E.R. and Blessings

Count Your Many Blessings........Even when they may not "seem" like blessings!

These past two weeks have been absolutely crazy. First of all, finals. Just the word makes me cringe. I was super lucky and had half of my finals one week, and the rest ON finals week. This was still super stressful. I had a lot of final presentations, major papers due, choreography to prepare, dances to dance, and so forth. Meanwhile having two part-time jobs and trying to somewhat have a social life- even though that idea died during finals week!

Anyway- Finals for me ended this Wednesday. I had finals from 9:00-11:00, 11:00-1:00, 1:00-3:00 and 3:00-5:00. Yep.... FUN day....not. BUT that was the final Finals day! Thursday I was able to finally relax from it all! Sort of. I got to sleep in which was fantastic, and then I had a house to clean from 11:30-2:30 and I taught dance from 3:00-6:00. Then the rest of the night I was dedicating to fun. I hung out with a friend for a while and made some food, and then I went over to the usual crews house and watched a movie with them.
I left the guys house really late and had a stabbing pain in my side. I actually pulled over my car because I was in so much pain. I got home and eventually started to sweat as the pain grew and grew. I stripped down and jumped into a cold bath (which is SOO not me. I HATE cold water!!) At this point it's about 2:00 AM and while in the bath I called my mom in tears. She had a feeling it was a kidney stone and said she would call Blake and have him take me to the Emergency Room. I woke up my roommates Kati and Tayler and they stayed with me until Blake got to my apartment. He got there SUPER fast and carried me to his truck and into the Emergency Room we went.

I was getting SO frustrated in the ER answering the same questions over and over! My name, my birthday, personal questions... and I just wanted relief SO badly!

Blake offered to give me a blessing and it was such a sweet blessing. I felt so lucky to have a worthy brother there with me to comfort me! I sure love him!!
Soon after the nurse finally put the IV and medicine in me and I started to relax somewhat. They then wheeled me in to get a CT scan and the rest is kind of a blur. (The med really worked!)

My parents arrived soon after and the Dr told us that I had multiple Kidney stones. 3 or 4 in my left kidney and 6 or so in my Right. Most of these were just starter small ones and not causing any trouble. There were 3 that needed to come out, and one in particular. I had a 5 millimeter stone in my uriter that was not moving.

Anyway-- long story short, we decided to do surgery in which they would go up through the uriter and bladder with a "basket" sort tool to catch and remove these stones. They left a stent in my uriter. This stent is just like a stent they put in a heart to open up the valve. They put a stent in my uriter to open it up. They said my body is not only small on the outside but even smaller on the inside and there is NO way I could have passed that stone. The stent is still in and they will remove it in 4 weeks or so and then decide what to do with the rest.

So........how is this a blessing?

Finals ended Wednesday, stones came Thursday, and Christmas comes next week. Really, if this was going to happen, this was the perfect time. EXCEPT... my friend Kory was taking me to the nutcracker Friday which I was obviously not able to go to. However, he was able to exchange the tickets (after trying multiple times) and we'll go next week. See..... Things DO work out!

I'm so blessed with such a good family to take care of me! My parents brought me home with them and I've been able to just relax at my home sweet home. I'll be feeling better by the holidays and be able to enjoy them in Colorado with my whole family. I can't wait =)

I love Christmas Time!!

Time Out For Women

Brooke was able to go to a Time Out For Women in Denver this year. She LOVED it and said we just had to go to one! Well Aaron gave her a girls weekend and she decided we had to go to the Time Out For Women in Salt Lake- and I am SOO glad we went!

The program was amazing. We got to hear from so many great speakers and musicians. The best part was being able to feel the spirit SO much! We got to hear from Hilary Weeks (Brooke's favorite!), Sheri Dew, Brad Wilcox, Jericho Road, Emily Watts, Wendy Ulrich, Michael Wilcox, Laurel Christensen, and we had a surprise guest, Stephanie Nielson! Stephanie's testimony was so sweet and strong. If you're unsure who stephanie is, She is the burn victim that survived the plane crash.

My mom and I fell in love with Jericho Road :) So we HAD to go meet them!

My other favorite part was spending the weekend with my mom and sister of course! :)

Thanks for a fun weekend girls! :)

Time Out

...........A time out?...........and a.....

.......?

I'd say "YES PLEASE" to that! =)
Fun with my mom and sis- here I come!

Time For An Update??

Seriously, I need to stop promising myself that I will write more frequently because let's face it. It just does not happen.

I've been WANTING to blog forever! But it just never seems to happen. The past two weeks have been insanely busy and it's not looking to get any better until school stops. Which will be fantastic!

So, here's to another "update" post with random pictures and subtitles. Sorry for the boring-ness, but it's necessary :)

Peach Days! How can I not talk about Peach Days?
Good ol' Brigham City Celebrations. We were so excited to go this year. I get SO stoked every year to go, and it's always a let down. It's the same old thing every time. Weirdo's that come out of no where, stormy weather, and just not that much to do. BUT regardless, we had fun :) It's still the hometown event that you just can't miss!

My roommates and I got tickets to go to the General Relief Society Broadcast. We made a night of it and went to dinner before hand. It was good to spend time all-together and go to the conference center. The meeting was amazing and the messages were so great!

The following week was conference! My mom knew that Kati and I wanted to go, so she was able to get me four tickets. I always love Conference, but going just makes it ten times better. The spirit is SO strong in there. Being surrounded by people who all have a testimony of the gospel and then to top it off, being in the presence of the prophet! We had a great time and I loved being there :)

My first year hunting!!
I decided this year that I wanted to give Hunting a try. I love to fly-fish with my dad and do all the "guy" stuff. So I told my dad I wanted to hunt, and he of course didn't hesitate one bit to get me going! I took Hunters safety, put in, and drew out for the muzzleloader.
My parents picked Blake and I up on Friday morning, and we were off. (I hadn't even shot a muzzleloader before!)
Blake spotted some deer from off far, and my dad, grandpa and I hiked up a hill and there we spotted the one. This deer was looking right at my dad and I and we couldn't tell if it was a buck or not! My dad handed me the gun, and said "As soon as we know it's a buck, shoot." So we waited, and all the sudden it turned its head and I saw antlers. I got ready to shoot and as I took a big breath out, "BANG" only it was my grandpa's gun. Which then made another "BANG" as mine shot off too. haha! Then I just heard my dad say "It's down!"
What an adrenaline rush! It's so much fun :)
There was one hole and a possible graze of another............ so pretty much my grandpas, but we're saying it's both of ours. I had a blast and will definitely be going again!

