Once upon a time, Kenzie had a date. With a boy. They were watching a movie in the kitchen, naturally, and I was the only one home other than them. Dearest Brittni made me promise to take a picture of them all sneaky like. And so I went about my secret mission. However, since the two kids were watching a movie, the lights were off and therefore, flash was needed for the picture. I would not be quite the ninja I was hoping. But I got the picture, in fact, I got two pictures! The funniest part though? They weren't even sitting close to each other. Kenzie was on one end of the couch and the boy on the other end and they were turned completely away from each other, knees pulled up to their chest, backs almost to the other person. It was the most interesting date I've even snapped (mostly) incognito pictures of.

The Crabtree

Okay, so there was this point in Winter Semester, when I kept hearing about this "Crabtree" place, that people kept using as a point of reference on campus. Finally, after a while, I asked Emily, "Where is the Crabtree?" and she told me where it was, explaining how it was on my way to work. So, the next time I went to work, I tried looking for this special Crabtree, I assumed must be different from all the other trees on campus. After work, I was walking past the same building I walked past every day, I happened to read the sign, and realized, the Crabtree was a campus building...not a tree. When I explained this to Emily when I got home, she laughed so hard, we both did.

Once upon a time, Brittni misplaced her cell phone. We all searched the apartment top to bottom figuring we would find is somewhere. We had to. However, our efforts were to no avail. We attempted many phone calls to see if we could place the phone by its ringtone. Unfortunately, Brittni had it set on silent. After many frustrating minutes and multiple searches of the apartment, we agreed to take a break and think about other places Brittni may have left her phone. Church, the physics lab, one of her classrooms. Nothing was ringing a bell for Brittni. She remembered having it at the apartment only a few minutes ago. Nonetheless, we all continued to think. It was at this point I went into the bathroom. There, sitting on the little rack where we stacked our toilet paper, on the side of the counter facing the toilet and out of view, was a small blue rectangle. Brittni's cell phone. Of course she had left it in the bathroom and forgotten it was there! And there was much joy and rejoicing in 244 with the rediscovery of the missing cellular device!

Mattress Fight Extravaganza

So this is a blog we began making during finals week. Perfect timing as always. Our title "Secrets of 244" is referencing to our freshman apartment number where we all met and became besties. We pretty much have crazy fun days every day, and now we're recording it for our own personal benefit to laugh at later in life.

One of my favorite memories from the grand Young Hall is one that began as a pretty typical event for girl roommates. We drug our mattresses into the kitchen so that we could all study together while being comfortable, of course! We had left our apartment for ward choir or something, and when we came back our FHE (family home evening) brothers came with us to our apartment. What do you think happened the second they walked in? Yep. Mattress fight extravaganza. It was a combination of body slamming with mattresses, supermanning from the top of the stairs onto the mattresses, and seeing how many people can pile on top of a mattress with someone underneath it. (I never said it was safe...) The aftermath included bruises and disfigured mattresses, but it's definitely a good memory!

<3/ B-ni

Fun Memory off the top of my head: The time when I was in the bathroom taking my contacts out, and one of them got stuck in my eyelid, so I yelled for help and in come all the roommates to the bathroom to assist me. So while I held my eye open, everyone instructed me on where to look while one of them reached in and plucked the crumpled up contact out of my upper eye. It was truly a crisis! Luckily I have roommates who are willing to pluck contacts out of my eye, true friends right there!

<3 Biz