P.S.

I get to watch a thunder and lightening storm right now! It's AMAZING!!!!

Update

So, my idiot boss (Larry) wanted to fire me a couple of days ago because "We just don't have money." Thank goodness I have an awesome, sensible boss (Mark) that told him I get paid the least amount of money in the office, and firing me would do absolutely nothing for the company. Mark also told Larry that he'd have to fire half of the guys here before he could even think about firing me. Man, I love Mark! (:

Other than that, nothing too exciting is going on. I only have 4 more classes of Life Span Development :( I really like that class. Love it, actually. Then the day after that class is over I start Math. :( Big frowny face. I am not good at math, so wish me luck! (Another reason to frown, I have to pay about $190 for that dumb math book!) I want to know who it was that came up with the prices for those books. Why the heck are they so expensive?! It irritates me.


I'm going to Color Me Mine tomorrow with Kaylee and Joey and then we're going to see UP!!!!! I am pretty dang excited!

Bucket List

Every Sunday night, our ward has Ward Prayer which consists of a song, spotlight, thought, and prayer. I was chosen for the spotlight and had to stand in the middle of everyone and answer every question that is asked. Well, one of the questions was "If you were told you had one day to live, what would you do?" And I know that isn't a very unique question.. people ask it all the time. But I've never thought about it, so it stumped me! What would I do? I was reminded this morning by my friend Joey to be thinking about what I'd do, so I asked what he would do. His response "Don't want one. Then I'll regret not doing it all." I agree.. kinda. I think I want to have a general idea of what to do, but maybe not expect each thing to happen? So.. the question is brought up again. What would I do if I had one day more to live?

1. Get up and do what I normally do. Say my prayer, shower, get ready..
2. Ask permission to call Jonathan on his mission. Tell him a few things, of how proud I am, and excited I am to see him on the other side someday
3. Call my parents(Ma, Kevin, Pops) (and Jace&Tan&Caden). Maybe make them get on a plane and come see me(:
4. Call my brothers and talk for a little
5. Go on a drive.. explore the beauty of this state that I live in.
6. Talk to my bishop and thank him for being such an amazing help to me
7. Along with number 5, visit as many temples as I could (and seeing that there's a billion in Utah, I'd get quite a few in there!)
8. Thank the man upstairs for letting me live so long (:

I think that's a pretty good list. I'd be very happy if I was able to do that!
If you're asked that question, do you have any idea what you'd do?

Relient K / Lydia Concerts

Concerts, concerts, concerts. I swear that's all I do lately. But I'm not complaining!! Relient K was on Thursday and it was good!! Only 2 bands before them, which was nice! Relient K did a very nice job too! They even did the song from the office! Haha, love that show. Lydia was on Saturday, and that whole day was a good one. I was woken up at 11:30 by Lindsey asking if I wanted to lay out by the pool with her. Um, hello?! Who would say no to that? After confirming the weather was beautiful, I put on my cute new bathing suit and was on my way! And when I said the weather was beautiful, I mean B-E-A-U-TIFUL! We layed out for about 25 seconds, realizing it was too hot to just lay there when we had a HUGE pool right in front of us. We took a dip, then layed back out. Joey joined us about half an hour later, and then Kaylee. It was such a fun time! AND I GOT A TAN LINE!! I never get tan lines! I actually got a little burnt (as you'll see in the pictures at the end of this post) Then we went to Zupas (MMMMMMMM!!!!!!) and ate some most delicious food! Joey really wanted to buy a hamster, so we all headed to the pet store and found the perfect one: energetic, ran on the wheel like he was a gold medalist, and was so cute! His name - Ely. Inspired by the movie UP! In the "cage" next to Ely, there was the cutest, ( i would say "little hamster", but he was far from little) fat hamster. Dark brown, with an even darker stripe right down the middle... Just strollin.. got on the wheel for a little, realized he didn't want to be working out, then hopped out and went to the food bowl. I fell in love! Pointed him out to Joey as "Chubbs" and Joey fell in love too. Although he thought Mikey was a better name. We came to an agreement. His name would be Mikey, but we would call him Chubbs. Haha, greatest experience. As I was waiting for Joey to get the hamsters, I was walking around and found theeeeeee most gorgeous dog. EVER!! He was in the store with his owner taking a training class, and I couldn't take my eyes off of him. When the class was over, I asked what kind of dog he was, and was talking to her for a little bit. He is the dog I want! He was a Great Pyrenees, which is pretty much a HUGE lab. She told me he'll get up around 150 pounds, but he's super loving, and always with her (PERFECT!) and I was in love! (Look them up online, and there are even more cute pictures of them!!) Then we all went home to get ready for the Lydia concert. There was Lindsey, Kaylee, Allie, Joey and myself, and I can't say it was the best concert I've been to.. There were 4 opening bands, and only 2 of them were okay to listen to. Actually, maybe three. But the sound was terrible, the "music" was too loud, and we could barley hear the singers. But Lydia was still good (: Made me smile very big!! We got a lot of goofy pictures, so I was happy! Here are a few to enjoy!! Haha, one more funny. Joey said he felt like the gay friend.. Going to a concert with 4 girls, being the only guy. We told him he was the pimp, not the gay guy.. he prefered being gay.. haha, oh Joey..

