MY Mom is Cooler than YOUR Mom!!!

Top Reasons Why My Mom is the Coolest:
--Mom makes the best gorilla poops ever! I have tried like a billion times, but mine just never turn out like hers.
-- Every year when I was in elementary school my mom would dress up like a witch for Halloween, green face and all. She would come to my class and hand out treats. Then she would drive us home, with the window rolled down, and cackle at all the other children walking home.
--The first time I went toilette papering was with my mom. She had to make sure I was doing it right. =)
--Mom makes every birthday extra special. She would make us a special birthday breakfast (waffles with strawberries and cool whip), give us a new outfit to wear to school, and decorate the house in balloons and crape paper. We also had some pretty wicked awesome parties!
--Sometimes during the summer, my mom would just spontaneously say, “Kids get your swimsuits on. Pack the car. We are going to Bear Lake.” Bear Lake trips were very rarely pre-planned.
-- Mom always makes the holidays extra-special. We decorated for EVERYTHING!
-- My mom can ride a wave-runner harder than anyone I know!
--My mom is the one that gave me my love for animals. She made sure we always had pets, and then was always really patient when she was the one that ended up taking care of them.
--Mom would make work fun. We would race the clock (“Let’s see if we can clean the whole house in an hour! Set the timer!”) Pump up the music. Be rewarded with ice cream. She is just full of grand ideas.
--If my mom has not heard from me for more than three days, she calls to see if I have forgotten that I have a mother.
-- My mother is the best prankster on the planet. She will get ya when you least expect it. (April Fools day is always really scary at my house ha ha)
--Mom is the best nurse when you are sick or injured. When I broke my knee and was on crutches for five months my mom was amazing!!
-- Mom cheats when she plays cards. She will deny this however. Which kind of makes it even funnier.
--Mom loves the beach and sunshine just as much as I do, if not more.
--My mom has good fashion sense
--Mom is a ‘handyman’. She would fix the vacuum, leaky faucets, and all other major appliances. Very rarely would you see a repair man at our house.
-- Mom has survived Dad for 26 years. Not an easy task ha ha j/k

Well pretty much this list could go on and on! Mom, you’re amazing! Thanks for all you have done for me and all you have taught me about life. I hope someday I can be as cool of a mom to my kids as you were to us! Happy Mother’s Day! I Love You!

Long Week, Fabulous Weekend

This week was seriously the longest week of my life and I have absolutely no idea why. It wasn't a bad week or anything, just LONG! I felt like Monday should have been Wednesday. Tuesday should have been Friday. Which means by Wednesday I was DONE! I guess that's just how the last few weeks of school are. The clock slows down, and every minute seems to last an hour. It was a pretty busy week for me too. Lots of homework before "dead week".

Thank heavens for weekends. Friday was nothing special. I worked and prepared my lesson for Sunday and that's about it. Saturday was a lot of fun though. My friend Jason and I went to the movie 'How to Train Your Dragon'. At first I was a little embarrassed to admit that I was going to see this movie. I blame it on the lame title I guess. But I actually quite enjoyed it. It was super funny and really cute, and one that I would definitely consider buying to add to my collection. It was 3D of course (because everything is these days).

After the movie Jason suggested that we check out this new restaurant that his dad had been to and said was pretty good. It's called Pounders and is in North Logan. It is Hawaiian food. So as you walk in there is a pile of papers that you put your order down on. Jason and I had no idea what we were doing so just kind of made it up as we went along. Jason then takes my paper from me and hands it to the cashier, whips out his wallet, and pays for me before I even have time to protest. I did anyways however, but not for long, because I have come to find that there is just no winning in an argument with Jason. (Don't tell him I said that though) ;) So we go sit down to wait for our food. The atmosphere is pure bliss with a giant painted palm tree on the wall, pictures of the Hawaiian islands everywhere, and Hawaiian music playing in the background. Now that's my kinda place! So Jason and I get kind of carried away in chatting it up... half hour later... we realize we still don't have our food. He goes to check on it and comes back to tell me they had forgotten about us. Ha how funny! When our food finally comes it is DEEE-LICIOUS! It was a lot of food for NOT a lot of money! Yay! I am totally loving this new find of ours! And to add just one more cherry on top, they gave us each a free meal for next time because they felt so bad for making us wait. Which means I just got two free meals! Yeah. Pretty sweet deal if you ask me! (Well, actually three if you count leftovers... which I do) =D

After that we came back and played games at my apartment with my roommate Emily. Also fun.

So today (Sunday) I had to teach the lesson. And oh boy was I nervous! Not so much for the teaching part, but for the filling the time part. It's harder than you would think to take a ten minute conference talk and turn it into a forty minute lesson! Thankfully, the Lord's hand was in it 100%! As I had hoped would happen, the Spirit just kind of took over and everything ran rather smoothly and I filled the time quite nicely. I was so grateful for all the girls that shared personal stories, I couldn't have done it without them! I know this lesson was meant for me, but I do think it went pretty well. I am always relieved when I can walk out of Relief Society, after just given the lesson, and have no regrets.

