I am finally back from my 3 week long tour of the North West. We went to Salt Lake City, La Grande, Seattle, Orcas Island, Everett, Lincoln City, Cottage Grove, Coos Bay, Medford, and Davis. It was a very...interesting 3 weeks. We got to do a lot of fun things like sail in Seattle and visit the space needle. Speaking of Seattle, I have renamed Pikes Place Market, it is now called fruit heaven. We went to the redwoods and spent some time on the Oregon coast.

Colt and I are in the redwoods with our good friends Dave and Marlayna. This was us being rebellious and being 10 minutes late.

Other than doing those fun things, we spent our time driving (and driving and driving), performing, setting up theaters, getting yelled at, dealing with team romances and drama, missing our friends, never having any free time or alone time, eating gas station food, living out of suitcases with host families, skipping meals, and never sleeping.

It was a fun trip, but three weeks was way too long and I was definitely ready to come home. I did have a break down in the middle of it, but thankfully Colt was there to make everything better. The trip was bittersweet for me because I know that this is the last team I will ever be on. I have danced since I was 5 years old, and trying to imagine my life without dance is really hard, but I am moving on to bigger and better things!

Now I get to look forward to going home this weekend with Colt. I am so excited to go to my bridal shower, hang out with my family, and go to Matthew's farewell. I can't believe he is leaving so soon, but I'm so excited for him!

I HATE moving! I have put off packing and organizing for a while now, and today I decided I should finally start getting ready to move. I took everything off my walls, took my curtains down, and started packing things. Now my room looks bare and lonely instead of being full of pictures of my friends and family, and I can't stand to be in it. It doesn't feel like home anymore.

The worst part is that I'm having a hard time being motivated to move since I'm moving into an apartment by myself. I love my new apartment and I'm so excited to get married, but I'm dreading a summer of living by myself with my fiance 5 hours away. I'm used to having my best friend in the room next to me so I always have someone to talk to. I'm going to miss living with her and it's not going to help being alone. I'm just trying to remember that at the end of this summer I get to marry my best friend in the whole world and then I'll never have to live alone again.

3 finals left and then no more school until August!

This is a picture of my wonderful trip to Disneyland with Colt and some friends. I got my ring while I was there, and I'm currently so tired that I have nothing else to post about the trip. It was a blast though!


I know I need to update my blog more, but at the moment I'm just so sick of school, work, and ballroom that I'm too worn out to write anything. Maybe when finals and concert are over I will be able to have a life again.

So I said I would post more wedding details and here they are. This is a picture of my ring. We bought it yesterday, but don't have it yet because it had to be sized. They said it would be ready on April 10th. I'm very impatient. But I love it and I'm so excited for it to come!

In my last blog I mentioned some exciting news that was coming later, and now is the time for that exciting news. I have held this secret in for a little over a week now and I can't take it anymore...it's killing me!



We are getting married!! On August 15, 2009 in the Denver Temple, Colt and I are getting married. I'm so excited! I don't have my real ring yet (when I get it, I will definitely post a picture), but Alli and I picked it out and we are going to buy it this week. Until I get that ring, I'm wearing Colt's mom's old ring.

Anyway, I'm sure lots of wedding details will be posted soon and often this summer, but until then I'm just so excited to be getting married to my best friend in 138 days!

No, I'm not dead. I'm really just extremely busy and haven't been home long enough to write a blog lately. I have spent the last month doing tons of ballroom things. We had Dancing with the Stars (the SUU version), a trip to Vegas and Pahrump to perform and compete, a mid-semester tour around Utah, Arizona, and Nevada, and today we leave for Idaho for the weekend. Our mid-semester tour was fun. Most of our time was spent driving, sitting in theaters, performing, doing workshops, and hanging out, but it was fun. I loved getting to know people on my team better, and I especially loved spending tons of time with Colt. He had to drive his truck, so Marlayna was kind enough to always assign me to his truck so I could be with him. It was exhausting though. We traveled about 2000 miles on the whole trip and performed all over the place.

School and work are crazy as well. I'm busy trying to find time to study for my exit exam so that I can graduate next year from school. I have to take that in April and it is apparently very difficult. It's hard to believe that I'll be graduating next year, it feels like I just got here!

Other than that my life consists of finding time to sleep and eat (both kind of rare) and missing my family. That and some exciting news which is coming later...

On Saturday I started to get a horrible cold. Sunday was spent laying in bed miserable and sleeping until I had to go to work and stay until midnight. It was awful. I just sat on the service counter and did nothing for three hours (no one in Cedar City comes to Lin's on a Sunday night). So yesterday I was even more miserable. I couldn't breathe and I was coughing and basically just felt horrible. Alli had been bugging me about taking this medicine that she said works really well for colds. I'm generally skeptical of medicines and I hate taking them so I told her maybe later and never tried it.

Last night I finally caved. I went to Walmart with Alli and got Zicam. It's like a miracle! You just squirt it in your nose and then all of a sudden you can breathe! I love being able to breathe. It made it possible for me to sleep through the night and it makes it so that I can function during practice. I wish I could make a commercial for Zicam because I would totally rock that commercial. I will use Zicam for all my future colds...I will never go back. It is seriously so amazing.