Shout out to my girls :)

Dear Kathryn and Emma,

I loved your beautiful cards in the mail girls :) I am so glad to know that you two are happy and healthy! I hope school is going well for both of you and that you are still singing and smiling all the time! I love you two very much and I cannot wait to see you at Thanksgiving! I thought you guys might like to know how Bug is adjusting to Utah. He LOVES it here :) He misses his friends though!! Here are some pictures so you can see his progress!

This is Bug waking up in the morning and deciding what to eat for breakfast. Lookin' like a cutie :)

Oh this is Bug just gettin' ready for his favorite class!!!
Book of Mormon is the best :) Our teacher is great!

These are Bug's roommates! They're super fun!!

Hugs! This is me and Bug sending our love to you :)

I miss you girls so much and I want you to have a great year! I will be seeing you before you know it! Read your scriptures and say your prayers. And tell your parents how much you love them! You are so blessed to have them :) I love you girls. Don't you ever forget it!!

Love,
Rikki

J missin' my favorite girls!

What's wrong with the world today?

So I know it's late. And I don't want you to think that I'm up this late studying for a psych test that I have in the morning because that is not the case at all. I just can't sleep. You see there are some things that have been on my mind that I just can't get out. Sad thoughts. It's just... whats wrong with the world we live in? I mean people are getting diseases from beasts of the earth, tableware is being misused for evil. We are facing dark times my friends. I found this song that sort of sums up my emotions. I only hope you can watch with an open heart.

I think the crisis is clear. The solution? That's the hard part. But I am confident that together, we can make a difference. (oh, and i do have a psych test in 6 hours...)

J preachin'

No cougar, no football, no service-

So I've just started my fifth week of school at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT (so fun!). When I got out here in mid-August, my super great brother and daddy invested in a state-of-the-art, wireless printer for our dorm. Cool huh!? SUPER! One problem: it won't print anything. For a week Natalie and I tried endlessly to send print jobs and always got the same error- "No Communication With Printer." Around the first week of school my trusty brother was called in on the job and he had it working just fine once the WiFi was set up properly (woops). So the next day I tried to print an assignment and the loathsome message popped up. After countless failures Natalie and I gave up and started trekking to the library to print.

One Saturday, Natalie's dad was in town and he took us to 7 peaks. WHAT A FUN DAY! When we got home we had to race to get ready for the game (my first ever Cougar Football game!!!) Just before it was time to leave we realized we still had to go to the library to print our tickets!!! There was no way we would have time so I figured I would try and send it to the printer just to see if I could get lucky. Lo and behold. There on the printer were two shiny tickets to the game. I was agog, I was aghast! I gave my printer a little pat and said "good job boy :)"

For two weeks after that event our printer rejected any more print jobs. "No Communication with printer." I think that's its way of giving us the silent treatment. Anyway, two days ago was the next football game and this little guy in my mind wondered if the printer would print tickets again. Earlier that day i tried printing out an essay with no luck so odds were slim. But I'm sure you've already guessed what happened :) Good ol' printer must be a die hard Cougar fan!

So in case you didn't hear, Natalie and I have the coolest printer in town. No USB cables, no hassle, just a quality print job... but only if you're printing BYU Cougar Football tickets :)

J reppin' the Cougs!

OMG New Hobbie!

Alright friends. Here's the word.
I got my new BEAUTIFUL journal in the mail this week and I am just addicted to writing in it!
On top of that, one of my roommates (Kenzie) started a blog this week and has been trying to talk all of us into getting them too. I caved. Peer pressure. Haha so I'm gonna get my roomie Natalie to get one too and now I'll have two sources of writing release! PARTY ON!

J excited :)