St. George in June

I haven't experienced St. George in the Summer Time for a lot of years. When I went to College there I always came home for the summer, and why would you visit in the summer when you are there all year. Well it was Hot Hot Hot.

The original plan was Trevor, Erin, Neal, and myself were going to go to San Diego for the week and stay with Erin's family. But with vacation time and work and school and life in general we decided to keep it a little more short and sweet and that is exactly what it was.

We had SOOOOO Much fun and we can't thank Neal and Erin enough for letting them spend time with them and their boys.

I love their boys/dogs, I just couldn't get enough of them!

We started the trip off going to the St. George temple. We had such a great time and I am so grateful we have such great friends we can do that kind of stuff with.

Don't even ask what we are doing in the picture below haha

We had a great time and Movie in the Park, we even got to take Oscyyyy along for the fun!

Luckily all this crazy weather brought us some enjoyment because of the overflow Gunlock falls actually had some falls this year so we took the dogs and went and explored. The red rock was so beautiful and there was even some cliffs we could jump off that had really deep pools of water below. I couldn't even touch the bottom in one of them, it will be interesting to go back sometime when the water levels aren't high and actually see how deep the pools were.

We had such a great time at the waterfalls! On our way home we got to stop by my friends Jared and Sierra's and get our puppy fix. They have 8 lab puppies! They were so adorable I don't know how I resisted taking one home with me.

After a long day we decided to treat ourself to a great dinner! Same type of place as Benihana's called Samurai 21. Trevor loved it, he is still talking about how good it was!

It was such a fun trip and we got to spend some time with some great friends! Thank you so much Erin and Neal we can't wait to come visit again!!!!

I think thats a record, 3 posts in 1 day. I think I can say I am officially back to the blogging world!



Vegas / BYOB

So these post are a little out of order but it's now or never.

In 2008 when I moved home from Dixie, I was lucky enough to move into a ward with an amazing group of girls that little did I know would become some of the best friends I have ever had. I didn't know 1 person when I started going to that ward. Over that next year all of my friends from high school started getting married and I feel slow blessed that I became friends with all of these girls. Every May we go to Vegas and this is only my 2nd trip with them but I have a feeling we will be doing this a lot over the years. We lay out, shop, and eat. Girls trips don't get any better than that.

We also have a montly girls night and June was my month!! SADLY I don't think we took 1 picture and I don't understand why because it was such a fun night! I sent out an email that said 

TIME TO PARY, PLEASE COME AND BYOB (Build Your Own BOB)

We had a  Shish KaBOB party!!!!!

I grilled in my back yard and we all just chatted it up, they turned out to be sooo good and we had a great turn out!! I am so grateful for these girls, although I don't have a lot of history with them and I don't know them as well as I know my friends that I have grown up with I am so grateful for each of them. They have taught me so much and they have been there for me through some really difficult times in my life. I am so grateful for all of them, LOVE ALL MY GIRLS!!! 

The road trip down is always a good time. This time we packed 6 of us in a Buick and the rest of the girls came down in another car.

Facials

Our new beach hats

Summer Nights

I think we all had a slow start to out summer, I can't believe it is almost July. But that means I have to make all these weekends count. The month of June has been a blast, Trevor and I went to the South Jordan carnival last weekend that we also went to last year. Last year we got 2 frogs, since those have both passed away we decided to get a new pet. We got a Gold Fish, sadly when we got home and put him in his new home he wouldn't eat. So my new pet only lived 1 week :( we had a blast at the carnival!.

Out pet fish and lion, RIP Feathers.

We also got some sweet new tats!

Summer didn't feel like summer until we finally went to the Drive Inn!! We had a few friends join us but sadly I didn't get any pictues. We saw Water For Elephants. It was such a great movie, I didn't read the book so I am sure that is why I enjoyed it so much. Going in to the movie I had no idea what it was about but I really loved it!

We have had a lot of fun summer date nights. We love going to dinner, watching movies, and just hanging out. My dad has been out of town quite a bit so we have had fun taking my mom out to dinner and spending time with her.

The other night Trevor told me he had something planned and wouldn't give me any clues. Finally after driving all the way down town and I still had no idea where we were going we pulled up to Benihana's. I had never been there before and I was really excited to try it. We loved our food and I loved all the cool dishes we ate with.

Afterwards we took a little hike up Ensign Peak. Trevor and I had never been up there together. The View never gets old. I love looking over the valley and seeing the temple. It was so much fun and it made it even better that Trev planned our night.

And who am I kidding. Summer isn't summer without wonderful summer nights on the Hammock watching the sunset.

It doesn't get much better than that. I am so blessed :)



Birthday Time

I feel like summer for me didn't really kick off until my birthday weekend, but it has been great. Starting off  for my birthday we planned to go to dinner with all the girls and it actually turned into dinner, the U2 and Fray concert. Erin's father-in-law hooked us up and it was so fun hanging out with the girls and jamming out singing at the top of our lungs! Thanks girls I love you so much!

Here we are Jamming Out!

