Our Freshman Roommate

Our freshman year Jen and I were both attending Utah Valley State College (now Utah Valley University) so we jumped right into living in apartments instead of dorms.  We lived at the good ol' Riviera in Provo and I think back on it all the time.  It was such a great experience and we were in the greatest ward ever.  In fact, that was where I met Trent!  I miss it terribly sometimes!

Our roommates were Rachel Rose and Marissa Christensen.  There were like 5 different Christensen's in the ward that year!  Jen and I met Rachel first as we were moving in and we were nervous.  She was a few years older than us and seemed so quiet and reserved.  Little did we know that she'd become one of our greatest friends :)

Rach was in town this last week visiting family and we were able to get together yesterday for lunch!  We just wish Marissa could've been here too! Dang!

I was telling Rach that one of my greatest memories from living with her was on an evening right before Christmas break (in fact I'm pretty sure it was the night before Jen and I flew home) and it was snowing hard.  We had decorated our apartment really cute a few weeks before.  Jen, Marissa, and I were always flirting with some of the guys from the ward and I don't even remember how it happened, but suddenly snowballs were being chucked at us (our door was open for some reason)!  They were throwing the snowballs right into our door hinge so that we couldn't close our door and THEN they were throwing snowballs right into our apartment!  Jen, Marissa, and I were just screaming our girly screams and the guys must have thought they were just dealing with us wimpy, freshman girls.  HA! They didn't realize who they were messing with!  Rach has quite the arm and she wanted revenge! It turned into quite the snowball fight!  It was SO much fun and absolutely hilarious how into it Rach got!  Memories forever!

Oh I miss the snow, to an extent I guess, around Christmas in particular! And I just thought to put up some pictures!  I'm pretty sure these 2 pictures are from that exact night!  In fact Rach was our photographer!

And here are a few more flashback photos from that year (2006-2007).  I am seriously having so much fun looking at all of these :)

80's classic skating night!

Our Valentine's decorating.

We were so young!  I could add so many more but I'll refrain :)  Love you girls SO much!

Anyway, back to yesterday!  We were able to meet up with Rachel and her sister, Maryanne, and go to lunch at Paradise Bakery.  It was great to just catch each other up on our lives and reminisce about our Riv days :)

Here's our picture outside of Paradise.  It was so sunny!

We decided to get another one later in the shade :)

Rach, it was so good to see you!  Now move your toosh on down here ;) But really, let us know when you come back down and we'll do the same when we're up in Utah (and we'll get Marissa in on the fun too!)