Boise!!

Well first of all friends let me inform you that there are only FIVE AND A HALF weeks of school left! Hooray! :D But Emily and I decided that we needed a mid-semester break. SO we went to her home and it was SOO fun! We rode with Emily's grandparents who are absolutely adorable and they wanted to leave Thursday, so we got there at around 5, played football with the boys, had dinner, just played around! We did a lot of that this weekend. Friday was our redeeming day. We got up and went with Chele to a Yoga class at 10 and then Emily, Chele, and I went on a 3 mile run later that day! It was such beautiful weather! Let me share with you a few other highlights from the trip...

1. Miss Tammy's Tea Cottage

This was THE cutest restaurant I have ever been to. Before you go into the restaurant there is a little store that has antique type things but then surprise surprise the store continues throughout the whole "house" in the rooms you eat in! So this is Sarah, Aubrey, Emily, and I dressing up in the fun things as we waited for our food. (Chele, Grandma and Grandpa Smith were also there!) Now the food oh my goodness I got a sandwich called the Monte Cristo that is a ham turkey and swiss cheese sandwich fried with powdered sugar on top... yes it was fattening and YES it was so delicious!!

2. Sarah's Junior Miss Pageant!!

This was the main reason Emily and I went to Boise, because Sarah was in the Boise city Junior Miss pageant! For those of you who don't know, it's a scholarship program! So on Saturday night she got all dolled up and performed an exercise routine with all the other girls, performed a yoga routine as her talent (and can I just say that it was the most unique and best talent out of them all!) and ended by answering a question given to her by the judges (again her answer was the best... it was one of the few answers that was actually well thought through :)) Sarah really did an amazing job! There were so many people there to support her too! Her OLD neighbor was there, (on the left in the picture of Sarah, Emily, and I) her young woman leaders were there, her friends were there, and of course we were there! :) She did a fantastic job!!

3. Story Time!!

Sunday after church Sarah, Emily, Carsen, Aubrey, and I collapsed on Sarah's bed and started reading picture books to eachother. haha it was so fun! BUT not only this kind of story time, all weekend was so fun because we just sat around talking and remembering old memories that we've had together. (and not to mention all of the stories grandpa Howell told when Emily and I went to visit him on Sunday... :D ) Here is one of my favorite stories from the weekend captured on film.

Bliss!!

Bliss! Really life is bliss. This semester has been absolutely crazy!! Work, school, church callings, playing with friends, homework LIFE IS CRAZY BUSY!! But it's amazing!! We have been doing so many fun things this semester from horses to dances to hanging out at the apartment! The picture with the horses is me Russ and Liz. Russ was the nice man who had his horses and a carriage at I-night (the night before the semester started, it's a huge party!) so we went on a carriage ride and Liz and I asked if we could sit up front with him. He not only let us sit in front but also let us drive the carriage around Rexburg! Oh man it was quite the experience. Even better though, as we were going back into the parking lot by the Hart (which is slightly on a hill) and Belle, one of the horses, slipped and fell and the carriage started to roll down the hill and was about to hit a car! So all the boys jumped off and stopped the carriage and pushed it back up the hill where Russ untied the other horse so he could help Belle up, so he had Liz and I take both the horses to across the parking lot so he could get the carriage all situated and everything... we were quite the helpers :D haha it was a great adventure!!

This was one of the many dances I mentioned. This was an 80s themed dance and it was SO fun!! This is Lauren, Megan, Emily, and me. (my roommates!!) There's something about dressing up absolutely crazy in 80s clothing that makes you just want to dance! So uh ya... that's what we did. :) I'm not gonna lie we are pretty crazy. Just take a look at the video I uploaded. I was sick on Tuesday and Emily came in with a bowl of muddy buddies and we just.... played!! I was on my bed and she was just laying up against it while standing on a chair the whole time. hahaha you'll see. :) Anyways this semester has been so great. My roommates and I get along so well. We make lots of goals together, clean together, play together, read scriptures together... just like I said, it's bliss. :D

Birthday Wish List. :)

My mom keeps asking me what I want for my birthday SO here goes! Janna Lynn Mills's birthday wish list for 2008!!

Cute it's just a baby picture. :) But really I just need hairspray so... la la la hairspray is on the list! I don't even know how much hairspray is... $3? $8? $20?


