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Here I am entering the home stretch of my junior year of school and lacrosse. Life is crazy. My weekend consisted of leaving for Colorado on Thursday, staying with a family in Golden, seeing the sun, driving home, going to conference, having dinner with my extended family, and playing 3-step-hiding. I have details of it all.
I drove to Colorado with 2 of my coaches, Anna, Brooke, Jordan, and Marie. We talked about cloth diapers (I'm converted!) and my coach's crazy ex-roommates who got her expelled for being seductive. We caravanned with the rest of the team and a suburban broke down just outside of Golden. Luckily, the suburban got to a dealership and Shelby's family helped us out by letting us use their suburban. When we got to our host family's house on Thursday night, the mom said "I have to warn you that we have a pet hamster... but we don't know where it is." I couldn't sleep with the blankets she gave me! But she was awesome and cute and made us crepes for breakfast :)
Friday morning we drove to the hotel in Fort Collins. We changed lanes on the freeway at the same time that a semi was changing into the same lane right next to us. We swerved in and out of a few other lanes to try and avoid the semi and luckily we were all safe. It was so crazy! Brooke has this theory that we all agree with- the only reason we survived was because Marie was in the car. The rest of the ride that day was full of jokes about Chris spearing a deer for us to eat.
We finally got to play in weather that wasn't freezing, but lacrosse was a little disappointing. I didn't get to play as much as I had hoped or expected, and we came home 1-3. We lost to CSU by 1 in overtime, lost to Santa Barbara by 2, lost to CU by 1, then finally had a win against Florida, 14-7. They were all great teams so it helps that we went up in rankings because of our close games and tough schedule. We are now #7!!! A girl on CSU layed on top of Kristin and didn't get called for it so that was definitely frustrating but really funny looking back on it.
I drove home with Chris, Gretchen, Marie, Brooke, and Emily. We played Chris's 'name' game for about an hour to avoid listening to baseball. I accidently kept giving Brooke w's. I doubt that makes sense to anyone, but it was funny at the time. We made the traditional stop to chick-fil-a and talked a lot about Marie's softball team and about how Chris can back us up if any boy treats us badly.
Sunday I went to General Conference with Gavin and Cassie and met Ryann, Newell, Chad, and Felicia there. It was great. I don't know how I had dry eyes through Elder Scott's talk, and I couldn't help but apply Elder Christofferson's whole talk to lacrosse. I can't wait to put all the talks on CD again so I can listen to them more and learn more from them! Oh yah, and church security gave us a ride back to our car after conference!
Then we went to my cousin's house in Saratoga Springs for Austen to be ordained an Elder. We had a delicious dinner and it is always fun catching up with the fam. Somehow Gavin and I ended up playing 3-step-hiding. This deserves its own post so I will put up videos of it soon. We played with my 2 younger brothers and 15 year old cousin...It is a very teenage boy game. So fun though! If you don't know what 3-step-hiding is, look up Hamish and Andy on youtube. I will just end by saying we spent at least half an hour trying to escape a young mormon boy with a car seat in the back of his car.