The Story.

Folks. Ladies. Gents. Dudes. Dudettes. I just would like to formally announce to the blogging world that I have decided that I will be serving an LDS mission. I bet most of you are rather shocked and surprised because I had no idea I was going to until approximately 11:00 on Saturday morning. Never even crossed my mind. So here is the story of how I decided I was going to go on a mission. Me and my cousin Holly were at the st. george marathon on Saturday morning and we were waiting to cheer on some friends who were running and we were near the finish line so we had to wait and then hustle back home to catch the end of the first session. So we are walking up the street to the car and some girl Holly knew told us the news that girls could now go on missions when they are 19. I was blown away. I have never ever EVER considered going on a mission. Never really wanted to or thought about it too extensively. But Holly on the other hand has always wanted to go and was planning to go all along when she turned 21. So she was flipping out in the car and so excited and she called her sister Emily and told her to turn on conference and rewind it to when president Monson made the announcement so she could know if this was all just a rumor or if it was true. It was true lol. So she is way excited and I am just sitting in the car not saying much. I was mostly just thinking well Holly is my roommate and if she leaves then I will have to get a new one or something and I don't really want to do that. I was just trying to figure out what to do now because we had made so many plans for this year and the spring. So we got to her house and I went to the bathroom because I had to go. When I was washing my hands I was like I have never really asked heavenly father if he wants me to go on a mission. I have never even opened up my heart to the idea. So I just neeled down in the bathroom and said a prayer and basically just said that if this is what I needed to do and if this was what my heavenly father needed my to do then I would do it. Then I started to cry at this point so I knew the answer was yes that I needed to go.   So I came out of the bathroom at this point haha! And told Holly and my Aunt Sheryl that I would be leaving pretty soon too! They were both so excited! And I was still crying lol. I then told my mother and she cried. And Aunt Sheryl was bawling all over the place. Me and Holly will be the first girls in our families to go on missions. Both sides of our families!!! I told my dad later that night after he got home from the priesthood session and he was really excited and proud of me. I called and told James today too and he was pretty blown away and excited for me. And me and Holly told our grandparents today too and they were so excited for us! It is just a really big adjustment because I was not planning on this at all but I am excited and have a desire to go and we will both be starting our papers really soon! Peace and blessings y'all!

I am having Roommate Issues.

They don't know I have this blog or read this blog so I am just going to assume that I can just say whatever I want. They have guys over on week nights till pretty dang late at night. They don't have classes at that start at 8:00 in the morning. Anybody else see a problem? Why can't they ever just go to somebody else's house?!?!?!?! Really though! Then we had this huge roommate meeting about....DISHES. Because Hannah can't stand to have dishes in the sink at any time. And those dishes can't be soaking off the crap that is on them. Heaven forbid!!! And this is the girl that makes bacon and then leaves the frying pan with the grease in it on the FREAKING stove ALL weekend LONG!!!!!!! I do not understand her. I also do not like the fact that when I am cooking dinner for all of us she comes in and tells me how "Her mom makes it this way and it is SOO good". Look. I don't care how your mother makes things. I am making dinner the way I want to if you don't like it don't eat it. Like the other day I was making BLT's for us and making the bacon and the outside strips were crispy but the inside ones weren't yet. So I try to cook them longer and she is like "Don't! I like floppy bacon!" So I am like ok and put it on paper towels to drain the grease. Then what bacon does she eat? THE CRISPY FREAKIN BACON!!!! I swear if I have to go to sleep to the sound of Chandler or Hannah's "boy voices" (the annoying way girls talk to boys when they think they are being way funny and flirty and cute when in fact they just sound like a loud herd of buffalo) one more time I am going to flip out. Majorly flip out.

Surprise!!

My life has been full of lots of interesting revelations lately I feel like. I also feel like I have been being a brat when I say my prayers. Like gimme this and that. Turns out you can not demand things from the lord. That is just so rude lol. SO I have been practicing being way more thankful for the things he does give me! And what do you know he as been blessing me a ton! I love him he is so great :) and I know that good things are in store for me I just have to practice my patience (curse that dang patience) and at the right time the good stuff I have been asking about will happen!

Just Don't

DON'T EAT MY GRAPES OR I WILL CUT YOU!!!! Seriously. I do not buy grapes so you fatty's can eat them after zumba before you guys go get burgers. So I am being nice this one time. Next time expect to be prison shanked with a toothbrush. I mean the chocolate chip episode  was bad enough but this. This right here is just wrong on so many levels. I don't want to have to hide my delicious green grapes from your greedy paws. Because chances are I will forget where I put those delicious little green guys and then they will be rotten raisins. I like raisins. From the store. Not from hidden grapes. So let this be a valuable lesson to all. Don't take my grapes because: I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want (really I do though, you want my grapes) but I will find you. And when I do I will kill you. Kill you dead.

