Home Sweet Home!

Jess, this one's for you! Mom knows you love to be included in everything fun that's going on. So we just wanted to say we miss you and wish you and Scott and Ethan and Grace were here. BUT, since you aren't, here's a little bit of what you've missed. We'll be sure and keep you posted! Love you!


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Jacob made up that song all by himself. You'll have to ask him to tell you the lyrics to it...it's pretty funny. Sorry it got cut off a little bit there, I guess you're only allowed 2 minutes. The end of his song goes, "everyone says I smell nice. Because I wear my old spice." I thought it was pretty clever. Hope you liked it!

Back in the Big Easy!

So Laura and I got back to New Orleans Wednesday and we've been having a blast already. Emily and Jeremy get in tomorrow so we're all excited to see them! On Friday Laura and I went up to Baton Rouge with Meagan Appling. Well actually, our first stop was to her parents restaurant and they fed us..yumm! THen we headed to Baton Rouge. Meagan had to run some errands on campus so we got to pretend like we went to LSU for moment. I was wearing Freddie's Ole Miss sweatshirt, so we're pretty lucky we didn't get beat up.

It was kind of funny because in the bathrooms we saw all these different flyers about rape and herpes, and just random things you'd never see at BYU, so naturally had to take a picture...
After Meagan was done with her errands we went to the Mall of Louisiana, which was a zoo! I don't ever want to go to the mall again the weekend before Christmas...talk about claustrophobia. After the mall we went back to Meagan's apartment to hang out and wait for everyone else. Then we headed over to the cutest little restaurant, Boutin's.

We had grilled alligator for an appetizer, it was actually pretty delicious!

This makes me feel so old, Laura and all her friends are like 4 years younger than me and Meagan...

Christina, me, Helen, Meagan, Laura, and Sarah V.

Meagan got the same shirt as me....this is kind of like our christmas card picture!

Here's a little video of some cajun dancing and food from Boutin's....

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After Boutin's we went to downtown Baton Rouge and just walked around. Here is a shot from the roof of this cool building. You can see the Mississippi River behind us.

It's Birthday time!

So last Thursday (November 30) was Amy's birthday so we all went out to Happy Sumo, a cute little Japanese restaurant. Here is a picture of us after eating all of our sushi.

Here's some shots of us all goofing around outside of Happy Sumo because the lights and snow were so pretty...

We also tried to take some cute apartment pictures by our Christmas tree...we took several and I still don't think we got a good one.

My birthday was a week after Amy's. So once again we decided we'd go out to dinner to celebrate. I chose Macoroni Grill because it is one of my favorites! I got the Carmela's Chicken Rigatoni...yummy! Then one of the waiters came out and sang happy birthday to me in Italian. It was kind of hilarious, I had to try really hard not to laugh.

After dinner we headed back to our apartment and had some peeps over for cake. Amy made a delicious four layer chocolate cake, also known as "Perfect Chocolate Cake"...mmmm!

These boys are in our Sunday dinner group. I told them I wanted a new car for my birthday so they got me a cute little blue minivan (just like our road trip rental car)..."Maria Minivan" from Chevron.

Jessica got me a cane because two days before my birthday I sprained my ankle at kickboxing...

I had an awesome birthday and I'm excited to see what my 23rd year has in store for me!