La Premiere Neige

It happened.

At 2:20 Tuesday afternoon, the event that I had been dreading finally happened.

It snowed.




Tiny flakes of frozen water fell from the sky. In a flurry of excitement, my roommates (who are all from Texas, Arizona, and Virginia) and I ran to our balcony to bask in the wintry sunlight. We hooped and hollered while we danced around our balcony. "It's snowing!!" we shouted at the top of our lungs. Then we did what any snow-deprived college student would do: we stuck our tongues out.

But the frivolity was not to last. The snow was over in ten minutes. Hesitantly, we headed back inside, but we all knew we would forever remember this moment: our first snow.



Welcome to Utah.

Group Pictures

Here are some pictures from the guard picture shoot last Thursday. When I get the professional pictures in I will post those too. But for now, I can only show you what my little camera can offer. Enjoy!

Rosa peeking around the cougar,
spying on the other guard girls

Big Sister, Little Sister pair:
Sarah Bethany and Elicia 

Elicia Merwin

Liz, my fellow redhead

My big sister Rosa and I

What are you doing to me?

Guard, GuArD, GUARD!!!

So last Saturday was the Homecoming Game!! The band performed our new show, the hits of Frank Sinatra. It went well, except for the Lucky Lady section which we had learned the day before.

Then Tuesday night was the Rocky Mountain Invitational. High school bands from Utah and Idaho came to show off their stuff. And as a treat for these hardworking adolescents, the Cougar Marching Band performed!!

Now we have the rest of the week off. That means six hours of free time. My guard pal Allison and I decided that we are going to cure cancer with all of our free time. Wish us luck!

Band Field Trip



Caitlin, Rosa, Rachel, Jenny, and Sarah

Usually, when I tell people I am on BYU's Colorguard they ask if I get to travel to away games. Sadly, no, except for two. The first was the Utah State vs BYU game in Logan, UT. So what does that mean? Field Trip!!!

So on Friday afternoon, all the guardgirls loaded onto a charter bus and headed to Logan, a two and a half hour drive. So what do guardgirls do when we are stuck on a bus? Talk about boys. And watch awesome movies. And enjoy the orange and red covered trees as we pass by them.  At last, we made it to Logan.

Since we were the visiting team, the band did not have to do pregame which was nice. Instead we watched the Aggie Band do their thing from the very top of the stadium. Then, the really bad football began. I don't know what is up with BYU... Well, I do. It's their freshman quarterback. But Cougar football is just doing terribly this year. I don't think we will make it to a bowl game, which is fine with me. That means I can go home for Christmas!!!



Allison and I after the game



So after an hour of embarrassing football, the Cougar Band made our way down to the field to show that the Y can produce amazing things. While we were down there, one of the drunk guys in the crowd started shouting to the colorguard, telling us to transfer to Utah State. He kept on saying that we were the hottest colorguard he'd ever seen. The guard was cracking up. But finally he was quieted when the show began. Our show was short for that game, only 90 seconds long. But it went well. Then, the guard hustled around the field and unrolled the American Flag.

The bad football continued after half-time, but the girls didn't care. We were having too much fun in the stands. We sang songs, talked, and ate apples from the Aggie Band. Finally, the game was over so we loaded back onto the bus and headed back to Provo.


Yay for colorguard!!!



Conference- LIVE

Living in Utah has it's benefits.

One such benefit is that I actually got to go the conference center in Salt Lake City to see the Saturday Afternoon Session of the 180th General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Yeah, I was there! My dad and brother got tickets back at home and were going to come to Utah, but they postponed the trip for a week, meaning those tickets went to me. So I grabbed my cousin, Janet, and went.

Luckily, the traffic wasn't too bad. It was a little scary at times though. Especially as we approached the parking garage. Sometimes we just had to vent out our frustration, as you can see in this picture. But we eventually found a spot and made the mad dash to the conference center so Janet and I could be there by 1:30.

Conference was amazing!!! I really enjoyed the talks that were given at that session. Robert D Hales's talk was interesting since he had given a similar talk three weeks before at BYU. I was bummed that Bednar did not speak at that conference. He is my favorite apostle. But Neil L. Anderson did, and he is my second favorite apostle.

Afterwards, Janet and I roamed around Temple Square and the Church Office Building taking pictures with my camera. It was a great afternoon.

RHA

Residential Hall Association-- the student council of on-campus housing.

The Heritage RHA council had our first program last night. Our theme was "You Are What You Eat". The program had dietetic students teach about nutrition followed by free healthy food and cookbooks. The council was worried. We wanted our first program to go well, but there was a definite sliver of fear that no one would show up. So I told myself, "If there are thirty people here, I will be happy." There was no need to fear. 180 people showed up to the event! We had to back up the food table so we could fit more chairs into the Heritage Halls Central Building. It was a success!!! If anyone wants to look at the recipes we gathered from the event, look at the RHA website at http://housing.byu.edu/rha/.

Thanks to everyone who came and also to our dietetic students who took time out of their busy lives to teach us about nutrition. Thank you!!!