This Crazy Thing We Call Life!

First I just want to take the time to thank those men and women who serve (or have served) our great country. Anyone in any branch of the Military, know how grateful I am for you! The sacrifice of you and your loved ones is beyond anything I have ever been asked to do, and I will forever be grateful for your service! On this day, and everyday, know that you are appreciated, know that you are loved, and know that you are in my prayers. Thank you! Second. Being a grown up is SO over rated! I have so many things I want to do this summer and instead I feel like I am working my life away. NOT.COOL. Okay so it is good to have the money that I need to pay for things like rent and food and gas and school. But right now it is just a bummer. Also I am missing Logan so much! I miss people, the mountain air, the outdoorsy things, and just the atmosphere that only seems to be found in Logan. There are some people I miss so bad it hurts. That's the worst part. But I am here just working and wor...

Okay. So my dear friend Lexy who also blogs text me the other day to inform me that I hadn't blogged in a while and she wanted me too...but I feel like every time I blog it is about the same things. And that is so boring!! I don't want to be boring I want to be interesting and exciting and inspiring. But then I write things and read back over them and they all sound the same. So I'm going to go ahead and blog away and I apologize if my life is redundant:) Alright so when I was 16 I started working at this place called Going Bonkers (it's kind of Chuck-E-Cheese on steriods) where I did all sorts of things, mostly birthday parties, for two and half years until I left for school. But this week I am back and it wasn't very great. In fact after a shift and a half I was seriously contemplating quitting. BUT! I got another job so now I only have to be at GB on Saturdays which makes working there much more bearable. This new job is great! I work for a couple who runs their ...

Thank you. Thank you for all the kisses and band aides and sack lunches. For the years of giving me rides,  and help with homework, and advice. And for the numerous hours spent listening to me gripe about all sorts of things. Thank you for supporting me in all my crazy ideas, for letting me dream crazy dreams, and for showering me with loves. Thank you for hugs. For the countless doctor's appointments and sick days and all you did to make me feel better. Thank you for loving me at my lowest. And for teaching me what it means to have a testimony of the gospel. Thank you for your help with school projects, and for coming to all my sports events. Thank you for your example of how to be a good wife and mother. For teaching me what it means to love unconditionally, how to be selfless, and how to patient. Thank you for teaching me how to cook, how to sew, how to laugh, how to live, how to love. On this Mother's Day, I want to say thank you for all that you do for me and our fam...

       ...but seriously guys I really should be studying. I have two KILLER tests tomorrow that just might kick my butt, and I cannot get myself to focus. I AM THE WORST FINALS WEEK STUDY-ER EVER!!! I just get too distracted by everything. Pretty much anything sounds better than studying at this point...but I also don't necessarily want to pack either. So basically I am doing everything except what I need too. haha. And just when I thought I had done everything I could and I was finally going to have to study...I decided to blog:) PERFECT, RIGHT?? Now you get to hear all about my life and I get to put off dreaded statistics and life sciences for a little bit longer. It's a win win situation!:)        Maybe it is because the school year is about to finish (after tomorrow I will have finished my freshman year of college...when did that happen?), because I am about to move back home for the summer, or because I have a lot of friends doing ...

Today was the last day of classes. I just have a week of tests and a long day of driving that separate me from home and summer and family and friends. And I am so freaking excited haha! I literally cannot wait! But there are also some things I am going to miss. Logan is beautiful! I absolutely love it. I will miss the mountains and the cool air and all the trees. I will miss having the temple 3 blocks away, and seeing it every single day from up on campus. Such a blessing. And tonight especially I am feeling a little sadness at the loss of my star stickers. When I moved in 9 months ago I realized that very first night that some one who had lived in my room previously had put up a star sticker galaxy on my ceiling. And at first I was a little bugged by it. But I cant tell you the number of nights I have laid awake staring at those star stickers thinking about everything under the sun. They have been a comfort and a confidant for the last year and I have truly grown to love them. I will ...

I had a moment of weakness. We all do, we all have times that we struggle. I woke up this morning feeling like crap. Not necessarily bad, but certainly not good. I was up registering for classes which was 5444645 million times harder than it should have been. Then I laid in bed for hours wondering why I was not sleeping and this morning my head was pounding. I boycotted school today. Just didn't go to class. Instead I laid in bed all day like this, thinking about my life and all the unknown in it right now. There is so much about my future that I cannot control, so much that I don't know, so much up in the air right now that I am completely losing my mind. And on top of that I am going home in a few weeks and my job situation for the summer is still unknown and that scares the crap out of me. Today I packed pretty much everything thing I can at this point. I am so ready to go home, to see my family and my best friends! And tonight I was talking to one of my very best friends an...

Sitting in stats. That's what I'm doing right now. And clearly I'm paying tons of attention right now...:) I hate this class. It is so boring and he doesn't teach very well. My friends Lisa and Dan say hi:) haha! But really, this post is about more than a horrible professor in a subject I detest... Last weekend was General Conference for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. A two day conference where the Leaders of our Church meet and teach us. It is broadcast to countries all across the world, and thousands of people come together to listen to the Prophet's voice. It is incredible. Such a spiritually uplifting experience and twice a year we get to have these conferences. And this last weekend did not disappoint! Like a previous post stated, I had a friend last week do some things that really hurt me. Anyways so I was pretty angry with this person (and honestly, I still kind of am) and I didn't want to go through conference focusing on that anger. S...