What Makes Me Happy Right Now

1. THIS LITTLE PUPPY- Because apparently when you leave the bathroom door open while you are getting ready for the day the first thing Coco does is hop in the shower! 

2. ABBIE'S COMPUTER- I may or may not have been using Abbie's computer while she has been using my moms, and I may or may not have fallen in love with her little Mac computer... 

3. Being able to see this girl and hanging out before Desert Star.

4. MY FAVORITE COZY SWEATER- I am officially in love with my cozy Union Jack Sweater. 

5. I am super excited for this little girl to come home so that we can celebrate her birthday!! 

6. JOBS- Right now I do not have a job so I have been applying for jobs like crazy and have even gotten a few interviews. Good thing I got my adorable new interview dress!! 

7. SINGLES WARD- I have to admit that I was so wrong about going to a singles ward, because I absolutely LOVE mine!! I love all the friends I have made and I love meeting new people. I also love home evenings where we do fun things like play human battleship. 

8. CRAZY COLD UTAH WEATHER-  Lately the weather here in Utah has been crazy with the fog, the inversion, the ice storm and the endless snow. But the snow sure does look pretty. 

9. HOUSE- While I love how pretty it looks outside, I am loving being inside curled up in a million blankets and some hot chocolate. I love coming home and getting all warm and cozy. 

10. I am super excited for my families upcoming vacation to St. George over Presidents Day!! I love spending time with the family! 

11. TALKING TO FRIENDS- I love being able to text my friends that don't live here in Sandy anymore and being able to keep in touch with them. Especially this girl who is leaving in April for a mission to Uruguay! I will miss you so much Chelsea but I am so happy and excited for you to be able to go serve the Lord!! 

And finally...

12. I am loving this hymn right now and wanted to share it with you! It is one of my favorites!  

New Year, New Post

So, this new year I decided that I would be more current with my blog instead of just random posts here and there. SO, here I am!! 

Life has been crazy lately, but it has also been amazing! I am living at home right now and I am doing a program with BYU-Idaho called the Pathway Program. It is online classes right now along with an institute class and I am LOVING it! I am also going to the singles ward here in Sandy. I love my ward! It is the best ward I have ever been in and I love everyone in it so much! 

While I still don't have much figured out about my life yet, I know it will all be okay! 

I'm Back!!

Hello everybody!! I am back! It has been a LONG time since I last posted on here, so let me catch you up on life. :) 

 I finished at SLCC and started summer break. My FAVORITE little sister graduated from Hillcrest High School!! I am so proud of her!! We had so much fun at her graduation... as you can see we just had the best time sitting through 2+ hours of boring old men talking about nothing.  :) 

I had alot of fun adventures with my friends and family over the summer including a Bee's game, a trip to the Zoo, a rodeo, an awesome Joshua Radin concert with Chelsea, a trip up North, WICKED, watching one of my new favorite shows, Doctor Who :), and finally hanging out with my amazing family!! Here are some photos of my amazing summer. 

I had an amazing summer full of alot of fun adventures!! 

How to Survive Finals

Its finally here..... Finals are just around the corner and for the first time in 2 years I dont feel stressed out about finals..... Well at least that's what I keep telling myself. I have a feeling that a week from now I will not be feeling this way.... 

But after I read this I decided to try the same thing and share a few of the fun, exciting, beautiful things that are going on in my life right now.

-I finally finished unpacking all of my boxes from when I moved home last summer and my room now looks AMAZING!!

-On Thursday I am going to this with my favorite older sister:

(I am also LOVING her new cd, especially this song!)

-In exactly one week one of my very best friends is getting married to the love of her life!! I am SO happy for you Jerica!!!

-Today I walked from my car( parked as far away as it could possibly be) to my class in the POURING RAIN without an umbrella or a hood and I could not have had more FUN!


-I found a super cute black dress to wear to the wedding


- And finally, I am drinking a diet coke and listening to the rain come down outside thinking about how great life is!!

The Simple Things in Life ( My Thanksgiving Post)

You know those moments in your life that at the time dont seem very significant at all but looking back you realize those are the ones you remember because thats when you were the happiest? 

I have been thinking about those moments in my life lately and how they have shaped my life. 

They are simple things like running over barefoot to pop's house and him rubbing my little cold toes while we watch golf and eat croutons and drink juice, or when I was older going to visit him and talking about my future and how he knew it would be amazing- even when I wasnt so sure. I will always remember those times I had with him. He showed me what it truly meant to be faithful and strong in your testimony until the very end.

Those moments when you go pick up your best friend from school and it is like you were never apart even tough you haven't seen each other in months. Or spending your summer with your best friend just sitting on the couch watching scrubs and listening to Joshua Radin. 

And then there are those moments with the ones who know and love you best. Whether its sitting on a bench eating ice cream in Disneyland, a car ride spent laughing hysterically with your mom and sisters and everything, the "underwear" incident.., the van that wouldnt let us out, or even having a "tramtasticday". These memories are ones that I will never forget. All of these things that have happened in my life have made me a happier, stronger, kinder, braver, and more spiritual person and I am grateful for that. My thanksgiving was spent thinking about the simple moments in my life and how I am grateful for every one of them. 

