One step at a time.

April has been the craziest month of my life, full of new surprises and new challenges.

After my finals I packed up my room, threw all my stuff on my bed packed my bags and got ready to go to to ARIZONA! I slept a total of one hour and thirty minutes that night from 3:30am to 5am. Nug came and picked me up and it was snowing, like crazy! We went and picked up Eric and we were off to AZ. We honestly couldn't see thirty feet in front of us and I am pretty sure we drove 60mph the whole way there.
After 16 hours and pit stops in Provo, Page and Flagstaff we were finally home! When we walked into my families house, no one was home and no one was answering their phones... JR and Joseph finally showed up. Then Mom. Then Blake. Eric was so nervous, he won't admit it but he was.
The coming week was the best week of my life. Every day we were doing something or going somewhere. We went to the science center, the phoenix zoo, floated down the river at night on a mattress, I got to meet Eric's grandma, Aunt and Uncle, and we tanned and I dropped my phone in to pool. Unlucky? most definitely.
Nonetheless. It was the best week of my life.

We love giraffes so much <3

We loved the science center :)

We're in love, alright. 

I honestly have the best boyfriend ever. I love him :)

So, our amazing week ended and Eric went home to California and I went back to school in Rexburg. School started and one day into the semester I got a friendly little call from our executive secretary Steve, one of the nicest kids I know, telling me that Bishop would like to see the next night, Thursday. My heart stopped, I was instantly nervous. The whole next day the only thing running through my mind was, "Why does bishop want to talk to me. There is no way I am going to be Relief Society President. I'm only 19. It's my third semester." I was freaking out. 

So Thursday night came and I walked to the Benson building, so slow. I got there and had a friendly conversation with Steve, he kept telling me I have nothing to worry about. For some reason that only made me more nervous. Bishop came out and invited me into his office. I say down and he said, "Erin, it is no surprise that I called you in here." and I was thinking... oh no oh no ohhh nooo. "Eric, we normally would never call someone as young as you to this calling, but every once in a while it happens. You were fantastic last semester and I know you gained a testimony of Relief Society. So with that being said, I would like for you to be the Relief Society President." 

Pretty sure I stared at him. I had nothing to say. Eventually I said, I accept. And that was that. I started walking home and I had to call my mom. When I told her she wasn't even surprised at all. She knew it was coming, along with everyone else apparently. When I stood up in church to be sustained, no one was surprised. Everyone told me they knew it was going to happen. Everyone knew but me. I have never been more busy in my entire life. Every day I have loads of homework and I have girls calling me and texting me and wanting to know about their callings and this and that. Now, saying that, I am so happy I am the President. I am thankful for the challenge, especially right now in my life when everything else just isn't falling in to place how I want it to, I get to help other girls and serve others instead of worrying about my own problems I can focus on other peoples problems and help them to the best of my ability. Life is just beautiful.

Spring 2012, bring. it. on.

Now here is the really big news.....

MY MOM IS GETTING MARRIED!!!!!

CONGRATS to the most important woman in my life. I love you Mom and I am so happy for you and Brian. 

Seriously, they are precious. 

I can't wait any longer. In 2 days I am flying off to California to see the love of my life and I have never been more excited to see anyone in my entire life. Then from California to Arizona for my mom's wedding, then back to dreary Rexburg. That's okay. I can't for these next two weeks :) 

Here's the thing, we saw each other three weeks ago, and we are already dying. It is hard going from spending every second together then to living hundreds of miles away from each other. Long distance is not easy, but I know that it is going to be so worth it :) 

one more day till he turns 22

two more days till we are reunited

one short day

It is Thursday April 5th. And this is my last day in Rexburg for a week :)
I have been checking the weather in Mesa on a daily basis, 96 DEGREES ON MONDAY!
I have never been more excited for warmer weather than I am right now!

But, the best part about this trip is that my cute boyfriend gets to come home with me :)
Eric David Anderson

This boy makes me so so happy. We have been dating a whole month and a half, yes we know that is a short time. But in that time we have learned almost everything about each other.
 It's true everyone, I love him.
Call me crazy, but it's true. This is the cutest, kindest, sweetest, most spontaneous, funniest, most random boy that I have ever met in my entire life and he is all mine.
Some of my favorite things about Eric:
He bought me a rose.
He lets me be weird.
He has seen me cry and still thinks im cute.
He is a cuddle whore :)
He asks me every single day what my favorite part of the day was.
He always makes sure I am happy.
He deals with my crazyness.
He still loves me even though I went on a date with his older brother first.
He tells his Chemistry friends about me.
He is my fhe brother and home teacher.
He called his mom to tell her about me.
He listens to my fashion and hair advice.
He is so spiritual and served an honorable mission in Mexico.
He loves that I am 1/8 Mexican...
He always surprises me.
He makes me feel better, no matter what.
He is shameless.
He is awful at basketball, but proud of it.
He is amazing at dodgeball though :)
He loves his family so much.

.................................................the list could go on forever................................................

