. I also was invited to spend the weekend in Las Vegas with my boyfriend's family. It was so so much fun! We got to visit Matt's brother, Mitch and his wife, Sara and their little girl Arie it was so fun to get to know them better.

This is from inside the Bellagio, they had the coolest set up for Thanksgiving, we are standing in front of this tunnel with water tunnels going over us it was really cool.

This is just some of the plants and flowers it smelled so good.

Its kind of dark but here is a tree that would talk and blink his eyes.

This was a part of the ceiling inside of the Bellagio, and all of it is made out of glass it was so pretty.

This was probably my favorite thing we saw the water show that plays music and the water shoots up depending on the beat of the music. I even got lucky enough when it was doing it to a Christmas song.

I can't remember what building this was I just thought it was really cool, and we were waiting for the Tram I think thats what its called.

This is my favorite picture. One of the nights matt and I got to hang out with Stan and Debbie, and I realized they were just a goofy as us :)

Here is Matt in front of that tunnel again you can see the water really good in this one. How cute is he!

Here I am this black man really wanted to be in the picture, and we tried to get him to smile but he was really shy.

Ok so this has taken me a very long time and with some down time every once and a while I made this list of 100 things about me. I'm not sure if I did it right but hey this is for you Sharese...

1. I'm not a very good decorater or have skills with crafts.

2. I am pretty simple when it comes to jewelery and clothes, jeans and a t-shirt suit me just fine.

3. I recently changed my hair from blonde to dark brown, and I really like it.

4. I really like pumpkin pie, actually my mom makes it for my birthday cake.

5. I have some crazy mario kart skills.

6. I teach hip hop, tap, tumbling, jazz and lyrical at ERDA and its my favorite thing in the world.

7. I think that my voice is kinda low and guyish which I believe leaves me without a pretty singing voice.

8. When I was in 9th grade I got chicken pox from a girl I babysat and they were so bad that I only looked in the mirror once, I wouldn't let anyone see me or take pictures, they looked like big warts (gross I know) and I had them in my ears, nose, throat, eyelids, legs, stomach, head....you get the picture.

9. I don't really know how to wear excessive make-up like eye shadow, eye liner, blush, lip stick, lip liner, shimmer, etc. and when I do I feel like people look at me and think to themselves, man if that girl even knew what she looked like.

10.I made the varsity soccer team when I was a freshman through my senior year.

11. I lived in California for a summer and got my personal training certificate and worked with all kinds of interesting people.

12. I like the names Cameryn and Daphnie for girls, and Daxton for a boy.

13.I love my family, and wish all the time that I could spend more time with them.

14. In high school I always wanted to be the mascot at least for one game.

15. All my soccer buddies would got to our high school football games 3 hours early and bring pizza and a football and play pass, just so we could get a front row view.

16.I like to do hair.

17. I like dogs but hate cats they are creepy and suspicious.

18. I really miss my sister whitney and think about her everyday.

19. I wish I had more time to do things for people I have so many good people in my life that have been such good examples to me.

20. If I could have a super power it would be to read people's minds.

21. I love to run it relieves stress and clears my head.

22. I want to accomplish something great in my life.

23. I like the sounds of zippers, velcro, and buttons.

24. I love to watch people chew food I think its so cool haha man i'm weird.

25. I love little kids so much they are so non judgemental and have such unique personalities. I can't wait to have a family of my own...someday.

26. My little sister Natalie knows me better than anyone I know.

27. I like to read, I didn't back in highschool, but now reading a book is so relaxing.

28. My favoite show to watch is SYTYCD, and Heroes.

29. I'm a nut professional seriously just ask.

30. I like things to be clean, non- cluttered, and organized.

31. I love Christmas! When Christmas roles around i'm the happiest person everyone wants to do nice things for people and the music, decorations, smells, lights just overwhelm me with happiness.

32. I like to surprise people, although i'm really bad at keeping them in cause I get so excited, probably more excited than the person getting the surprise.

33. This is my dream car

34. I'm studying advertising/communications right now.

35. I recently love to wear scarves

36. I think all my siblings and the spouses of the ones that are married are so talented and have so much cool stuff about them!

37. My parents are so amazing I don't know how they raised us all, but i'm so thankful for them.

38.I would be happy eating oatmeal for one of my meals every day for the rest of my life. There have been days were I have had oatmeal for every meal of the day!

39. My favorite fruit is apples.

40. I don't know much about cars, when I get my oil changed and they tell me what they did I just act like I know exactly what they are talking about.

41. I love to choreograph dances sometimes I can't sleep cause I have all these crazy dance ideas in my head.

42. I'm a morning person, I love mornings.

43. I hate scary movies, and if I ever watch one the images are forever in my head and I have nightmares for a long time. In high school my sisters would have to come in my room and stay there till I fell asleep.

44.I have a continuously growing knowledge of the washington redskins, and my favorite player is #26 Clinton Portis...RB.