 

The morning of my birthday I woke up and my dear friend shae had attatcked my house and car, streamers everywhere, car paint that said birthday girl and a huge sign on my garage door that said "Honk it's my birthday". I am grateful for her and all the nice things she does. I wish I would have taken pictures of it :(

The night of my birthday.... Trevor spoiled me as always! He told me he was making me something turn out he actually did! He made me a shadow box with all of the dates we have been on that have tickets involved, starting with our first date to the Bee's game on May, 29th 2010! It had tickets of the movies we have been to and we are obsessed with movies! Also SeaWorld, Utah Jazz games, Grizzlie games. I was so impressed. He also put in some sea shells that we found on Hunington beach! He is so thoughtful, he even put everything in with velcro so I can change it out when we go to concerts or other places we want to remember. Then he got me a bloggy, which is a mini video camera... like a flip but the flip is discontinued so now I have my sony bloggy and I can't wait to start posting videos.

My Shadow box

Then he took me to the Nike store and let me pick out shoes. I got two pairs of NIKE's that I love love love.

 Then off to the cheesecake factory! It was so much fun and I am so greateful for him and his ability to show his love to me. 

That same weekend was my Nephews first birthday which is such a HUGE deal so we celebrated that and it was so much fun. He is such a cutie!!!

I tried out my new Bloggie video camera on him eating his cake. He was very timid about diving into it I am glad I caught it on video.

 

Today I am trying to catch up on all my blogging so there is more to come :)

Graduation

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined"

 

( Photos by: Kelsey B. Photography)

I never knew how I would feel when this day came. I knew I would feel all the normal emotions that one would feel on graduation day but I always pictured life would be so different. During graduation you take time to reflect on the past 4 years, (5 for some of us) and it can always stir up a lot of emotions. I think of all the plans I had starting out, it is amazing how much life can change your plans.

- I am grateful for the opportunity to get an education

- I am grateful I got the opportunity to go to college with my best friends, 1 dream (of many) fulfilled*

- I am grateful we stayed up late

- I am grateful I ate one too many cookies and gained my freshmen 15.... + + + +.... (Here's to losing it)

- I am grateful I learned how to study hard, work hard, and pay for my education

- I am grateful for my mind and the ability learn
- I am grateful that my plans changed

- I am grateful I changed my major 3 times

- I am grateful I didn't marry any of my "college" boyfriends
- I am grateful I am a U of U graduate
- I am grateful my 5 year plan didn't come true
- I am grateful to have parents who are proud of me

- I am grateful that I am never alone 

- I am grateful I am still a dreamer

Now this is one of those cheesy moments when I really can say I am starting a new chapter of life. I am not half the person that I want to become, I hope when I do become that person that I want to be even better. Some of the best advice I have been given;

- Set goals
- Never settle
- Don't compare yourself to others, the grass is always greener on the other side
- Live in the moment
- Forget about all the things that didn't happen and decide what's next
- Don't stress (so simple, yet so wise)
- Be kind

- Love, serve, and the rest will take care of itself

- Run With It
- DREAM BIG

I am grateful that life for me can slow down for a little bit, that I can sit back and really not just let life pass me by. My main goal is to live in the moment and Make It Count!

I don't know exactly what is next for me but I do know that I want to be better, and I will be better.

I am excited to start blogging again, I have been looking forward to this!

I am glad I could graduate with my sister, I love my friends and family so much, I am grateful for all the support and love I have gotten from so many people the past 5 years, so congratulations I could not have done it without you!

So after coming off of an inspiration weekend I want to remind all of you to never lose sight of your dreams and never stop setting goals, push yourself... but not too hard or life will just pass you by before you even have time to blink.

So my new blog title for now is DREAM BIG!

We did it!



Maybe it's in the air

I love having weekends full of sunshine, it must be something in the air because it makes me so happy. I only have about 2 more weeks of school left and I should be very stressed, but this weekend I couldn't help but enjoy soaking up the sun. I changed my blog title to Love Is All You Need, because wow what a difference our world would be if we all believed that. I see so many people being so unkind to each other. For example, you are driving minding your own business and for some reason the car next to you pulls up and flips you off. I stop and think what did I do? I was just jamming out to my music, did I cut them off? Whatever it was is it really necessary to make me feel bad and flip me off... that is when I just need to pull out a sign that says; LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED! I wonder how they would feel? At that point I am sure they would just flip me off again but really why we live in a world where a lot of the time people are so unhappy. We spend so much time complaining that we forget to sit back and see how truly blessed we all are. I just want to love everyone, like I said maybe it's just something in that air but I wake up feeling like I want to make a difference. I want to make someone smile, I want to lighten their load and help them feel loved and appreciated like they do mean something in this world. I can't imagine how many people out their don't feel loved, they may not have family, friends, children, lovers, or anyone at all to tell them they love them, my heart breaks for them. So I take on this challenge and I hope you all will too, take a second to notice those around you that may just need to hear those words I love you. Maybe you don't feel comfortable saying it to them so you can show them, because when it really comes down to it, Love is all you need people :)
I love you all!

Spring

I saw you for a day, Where did you go?

I can't wait for April to be over

School will be over

&

Lets hope winter will be over too.......

Then I can get back to blogging!