College is AMAZING!

Hello all! I am having so much fun down here in Rexburg! School is fantastic! I love all my classes but one, and one of them, I like the teacher but not the subject matter (Education Technology). My favorite is definitely my Children's Literature class. I love reading the stories. My teacher is so awesome as well. Alright...but that's the boring part, and I know you're all waiting for the fun part. So let me tell you all about it!

My roommate Jordyn Hanley and I went up to the gardens on campus to take some pictures of flowers for Jordyn to draw for her art major. However...as you'll see, we soon got tired of just snapping pictures of flowers!

These ones are my favorite! They have all three of my fav colors...the warm ones :) Orange, yellow, and red :)
This one is another fav of mine :) Jordyn's too!
As I said before...you can only take pics of flowers for so long...



This was kinda a cool table...with lion legs!

Enjoying the willow trees...they were so pretty!

I guess you might be interested in some other friends I have down here. This is Youlee. He is so awesome! He joined the church about 5 months ago, and is so strong in the gospel! He bears his testimony all the time, and I enjoy listening to him explain his conversion story to my roommates one by one. He is always just so excited to have the gospel. A great example to all of us.

FHE was so much fun. Our group is awesome! We have two appartments of girls, and one of guys, but all our brothers are so much fun! We have Eric, Greg, Scott, Joe, Mikey, and Patrick. They're awesome, and always willing to help us when we need them. For our first activity we did something that was soooo amazing! It was Joe's idea, and he introduced us to the activity by telling us that there are many different kinds of panty hoes. Hmmm...

This is our family home evening group before we began our "FLOUR FIGHT!"
Filling up our nylons with flour so we can hit eachother with them :)
Snow in September! I guess that probably isn't super abnormal in Rexburg...
This is Joe, the mastermind behind this activity! Thanks Joe, it was awesome!
My two awesome roomies (I have 3 more) Heather and Nici.
This is Scott. 26 years old, communications major, and works in a studio recording and mixing music. It's really awesome actually. Well, he thought it would be funny to dump flour all over my head...
It started innocent...him holding me down while...someone, not sure who...dumped flour on me.
But soon, he was cheating! :) The person dumping flour on me is still anonymous...I can't see them!
Hope you're happy Scott!
Aww, I forgave him. We had a ton of fun. This guy has an awesome laugh and is always willing to share it. I love it!
Left to right: Roomie Jody, Roomie Nici, FHE Bro Greg, Roomie Heather
All of us after our flour fight! We are still finding flour in our apparment lol.
My roommates! What a fun time for you to meet them all! Jody, Jordyn, Nici, Shiloh, Heather, and Anna.
Shiloh, Nici, Heather. We all decided Nici looks like a vampire! Look at those red lips!
Heather, Nici and I decided to have some "after fight fun"

Alright guys! I love you all! Thanks for keeping up with my life! I am actually going to go study for my first test in Child Development! It's such an interesting class! I love it so much! I love you all, and I'll be back up in Spokane for the Winter!

College!!!!!!!

Well, here it is folks! Rexburg, Idaho. 246 S 1st W Apt 106. My humble (and quiet) abode for the next three months! Sorry I am a little behind in my blogging...but I'm kind of busy lol. Mom and Dad drove me up here and we unloaded all of my stuff. Then they stocked my cupboards with groceries, which has been way nice, and took me up to see the temple. I have come to really enjoy Rexburg, though I really do miss being at home...After a great Priesthood blessing, they said their goodbyes (yes, my mother cried!). And then they were gone...and I was all alone. :( But that's okay :)







This may sound very dramatic, but all I have to start my life is 3 tote bins and...that's it. :( I left my life in a box in my attic.



This is Jordyn Hanley :) I love her! Friends in Spokane, roommates in Rexburg. And it's been a whole week, and we haven't killed eachother...yet.



Mom and I get the closet organized and the bedroom made all fancy. Sister Crossley, the mother to two of my old piano students, made me that gorgeous quilt that's coming up. I love it!!!!!!




Poor Dad had to drive all the way here and back. :) So we let him chill while we unloaded my stuff and stuck it in my closet. I also got to shower...ahh, showers :)



As I'm sure you all can tell, I am enjoying college a ton! I am going to try to keep this updated. I already have some pics that I am waiting to put on here, but right now, it's Friday night! And I am going to....oh wait, I still don't have a life. lol. Actually, tonight, a few of my roomies and I are headed over to a guy named Seagan's house. He is in the cullinary arts program, and brought us some french bread he made today. It was soooo tasty and he loved the praise so much that he's making us brownies tonight! I am so excited! They are going to be....THE BEST! I'll keep you all updated! Love you all (that are related to me. Guess I should be careful when I say that... ;)

I love my sissy!!!