45. I've met most of the Kansas J-Hawks team thanks to Travis and Sharese.

46. I have never been out of the country besides Canada, but that doesn't count.

47. I love the gospel, true there are some Sundays I am struggling to stay awake or my mind is in a million different places, but I know that it's true.

48. I love oatmeal choc. chip cookie dough seriously! I even have the recipe memorized.

1/2 c shortening

1/2 c brown sugar

1/4 c sugar

1 egg

1/2 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1 c flour

an excessive amount of oatmeal

and some chocolate chips.

Combine dry ingredients before adding. Bake @ 350 for 9 minutes or so, I promise they are so good!

49. I can make a pretty good batch of bread.

50. In fact I believe that I can cook, one of the few things that I know i'm capable of doing.

51.I hate going to the doctor, I hate needles, I hate the sight of blood, if I never had to go to the doctor again I would celebrate, and make it a holiday or something.

52. I love to floss my teeth.

53. I like to be prepared and have things done way before they are supposed to be done.

54. I drop my cell phone A LOT!!

55. I have few close friends, but the ones I do have are the best people I know.

56. I sometimes get sad/mad that Sean Taylor had to die.

57. I like stickers, tickets, coupons, cards, museums, puzzles, word searches and pictures.

58. I don't like flaky people.

59. Along with my love for chirstmas is decorating I love it there is no such thing as too much christmas decorations.

60. I went to Hawaii during Thanksgiving with my sister and her little family and wish that sometime I could go back it is so fun!

61. I love to snowboard i'm no pro but i'm decent.

62. Biology might as well be a foreign language to me.

63. I don't like overly dramatic people they stress me out.

64. I love flag football, frisbee, soccer, dancing, and gymnastics

65.Missionaries are the bomb diggity!

66.I think I am too sarcastic sometimes and people don't get it.

67. JoAnna

68. Bad smells make me want to vomit.

69. I love jazz music it takes me to a happy place...no joke.

70. Matt is my best sweetest bud :), I have fun doing anything even if it is listening to the latest discovered song, or reading up on the skins, or running to the gas station for a new mixture of a drink or playing Mario or Madden it doesn't matter.

71. I like fireplaces they are comforting to me.

72. If I need some cheering up or a good laugh I just call Sharese.

73. Devin and Julie always give the best advice and help me get through anything.

74. I like waffles and peaches.

75. This is taking way too much of my time!

76. I don't like spiders, snakes, bees or bugs in general.

77. I like to do cool stuff with photoshop.

78. I-pods are such a great invention.

79. Sometimes I get in the weirdest moods and do some crazy stuff and I don't know how everyone still hangs around me.

80. I like super hero movies. I think that superman, spiderman, transformers, and all theX-men are so cool.

81. Bruce Willis and Jason Stathom are my favorite actors and its weird to me that they are both balding.

82. My favorite band is Def Leppard, and I love old rock music.

83. I've always wanted to be sang to, danced with, swept off my feet, rescued.

84. My neices and nephews are the jam!

85. I don't like to write.

86. I'm very proud of the fact that all 5 of my brothers served missions.

87. For some reason I loved David O. McKay when I was little.

88. I love hot weather love it!!

89. I got pluerisy from a psyco army class I took.

90. I always wish that when people are speaking a different language and think they are so cool, that I could know what they are saying and talk to them.

91. I want to visit Paris, London, Austrailia, Sweden, China, Japan pretty much everywhere.

92. Believe it or not I can make up some pretty sweet raps.

93. I like to get gifts for people that they would never expect.

94. I like jeans.

95. Heels are only fun for about 20 minutes.

96. I don't dring soda and haven't since 7th grade.

97. My favorite color is baby blue.

98. I like to go to sporting events.

99. I am so blessed, and have so much more than I deserve.

100. I love life, and want to become a better person everyday.

Holy cow that is so long i'm blogged out for the week enjoy my list!

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This semester...........

As so of you know I started school about two weeks ago. I joined a class called the ranger challenge that is part of an ROTC program, I was asked to join and told it was kinda like a fitness class.....Right. We were told to come to class at 6 am every morning. Well every morning turned into 5:30 am MWF and now it is just 5:30, so I have been sacrificing college social life to get to bed early so I can go torture myself the next day. Hmmm I guess with a sister in the army its kinda driven me a little bit more just getting a taste of what her days might be like since we don't get regular updates. Anyways class consists of continuous running, push-ups, sit-ups and wilderness...tips I guess you could call them. We have to wear uniforms every day boots, army pants, jacket, hat and all. (Pictures of me in these items are still being reviewed in fear of being blackmailed with them) Here are some pictures of what my body has been going through visibly, if I could take a picture of the fatigue and soreness that is included then that big bruise would look normal. Needless to say it has actually been really cool to be a part of I've increased my 2-mile run to 15:05 last wednesday and I can run a 10K in army boots with 40lb packs on our backs this is not an easy task. It is like having 15lbs added on each foot, in addition to feeling 40lbs heavier. Well no worries it will all be over oct. 10 when we go to compete against different schools like Gonzaga, BSU, ISU, and Montana State.