Last but not least, let me tell you about my best friends ever :)
I've made so many friends while being at UVU. It's been such a different feel than Logan and I've really enjoyed it. (I miss USU, don't get me wrong!)
Anyways.. McCae and Chelan (in the picture above) are in my dance classes and we met these boys one day, and we've been besties ever since. We do weird things....... (as you can tell) but we are just random and fun, and I love it.
In all honesty, these boys are great. I would trust them with my life. Each one of them! Such goofs, and such awesome guys :)

Brett*Chris*Mark

This was Halloween weekend. The guys were SO excited about their spanish bull runner costumes! Mark and I went to a halloween party and I needed to be something that cooresponded with his costume. So flamenco dancer it was! And then Chris decided that he would be the bull. Typical :)

Seriously, I love these boys.

OOH! One more thing.....THIS is the last thing I promise. But........

I'm so proud of my Aggies for beating BYU in basketball this weekend. It really made my whole week.
Blake and I were going to go up to the game but they made it nearly impossible for us to get in! So we just watched it at his apartment with a bunch of BYU fans. We of course were decked out in our aggie gear, and best yet.....we won :)
I love being an aggie fan. I sure miss the USU pride!!!!!

Ok, my updates are complete. For now.
I'd promise another one soon, but who am I kidding? So, see ya when I see ya :)

Love, Bre

Dance Moments

Ok, So if you didn't already know from my previous posts, I am majoring in the Dance program at Utah Valley University.
I. AM. LOVING. IT.

The dance program was a lot different than I had expected. It's a lot harder academically and physically. Mondays and Wednesdays I am there from 8-5 and it is physically exhausting. (Thanks to my conditioning class...)

But I am enjoying it so much. One thing I have loved even more, is the friends I am making. The girls are so much fun and we have such a good time together. For all of my dance classes, we have to go see at least 2 professional dance shows. That means I'm going to be seeing a lot. And that's ok :) A couple of us got together and went to the Ririe Woodbury show in SLC. It was.....interesting. It was amazing, but very interesting. It was fun to actually get dressed up and see each other looking like girls :) We had a great time!

Ok so here comes the story of all stories, and my favorite day/week ever!
So my Technique class is an every day class and we switch between two awesome teachers. Stevi, and Doris. Well for two days, our big dance studio was being used for another class, so we got moved to a smaller studio. However, being the biggest class, our teachers were not super stoked about that. SO... both teachers decided we'd do something a little different.

Stevi decided we would meet, and all go to breakfast. He said "Don't wear your dance clothes. Dress up! I want to see what you actually look like outside of dance class!" So that we did. We all "fancied" up and went to breakfast! So fun.

Doris decided we would do an exercise that she had done her freshman year of school. It turned out to be the funnest day ever! We've been learning several small exercises for warm up, feet, plie, center, traveling, and so on.....
Well, with these certain exercises, we were to get in small groups, and go perform 4 of these exercises in random places around the school. Inside, and out. If you know what flashmob dances are......that's kind of how we felt! It was hilarious!
SO.... The first one we did outside on a hill. There were windows right at the bottom of the hill where people were inside. People's reaction were hilarious, and one kid was even recording us! He probably thought we were crazy...

The next one we did was inside on the stairs. This one was tricky being on a small, little space, and there weren't quite as many people. But the ones that did see us, couldn't help but stare.

The third one we danced in a random hallway. There were only about 5 or 6 people in this hallway with a random person walking by once in a while. This one was fun just because we were dancing in a school hallway........ and how often do we do that?....... Ya, never.

The last one was BY FAR the best. And the one we didn't get a picture of. Doris has us do this warm up that is very strange. We walk. We just walk. And we walk in random ways, forward, backwards, sideways, whatever. When we feel like stopping, we stop and stretch in a random pose. When someone sees you doing so, they will come next to you, grab onto you somehow, and stretch with you. After a minute of doing this, you roll to the ground, stand up, and continue walking to start over. There's obviously good reason to do this, but just watching...... looks pretty funny!!
We decided to do this one in one of the busiest hallways at the school. There were so many people watching. Some with confused looks, and some were holding back smiles. Some would bury their head in a book and try not to watch, and some were literally full on laughing out loud. It was hilarious! I wasn't very good at it, but one girl in my class ROCKED at keeping a straight face, and I can't even tell you how funny it was.

Afterwards we had to take some random pictures because that's just what girls do :) It was SO fun doing this and getting to know the girls in my major that much better. We had so much fun together! Here's some random shots!

Basically, going back to normal technique class today was a real bummer. But this was sure a blast. No matter WHO saw us and thought we were nuts. :)

DAY 10

DAY 10- What You Wore Today

This is another one of my day to day challenges that I think is kinda lame...
Does anyone really care what I wore today? Probably not. But I decided this could turn into a fun post later on. Let me explain.

Today is Thursday. That means that I go to class. It's my only class of the day and it is my Modern Technique & Theory class. After class I usually do some choreography, and homework. Then around 3:00 , I go to work where I teach dance. After teaching I have started going to a hip hop club at school.

So as you can see....... I'm in dance clothes all day. My dance clothes consist of a tank top/T-shirt and shorts. No shoes because it's modern, and that's about it. My hair goes up in a messy pony tail or bun with a headband. Pretty much I DON'T get ready on Thursdays. Or any day for that matter...

But I like it that way :) On a more exciting note...... read my next post :)

Love, Me

PRIVATE!

GOING PRIVATE!!!

I'm sick of getting random posts and advertisements. Plus, it's a scary world SO............. I'm going private. I'll give it a few days, but if you want an invite to view it, let me know! Leave a comment, text me, facebook me, anything :)

DAY 09

DAY 09- YOUR BELIEFS

I decided that I would do one of my Day Challenges today, and I couldn't have been happier when I saw that today's was "My Beliefs".