WEDDING FEVER!

For some reason lately, I've just had the desire to start looking at what it takes to plan a wedding.. I don't even have a boyfriend right now, so it's not like there's something I'm hiding. I'm just in the wedding mood! I'm not sure if that's such a good thing though, especially because I don't know who I'm going to get to share all my hard work with. Which is fine! I'll just put my happy face on and keep living my life (and planning my wedding) and he'll come sooner or later! Preferably sooner rather than later (: Yesterday was dress day. I've come to realize that I'm most likely going to have to design my own dress because everything I look at isn't appealing to me in the slightest. So I'm taking bits and pieces from different dresses and hopefully by the time that "that time" comes, I'll have a cute dress... and someone to make it for me! It's actually a pretty big debate in my head on whether I want to have a fancy material dress, or just a flowy, simple one.. I guess I'll decided sometime.. soon? Not soon? I also found the ring I want, but I won't show it until I get it (: It's from the Shane Company! I hate their commercials and swore that I'd never go there, but they have cute, inexpensive (sorta?) rings so why not, right? I've also been finding wedding blogs right and left! Find one, and you find 50! I love it!! This is the blog that got me started in the blog search. How can you not be happy when planning such a happy event? I HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO MY HAIR! Which is a very hard task for me! I'm not going to lie, I have beautiful hair. BUT, it's stubborn and doesn't like to do much. Curl? Maybe for 20 minutes. Updo? Nope, makes my face look fat. And is it necessary to wear a vail? Another controversy I'm having is about my dress. I know wedding dresses are supposed to be white, and I understand why completely.. But I want a fun, flowery, colorful one!!! What to do, what to do. Writing this post is putting a lot of questions into my head. Also a lot of answers. It's a good one. Anyways, have a good day (: This is just a bunch of rambling and thinking, so sorry if it was boring. If you have any ideas, feel free to let me know !!

FRIENDS!

Oh my, I just have the most wonderful friends ever!! Tuesday night, we went over to the house that Nick is watching for a week. The deal was, the guys buy the food, the girls have to make it. No big deal. So we (and when I say we, I mean Lindsey and Mackenzie) made fajitas! We then made our way back down to Orem to go to Trafalga to show off our Putt Putting skills! I didn't think I was going to do so well, but in fact I did! My highest par was 4, most of the time it was 2, and I even got a hole in 1!! It was a very good game! Then we decided to go on the race cars just for fun, since we were able to do them for freeeeeee! Why not, right?! My foot was cramping up toward the end, so I had to go a little bit slower, but it was still so much fun! Pictures? OF COURSE! Here you go!

Lindsey, Carly, Mackenzie, and myself! (And creepy Nick in the background)

It's kind of hard to get a 6'7" person in the same picture as a 5'2".. haha, but we seemed to manage!

