Blog Be Gone?

So since Brittney gets to complain about nobody commenting on her blog...I want to complain a little too. I was thinking about just getting rid of my blog because I don't really think anyone reads it anyway...if I do delete it I will probably start a photography blog instead. Not that anyone would look at that blog either. So if you want me to keep updating this blog, tell me. If I don't get any response...well...I know that at least my Heavenly Father loves me.

Silver Creek

I got home Thursday night, got one night's sleep in my own bed, and then we went camping with Loren and Ann's family. It was fun, but I'm glad to be back home again.

Happy Homemaker

For some odd reason I've been having the urge to cook a lot lately. Weird. So on Sunday I attempted some of Mama Hartley's glorious bread dough. The process was grueling since I didn't have a mixer and/or more than two feet of counter space. I started the dough at 9am and everything was finally done at 5pm. Seriously an ALL day activity. The result was amazing though. I made rolls and then a few cinnamon rolls and I think I might have done better than mom. I don't know, we will have to have a bread bake-off. Winner gets a tropical vacation? Yeah?



So in order to complete all of the rolls I had to come home from church after Sacrament meeting...and did I go back? Uhh...well Maria and I decided to go to the gardens on campus and take a few photos. It was fun to practice my photography. Here are a few of the good ones.




I have two days left of the semester! Woo hoo! I finished my last project yesterday and I have only one final which is tomorrow. I probably have one of the easiest finals week ever. I will be home in Nampa on Thursday night and I have seven weeks off before the fall semester. Can't wait to see everyone!

The Soundtrack of My Summer

Summer semester is coming to an end. How do I feel about it? I have no idea. My thoughts are as follows:

Excited to go home and spend time camping, rafting, and four-wheeling with family
Sad to be leaving Rexburg and my roommates
Excited for some of my classes like Stats and Communications to be over
Sad to be done with my fun classes like Canoeing
Excited to go back to work and get a tan
Sad to leave my free and crazy college life
Excited to eat for free for seven weeks
Sad to leave my college ward
Excited to spend time with my singles ward in Nampa
Sad to have to get new roommates in the Fall
Excited to do some training at the Rec for the triathlon and soccer

But these last two weeks are pretty much crazy with finals, projects, packing, cleaning, etc. So Once I get home I will post some pictures of my summer adventures.

Memorial Day Weekend

So I wasn't planning on going home for the holiday weekend because I had a backpacking trip on Friday night and then my roommates and I were going to plan something fun to do in Rexburg. I wanted to go home, but I wanted to hang out with my roommates too. So the solution: bring my roommates home to Nampa with me. We had so much fun! I had to show those city girls what Idaho is really all about. They got a big taste of country that weekend!

Fourwheeling in the Owyhees.

Shooting clay ducks at Grandpa's.

Horseback riding at Jeff and Cindy's. Thanks again!

A little pistol shooting after fourwheeling.
We also roasted marshmallows, played with the dogs, BBQ'd hamburgers, and of course played cards with Chad and Britt. Mom loved my roommates and wants us to come back for Father's Day. Life is an adventure!

Livin' the Dream

I love my major. We went on two backpacking trips for my Basic Skills class and I had a blast!


Filtering water. This is probably the hardest I have ever worked for a bottle of water. Ridiculous.

I found a friend! This butterfly stayed on my arm for like 20 minutes.

High class camping: instant cheescake, ziploc bag, and a friend to share it with.

Oh I love this big heavy thing on my back!


We saw a moose! We were really close.

Cowboy Boots

So every week there is country dancing, swing dancing, and latin dancing here at BYU-Idaho. I never thought I would go. Ha. I've been to country dancing three times, swing dancing twice, and I just got back from latin tonight. Granted, I still can't dance, never could. But I still have fun "trying" to dance and the boys are pretty patient with "newbies" for the most part. Also, I have been having a blast with school and everything here in the Burg. My roommate, Angela, is so awesome. We get along so well and she inspires me to be a better person. I really love all of my roommates: Angela, Maria, Amber, Lauren, and Ashley. They are so wonderful and I have had so much fun with them!


Angela and I before country dancing. We had to break out the boots of course.
Boots.



Love her.One last comment...I have to vent a little. Tuesday I was sitting in my communications class, the teacher hands out some slide notes and gives some instructions. I didn't think her instructions were very clear, so I turned around to whisper to the girl behind me to find out what we were supposed to do. Before I could even finish my question the teacher butts in and says, "Excuse me, could you please move?" Uh...ok. FLASHBACK TO HIGH SCHOOL!!! I seriously got MOVED in class at a UNIVERSITY! I was pretty furious. Not only was I mad because I was humiliated in front of the entire class, but what teacher doesn't like Heidi Hartley? I was teacher's pet in high school! Luckily, I was able to keep my cool and let's just say I am not too fond of that teacher anymore. Other than that...my classes are going fantastic! I'm leaving for a camping trip for my Basic Skills class tomorrow. We are going to Wolverine Canyon, backpacking a mile or two into our camp, staying overnight, and coming home Saturday morning. Backpacking is a whole new world of camping for me! Never done it before, but I'm excited.

It's a long one...

I've attempted to update my blog at least like five times now. But either my internet kicked me off (thanks to Hotsite Networks...the company Tyler works for...cough cough) or I realized that the update would have to be pretty long and I decided I should probably do some homework instead. So, now that I have finished my first two weeks of the semester, I decided it was time to sit down and do some typing. So sorry for the long blog.

