Thanksgiving Day...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

I feel a little lonely today on the day of thanks.... I miss my family ( although I did have thanksgiving at my former Bishop's place, which I'm so grateful for) but I decided to lift my spirits I'd type out what I'm thankful for....

I am THANKFUL for 

1) My Heavenly Father 

2) His Son, Jesus Christ, and his atonement 

3) for the truth of the Gospel 

4) for the scriptures 

5) for Latter Day Prophets 

6) for my family 

7) for my friends 

8) for my car 

9) for BYU-Idaho 

10 ) for Temples 

11) for Hymns 

12) for music 

13) for technology 

14) for my opportunity for education 

15) for this country! 

16) oh my I'm so thankful for so many things, if I keep going it might never end.... 

I am the most blessed girl in this world and I don't know how to thank my Heavenly Father, I'll never be able to make up to him the greatest gift of life that he gave me! I love Thanksgiving! 

WOW... Tagged again!!!

So I really wanted to put up a post about Christmas since I've changed my blog all Christmas style, but anyways I guess I'll respond to Brighton's Tag.... These are in no particular order

8 Favorite T.V. Shows
1) Gilmore Girls
2) Extreme Makeover Home Edition
3) What not to wear
4) Growing Pains
5) Smallville
6)SO Weird ( old disney channel show)
7)Myth Busters
8)Boy Meets World
( I want 24 to be one of them... My best friends are really into it and we decided to have 24 nights on Monday nights now... so I'm catching up during Christmas Break.. I'm excited!)

8 Favorite Restaurants
1) Chilis
2) Olive Garden
3) Chik-Fil-A
4) IHOP ( only because I worked there for almost 5 years... ha ha )
5) Bajios
6) My Kitchen ( no seriously I really like cooking myself ha ha, this is actually my MOST favorite )
7)Original Thai
8)Texas Roadhouse Grill

8 things that happened yesterday
1) worked in the Advising Center in the Hinckley from 8am-5pm DID ALOT OF PAPERWORK!
2) had a funny conversation with my dad... we called each other buttheads.... ha ha
3) worked out ... it felt sooo good!
4) straightened my hair :)
5) Saw the New Bond Movie: Quantum of Solace ... it's so good!
6) Day dreamed :) *sigh* ;) and journaled!
7) cleaned my room :) I hate a messy place!
8) read my scriptures

8 favorite things to do
1) Reading
2) Working out
3) Being with my family ( not always blood related)
4) Being in the temple
5) Traveling
6) Listening to and creating music!
7) Journaling
8) Being HAPPY!!!

8 things that I'm looking forward to
1) Finishing this semester
2) Graduating College
3) Figuring out what the next step of my life is
4) Getting married ( one day I mean)
5) Being a mommy ( one day after I'm married)
6) Recieving my Endowment ( also one day)
7) Christmas ( I LOVE CHRISTMAS it's my favorite holiday other than my birthday!)
8) See my bestfriends get married and have babies

8 things on my wish list
1) Getting a new winter coat
2) Be in love again
3) Have my family get baptized, and become members of the Church
4) Visit Italy, Greece, Switzerland, Portugal, Ireland, and The Netherlands ( and of course France and England since I have family there)
5) To live long enough to see my future grandchildren and hopefully beyond!
6)See Coldplay in concert up close with good seats!
7) Become an amazing teacher
8) Get kissed under the misltoe ;)

8 people I tagged
1) Nicole & Nathan
2) McCall & Eric
3) Courtney & Travis
4) Lindsay & Travis
5) Lorie Ann & Mason
6) Katie Lynn & John
7) Melissa Passantino
8) David Holmes

I love blogging it's fun :) HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

I've been Tagged!!!

thanks brighton for tagging me!! I love you so much!! ( I'm being serious! ) 

So this is the fourth picture in my fourth album on my computer as of right now.. 

The boy in the left is Daniel and the boy in the right is David. These are two good guy friends of mine whom which are both newly married. They were in my ward over the summer and this picture was in Alpine chalet Lounge we were waiting for a friend of ours to open his mission call!!  Anyways, I'm super tired... so i have to go to bed... goodnight all.... 

Confusion...

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said these few things:

"People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." 

"Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines." 

