Brooke's Visit to BYU!

This weekend my best friend and long-time roommate finally decided to show her face again after a long-awaited absence from the BYU social scene! We had an awesome weekend that didn't last long enough. I went with Brooke's older brother Taylor and one of my roommates Lauren to go pick Brooke up at the airport and it snowed and rained the entire time. By the time we got back to BYU from the Salt Lake Airport there was three inches of snow on the ground. I made Brooke and 9 other fellow friends my Mom's poppyseed chicken casserole and I was super proud of myself. We spent the rest of the night having tons of fun with probably around 30 people coming over to visit Brooke. On Friday we had some big plans. On Friday I spent 6 hours in the hospital as Nick got surgery on his finger to reattach his tendons in his left index finger. The surgery took 1 and a half hours and was really intense. He was under general anesthesia and looked so tired when he woke up. He kept forgetting where he was and how he got into the car and anything that had to do with the surgery because he was on the drug Versed and he didn't really "wake up" until a couple of hours after the surgery. It was so funny but at the same time I was really scared by it too. Luckily the nurses said it was normal and I calmed down a bit. Even though it was just his finger he has a wrap all the way up to his elbow and he has no use of his left hand for now. He will be in therapy for his hand for 8 weeks! I feel so bad for the kid.

So after that long ordeal, it was Amanda's 20th Birthday Party! I borrowed a dress from my roommate from last year Caitlin and it was so cute. The party was at Steven Covey's pool house and it was huge. Amanda had over 150 friends that attended and it was seriously like a mini-prom. The party was themed a masquerade and we had such a blast taking pictures with our masks and seeing everyone together dancing.
On Saturday we had a girls day and saw the movie Leap Year. It was a really cute movie in my opinion, but I'm not exactly a movie critic. On Saturday night we were able to go to Brookes Grandparent's cabin with a group of about 20 people up in Springville Canyon. The cabin was homemade by her family and it is a really neat place to be. Nick was able to come because he was high on Vicoprofen :). We played Outburst and watched the movie Forever Strong. I had never seen the movie and it was really good.
Sunday Brooke spent the day with her family and we stayed at home most of the day. Monday Brooke made really good Thai Chicken for us and we had a Girls' Night Sleepover!!! It was so fun and we stayed up late talking about all sorts of things. She left this morning and it's been sad without her. Although I did get to go have my hair redone so that cheered me up a bit. Anyways it was so good to have Brooke here and I can't wait 'til next year so I can spend every day with Brooke!