Nasty Rumors!

So the other day at my family party I was talking to my great aunt Jackie. I gave her a hug and told her I loved her.

She replied with " Don't worry about boys and not being married. You can get married clear up to thirty-five!"

I promptly replied " Well, you know aunt Jackie I heard a nasty rumor that people can even get married after thirty five!"

She looked at me like I was crazy. I just laughed!

I hope you are all doing well! I know I haven't written for a while. This is my recent update for all of you! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Love you all!

What on Earth is going on?!

okay this is going to be really quick because I have to go a pretend study for a Math test. Sigh...I really dislike math.

HELP!
So, I am not computer illiterate. I am really quite good. But I can no longer find where to change my blog spot background. Or how to add people to my list! WHAT IS GOING ON! If you have any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated! I am so lost!

The "Im thankful for" game.

I love this game! Every time I feel down and out my roommate's and I will play or Mom and I will play. It is a sure fire way to get rid of the blues! How blessed we all are! We are loved and no matter what happens everything will come out okay! "Your future is as bright as your faith!" Pres. Monson!

You play by taking turns telling things your are grateful for. Eventually you will realize that everything in your life is amazing!

These are pictures from the surprise party we threw for Britt and the amazing cake I made for her! :)

Crazy, crazy, crazy!

Oh my goodness! Where has the time gone! I feel as though my weeks have been just jammed packed with so many things! One of these being math...it is such a time sucker! I feel all mathed out and it is only the third week of school! Oh boy.

This past week I had the marvelous opportunity to have two amazing adventures! I hiked White pine lake and Mt. Naomi! They were both marvelous! I wanted to share my joy of them with you so I have posted pictures! GO TEAM!

Mount Naomi!

Me at the top...it was very windy and kinda cold. I sure was glad I had brought a sweater! The view was amazing!
HA ha....this is a picture looking out over what we hiked across. You start at Tony's grove and hike 3.3 Miles up to get to the ridge line, so 6.6 miles in all. It was pretty awesome and it only took us about three and a half hours round trip.

Go team! Ha ha! not the very top but I wanted a picture of me at least close. I could stand up at the top without feeling scared of being blown off the cliff...so I settled for this picture instead.

White Pine!

This sign is welcoming us to our national forest and telling us how to wash our hands and dispose of our waste. I thought it was very cool and informative. So I took a picture by it!

AMAZING! It was so beautiful! I loved it! And yes this gorgeous picture was taken with the self timer on my camera. I just discovered that it had one!

I bonded with this dandelion! I also had a ton of fun blowing the seeds everywhere!

Ahhh...the lake! It was awesome and the local beaver put on a show for us by splashing his tail! IT was so cool! Another self timer picture. I am getting good at this game!

Okay and last but not least. I had set a goal for myself at the beginning of the summer that I was going to run a 5K. And I did! YAY! I ran the whole way and I did it in 32 min. Next stop the Wasatch Back baby! I am so excited! YAY! I really am going to do it!

I hope you all know that we are loved and the Lord created this all for us. Each time I do something new I am reminded of his love for each and everyone of us. How awesome is it that we have the opportunity to go and explore this world he gave us!? And how amazing is it that we have bodies that can adapt so quickly to pretty much anything we want it to! I know I am loved! And I know that I can always ask for help when I need it and he will find a way to be there for me! Have an amazing week everyone! I will try to post again soon!

I LOVE the D.I.!

So, our crappy old couch is leaving our apartment. It doesn't belong to us so...we were in a bit of a pickle. Where were we going to sit now? I had no idea and I was kinda thinking that the whole situation was not going to end well for Britt and I.

But alas! Everything all works out in the end. My most amazing Mother came up for a visit to the good ol' L-Town the other day. (my Mom really is the most amazing person on the face of the planet! I have learned so much from her! Even If we are so much alike but different enough we get on each others nerves sometimes!) And she brought up the green and blue Stripped chair that Matt bought a very very long time ago from the DI. So of course she had the truck...So what else were we going to do but go and look for some furniture at my favorite store! THE DI! Oh happy day!

I walked in and it was love at first sight! I looked and I could feel my heart rushing, I didn't know how I was going to live the rest of my life without Him in it! I was so awestruck! It was like a magnet was pulling me towards him! He looked so good and amazing! I could just tell he was going to be the one for me...And then I looked across the way and I saw that they were a matching set! I was beside myself! HOW IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME! I had found the perfect couch and a chair to go with it! The are butter yellow and so awesome! They look like they were sitting in some little old ladies house and she had them covered in plastic and so they look brand new!

This is the couch! Doesn't it just look amazing! I am so happy!

This is the chair! I was way excited that they both were there! It makes it so much better!

