Rain, Rain Never Go Away, Come Again Any Day

Every morning when I wake up, as in when I decide the snooze button can not be hit any more times, the first thing I do is turn over and look out my window. This first look into the new day tells me a lot about what to expect for the day. This morning when I looked outside and saw a grey, cloudy sky I knew today was going to be a good day. I think maybe my heart belongs in Seattle, because a rainy day is exquisitely beautiful to me. As I walked to class with rain drops falling on my head I couldn't help but smile-it was perfect. And even though rain means the bottom of the leg of my pants gets wet and my newly straightened hair gets wavy every day it rains I feel renewed, clean, content. I can't help but smile as I watch it gently fall over the world, or listen to it softly hit my window. You may think I'm a pessimist, or crazy for not craving sunny weather right now but I can honestly say that today has been one of the best days here in a long time, and I blame the rain for that...

Things That Made Me Smile This Week:

~Buying chicken legs with cash only from Miguel, and counting how many came in a box
~Sleeping in
~Watching Liz get baptised!
~Valentines flowers from daddy
~Double Chick flick day at the movies with my mom and sisters
~Getting my oil changed without getting in trouble for never checking my oil(to be honest I probably couldn't even find it in this car :) Dad-remember that you love me and miss me! ha ha)
~Discovering a new favorite song. Its called Winter Song and its the first one on my play list at the bottom of the page
~Reading about Naomi Grace, an amazing story of my cousin and the baby she adopted
~Not having class on Monday
~Being with my family so much!
I love my family, and coming home. Family-thanks for always letting me, and for all you do for me, especially lately! I also love the food you get me when I'm home, my big comfy bed there, that you pay to take me to movies and the free washer and dryer at our house... Of course those are just added bonuses to spending time with the best family in the world though! I love you guys!

Decisions

Things I've decided today...
1- If I'm going to keep going to cycling class at the gym I'm gonna have to get a stronger pain tolerance, and a less sensitive bum... You think they sell that at Wal-Mart?
2-Fact: The Office is the funniest television show ever. This is my list so if you disagree too bad. End of discussion.
3-Chick flicks and chocolate work as band-aids(especially old time chick flicks-example: Breakfast at Tiffany's)
4-Bright pink leggings are a girls best friend!
6-Writing makes me feel better, always, no matter what. It allows me to release my emotions, and get perspective. Thank goodness for that!
5- I am dyslexic in numbers (note the jump from 4 to 6-completely unintentional and now I don't know what number I'm on)
7-When people say "I don't care" they usually do care. Sometimes they even care a lot.
8-Not crying ever is a lot worse then crying a lot (Don't believe me? watch the Holiday) It's much better to be able to show emotion, then to not be able to.
9-Sometimes boys bug. Periodically it just happens. Oh well!
10-No matter what I'm feeling, what I'm doing, where I'm at or what I'm thinking calling home always makes me feel better-even better than shopping for shoes. Man, now I really want shoes though..

today...

1-hour early I was for class this morning. 2/3-amount of a bag i filled of blood before my body wouldn't give any more. 2-number of times i've had to jump my car this week. 700-number of times i said i hated chemistry today. -4-rating of dinner at the cannon tonight (on a scale of 1 to 10) 4-episodes of the office i watched 7-times i tried to figure out an excuse to go home 03B-apartment number for next fall i got confirmation of 3-pictures i colored in my Disney Princess coloring book tonight 30-number of times i thought about just giving up and taking a nap 15-times i listened to ingrid michaelson's "keep breathing", a new favorite song

0-naps 0-tears

I guess it was an alright day....

When Upon Life's Billows...

Lately I haven't been feeling that well, and I've also been pretty down. Luckily I know that I can count my many blessings and feel a little better. So here are some of the little things that make me smile these days:

Ben and Jerry's half baked ice cream

CAUTION: It is addicting...

Gilmore Girls... The reason I talk so fast, often make references to pop culture that no one else gets, love the word Oy, and want Yale sweat pants! I LOVE this show!

Taylor Swift's new CD Fearless. She must have followed me around for a year because every single song was seriously written for my life! I especially love "Hey Stephen" these days-its a fun one that doesn't make me feel pathetic by relating it to my life :)

Beautiful flowers in my room! Rachelle's boyfriend is a amazing and because of such she gets a new bouquet of flowers every four days or so, making our room absolutely beautiful!

Mail from my best friend! It always makes my day!

Coloring in my princess coloring book-thanks daddy!

My bed-I LOVE taking naps these days, actually I love this way too much but I'm super grateful for it!

Confessions of a Shopaholic-The funniest books ever! My friend's mom sent them out for me and I absolutely love them! Hilarious!

Diet Coke-Not quite as addicting as the Ben & Jerry's but since you can't buy it anywhere on campus here it makes it that much better when you have one!

The Draper temple-my temple! I got to work there the other night and it was amazing. Just looking at it cheers me up!

Going home, laying in bed chatting with Rachelle, and making plans also make me happy! It really is the little things in life! I'm so grateful for each little thing that makes me smile these days.

Back at BYU

Back to the classes, the snow wars, the quizzes, the pranks

Back to apartment hunting, the girl talk till all hours of the night, the Cannon's food

Back to Happy Valley, the lack of REAL Diet Coke, the Beto's runs, and hitting the snooze button

Back to hanging with the four I missed the most, LOTR: FOTR, to homework

Back to the cold walk up the hill, the boring lectures, the loud dorm

Back to laughing so hard I cry, dancing till it hurts, and never sleeping

Back to this crazy thing that is my life here at BYU

And as much as I LOVE being home, I'm happy to be back :)

Christmas Break

Sisters in our Gangsta Christmas PJs... Love them!
Cousins!

Having fun making faces with mom

Someone who loves my family put luminaries all over our yard the night of pops funeral and then stomped out "We love you" in the snow. It was so sweet and made my family so so happy.

Out for a walk in the snow

Some of my favorite things about Christmas break (in no particular order...):

Mint Chocolate Cake at the Roof
Taking a walk on Christmas night in the peaceful snow

Fireworks

Watching Little Women and Gilmore Girls 24/7 and not having to feel guilty about not studying

Going to Body World

Making fun of dads ice walk

Bowling in Morgan

Watching the SUGAR BOWL!!

Remembering Pops

Christmas Eve

Seeing mom open her surprise laptop

Going to movies

Seeing friends from home

Sleepover at Aunt Debbie's

Sleeping in

Really good food

Just being at home with my family!

It was so good to be home, and I loved every second of it! I hope you all had an amazing holiday season and are so excited for this new year!