A Whole Bunch of Amazingness...

Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Do I have things to tell you! Let's start with our amazing ward activity on Saturday night. We had a murder mystery dinner, set in a speakeasy in the 1920s. I was a gangster and Karlie was a flapper. I owned a brewery (shocking, I know) and I sold my liquor to her...it was pretty much amazing. We had a blast dressing up and playing the part...

Everyone thought that I was the killer, which was kinda fun to play up, even though it didn't end up being me. We're thinking that we're just going to keep the same costumes for Halloween next week...I mean come on, how often does a girl get the chance to wear a leopard print fedora? Exactly my point. :)

Sunday Karlie and I headed down to Pleasant Grove for Max's birthday dinner. Going home is always fun, but this weekend was especially great because not only were we celebrating Max's 14th birthday (can you believe that? 14! Wow, that makes me old...) but my dad got a new job! He's working as a paralegal at a small law office in downtown Pleasant Grove and he loves it. So there was all sorts of excitingness going on at the Mecham house.

To make the week even better, I got my test scores back for the midterms I took just before break... And for the most part it was good news....except for one class. Just so you all know, I'm not infallible, I received my first ever D+ this week. That's right, there's no typo there. But fortunately I don't have to worry about getting a bad grade in the class because I got an A on a paper in the same class and extra credit is my new best friend. :)

To end this insanely long post, I'm going to tell you all really quickly about the opportunity that Karlie and I had to clean the Salt Lake temple last night. Our ward had a cleaning assignment from 9:45 to 12...at night. We both decided to suck it up and go, figuring that at the very least we'd be happy to do some service. Well, I'm here to tell you that the Lord blesses us in ways that we never could have imagined. Not only was it neat to be able to serve in the temple and see rooms that I've never seen before, our sweet temple worker (who was from the Dominican Republic and spoke Spanish to me!) took us downstairs, underneath the temple. I was able to see and touch some of the original floor plans of the Salt Lake temple. How sweet is that?! I loved it!

Well, thanks to all who actually read this whole post...I know it was long. I hope that everyone else has all kinds of amazingness going on as well!!

The light at the end of the tunnel...

Hello friends! I am still alive! I know it's crazy to think, but I did survive midterms. As a present for finishing, I received a lovely cold. I haven't had a voice for a couple of days which meant that I had an excuse to stay in my bed and watch Grey's Anatomy for hours and drink lots and lots of tea. So all in all, it wasn't all that bad. Living at my grandma's house has its perks while being sick. I swear she cleared off an entire shelf of tea at the store, bringing me home every kind that she could possibly find. I also taught Sunday school this weekend, which I loved. And to top it all off, tomorrow kicks off my week of fall break. I work for part of it, but I also get to make sugar cookies, read, sleep and watch my new found favorite crime show, Bones. All in all, life is pretty darn great.

Midterms...Also known as the week from h-e-double hocky sticks...

Side note: Being the awful person that I am, I frequently use the word hell, but didn't know if it would be appropriate to use in the title of a blog post. I was channeling my inner TAMN.

Honestly! What a week that has been had. My lovely midterms (and the term lovely is used with extreme sarcasm) week came on the heels of a fabulous General Conference weekend. Sadly, I was jerked back to reality early Monday morning by massive amounts of reading. Not all of it was bad, there just seemed to be endless quantities of text begging for me to read it...Or to be completely honest, my professors all decided that this was the week to give the 60 page reading assignments and book reports. Not all bad, but all time consuming. Reading is one of those things that it's hard to do while multitasking. I mean, don't get me wrong, as a self proclaimed bookworm, I can walk and read, make my bed and read and even fold my laundry and read. But it's hard for me to write a paper for my American Religions class while reading about the Salem Witch Trials for my Colonial America class. And unfortunately, I have as yet not perfected my chosen superpower of photographic memory so I have to actually spend the time to carefully read my assigned sections. All of this bookwormyness did not unfortunately mean that I was necessarily studying for the actual tests that were to populate my week. But as of today I am over half-way done and I'm still alive! I might have developed carpal tunnel in my right hand from two extensive essay tests, though. Keep your eyes pealed for further developments on this front. I'm really pleased with how things seem to have gone so far. I'm not taking too much credit for it though. At the risk of being a sap, I prayed extremely hard to do well and I've been blessed so far. Anyway, to celebrate my survival thus far, I rewarded myself with a chocolate chip cookie before my next study session, which I'm off to now. I'll let you all know if I survive the rest of the week...