A much needed weekend!

This weekend was a very needed weekend! And a great one at that! So much happened that I cant say it all or I would majorly bore you to death! This still might even be too long and you may or may not lose focus and just stop reading all together :) Well .. . here it goes.

Me and my roommates had decided after getting back from Christmas break that we would go to my home town Presidents Day weekend, for one because thats halfway through the semester and a break would be needed, and two Rex had gotten home from his mission and I really wanted to see him :)

So we left Friday morning on our 8 1/2 hour trek to Happy Holbrook! The whole way home we sang songs, never repeating a single one! Lets just say by the time we got there, our throats hurt just a little. .. :) But hey, it was fun :)

As soon as we unloaded my car, me, my roommates, and my parents went out to each at El Rancho (You have to have mexican food when you go home, because lets face it, Utah does not have real mexican food). So we ate some yummy food and had some fried ice cream to top it off! Rex texted me when we were almost done, and the plan was to pick him up when he got home, little did I know that I wasn't really going to be picking him up..

So I go home to brush my teeth and get my car to go pick up Rex, but when I start walking around to the  side, someone popped out and screamed! It scared the crap out of me and I yelled! It ended up being Rex so it was ok :) We hugged and it was good, but I was very close to hitting him before I found out it was him.

Man this is going to be a long post . . . Oh well! :)

So that night we hung out and played basketball at the church! It was there when I once again realized that I am not good at basketball. I would just grab people so they couldn't shoot.  And I am pretty sure I only made maybe like 4 shots. But thats ok because it was fun. We then returned to my house and played with quarters, and watched 17 Miracles (a great movie that all should watch).

Saturday morning we met up at Rex's barn to go ride horses. I learned how to sattle a horse and all of that good stuff. His dad gave me his favorite horse, babe, and that made me feel special. We ended up riding for around 5 miles which was a lot of fun and the weather couldn't have been more perfect! It was sad when it came to an end though, because that meant I would have to say goodbye.

I have learned since going to college that I do not particularly like "goodbyes". They are just sad and not cool! I always have to remind myself that its not for forever and I will see them again, even if its not as soon as I would like it to be. But its sad and hard non the less. So me and Rex said our goodbye and left.

To sum up the rest of the weekend, we got Dairy Queen, sat on my roof looking at stars, went to church, went and looked at the Snowflake temple, and just hung out. It was a great weekend that I didn't want to come to an end!

But the lesson learned from this trip is that friends and family make everything seem great! When you are with them, nothing seems to matter. You can be yourself around them and just have a good time. But leaving is never easy. One might think that eventually you would get to the point that leaving and saying your goodbye's would get easier the longer you have been away, but this is not the case for me. Even when being away from home for almost a year now, I still get emotional when it comes time to leave. I just have to remind myself that I will get to spend eternity with them so this is just a small moment in time. I can do this!

PS. Pictures will come soon :)