I love me some jewelry. :D This necklace is from the Nordstrom Dogeared Boxed Sentimental Pendant Necklace collection and this is the necklace for Karma. It's a little pricey ma but... you get the drift. You know I love jewelry and even though you think I have more than enough... I don't!

Pura Lopez 'N604' Pump
Nordstrom $370.00

Aren't they fantastic? Oh I just they they are adorable! And I LOVE the color! They are definitely a wardrobe must. :)

On Sunday we had stake conference. Emily brought her sudoku book and during one of the songs she explained how to play and then let me do one of the puzzles from her book. Well to say the least I'm addicted. I think I've done half the puzzles in her book in the past two days! haha

1. Miz Mooz 'Kent' Boot

Nordstrom $179.95

BUT I want them in black. I've been wanting black boots for a while now! I have brown and pink cowboy boots but I need me some black boots! And p.s. as I was looking on Nordstrom online at boots I saw the most beautiful pair of boots I have ever seen in my whole entire life and don't worry they were $1,100.00!! SHEESH!

And last but certainly not least a CAR! :D any car really. The flintstone "car" would even work at this point! haha I am in desperate need. Oh well.

WELL I hope this list has helped you mother and anyone else that would like to spend thousands and thousands of dollars on the most joyous day of the year (November 8th ;))

Mom... I'm sorry!

Ok Mom you can stop calling me everyday and telling me to blog, here I go!! ;) The past two weeks have been amazing! Why you ask? Because A. I got to go home to wonderful, beautiful, magical UTAH! :D B. Because my mama and Kate and Penny came to visit me for mothers weekend! Yay for family! The night before we left Alexa and I were SOOO excited, SOO hyper and we had to make cupcakes for enrichment and... ya we took some great pictures. This is the least embarassing of the bunch so... that's what ya'll get to see. :D Anywho We got in on Thursday night and the best mom in the world (mine of course) had made me meatloaf, (MA! The meatloaf!!) home-made mashed potatoes, and her delicious peach cobbler! :D Oh my heck had I missed real, edible food! haha Oh and Kate made me that orange thing on my head. That is just a picture to explain the craziness that goes on in our household. A very small part of the craziness. haha For more craziness look at Shannon and Jason's blog about Sunday and the gift I sent home to Tanner... hahaha :D So then Friday I went to breakfast ERNIES with some friends and then I went and checked out Kate and Penny from school and the fam went to Salt Lake to eat at the Lion House for Shan's birthday and just walked around temple square and went shopping at the gateway. It was SOO fun! Minus Jason had to go to his class/internship thing :( boo. But lunch was delicious and shopping was great! So then we got home and I went to Jana's apartment and we honestly had a blast from the past weekend! I got there and her sister and her were singing karaoke so we sang for a few hours and then went with her mom and sister to the BYU hockey game (her dad is the coach and her brother is the star of the team... haha) and it was SO fun! I told them a joke and her mom just started laughing and laughing and said "Oh Janna Millos (when we were little her little sister always called me Janna Millos so it has just stuck for them!) you have not changed a bit since second grade" haha what can I say I always have been and will always be a dork... I'm ok with that!! So Saturday was just as great because guess who performed at the velour. JOHN ALLRED! Oh man... it was the most amazing concert. Before we all went to brick oven (of course ;)) and then went to the concert. Afterwards I left to go home with Chambrey and Courtney and oh don't worry 2 minutes after we left Marissa Whitney and Alexa got a freakin PICTURE WITH JOHN ALLRED! ugh. stupid. haha but that's ok but the concert was still amazing right? I'll keep telling myself that. So I got home and Kate Penny and I did a little pampering. :D That's what this picture is, deep sea facial masks. (No we are not trying to be Elpheba.) And then the moment I had been waiting for for a month... sleeping in my bed. :D Don't worry it was just as fantastic as I had imagined. The best part about it? I didn't have to climb up a stupid latter to the top bunk to get to my bed! Sheesh. So Sunday between session which by the way... the most amazing conference ever! Holy cow! Every single session, every single talk was amazing! But in between sessions we took a walk up the canyon. Holy cow was it fantastic! Just beautiful fall colors and it was the perfect temperature. :) I love fall. So then it was back to Rexburg we came. But last week was a good good week! Friday our friends from Orem came up with their 4 wheelers. So Friday after classes they took Alexa and I to the St. Anthony sand dunes and we went riding! It was SO fun but SOOOOOOOOO cold. My goodness it was cold. That's ok though we got to ride! The next day.. MY FAMILY CAME!! la la la! :) It was so great. Friday night we all went out to eat at Gringo's and then just drove around town, went and saw the temple and then came back and watched episodes of Full House all night. :) Saturday we spent some time at the bookstore (Emily and I found some amazing hats) and then we went to the Comic Frenzy, a comedy show like Comedy Sportz in Provo and it was HILARIOUS! oh man so fun. Afterwards we took Emily to Papa Murphy's for her first day of work at the Rexburg Murphs and then we went into Idaho Falls! We did a little shopping, went to Olive Garden, and then went swimming at our hotel and then we found this cute old movie on tv. At about 4:30 in the morning the friends that came up to ride had to leave to get home by 10 (Travis had to take his grandpa to the airport) and I woke up to texts from Marissa saying the roads were absolutely awful. Yikes. Alexa was sleeping at the hotel with all of them and since they all left to go home she was alone and she called me around 5:30 asking if I would go over and sleep there so she didn't have to be alone. It took me about 20 minutes to get all the snow off the car just so I could drive 3 blocks to the hotel she was at... oh well what else could I do... walk?! ... :D haha so this is a picture I took from inside my moms car when I finally got enough snow off so I could drive. LOOK AT THOSE OTHER CARS! :D But I'm so glad I did because the view of the Idaho Falls temple from their hotel was beautiful! ready? Anyways we drove back to Rexburg and mom and the girls were going to leave right away but they stayed and talked for another hour or so, of course. But good news, the snow cleared up and they got home safely! I was sad to see them go but oh man mothers weekend was so great! :) This picture is Penny, me, Aunt Chele, cousin Emily (the best roomate EVER! :D) Kate, and Mom! :D Now let's just hope this week will be as good as the last two weeks have been.... :)

