Sandwiches

     So today I spent the day with my Grandma Woodbury while my Aunt and Uncle and their family spent the day together at the airshow. It was lunch time and I was going to make us some yummy sandwiches. My Aunt always has the best stuff to put on sandwiches. It reminded me of when I was little and my Grandma would make me a yummy sandwich on her cute flowery plates with the green edge (Now my mom has those dishes). She would usually give me some ice cream afterwards to make it a meal. Actually, whenever we went to her house we would end our visit with ice cream. We would ask Grandma for ice cream just as our parents were ready to head home. It was our way to stay longer because we knew Grandma would make sure we got ice cream. :) She is so cute and I enjoy the time I get to spend with her now that I am older. 

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
• :)