Nick and myself in the very intense race

Lindsey, Me, Mackenzie, Nick (in the brown) and Skyler

The whole gang and our cars! (I'm sitting with Linds cause they didn't leave enough room for my yellow car to be in the front line)

After the racing, we went back inside to do glow-in-the-dark putt putt, or "blacklight" but I was just really excited about my new Kalidascope that I got that works like crap!! (This actually looked really cool in the black light because of my white and black shirt and the fishies behind me, but it didn't turn out.. Oh well!)

P.S. - I had another fun night last night with "canyon" boy (:

Little Cottonwood Canyon

I went out with someone last night, and we went up to Little Cottonwood Canyon, and my holy goodness. If that isn't one of the most beautiful places in Utah, I don't know what is. It was dark, since we got there around 10 at night, but it was still completely breathtaking!! If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend you go up there!

Last night was amazing (:

What makes you happy?

For some reason, my bosses like to pay me for not working, which is QUITE alright with me. Today this came to my head when I was listening to some music. I'm not really sure what to do with it.. Maybe I'll buy a bigger book and start another altered book about things that make me happy on a daily basis..? Any other ideas?


The number one thing that is making me happy right now:
Dave Matthews Band

I go all my life without listening to them, until this past week. Now I can't get enough! I can't believe I've deprived myself of this beauty. (I put one of their songs on here for your benefit!)

I like this idea I have of a new book (: I can work with that!

What's making you happy right now?

MY WEDDING COLORS!

No, I'm not getting married, and I'm no where close to being engaged, but I DID just find the colors that I want my wedding to be! Thanks to Lindsey working for American Crafts and having me look at their blog, I found this!!





Is that not gorgeous, or what?! I really really love the patterns too! So, when that day comes, make sure you pick some cute wrapping paper for my presents, so everything's perfect and matching! (:

Also, quick update on my Midterm: I finished the test within 7 minutes, (shorter than that even, I think) and I did in fact get to leave right when I was done! Can't complain about a 10 minute class!! I also tried being creative last night.. Turned out terribly wrong! I used Dove chocolate wrappers and put them all over a page, (with all the cute sayings on them) and it was HIDEOUS! So I went to bed early, disappointed in myself. Seven Peaks today should make me feel better though! Plus, I'm going to Moab tomorrow with some friends.. Hopefully it's fun!! (Maybe I'll get someone to fix my camera really fast today so I can take it this weekend!)

I'm in the mood

to be creative again (: I've had a long weekend of NO creativity and studying like a mad woman, so I deserve it, right? Oh wait.. I have to take my midterm today. Hopefully I can take it and leave and not have to be there the whole two and a half hours.. If that's the case.. Maybe I'll postpone my creative-ness. But I already know every question that's going to be on the midterm (thank goodness I have an awesome teacher) and I know all the answers too! (thanks to my awesome teacher, haha) Linds and I are finally going to use our Seven Peaks passes tomorrow after work! PRAY that it stays nice so we'll get tan!! [We all know Lindsey needs it (; ] Kidding, Linds. Anyways, I've been at work too long, it's time to leave! Have a good Wednesday!

This won't be long..

But I'm extremely proud of myself!! We had a get-together with some friends today for Memorial Day.. Activities including: BBQ, slack lining, kickball.. and fun!! And it really was such a fun day, but the thing I'm most proud of, is that I TOOK 11 STEPS ON THE SLACK LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's almost all the way across! I couldn't believe it!!!

Plus, I've been hanging out with a pretty cool kid (:


Here are two pictures from the other day when Reece and I went to the mountains? and had tin foil dinners, and played with charcoal!! We found out they draw pretty well on faces and cement!




Anyways, I'm off to bed to get some sleep for what I know will be a stressful day tomorrow :/

JUST A REMINDER

I still want Burberry's "The Beat".

