The Last Long Weekend..

Not gonna lie, this past weekend was hands down one of the best I've had in a long time. Unfortunately I didn't get much homework done or get enough sleep.. but I'm pretty sure it was all worth it. :)

• Friday night I went with Darin to assist in getting Natalie a Build-A-Bear for Valentine's day. It was seriously the cutest thing ever!! He got her a monkey and dressed it up like him and even recorded his voice to put inside. A-dorable. It was fun to get to help show him all the ropes and see him have such a great time putting it all together for Nat! Then I went with Dallin to an awesome Faculty Recital. His uncle is an AMAZING pianist and was accompanying a faulty tenor. It was pretty darn amazing! I had a great time and really think I should try and go to more musical stuff! I love it. Then we got ice cream at the Creamery and skipped home singing musicals :) Yup, it was great.

• Saturday I worked for 8 hours, but it wasn't all that bad. We were pretty busy because of Valentine's Day, but I had a blast as usual! Then I had many fun adventures with my dear friend Holli! We stopped by Smith's and got some groceries, and then we came home and caught up on life. I don't like that we never get to see each other... Sometimes I think it really stinks that we're both managers.. and thus hardly ever at work at the same time. Sad. Anyway! We sat and caught up on each others' lives. Eventually some of my roommates came home and we talked with them for awhile. Then some girls beneath us had a pinata and so we all went down about midnight and had a pretty good time playing baseball with the poor chicken's head. Hahaha. . . Holli and I made a gazillion (I kid you not..) cookies. I realized half-way through putting the ingredients together that I usually half the recipe. So, we just stayed up and made all the cookies. Eventually (about 4 am..) I took her home. :) Can I just say how thankful I am for Holli Klare Smith!? I love my friends so darn much. God really does bless us with angels all around us, and I have no doubt that my friends are my angels.

• Sunday was church (and Valentine's day) which was awesome. My roommates and I had dinner with a bunch of our guy friends in the ward and they gave us each a pretty rose :) How sweet, right? Then my friend Drew and I made chocolate eclair cake. Uh-mazing. Luckily there was still some left today, which I thoroughly enjoyed. But seriously. I'll have to post the recipe later, cuz this stuff is like heaven in food form. And yes, I know I'm slightly biased, but don't lie - you know you want some.

• Monday, Tasch and I worked on our presentation for our History of Math class. We have to teach for half of the class on Friday about the history of the quadratic formula. It's actually pretty awesome if you ask me. *Warning, I'm about to get pretty nerdy. Don't judge. So back in the day, and I mean like... BC times.. they didn't use mathematical symbols to write out expressions, they just wrote them out with words. And so, they didn't solve equations algebraically as we do now, they would solve them geometrically. So, this awesome Arab, whose name escapes me, probably because I couldn't pronounce it if I tried.. came up with a method for solving for x which pretty much is the same as the quadratic formula - just without considering negative numbers! Pretty awesome if you ask me, but then again, I'm weird.* Anyway, so then I came home and hung out for little while before I had to go to work again.

So, overall there are two things I've learned - long weekends are amazing, and BYU is dumb for not giving us any more this semester. Seriously. Now begins the long haul until the end of April.

Honestly though, I had so many great talks with friends this weekend. That's what I like about life - the talking and listening and learning about other people, because that's what life is all about. Our relationships are what matter most. There's just something about reminiscing about childhood, learning someone's favorite things, lending an ear and a shoulder, knowing someone cares - that makes all the trials in life somehow seem easier to bear. I'm going to try harder to show those around me how much they mean to me, because I think sometimes we forget how blessed we are - I know I sometimes do. I love my friends and family more than anything.

I'm grateful for the most amazing friends - new and old. Don't get jealous, but I have the best ones ever.