As I thought about what to say, SO much fills my mind. I decided just to share this link first of all. My friend challenged me to create a profile on here, and I am so glad I did. It's so good to actually sit down, focus, and think about your testimony. How often do we really do that? So.... here is my profile :)

http://mormon.org/me/4Z49/##

I don't know what I'd do without the Gospel in my life, and really, I don't want to even think about it!!
Since I moved back down to Provo, I made a goal with myself to go to the temple every week. It has been the best goal I've ever made :) Usually I go on Tuesdays, and my roommates decided we'd make it "Temple Tuesday".
Well, the other week, we had come back from Labor Day long weekend and forgot about our early morning goal of going to the temple. I was driving to school and just kept thinking about it! Then, all through my class I continued to think about it, and I decided I had better go when I was done with class that day.
This was the first time I had gone to the temple because I felt promptedto do so, and it was the best experience I've had in the temple thus far. The spirit is an amazing thing and I am so grateful for it!

Speaking of Temples...... I LOVE the Brigham temple :) I saw it this weekend once again when I went home, and it just gets better and better!

This is what it looks like Now..... a few windows and no inside...

This is a picture of what it is going to look like all finished. Pretty close, eh?? :)

Temples are amazing, and I can't wait to be able to go through it all one day, and to be married and sealed there one day!

We are so lucky :)

Love, Me

Back to Life..

I'm back to reality. Back to school, living on my own, finding jobs, roommates, and so on. Which isn't necessarily bad.......but I sure miss Colorado!
I miss having a great job (and a great boss for that matter)
I miss hanging out with my sis everyday
I miss Colorado in itself.
I miss my nephews :(
And I miss the funny things they would say and do! For example:

Hunter: "You bad sock! YOU, are going in the laundry today!"
Hunter: "It brewk! (broke)
Hunter: "Mom what are they called?" "Pot guts" "Oh yeah, pot ducks!"
Hunter: "It's 82 degrees in here? What's the deal with that?!"
Hunter: "Pax, if you play with that I'm not being your big brother forever!"
Hunter: " What the..?" Paxton: "HECK"
Paxton: "Ann!" (He calls me Ann)

Hunter: "We have no food, we have no jobs, our heads pets are falling off!"
Hunter on my birthday: "It's time for the secret! The ck......... C-A-C..... (cake)
Hunter: "Im on facebook??!! AH! I thought facebook was for girls!!!
Hunter as he's holding my purse on his shoulder: "Oh, looks like I'm off to work!"
Hunter taking medicine for allergies: "I feel like a druggie!" (where in the world...?)
Hunter: "Mom, pax said sepboy!!" Brooke and I: "What?" "Sepboy!!" Us: "What is sepboy??

Hunter: "You know.... the sandwhich place....." Brooke: "hahaha you mean SUBWAY?"
Paxton: "Eann!" (He now calls me Eann)
Hunter: "Don'tcha wish your girlfriend was" Paxton: "Hot like me"
Hunter: "I am NOT having a piece of fruit till i'm 18!!"
Paxton says yes I do after everything. Example. Paxton, do you want milk? "Yes I do." Paxton, are you hot? "Yes I do." haha!
Hunter: "I'm not watching fed ex on that TV!" Aaron and I thinking of what fed ex is.... Aaron: "You mean Net Flix??"
Hunte after seeing a car like Brooke and Aarons on the road: "Wait a minute!!! Did someone steal our car???" (As we are IN our car....)
Hunter: "The handle brewked!" Brooke "Hunter, it's BROKE" Hunter: "Fine! It braked!"

One of my favorite all-time memories was when we took cookies to new members in the ward. Hunter insisted on carrying the plate of cookies up to the door, so Brooke agreed and said "BE CAREFUL!" Well, sure enough, the wind came up and took half the plate of cookies to the ground. As we frantically are cleaning up the mess, Hunter goes ahead and rings the doorbell. We barely get the mess cleaned up (and there's still a bit of crumbs on the cement) by the time they open the door. I then look over at Paxton and he has one of the cookies (from the ground) IN his mouth. Haha. It was the classic moment of a family with little boys! If only you could have witnessed this in real life.....because it was hilarious.....

.................And ther's SO much more to remember!............. I sure miss them!

And now I'm back to Provo.
I am really liking it here though, so I can't complain TOO much. I really love my roommates. I am living with Kati Nielson and Tayler Ames and I love it. The fourth girl (Bless her heart for being the only non- Brighamite) is Deba and she is great as well. They are such good girls and I love them so much! It's been so fun, and even letting me be the 3rd wheel all the time :) But as Reagan (Kati's boyfriend) tells me: "Sometimes the funnest bikes are 3 wheelers!" haha....!

School is great and it's sure getting me busy again. I am in the dance program and loving it. I dance an awful lot, and still have a few classes where it's book work but learning ABOUT dance, and I absolutely love them all. Ok.... that's a lie. I'm not a huge fan of my studies in ballroom, and I hate my conditioning class because I hate running. BUT...... even then, they aren't THAT bad. I'll take em :)

I also got a small part-time job teaching at a dance studio called Heart n' Soul dance. I have only taught twice, but I am liking it so far, and we'll see where it takes me. I still am looking for another little part-time something.... but that will happen sooner or later.

Things are good :) Now back to homework........ ugh...

Love, me!

DAY 08

DAY 08- A MOMENT

A moment. Hmmm.... what kind of moment?...
A good moment?
A bad moment?
A spiritual moment?
A fun moment?
A random moment?

.....How about an embarassing moment that happened TODAY....

Yes. That's a good one to tell.