Hands down, the most amazing boy ever.


But now that I have ranted about my cute boyfriend, I should express how excited I am to go home to the 85213!
There is nothing I miss more than my family, my home, and my own room and bed.
I also miss my little friends, unfortunately, since BYUI has such a ridiculous schedule, I will not get to see most my friends since they will all still be in school and all my manly friends are on mission. But, I will get to go to Jessica Williams wedding reception and I am SO excited for her and her soon-to-be husband :)

Mostly, I am excited that Eric and I will get to hang out with my family every single day and go on adventures. And Eric's most favorite part is going to be going on a "double date" with my mom and her boyfriend :) we really are excited to go to the zoo with them.

I leave in T-minus 18 hours. 

update.

It has been way too long since I have blogged. 

I am officially nineteen. :) I had the greatest birthday ever! Due to the fact that I have to most amazing friends and fhe brothers ever. Here was my day. I woke up, watched movies, received many calls and texts from family and friends, then some of my fhe brothers came and took me, Addy and Zoraya to dinner, then the lovely Chelsea Swensen took me and Addy to get ice cream :) 

This whole time I am oblivious to the fact that back in my apartment are crazy people setting up a surprise party for me! Chelsea was driving home so freaking slow... I still didn't catch on... then we went to her apartment... then we started walking to my apartment and they were both walking behind me very very slowly... now I was confused. Then I opened the door to see a cake literally on fire. Then the lights came on and revealed a ton of people who starting singing happy birthday to me. Then I made a wish and blew out the candles. 

All everyone needs to know is that it was the best birthday ever. 

Here are some great pictures :)

ohhhh fhe brothers :)

so surprised.

then I got a cake in my face :)

Now on to Valentine's Day. 

We all know that on Valentine's Day every single girl hopes that a boy will show up on her door step with a dozen roses and take her away. Okay, maybe not exactly like that but.. we all know what I mean. 

The original play for V-Day was to go to b dubs with my roommates since more than half of us are single, but a couple of my "home teachers" had other plans for me and Carley. So we walk into the boys apartment and there are rose petals on the ground and candles lit. Then they turn on saxophone music. hahahahahahaha I couldn't help but laugh... 

But it was SO cute. Eric Washburn and Eric Anderson win best home teachers award. Along with Brigham and Logan.. even though they weren't there. 

Then I got to go home for the weekend. Then I finally got my birthday surprise from my mommy. 

FRONT ROW TICKETS TO WICKED!!!!!!

Best night ever. I got to meet Fiero and Glinda. ahhhhhmazing. 

I got to take my little brother to Bahama Bucks :)

My amazingly gorgeous cousin Cynthia got MARRIED! 

I am so happy for her and my new cousin Owen! what a great guy... Best of luck you cute newlyweds!

And this goober, Eric David Anderson, texted me every single day while I was home :) what a catch, right!? 

Keep calm and carry on, we passed our clean checks today. 

thank goodness. 

I'm just gonna say it.

It's my birthday in FOUR days! I can't help it but tell everyone. Seriously, I am telling everyone. 

I am just so excited to not be 18 anymore! People keep telling me that they might actually like me when I'm not 18... whatever that means...

Today I made the most beautiful chocolate rose! It is so pretty and it smells AMAZING! 

Just like chocolate :) mmm.

amazing right!?

I am so obsessed with my confectionary class. 

This semester has not been easy at all. But I think Sunday may have made up for everything bad that has been happening. On Sunday I got to give the lesson in Relief Society and I was freaking nervous out of my mind. I felt so insignificant and I keep feeling like there is so much more I can learn from the return missionaries than they can learn from me. Sometimes I forget that I have been through a lot in my life, more than most people a lot older than me ever go through. 

I gave my lesson and I look up to finish barring my testimony and I see one of my roommates crying! At first I thought, no, there is no way she is crying because of my lesson. I then opened up the lesson for the other girls to bare their testimonies. Wow. So many girls stood up. I was in shock. They kept expressing about how they felt the spirit so strong during the lesson and the room was just so warm. 

We all know I am not one to get all spiritual on people, I believe the church is true, but I am not going to get all crazy and teary about it. I never cry. But as soon as we closed the Relief Society and the bishop's wife came up to me and told me how amazing the lesson was. I started crying! Where there tears came from... I do not know. But I just could not help it. It was such an amazing Sunday. Knowing that my lesson touched atleast some people in the room means the world to me. I think I have finally got over my feelings of thinking I am inferior to people. I can be a good teacher and I know what I am doing, thanks to all the crazy and hard things that have happened in my life. It is weird to actually be thankful for those things now, when there was a point in my life that I couldn't help but absolutely hate my life because of those things. 

This blog is out of hand. I am not enjoying the cold, at all. Hello, I am from Arizona, stop asking me if I am enjoying the cold. I don't even think people from Rexburg are enjoying the cold.

I am so excited to come home and visit for a weekend. Even if it is just a short break from the cold it will be really nice :) 

10 days till home!

the sweetest thing.

