BYU-I Part 2

Hey there!

Wow it's been forever since I updated my blog last.... oops :)

So my spring semester at BYU-I came and went by SO fast!! It feels like just yesterday I was getting ready to leave for Rexburg in April! And now I'm back already! 

I kept meaning to update my blog lots of times during the semester, but I felt like I never had much to say except that I was always feeling sick the first month or so and later discovered that I have celiac disease.. (or so we think, still waiting on test results) I had to go off of gluten which was pretty hard at first and I didn't feel much of a difference, but after a couple weeks I felt SO much better! So yeah, that happened and made this semester a bit of a challenge, but other than that it was actually a really fun semester! My classes were great, the weather in Rexburg was amazing, I LOVED my new apartment, and best of all... my sister, nephew, and brother in law lived right down the street from me!!!

I got to see them almost every day and it was so much fun!

Amanda and I never got along when we were younger and lived at home together. We were ALWAYS fighting and even when she moved out, we were never very close. But, since then both of us have grown up so much in the last couple years and we got so close this semester! She is seriously my best friend now. She's so mature and kind and loving and we could just talk for hours about life and never get tired of talking and hanging out together! I LOVED hanging out with her and I'm so so so glad they lived so close by this semester. It was the best. :) 

I loved just going over to her cute townhouse and hanging out with her and jackson for hours all the time, but we also got to do lots of fun things outdoors together like Mesa Falls, Rigby Lake, and Jackson Hole! Idaho is so beautiful during spring/summer time and I'm so glad I had Amanda there to take me to see everything! 

Ok picture time.. :)

I loved playing with Jack Jack!!

Road trips with these two are so fun!

This is Mesa Falls. It's so pretty!!

Rigby Lake! I know for some reason it doesn't look like it, but Jackson seriously LOVED this place. :) He had so much fun playing in the water and didn't want to leave!

and this is Jenny Lake in Jackson Hole Wyoming! This was at the end of the semester when my parents came to pick me up. I bought a Gopro camera while I was in Rexburg, for our upcoming Europe Trip so I got to use it in Jackson Hole and get some awesome pictures!

... and some "miscellaneous" pictures :)

Jackson helping me with my homework

Hanging out in Utah for Carly's graduation!

Babysitting Jackson after I got home from the temple with my roommate (hence my wet hair and no makeup)

Oh yeah and I got to go visit Carly for a weekend by myself in May. We drove up milcreek canyon and had such a fun day together! 

So yeah, despite being sick the first half of the semester and feeling like I was dying all the time, looking back at all these pictures, I realize that this semester was so much fun! I got to do lots of fun things outdoors, hang out with my family a lot and finish up my freshman year at BYU Idaho. :) 

-- Sarah Laurel <3