Well, it all started by another ditzy moment. So I get a call today from a member of our High Priests Quorum and they want to meet with me to introduce themselves and get to know me. (since I'm a recently new member in their ward). They tell me that we'll meet at 6:30. (Side note: My car is broken down at the time. ) So, Aaron drops me off at 6:30. I get in the church and I'm not really sure who to look for because I don't know this Brother that called me. Luckily I walked in and found Brother Burton, who I actually knew! So I told him who I was looking for and he found them. To their surprise......there I was. They were just leaving to come to MY house. Wooops...... They were coming to visit ME. But oh well, and they just met with me there! SO.....Technically I didn't even NEED to be at the church!
Another side note: a couple of weeks ago I got a call from the ward clerk after church to come back in and sign my tithing check. Yea....I forgot to sign my own check, and when I go in to sign in there's the bishop, his counselors, and others there laughing about it with me. So, after this happened tonight, I sat down and literally thought to myself "Wow, this ward probably considers me the wards biggest ditz!"
Anyway, I then call Aaron and he tells me that he just picked up his trailer and is on his way to get me. Keep in mind that Aaron drives a big, maroon colored truck... Back to the story. I'm sitting in the church and I'm on my phone, when I see the maroon truck pull in. I walk outside and up to the truck, still distracted by my phone. I see out of the corner of my eye that someone is in the passenger seat. I think nothing of it, and I try to open the back door, and it's locked. So I try the front door, and it's locked too. As the driver un-locks the door and I open it....I realize that I do NOT know these people, and this is NOT Aarons truck! AH! Thank goodness this guy was hilarious. I told him my though process and that I figured "Maroon truck... Aaron is here!" And he laughed and said "That's ok, we were just thinking, ' Cool! We've never had this pretty of a lady in the back seat!' " Hahaha! I was SOOO embarrassed! So I laughed with them for a minute and then walked away and continued waiting for Aaron.

Don't let my natural hair color fool you. I really am blonde at heart....

DAY 07

DAY 07- Your Best Friend

So as I've been thinking about this one, I've decided that I've had many different Best Friends throughout my life. A best friend to me is someone that is always there for you, and honestly who knows MOST about you. I consider my Best Friends the ones I tell most to, the ones I trust most, and the ones I always am in touch with.

My child hood best friend was Jordan Hess. Jordan and I were inseperable!! And I mean seriously inseperable. So inseperable that we were actually kind of rude to everyone else. I admit it, and am not proud of it.....but it brings some good memories haha. Jordan and I did everything together. We had the same favorite colors, the same amount of dolls that we would play with. When she got a toy, I'd get the toy. We'd have sleep overs and "late nighers" and we'd get the same color of braces. We'd play house, and restaurant, and put on dance shows with our "Big Red, and Big Blue" balls and perform for our parents. We had very strong personalities and always had fun together! We started to kind of separate in about 6th grade when we went to ACYI and met lots of new people. However, we never completely split. We've always been good friends. We danced in High School together and still remain close although we don't chat much, or see each other a whole lot. But I sure do love her. "Jibby and Fresca" Forever =)

I don't have very many pictures on my computer of Jordan and I. If I was at home, I'd have thousands! But this is a good one because I have to mention Rockettes anyways. Rockettes will always be my best friends. I spent on average 28 hours a week with these girls just practicing. That's not including extra practices, or performances, or assemblies when we were required to sit together, or football games and basketball games, and meetings, and team parties. We LIVED together. And it payed off. There was no way that you COULDN'T love these girls and I truly did. (And still do). These were the 10 girls in my graduating class. We were most of the team. I love my ten :) (Oh and Jordan is right next to me on the right!... if you didn't know)

Once I hit 6th grade, my best friends became McKell and Kristen 100%. I was always close with McKell and Kristen growing up. We were all in the same ward, and elementary and we played all the time. But once we were in 6th grade, we then became attached at the hip. We became "BMK" (Breanne, McKell, Kristen) and stuck with it forever! In Intermediate school and onto Jr High, we hung out 24-7 whenever we could! This is a great time to also mention Dallin and Rachel. Dallin and Rachel were right there with us all through Intermediate school and Jr. High. Every weekend we'd play night games, or truth or dare, or go bowling....whatever. But we ALWAYS were together. When we hit high school we all kind of went different ways. McKell and I stayed super close because we were on Rockettes together. But even though the rest of us weren't AS close.... when we got together it's like we were still in Jr High. That's what is so great about them now. McKell and Kristen are both married, and Kell has a little baby. We're all in different stages in life and we really don't keep in touch much but a little here and there. However, when we do get together, it's like we're right back to Jr High :) I love these girls and I know we'll be best friends for eternity!

Me, McKell, and Kristen

Next on the list is Taylor. Taylor was part of the gang in Jr High. He would hang out with us a lot and we were all pretty tight. We really started becoming even better friends in High School. Our Jr year Taylor asked me to homecoming. From then on, we became super close. I can still remember the exact moment that I thought to myself "wow.....he is the best friend ever."
I was driving through town one night crying. There was a party going on at my friend Matt's, and Matt had been texting me. He started to give me a hard time because I had a "missionary" at the time, and he told me that maybe I could have come to the party if i didn't have a missionary. Yes, dumb little highschool drama, but I was really hurt and sad! Well Taylor called me soon after and I told him the situation. He then said to come over and we were going to go buy toilet paper and toilet paper matt's van. And that we did. Haha I felt so much better and thought Taylor was just the best for helping me feel better. And from that day on, that's exactly the kind of friend he was. I could honestly say he was my VERY BEST friend in High School. I could talk to Tay about anything in the world and feel comfortable. He has great outlooks on things and is very spiritual. The day he left on his mission I was a mess. haha! I was bawling in my moms arms and my mom said to me "You really love him, don't you" and I did. I really did love this kid to death. He's home now and living in Logan. We've gone our seperate ways for the most part but we're friends. I'm happy for him and the good life that he is living :) I'll always be grateful for his friendship!

Taylor and I =)

I could go on forever. But I'll stop with one more. Kati :)
I would consider Kati my Best Friend at the moment. Kati and I became close in High School when we danced together. (In our peter pan dance, she was my shadow haha!) Anyway, we always got along so well. We just clicked! Since high school, kati and i continue to stay close. Even when we lived in seperate towns we still would call each other often and man....we can talk. We talk for hours and everything. I can tell her EVERYTHING going on in my life and she is always so good at listening. I'm actually living with Kati next month when I move to provo and I can't wait!!

Kati and I in St. George :)

OK- I'll stop now :) I sure do love my friends and don't know what I'd do without them :)

DAY 06

DAY 06- YOUR DAY

This is another one of those day challenges that I think to myself "Nobody really cares.....so....what's the point?" This may be more interesting on a Saturday, or on a regular school day when there's new things happening, but...that's not the case. On the days that are exciting, I'm usually not thinking about blogging until the next day. Anyway, here's the day of Breanne on July 7, 2011 haha.

