Britt's Blog

Pure Brilliance!

2009-09-17T16:07:00.000-07:00

So this semester my roommates and I have decided to cook. Yep, you heard it... I'm cooking!
Monday through Thursday we have a home cooked meal. Each of us girls takes a night and we cook for everyone. It's been the best idea EVER! We're eating healthy and we don't have to just cook for one person (because honestly who goes through all of that for one person?). It's AMAZING!
Any meal ideas?

My first dinner was homemade pot pies! MMM...

Meet Laken/ Laiken...

2009-09-10T13:05:00.000-07:00

Meet Laiken...Now meet Laken...

Yes, these darling girls are both named Laken/Laiken.

Who knows a Laken/Laiken?
I didn't...

I now know two...

I also live with two!

What are the odds?

My Family Dear!

2009-09-10T13:03:00.000-07:00

Oh how I love this crew!

Good Bye Summer, Hello Fall!

2009-09-03T11:22:00.000-07:00

Oh how I will miss you summer time! Here is a small glimpse...
4th of July Fireworks (Shalese, Jace, Me, Corey, Laken)

Another pool party at the Roods (Me, Stephanie, Shalese, Laken)

Lindquist/Weber Fireworks (Michelle, Kandyce, Me, Shalese, Steph)

Bear Lake Baby! (Jaqui, Michelle, Kandyce, Me, Steph)

Bear Lake again... (two psycho girls?)

Yet another bear lake pic (Me, Kandyce, Jaqui, Steph)

Lava! Woot! Yes, I'm attempting a back flip off of the platform... No, I didn't hit my face on that diving board! (Jace above, Me doing whatever that is)

Camping in central Utah... of all places? (Skeen, Nuefford, Jani, Todd, Brodford, Michelle, Shakese, Me, Margi)

Some concert in the park? Ryan Shupe I think? (Shalese, Me, Kelci, Jeni, Sara)

A Shout Out to The Ambassadors!!!!

2009-07-01T12:12:00.000-07:00

I am going to miss Ambassadors with ALL of my Heart because...

The BEST of Friends....

Constant involvement...
Scrounging for food...
Laughing until Crying...

Werewolf... (:

The Vegas Fair...
Insanely RAD Bosses...

Wednesday morning meetings in pj's with the retainer still in...

Rubber band wars... (As much as I hate em')

The retreats...
Best buds...

Leadership games... (ok, maybe a little burned out of those)

Big fat hugs...

M*A*S*H on the white board...

Awkward spiratic dance moves...

Office hours... (honestly, I admit I'll miss em')

Talking about everyones dating/love life...

The "Kissing Bell Curve"...

Analyzing relationships...

Water fights...

Counseling each other...

Campus tours...

A SUPER High Energy Group...

Orientations...

Super passionate, opinionated people...

Did I mention the lifelong friends?

Once an Ambassador always an Ambassador!!! Hats off to you WSU!!!

I'm soOOOOOOOO happy I still have a little time left there. I'll be soaking up every bit of it!!!

Adventures of Jackson!

2009-06-29T13:14:00.000-07:00

This weekend a group of friends and I went up to Jackson Hole. We were prepped with lots of sunscreen and bug spray! Of which all went to waste! What we should have been prepared with was water resistant spray, parkas, hoodies, pocket warmers, goulashes and hot cocoa. My bad, for some reason I thought it was JUNE?!?! We literally were wringing our clothes out and had to take sleeping bags to the laundromat to dry!

The best was floating the river! We started out waking up in puddles and heading down the river in a storm. I'm sure people looking down from the road above were thinking "What morons! Who would float the river in this weather?!" Well, we did and it was a BLAST! We may have all been in a state of hypothermia but it's all about the experience!

Check out http://snakeriver.elevationimaging.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?&category=677215 for the pictures we were all to cheap to buy!

Wasatch Back! Woot!

2009-06-02T11:50:00.001-07:00

'What am I doing?' Is the question that has come to my mind most often lately. I have always loved to run but when I think of going running I usually go about four miles or so. Well, the other day I was talking to a friend who works for the Sports Plex and the conversation of the Wasatch back came up. It's always been something I've wanted to do and lets just say I spoke to soon! Sure enough I was blind sided by the question of whether I wanted to run it with his team. "YEAH!" I responded, "When is it?" Brody said "Well it's coming up soon, the 19th and 20th of June!" Yikes, I now only have about two weeks to train!

I ran about 9 miles the other day and felt pretty good afterwards. I run really slow so thank goodness my team says they aren't in it to win!

