"Defying Gravity" - Wicked

This week and some of next week is....midterms!!! Ya it's really not as exciting as I make it sound.

Yesterday I had my math midterm...studied a lot! Didn't do as well as I had hoped.

Today I had Physical Science...studied a lot! GOT AN A!!!! I was like bouncing when I walked out of the testing center. I was nervous because I took the test in like 10 minutes and then went back and reviewed everything slowly and then did my essay so it took me almost a half hour. But I rocked it!

Now all I have left is Book of Mormon (which is open book so I don't know if it is even possible to fail that) and Psychology which makes me nervous. But I hear that it is regular multiple choice test. Oh that is music to my ears :)

Man tonight I feel like I get to take a break and not hours and hours of studying :D

"Praise to the Man" - Afterglow

My home teacher is the Brad Pitt of the ward. I have never met him before until today...

Steven is my Sunday School teacher so I already knew who he is. When they first posted our home teachers when the girls found out that he was mine and Jillian's some of the girls reacted. Not in a mean way, just like "You're so lucky!" "I hate you!" "No fair!"

Today I got into RS and sat down at the piano and was trying to figure out what I was going to play. He walked into the room and he was looking around. Then all of the sudden he goes "Where is Lauren Trout?" Everyone kind of looked and pointed at me and and I said I was over here. So he turned around and then put out his hand and introduced himself as my home teacher. It was really loud because RS hadn't started yet but then it just went quiet. After we shook hands and he said he would come and visit us he left. Everyone was still kind of quiet and then people started making comments again. It was funny and awkward all at the same time.

"I Love to Laugh" - Mary Poppins

Last night Shalyn and I went to our first DivineComedy show with Hilary and her roommates. Oh my gosh I almost died laughing. It was sooo good. We plan on going to the next show in November and bring guys too :)


They did "The Cougar Kind" which was a parody of "The Lion King". They changed the songs to all about BYU. The circle of life to that's why we call it the Y. Hakuna Matata turned into UVU. I think that one was probably one of the funniest. And Mufasa didn't die, he was in the hospital at the bottom of the SKWT.


They also did other funny little skits about FHE, dating, shoulder angels, summer jobs and APX. All in all it was AWESOME!! I can't wait for next month. Oh and they threw out glow sticks the whole time too!

"One Family" - Tarzan

This last week for FHE we got to carve pumpkins! But now one of them has died, one has a patch of grass at the bottom, and I'm pretty sure they are all wilting but we had tons of fun carving them!!

This is Kristie, who lives next door, and I carving our pumpkin!

This is our "Dad" he's pretty awesome!

Sam thought it would be cool if like one of us could like put it on our head...so I did! I can also balance books, water bottles, and other various items. I think my record for water bottles is 3, but I can do 2 really well.

Our pumpkins! Sea Creature, The Chimp, Jose and Grandpa Gus

Our family! We were missing a couple of guys because they had other things but it was still fun!

This is The Chimp (who died of rabies) and Jose

Today our "Dad" asked us if we wanted to go to the blood drive for FHE. I told him that he would never be able to get me to do it, but I would gladly go and support my family :) I guess we'll find out tomorrow if we are going to go!

"Not the Same" - Ben Folds Five

You know how when you shared a bedroom you always blamed the mess on being your roommate/siblings fault. Well this time, I can entirely say this is 100% her mess. And here is the proof. No I did not clean right before taking the picture. This is how my room really looked.

Her side of the room

My side of the room

Well later that afternoon I had a "The Best Two Years" moment. I walked into my room and thought I had walked into the wrong dorm. She had cleaned everything up. It looked amazing. So I forgave her. But she did have it that messy for a very very very long time.

"Go the Distance" - Hercules

So I wrote a small post about the homecoming before the game. We won 27-3. Unfortunately due to the game this last week at TCU we lost 7-32. Sad day. So we are no longer undefeated. But back to the game. It was really cold but it didn't snow. We wrapped ourselves up in a quilt and I was pretty warm. Shalyn and I had an AWESOME time!! The Thursday before the game we went to the Homecoming Spectacular. It was actually really good. The Men's Choir sounded awesome. They sang a Welsh song and "Go the Distance" which was this year's theme. Neither of us went to the dances, we just hung out with each other :)

The lit Y. I took this picture from right outside my dorm.

The Homecoming Spectacular

The Stadium

Me and Shalyn

This was after the game. I let Shalyn wrap up in the quilt to walk home in. She did not heed my council in dressing warm.

The next day I got to go to Tucker's baby blessing. It did snow over night but it didn't stick in Provo. We got to play games and eat really good food. It was great to see the family!

"At Last My Past" - TJ McCloud

So I was looking back and I have tons to update on! Currently there are 2 girls in my hall that are engaged, and my RA has been ring shopping so we say she is engaged. Half way through the semester this week!!

so here are some pics from things that probably happened a long time ago.

This is Shalyn at her computer. I spend a lot of time over at her dorm :)


Thanks to Aunt Mitzi for giving me tickets to go see Dial "M" for Murder. It was put on at BYU. I took my friend Allison (left) and Shalyn (right). Allison and I grew up together in Riverside, I think we even went to preschool together. Her and Shalyn ended up on the same floor up here at BYU. So we are kind of like the three musketeers!



This is Shalyn at the General Relief Society Broadcast


My roommate Jillian



They had like a podium on the floor, we were in the Marriott Center, and anyway, it's a color pop!


Jillian had her birthday and so we celebrated. We were heavily decorated. Someone took crepe paper and taped it back and forth in front of our door so the only way in and out was to army crawl. Then the girls next door blew up a bunch of balloons and wrote on them and then stashed them in her room and hung more crepe paper. Her other friend and I took her out for dinner at a pizzeria. It was a lot of fun!

We also made her birthday cake :)

"Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!" - Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne

Man I still have so much to blog about but no where to put my pictures. [sigh]

Today is BYU's homecoming! GO COUGARS! We play New Mexico. The weather outside is frightful. They have predicted snow for today...and tonight...and tomorrow...and then it supposed to warm back up to the 60's. We are just having a freak "winter storm" this weekend. My roommate gave me her tickets so me and a friend are going to the game. Hopefully we won't die of hypothermia. I'm just kidding. I just checked the weather...it is 37 but feels like 32. Oh man I am NOT ready for winter.

Rachel sent me a text yesterday to look up a comic. She said it reminded her of me:
Here's the link I tried posting it as a picture but it wouldn't let me. (You have to click back to previous comic until October 10th.)

Yes Rachel, that is like me. I do take my Sudoku very seriously. :D

"Falling in Love" - Aerosmith

Due to lack of room on my computer, I haven't been able to transfer my pictures to update but soon I will be able to catch up. In the meantime...

A girl on my floor got engaged tonight. I think that's gotta be a record. 4 and a half weeks into school. She said they've known each other their whole lives but still. Wow.