Friend: someone who knows and likes another person very well.

I have been feeling lately that I need to blog about how much my friends really mean to me so I started by looking up the defintion of friends in my phone. My title is what my phone said but this is what I think the defintion of friends are.

Friends: are people that I care for and cherish the most in my life.

When I was in jounior high I had just felt very alone, I had friends but no one that I could share secrets with. But when I got to high school I kind of changed and I began to build better relationships with some of my friends. It was from that moment I knew that my friends ment a lot to me. Once I considered someone to be my best friend, that ment that I would never give up on them, leave them alone or intentionally loose contact with them. I also have a very hard time saying good bye to whoever comes into my life. One example is the day my roommate moved out freshman year, the second she walked out the door I cried. Then later that night when I was packing up some of the stuff in my room I found a letter she left me and before I even read it I just sat on my bed and cried. I have also watched one of my best friends fall away from the church and I have to say that was the hardest thing that I ever had to do. I tried to help her but she was so determined to make her own choices that there was no way I could talk her out of it. Needless to say she eventually came to her senses and became the person that I knew before. She is probaly one of my best friends and I think she probaly knows me the best out of all of my friends. Then their are my roommates who keep me sane with crazy life that college brings. My roommates are just amazing people and my life would be really boring without them. High school friends, I am really starting to discover my real friends from high school and I am so thankful for them because they still love me after seeing my nerdy ways. Without my friends I would not be where I am today and I am so glad that for every friend that I have ever had.

Here are some pics of my some closest friends that I have met here at school:

A post full of firsts!!!!

Well I would like to start to tell you all about my first birthday but I can't seem to remember it. All that I have to remember are some pictures that are at my house in Tremonton. But what I remember from what I have been told and from pictures is that I lived with my grandpa at the time. I know that I fed my grandpa and sister some cake and that I was sitting a wooden hi-chair.

Then there is the first day that I went my babsitters house. I had many other babsitters before but she was the one that lasted the longest. I was in the first grade and really scared to be going to a house that I had never been before with people that I had never met. Well before we left for school I was told where to met the rest of the kids because we were getting picked up from school. Well I went to the wrong spot and I don't remember how long I waited for my ride. It turns out that the babsitter had forgotten about me and picked up the rest of the kids. So I was crying as I went and found the school librain. Luckily I remembered where the babsitter lived so the librain walked back to my babsitters house. I don't remember what happened when I got back but I am sure it was then she realized that I had not been picked up with the rest of the kids. I guess my mom wasn't to bothered by it because I ended up going to her house till I was in the 7th grade.

My first and only major surgery I was 14 and I had my appendix out. It all started when I got to Tenessee to visit my Aunt. I had a sore throat but I thought that it was just from being on plane all day. As the week went my sore throat started to turn into more of cold so my mom had me taking all this medicine and it just wasn't helping. I just kept getting worse as the week went on. Then on saturday morning I woke up at 3am throwing up and I went and woke up my mom and she told me to go back to sleep. Then at 6am I was still throwing up so I woke my mom up again and went in the living room and then my Aunt woke up and they decided to take me to the doctor because we were going home on Tuesday. When I got into the doctors office the doctors assisant and my talked and they thought that I had food posioning. The real doctor finally came in the room and had me lay down and a nurse came in and held me down while the doctor pushed on my side and moved my legs around. Then the doctor said "she needs to get her appendix out, do you have a ride to the hospital or do we need to call and ambulance." My Aunt drove me to the hosptial and we had to wait forever but they finally put me in a room and all the nurses were shocked to find out that I was from Utah. Finally aroud 9pm they started the surgery and I released the next day and I flew home on Tuesday.

My first date I can thank the young women of the Tremonton third ward for. I had maybe been 16 for a month when the yw decided that they needed to plan a date night for me. Well because my birthday was so early in the year I only had two choices. I finally decided to ask this kid named Trevor I was so nervous and it was the weridest date of my life. We just went to one of the other girl's house and played games and ate pizza but I had no clue what I was doing.

