In the Life of Kendy....

So life has been quite uneventful. Basically just school, work and then homework. Last week I went to the Draper Temple Open House and it was amazing! I have never been able to go to an open house because all the temples at home were dedicated before my time. :) It was a really great experience! Just walking through all the different rooms and seeing the beautiful woodwork, paintings, and furniture. Then finally going into the sealing room and looking in the mirrors, just completed the entire experience. But of course we had to finish the afternoon off with some Chipotle for lunch. :)

Well it has been quite awhile since my last post! It has been kind of hectic with school and work and such. It is kind of weird to think that I will be leaving Provo in 3 months! I have mixed feelings because I am dying to go home but at the same time there are still things that I want to do here! I will just have to get everything in while I am still here.
Classes are going just fine. I have some hard classes but they will still be worthwhile. Work is interesting this semester because I am the closing shift. It is almost completely dead and nothing to do. I am part of the closing crew and I have to stay there until everyone has their stuff turned in for the night. Those first two weeks of school were not very much fun. Staying until 9 o'clock is not my idea of how to spend my first week of school. Overall it is nice to get a lot of stuff done and trying to find more things to do.
The social scene is better this semester! My roomie and I made a goal to be more social, which would be basically going to an activity compared to last semester. We have been pretty good I guess because she now has a boyfriend! I swear I am cursed with finding roommates boyfriend, fiancees, and husbands. :) It is my lot in life. Good thing I am moving home and I don't have to worry about finding another roommate!
I am missing my brother dreadfully. It is crazy to think that he has been out for over 10 months!! I seriously can't believe it! It is coming up to the year mark and then I heard it just flies by. It will be wonderful to have him home with us. :) I love him.
Since I posted this on Facebook, I thought I would do it on here just for record. :)

25 Random Things About Me...

1. Since working at the Bookstore, I have found a favorite candy for every season. Quite sad actually but my roommates always benefit from it.
2. I love books in series, if there is a series I will read it and I go crazy if I don't read them in order.
3. Watching movies is one of my favorite things to do on the weekends. You can totally tell by my movie collection. :)
4. When I go home for the breaks, I spend most of my time hanging out with my family because they are so coolio and I love them.
5. I love learning new plants and then seeing them and being able to name tons of stuff about them.
6. I have a hard time shopping without my sister because she tells me what to buy. She is quite the fashion expert in the family. Even my mother won't let me go shopping without my sister with me to help me. I am not even that bad at shopping either!
7. Come April I will be first grandchild on my dad's side to graduate from college! Quite exciting.
8. It totally made my day when my brother added me as a friend on facebook. Love ya brother!
9. I have this great habit of marrying of my roommates. I have not been able to keep any of them for over a year! It is gets quite tiring to keep on finding new roommates.
10. Almost all of my old roommate's husbands have a nickname for me.
11. This may be kind of gross but I love eating hot dogs in my top ramen and I like eating SPAM. I grew up on it and so it is delicious to me. :)
12. I absolutely LOVE Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, Seriously, I am up for watching them anytime. Marathons are definitely my thing! Harry Potter, Pirates, Ocean's, I am all for it.
13. Every night I have to use lavender lotion to help me fall asleep.
14. I have never been to Canada and I live only a few hours from the border. But I have been on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. :)
15. I think I have to rent a u-haul trailer after I graduate to take all my stuff home. I have accumulated so much here at school! Ahhh!!
16. I used to drive a PT Cruiser and it was freaking amazing. When my dad first got it they used to have a PT wave that everyone would give each other in their PT's. :) I still used to get the wave.
17. People don't believe me when I tell them that my old high school now has about 50% Asian and the rest white and some other nationalities. Seriously, look it up.
18. I have this weird obsession with Dave Matthew's Band. It is one of my life goals to see him in concert. And it would be a million times better to see him at the Gorge. :)
19. One of my very first concerts was at the Evergreen State Fair and we saw O-Town. And the best part is I think it was free. :)
20. I have quite a large collection of Beanie Babies in my closet at home.
21. I think I would have a very hard time if I could not do some type of artsy or creative thing. Or cook and bake. I need to do something fun or I have problems.
23. In my life I have never broken a single bone in my body. The closes thing I came to was spraining my wrist rollerblading at a skate rink.
24. I sometimes get quite upset that there is no caffeinated drink on campus. There are those times that I really need a caffeine boost. I swear I am not addicted; I just need a little upstart sometimes.
25. I have a two-page list of books that I want to read in my lifetime. And it just keeps on getting longer and longer. :)

Well as you can see, things are going just fine here in Provo. I am excited to be graduating and moving on with my life. :) I am loving life. :) So long and farewell until next time.

Merry Christmas!

We got a Christmas Tree!! Isn't it beautiful! And we put it up all by ourselves! It was a very fun time! We bought the tree and "trimmings" and then decorated it and watched White Christmas! What a wonderful night. It was superb. :)

Other news, I will be graduating in April! I have decided that I really, really don't want to stay in Provo for another year. I need to move on and start new somewhere else. I feel very good about this and I am excited to do something exciting! It will be great to be back home also. :) I love home :)

And the countdown is on for going home! Officially it will be 11 days tomorrow! But before that I will need to finish all assignments, quizzes, exams, and papers. Oh heavens, I am really quite ready to be done with this semester.

