A few more FNCE picts:

Some additional picts from open mic. Priceless... for everything else, there's mastercard.

FNCE, FNCE, We All Love FNCE!!!

We had an amazing trip to Denver, Colorado thanks to our bus driver, LeGrande and Le Bus Company. A day by day highlight:

Saturday: We met at 5:15 at the Law Library and finally left at 5:45. We had a Sandra Bullock theme on the bus and watched, "While You Were Sleeping," "Miss Congeniality," and "The Proposal." That was broken up by having our open mic sessions with predetermined conversation topics (i.e. worst dates, most embarrassing moments, etc). We finally arrived in Denver after 9 hours on the bus and suited up to head over to the opening ceremony at FNCE. We were excited to hear from the new ADA President, Jessie Pavlinac and watch her dance a little to Black Eyed Peas. Suze Orman instructed us for awhile on how we should be saving our money. Then... the night life started - we went to the Cheesecake Factory and we had already made some reservations for 50 people... well, someone HORRIBLY messed that one up and we ended up having to wait for awhile. It was fun because the Sisters Duncan and Mitchell came and we met up with some BYU alumni.

Sunday: We went to our first classes and it was many of the students first exposures to "THE EXPO" which is the professional description of adult trick-or-treating (ok... this probably isn't the purpose but we all found the silver lining). We ate at Woody's Pizza and then we went to an AMAZING and PERFECT fireside that Sisters Duncan and Mitchell presented to us.

Monday: We had more FNCE business to attend to. There was a fun speaker that helped us capture the vision of remarkable communication leading to remarkable results... Pamela somthing... More Expo time... more classes. We went back to the hotel and everyone went all over for dinner but most of us went to Dave and Buster's and either went to "Whip It" or played in the arcade. The big event was synchronized swimming... there is a video out there somewhere (hopefully not on youtube :)

Tuesday: Our final day at FNCE... more classes, more Expo... more networking... We had an awesome closing ceremony with Soledad O'Brien. We determined she is best described as classy and sassy. Some people headed back for an afternoon nap at the hotel before going to Wicked, others explored the streets of Denver and had dinner. Wicked was a hit and everyone made it home alive after using public transportation!

Wednesday: We woke up to find a faint snow on the ground and were on the road with LeGrande at the wheel by 6:30. We watched Bride Wars and Dan in Real Life and then... WE HAD Miss FNCE 2009. It was AWESOME!!! We had no idea how talented everyone was :) Special congratulations to Miss Senior FNCE: Michelle Christenson, Miss Junior FNCE: Bree Kidd, Miss Senior FNCE Runner-up: Gayle Larsen, and Miss Junior FNCE Runner-up: Morgan Garlock.

Then we were exhausted... and then we were home. We are all trying to figure out how we can make it to Boston next year!!!!!

champions of the (byu dietetics) world.

This was our last week in our respective rotations. Now, we switch spots with the other groups... clinical and management here we come (respectively). We attended (or presented) at the clinical seminar yesterday and each of them did FABULOUSLY. Today we had the management presentation about our Pen Court experience. Now... we are feverishly prepping for FNCE! Let the games begin!

Tailgate and Celebrate 2

For some reason blogger was funky and wouldn't show me the pictures so that I could put captions on them...

1) Theme day was a SUCCESS. We feel like it went fabulously.
2) We broke Pen Court's dessert selling record... we ran out of all 85 that we had! Molten Lava Y Mountain Cake was AWESOME!
3) Special thanks to Sister Duncan because took care of all of the balloons for us... that was a lot of time and we appreciate it.
4) The Rational oven started going crazy and smoking that we thought theme day would end with a real bang when the smoke alarms went off... conveniently it relaxed itself.
5) The students did great in Preprep and day of service... things went smoothly.
6) Thanks to all of our friends and family that came to support... special thanks to Ann's UTE husband and brother-in-law...
7) One more day and we are done with our production time in Pendulum Court... goodbye, farewell, and amen.

Tailgate and Celebrate!!!

Second Post of the Day

The day started out with Janelle walking in and saying, "Something smells a little strange..." We all joked... Lunch rolled around and Sister Mitchell kept walking by the dining room thinking, "Someone has HORRIBLE gas... they need to leave..." and then FINALLY, we realized that the Eyring Science Center had some "issues" today:
We all had to trek to nearby buildings :)


Today we Management Thursday: We all team up with another intern so that they can discover what we actually do... I especially love this pict.

We can be super busy but we will never pass up an opportunity for a glamor shot.

Crazy Business...

So maybe we had a REALLY busy and dramatic week... we tried hard but lots of crazy things happened that left us EXHAUSTED, stressed, and laughing (out of hysteria?... not sure). But, we are definitely HAPPY. We only have 1 week left in our rotations (tear).

The Sisters are THE BEST and surprised us with an AMAZING breakfast today to boost our morale. Favorite conversation was: our plate is always full, its just always a different entree... only Pen Court Management would make life analogies like that.

(Sister Mitchell even brought us special glasses!)

Yum. We love you Sisters.

Furthermore: We have successfully mastered our Y Mountain Molten Lava Cake

Rebecca is rocking the magic shell. The things we do to further science...