Other than that school has been going really great, and starting dance this fall has been the best! I also am on a soccer team, we won our first game and we seem to have a decent team. I have recently dyed my hair really dark, I guess I just needed a change and was sick of re-highliting my hair. If you have any pointers for getting more sleep and still staying up and acting like a college student let me know.

JoAnna

me and mathius taking a stroll in island park...sharese props on the picture skills

just getting ready to ride horses in island park. me and emma just taking it easy with "oj" and "badjer"

me and eli hanging out in the smokin hot weather at myrtle beach having some nephew - aunt bonding time.

all i can say is that my little 13 year old sister looks older, taller, prettier and smarter than me, which she totally is!

sportin the brown hair getting ready to go to a dance with my buds from highschool.

halle................one of her many moments of messiness

dance battle right before i broke my foot....

Finals, Dates, Roommates

Ok so I have been writing papers for the past week so this is just like another paper except I am garenteed to pass...hopefully. Finals are next week and I am almost done with all my work. Although I have been super busy with school I have done some pretty cool stuff, last Saturday I went on a date and we hiked "R" mountain and ate dinner, then shot glow in the dark golf balls off the mountain, needless to say it was fun I just wish I had my dad's golf skills instead I was lucky if I even hit the ball. Here is a picture of us on the top of the mountain.

Last Sunday after the big family dinner at our house I went to my Aunt Sherri's house with my cousin Clancy, Matt Landon, and one of my roommates. My uncle Gordon asked us to go check the water out in the field, so we hopped on some forewheelers: Clancy on a motorcycle, Matt and I on a forewheeler and my roommate on a forewheeler by herself. While we were going down a dirt path we had a river on our left, we hadn't gone very far when I heard a splash followed by some screaming. We stopped and found my roommate had somehow managed to run the forewheeler and herself into the river. Luckily she was ok, but the forewheeler was taken away by the current and got stuck under a bridge. Only in Rigby does your friendly neighbor have a spare tracktor for events like this one. We had to get the tracktor and pull it out. Talk about an adventure! This weekend I got invited to spend the weekend in Logan with Matt Landon's sister and then on Saturday we will head to his all-star football game in Marsh Valley it should be pretty fun.

Punk Fetcher

Recently my roommates have been calling me "punk fetcher" when I decide to spend my friday night at home instead of hanging out with them which consists of them talking about how they are depressed about not being married or having a boyfriend. Maybe I should participate in these conversations, but I guess I just find it irrelevent because every guy I have met is still transitioning from retarded to less retarded. Any advice would be appreciated from the married siblings on this subject.
Well I figure its about time to write about my life right now, so yes I am single again but life is good. My classes are mentally really easy this semester, but physically tiring. My military fitness class is making me hard core I we recently did a 5 mile run, and I tried it again last saturday and it actually felt good. Life is so good even with some questionable roommate issues and the lack of male prospects. I can't wait for school to be out though and to see everyone again.
My ward is really cool we are hiking to the "R" this Saturday I am hoping that will make up the blessings from missing FHE for the required flag football practices that our coaches say is necessary for winning, and since I skipped the last practice and our team lost the last game its obvious I need to be a practice. Here is an old picture from Leah Stoker's reception.

One of the dance teams I teach the Emeralds. This was at a Rigby show where we just recieved judges comments on our performances. Next weekend we are in Logan again for our biggest competition of the year I am really excited its going to be fun I will get more pictures of my tappers and hip hoppers.

Last week with my family secretly I am excited but I am sure it will be sad haha but I am over it. School starts on the 19th my classes are going to be fun this semester. I have a military fitness class and a bunch of dance classes a soccer class, and communication classes. I am hoping that my roommates are cool because I am just going cold turkey.

Cripple

Well it was quite the weekend here in Idaho Falls with our first competition and the teams did so well! I was really impressed with their performances even if the costume lady messed up on all of my costumes and ordered men sizes, the girls looked like they were wearing their dads shirts to go to bed. We managed though and we have another competition this weekend. As for the dance battle it was good except for the part where I broke my foot doing a back flip. Dallin jumped over seven people doing a front flip it was so rad haha.

Competition Season

Well I finally made it on here to keep everyone updated. My life is pretty hectic with nutty guys and teaching. This weekend is our studio's competetion. Its our first year holding a comp. but it has turned out to be a bigger hit than we thought. I have two pieces in this one, just my two soloist, seeing as how it is just a soloist competition. I am pretty excited about it though cause I get a securtiy tag and a walkie talkie, pretty awesome I know.
Other than that my life is pretty good. Valentines day weekend I got to introduce my bf to the parents, and it went pretty good......especially for a first Stoker family encounter. In two weeks I am participating in the dance battle wednesday against some crews from slc, logan, and boise. I will be adding some pictures as soon as I get them!