Fall, and other life lessons

Well, it has finally arrived. Fall is officially here. I didn't realize until it came how much I missed fall  :) It is such a wonderful time full of so many changes. All of the leaves changing colors, the cool fall weather and the glorious fall clothes! ( Like this little gem I have wanted for oh so long)

       There are so many wonderful things about these last three months of the year. Its interesting that three of the biggest holidays in America happen in the last 3 months of the year. I am truly grateful that I get to spend these months ad holidays with my whole family this year. There is nothing greater than the family in my opinion. That is where we get our heroes and examples, best friends and companions, and most importantly, that is where we get our strength, confidence, joy and love from. 

I love my life right now. I am so extraordinarily happy and uplifted by everything around me. I know that a big part of this joy and happiness comes from the fact that I KNOW Heavenly Father loves me and hears my prayers. I know that He not only hears my prayers but He answers them, nit according to my timing but to His. I loved President Uchtdorf's talk at the general relief society meeting.  I will end with a quote he said that really stuck out to me. 

"God is fully aware that you and I are not perfect. Let me add, God is also fully aware that the people you think are perfect are not. And yet we spend so much time and energy comparing ourselves to others- usually comparing our weaknesses to their strengths... As a result we never celebrate our good efforts because they seem to be less than what someone else does." 

Forget Me Nots:

1. Never forget to be patient and compassionate with yourself.

2. Never forget that some sacrifices are better than others.

3. Never forget that you need not wait for your "golden ticket" to be happy.

4. Never forget that the "why" of  the gospel will inspire and uplift you.

5. Never forget that your Heavenly Father knows, loves, and cherishes you. 

I'm back!!!!!! 
Sorry I haven't posted for so long!!! I'm determined to keep up with my blog from now on!! So much has happened since my last post!! Where to start!!


I finished up at Snow in April and then moved home. I had an amazing summer and decided to transfer to SLCC instead of going back to Snow. This summer I had so much fun!! I went on a trip to Las Vegas and St. George with the family and got to see "The Little Mermaid" at Tuachan. i hung out with friends and family. I went on a last minute road trip to San Diego with some amazing friends. And I started going to my singles ward instead of the family ward. 
Pretty awesome summer!!! Here's some pictures of my awesome adventures!!

Chris, Liz, Nicole, Abbie, and me at the London family reunion!!

 The Manti temple when Jerica and I went to the Manti Pagent!

Me and Jerica enjoying our chocolate covered strawberries at the Manti Pagent.

Kendra, Me, and Jerica at the San Diego Zoo!!

The view from our wonderful 5 star hotel in San Diego  :) 

I will add more pictures when I get a chance. This summer was also a summer of changes in my life. 

I also decided to repaint and redecorate my bedroom and build a bookshelf into one of the walls. This has been a work in progress all summer and it is almost done now!! I will post pictures of the finished product when its time. I am very happy with how its turned out so far. Thanks mom and dad for all your help with this. 

Also this summer one of my best friends moved in for a few months until school started. I had so much fun hanging out with you all summer Chelsea! Thanks for being such an amazing friend! 

   

   I have learned so much this summer about honesty, happiness, friendship, testimonies, and most of all, myself. I am so happy with my life and I'm so grateful for the experiences in my life because they have made me so much stronger and have made me a better person. I have come to realize what it really means to 

"Love the Life You're Living"  :) 

Life has been so crazy lately. There has been so much going on lately and i have been slacking on my scripture reading and prayers because of it. I knew that something was missing in my life on the days when I forgot to read my scriptures or say my morning prayer and I started feeling really sad a lot of the time. Then on Monday i got an e-mail from my friend who is on a mission and in it he said something I thought was worth sharing:

"Although we are all "sons and daughters, children of a king" we are all different. Everyone of us have our own person struggles and there comes a time in everyone's life when they don't fall on others, and become independent. For a teenager, it's when they're first handed the car keys and allowed to stay up until midnight. I have found a similar feeling in regards to testimony. There comes a time when we need to be converted to the gospel ourselves. No longer relying upon the testimonies and feelings of our parents or influences of the world. We need to be introspective, look at our lives and tell our stories from a gospel point-of-view and see just how the gospel and teaching of Jesus Christ could help us. The bible says there is a "seed for every need" and we all have different needs."

This really touched me and made me think about how I can become more independent in strengthening my own testimony. I know that I am so grateful to have such a wonderful church in my life that is so giving and so focused on the family and the individual. 

I would also like to say happy late late late birthday to my sister Nicole who turned 21 on the 19th!!  YOu are an amazing sister!! Thanks for being you!!!

And happy late late late late late late late late late late birthday to my other sister Abbie who turned 17 in January!! You are such an awesome, beautiful sister!!  Love you!!

Spring Break

Oh my goodness. Sorry it has been forever since the last post. I have started so many entries but I keep putting off posting them.

