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.

Oh the stress...

You would think that after two years of living away from home, I would be used to it. But today during church (without being provoked by anything) I became really homesick and came home and just cried. Sad I know! I mean come on! I'm 20 years old!!! Aren't I supposed to be all grown up and used to living on my own and comfortable with the fact I no longer live with my parents. I guess none of those things really bother me. It would just be a lot easier if my family and I lived closer to each other so I could go home more than 3 times a year. It drives me crazy when people complain about being so far from home and their family is only 2 hours away. Or they whine and complain about having to go home for little things on the weekends and I wish I had that luxury. Not that I'm complaining about my life. I love it and I am so happy I chose to come to school up here. It's just a little more difficult than I ever imagined it would be. Hopefully, time will help it get easier. Maybe by the time I graduate, I'll be good. :)

Maybe I'm just really stressed out with finals coming up this week and everything and it just exploded into homesickness. I took a nap this afternoon while watching Pride and Prejudice (Kiera Knightly style) and I feel much better. Yup it's gotta be a sign that I'm growing up that taking a nap puts me in a better mood. hahaha Wow.

Freaking AMAZING!

How can you watch that and not have Aggie pride?! I just don't know!

So next week is Finals Week and then school is out for the summer. Woo hoo!!! I'm almost halfway done with my Bachelors Degree. How is that possible? I have found that the older I get, the faster time goes by.

Spectrum Photo Shoot

So a couple months ago, a friend of mine asked me to be in a recruitment video they were shooting and to be in a photo shoot afterward. So I did. :) It was all done in the Spectrum and unfortunately I was sick, so pretty sure I sounded like a man and looked super tired, but a couple pictures turned out nice. Here are some of my favorites:

I even got to take some with my good friend Erin Whyte!!! (or The Erin as she is known in our house)


Then we took some overlooking the Spectrum and I thought they looked cool. Too bad some guys are playing basketball. Who knew you could just show up and play on the court? I sure didn't.

Life is so busy!...but I love it!!!

So I just got back on Sunday from the best Spring Break ever. I went with three of my friends to the WAC tournament in Reno, Nevada and watched USU's basketball team win all their games to become the champions and get a bid to the NCAA tournament. They were alotted 11th seed and will be playing Marquette in Boise on Friday. Now, they are really good, but I am being told that it is a very winnable game for a variety of factors in our favor. Hopefully, it's true. Sadly, I will not be attending since I am super poor, but I will be watching and cheering from the TSC on campus!

My new favorite hang out place in Logan is a new ice cream/frozen yogurt shop called Yummi Tummi's. It was opened by three former USU basketball players and is the coolest place ever. It is self serve ice cream that you can then put toppings on and pay by the oz. They have a room attached that has lots of seating, a bunch of tvs, some game tables, and TONS of pictures on all the walls, honoring all sorts of Aggie sports. However, being true to their basketball history, the owners dedicated one whole wall to an enlarged version of this year's team poster. I've been to a couple events there and have been very impressed each time. It's about time Logan had a place like this.

I am currently trying to find a place to live for the summer and next school year. A couple of my friends and I have decided to live together and all but one of us already do, so we know it will be ok. :) Or at least should be. It's so disheartening though to look at how much it will cost, know how much school will cost next year, and know that I have TONS of work to do this summer to be able to afford it. This school thing is ridiculously expensive. And thanks to budget cuts, it's only becoming increasingly so. I hate money...and the fact that I need lots of it and have very little of it. So stressful.

There are only 6 1/2 weeks left of school, including finals! This year has gone by so fast! After these next few weeks, I will be officially half way done with my undergraduate degree! Crazy!!! It's so weird how fast time goes by. However, I am enjoying every bit of it. My classes are awesome, my new major is interesting and things just seem to fall into place when they need to. Life is great. Difficult but totally worth it.