First weekend/move-in: I arrive to Rexburg, check in to my apartment and start moving all of my junk in. I had originally signed up for a four-person apartment (2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom). So I unload my car and I even meet my roommate. As I am unpacking, I just don't feel right. I have no clue why but I didn't like the apartment and something just felt different. So a few hours later, I go to my manager, Stephanie (who used to be Kimi's old roommate) and I was going to ask her if in case I didn't like my apartment for the first week if it were possible to move. Don't get me wrong, I was going to try things out...but something just wasn't right. Stephanie asked if I just wanted to move right then and there. So I did it. I moved into a six-person apartment (3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms). I am still in the same apartment complex but the six-person ones have recently been remodeled. For those Ricks alumni out there, I am currently in the old boys' Breckenridge apartment. They remodeled them and made them girls' apartments. They are now called The Cedars.

First week of classes: So I had this super cool scheme to surprise Mom and Dad this semester. I enrolled in the University Orchestra and then I was going to send them tickets to my concert in the mail and make them come to Rexburg to see me play. Everything was going pretty well, I had Mom fooled for a while. But seeing as I haven't played in an orchestral setting for like three years, I was a little rusty, and a bit out of my league at the BYU-Idaho University Orchestra. So, when you are enrolled in the orchestra, you get the opportunity to also enroll in private violin lessons. The cost was $190 for the semester, but I thought it was worth it at the time. I was introduced to my violin teacher and as I was talking to her she asked if I wanted to have a lesson right then. Uh...ok. I have the lesson, learn a few things, and then go home. I was scared out of my mind! The orchestra already required 2 hours of practice a week, no big deal. But my lessons required 6 hours of practice a week, NOT including the 2 hours for orchestra or the time spent at lessons or orchestra rehearsal. So I would be putting 10 hours a week, 200 buckaroos, and a total of 18 credits for the semester into this grand surprise I was planning for my parents. Needless to say, I dropped both the orchestra and the lessons the next day. The classes I am currently enrolled in are: Professional Communications, Book of Mormon (2nd half), Science Statistics, Leisure in Society, Basic Skills (learning how to camp!), canoeing, and weight training. Total of 15 credits.

Weekend: My best friend Kirra got married on Friday April 24, 2009 in the Boise temple. I drove home Friday after class so I could go to her reception. She was beautiful and the reception was nice. I haven't received the photos of us at the reception yet, but here is one of there pictures from the temple.
Also that evening I went to Christine Cordoza's wedding reception. Lots of weddings!
And after all of the weddings, I went to the Institute fake Prom with a bunch of my friends. It was kind of fun to get all dressed up again.

Finally, this last weekend I traveled to Logan for Aubrey's graduation. I'm so proud of her! It was so good to spend some time with Tyler and Aubrey. We had some yummy pizza at Firestone.

Also...today there was a CES young adult fireside being broadcast from BYU-Idaho with Elder Bednar as the speaker. Somehow, I got a seat in the second row, down in front. I was about 20 feet away from Elder Bednar! It was amazing! Of course it would be completely inappropriate and disrespectful to take a picture at the fireside...but here is one from the internet.
This concludes my never-ending blog. Things are going really well. I really like my roommates and I am loving my classes.

Birthday!

I am 19! Weird. I still feel like I am 16. So I actually had to work on my birthday. Bummer. But it was kind of my fault because I didn't turn in my request for days off on time. Oops. However, I had the day before my birthday (Thursday) and the day after (Saturday) completely off. So basically we celebrated all three days. Here is an itinerary of what we did:

Thursday: Mom and I went to lunch at Olive Garden. (My favorite!) And then we did a little shopping for some school clothes! I have to say, it is kind of weird to be school clothes shopping in April. Then that night I went to Shari's at midnight for some pie with friends! (It was free since it was technically my birthday according to the clock.)

Friday: I worked from 9am to 5pm and then some friends and I were going to go to the Professional Bull Riding at the Idaho Center. Unfortunately, all of the cheap tickets were sold out and we would have had to spend $31 for seats. So we went to the Institute activity for a little bit and then went to Applebee's for half price drinks and appetizers. And of course we took advantage of my birthday and got some free ice cream.

Saturday: Dad and Mom took me and some friends snowmobiling in Cascade. (See previous post for picture.) I also have to add that I rolled the snowmobile twice and we all got stuck at least once during the trip. The snow was really heavy, but it was good to get out in the sun.

Sorry I don't have many pictures, I kept forgetting to take my camera places, which is weird because I am the one who is always taking pictures.

Billy Madison

As Billy Madison would sing it..."back to school, back to school, to prove to daddy I'm not a fool." It's almost time for me to head back to Rexburg for the summer semester. Classes start in two weeks! So I thought I would do a post to kind of sum up my winter. I've been working full time at the Rec Center and I'm pretty burned out. I'm definitely ready for a break from lifeguarding. I also learned how to snowboard this winter...well...I know HOW to snowboard. I can't say I am very good at it though. I'm getting pretty good on the bunny hill. Unfortunately, we never got any pictures of me snowboarding because I was too afraid of crushing my camera since I fell. A lot. Other than that, most of my spare time is spent working out at the gym and hanging out with some friends from the singles ward.

A few weeks ago I took a quick trip down to Provo for my best friend Kirra's bridal shower. She is getting married April 24 in the Boise temple. So I will go to Rexburg for my first week of classes and then be home for the weekend. It's like I never leave.


Shopping for wedding shoes in the Provo mall.

After the bridal shower, her fiance was headed over so we pinned her down on the couch...


...so we could do this!

So even though it is Spring, there has been some good snow. So we decided to take advantage of the snow and sunshine and go snowmobiling...instead of watching conference on Saturday. Oops.