Salem Night Revisited? Why, yes!

We had another Salem night last Saturday. It started out with just Derek, Erica, Sierra, and me. Then we picked up a few stragglers. We had potatoes then watched "Have you heard about the Morgans?" then had a ping pong tournament. It was fun! It's nice to have people from home here at college to hang out with.

Katchina...she's not from Salem, but we let her join anyways.

Again, not a Salemite, but Chase joined us too.

Bonfire..

For FHE this week we went out to Beaver Dick Park...yes, that's what it's really called. We combined forces with another FHE group. We had a bonfire and smores. Yep, pretty fun.

Katie and Matt...they're related :)

Mindy and Shelby

Mindy and Kyston

Brian

Calvin and Trenton

Brad, attempting to skip rocks.

Awwww, brother and sister.

Kyston, Matt and Greg

Mindy, Abbey, John, Nathaniel and Kristin

This Weekend

Busy weekend. Katie's family was here, so we had her 9 year old sister here for the night. Plus, Kelsey's brother is here for a few days. It's been fun.

Friday night we went to dinner at TGI Friday's for Allie's birthday.

Saturday we went to dinner at Big Jud's. Home of the 1 lb hamburger.

Sunday we went over to some friend's from the ward. They made us taco's for dinner.

It's been a good and busy weekend.

Ryan

Brad (Kelsey's brother)

Our very happy waiter. He seemed really excited to be working at Big Jud's. Haha

Basketball.

So it is tournament time for our ward basketball team. The only game they has won this season was when the other team forfeited. Haha. Well they won their first tournament game tonight! Haha. Here are a few pictures of their sweet moves.

More art...

Here is some more paintings that I really like. I do enjoy my art history class.

Theodore Gericault, Insane Woman. In the 1800's they started learning of the brain, subconscious, thus figuring out people had mental problems. Gericault was a painter of "insane" people for a book about care for them.

Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring One of His Children. Sorry, it's a little gory. Story goes that Saturn's children were going to be more powerful than him, so he ate them. Nice guy.

Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures. The woman sitting is showing the other woman her new jewelry. She asks her what her treasures are and she presents her with her children.

Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Grande Odalisque. If you will notice, her left leg doesn't seem to fit right. And her torso is extremely long. I still think it's beautiful.

Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, Burial of Atala. This young woman pledged to her dying mother that she would remain a virgin. She falls in love the young Native American on the left. She is torn, so she dies of love sickness. :)

Horatio Greenough, George Washington. Neoclassicism. George Washington with the body of a Greek God.

Salem Night

We had a potluck for all the people here that are from Salem, and surrounding areas. It was a lot of fun. There is at least 30 of us here...only 8 or so came. We ate, played Mario Kart, and had a ping pong tournament. It was a lot of fun!
Loooong post, with lots of pictures. What can I say? I love my Salem people!

Miranda, Derek, Erica, Natalie, Amy, Brittany,Jason, Sierra and Me.

True Oregonians, Granola peace.

Just so cool, they don't know what to do with themselves.

Nice pose.

Roommates

Well I am very lucky/blessed with great roommates this semester. I'd like to introduce them to you. :)

Kristen, from Virginia. Aka... Well, Kristen. She is engaged to Nathaniel. He's pretty much a roommate too. :) Kristen is the sweetest person you will meet. Always positive, and doesn't have a mean bone in her body! (PS. Nathaniel's pretty cool too. Haha. Nah, well all love him!)

Abbey, from Germany (dad is in the military): Aka..Abs, Abber, Abernacle, Abster...I could go on forever. But, alas, I won't. Abbey is awesome. Good talker and listener. She really cares about people and has a great laugh. PS, she laughs at EVERYTHING. (Even my jokes, so that's nice.)

Katie, from Las Vegas. Aka.. Kate. Katie is smart. She knows something about everything. She's fun to hang out with and always has a good story to tell. She's wise, and kind.

Kelsey, from Texas. Aka.. Kels. Haha. I guess that's it. What to say about Kelsey. I think Kels is great. She's very kind. She'll do anything for anyone at any time. Plus she has the cutest giggle!

Mindy, from Texas. Aka.. Baby Mindy, Min. She's the youngest of the clan and my room roommate. We share a birthday, only she was born 9 years after me! She's so much fun. We have a lot of fun breaking out in spontaneous raps and dances. Oh, and she sings like an angel.