Caitie the Red: Dead Week

This week was Dead Week at Utah State. Why is it called Dead Week? Because you would rather be dead than have to go through it. On the reals though. But, I'm here. Made it to Sunday night. Now all I have left in this semester is Finals Week next week and then after that I get to go home (blessings and praise) and get my wisdom teeth out and have Christmas and go to the cabin with the fambam and then it'll be 2016 (holy) and then I come back to school a few weeks later.
I. Am. So. Pumped.
On Monday we had the Kappa Delta Christmas party which was so fun because it was a good excuse for me to stop studying because they had cookies. I love all of the traditions of Kappa Delta (aka the giant glittering Christmas tree that is set up in our front window.
Dear USU Students, please admire our decorating skills as you walk by.

Aunt+Twiddles+Big

You know when you move to Utah and you're like, "there's temples all over the place here, I'm going to go to the temple like once a week because that won't be that hard,". But then the reason that you moved to Utah was to go to school at the greatest college ever

*cough I'm talking about Utah State University here, not BYU cough*

so then you have homework up to your eyeballs and have to move onto the library's third floor just to keep up with it. So now it's December and you've gone like four times. Oops. Luckily I have Allie to keep me on top of my game and go to the temple with. This week was pretty hard across the board with people acting like middle school girls, due dates sooner than they need to be, professors cramming last minute information, headaches and cold dorm rooms, and milk that might be expired but you're so hungry that it's a YOLO situation. But, I am so grateful for the overwhelming feeling of peace I can feel in the temple and for the spirit that is in there. I love the Logan temple and am so grateful for the blessing that it is in my life and that Allie comes there with me. I love to see [and go inside] the temple.

On Saturday at KD, the Girl Scouts came over and we had a Christmas party where we did lots of crafts that showed how people around the world celebrate Christmas. The Girls made cookies, hand wreathes, and beaded ornaments that we SO cute. I love the philanthropy of Kappa Delta and for the way that it inspires these Girl Scouts to go confidently and do great things.

After Edwin's baptism and a really long waiting line to unlimited breadsticks (college dreams) at Olive Garden, Jackie Dean, Edwin, and I went to SigEp's Great Gatsby party. Even though I felt like I was going to pass out and die, it was still awesome. Every second of the thirty minutes max that I was there.

The 20's must have been a "roaring" time.

"You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful [people] I have ever known and even that is an understatement," -F. Scott Fitzgerald
I love Kappa Delta Beta Delta

This morning at church, we had our Christmas sacrament meeting and it was so different than any of the other Christmas programs I've even been to, but it was so cool because we got to sing lots and lots and lots of Christmas songs which I love because the Christmas hymns are some of my favorite things about Christmas. I think we sang just about every Christmas hymn today. Not even mad.

PS s/o to the Lower Lights' Christmas albums- listen to asap