It has been a tumultuous semester and I am glad to be done with it. Well almost done with it. Close enough. We will see how this next semester is going to go. I am taking Advance Cooking, Bidding and Estimating, Landscape Graphics, Soil Science, and Marital Relationships. :) I have to say I am quite excited to take these classes! Now I just have to get ready for another semester. Oh heavens, at least it is my last! :)

Merry Christmas to all!! :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

I was quite sad to not go home for Thanksgiving but I got the best thing to it. I got to spend time with the McD family. :) I love them. They are basically the most amazing family ever. Well beside my family of course! I got to see my best friend since birth and it was great. And you think I am joking, oh no, Heath and I have been friends since the womb. Out mother's would go walking together while they were pregnant with us. Then we were born about 3 weeks apart. :) Anyway, it was splendid to spend time with the McD family.

I heard that my family had a "relaxing" Thanksgiving also. :) Just kidding. I am sorry mother dear for the stress of making an entire Thanksgiving dinner all on your own basically. I wish I was there to help! But some great news was announced that day! My cousin Nichoel is engaged! I am so happy for her! She is an amazing person and deserves quite an amazing guy. :) It is always great to catch up on the interesting things happening in the Holden clan at family functions. :)

And finally, school is almost over! About 3 more weeks and then I am done!! Thank heavens! It has been a touch semester. This break I have been basically doing assignments! It makes me quite angry that professors give you homework due before the break and then the Monday and Tuesday after. I don't think that is very kind of them. :) I will just be very glad when all of it is over. I will miss some of my classes but then again, I won't miss the stress of them. School is almost over!

Love you all... wish me luck on my talk on Sunday!

My mother dear noticed today that I have not written on my blog in awhile. Quite disappointing.

School is going just fine. I am more than halfway through the semester and coming up to the Thanksgiving break! It will be very nice for a break. Even though for some reason they still like to pile on the work! Craziness!

The countdown is 36 days until I get to go home! I am so incredibly excited because I have not been home since June! It has been too long! Hanging out with family, having "sister time" and catching up with old friends. :) It will be a very weird feeling not having Craiggy there. We will miss him terribly. It is a great feeling to think that he is serving and having amazing experiences.

Here is my top ten favorite things about going home (not in order):

1. Seeing my family finally, after so long!

2. Going to the Botanical Gardens with all the lights! :)

3. Watching movies with the family.

4. Having dinner/lunch with friends from home!

5. Christmas Eve feast!

6. New Year's Day Football watching party

7. Shopping with the sister (my fashionista)

8. Wrapping my mother's presents she didn't get to (using my wrapping skills)

9. Taking down the Christmas tree. :( (Sad but I replace it with the putting up the Christmas tree)

10. Talking to Elder Holden! Yay!!!

Well I hope that everyone has a wonderful day! And to end with a quote that I saw today:

"Keep smiling because you never know who is falling in love with it"

Halloween!! I am really just putting this dazzling picture up of my roommate and I for my mother's benefit. :) Here you go mom! For some odd reason she thinks I need to be more social. I mean seriously having 17 credits and working 20 hours a week isn't enough. :) I am just kidding mother dear.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween and did something fun and spontaneous! Love you all!

I was so excited today! I got to do a little floral design but with fall stuff. :) I did this in Interior Landscapes. We had to bring a carved out pumpkin and then we used some wet floral foam. We used tons of different flowers and even some weeds! Our TA went and got some from around campus to use in our designs. I was so excited to do this! I think my favorite part is the lid of the pumpkin that is stuck on the side. :) Gotta LOVE it!!

Classes are going just fine lately. More than halfway over! That is quite a nice feeling that this stressful semester is almost over! I have the wonderful privilege of signing up for Winter classes on Friday! And I get to take Advance Food Preparation! It is basically advance cooking. But I am SO excited! Then I get some of my Landscape classes like Arborioculture, Bidding and Estimating, Soil Science and such. Hopefully it won't be too bad of a semester, it will probably be about 15 credits. But I am thrilled to sign up for classes. For some reason I love signing up for them but when the time comes after about a month of class I get restless. I wonder why that is. Hmmm, very interesting.

The other joy at the moment is finding out what I will be doing next year. Housing, occupation, internships for Spring and Summer, and so forth. We will see how things go!

I had to put this picture up of my wonderful brother Craiggy. This is from my dad's old phone. :) They were putting in the washer and dryer in the condo up in Alaska and Craiggy had to put it in and got kind of stuck in the closet. Oh I miss him! Gotta loves my missionary hermano. :)

It is kind of crazy how things in your life can change so quickly!

This entire past year I have been looking forward to my impending graduation this April 2009. Being excited is a mild way of putting my feelings. I was ready to get out of Provo and back home to get into the real world. This has been my mind set for the past while especially since I am killing myself with classes this semester.

Last week I decided on a whim to look at the major of Landscape Management. I am doing the Landscape Management Minor right now but jut out of curiosity I wanted to see the major. Looking over it I realized that after Winter semester I will have almost completed a little over 70% of the required classes!

Thinking it over, it seemed quite tempting to just stay and extra year and then double major with a degree in Home and Family Living and Landscape Management. So I have been thinking and debating over this for the past week. It just been on my mind and won't leave! You know when you have a big decision to make and you know you have a lot of time to decide but still it won't go away? That is what this was doing to me! It was kind of driving me crazy!

After discussing it with family and friends and praying about I have come to a decision! I know you guys are all anxious to hear! Well this is the decision so far but it might change because that is how life goes. My decision is to stay another year and graduate in April 2010 with a double major! Craziness... I know! So all of those who thought you were going to get rid of me this April, I am sorry to disappoint you in being here in Provo for yet another year. :)