My Birthday!

My 19th birthday was yesterday so happy birthday to me! It was a fun time because I celebrated my birthday THREE times this year! If that's not fun idk what is folks lol. The first time was at my house like 2 weeks ago and I had delicious spaghetti and strawberry spinach salad. I also made homemade cupcakes with cloud frosting. Then on the 3rd my parents took me out to eat and bought me groceries and this cool running tank top. Then yesterday on my actual birthday me and my roommates had a party with burgers and a birthday cake because it was chandler's birthday last week. Also Curtis was there to. That's my cousin Holly's friend boy ;) and it was his birthday on the 3rd so we all blew out candles and stuff. BUT stupid Brian, Connor, and Landon came over for burgers and then just left. Like seriously just came for food. Didn't even know we were celebrating anybodies birthday at all even though we told those incredibly idiotic young men about it last week. So yeah no more making food for them because they suck. Also our toilet got clogged and the water ran over the top and got nasty water all over the bathroom floor TWICE. Isn't that a great thing to wake up to at 6:30 in the morning? Finally got the manager over here and he just used our plunger and fixed it in two seconds. What. The. Heck. Also I have washed towels like 5 times today. My bath towel to be exact because that is what that mess got mopped up with. Disgusting. Well I guess being 19 comes with a whole new set of plumbing related struggles lol.

First Week of School!!!

So yeah first week of school what's up with that? I will tell you what is up people. I LOVE this year. My roommates are so great. I have five other people in my apartment beside myself. List time!

Hannah Fjord: She is from Texas but she doesn't really have that much of a southern "drawl" she does however say y'all a lot. She has short brown hair and was sort of prickly at first but once you get to know her she is really sweet and a lot of fun. Plus she always invites football players over because her older brother is on the football team ;) BONUS!!

Chandler Herold: She is from San Diego. She is really easy going and just as easy to talk to. She has long straight blonde hair. (classic cali girl, sooo lucky) she is really fun to hang out with. And pretty dang good at beach volleyball too! (Beach volleyball is serious business folks)

Holly Hillstead: Holly is actually my cousin and my roommate and we are best friends so we are always cracking up about something. She is always ready for an adventure (unless it's after 10:00 we get tired). She is not shy at all and is always 100% herself no matter who she is around. We have the best adventures like trying to find her friend boy's cabin in the wilderness in Cedar. Finding  a bunch of trailers instead of the cabin. Staying up late (so like before 10:00 haha), swapping hilarious stories, and not making waffles because we don't have a waffle iron yet.

Krisha Montgomery: She is really nice and has the most long, luscious, shiny, beautiful, thick hair I have ever seen in my life! She has way cute clothes and laughs at my jokes so in my book that's a total plus lol. She is gone a lot so we don't get to talk very often but she is pretty rad from what I do know of her.

Marissa Robbins: She plays on the SUU girls basketball team! How cool is that?? She is pretty shy and quiet but once you get her talking she is hilarious. Her friend boy off the football team named Gordon is over at our house with her a lot too. He is really funny. I like them both a lot. She makes really good fajitas too!

Those are all my roommates. They are great. We take turns making dinner. So everyone gets some food. Sometimes we even feed the man cave! (the man cave is the boys apartment. They include our friends Brian, Connor, Landon, and Gavin.) They are fun. They taught me how to throw a rugby ball. They play beach volleyball with us. They come hot tubbing with us sometimes. Sometimes the night watch people come hot tubbing with us too. We are really good friends with the night watch guys needless to say. However they do not have tasers. I asked lol. Also sometimes when you are playing in the parking lot you meet REALLY cute guys. And the best news is....no snow yet!!!!! Life is great :)

Books

I love summer because I get to read books just for fun! Not for a college class or assignment where I have to over-analyze everything and don't get to just enjoy the story. That's garbage. I just read a new book that I got yesterday (yes I read all 359 pages in a day and a half don't judge!) but it is a book that has really made me think about the future. Like my family and my future kids and husband. What is it going to be like? Will I say and do the right things? I mean I do not want to be a perfectionist robot but I want to make sure my family has values and that they understand the importance of the values I teach them. I know that I will make mistakes and that they will too, because that is just what happens, but I want them to understand that just because that's who you were yesterday doesn't mean that's who you have to be today. So often I just feel stuck when I make mistakes like there is no coming back from them. I was having a deep discussion about this with one of my best friends and she was like "I feel like I used to be such a good girl and that things would never come to this. But now that I am fixing everything and everything has been forgiven the only person that still judges me is myself. I have to keep reminding myself I am still a good girl whether I make mistakes or not." Mistakes don't change who we truly are they are just a quick detour on the road. Some people just never make it back on the road. And it's thoughts like these that help me to feel better because I really want my kids to be able to look up to me and be able to count on me in the future.