Moving Out!

I was the one that decided that I wanted to move far far away from family to start my own life. I felt like I was restricted when I was home, always needed to ask my parents for permission but since I have been away at college I don't have the restriction. I wish I sometimes do though. I have found myself in trouble a few times this year and I know I wouldn't be in trouble if I still had my parent's restrictions.

I learned in my Lifespan development class that the years for adolescence and early adulthood are blurred. But what I noticed is that the "stages"act pretty similar. An adolescent wants to make their own decisions and to rebel against their parents. The beginning of early adulthood is finding who you are which in turn means making your own decisions and hoping for the best. Some decisions I have made are the best ones I could have made and make me happy....others though just make me feel pretty stupid.

I have 31 days left of my first year at college and I am going to miss it alot!!! I am not going to miss 2 roommates in particular but I wish I were still going to be living with Amanda, Lexi and Jana! I miss my family though. I was looking through my friend's pictures on facebook and she has one or two friends from high school with her in college. I have none. I have had to find my own place here and try to fit in. I am still working on that but hopefully I will sometime soon.

In the meantime, moving away was one of the worst and best decisions I have ever made. I miss my family and still need some guidance but I have also grown quite alot!

Overnighting!

I have the pleasure of being an overnight host for prospective students that think they would like to come to Westminster. I have been getting all the overnights, while I like it, it can be somewhat overwhelming. Tonight, as I blog, I have two overnights. Usually a host only gets one prospective student but this is the first time that I have had two. In my opinion, it is easier to have two because they can talk to each other instead of me feeling like I am doing all the talking :-) I have had girls all the way from Main to Seattle, California to Idaho, Colorado and even some from Utah. They come from all over and it is great. I love that I get to have the opportunity to be the deciding factor for these girls on their college choices. So far, I am 8 for 8!

Life at Westminster...

I'm a lucky one! I live in the middle of everything! If I look out my living room window to the left I see the Wasatch Mountains, if I look to the right I see Salt Lake City. It is so pretty here. The only thing missing is my wonderful family...

On campus!!! next to Immigration Creek

Immigration Creek

Sugarhouse Park

Immigration Creek

Sugarhouse Park

Behnken Hall!!!

On a snowy morning

Walking to class

This is about 10 minutes away from my apartment!!

Our school also offers alot of fun classes like....Antigravity Yoga and rock climbing!!!

Spring Break...

My school is weird. We have spring break in the winter time. Yep! We are special lol. For spring break I went home to Washington :-) It was an awful trip at first but then it was such a good trip I cried coming back to Utah! Here are some fun things I did!

*At the airport eating lunch with Anthony, Kayla and Morgan: "What is this??? We don't pay for our food! We are from Westminster. Do you take shaw cards? It's like a credit card...but not?" (Then Morgan stood up and her chair fell over and hit the waitress) "I take that as a NO???" We were laughing so hard we had to leave lol.

Morgan and I at SLC airport

Anthony and Kayla

*Having Maddi-Moo come greet me at the airport in her little Westminster sweatshirt!!!

I just thought this picture was cute! We matched today! (Thursday)

*Bowling with Aunt Erin, Uncle BB, Maddi, Kobe, Logan, Uncle Chris, Hunter and my siblings! Then Burger King!

*Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday I spent at my Aunt Erin's :-) playing with the midget cousins and kissing and cuddling with Lolo!

Cuddling with me!

Kobe feeding Logan!!!

I was holding Logan's head. Kobe: "Kaitlyn! Can you hold his head? He's heavy. Can you hold the bottle too?" Puts both hands behind his head "Aww much better" :-)

We were both tired haha

One of my favorite pictures of the two!!!

*Friday Night: Game night with "everyone" haha. Then I cried saying goodbye to Aunt Erin and Uncle BB.

*Shopping on Saturday with mom and Grace. And seeing an old childhood friend - Sally.

*Seeing Megan, Marin and the boys and catching up.

*And of course.... Getting searched at the airport :-/

SLC airport

SLC airport

Overall it was a pretty low-key trip, just hanging out with the midgets but it was worth it!!!

From this in December to....

This in March!!! Our relationship is much better now...kinda lol