It was funny how today every meeting in church all tied in together. Crazy how that sometimes happens. It would seem that we ALL needed the same lesson on the same day. Good day in Church. But again, I say that everyday.

Our home teachers asked if they could come today. We said of course. They asked what time, we answered with a "Pretty much anytime today would work." So they said. "Alright. It will either be before four or after six". Ha ha. How funny is that? So pretty much the ONLY times they might not show up are within a two hour time frame. Sorry, but I just found this extremely funny. They are good guys though, gotta love 'em.

Well today has definitely replenished my spirit and I now feel ready to face my last week of school. Woot Woot! I am super-dee-duper excited and a little MORE than ready for summer! Wish me luck, or do one better and pray for me, on my Anthropology final . . . I have a feeling I'm gonna need it!

Lots of Thoughts

I have been attempting to clean my room for the past five hours. It's not going so well. I keep getting distracted and pretty much have no motivation whatsoever! So I guess I am using this blog as just one more distraction. My poor room. I see forever messiness in it's future.

I have a lot of thoughts tonight. So this post will most likely be totally random and perhaps not make much sense at all. First, I would just like to say that conference this weekend was amazing! Not gonna lie, I am a hardcore conference lover. I was not a huge fan when I was a little kid. I never really got much out of it. But it's definitely my two favorite times of the year now. Listening to the apostles is quite the incredible experience that just does not compare to much else. This conference I especially felt the power that resides within President Thomas S. Monson. What an amazing man he is. I was talking to my roommate Emily tonight about it, and I realized something. President Monson teaches through stories, just like Christ taught through parables. I don't know, I guess I just thought that was a cool comparison.

This week I have been helping plan my grandparent's 50'th wedding anniversary. In the words of '27 Dresses' "50. Wow!" My Mom and I went from store to store to store looking for 50'th wedding anniversary decorations and gift ideas. It was amazing to me how little was out there. And in almost every store the salesperson would say something like this, "Well we don't carry a lot of 50'th anniversary stuff because it's not a big seller". How sad is that? Less and less people make it to the big 5-0. I lost count of how many stores we went to, like a gazillion maybe, and this would happen over and over and over again. What has marriage come to? Does it mean nothing anymore?? Sad sad sad. That's all I can say. It's just sad. But also oh happy day for BOTH sets of my grandparents who BOTH celebrated 50'th wedding anniversaries together. I pray that that's me someday.

Which leads me into my next thought. I was talking with one of my best friends on Facebook chat tonight and she was telling me that she thinks that one of her old friends has become a lesbian. She said something like this, "Well, she is 22. And never had a boyfriend. She never even had a boy that was interested in her." And I was like, shoot dang. That is me! No, not the lesbian part. But the pathetic part. I am 22. Never had a boyfriend. Never had a guy interested. Don't you love moments when your own obscurity is thrown in your face? Do people really see me as this pitiful creature? Hmmm... sad reality tonight I guess. Now don't get me wrong, I don't feel bad for myself. In actuality my life has been freaking fantastic lately. I love life! Really, I do. But that doesn't mean that I don't sometimes feel the void of other parts to life that I seem to be missing out on.

On a more positive note I only have three weeks of school left, which equals to only seven more classes. That is exciting indeed! Weird to think that summer is in a month and there is still snow on the ground. What's up with this freak snow storm in April anyhow? I must say, I do not approve of Mother Nature's strange antics!

So for the real quick updates of my life - school is going really good. I am actually doing really well in my classes. Yay! I worked my ham job again for a week last week and though it went ok, I am glad it only lasted a week! I was exhausted working two jobs and going to school! I don't know how people can do that all of the time. This week I am frustrated with my bug job because we finished all of the work that was set out for us to do. My boss has not been seen all week, so we have nothing to do. a.k.a. no one is getting any hours which means NO MONEY. BAH! Frustration hardcore! I hope we get more work soon. As for my social life, that is good as well! Really I am having a total riot! Like last week my roommate Emily and I drove down to SLC and went to the cheesecake factory for her birthday. It was so much fun! It seems like my social life has been picking up a lot lately! I have amazing friends. I am so blessed.

Speaking of being blessed, I am blessed with the most amazing visiting teacher ever. Last week she showed up on my doorstep with a bouquet of flowers for me. When I asked her why she was giving me flowers she replied, "Because it snowed and I am really pissed about it. So I decided I needed a reminder of spring and thought you might need one too." ha ha she is too funny. I just love her to death.

So I bought one of those things that spray the air scents every 36 minutes automatically. It's in my room right now. And though I love how my room is smelling constantly delicious, every time it goes off it scares me and I jump. I hope I get used to this soon. Pretty sure I will have to turn it off in the night so it doesn't scare me awake and I fall out of bed.