7:00 am- Annoying "Loud Beeps" alarm goes off in which I apparently pushed "off" because.....
7:55 am- Wake up. Ooops.
8:05 am- Start getting ready in more of a rush than expected.
8:25 am- Getting frustrated that I didn't have time to wash my hair because it's not going well...
8:35 am- Toast a poptart and eat my breakfast
8:50 ish - Drive to work
9:00 am- Begin work.
2:00 pm- Quick lunch break
2:05 pm- Quick call to Tayler to figure out our living situation.
2:30 pm- Back to work for one more patient
4:15 pm- Done with work and walking to my car when.....
4:20 pm- My car key won't turn in the ignition! Grand.
4:25 pm- Get a ride home with Aaron..
4:30 pm- Phone call with Mom
4:45 pm- Surfing the web for apartments.

5:11 pm- Phone call with Kati to do MORE living situation crap. Yuck.
5:30 pm- More surfing and e-mail writting.
6:00 pm- Ate some yummy chicken and potatoe dinner!
6:30 pm- Another quick call with my mom :)
7:00 ish - Started blog surfing and writing!
And now it's 7:41 pm. The rest of the night I have some idea but that usually changes anyways. I'll probably go outside and play with the boys after this. Then they'll probably go to bed and I'll probably watch some tv or something with Brooke and Aaron. Then I need to write a letter and look over a Primary lesson for Sunday since I'm not really sure how that's gonna go. Who knows.

I'm sure you've been totally intertained with this and all, but I'm going to stop. I'm bored WRITING this! So for now....
Have a way more exciting day than this ;)

Home Sweet Home

Last weekend I was able to go home for the weekend.
Brooke and Aaron were headed to Manti area to a family reunion. I have been in need of renewing my drivers license and a dr appt. SO... I figured this was my chance. My awesome mom decided she would drive to Manti and pick me up :) She picked me up on Thursday night and we headed back to Provo. We went for ice-cream with Blake and then stayed the night at my Grandpas. The next morning we had breakfast and headed off to get all the things checked off my list. Side note: Getting a drivers license is such a pain!!!! Yet getting an original birth certificate isn't? Dumb.

Anyway, we got back to Brigham and WOW. First of all the temple....! Speechless! I can't believe how far it has come. It is absolutely breath taking! I am so excited to see its progress continue! Then I got home and was able to see all the new changes my parents have made to the house. Talk about a lot of new things this weekend! It was great.

Later that night I was able to go on a date with my good friend from way back, Dallin. Dallin got home from his mission in the beginning of June and I hadn't seen him yet. It was SO good to see him! Dallin is one of my favorite guys ever. He even made me the cutest birthday present in the world! Dallin and I met in 6th grade and we wrote notes all throughout Intermediate School, Jr. High, and even some High School notes! Well, Dallin kept all of these and put them in a book for me. It was the most thoughtful gift ever and I love it! We had such a good time together. As I hung out with him a quote kept coming to mind. It's one of my favorite quotes. It says:

"Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young."

I find that very true in many situations! Here's some of the fun we had :)

Here's part of the Book he made. I had written him a Birthday note a long time ago, and he copied that. Cute eh?!!

A more embarrassing part to the book. Haha we're so little in some of these pictures!

We cooked dinner :) A very good meal by Dallin, I must say!

Hangin' out on the swings :)

The next day I went fly-fishing with my mom and dad. My dad and I try and go fishing every summer. (We try and go lots but it's hard to find time!) But I love going fishing with my dad! I absolutely love doing outdoor things with him. Another side note: I drew out for the muzzleloader for the first time this year. I'm excited to start hunting. I've always wanted to but it's going to take a lot of practice!
Anyway, back to the fishing.... There's a song that is one of my recent favorites, and it totally reminds me of my dad and I and the more I listen to it, the more I want to go fishing with my dad! Here's a video of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IheODRwalEw


So we went fishing :) My mom was there too! She just took these pictures so she's not in them.

Don't let this fool you. My fish was bigger. It's just angled different :) Right dad!!?

I love flyfishing! Thanks Dad! :)

After Fishing I went Shopping with my mom! I love shopping with her. It was so good to have some time with my mom and do what us girls do best :) haha.

Overall, it was such a good weekend and I was sad to leave! I honestly could hang out with my mom and dad all the time! I sure love it and I'm excited to see them in a couple of weeks!

Life is good :)

Chain Of Love

The other day I was on my way to work when a song came on the radio. It sounded like an older song, and I couldn't believe I had never heard it before. But the lyrics were so cute and it kept me waiting in the parking lot until the song was over. I had tears in my eyes by the end of the song! Either it's just THAT good, or I'm just a girl who is emotional..... whatever. But either way, it's such a cute song.

The lyrics really caught my attention. I was expecting this to be a typical Love song. A boy finds a girl, they fall in love, happily ever after. And I was surprised at the ending :) Here are the lyrics!

"He was driving home one evening,
In his beat up Pontiac.
When an old Lady flagged him down,
Her mercedes had a flat.
He could see that she was frightened,
Standing out there in the snow
'Till he said I'm here to help you ma'am,
By the way, my name is Joe.

She said I'm from St. Louis,
And I'm only passing through
I must have seen a hundred cars go by,
This is awful nice of you.
When he changed the tire,
And closed her trunk
And was about to drive away,
She said how much do I owe you
Here's what he had to say.

You don't owe me a thing, I've been there too
Someone once helped me out,
Just the way I'm helping you.
If you really want to pay me back,
Here's what you do
Don't let the chain of love end with you.

Well a few miles down the road
The lady saw a small cafe.
She went in to grab a bite to eat,
And then be on her way.
But she couldn't help but notice,
How the waitress smiled so sweet
And how she must've been eight months along,
And dead on her feet.

And though she didn't know her story,
And she probably never will
When the waitress went to get her change,
From a hundred dollar bill
The lady slipped right out the door,
And on a napkin left a note
There were tears in the waitress's eyes,
When she read what she wrote.

You don't owe me a thing, I've been there too
Someone once helped me out
Just the way I'm helping you.
If you really want to pay me back
Here's what you do
Don't let the chain of love end with you.