Sunday was a very stressful day for me. I had lots of homework to do and on top of that I got a call from the Relief Society President the night before telling me that I needed to go to the ward council meeting in the morning before church and that I was in charge for Relief Society and there seemed to be a lot that needed to be done. New Ensigns needed to be passed out. Visiting teaching needed to get recorded and done. Just too much for little Erin to handle. 

But, in sacrament meeting I got the great opportunity to sit next to one of my FHE brothers who was just so nice and just asked me about my weekend and just nicely was talking to me. During sacrament meeting he decided to make and airplane. Immature was my first thought... Then he leaned over to me and said "I am going to write you a note on this airplane, but you can't read it till after sacrament meeting." and again I think, immature. But I say okay. He hands me the airplane and I set on my lap, waiting impatiently while all the speakers began to speak and finally the meeting came to an end. I have no idea why I was so excited to read this note... seriously. I was just so excited. So I open up this note and I was floored at what it said.

"Dearest Erin, First of all you are awesome! Next I would like to tell you I think it is really cool that you stopped texting when sacrament meeting started, thats really mature and a lot of people your age don't do that so thanks for being so reverent and a great example to me :) Love your fhe bro, Ryan"

I was having a crappy day, this note made me feel so much better.
Who knew that me putting my phone away during sacrament was such a big deal!? It was something that I always just did. The Lord doesn't sit and text while we are praying to him, so why should we be on our phones during sacrament when his servants are trying to teach us about his gospel. Putting you're phone away is the least you could do. I am so grateful for parents who made sure that I didn't have my phone with me at church, ever. I need to stop taking it to church again.


16 days till I am in Mesa  for my lovely cousins wedding :)

what makes me feel better

The only thing lately that has honestly made me feel better is writing. Weird, I know. Especially since in high school that was my least favorit subject. But I have been so confused and frustrated since the semester has started, writing is the only only only thing that has helped. I don't know why, maybe because it is just a release of all these emotions I have pent up in my little body. Who knows. All I know is that it makes me feel better. That is all. 

I love my Family Home Evening group. Tonight we got the chance to go to President Riggin's house! Such a freaking awesome time. We had a lesson and then he made us the greatest waffles I have ever had in my entire life. Such a great guy. I got so lucky this semester with 12 awesome fhe brothers. wassup.

Rexburg got a tonnnn of snow today. It snowed all day long. My favorite part about the day though would have to be that it wasn't freezing cold and windy like it usually is! I was so happy. Weird how weather can effect your day like that... I love it. Sledding = amazing. But with ice underneath the snow... ouch. Good thing I was completely numb anyway so it didn't even matter. I am looking forward to more and more snow. I am almost positive when I walk to class tomorrow I will fall about twelve times and have to walk in ten feet of snow... okay, I exaggerated a little bit, maybe. 

Well, we had a puppy. For a weekend. 

it's from my phone camera. 

our baby:)

his first bath ever :):)

gahhhhh:)

The story of our puppy. 

Friday night my roommate Syd brought home our lovely puppy. We had the greatest time together. Giving him a bath and snuggling with him. He was so so scared the first day. He just kept on shaking because he had nooo idea what was going on and who these crazy girls were. (well, the crazy girls were my roommates... and me) The next day puppy was just so happy and playful. But, what we didn't know is that he kept Syd up all night. She ended up not going to church and just napping with the puppt all day. Sunday night was hell. He was crying and barking all night. SOO not okay, especially since we are definitely not allowed to have pets here in the lovely Ivy Apartments. So, today Syd and her brother Craig went down to Walmart and sat outside looking to give away the cutest puppy from hell. Eventually two little kids with their mom got to take him home. It was a good experience and we know that we do not want to try and have a puppy in this apartment again. Such a fun weekend though :) 

This was probably the best and most shocking part of my day today:

I got a letter. Hand delivered. You know who you are, thank you. I don't have the courage to see you. Or even talk to you right now. But eventually, I will come around. There is so much I want to say but I have to wait for the right time. 

We will definitely maybe fly to the moon.

I am ready for more snow Rexy. Bring on the negative temperatures. 

As of lately.

The semester has been rough. But I think it is looking up. :)

I honestly don't think that I have ever been on this many dates in my entire life. I had a date last friday, monday and tonight! wow. Really, I have not been on this many dates ever... It is quite an exciting thing. Maybe it is because I'm not a first semester freshman anymore... ;)


So one night, we were just sittin around and then... i found tattoos.

mine says fun. cause obviously, I'm fun.

he's a little buff :)

Casey's tat says true, because.. yeah. 

On Monday, we got a mysterious knock, no, pounding on our door. We opened the door to find this.

what.... hahahahahahahahahahahhaahha.
 all we could do was laugh. I was the first brave person to try the cookies. They were very interesting.. definitely not my first choice of cookie... ever. But it is the thought that counts. Thanks fhe brothers :)


Hello Rexburg :)

Thank you for being such a mild winter.