My first blind date was the worst date of my life. I was set up with this 21 year old from another country and I was only 17 at then time. This guy saw my picture at my sisters house so my sister set us date of course it was a double with my sister and her husband. It was just so werid we went bowling my date had never been bowling and he didn't speak very good english. I had the hardest time trying to explain to him how to pick out a bowling ball and all he said to me was your so beauitful. At the end of the date I made the mistake of giving him my number and the next day he called me and told me that he loved me. I never called him back and he called me a few times after that and I never answered the phone.

My first high school dance was to girls choice when I was a sophmore. I had this brillant idea to ask a senior. How I asked him is kind of old fashioned now but I got a disposible camera and made posters that said will you go to girls choice with me. I held all the posters over my face till the very last one and it was just a picture of me. I gave the kid I wanted to ask the camera and with a note that says would you be pictured with me at girls choice take all the rest of these pictures and to find out who I am. Well by the end of the day he had taken all of the pictures and now I just had to wait. He made me wait two weeks they were the longest weeks of my life. Then one day I got to seminary and there was a nose made out of clay on my desk and I had to pick threw green frosting and at the very back of the nose there was a note that said sorry try again. I had no clue what that ment but then my friend stood up and gave me a note that said "nobodY nose how bad I would likE to be pictured with you at a girlS choice." I was so releaved. That date has to be the best one that I have ever been on we just ate dinner at my friends grandma's house and then play volleyball at badmitten.

My first day at Arctic Circle.... I worked at Arctic Circle in Tremonton for 2 1/2 years while I was in high school. I started working there at the end of my sophmore year. I remember the first day it was raining really hard and I had go there after school and get my uniform and some paper work to bring back with me later. So I went home after I got my stuff filled out my paperwork and went back to start my new job. I was so nervous that day they gave me a tour of the store, told me what I need to do every time I work then I stood and watched everyone do things. After a couple hours of standing there they sent me home.

My very first time moving. I lived in the same house for 18 years for my life so when I graduated high school moving away was one thing that I was ready for. I was so excited about moving about moving and starting a new life even though I had no clue what I was doing. The day that I was moving finally came and I had mixed emotions as I was leaving my house I started crying and wasn't sure that I really wanted to do it. But I did I got over to logan at about 10:30 in the morning and got all checked in and then my cousin, my mom and me all carried my stuff up to my apartment. I lived in Morgan hall 402 and if don't anything about that my apartment was a fourth floor walk-up. After we had finished moving all of my stuff in we went to lunch and then my mom brought me back to my apartment and I just sat in my room playing on my computer for the rest of the night. Then when it was time to go to I was so scared I don't think I slept at all that night I all kept thinking was I am making the biggest mistake of my life and I just want to go home. But I stayed and when I met my roommates that made things a little better. After a week of living in a room by myself my actual room roommate showed up and we were instant friends. She made things a lot better for me and even though we don't live together this year she is still one of my best friends.

Now on to a story that I am sure all of you want to know my first kiss. I didn't have my first kiss till I was 20, at that age I was begining to wonder if it would ever happen. It was on my second date with this kid that I really liked and I remember before the telling my roommates that I was not going to let him kiss me. Well for our date we went a corn maze and after the corn maze we went and got something to eat and went back to his apartment to watch a movie. During the movie I kept thinking I want to kiss him but I am so scared, I have never kissed anyone before so I am just not going to look at him. Well while I was thinking all of that I noticed that he was just staring at me. After a while of me thinking and him staring he asked me what I was thinking and I said "nothing," so he said " your thinking nothing with a smile on your face," and I said "yep." He kept asking me what I was thinking and every time he asked me I gave him the same answer. Then when the movie was over we sat on his couch talking for a little while, me still not looking at him. The next thing I know he grabs my face turns it toward his and he kisses me. I was in shock but also very happy at the same time. After that he took me home and right when I walked in the door my roommates knew what had happened. Needless to say I didn't sleep very much at all that night.

