Mangy Mongrels

As a students of BYU, we're admonished to, "enter to learn and go forth to serve." Taking this to heart, I decided to put my recently acquired university skills to work in one of my first acts of service at home... washing the dogs.

First, I protected myself by donning an old girls camp t-shirt and arming myself with dog shampoo and a towel (as I learned to do in some class somewhere) and then it was off to work!

It was funny because the dogs reacted in very similar ways. First they dragged me to the location of their filth's demise.

Next they queried, "What is she doing?"

Followed by a, "I think I've seen as much this as I want to, thank you very much," before they fled in terror.

And then they were caught.

They endured scrubbing for a little while

(look at poor Melissa's tail)

before trying to flee again.

"This is a most unnatural smell." - Little Ann

Trying to get it off.

But their efforts to thwart my valiant mission were to no avail and I successfully rid them of their nastiness for 1 minute. For Melissa a little longer then Lil' Ann because the little mutt, who claims to be pure bred, rolled around in a pile of dirt not long after I bathed her. I suppose she couldn't stand not smelling like pee and dirt was the next best option to wetting herself.

Freshman Year

Freshman year is mercifully over. Just wanted to announce that I'm alive! And I managed to survive in fairly good academic standing--wonder of wonders, miracles of miracles... Lots of goofing around and having fun took place over the year; however, I feel as though even more learning has occurred. I'm at a loss for truly descriptive words, but it's been interesting and very surreal, especially now that it's over. Not to fret though, I only have a month and a half left before heading back to the grind stone and faithfully fulfilling the requirements for my officially declared English Major. Well, there isn't much else to say on the topic! A couple highlights before the

This is my roommate, Cara, during the snowball fight we had Easter morning.

Model shot with traditional, chocolate-covered, coconut, candy Easter Eggs made by yours truly.

Me with my lovely roommates being our usual goof-ball selves before hiking to the "Y" during the later hours of the evening...

This was one of the last nights we (meaning a foursome created this semester with me, myself , and I, with Jenny, Laura, and my FHE father Bryce) had together. We camped out in the great outdoors of Heritage Halls (because of the honor code) until 4:30 a.m. What a marvelous adventure.