So the new trend-one Blog Post per month:) haha

hi! like the title says, I guess our new trend is to post one blog per month. because now its December... so here goes:

As usual, we have been so busy with life. After our crazy Thanksgiving trip to Las Angeles California (lOng story maybe I'll write about it another time) , I was sick for the following couple days and didn't work or go to school and that always stinks :( And since then, we have been just on our toes catching up and gathering our energy to finish up the semester.

The past 5 months have been wonderful and difficult but a special special experience as well. Being a student after getting married has been probably the best time of my life. If you want to do well in school...get married! haha. Maybe thats not true for everyone, but for me and jordan it defINAtely has been true. Because I have grown so much since meeting Jordan, I have taken a greater pleasure in the responsibility of an education and balancing a marriage. Since we mostly just want to be with each other, doing homework isn't a hassel because we're together doing it :) And when I get frustrated and sick of doing what I'm doing, he is here to cheer me up and give me a break :) I just love it.

Jordan and I went to Cafe Rio' the other night to share an AMAzing salad, and when we get in line we start talking and all of a sudden this tall guy in front of us turns around and says hi to jordan and it seemed like he knew him well, and I was thinking, oh another mission friend,... no. It was the teacher of his very favorite class, his Visual Technologies teacher :) WEIRD THOUGH, because Jordan told me that he just graduated from Dixie last year, and now this year he is teaching there so thats why I would have mistaken him for a mission friend. His teacher was there with his cute wife and 2 little girls. adorable! We are hoping that this teacher can maybe teach the Photoshop class that we will be taking together this summer!

Big Things Going On:
-I have a Piano Recital on Wednesday!!! AH!!! It's my first Piano Recital in like 2 1/2 years! I'm excited because it is the first time that Jordan will be there, but I am sad because for the first time in 15 years of piano and recitals, my parents wont be there :( Its very very sad, but its part of going away to college and choosing to be a million miles away. My parents haven't even seen me play piano since I started lessons again and all my new songs :*( but last week i played my songs for them on the phone, and my mom and dad told me which song they liked the best, but it wasn't the one that i was ready to play for the recital, so i joked to my mom that i chose to play their least-favorite song for the recital so that they wouldn't be missing anything :) haha.
actually its true though lol.
i miss them so much, and i'm devastated that I don't get to come home for Christmas AGAIN! ahhhhh. After this Christmas, i will have officially missed the past THREE CHRISTMAS' AT MY GRANDMAS HOUSE :*( so sad. Truthfully, Christmas doesn't feel so happy because it's that magical time when everybody wants to spend with their family and get time off work and school to take a break and go home and be with their family and enjoy the spirit of the season, but thats not whats in store for me this Christmas, and I just wish it was. Another truth: "Holiday Season" doesn't feel like anything special in St. George, Utah because there is no snow, barely any lights (you can't even really see the lights that aRe up because there is no snow for them to shine against) no Christmas music stations???, No candy-cane lane, no Santas around, it just doesn't feel Christmas Cheery down here :( I guess thats the price you pay to have 60 degrees in December) and NO Palicks down here :( aye. i just miss my family alot. my sisters are growing up and I don't even know them anymore because they have grown up so much and are such beautiful young women now, they have beautiful hair, and are 10 times prettier than i EVER was at that age! haha.

SOOOO: On a brighter note: I could not be more excited because this is my first Christmas with my new HUsband! HOW WONDERFUL :) He is so wonderful and adorable and would do anything and everything and does everything to make me feel good and feel happy :) He is the most patient loving gentle person that I have ever met, and he is my perfect match, my opposite :) He is soft, I am rough, He is gentle I am rigid, he is quiet i am LOUD , he is everything that is good and wonderful while I am basically the opposite. He is perfect for me and He is my most wonderful beautiful bestest Christmas present:)
But mom, i still want you to send me a package as LONG AS IT HAS A LETTER IN IT TOO!!! haha :) My mom is so nice and sends cute packages to me and Jordan, but sometimes she forgets to write a note or letter to me, so I told her she needs to remember, and so last time she almost forgot but grabbed a piece of paper last minute and wrote me a short cute note :) love it :) i just love seeing letters from her because they are written in her handwriting :)

ok well See you on the other side of exams everyone! I'm not worried about any of mine except Ear Training and Geology!! aye. Love you all and hopefully between tests I can send out some Christmas Card/Newsletter Updates! :)

PS>Paul& Esther i LOVe/MISS you both!!! :) if you guys want to forward this blog to other people in our ward, that would be good just because I don't have ANYONE else's email address!

PPS> I will also try to write another blog post on a much brighter note concerning this holiday season. i'm just still sad because my recital is in two days.

Midterms! Already?!

Hi! :) Midterms last week and this week! AYE!

Already its come so fast! So Jordan and I had most of our exams last week:
-Math
-Analyzing Movies-Jordan
-Visual Technologies-Jordan
-1/2 of our Geology exam
-Music Theory-Melissa

and next week we still have
-the other 1/2 of our Geology exam
-Ear Training&Sight Singing-Melissa

So its been very busy and stressful because jordan just got over being SOOO SICK, SOO SICK with strep throat, and seriously he was on his death bed with a bad fever and constant body sweating that made the comforters and sheets wet, fever, chills, WHITE ALL OVER HIS THROAT, vomiting?, etc. it was bad. finally he started getting better after two things:
1) his (doctor) uncle prescribed him antibiotics,
2) we realized that Ibuprofin is 400% better than tylonal extra strength!!!! AHH!!!!