Jenkinson/Keller Reunion 2009

I officially had the best five days of my summer! My family and I left Wednesday morning and headed to North Bend, near Seattle. It's been 6 (we think) years since we have visited Uncle Ward and Aunt Carol, and so we figured it was about time for a reunion. I am going to do my best to fill you all in on the awesome five days that we enjoyed as a family. To begin, this is my family :)

Wednesday, we began the drive. Shauna and I were actually pretty happy...though we were in the car for a whole 4 hours! Here's a pic of us just cruisin'! We stopped at a gas station after Levi puked (he was ok...just a little carsick) and we saw a priest quorum on their high adventure. It was kind of a flash back to last year when we met another group in California...just a little side note :)


We finally arrived and we met all the people and got to know eachother again. It was amazing to see how much everyone had grown up, and then I realized that the last time they all saw me I was...12. SCARY!!!!!!!! We spent Wednesday playing around the house and enjoying chatting and catching up with one another. The younger children played in the hot tub, which Aunt Carol had turned the temperature down on. They enjoyed that a lot!




Some of us got together and played a game called Evolution, which involves a clapping pattern and animal signs being passed around the circle. It was a lot of fun, and a great ice breaker with those we haven't seen in...again...6 years! We got close really fast!


Thursday morning, breakfast was at Sue's house. We loved it! Look at all that food! By now, we all felt like we had seen eachother every day since the day we were born, and we enjoyed eating and talking before heading to the lake. Sue made so many kinds of pancakes and had them organized. I thought it was so Sue. :) The first tray held plain pancakes, the second chocolate chip (the semi-sweet on top, milk chocolate on the bottom lol) and the third blueberry. It was delicious!


Me holding my cousin Paislee (Dallas and Rachel's baby girl). She is soooooo smiley!

The kids playing on the jungle gym in Sue's backyard, they had so much fun!


After breakfast, I timed Shauna running hills, and then we decided to go ahead and bathe in the creek that runs through Ward and Carol's property. I just had to have the experience of showering in a waterfall, and where else was I going to get that? But I must says, it was soooooo cold! Here are some step by step pictures of our adventure. It was so much fun. We spent about an hour just laughing and playing around.

This is me, so graciously showing you the beautiful creek. We had so much fun! We were camped overlooking it, and it was soooooo gorgeous!

Some falls a little too big for Shauna and I to shower in...lol.


Shauna was soooo chicken! I had been in for about 15 minutes before she even sat down in the freezing water!
And there she goes...she's not dead...promise :)
Shampoo...it was glorious!

She's so tan...I hate her
Shauna got brave and decided to go into the waterfall first.
AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"There is no way!"
"AHHH! Cold!"
All clean!



We enjoyed an awesome day at the lake! We forgot our camera, so Aunt Rachel has all the pictures, but we loved going tubing on Scott and Sue's boat. I had a great experience :) haha. I knelt down in the tube, and ended up rubbing my knees raw. I was on one tube, and Michael was on the other. Suffice it to say he is way more daring than I am. :) He ended up jumping up in the air and landing his tube right o me! We both ate it on that one :) I do have a picture of my knees the next day though, and they are still pretty gross...They hurt!


The drive home was pretty much the same as the drive up. Sleeping and reading. But Levi was being pretty cute, and Shauna caught some pictures, so we of course have to put them up!



As you can tell, we all had a great time. I don't have many pictures from Friday or Saturday, because we were way too busy having fun...but we went to a river and then another lake. We enjoyed our time as a family. I was so sad to leave this morning! I am going to miss Shawn (17) especially!!!!!! He is so awesome and funny.
Well, it's back to the real world, where there's work and cleaning and cooking again :( lol. I'm ready for it though!

An aspiring poet...

Hey guys! I think that most of you know that I love poetry and write it quite often. Well the other day, I wrote this one, and I thought it was alright, so I'll share it with you. Won't happen often, but this one was pretty cool.

Different Shades of Red

So confused by these thoughts that won’t leave my head
About everyone I love and with different shades of red
The shade that’s so deep it’s like the blood in my heart
The one that runs without end, without start
The shade that’s more pink as it flows through my veins
The one that’s slowly growing, leaving new stains
The shade that is fading and losing its dye
The one that leaves my body through the tears from my eyes
Which shade compliments me best and which to let show
Which ones to hold to and which to let go
Trying to choose between all the love that I’ve bled
And which to choose from the different shades of red

Well, I don't think I have anything interesting to say, but I thought I'd share that. I love you all!