That night when she got home from work,
The waitress climbed into bed
She was thinkin' about the money,
And what the lady's note had said.
As her husband lay there sleeping,
She whispered soft and low,
Everything's gonna be alright, I love you, Joe."

Ok...... If those Lyrics don't make you want to be a better person, then I don't know what does! Imagine what it would be like if the whole world were that way. I don't know about you, but that makes me want to go do something nice for someone!

Just a cute little reminder to myself! Have a great day! =)

DAY 05

DAY 05- My Definition of Love

It's about time I get back to my day by day challenges :) Todays' is My Definition of Love!

Hmmm. This is a tough question for me because there are so many different kinds of love in my opinion. For example:

I love my baths, but not the way that I love my Family.
I love my friends, but not in the same way that I love chocolate.
I love shoes, but not in the same way that I love high heels!
And so on....

But as I was thinking about this, I got on Urban-dictionary just to see the different definitions of love. There was one sentence on there that stood out to me. It reads:

"Love can make you do anything and sacrifice for what will be better in the end."

I think that applies to all of those different types of love.

This summer has made me realize a lot of those loves.
#1- My family. Sometimes seeing things from another view, makes me realize so much more. I had a really hard time leaving Utah this summer. I went to dinner with My parents and brother, and I bawled the whole way from Salt Lake to Provo. I was so sad to be leaving them. (But I was happy to see the rest of my family!) Anyway, it was hard for me. I sure love my family so much! Even when they come to visit, I get teary when they leave. I realize how close I am to them and I literally get anxious to see them again :)

#2- A mothers love. Really, this started when I moved to college. My mom can be MILES away, and still be so involved and worried about me. I was sick while here in Colorado, and she talked to a doctor FOR me, and called in medicine FOR me, and constantly was calling to check in on me. I don't know how I'd survive without her! It's like she's right here with me and I love it! She's always there no matter where I am!
Also, living with Brooke has totally opened my eyes to a mothers love as well. These little boys are so attached to their Mommy and adore her. It's amazing what a mother (and a father) do for their kids. You can't tell me that isn't an amazing love!! I love my nephews so much. I honestly can't imagine having kids of my own because it's hard to imagine loving kids any more than I love these two little boys!

#3- The Gospel. One thing I've learned in the past several years, is that life changes, and life changes a LOT. But the Gospel never does. No matter what is going on in your life, no matter what challenges and trials you are going through, no matter where you live or where you work, the Gospel NEVER changes. It's the one constant in your life and the peace that comes with that is unbelievable! I can't imagine going through this time of my life with so many changes and new experiences without the Gospel.
You can't speak of the Savior without the word Love coming to mind. There is no greater Love than that! :)

Love, me!

The Best Day Ever!

So..... to the greatest day ever: The Baseball game :)

Miguel Cabrera (that favorite player of mine I mentioned in the earlier post) plays for the Detroit Tigers and they were playing in Denver the weekend after my birthday. So my parents gave me tickets!! My parents came to Grand Junction that weekend and my mom and I headed to Denver Saturday morning. We got there around 11:30 and picked up Blake at the airport. He flew in to go to the game with us :)

Then we had time to kill before the game so we went and ate at our favorite Denver diner, and went to my favorite Mall in Denver! Then, we got to the ballpark, and were one of the first ones in the gate!

We went straight over to the Tigers dugout to try and get Cabrera's autograph. Blake had little hopes and figured we would not be able to get his autograph so he was a little more focused on the other players. I however, never took my eye off Cabrera. SERIOUSLY! I'm not exaggerating at all. Cabrera came near us and I yelled to him and pointed to my shirt I was wearing (Which was the one Blake gave me) and he laughed and waved. Then he went back to batting practice. Later he came back over a couple of times in which all times I continued to watch and wave and yell. He continued to laugh. Then he went in the dugout for a while. You couldn't really see into the dugout from where I was standing, unless you crouched down awkwardly and peeked in JUST enough to see half of his head. So that I did! And he saw me and laughed and waved once again. A few minutes later he came out of the dugout, looked over at me, and held up his hand for me to throw him a ball. I threw him my ball, threw him my pen, and JUMPED for joy! He signed my ball, then signed Blake's and a few others. Then he threw my pen back and signed for me to call him. HAHA! He put his hand up to his ear and mouthed "Call me" and laughed. It was the best ever!

I was seriously the happiest girl in the world. I GOT HIS AUTOGRAPH! AND he waved at me, AND I was the first ball he signed. He was so nice too. He was the only one on his team that signed Autographs and he even tried to get others on his team to sign balls. He was just so happy and fun. I love him even more now!!

The game was a blast, even though the Tigers lost. I love ballgames and it was so fun to go with the other two baseball fanatics (Blake and my mom) and have a good time with them. It was such a great day. I get butterflies just thinking about it! No joke :)

Here are some pictures of it!!

Our favorite Denver Diner! Mmm!

My favorite Mall :)

And there he is! :)

My mom captured this great picture. Cabrera is throwing back my signed ball to me. You can even see the ball in the picture. How awesome is that?!

This was actually before he signed my ball. But Cabrera is in the background in batting practice!

Blake and I with our signed balls. He was pretty excited about it to I must say. He yelled to Cabrera: "Hey, that is my little sister. You gotta sign mine too. She can't out-do me!" haha!

We had such a good time. I sure love going to baseball games with them! They are such fanatics. My mom could tell you anything about baseball as well as Blake. It's so fun to share that love of baseball with them!

Thanks to my mom and dad for the tickets!! And thanks to Blake and my mom for such a wonderful day that I will NEVER forget!
=)

The start to the best day ever!

Ok so pretty much this year was by best Birthday ever. It started out on the actual day of my birthday great. My Birthday was on June 12 and I woke up to this on my bed:

I have wanted a keyboard to take to college with me so that I can continue the piano. I'm at that point in paino where I am ok, but I lose everything I know because I can't practice much. So my sister gave me this! :) I was so excited!!