airborne... yuck

It's getting cold here in Rexburg, Idaho so naturally people are getting sick. To prevent our cute little bodies from getting sick Emily and I have been taking airborne and it is GROSS!! Oh I hate it with all my heart. Emily has to sit there and talk me into taking it for about 5 minutes before I actually drink it. Even then we plug our noses because... yuck. The things we do for our bodies. SHEESH!

I went with Alexa on Tuesday to get her hair done and on our way home we found the cutest little cafe. A cupcake cafe!! They have the biggest most delicious cupcakes ever! And there are like 50 different flavors! They also have drinks like at starbucks! Overall it's just the greatest place in Rexburg (minus the temple) Since finding it on Tuesday we have been there... five times. :) Come visit me and I'll take you there for sure!

SO! Thursday was Courtney's birthday so I talked to her boyfriend and he told her they were "going to the zoo" for her birthday so Thursday morning they got in the car and started driving towards Salt Lake and just keep coming to see me in Rexburg!! woohoo!! So the night before Alexa and I decorated the living room for her with hearts and... goodness!

When Court and Ben got here and went to I.F. to go SHOPPING!! We were seriously freaking out haha (embarassing i know) don't worry thought I didn't find anything... boo. But I found an adorable skirt for Court at Old Navy that was on SAAALE! :D Oh man I cannot wait to come home and go to Planted Earth and Nordstrom and the shops at Gardner Village. YAY FOR SHOPPING WITH MOM!! :)

THIS PICTURE IS FOR PENNY ELAINE MILLS! :D Pen I saw this bug at the mall in idaho falls and I thought of you! Too bad it's not pink. :)

Instead of a birthday cake we went ahead and went to the cupcake cafe for Court's birthday. :) Here are our delish cupcakes. I got red velvet, Lex go Madagascar Vanilla Vanilla, and Court got Better than Whatever. YUM!