This past week I was home on Spring Break!! It was amazing  :) I had so much fun just sitting at home relaxing sleeping in and hanging out with friends.  I loved every minute of it  and had so much fun. Some of the highlights of my break were going to dinner with the family, family night with the Kunzlers, sleepover at Chel's house with the VE girls, and my daddy daughter date to Market Street Grill. I would say that all in all i was a very sucessful Spring Break  :) 

Logan!!!!!!

Today has been a great day. I drove up to Logan after my classes today and I am spending the weekend with my most favorite bestest friend in the entire world!!!   I am way excited to go explore Logan and to just hang out with my friend Kim!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Water Update

I am happy to report that our water is now fixed and we have hot water again!!!!! Now if my homework would just do itself then I would be a very happy camper   :)

Water!

Dear Nicole, I now know how you feel. Today we discovered that we have NO hot water!!!!! I am hoping that we can get it fixed soon because I really dont want to have to shower in the freezing cold water!!! And to make things worse it is freezing here!! This is going to be an interesting week! Oh well. Thats okay!

Not a lot has been going on in my life right now. The roommates and I had an awesome super bowl party      ( go packers!) on sunday where i tested my culinary abilities and made this :

This is my awesome seven layer dip that I slaved over for hours and hours. Check out all of our awesome food that we have! It was an AWESOME party. Although I think my favorite part was whenever the Packers would get a touchdown Whitney and Paige would end up jumping on the couch cheering and having our neighbor come over to see if we were okay because he heard screaming  :)


I hate to admit it but I am actually really starting to like this small little college. I have learned so much while I have been going here. I am so happy I decided to go here. Even though at times I feel like I am going to die of boredom or I am complaining about things like how cold it is and the fact we have no hot water, I wouldnt change a thing about my life right now!!!   I am so happy that I decided to go here!!! It has been such a blessing in my life. I know that I came here for a reason and my testimony of this church has been strengthened so much by coming here. I am so grateful for this gospel and how it has enriched and blessed my life. I have truly learned to " Love the Life I'm Living".  

Wednesday Post

Today I am thankful for my puppy!!!!

I love my little coco!!!! I wish she could just stay that size forever!!! Oh well. :) Im excited to see her this weekend!!!!  

Laundry

Today I'm thankful for washing machines. :) I didn't finish my laundry this weekend at home so no i get to do it here. I am so grateful that we have machoines that help us do our laundry so we can do everything else that we need to do. :)

Catching Up

I kind of failed at writing every day so i will write down the 5 things i'm grateful for all together to make up for it. Ready? Here we go:

Thursday I was thankful that I didn't have English class so I could take a well deserved nap. :)


Friday: On Friday i was thankful for family. On Friday my cousin Natalie got married!!

(Me and my cousins Tim, CJ and his wife Christina, Mom, Me, Dad and Uncle Robo at Natalie's Wedding Reception. )

I am so grateful that I have such a close caring loving family. They all mean so much to me and Im so grateful to be put in such an amazing family  :)



Saturday: On Saturday i was thankful for  I was thankful for my bed. I love going home because when i go home then i get to sleep in my big, soft bed at home.  :) I LOVE that bed!!! It is one of my absolute favorite things.

Sunday: On Sunday I was grateful that i beat the awful snowstorm and made it back to Ephraim safely.  :)

Monday: On Monday I was thankful for the office for making me laugh.  :)

Well that's all. :)

SNOW!!!!!

YAY!!! I finally caught up with my posts. Here is today's thankful post.  :)

Today i am thankful for snow. I am thankful for that because today was the first snow of the year here in Ephraim. Well technically the second but the first time it was only for like twenty minutes and t melted twenty minutes later. Today it really snowed.  :) i LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!! It makes me so excited for Thanksgiving and Christmas!!!!!!!  I am so excited to go home and decorate the house for Christmas!!! I love it!!  

English

Tuesdays Thankful Post:

Today i am thankful for my english teacher for canceling my english class on Thursday. It totally made my day.
That's pretty much it. Today has been pretty boring.

Mondays

Mondays Thankful post:

Today was not a very good day. It had been a long hard day and was ready for it to be Friday so i could just go home to sandy. But when i got into my car to go back to the apartment and  turned on my music and Christmas music was playing!!! I forgot that i had my Christmas CD in my car stereo. It totally made my day!!! I was so happy after that!!!! I am so excited for the holidays!!!

Sunday

Sundays thankful post:

Today i drove to manti and explored and i was amazed at this: 

I didn't actually take this picture but I didn't have my camera. Haha. I wish i had sweet picture taking skills like this. That would be awesome.

I am so grateful that i live so close to so many temples. It is such a wonderful blessing in my life. I need to be more grateful for this blessing i have and go to the temple more. I love how you feel when you go to the temple. That feeling of absolute peace and happiness and security. I am so thankful for the temple and the blessings it has brought to my life.

Cleaning ( Saturdays thankful post)

Saturdays Thankful Post:

Today i am thankful for having a day off so that i could clean and do laundry. It was a long day and i was able to get a lot done. Im glad that i stayed in ephraim this weekend. It was so much fun here and i am glad that i get to go to such an awesome school and that i live in such a beautiful place. Ephraim is so pretty in the fall. All of the leaves change colors and it just looks so amazing.  :)