Then I went downstairs and opened a package from my brother who gave me this:

This is a shirt with Miguel Cabrera on it. Miguel Cabrera has been my favorite baseball player since his first year of Major League! I LOVE this player!! I had seen this shirt on the internet and wanted it. Blake said it only comes in a mens medium, but I still wanted it SO bad! And he got it for me :)

THEN... My parents present came......
Drumroll....

ROCKIES vs. TIGERS GAME!!!

YES.......Best day ever! That post to come :)

Summer Fun

Like I mentioned in my earlier post, it feels like every weekend we have had something fun going on. I moved out here one weekend. The next weekend was Memorial Day weekend and my family came out and we all went to Glenwood Springs. SO FUN. The bad news is that I was sick that weekend. I woke up Thursday morning with a fever and headache. The fever went away and the headache turned to a migrane and that didn't leave all weekend. BUT I was determined to not let it ruin my weekend because we had so many fun things planned. And boy am I glad I did!

We got there Friday afternoon and went to the hot springs. These were great, just like any springs. Nothing TOO exciting but always a good time.

The Highlight of the trip for me was Saturday when we went to the Adventure Park. Once you're in Glenwood springs, you can take a little gondolla up to the top of a mountain. From the town, you would never know that this is there! It's amazing. At the top there is a zip line, bungee jumping, games, a alpine slide type roller coaster, and so on. But the craziest thing would have to be the swing. They added a new swing that swings you over a CANYON. You are literally looking straight down a canyon. It is insane!! I'll post a picture. I can't believe I did it. What was I thinking?! haha. Plus I get motion-sick as it is. Let alone BEING sick already.....lets just say I didn't feel so swell afterwards! So worth it though.
Sunday we went on a hike to Hanging Lake. It's quite a hike, but once you get to the top it is gorgeous! Who knew there was a lake like this with these incredible waterfalls at the top of this mountain? What a pretty world!
Anyway, needless to say, this was a wonderful weekend vacation and I loved every minute of it!

The crazy swing!!

Just a cute little chair :)

Hanging Lake!

The other BIG event I will post next. It deserves it's own post because it was one of the best days of my life. haha and I'm not even joking :)

So other than that, I've just done fun things here and there. I don't really know anybody here in Grand Junction but my friend Calvin. Through Calvin I briefly knew another boy in the ward, Travis. We were friends but never really hung out or anything. Just knew each other. Well he got home from his mission and had a week before he was heading to school. So he was super nice and took me on a hike and for ice-cream and it was so fun to have someone my age around to do that stuff with!

Colorado really has such pretty hikes and places to go see. I'm no "big hiker" but I love to go explore new scenes and pretty views!

I love summer time!! Just all the different things you do. It's a total different feel than the whole rest of the year. It's the greatest!

More Summer Fun to come :)

Love, me.

Quick Update....

Ok so I thought once I moved out here to Colorado I'd be even better at this blogging business. Wrong. I am still terrible. But I started looking at others blogs and realized that most people haven't blogged much this summer. I guess it's a summer thing and there's just too much to do other than blog! That's a good thing :)

SO... Quick update. I'm in Colorado! I have been for a month now, and like I figured, I am loving it.

First: I am working in Aaron's office and it's been so great. I have the best brother in law to let me do this! I work in the front AND he's been hands on training me as an assistant. I really love assisting. It's so fun to be hands on and in that field. I'm really enjoying it!
Second: My nephews are the best. Seriously they are the funniest boys in the world! They are constantly making me laugh. Hunter is six and at the age of a totally random/funny imagination. Paxton is two and at the age of learning to talk and repeating what others say. So put the two together.....and it's quite hilarious! Some day I will make a post on the funny things that are said! But for today, this is a quick update so that next post I can get back to my "DAY Challenges" that I have failed so badly at! Anyway...
Third: It's summer and what's not to love? I work, and then play with the nephews and call it a day. Weekends have been the best. We seem to always be doing something (BASEBALL pictures to be posted very soon for the best weekend EVER....) And camping, and glenwood springs....wow. So much to update on. But that's what summer is for. I love it!

Things are settled and good for now! I'll post more later. Just don't get your hopes up since it MAY not be that soon. Shocker.

=)

DAY 04

DAY 04
What I Ate Today

This is quite funny.
I decided just barely that I was going to do a Day Challenge today. So I just looked and it happens to be what I ate today. It also happens to be Fast Sunday.

Lovely!

However we did just have our dinner and I ate Marinated Chicken, a yummy fruit salad, potatoe salad, and rolls. Mmm!

Other than that, I have not ate anything. haha!

My usual day of eating......is not usual. It's different every day. I recently went into the doctor to check my health and weight. For some reason I can't gain, and I seem to lose. But, results came back and I'm healthy as a horse! My doctor said I probably just don't eat enough calories and I need to FOCUS on what I eat. So I have been eating a lot lately! This just happens to not be the best day to write about =)

That's ok though. I think that's boring anyways. Who REALLY cares what I ate today???

Falling Into Place!

I just have to write because I am so RELIEVED!

I have really been struggling these past few months with what to do in life. I have changed my major and thought of many, many different ways to go. Yet, nothing seemed to feel completely right.

Secretely, in my mind I had thought about moving back to Provo and going to UVU again. They have a really good dance education program that I have always been interested in. Utah State doesn't have one :( Well, I was chatting with one of my best friends Kati and she mentioned that maybe i should come back to Provo. It was crazy to me because I hadn't mentioned this to anyone. But it really got me seriously thinking about it. So, I looked into the program, prayed about it, and I finally feel at PEACE with my school decision, and I am excited to start school! I haven't felt that way in a long time. AND I am so excited to live with Kati.
Kati and I are extremely close. I tell her EVERYTHING. And man are our phone bills going to love the change too because we talk a LOT. And I don't mean a little every day but when we talk it's a good hour conversation. It will be so nice to live with her, I can't wait!

So THEN- besides school, I haven't been sure what to do this summer. I am getting sick of Logan. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Utah State and i will ALWAYS be an Aggie at heart :) But I'm tired of the same people, the same routine, and so forth. I just need a change. Well, my awesome sister and brother in law are letting me go back to live with them again! I'll work there and have a fun summer with them. I am SO excited!