So thank goodness jordan got over his sickness just in time to catch up before exams started.

^So where are my parents right now?
-answer: On their way to Hawaii :(

^do i miss them?
-answer: yes. :( alot.

^who got engaged this week?
-Jared and Britt

^Who is on their way driving back from Wisconsin?
-Angela, Jared, and Britt, in angelas car

^Who in the family is going with to Hawaii?
-answer: dad, mom, grandpa, carrie (and probably carrie's Webkins haha :)

yes i miss my family alot. this weekend jordan and I drove up to Orem to hang out with his family and it has been fun. and drama lol, but thats religious and political conversations/arguments at the Johnson's for ya haha

SO: thats about it for now. we still dont have our scooter license's yet, (its registered but we dont have our motorcycle permit yet, because we don't have time to go get it!!!!! )


Sorry that we don't update this vey often, it is time consuming though! we will try though :)

-Love
US :)

School Started This Week...So Pretty Much Our Lives Have Finished This Week

Hi!!!! Ok so Jessica told me that she would add a link to our blog after we actually WRIte our first blog...so here goes :) (also, I'm doing this because I'm procrastinating going back to school to practice piano lol).

So, Tuesday was our first day of school. Let me first give you an idea of Jordan and I's schedule:


Melissa
Mon/Wed

• Geology (with Jordan!! :)
• Music Theory
  

Tues/Thurs

• Private Applied Music (Piano Lessons)
• Piano Pedagogy
• Ear Training & Sight Singing
• Math (with Jordan!! :)
  

Friday

• Success Skills (with Jordan!! :)
• Geology (with Jordan!! :)
• Music Theory
• Private Applied Piano Performance

Jordan
Mon/Wed

• Geography (with Melissa!! :)
  

Tues/Thurs

• Communication Design
• Understanding Movies
• Understanding Movies Lab
• Math (with Melissa!! :)
  

Friday

• Success Skills (with Melissa!! :)
• Geography

SO as you can see its just busy busy week. Jordan found out that his Movies teacher is pretty crazy and outdated (most of their movies are OLD), and his Communication Design teacher was just going to school here last year! And then graduated and now teaches here.
Our math teacher seems to spend quite a bit of time in the sun because he is dark dark! Dark like if you saw him in a picture you would think that something was wrong with your camera! But...thats St. George for ya! (I feel bad though, because I know how he must feel. Jordan and I bought Sunblock and I primarily needed it for driving in the car.... because just being in the car burns/tans my arms and legs. Its ultimately unavoidable.) Our geography teacher is great..... at talking.... and talks alot.....but thank goodness I have already learned how to tell which talking is important and which is So very not important so that I know when to Que in.

My Piano Proffesor is SO GREAT. She is sooo smart, sooo brilliant at the piano, AHHH I'm sooo blessed to have her instructing me. She is my Piano teacher and also teaches my Piano Pedagogy class and also leads the Private Applied Piano Performances. Her name is Dr. Nancy Allred and she is just soo fun and is the perfect teacher to lead me into the next stage of developing into a better pianist. SO-the most discouraging part of my week---was yesterday at my Piano Lesson.... I was assigned three warmups, a theory activity to practice & learn triads, and then THREE NEW CLASSICAL SONGS. When she kept writing down more and more things for me to study this week, I was just thinking....umm...usually I only have one warmup and one song to work on..... so I asked her, how much time do you think I should be practicing... she said, 'Well...if your a true blue Piano Performance major....about 4 hours a day.... but we'll start you at about 2 hours a day and see how that goes.' !>?!?!?!?1/.!??!!?!??!?!?!?! WHAT~!?!??!?!?! ohhh my. Its very intimidating, and I was thinking about how growing up while in high school, I would practice about an hour a day and I did really well.... but now I am still in school....but I am studying P.I.A.N.O. and M.U.S.I.C so i guess that amount of time that I would normally practice (1 hour) PLUS how much time I would spend in High School (about 6 Hours a day) is how much time I Know have to devote to this. Next semester won't be AS difficult because I wont have ALL music classes, I will be able to jump back into English too so that i can be progressing in both.

SO-this week has just been busy and we have also started work this week at the Golf Course at Sand Hollow. I'm still not too sure what my real job actually is, because this week has been pretty random because all week it has just been tournaments and so I've just had all kinds of odd jobs. Wednesday I did Jordan's job with him (because the tournament was over) and it was fun:) we took care of all of the carts and sprayed them down and organized them. They are so cute and they have GPS on them! haha thats awesome.

Ok OKokOKOK well I have lots to do today and I shouldn't really be wasting time?!?! (I'm also watching auditions for "So you think you can dance") Jordan has work all afternoon until 8 and so I'm home by myself and I need to go to school and practice piano for a nice round 2 hours?!?!?!??! WHO DOES THAT?!?!?! haha well I guess I have to learn to be like that.
Jordan is such a great motivater, because I just get so discouraged with how much work it takes to learn, and he really really believes in me. :) and I know that he is soooo smart and SOOO talented at ANYTHING he puts his mind to (a quality which I very much desire to acquire). Already I just see him shining when he talks about his visual technology's class and it makes me soo happy. :)

Jared and Britt come tonight to play! :) :)
BYE!