It's getting coldddd....

September is almost gone and the weather is getting cold. It's been raining lots, the air feels cold and the mountains have some snow already. Danny says that it will get kind of better because that's how fall is in Utah. It's true I guess...the weather seems to be bipolar. The change in temperature is affecting me a little bit. I started feeling a little sick 2 days ago. Today I've been in bed pretty much all day. Danny has been taking care of me. He's the BEST :) He's making some delicious dinner right now :) I should get sick more often heheh jk.

I had a nice weekend though. On Friday, Danny and I got to hang out with a group of friends. We also watched the first half of the BYU football game (BYU vs. Middle Tennessee). We couldn't watch the whole game because we had lots to do, but BYU won! 37-10. Go Cougars!!! :) On Saturday I skyped with my family for a while. Then Danny took me to pick up my Machu Picchu painting! It's all ready to be hung up. I'm wayyyy excited. It looks beautiful.

I also watched the Relief Society broadcast. I really liked it. We are so blessed to have leaders that teach us and help us during hard times. The prophet, Thomas S. Monson spoke at the end :) I'm also excited for next week- General Conference is awesome.
Later that night Danny and I went to watch a movie on campus for Danny's Humanities of Latin America class. The movie was called Black Orpheus. It was interesting. I actually got some ideas for my art homework. Then I was craving some soup (because I was feeling a little sick) but it was kind of late so most places were closed. Danny ended up taking me to Olive Garden :) I love their soup.

Well.... hopefully the weather and I will better this week.

Birthday weekend

I had an amazing weekend. Lots of fun, lots of family, lots of food, not much school done. On Wednesday my Aunt and Uncle came to Utah because one of their nieces was getting married on Friday. They brought my grandma with them. It was great! I love my grandma so much. I grew up with her so she's like my second mom. She stayed in our apt for a few days. She's a wonderful cook so she helped us with some meals. Danny was sure happy to have her around haha. I really appreciate all her efforts to be here for the weekend. She wanted to be here for my birthday! Yep. I'm old. I'm 23. Anyways...I had a great birthday :) Friday night Danny and I went dancing to this Salsa party thing. Ron also went with his dance partner. [Side note: Ron got a dance partner!!! yay! She's way nice. I really like her and Ron is having lots of fun. They will be doing competitions starting next month. I'm so excited for them]. Saturday was my birthday. I went to the temple with Danny, Ron, Grandma, and aunt Pilar. It was a very special and sacred experience. I'm so grateful for Temples :) After the temple, we went out to breakfast. Then Danny took me to Provo Arts and Frame to get a painting all framed. I was way excited because Danny and I bought this painting of Machu Picchu when we were in Peru. Now is finally going to be on the wall of my apt. It's a beautiful piece. Then I went shopping with Grandma for a couple of hours. When I got back there were beautiful flowers on the table and lots of chocolate and a cute birthday card from my sweet husband :) Then we ate dinner. My grandma  made "pato" which means "duck". It may sound a little weird for people but I love pato. It's so delicious. That's what I always eat when I'm at home for my birthday. Good thing Grandma was here to make it for me. It was way good! Then we went to a dance performance (Evidance) that BYU was hosting. It was so fun. They had different kind of dances. I wish they would have had more ballroom dancing but that's just me because that's what I love to dance. The performance was only 1.5 hours so we got home early enough to have some cake made by Grandma. Then Danny and I went for a walk to the Riverwoods. I love that place. It has lots of lights around every night, reminds me of Christmas time which is my favorite season.  Well... that was my birthday. My grandma left on Sunday morning. I already miss her. I'm so glad she was able to be here :)

Sunday was bittersweet. Danny and I went to church knowing that it could be our last Sunday as Primary teachers because we are switching wards. Deep down I was hoping to get one more Sunday. We taught them about eternal families. The spirit was so strong. They were feeling the spirit and were so good. They were very reverent and asked really good questions. They listened and really understood the importance of getting married in the Temple of the Lord. We told them that we were sad because it was going to be our last sunday. One of the kids asked us why weren't we crying if we were so sad haha. Danny said he had some tears in his heart. At the end of class, each one of them gave us a huge hug. I LOVE LOVE LOVE our kids. They have been such an amazing blessing in our lives. I cannot even express how grateful I am for knowing those little angels. After church the Primary president came to tell us that they had new Primary teachers for next Sunday. I just wanted to get out and cry. Well... I did. As soon as I got into the car I couldn't stop myself from crying. I was so sad I wasn't going to see my little kids every Sunday. I remembered how happy I was when Danny and I were called to be Primary teachers. I remembered meeting each one of the kids and see how much they have changed since then. I remembered some of their silly comments that they made to make us laugh. I remembered some of the things that they taught me. Serving as a Primary teacher has been the most amazing calling ever. I really mean it. It was a calling that brought extreme happiness to my life. It was also special to be able to teach with my husband and learn so much from him and from my 5 year old kids.