I really can't wait for the changes that are about to take place. I am sad to leave my friends, and leave in the summer where people play a lot, go to the pool, have late nights and enjoy college life. But there's no denying the happiness I feel in the changes that are to come. I am so ready :)

Kati and I were talking about the changes and she mentioned how crazy it is that I have been searching for what to do for SO long, and all of the sudden things fell into place QUICK! That's just the joy of life at this age. Well, life in general! But it's good. It's very good!

I'll keep you posted! :)

DAY 03

DAY 03
YOUR FIRST LOVE

WARNING: You will probably be bored. This is for my benefit and this is very much a PERSONAL, JOURNAL like entry. So don't feel that you have to read it. :) Please. haha!

Ok, as you can see- I haven't done very good at this day by day challenge. That's not necessarily because I haven't had time, or haven't wanted to write. I have. BUT...I've been dreading this day! My first love? I really wanted to change this and make up my own DAY 03. I don't want to write about this!

Why? Because really, I don't know! I have never said the "L" word and don't plan to until I AM in love. However, I truly feel that people come into your life for a reason and you really come to love those people for that! So even if I wasn't "in love" with them, I "love" them. make sense? So it doesn't hurt to write about the things that I loved and learned :)

Side note: There are SO many people I've dated that have influenced me. But for the sake of this post, I'll just write about the ones who influenced me that I have officially "dated" and had relationships with!

So.... that brings me to the question. Every relationship I've been in has taught me a lot. Where to start. I'll start in high school. It's funny to think that a high school relationship could mean a lot to someone, but they did! So, lets start at the beginning. Kade. Kade was the boy that made ME want to be better. Kade got along great with my family and we had a fun connection with them. The thing I loved most about Kade was that he always told me how he loved my values and the way that I lived my life. He told me how I was an example to HIM. That meant a lot to me not only to feel appreciated, but it really made ME appreciate MY values as well. I will always live that way and Kade taught me that a boy SHOULD appreciate that in a girl =)

Second, there was Justin. Justin was a great friend all through high school and before we started dating. Having that friendship BEFORE a relationship was the best thing that could have happened. We were already so open and honest with each other and had such a fun time together always. Justin was someone I looked up to and really felt myself around. I dated him my JR. year and we definitely had our share of rough times! He moved to college and there were constantly problems, but we remained close. I then "sent him on a mission" haha. Yes, a missionary. But really, it was good for us! He wanted me to date, and that, I did. And I found someone else.... BUT that is the best part of Justin. We are STILL friends. After everything we still are close. That's why I love that we were friends to begin with. I could tell Justin anything and that's what good friends do! He is married now and we obviously don't talk much, but I honestly couldn't be happier for him!

Lastly, and honestly most influential to me, is Jason. I met Jason through a blind date sort of that my friend BEGGED me to go on. It was an awkward first date, yet really fun! That next week, Jason planned something for us EVERY day that week so that we could hang out. Just the little things in order to see me every day. Well, it worked. I fell for him hard, and then I moved to provo to go to school. We had our struggles and I blame a lot of that on the distance and timing. I was at a new point in my life where I was on my own. It was new for me and I enjoyed going out and doing new things. That was hard on jason because he felt so opposite and wanted things to grow between us. This caused lots of contention and hard times for sure. However, we had some great things going. Jason taught me a lot about the gospel and was such an example to me! He is such an independent person and very motivated. Things ended roughly, and it was probably the hardest thing I've ever gone through. (This is why I didn't want to write about DAY 03!) Anyway, we decided it would be best to go our seperate ways and move on. It was a good decision, yet extremely hard. It's still hard on me to this day. I have my hard moments and I still love this boy! He has such a unique personality that brings out the fun in anyone! Things happen for a reason and we have both realized that. We both want what is best for each other and that's to just move on :) I'll always be greatful for the things he taught me, even though others might not see that. The week Jason and I split, my institute teacher happened to play us a song in class. The song was from Wicked called "for good" and it really hit home. It explains how I feel very well. You can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzrGFQysfYU I truly wouldn't be the person that I am today if I hadn't have met Jason. But the tears in my eyes are telling me that I'm done writing. YAY! =)

Sorry for such a boring post, but someday (hopefully not TOO far away) I'll be able to write about my true love :)

For now, Have a wonderful day!

-Me

DAY 02

DAY 02- YOUR PARENTS

I am excited about this day because I really could write a whole lot about my parents. But I'll try not to make this TOO big of a post. I've been at home this weekend and realized that before I wrote this, I should go downstairs and look at our boxes of pictures to find a few. Well, finding just a few is impossible. I spent way too long just looking through random pictures. It's hilarious! Anyway.......Here we go :)

These Are My Parents =) I had to put this picture on because of my mom's eye shadow. It's a full on rainbow and it cracks me up. She said it was so in style....and that makes me laugh even harder! What were the early 90's like???!! haha. Ooh goodness. :)

My mom, dad and I went up to an area where my dad hunts. We rode the four-wheelers around and shot a little. She's a good sport! ....And she will probably kill me for posting this picture. But I could have done worse ;)

My mom and I at Rockette practice. The mom's would come do a dance for us the day before Region Competition. I always loved seeing our moms dance! It's so funny! I don't have a picture on my computer, but my dad always participated in "Popettes". They would dance at the Rockette Invitational at the end of the year in front of everyone! My dad would get so into it and want to practice all the time. It meant so much to me! My parents always supported me in my dancing, and still do today!

My dad has these masks that are famous at my house. He used to scare my friends and I all the time with these! He still wears this mask. I love it. This is us at a daddy daughter Rockette halloween party :)

My dad and I would always go on a daddy daughter camp-out each summer and go fishing. I always loved it, but recently I've gotten into the whole idea of it! My dad has taught me to fly-fish and i enjoy going so much! I love doing all the "guy stuff" with my dad. I just took Hunters Safety and can hopefully go hunt with him sometime soon!

My parents and I at graduation.

Really, what would we do without parents? I sure don't know what I'd do without mine. Like the other day for example. I was at home for the weekend (thank goodness) and needed to go to my hair appointment, when my car wouldn't start. My mom told me just to take hers and we'll deal with it later. By the time I had come home, my parents had already towed my car to Big O and it was getting fixed. They then let me drive their car around all weekend. This is a small example of 100,000,000,000,000 examples to tell! I sure do love them =)