Funny Stories

So one night I was just sitting in the living room and all of a sudden Joe (Larissa's friend) said "Regi do you want to see what a real man looks like." When I looked over at him he had his shirt off and man does he have a hairy chest.

So one morning I was getting dressed and grabbed some pants out of my closet. I got one on leg in them and thought these are really long but oh well and I put my other leg in. When I went to button up the pants I said "these pants are huge." Well it turns out that the pants that I put on were my roommates and she was sitting on her bed when I said that they were huge. Yeah that was really embrassing because nobody wants tell there roommate that she is fat.

One night I was doing my homework and there was a knock at the door. Larissa and Paige both yelled "Regi." I got up and was like "you guys are so lazy, it shouldn't be for me." When I got to the door and opened it was one of my good friends.He had heard me say everything. He said "I can go back home if you want me too," I said "no I just wasn't expecting you." Well it turns out that he actually sent me a message telling me that he was coming and I just hadn't looked it at it. Needless to say it was pretty embrassing.

Then one night I was expecting a friend to come over and I heard a knock at the door. I started to go for the door when Paige yelled "go away." I was kind of mad when she said that. So when I opened the door no one was there. I was so confused and so I stepped out the door there he was just around the corner.

One day my bought me a pizza from Sam's Club and I thought it would be ok to leave it out until I was ready to bake it. So it sat on the counter in my kitchen for like 3 hours and Amy and I finally decided to bake it. Well we had a hard time trying to get the pizza out of the box because the crust kept ripping. Then we finally go it into the oven and after about 10 minutes we started to smell something bad so we opened the oven and the cheese had melted and was on the heating coils. It smelt so bad. We hurried and took the pizza out and let it cool do for a little bit and then started eating and I have to say that it was as bad as I thought it would be.

Why can't I ever say the right thing????

I am really starting to get fustrated with myself. I have the tendency to whenever people tell me important things I just think oh my gosh did they really just say that and I never respond. Like the first time this kid told me that he liked me, I didn't say anything. Yeah I am werid and the worst part is that I really like this kid. I don't know I just freeze when people tell me things like that. After he told me that he liked me he also said that I was very distracting and of course I didn't say anything to that eaither. It was kind of like he was trying to get it out of me and believe me I wanted to tell him but there was some part of me that couldn't. I can just never say the right thing when the opportunity presents itself. After I have had the conversation with someone I always think of the perfect thing that I should have said but by that time it would be akward to bring it up. Oh well I hope I become better at saying what I want when I want.

My roomies

I currently live with 4 of my best friends and I can honestly say that my life would be pretty boring without them.
Amy is the one that knows us all the best she is always the first one to ask me if I am ok and as hard as I try I she always knows when I am trying to hide it. I can always go and talk to her about anything and she is always willing to listen and give me good advice.
Larissa now is she is the one that I share a room with. I love her to death she is the one that is always trying to get us to eat healthier and without her this place would be pretty boring. Larissa is a great roommate and an even better friend.
Paige is another great roommate. She is always there to talk to and she never sleeps so even at two o'clock in the morning she is willing to give good advice. She will tell you that she isn't addicted to Pepsi but don't believe her.

Mackensie now she is the hard working roommate who is never home. I don't know how she handles school and work. She works more than anyone I know I wouldn't be able to handle her life and still have good grades. She also really good at wearing her clothes backwards or to come running through the living room wearing santa boxers.

New blogger!!!!

I always said that I wouldn't start a blog till I was engaged but I just couldn't take it anymore, I just couldn't wait any longer. No I am not engaged I just wanted a blog more than I wanted to wait. I hope that I am good at blogging and not one of those people who start blogging and then they never keep up with it. I am going to try my hardest keep up with this maybe everytime I write in my journal I will also try and blog.