After church I skyped with my siblings for a little bit. Then we had dinner with Ron and Alyson. Alyson stayed with us for a while. It was so nice to had her over. She is so good at making people feel so happy. Danny played his guitar for a little bit. He's been learning a new song call "I won't give up" by Jason Mraz. I love that song! It's so cute! :)
Then Danny and I drove to the Temple and just talked about goals that we want to work on. One of the things that he mentioned was about making each minute valuable. This was very helpful for me to hear because sometimes when things are hard I can't wait for them to be done knowing that someday it will be better. But he said that we need to value those hard/sad moments in life during the time that is happening because when we came to earth we fought to be here and have those SAD and happy moments. I love the gospel of Jesus Christ. It really brings so much happiness to me.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

School, school, and more school

I started my last fall semester last week. That's crazy. I feel like I've been in school FOREVER!!!! but I guess I have. What am I going to do with myself next year?! Not sure but I'm way excited!

So I was finally able to figure out my schedule :) thank goodness! I got into the classes that I wanted to add. I'm so grateful that no matter how lost I feel with school at times I know it's going to work out. Every semester I can't add the art classes that I want so I have to go talk to professors the first week of the semester and ask for an add code. Sometimes it's very stressful to not be sure if I'm going to get into the class that I want. So far Heavenly Father has blessed me with the ability to get into the classes that I need. This semester I'm taking 5 classes. I'm very happy about most of them. Here is my schedule: 

Spanish 456: M/W/F 12-1pm

English 316: M/W/F 1-2pm

VAILL 310: M 5-7pm, W 5-9pm   (Digital Illustration 2)

VAILL 351: T/TH 4-7pm    (Illustration 2)

VAILL 358: T/TH 7-10pm   (Character Design)

Can you guess which classes I'm not so excited to take? Yep. English and Spanish. I have to take Spanish because of my minor... which I know people think it might be super easy for me because I already speak spanish but let me tell me people that in a 400 level class you don't learn how to speak spanish anymore. I don't even know what I'm supposed to be learning in that class but here we go!

English is my LAST GE ever! haha I really didn't want to take it. I'm not a big fan of English classes. I have a really fun professor which make the class a TON better. She was actually in the show Survivor twice hahah. so fun! 

The really hard thing with my schedule this semester is that I get home super late. I don't have time to make dinner. Yesterday I got out of class early and made dinner. Danny and I ate dinner at 10:30pm. How is that possible?! Ugh... at least it was good dinner :) I really need to figure things out. Danny and I had opposite schedules. His classes are in the morning/afternoon and mine are in the afternoon/evening. He also works a ton and during the time that we don't have classes, we are working on homework. School is already super busy and it's only been like a week. 

I have bad news: my computer is not working so that makes school ten times harder than it should be. Especially for my digital illustration class because I only use my computer! On a positive note, I'm really excited about my art classes. I'm learning so much already! I even have created another blog!!! This blog is just for art stuff. http://kellysmithart.blogspot.com/ I am really excited about it. I created it yesterday so I haven't been able to post too much. Check it out if you have some time :)

Another positive note! Danny and I finally posted our wedding pictures! Don't worry... we only took 9 months lol. We had like 900 pictures and we couldn't put all of them up. We ended up posting about 300 of them. Still a lot of pictures but a lot better than 900. Go us! It's so nice to read some of the comments that people say. I've gotten a couple of messages from people that I haven't talk in a while and they are just so happy for Danny and me. I'm very grateful for friends that show their support and friendship. 

And one last thing.. Danny is such a sweet husband. This week he's been writing with a marker on our bathroom mirror really cute notes for me. The first time drew a heart with our initials. Another day he wrote "I love you, gorgeous." He also wrote a quote from President Hinckley to help me feel better. I'm so grateful for having him in my life. Life is so much easier when he is around :) 

Day before school..... not feeling it

Tomorrow is my first day of class... hopefully. My schedule/life is all over the place right now. I only have 2 classes so far. I'm trying to figure out what I should take this semester. I haven't been very motivated at all. Seriously... I'm kind of ready to be done with school and just keep moving with life. Danny decided to help out and figure out my schedule for me lol. What a wonderful husband! I guess he made me be a little bit more on top of things today. Thank goodness... i was worried about myself lol.

Today was labor day. I spent all day with my Danny. I love those days. We decided to post our wedding pictures. We have sooooo many of them. It took hours to select the ones we are putting up on facebook. It took so long to select them that we didn't even get to the part where we were supposed to put them up. Yep... we are pretty slow. Oh well, I guess we can put them up this weekend. I bet it will make no difference since we've been married for a little while.

Sad news. My fish died!!!!! :( When I went to TX I bought a fish for my siblings and for myself. Of course my fish stayed at home with my family. Today my little sister called me to tell me that Speedy (my fish) had died this afternoon. I was actually sad to hear that. I guess I'll buy another one when I go home for Christmas.

Anyways... it's late and I have to sleep so I can have a good first day of class tomorrow. Wish me luck!