Monday, September 17, 2012

Off To College

Hello everyone! I am doing great, and I love being here at BYU-Idaho! The campus is absolutely beautiful, and I have some really nice roommates. All six of us are freshmen, and hopefully we become good friends by the end of the semester. I have actually been here for over a week, but what a crazy week it was! So many classes and so much homework to keep track of, I have been working hard to keep up on it so I do not fall behind. Sometimes there is so much information to take in and my brain feels stuffed, and sometimes I'll stare at my reading (math especially) at not understand a word of it. I am enjoying my classes though, and I like the teachers that I have.
It it so strange though to have a prayer at the beginning of class, as well as church principles taught alongside academic information. The Spirit of the Lord is here, and it is a wonderful thing. I hope that by being here I can become more spiritual and a better person.
How is it back home? I love being here, but there is a huge difference between Home and my apartment, and I wonder how my family is doing. And, I keep forgetting to call them, oops (I'll do better I promise!). I miss you all, and I hope you are all doing well!

My Bed: It's so yellow!

The shelf with my stuff on it, my roommates made a comment on how many books I had. What are they talking about? This isn't even 10% of all the books I own!

The living room: the couches are quite comfy, and that's a stack of my homework on the table.

The kitchen (while clean): on the far left there are some flowers my dad got me, if you can see the leaves poking out.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Family Camp 2012

Family Camp was this last week. So much fun, especially with all the new family members! =)
I have to say that Family Camp is one of my favorite annual family traditions, where we all get together, discuss life over s'mores, and enjoy the company of cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents. It is also one of the few camping trips I don't mind going to, because there is always something fun to do.
The whole family in stick figure form

A sign example: each tent area for each family had one

Hey look! it's me! =)
I intend to put up the skits that I recorded, but they're really dark, so I shall have to fiddle with them.

Friday, June 1, 2012

Yay Graduation!

So I graduated today, making me an official high school graduate with diploma and everything. =) It was pretty fun, and went by so fast, though I'm pretty sure it was a lot longer for the audience than us graduates down in the middle of the stadium. It was so fun coming out of the tunnel, and seeing my parents, aunt Alison, and cousin Amy right there! I took pictures beforehand, because we had to turn in our gowns to get our diploma, so here they are.





See the cute little hat in my hand? It's a small chocolate covered in red paper to look like a graduation cap.
It's so cute! My friend gave them to people for graduation.

Monday, May 14, 2012

AP Art - Concentration

The second part of my AP Art portfolio, which is focused on a single idea. Mine was a story told by means of graphic novel, and I used my Prismacolors and ballpoint pen. There are a total of 12 images/pages:


 





Saturday, May 12, 2012

AP Art - Breadth

My Breadth pieces from my AP art class. This is half of my art portfolio I turned into for the AP Art Test. It is the part of the portfolio filled with as much random stuff as possible. Sorry, it's a long post, with 13 images total:

Island Turtle
Water color
 Box Demon
Pencil and Colored pencil
 Space Whales
Acrylic paint, Prismacolor (a type of oily colored pencil), ink
 Onion
Prismacolor, ink
 Dragon
Linoleum Print (carved from a tile then pressed on rice paper with ink)
 Tools
Ballpoint Pen
 Color Wheel Chameleon
Colored Pencil
 Dragon Tesselation
Colored Pencil, Prismacolor
 Fish
Pencil
 Masked Lady
Colored Pencil
 Analogous Dragon
Prismacolor, Watercolor
 Chameleon
Oil Pastel
 Candy Machine
Fine-Tipped Marker