Sometimes I think to myself that I cause my own confusion for life... The answer is my Heavenly Father, right? But sometimes he doesn't give you the answer.... sometimes he wants you to figure it out on your own... sometimes he trusts you enough... but what... what if you don't trust yourself 

The sunrise comes out of the east 

And I am standing still 

My heart thumps louder than those in Edgar's thoughts (The Tell-Tale Heart) 

and my eyelids are feeling heavy 

My thoughts tire me out

but I still hear that voice calling out to me 

My confusion rises with the moon 

And the day has gone by 

I wish I understood the darkness 

and I wish I understood the unknown 

But I guess I need to let myself be lead,

and just go not knowing beforehand the things which I should do (1 Nephi 4:6)

I need to trust myself and know that he'll be by my side 

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work" ( Aristotle) 

Remember to enjoy the the journey and trust in Christ, ( President Monson) 

The perfection will come...

I really need to rely on the Lord more... I don't enough... I say that I have faith and trust him but still worry.. but honestly I'm more worried about making the right choices in my life.... I guess he will never let me go the wrong way so I should just decide and go with it! 

Oh life... *sigh* 

I love the Temple

I had a rough day today... devotional hit my heart pretty hard and I sat with a friend afterwards and cried for about an hour 

He told me that I have to go to the Temple and pray and read my patriarchal blessing... 

I was at first thinking I don't have time, but my friend said I had to... it would make me feel better... and I so I went to the temple... As I was sitting there  in front of the doors of the baptisms and I saw a bunch of students going in and I asked if they had a baptismal appt. I recognized one of the girls and we were chatting.... 

I got this feeling that I should join them in the baptisms... I thought to myself I don't have time," orchid just pray, feel better and LEAVE you have tons to do... "

Well I remembered how I have been getting the feeling to follow prompting... SO I did... I followed the prompting and went ahead and joined them for baptisms! 

As I sat there I read my patriarchal blessing and it kind of made me feel good to know the things that I will be blessed with if I make sure and follow my Heavenly Father.... I then decided to start reading the Book of Mormon. I started reading Ether 2 and in Ether 2 if you go to the last verse :

Ether 2:25, " ANd behold, I prepare you against these things; for ye cannot cross this great deep save I prepare you against the waves of the sea, and the winds which have gone forth, and the floods which shall come. Therefore what will ye that I should prepare for you that ye may have light when ye are swallowed up in the depths of the sea?"

I learned from that scripture and the story of Ether 2 that I can't live life without my Heavenly Father. I need him, only he can get me through the storm, he'll be my breathe of life from the hole of the barge, and he will be my light in the dark, just as he was blessing the brother of Jared. Oh I love the Scriptures...

I left feeling amazing... I felt so much better... I love the Temple and I have such a great testimony of it... I can't wait until I am able to receive my endowments, I know I will LOVE it and be so excited to go to sessions all the time! I love the Temple and I want to spend my life preparing for it and living as if I am already endowed so that nothing will stop me when it is time to go for myself! Oh how I LOVE the TEMPLE!!! 

Love Story

I seriously am so in love with love... I'm such a sap..

almost a year ago I finally ended things with a boy that I was madly in love with...

Sometimes I don't understand the paths I'm lead in

I found him my Romeo, the one that I wanted to be with forever.... but there lied a problem I couldn't be with him forever it hurts alot sometimes.... Even a year later I still am hurting

I found him why do I have to search again.... I almost don't want to. 

I'm not in love with him anymore but I just don't want to go through the pain of sharing my life with someone all over again and then getting my heart RE BROKEN.... Oh life... Please listen to this song by Taylor Swift: 

IT's called Love Story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwMK9IvEsF0

I know I'm the worst blogger in the whole world, but I just feel like I have to blog about something really exciting.... I was informed by Brighton, my amazing roommate that it didn't have to be that exciting. Well I actually have a few exciting things to blog about:

1) I was called to be the Director of ITEAM next semester! I am so excited! It's going to be a load of work, but so worth it! I'm so excited to be able to be with the SSE and to use the spirit to add a great time to the students on this campus!! 

2) I went bouldering for the first time. I got blisters all over my hands and it was wonderful! I loved it! It's hard and it takes a lot of muscle, which I don't have, but it was so fun... 

3) Finally I went Country Dancing tonight for the first time!! It was so fun and I loved it so much!! I am going to go next week too! I am really bad at Country Dancing, but it's okay perfection takes practice right? 

Anyways sadly I don't have pictures from any of these exciting events, but I'll make sure to work on that. I love my roommates they're amazing, and I love my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, I am so blessed to have them in my life. GOod night World...