And this is the ensemble! 70 Bucks for both! I am so happy and excited and they make our apartment look so cheery and nice! Thanks to my AMAZING Mother again she made the rug and pillows possible! GO TEAM!

For those of you who know me you know this is not the first DI furniture venture! I love that place! They always have sweet little pieces of gold hiding in there. Or just out in plain sight! I hope you are all doing well! I hope your last week was amazing! Don't forget who you are, it is so easy to do sometimes! And don't forget that you are loved and if you happen to lose your way there is someone always there who is willing to carry you through the rough times! You are never alone!

I love you all! Have the worlds most amazing week! School is about to start up again so enjoy the rest of the summer while you can!

Reflections...

So this is going to be more of a serious post. I will try to throw some of my traditional humor into it so you don't get overly board but...I have something I want to say so I am going to say it.

First let us have a little recap of the summer...we have done more amazing activities that must be shared with the world!

I went and watched a movie in a scouting Cabin out in Hyrum...it was very fun, until the battery on the computer died and we didn't get to finish our movie. Meh, its okay cause in front of the cabin they had a Sinclair dinosaur which I rode!

I went boating for the first time on Hyrum Dam (not boating for the first time) I have been overly spoiled with Uncle Gems boat cause it has a jet engine, so no prop for us! I was a little nervous to go out on someone else's boat. As it turns out they have a jet boat too!

We went to the Stone Idaho Rodeo! Which was the highlight of the past week. Cause...it had rained before the rodeo started and so the arena was like a mud pond. After everything was said and done, we got rides on a saddle blanket in the mud and then got in the worlds biggest mud fight! Life is great!

Okay so now for more serious.

I have been evaluating life recently and looking at all the paths that people I know have taken. People who, in high school I was a little jealous of. And I look at everything and despite all of my trials and struggles...I am so blessed that my life is the way it is! All of my amazing friends and family have made this possible for me. I can see how easy it is to fall off the beaten path, and I am so glad that I have held to the rod through rough times!

I love you all! Have a great week!

Ummm...the rules.

So on Sunday I met a new person who seemed to be nice enough, and then all of the sudden he started to throw down so pretty mean things. Ie...he told me that I should know that if he doesn't like a person straight off the bat then we won't ever like them. So I should be careful. I know that I am a little over excited about things sometimes and annoying at others, but this was a little much for me to handle. Who says that!? He obviously doesn't have a lot of friends. So my friends and I came up with some rules...it started out with one and went to three or four I don't remember. But I will tell them to you,

Rule Numero Uno- If you are ugly you should never be mean to people because you have nothing else to fall back on. I don't mean this is a mean way at all! I think I mostly said it because he hurt my feelings. I don't think very many people don't like me. It was a defense mechanism. It was also kinda ironc cause no one should be mean ever and here I was saying one of the rudest things I have ever said in my life!
Now you should know that this is not justifying mean people on any level. I think that all people should be nice, it the rule above all, but this is just a good rule for everyone. I know mean.
ANYWAY!

Rule Numero Dose-(Is that how you speel two in spanish? I don't know why I am doing it in spanish, I just am!) If you are socially awkward in anyway you should never ever try to be funny, because for the most part it will back fire on you and then people will think you are just mean! ( I don't know if this is what this kid was doing so we figured we should cover our bases and establish this rule.)

Rule Numero Tres- So I was eating a baked potato at the linger longer and it was so amazing! I like to mash all of my stuff up so it mixes together and is pure amazingness! This is how rule number three came about. A member of the Bishopric came up behind me to ask me if i had been set apart for my calling as i was mashing away. It kinda startled me! I then felt really dumb and really small, like i was five! (for those of you who know me you will know that this is no surprise!) I was telling this to my friend Kellen and he says "Well it's okay if you do it cause is like oh hey look at how cute she is! But if you are a guy like me they go 'oh my gosh that is so disgusting what is that guy doing to his food?' So even though I want to do it i can't because i am a guy." SO...the rule is if you are a cute girl you can do almost anything you want to with your food because you can pull it off as cute. If you are a guy you have so such luck!

SO...if you were there for the rules on Sunday just take a moment and go over them again and have a nice laugh about them.

Second thing to say today...sometimes I look at things in life and how it all plays out and I ask myself, "How did THAT Happen?!" Life has a tricky way of throwing curve balls at you and all the sudden everything is upside down and all backward! President Hinckley has the formula for getting through it all!

"It isn’t as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don’t worry. I say that to myself every morning. It will all work out. If you do your best, It will all work out. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. THE LORD WILL NOT FORSAKE US. HE WILL NOT FORSAKE US…If we will put our trust in him, if we will pray to him, if we will live worthy of his blessings, he will hear our prayers."
President Gordon B. Hinckley

Thank heavens I know this is true or im not sure i would be able to make it through life!
Oh boy...have an amazing week everyone!