Pine Valley

This week is spring break! :) It has been wonderful so far. On Friday I went over to my sister's house and made a skirt. It was fun to spend time with her at her house. That night I went to a dance with Blaire, Curtis and Annie. It was fun :) On Saturday I finished my skirt and started cutting out squares for my T-shirt quilt that I have been wanting to make forever. Then I went to see Fiddler on the Roof at the college. After that I went to a bonfire with Blaire and Curtis. Sunday was a beautiful day. I went to listen to Blaire give a talk and then went to my own ward. It is always nice to have Sundays to relax. Then I went over to Chase's house to spend time with his family. I love them all so very much. :) On Monday, Blaire, Susanna and Curtis and I spent the day in Pine Valley at our family cabin. We built a fire and cooked hot dogs. They were delicious. Then we decided to go to the reservoir. We had a wonderful time, especially walking through the swamp ish area :) Here are some pictures of our lovely adventure!

 Blaire and I

 Susanna and I

 Curtis and Blaire

 Us girls :)

 Curtis waiting for Blaire to walk through the pipe thing :) 

 Susanna and Curtis

 Love this girl!

 Love both of these girls!

 K, I know this is kinda gross but it was hilarious in the moment  ... :) 

Skunk

Yesterday I was taking a kid from the ward home from FHE. He lives in Bloomington.  Life was just great until out of nowhere a skunk decided to run across the road. I almost hit him! Basically, it was the scariest thing ever. Even though skunks are smelly, I would have felt terrible if I would have ran it over. And now I am terrified of skunks running out in front of me on the road. Also, I think I scared the kid to death and he will probably never ask for a ride home ever again haha. Poor kid. I think I apologized a million times. 


I am glad I didn't run him(the skunk) over. Now he can go stink up the neighborhoods :) 

It's all about the little things.

So this week has been crazy busy. Today I decided to make a list of all the things I need to get done by next week. That was a very bad idea. Talk about overwhelming amounts of homework. And it keeps coming.. and won't stop. So I decided to just take it one thing at a time and so I started on an assignment while listening to some music. Pandora must love me today because a song came that helped lighten the mood. The lyrics said, "if life has taught me anything, its all about the little things." Well isn't that a true statement. I've heard that concept many many times in many ways but a simple reminder is always great. I will try to work my way through all this homework with a smile on my face because even though it seems incredibly impossible right now, it will seem so small in a few years. So, in the meantime I will continue to try to be happy :)

Happy things this week:

• Building fires
• Guacamole :) 
• Running
• Getting a call from my best friend to tell me she is engaged :) 
• Playing the piano
• Making new friends

Choosing to be happy!

     What a lovely week it has been already, and its only Tuesday! Today is Valentines day. What a lovely day it was. But first I must explain the title of this post. So, yesterday I got a letter from my dearest friend, Chase. I was so happy. Its always good to hear from him. I don't think I told him that I have been overwhelmed with school and sad and missing him but somehow he already knew. He basically told me I need to be happy and I can choose to be happy or choose to be miserable, whether he is here or not. Its hard having my best friend far away from me but I am glad he reminded me of a very important concept that I needed to be reminded of. So today I decided I was going to be happy and I certainly was! I spent the day at work, school, my moms school (I go to her school once a week to get hours in for my education math class), went to see my grandma with my mom, went to more class and then I have been working on homework for about 4 hours straight. Despite all the busyness, I am quite happy. Being happy is a lot more fun than being sad :) Plus, I have gotten a lot more homework done tonight in less time than usual. Lots of happy things this week so far.

     Happy things this week:

• Rain
• Smiling just because I can't contain how happy I am :) 
• Leftover cookies from my mom's Valentine party at school
• Realizing I will be my Nephew's favorite Aunt in 2.5 months! :)
• Rereading children's books from my childhood and realizing how hilarious some of them are
• :) 

2012!

     So far 2012 has been pretty busy. I haven't really had time for anything but school, church, some sleep, and work. I am taking 18 credits this semester full of classes that require lots of work (what's new). I started a new job and I'm not working as much so I figured I'd be able to keep up with 18 credits. It's a pretty full load but I can do it. I'm taking Children's Lit, Interpersonal Communications, Partnering with Parents, Education 2010, Math 2010 and History. I really love my communications class and I'm glad that I have at least one class that I can just enjoy. I have some pretty interesting professors this semester so they keep me awake in class, which is a good thing. :) 

     I have enjoyed this year so far even though I have been overwhelmed with the amount of schoolwork. I have been researching schools to transfer to and starting to make plans for spring 2013. I am looking forward to getting out of St. George and going to a new school. It will be good, but for right now my life is just great. :) 

     One thing I decided I want to do every week this semester is write a few things that made me happy during the week. I want to look out for the positive things in the week so here goes my first list of happy things.

• Getting delicious treats from my wonderful visiting teachers
• Talking with old friends 
• My turkey that sits on my desk :)
• Old letters
• Spending time with my extended family for my Grandma's Birthday
• Going to the store by myself for absolutely no reason just because I can :)