Change

Finals are over, I've moved out of my apartment and back into campus plaza, my friends are graduating, some went home for the summer and life is just all around changing.

What is it about change that makes people so crazy?
I guess that was a silly question, people are scared of the unknown.

Things here at campus plaza sure are changing a lot. My little apartment has become quite emotional. Change is takings it's toll and creating some momentary chaos.

Maybe change wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't so drastic every 4 months. With every new semester comes so much change. I wonder if life will calm down after college.

For now we are all learning how to deal with change. I hope we make it through.

Final List of FUN: Winter 2010 edition

1) Chipotle run!
2) Cold stone for dinnner...actually just crazy amounts of sugar all day every day
3) 1 am runs to Wendy's for frostys
4) Finals Haikus
5) 1 all nighter, this will probably happen while we attempt to pack the crazy amount of stuff we have in our apartment
6) Listen to Ingrid and Owl city on repeat
7) Facebook and Blog stalking
8) Dance Party
9) Watch You've Got Mail...Ali and I have had this movie playing constantly in our apartment
10) Breakfast and Gilmore Girls with Heather!
11) Cupcakes at the Cocoa Bean Cupcake Cafe
12) Sunday Pancake Party at Miranda's
13) Thai food with Becky

My favorite week of the whole semester has arrived. Ali and I are carrying out our finals week traditions with this semesters Final List of FUN! Hopefully we will have time to cross everything off the list. This finals week is going to be EPIC! Just like the last 5 have been!

Owl City

Ali and Trevor decided they wanted to go to a concert. So we decided to start finals week off with a little fun and go to the Owl City concert.


I couldn't see over the heads of most of the people, but Ali said this guy had some pretty great dance moves.


Ali, Becky, me, Trevor

Ali and Becky standing their ground.
We were not going to be pushed around.

Excited to be there

OWL CITY

Well finals week has begun!! My favorite week of the whole semester. Stay tuned for the Final List of FUN!!

The Almost Perfect Schedule

Hour		Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
9:00a			NDFS400 - 1 9:00a - 10:15a C255 ESC		NDFS400 - 1 9:00a - 10:15a C255 ESC
		HLTH424 - 1 9:30a - 10:45a 106 RB		HLTH424 - 1 9:30a - 10:45a 106 RB
10:00a
11:00a
12:00p
1:00p			MMBIO361 - 1 1:00p - 2:45p 252 MARB		MMBIO361 - 1 1:00p - 2:45p 252 MARB
2:00p		NDFS201 - 1 2:00p - 2:50p B092 JFSB		NDFS201 - 1 2:00p - 2:50p B092 JFSB
3:00p
4:00p				HLTH311 - 3 4:00p - 6:30p 231 RB
5:00p			HLTH422 - 1 5:00p - 7:30p 206 RB
6:00p
7:00p

Here it is! My almost perfect schedule! I love this schedule. I'm taking 18 credits with no classes on Fridays! I have lots of time outside of class! It is going to be great. The only flaw to this schedule is my Infection and Immunity class. This class is a 4 credit microbiology class, which is very intimidating! According to one student this class is harder than O Chem and Calculus. I really can't imagine a class that is harder than O Chem and Calculus, but that does not sound like a fun class to me. AHHH! Oh well, hopefully that student was a exaggerating a little! And if he wasn't then I a guess I won't have to imagine anymore, I will actually get to experience a class that is harder than O Chem and Calculus.

Festival of Colors

My blog seems to be lacking in cheer recently. Sorry about that. Well here are some pictures from the Festival of Colors. Ali, Bryce, Jeff, Parker, and I had a great time throwing colors and getting messy! Hope you enjoy!


The crowd this year was GIGANTIC!! Much bigger than the last time I went.

Before the throwing began

We are covered!

The whole group


Bryce hates being dirty, he cleaned up as soon as he could

Ali and I looking especially scary after trying to clean up a little

Pizza after the mess

Missing You

I've been thinking about doing a post like this for a long time. I just kept thinking it might be more appropriate or memorable if I saved the post for mother's day, or a big event. Or I might be a little scared that if I don't save posts like these for a big or memorable day then I will always post things like what I am about to post. I'm sorry to those who are reading this, I'm sure the ramblings of my brain aren't making much sense.

Dear Mom,

I would like to say that I am missing you today and just for today, but that's not true at all. I miss you every day, today I miss you more than most. I'm not sure why exactly, maybe it's because I have a lot of decisions to make,
or because tomorrow is the first day of April,
or because I was looking at pictures of Hawaii, cute clothes, and fun weddings,
or because I talked to Max on the phone,
or because I heard that Faith Hill song we used to blast in the car,
or because I want to do a fun sewing project,
or because I was going through my phone messages and heard your voice,
or because I just need a mom.
Or maybe it's all those things and they just seemed to pile together today. Anyway I thought you should know that I miss you, I always miss you!


Love you, Kelsey

Lily Yuriko Shimodoi

My Grandmother Shimodoi passed away on March 9th 2010. She was a great woman who loved her family very much.

Just some things I remember about my grandmother

Growing up my grandmother would come visit me and my sisters every year. When she would come she would always buy us candy and let us chew gum! Which was a special treat because we were never allowed to chew gum. Almost every year we would take a trip to California to visit my grandparents. My Grandmother would come with us to Disneyland and chase us around the park.

Because my grandmother was a school teacher for 20+ years she was very concerned with our education. When we came to visit or she came to visit us she would give us extra homework assignments to do. She would sit down with us and help us struggle through new math problems or our big chapter books.

At her house my grandmother has a little lemon tree/bush. The lemons that come from her tree are delicious. When I would visit my grandmother would pick the biggest lemons from her tree and let me make homemade lemonade. I loved her homemade lemonade, there is nothing better!

When my mom was diagnosed with Leukemia my grandparents came out and lived with us for 8 months. My grandmother spent her days cooking, cleaning, and caring for her daughter and grandchildren. I'm sure it was very difficult for her to watch her daughter pass away. I know that they are together again!

My grandmother loved her grandchildren. One of her biggest concerns was that she wouldn't be around to watch the rest of them grow up. She has 7 grandchildren ranging from 20 to 1 ½ years old.

Last weekend I had the opportunity to go to my Grandmother's funeral and say goodbye. The funeral was beautiful. It was so interesting to learn more about my grandmother's life during my visit to California. My grandmother sure lived an exciting life! She worked hard and was one of the only members of her family to attend college. She, like me, was a cougar and received a BA in education. She taught school in Hawaii, Japan, and California.

Growing up my grandmother lived in Hawaii. Her parents worked in the pineapple fields and pineapple cannery. Her parents immigrated to Hawaii from Okinawa Japan. My great grandparents were not members of the Church, in fact they didn't even know about Christ. My grandmother and 2 or 3 of her 7 siblings joined the church together. I will forever be grateful for my grandmother's knowledge and testimony of the gospel.

My grandmother was a beloved member of her community, ward, and family. She will be missed, but I'm sure she is happy to be where she is now!