Fall Semester Begins!

This week was full of STUFF! Getting back into the swing of things with classes, spending time with some great friends, dealing with "grown-up" frustrations (like our internet going out 5 times in one week), and of course enjoying our time with Zoe.

This semester I'm taking ENG 351 (Detective Fiction), ENG 325 (Grammar), ENG 314 (Advanced Literary Analysis), and SPED 360 (Special Education). The classes are definitely going to be challenging, but I'm enjoying them so far! My professors are all not only very intelligent (of course) but are wonderfully sarcastic and hilarious. I don't go a class period without laughing at least once, which is just awesome. 

Jake's taking another class online, and this will probably be his last "easy" semester--for his Winter semester, he's probably going to have to take some classes on campus. Which means wearing pants (shorts are against the Honor Code at BYU-I). Jake's not too happy about the pants issue, but there are worse things, in my opinion!

Wednesday night I had a girls night at my apartment for some of the new kids up here, and it was fun! Not a lot of people could come because of the homework load this first week of classes, but it was still great to see the girls who were able to come and talk and laugh. Thursday after classes, my friend Becca came over and we watched "She's the Man", definitely a hilarious romantic comedy that I highly recommend if you haven't seen it! It never fails to make me laugh.

Friday once Jake came home from work, we relaxed for a while before heading over to some of the parties that Rexburg was having to celebrate the first weekend of the semester. It was great to have fun dancing and seeing friends!

Saturday was definitely my favorite day of this past week. My friend Janae and I got together to have pizza (which she bought, yay for friends), talk about our week, and do some service for one of our friends, Courtney. Starting out college is rough no matter what, but when you're away from home and trying to balance everything it's very overwhelming. We had fun doing something nice for Courtney that hopefully made her smile when she came home from a long day at work!

That night, we had a bunch of friends over for a game night at our apartment. We vacuumed the floor before everyone came over, and discovered that Zoe is definitely NOT a fan of the vacuum...she ended up jumping onto my back while I sat on the couch! Jake snapped a picture because he couldn't stop laughing at how ridiculous we both looked.

Having friends over for a GIANT game of Apples to Apples was so much fun! We ended up squeezing a grand total of 14 people into our teeny tiny living room, which is pretty impressive if you've seen how big the floor space is.

Before the last 3 people showed up, so only 11 of us are pictured here and it
was already a cozy group!

Sunday Jake and I went to church, and one of the speakers in sacrament meeting said something that really struck me. She talked about how when astronomy was first becoming a "thing", people believed that all the planets, including the Sun, revolved around Earth. Copernicus taught us that it's actually the Sun that is at the center of our orbit, so all of the planets revolve around it. She likened this to how our marriages should be: centered on the SON; Christ, not on worldly things. Having a Christ-centered marriage is not a new concept to me, but this analogy definitely made me rethink how I look at marriage!