By the way we had such great adventures with Courtney and Ben. :) On our way back from i.f. we sure did get pulled over and the highway patrolmen have these crazy hick town hats! Oh man this place is so great. :D

Alexa, Courtney, and Janna. :)

Random Pictures from the week:

A clean kitchen!! There are always people in and out of our place and people always just make a mess in our house so it's NEVER clean! But today we got a few hours and just clean clean cleaned and... it's clean!! :D (notice how there are no dishes on the counter or in the sink, no trash in the garbage can... :D)

Tanner: Another reason you should come to BYU-I!! :D

On Friday night I went to THE BEST concert EVER! In Rexburg?! you ask. YA! I know right? It was Allred, The Summer Set, and We Shot the Moon. It was at the Westwood theater on main street. P.S. Allred is coming to Provo next week... I'm gonna go then too! :D

Another one of our favorite places: Snoasis! :D Just a snowcone shack but it's so so yummy! Ice cream at the bottom and cream on top! The last day for the season was yesterday. :( Now we just have to wait for the REAL snow.

A picture of Rexburg from the temple. :)

it's getting cold...

This is Alexa, Breia, and I all geared up to go to the library!! :) It was pouring rain on Saturday so we all had our umbrellas out even though it's only a 2 minute walk. We got to the library at around 3:30 and we were there until 6:45. We really are college students! We were going CRAZY though! I know that sounds wimpy for all you experienced college students but oh man it was killer for us! Right when it hit 6:00 Alexa looked up all frantically and said to me, "Janna! We are are the LIBRARY on a Saturday night!!!!!!" hahaha :)

Lexa and I decided to go to the temple on Saturday. We walked to the temple just to find out that they couldn't let anyone else do baptisms because it was too too busy. (p.s. that was the third time I've tried to go do baptisms :S SOMEONE doesn't want me to be at the temple... sheesh!) BUT it was completely worth it because A. we got a cute picture in front of the temple and B. we got a chance to remember how po-dunk Rexburg is. I took a picture from the front of the temple and on the left you can see apartments. When you look to the left you see downtown Rexburg. Lots of houses, stores, BYU-I, etc. When you look to the right you see... absolutely nothing. It's a field of nothingness for miles and miles, literally!! BUT it gets even better. :) When we walked through the gates into the temple we saw 4 people standing there and Alexa said to me, "Maybe there's a wedding!" I replied to her, "Ya right, there's only 4 people out here!" Oh no she was right. Right then the bride and groom walked out of the temple doors. Yay we got to see a bride and groom, I love going to the temple and seeing weddings BUT then we realized what she was wearing. Her dress was a polygamist dress. I'm serious! There was like a hoop at the bottom so it was really wide and bell like at the bottom and the top was all ruffles and lace and poof and turtleneck (heaven forbid any skin shows!!) and she was wearing this gold crown... :) yup. We sure are in Rexburg. :D

Friday was international talk like a pirate day. We took full use of the holiday making up ridiculous jokes that used AARRGGGG in them and making pirate faces. :D Emily and I were in hysterics all day long!!!! ... Literally. My favorite joke would have to be one that Em made up here it goes...

"What is a pirates favorite mode of transportation? .... the cAAARRRRRR" hahahaha it's retarded I know... ok maybe you had to be there. You just have to picture Emily saying cAAARRRRR like a pirate with a hook and all.. just like in the picture. hahaha

do do do...

Probably the funnest thing i have done yet... bridge jumping. :D we drove to monkey rock and played around in the water there and then decided to go bridge jumping! when we got there there were a bunch of people already jumping too so it was just one big partay!! The movie is one of our new friends doing a back flip off the bridge. Don't worry mom i didn't do anything that crazy. :)






























so the plan was hide and go seek with glow sticks in the civil defense caves but no... we got rear ended instead. :S we are all just fine, we were getting off the freeway on the crappiest exit EVER (it's literally just BOOM it's there) and so the driver of the car i was in slowed down and got in the turning lane to get off the freeway and the car behind us (another car of our friends) couldn't slow down fast enough and just rammed right into us. :S SOO we turned back around and came to our apartment and watched that 70s show instead. haha :)

oh how cute... obama and hillary :D hahaha these masks were in the halloween section at wal-mart and they couldn't resist. we were looking for glow sticks to use to play hide and go seek in a cave and.. this is what we found instead.

ok mom this is for you! of course the traditional first day of school picture! unfortunately it wasn't in our front yard... with kate and pen and the murray's... :( boo. so it's only been the first week of school but it's already CRAZY!!!! good ole' college.