My birthday is on August first, but I'll take early presents (:

Wonderful Weekends (:

For some reason this past week, my body decided to be extremely dumb and get SUPER SICK! Fortunately, I was feeling a little better on Saturday, enough to go to MAE!! It was AMAZING!! There were 4 bands that played before them, Tokyo, Larusso, Barcelona and PersonL(didn't really like them) AND THEN IT WAS TIME! I can't even tell you how excited I was to actually be seeing them in person. They are amazing! We ended up getting these really cool looking shirts, Mae's EP and Barcelona's cd. (Barcelona is from Seattle!! Wooo hoo! Go Washington!) While we were waiting in line, we got fliers for upcoming concerts, and one that stuck out to me was LYDIA. You can go to their website and listen to some of their music, but they're playing on June 6th and I'm going!! I'm extremely excited for that! ALSO, my new friends down in Provo living at Carraige Cove told me about the Relient K concert that is on June 4th that I just bought a ticket for last night! Out of the 18 years of my life, I'd been to two concerts: Nsync in 4th grade, and Kenny Chesney/Rascal Flatts.. a few years ago. Now within one month I'm going to 3 new ones?!? I'm definitely living the life! AND I LOVE IT! Plus, tickets are pretty cheap too (: $10?! Can't say no to that!

Anyways, here's a couple pictures, one when we were waiting in line to get into the theater, and the other is with our 3D glasses on for the last couple of songs that Mae did with a 3D image thing on the screen behind them. Did I mention that Mae was FREAKING AMAZING?! I'll be there in a heartbeat next time they come to Utah!

2nd page done and up!!

I didn't put a picture up on the other one, so here's what it turned out to be!


AND HERE'S THE ONE I FINISHED TODAY!! IT'S MY FAVORITE!! Go here to see all the details and such!! Please, it's worth it!

Altered book page finished!!

GO TAKE A LOOK!! Be sure to tell me what you think!!

"And in the morning, I will find my heart"

I love being creative now that I can actually do something about it! Going home in an hour or so and I'm going to start a couple pages in my altered book. I CAN'T WAIT!! I'll post pictures of the finished products, SO STAY TUNED!! (:

I HAVE TO SUCK ON HALLS?! I really don't understand how I got sick so fast! I was at work on Tuesday, happy as a clam, but when 12:00 in the afternoon rolled around, suddenly I had the worst sore throat and I could barley even breathe! It literally came on that fast. So as the days carry on, I continue to suffer.. "Sexy voice" as my Mom and Kevin told me last night (which sounds like a man.. if you didn't catch on to that), extremely bad throat hurting, and I swear I blow my nose every 10 minutes. Not to mention how hard it is to breathe when I'm trying to sleep. And I cough ALL DAY LONG!! Goodness gracious.. Poor me. Haha, but life's good! Hoskins comes home tomorrow! That's weird.. we'll see how that goes. And on Saturday is the Mae concert!*&#@$@*&!@*! They are amazing, and I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THEM LIVE!!!!!!!!!!! I'm also wearing a bed time shirt to work (; Shh.. don't tell!

Happy Thursday!

Sneak peak of Friday (:

Haha, I love my family (: More to come.. ENJOY!!

TODAY'S MY FRIDAY!!

Here's just a quick update, since I haven't blogged in a couple of days..

Not much has been going on, but school starts TODAY!!!! I'll be there from 6-8:30pm, so wish me luck! I never went to look at where my class is located.. :/ haha, we'll just have to hope I find it!! Then I'm coming home to finish a project or two, pack a little bit, and then hot tub party with my girls!! Thursday I'll definitely be sleeping in, finishing my packing, then off to the AIRPORT AROUND 1!!! I can't wait to finally be in Washington!! We have QUITE a few plans already!! And MAJOR scrapbooking plans!! I can't wait!!

Pictures from slack lining

Just a few pictures from Slack Lining!! It may not look hard, but you go set one up and then tell me how awesome I am for being able to take 4 steps (:

There's a smile!!

Haha, I fell so many times.. but instead of falling like a normal person, I DOVE! Didn't get pictures of that though.. haha, next time maybe !
You really have to concentrate pretty hard!!


And then there's Reece, who just jumps up on it and has no problems at all..

Haha, GOOD JOB LINDS! LOVE YOU!

Reece telling Lindsey to FOCUS!! DON'T LOOK AT THE LINE!

Happy Camper! I LOVE slack lining!

One day.. I WILL be able to walk across it without anyone's help!! Someday..