A Team Retreat 2009!!!

This past Thursday through Saturday was our second A Team retreat for the year. It was sooo much fun! (as always!!) I decided to make a list of some of the fun things we did!

• A Team Bowl competition



• A Team Olympics (unfortunately my team came in last. i think it's a humility lesson since my team smashed everyone last year)



• Watched John Tucker...I don't think the boys liked it too much. shocker.



• Cheered on the Rockets in the hopes that the Lakers would lose (they did the night we watched the game)



• Told really scary stories...I refuse to ever go to Green Canyon now.



• Made tin foil dinners.



• Breathing Orange Fire



• Ate more food than seems humanly possible



• Played LOTS of volleyball



• Learned about our personalities. I am an ISFJ! Look it up if you want to know what it means.



• Sculpted blocks of ice cream



• Had dutch oven cobbler



• Played with a massive glitter bouncy ball until it literally exploded



• Impromtu guitar playing/singing (I just watched haha)



• Shower parties (seperate stalls. we don't bond THAT much!)



• Had a dance competition (hilarious!)



• Bonded and shed tears of love



• Grew a little sick of each other (bound to happen when people spend that much time together)

That's about all I can think of right now. But I love this year's A Team and can't wait for SOAR to start!!! It's going to be fantastic! Trying out for the A Team is seriously the best decision I've made since I've been to college. It has totally changed and enhanced my college experience.

My mommy is the BEST!!!

I know this is kinda late but I haven't been by my computer all day. I need to pay tribute to my amazing mom!

Quick Bio: Lelani Pickett Craig. Born January 25, 1965 and shares this great day with her dad and oldest daughter (ME!). She was born in Argentina and grew up in Idaho after moving there at the age of 12. She attended LDS Business College as well as the University of Utah. She was widowed at the age of 33 and showed more strength and courage and determination to provide for me and my siblings than I could ever muster up. She remarried to my dad, Dain Craig, in January 2000. She owns her own language company, CommGap.

My mom is such an Adventure Girl!!! She has gone scuba diving (many times, including with sharks!), sky diving, race car driving, parasailing, cliff diving, figher plane flying (and fighting!), skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and probably some other things I can't remember. I am the total opposite of her in this sense. I am such a wimp and would NEVER consider doing most of these things she has done. But I think it is fantastic that she is living her life to what she considers to be the fullest.

My mom is so special. She is patient, kind, understanding, loves to laugh, puts up with our love of board games and card games, sets such a good example of a healthy lifestyle, is always willing to listen, goes out of her way to help me, is super silly with her college best friend (oh the giggling!), incredibly positive and optimistic, loves to try new things, is NOT a picky eater, so intelligent, very encouraging, all about girl power!, more into technology than I am, addicted to her Facebook and Twitter, loves her husband and kids, is a very happy person overall, and someone I look up to very, very much!!!

I LOVE YOU MOM!!!!!!! HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! I wouldn't be who I am without you!

P.S. : on a side note, I am feeling much better about life than I did last night. I have a much more positive outlook on everything and even bonded with some of my roommates tonight. Things are looking up. Thank goodness!!! :)

Life S.U.C.K.S!

So right now I am sitting in the pile of junk that is my new room and all my earthly belongings. I feel so discouraged right now and don't even know where to start as far as putting everything away goes. I hate moving!!!
I met two of my new roommates and by the looks of it, this is going to be an interesting year. We are totally different people and pretty sure we have very different beliefs and outlooks on life. I am not excited about living with them.
I am kinda having a downer day. I'm not feeling positive about my new house, roommates, or job potential. I am supposed to find out today if I got a job or not. Why they couldn't tell me at the interview is beyond me. and playing this "if you get a call you got the job, if not, too bad" game is awful and has had me anxious all day. This summer better get better soon or else I'm going to flip.
I can't wait to go home in a couple weeks.