Well I guess this is growing up

When you find yourself
In some far off place,
And it causes you
To rethink some things.
You start to sense
That slowly you’re becoming someone else
And then you find yourself.

When you make new friends
In a brand new town,
And you start to think
About settling down,
The things that would have been lost on you
Are now clear as a bell.
And you find yourself
That’s when you find yourself.

Well you go through life
So sure of where you’re heading,
And you wind up lost
And it’s the best thing that could happen.
‘Cause sometimes when you lose your way
It’s really just as well.
‘Cause you find yourself;
That when you find yourself.

When you meet the one
You’ve been waiting for,
And she’s everything
That you want and more,
You look at her
And you finally start
To live for someone else.
And then you find yourself;
That’s when you find yourself.

We go though life
So sure of where we’re heading,
And then we wind up lost
And it’s the best thing that could happen.
Sometimes when you lose your way
It’s really just as well.
Because you find yourself;
Yeah that’s when you find yourself.

Snowshoeing.

First of all, can I just say that I love life?!? I love it. Love it. Love it. Love it. I think too often we get too busy to stop and realize how beautiful life can be. I think we spend too much time looking down and fail to see the vivacity of life around us. A blue sky. Raindrops dancing on the car window. A child discovering his hands. A grown up discovering the hands of another. The sun shining through the trees. The sound of snow crunching under your feet. The sound of laughter. Anything. Life is beautiful; embrace it.

Ok, off my soap box. So yesterday I went with Reece and a group of his friends on a snowshoeing adventure and it was so much fun!! And it was so pretty.

My camera actually died about half way through. Once I get Reece to fork over the pictures from his camera, there will be more pictures. Again, it was absolutely gorgeous so stay tuned for Pt. II

Application is in!

So my major, English Teaching, is closed, meaning you have to apply to get in. The application consisted of a video of my teaching a lesson, a lesson plan for that lesson, and several essays including and autobiographical type thing, some reflection questions, and an analysis of a article from the English Journal. Luckily, I started this application before Christmas break so that it wasn't majorly stressful to get it turned in by Jan 15.

Good news is, it's in now! This is me about to go turn it in, all completed. I find out Feb 5. So if you don't hear about it, I didn't get in and I don't want to talk about. But there's really no reason I wouldn't make it, according to my adviser, unless the Lord just has other things in mind for me.

Not quite sure how I feel about this growing up business

busy busy busy busy busy busy.

decisions.
laundry.
work.
school.
life.

If life had a pause button, I would be all over that. I still haven't figured out the trick to planning for the future and taking care of the present at the same time.

Ok, enough whining. Really, I love life. I am applying for my teaching program tomorrow, so I am excited for that. In reality, I would get so bored if I didn't have so much to do. I would have to resort to like, watching TV or something. I much more prefer the busy life.


In the past 24 hours I decided to drop my Spanish minor, drop my Spanish conversation class, and cut up my credit card. I'm worn out. Yet relieved also.


Oh, I apologize for the randomness of this post. But it's a good representation of the current condition of my brain.

Yay for overcoming fears

So all the stories I had heard from skiing ended in broken bones or death. So naturally, I've always been horrified of skiing. Low and behold, however, Reece invited me to go skiing, so skiing I went. I totally pwned the bunny hill. But as soon as I got on the ski lift, I knew it was bad news from there. The worst part was there was no way out but down. I don't think I can say I skiied down the mountain; in reality I FELL down the mountain. hahaha. I'll laugh later when I'm not so sore, I know it.


It was seriously the hardest thing I had ever done in my life. The left side of my body is suffering from minor injuries from my thumb down to my ankle. I am just happy to be in one piece though.

Other than that, I finished my first week back to school and it was pretty good, though VERY busy. But I think if I keep being studious and staying on top of things, I can really learn a lot this semester. My classes all seem very interesting and my professors all seem really great! So I'm pretty excited.

Um well, I'm going to go listen to the Prophet now. So 'til we meet again!

Fall Finale

So I kind of...got busy with finals and all after my last post (20 is a busy age apparently), but I'll try to catch up.

So to finish out the semester and ring in the Christmas season, I went up to Temple Square 3 times: for the Savior of the World production, the First Presidency Devotional, and the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas concert thing. I just tried to upload pictures, but it took too long. It was really fun though, and best of all I got to enjoy it with my 3 favorite people at BYU: Kim, Paige, and Reece. Anyway, the semester ended finals went well, came out with all A's and B's for the semester.
Then I headed home to Dallas for Christmas. It was good to see everyone there and Christmas was really good! A lot of things about home are different for me now, but I still had a good time.


And now I am in New Hampshire with Jonothan and Leanne. We went down to NYC for New Year's Eve; that was a blast, but we were pretty dang tuckered out at the end of it all. Yesterday we went to Boston and Leanne and I went to the Chocolate Bar in the Langham Hotel, downtown Boston. It was fantastic. We were there for 3 hours eating chocolate and girl-talkin' while the boys were out walking around in the frigid coldness. Then we did some walking around Boston ourselves; 'twas good. Anyway other than those two big things, the trip has been a nice mixture of fun and relaxtion.

Tomorrow night I head back to BYU and oddly enough I am pretty dang excited to get back. Vacation is nice; I love seeing everyone from home, but my life is really in Utah now. Friends, boyfriend, school, job, apartment, all in Utah. It will be nice to go back.

Man I feel really boring posting without pictures. Sorry! I'll try to get some up when I can!