Well, I think that's it for now. I am sure I have forgotten something, but seriously, I am like the most distracted person in the world right now. I don't know why I can't focus on anything. I think the snow has caused my brain to ooze out my ears. I hear that can sometimes happen. Snow is the spit of satan in my opinion.

Pet Peeve

Church was amazing today! I know I sound like a broken record, but every Sunday in my ward is AMAZING! I love how tangible the spirit is in every single meeting. I love that my ward is a place where I can receive personal revelation and weekly renew my testimony and faith. I love the pick me up that it gives me! And I LOVE the people!!!

However, there is one thing that I did not love about today. And that was the girls sitting in front of me in sacrament meeting. Due to spring break, our ward combined with another ward today, and these girls were from that ward. And they did not shut their mouths for two seconds of the meeting. Like seriously. They were talking and giggling the entire time. I couldn't believe how rude they were being. The boys in front of them would turn around and look at them, trying to give them the hint to BE QUIET! Even people across the aisle were looking at them, but they were too involved in their conversation to notice. The only time they were silent was during the prayers. They spoke through the songs, announcements, sacrament, and talks. I was so annoyed. I did my best to ignore them, but they were so inexcusably loud!

Guaranteed that no conversation is more important than taking the sacrament and renewing your baptismal covenants.

Guaranteed that no joke is worth missing out on learning about the gospel.

Guaranteed that no information shared is more important than feeling the spirit.

Guaranteed!!

Ooooo. I was bugged. If you truly and honestly have something more important to say than what is being said during sacrament meeting, write it down in a note or get out of the chapel so that you are not distracting from the spirit that everyone else is trying to feel!

And that my friends, is my pet peeve for the day.

Reverence. It's about time. (Said like those cheesy LDS family commercials that we all love) =)

Blehhhhhh

Wow. What a horrible week. Is it over yet? Almost. Good.

Well I guess I just wanted to thank all the friends that stuck by me this week and offered not only their good advice but their support as well . . . . you know who you are! And you are amazing! Thanks-for being there for me when I turned into my crazy psycho self this week!

Next week is Spring Break and so it's bound to be better right?

Hockey, Birthdays, and Good Friends

Last night was amazing. Seriously one of the funnest nights ever.


It was the last USU home game of the season, and the Aggies did not disappoint. Words can not describe the awesomeness of that game! I was on my feet the entire time, screaming like a maniac. My voice is totally shot and my hands feel bruised from clapping ha ha. I do not believe I have ever witnessed so many fights in one game. At one point, the refs just stood by and watched as an Aggie threw off his gloves, ripped off the a Ute's helmet, and started punching every bit of his face he could reach. If I remember right we had five players fight so dirty that they skipped the penalty box and got thrown right out of the ice arena. I don't think there was ever a time when there was not someone in the penalty box for that matter. When the Aggies scored two goals within the first ten minutes I thought it was a pretty done deal. Then the Utes tied it up after the second quarter, 4 to 4. That's when the game got intense. The third quarter was pure insanity! The crowd was going insane. But of course - The Aggies Won! 7 to 4! Sweet Victory! The Aggies have a perfect, undefeated home game season.

After the game we all went back to my apartment to celebrate some birthdays - My friends Ryan and Jason, and my cousin Kylie's. We had cake and ice cream and some VERY interesting conversations. It was a way fun night and I am just oh so grateful for the friends that I have! They are awesome! Here are my two favorite pictures taken last night . . . . .

Moral Dilemma's Suck!

Every week in my Anthropology class we have an in-class discussion on assigned readings. For these discussions we meet in our groups and sign a paper letting the teacher know that we were there so she can give us our points for participating. After we meet with our small groups the class comes back together and talks about what we discussed. Many students leave before the class discussion however because they already have their name on the paper and will get credit for being there. I never do this however seeing as I not only supply the paper, but am the one to hand it in after class as well.
Well today when we came back together to talk about the discussion as a class my teacher asked that those of us who were responsible for turning in the paper, cross off the names of the people who just left so that they do not get credit for today's work. And thus the moral dilemma begins. Do I do what my teacher asks of me and stab my classmates in the back? Or am I dishonest and let them get away with sneaking out of class. Hmmmm.......
My teacher then went on to talk about the honor code, how it was not fair that they get the same points as us who stay, and that them leaving is them cheating. And of course, she was right, and a line went through two of my group member's names. I know it was the right thing to do, no question. But shoot dang! I am the one that has to face those people every week for the rest of the semester. They are going to know that I threw them underneath the bus when they get a big fat zero for the day's points. This is going to be so awkward!!!!
And at the same time, I am mad at them for putting me in this position in the first place! If they were just honest people then I would have never had the dilemma of either sticking up for them, or stabbing them in the back. Pooey!

Moral of the story is : Dishonest People Piss Me Off!