2013

2013.

It still sounds so futuristic to me. This year will definitely be an adventure, but when is the new year not? 2012 was quite eventful since all this happened:

• 2 foreign countries (Guatemala and Guernsey)
• 14 plane rides
• Senior Thesis
• French minor
• 5 states (Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Montana)
• 2 BYU semesters and 1 term
• 2nd Spring of 4 in a row to be spent in Europe
• Mission Call
• the best BYU semester in 4 years

I've been rather lax on blogging lately, and I haven't taken too many pictures this semester, cause it was crazy. But here are some recent ones. First of all, I freaked out a little bit when I saw this:

18 days!!??? aaaaaah. Last time I looked at this it was at 30. That is really. really. soon. I'm very excited and very nervous and it goes back and forth. But lately I'm getting excited again, I'm ready to go. After all, I have been waiting since SEPTEMBER to leave. 5 months. I've known I was going to go to the Czech Republic for almost half a year. How crazy is that?? And I've been waiting to leave on a mission since I decided to go in May. I definitely needed that time to get ready but it's really strange that the wait is almost over. I now have all my clothes and I'm almost done with my list of things to get, so that's a little surreal.

It's also strange that all of my friends are heading back to BYU today and I'm not. I'm a little sad about it, but it's surprising that it doesn't bother me more I guess. I'm so ready for my mission that I don't regret not going back to school. Yes, it's sad that I won't see my friends for a year and a half, but I will see them when I get back, and a year goes by pretty quickly when you are busy. This Christmas vacation has been really nice. It's been good to hang out with my family, and to be in a house again. We went up to Willamette Pass last week and snowboarded--the powder was perfect so that was really fun. And we went rockclimbing the other day, I got to see some of my friends from high school, and there was Christmas of course. So all in all it's been great. I can't help feeling like it's the calm before the storm though--having nothing pressing to do is refreshing and I'm not going to have a moment like that for a loooong time. So for now I'm just trying to enjoy it :)

loving the powder

snowshoeing 

love this, they look 2 dimensional

Odette Lake

Dr Seuss trees

Snowboarding!