Birthdays and Parties Galore!

HEY GUYS!

Sorry it's been a while since I have updated! It's been a super busy two weeks or so since my birthday!! So this is going to be a super long blog because I have so much to tell you guys! Where do I even begin.. Well for my birthday I received two awesome packages and so many lovely cards! I felt so loved and it made my whole week to be getting things from you guys!! Thank you all so much for everything! I had a huge party on the 21st that turned out quite lovely! There was so many people I didn't know, which actually is really weird because I had to walk up to them and be like OH! hey.. welcome to my party.. It's my birthday and my name is Kara.. and your name is? Haha! It was kinda crazy! Vanessa (my german buddy) hosted it at her apartment and we seriously had a blast! I am so lucky to have awesome friends and roommates! My birthday was on a Monday so we had FHE. We went to the old folks home and sang them hymns and then came back and did cake and ice-cream for me! I posted videos of my FHE group singing to me! So make sure you watch those. It was really funny and you get a glimpse of some of the awesome people I spend my time with! Here are some pics from my party and birthday!

My package from Mom and Dad and the girls :)

I got an ipod stereo and cell phone case with the gift card from Grandma and Grandpa Flanagan

I got chocolate from my Relief Society!

I got a necklace and letter from Todd!

Weesha made me cupcakes for the party and got me that awesome Spongebob balloon!

P.S The sweater I'm wearing is from Connie and Justin! :)

Athena, Alisha, Me, Andrea, Ashlin (alisha's roommates) and Rachel

Me and Jasmine:)

My Roommates! Carolina, Savanna, Me, D'laynie and Rachel. We missed Jeanie :(

Elaine (Vanessa's Roommate) and Vanessa

I love Vanessa so much!

Mardi Gra Themed :)

SISTERS!

My roommate Rachel made me a cake for FHE since my birthday was on a Monday and the last pic is me waiting while people sang to me and thinking of a wish!

Alright! So on Tuesday the 24th, we as BYU-I students have a devotional every Tuesday for about and hour. There are no classes scheduled during that time and it's a great thing to go to on Tuesdays! We were privlaged to have one of the 12 apostles come and speak to us! How cool is that!! Elder L. Tom Perry came and he gave an amazing talk! He talked about the importance of family and keeping your family strong in this world and sticking together. He also talked about us being willing to share who we are and taking advantages of new opportunities. Our support system is the church! I loved how he said that. We need to be optimistic and be free from the worldly things. Leave a positive change and be bold in our declaration of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. You reflect the light of Christ. If you go here https://web.byui.edu/devotionalsandspeeches/speeches.aspx you should be able to read the whole talk if you like! It's called Scaffolding of Our Lives! It was so good!! I have never seen the I-Center so full on Tuesday like it was this day! It was amazing! All four levels were packed full!

You aren't really suppose to take pics.. but I'm a rebel and did anyways! It was so cool how many people were there!

So then after that it was just a week full of studying and going to classes! Then the weekend came and Vanessa and I yet again went to Idaho Falls! We went to Olive Garden which was so delicious and probably the most full and actual meal I've had the whole time I've been up at school! It was definitely worth the money!

This is the pretty sunset from that night :)

FHE this week was so much fun! We played bigger or better! Whoo! Basically we got put into groups of three and you start out with something like a pushpin. We have to go to someone's apartment and ask them, do you have anything bigger or better than this pushpin. We got some of the most random things ever! We went from a pushpin, to a letter, to a magazine, to a teddy bear, to a pizza box, to a candle sense thing, to a huge coloring book and then a movie poster.. guess what movie! TWILIGHT! Yeah we so won! None of the other teams even came close to being as legit as us!!

We rock :) That is Liz and Keane with me!

So following that my roommates and I decided we want Jamba Juice! So off we went as roommates and friends to get a delicious smoothie!! We had so much fun singing in the car and partying it up and drawing pics! It was so much fun!!

This is me, Jeanie, and Carolina on the way out to the car.. haha

And here we are enjoying our smoothies! These is all my roommates except D'laynie! So me, Rachel, Savanna, Jeanie and Carolina! I love them :)

Vanessa and I also heard there was a duck pond here.. so we went on an adventure and found it!! :D

Okay! One more thing before I stop writing! I was walking through the store we have, called Broulims, and I couldn't help but take a picture of this aisle...

Only in a Mormon town would this much jello be necessary right.. Haha! There is also a huge aisle for food storage.. Yeah so awesome!

Anyways.. That's all I got for now! I won't update for probably a week! Have a good week all! I love and miss you bunches!