Back to School

So as many of you know I am back in Rexburg Idaho going to school at BYU-Idaho. I have started my third semester. Which means bundling up and sassy pea coats apparently.

Emma Fink is my roomate and we're loving it so far. We left California and drove up on the first of the year with the Fink family. We made the trip all in one day. I mostly slept but did some driving to help out Sister Fink. I would just like to say that I drove in Utah and did great...Mom. We spent a few days down in Idaho Falls with Emma's which was fun and felt like a minnie vacation. We did a tour of the campus before they left and had fun taking pictures on campus. Here's the Finks I took inspiration from the Christmas story. For Dad, Adam and Aaron Emma and I are waving. After getting us all settled in the Finks left home for Bakersfield. We started school the next day. Our roomate Beth made us take Back to School pictures but we can't find them so tuff cookies. We then didn't take any pictures until Sunday but in those days between the first day of school and sunday I saw all of my old roomates except for KJ who went home and Kala who is married. Friday night we went to a comedy improv show that was hillarious and then Saturday night we went to dinner with some friends and then went and played games at my friends apartment. Sunday morning we went to church and all had to cram in the car because everyone except one person in the apartment is vehically challenged. After church we came home and tooks some pictures so that I could show you guys my new roomies. They are loads of fun and it seems like we are going to have a fun semester ahead of us.
Me, Emma, Beth, and Chari all crammed in the back seat.
Here is Me and Emma looking like Sister missionaries and loving it The new roomates from left to right: Jessi, Cheri, Chari, Me, Emma, and Beth Well I think that's all for now. I think I'm already off to a better start with blogging than I was last year. Hope everyone is doing good have a great day!

Adventures in Babysitting and Tamales

So I know I know I stink at blogging but recently my Mom explained to me how important it was for me to blog this year while I was away at school.....so I'm trying to turn over a new leaf and reconnect with the blogging world. Starting now I'm trying to post regularly. Moving right along.

Every year for the past few years we have made tamales around the holidays with my Dad's side of the family which has turned into a great Villanueva tradition. A tradtion with lots of messy fun and a yummy reward to show for it. We only do it once a year because if you don't know already making tamales is very labor intensive and rather involved. So last Saturday once all the family arrived at our house we got started with the Tamale lovin. This year we Ashlynn, Emma, and I watched the Pollocks girls on the same day that we made tamales. We thought that it was going to be hard to make tamales and watch the girls but it wasn't at all! It ended up being great fun for everyone. Before we started making tamales me and Madelynn did interprutive dancing to "Once Upon A Dream" from Sleeping Beauty which made her very happy and I couldn't complain either. She had a nice pretty pink dress and I only had my apron. When I sat down because I didn't have a pretty dress to dance around in she tugged on my apron and told me that was my dress. So I used my imagination and we had a grand time.
Finally we got started with the actual tamale making. My job for the past few years has to mix the masa and so that I did again this year. With help my my little friend Madelynn and cousin Jordan. It's a very hands on process but we knew what we were doing. I would also just like to quickly point out that Ashlynn wasn't really helping she just stuck her fingers in the masa for the picture.
Once the masa was ready to go everyone started wrapping and making tamales. Which was messy but it brought joy to all of us except for aunt Maria who can't spread the masa for her life. Mean while Madelynn and Catherine were using another tamale table as a jungle gym and were having a great time. Then Catherine decided that she wanted me to hold her so I did but it was the right thing to do. And Madelynn had a dress photo shoot with Ashlynn.

Then their parents showed up and they had to leave but all together it was a good day with the girls. So once all the tamales were done all we had to do was wait for them to cook, and wait, and wait, and wait, but that's okay because in the mean time Emma Ashlynn and I sang ABBA songs to Steven and Jake who pretended to hate it but they really didn't. Then played rock band because Jake and Steven thought that sounded like a great idea. After hours of waiting the Tamales were finally ready (I didn't take pictures because we were all eating and bonding and such). When we were packing up the tamales we found out that we had made over 300 and there was no room in our frig for all of that love so we had to spread it around and took some to the Rays and Thad and Brittany. No complaints there I hear. So there it is that would be the great Tamale and Babsitting day.

Sooo.....

I have fallen miserably out of the world of blogging and have decided to once again try and rejoin it. Please don't take me off of your link list because that makes me sad. I will update and post stuff this week because I have tons of stuff to post about. Okay well bye.

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