All together my legs add up to be between 16 to 19 miles. Wish me luck! :)

Snake Anyone?

2009-05-30T12:47:00.000-07:00

So this memorial day was a little different for me! Typically, I stay at my parents house, sleep in, wake up and eat a good breakfast, visit graves, have a bbq at the Welch residence and then do whatever tickles my fancy.

Well this year I decided to spend the day in Ogden. My friend Ryan asked if I wanted to go for a hike seems neither of us had to work. So of course I was excited to take a break and enjoy the day!

As we started hiking neither of us really knew where we were going but knew which peak we wanted to make it to the top of. Ryan is what you could consider somewhat of a 'mountaineer' :) he's just good at life. Anyway, I say that because as we were hiking the only way up was to bolder up some cliffs. I'm not very good at this and he is! I like to think of myself as a brave little chica but while I was bouldering I had to keep saying to myself, "I'm not afraid of heights, just DON'T look down!"

Making my way up to the top of a cliff that was about 15 to 20 feet with Ryan right behind me, I was still convincing myself that I'm not afraid of heights and that it didn't bother me that if I slipped I could be seriously injured or dead :) I was reaching the top and as I pulled myself up honestly no exaggeration (which I know I tend to do) one foot away, yes, that is correct ONE FOOT away from my FACE was indeed a rattle snake!!! Calmly I came down a little bit, turned to Ryan and said "Um... there's a snake." He of course had to see it for himself. So with a little maneuvering he was able to climb up a bit and see the snake with his own eyes! "Yeah, you weren't kidding!" He said. "That's definitely a snake!"

Keep in mind we are hanging on a cliff! We can't just jump down and of course the dang snake made it so we couldn't just climb up either! We're a little stuck! At first we think maybe throwing something up there will make the snake move but thank goodness our common sense kicked in! And it occurred to us that the snake would probably strike us. The last thing I wanted other than to fall off of the cliff was to have a rattle snake latched onto my face!

We end up strategically climbing back down the cliff and making our way up a different route which included more bouldering, finding hawk eggs, walking across tracks of a very large kitty cat, catching lizards, stepping on cactus and many other surprises. We were hiking for about two more hours after our snake incident and had finally made it to the top peak. We stayed there for a bit admiring the beautiful view and the awesome weather we were blessed with then started to make our way down. We figured the figured the safest way down would be back where the snake was. (I know that seems crazy and ridiculous but it truly was the safest way down.) So, going back down the mountain we are hoping that our dear snake friend is gone. But no, he is definitely there to greet us! Ryan decided to get a big stick that was about 8 feet long and try to flick the snake off of the mountain. This was a little more tricky than it sounds. I guess for some reason he didn't want to get flicked off?! :) Finally Ryan was able to get the snake off and we were able to make the climb down.

When we got to the bottom we saw the snake looking a little mangled. We both felt bad just leaving it there to suffer so we went over to put it our of it's misery. Ryan got a big rock and with the stick he coaxed the snake into moving away from the cliff. With the stick he was able to hold down the snake. He had me take over holding the snake down. So, imagine with me... here I am doing my best to hold this rattle snake down with a stick while it is HISSING and RATTLING at me moving it's body trying to STRikE over and over while Ryan is trying to get the snake straightened out to kill it! Um... YIKES! I'm yelling "AH, hurry up! Just kill it! AH, hurry!" Finally he slams the rock on its head and kills it! Phew!

He takes a sharp rock and saws the head off while I'm holding the body down with a stick, blood and snake guts are all over and the body is still squirming! Enough to make a girl gag! We get the body propped up on a stick I fling the body to wrap it around the stick and spray blood all over Ryan. (Whoops!) Yes, we carried the snake body down the mountain and picked up some cactus for later too.

That is right friends... I would be able to survive in the wilderness! I've proven myself! We took the snake and cactus to Ryan's house and had ourselves a little memorial day bbq! Gross, revolting, disgusting... I know! We skinned and gutted our snake, plucked and peeled the cactus and grilled it all up! Lets just say I did not have much of an appetite, ESPECIALLY after we found a slimy furry mouse digesting inside the snake!

Just for the record snake is not all that great and neither is cactus!

Bloggin Again?

2009-05-30T12:36:00.000-07:00

Yes... I've decided that I will start blogging again. Why? I don't know... other than I just know many of you are dying to hear about what is going on in my life! Haha! Well, sorry if this is a let down but I'll give it a shot and see if I have anything entertaining to fill you in on!