6.11.12

Day 3: Freedom to vote

What a day America, What. A. Day!
I am so blessed to live in a country where I am FREE. Free to worship what I believe, free to voice how I feel, free to reach my full potential, free to eat how ever much pumpkin flavored things I choose, free to dream, & free to be me! Today was my first ever chance to vote in a presidential election (so that's huge!!!) I'm so thankful for the freedom to be heard and make a stand on what I believe to be best for our Country's future. I consider this to be one of the biggest elections in Americas history. From today on, we either grow and progress, (deal with all the problems Obama has created) and live the American Dream formed by our founding fathers through God. or we change direction completely and lose our power of being one of the greatest Nations in the world today as we become slaves to our government and sink deeper and deeper into economic distress. I have pretty strong feelings about this election, and fully support Mitt Romney as our future President. Like, i'm seriously having an anxiety attack waiting on this election. I can't decide if I should just go to bed, and wake up hoping it's christmas morning and Romney won! or who knows, I probably wouldn't be able to sleep knowing the fate of our Country could be announced at any second through the night! I can't just not know! ya know!? What a huge day for America. Get out & Vote!


GUYS, I voted. 

5.11.12

Day 2: lunch dates with my Mom

I'm not sure what it is about going to lunch with your mom, but it's always just so fun! Today's lunch date was at kneaders, I'm a sucker for anywhere that has soup or salad. Our usuals are kneaders & Zupas. Lets be honest, we girls love the stuff. And you can always try and keep it low cal at places like these. Anyways, now that I'm living away from home, these days mean a lot more. My mom is my very best friend, I can talk to her about anything. So I look forward to the times we can indulge in some yummy soup & catch up on each others lives. I don't know what I would do with out her, and speaking of things I couldn't live with out, add tomato basil pesto soup to the list. Thankful for days like these.

4.11.12

30 days of Thanksgiving

I have mixed feelings about church today. Testimony meeting was amazing. I love when there is a theme and correlation between everyones testimonies because it shows everyone goes through hard times and are still learning and growing in the gospel. We're all here, learning to become the best we can be. It's comforting to know we're not the odd man out, all alone. Others are right along side us learning the same lessons we are. Sunday School....probably one of the oddest forms of gospel doctrine I've ever attended. I'm not sure if I was in a chemistry class...or learning about the gospel. I did however learn the law of conservation(?) I think...and how to combine different compounds to create salt.  Our teacher knew more about salt then the average human, i'm just saying. I just never heard or found what connected everything we learned about salt with the gospel. Tracie didn't even know, and Trace is the smartest person I know (room mate). you'll get to know her really well. Relief Society helped get us back on the spiritual track. I got to read a paragraph all about gratitude, and how being grateful and counting our blessings can really help us through difficult times. So I remembered how negative my last post was, which I kind of took to be more of a joke but still! That day was seriously horrible!  I definitely noticed all the things going wrong & I think that if I had counted my blessings and realized all the things God blessed me with that day, then that day would have effected me very differently and more positively. So in honor thanksgiving, I decided to jump on the band wagon and blog something I'm thankful for everyday!

Day 1. My freaking amazing room mates/ BFFs 

seriously, these girls are amazing, and I'm so lucky I get to be with them everyday. 


Tracie, this chick is CRAY! And I mean that in the nicest way possible. Tracie is crazy fun. All the time, except she basically lives in the BYU library. I miss her when she's studying! Especially since I have nothing to study like my smarty pants room mates. 
She's always there's to calm me down and listen to my guy problems. Which happens on a daily basis. She's such a good sport. She's also a twin (with another one of my Bff's..he's insane) which is neat right?!
I can talk to Trace about anything and know she'll take it seriously and give me the best advice. She understands my shopping addiction (probably, at least she pretends to understand ha) and she never complains when I wake her up at 1 AM to ask her which color of scarf I should order. 
I can always count on her to go running with me when I feel the random need to get in shape. We have similar running paces so when jess leaves us in the dust we always have each other. 
Love her. 


Jessica has been dubbed Mom of the apartment for obvious reasons. This girl can cook. She had a whole week dedicated to all things pumpkin (heaven am i right). Pumpkin bars, pumpkin rolls, pumpkin soup, pumpkin breadsticks. Why can't every week be pumpkin week!? We also share a deep love for muddy buddies (we may or may not have just finished a whole bowl in one sitting...5 seconds ago). Its fast sunday today, so it's ok. 
She's also enjoys insane amounts of running..i'm talking close to 10 miles just for fun. Watch out Jess, ur crazy is showing. She's definitely the health nut out of us 3, so she's an inspiration to us all. 
She recently underwent bunion surgery and has a cast and handicapped sticker and has recently acquired the nickname handy. and she loves it.  


God has blessed me with 2 of the greatest friends in the world and Im thankful for their love, their friendship, their testimonies, and individual personalities everyday. 

MUAH! RABF for life.