Another day in the Eck home

Yesterday was a pretty fun filled day here at the Eck home.
Started putting up Christmas lights. After that I got most of the girls and painted nails with them.

All our toes!!

Aren't we just so dang cute?! I think so! Sophie, Kami, Amelia, & I.
After painting our nails we all just relaxed around the house. Later that night we ended up going caving. Which was an experience all by itself. Nathan decided to take us to a different entrance, which had BILLONS of flies. Ew. But than we turned around and went in the right entrance.

Little Aaron boy

 It was an intense climb. ;)

It was pretty exciting and I think after the first two seconds of being in the cave I gave up on what my clothes looked like. Danny also got set apart as an Elder yesterday. So it was a pretty great day if you ask me. Right away little miss Kami turns to me and goes "Aubrey are you going on a mission?" when she said it it was as if she already knew my answer. I told her yes. :) but when I said it she gave me the saddest look ever!! 

Happy Thanksgiving!

We pulled into Nathan's neighborhood really late Tuesday. The front door to the house is so dang big!! Oh my goodness... 

Do you see how small we look? Alright now that you know it's a really big door. The house is so dang beautiful. The kitchen is to die for. :) Seriously I would never leave if I was allowed to stay the whole time.

Alright after 12 hours of driving in the car and coming in at 1 in the morning we go straight to bed. Well I didn't fall asleep for a while. I was warned that we needed to get up at 6 in the morning for scripture study with the family. So I knew I needed to be up in a matter of hours. Well Nathan comes in at 6:43 (I'm gonna be honest, I was made he woke me up right before my alarm.) As I get pulled out of bed he tells me to put on my tennis shoes. I think I was to tired to understand that meant we would be missing scripture study. Well we go out to Silly Mountain. Even though I was soo tired. It was so beautiful. 

 Don't we look so dang tired!!! Haha.

It was the perfect temperature and beautiful. Thank you to my sweet boyfriend for it. Even though my stomach was doing flips when it was suppose to be romantic. Sorry Nate.  

After that I got to come home and take a nice nap. After that we made food for the potluck with Nathan's buddies from high school that night here at the house. 

Today we woke up and went to play volleyball with all those whom came last night. It was a lot of fun and I totally went flying to the ground for that ball more than once. 

And of course we had Thanksgiving dinner, and watching some football. Even though my Packers aren't playing you have to watch football on Thanksgiving. 

I'm honestly loving it out here and not looking forward to leaving. 

Did I mention it is really nice weather here? haha. It's a pro for Arizona. 

Happy Thanksgiving. Today I am thankful for the Book of Mormon and extended education. Did you think of what you are thankful for? 

Oh and I'm thankful for this week and being able to just relax with Nathan. 

Arizona

Well folks,
it is true. I really am going to Arizona for Thanksgiving Break in order to meet the rest of the Eck family. I'm pretty excited but we will see what happens. It could ultimlety be a horrible diseaster haha. I don't think it will be horrible. I'm truly am excited to go out and have fun.
Nathan has caving, turkey bowl, potluck. And in all middle of that I got a warning that I'll be playing lots of Polly Pockets.
Yesterday Nathan and I doubled with Lindsay and Michael.
We went up to City Creek. I haven't been there yet so that was pretty exciting to say the most. And of course Nathan knows how to make me speechless. Good job Nate. ;)
I gotta go finish cleaning along with packing. I'll hopefully be able to update my blog while I'm in Arizona!

One will be suffering

I am one week away from Thanksgiving Break and I have no clue if I'm gonna make it. I can't believe how much I need to do in the next week in order to be able to relax on my break. Which by relax I mean SLEEP (a lot), watch TV shows, and of course not leaving my apartment because it's so dang cold outside. Sounds like an amazing plan right?
As I watched a group of high school students walk into UVU today I thought to myself "what would I tell students preparing to enter college soon?"
My first and only thought. There is always something that is lacking. It's impossible to sleep, work, school, homework, dating, and friendships to all be on good terms at once. One will be suffering. It can change weekly but one will suffer.
And in my current issue everything is suffering because my super lack of good sleep is killing everything. Because I should never be allowed to lack sleep. It's a really bad idea. Trust me. Even if I get more than 8 hours of sleep a night I just don't have energy come 2 in the afternoon. I gotta figure out something.
Anyways I hope you are all getting excited for some Thanksgiving Day festivals.

With you

I honestly don't understand why my teachers don't understand when they look at me to see if I've done the homework assignment and I give this cute innocent smile and I go, " it was a really good weekend" of course I didn't even think about your homework.

Instead I was seriously enjoying my time driving a scooter for the first time ever. Or country dancing and just doing fun line dances or being lifted in the air. 

Needless to say... It was a really good weekend. Well I guess I can say it was a really good Saturday. ;) Now today on the other had I've had to do some much homework, but I can honestly say that I am glad I enjoyed the weekend. I also signed up for classes for next semester. I wasn't planning on it. But somethings have changed and we will see what happens but as for now I will be going spring semester and I'm taking 12 credits. Well hopefully I'm wait listed for one of my classes. 

Have a wonderful week! Don't forget to vote!!