Sometimes I wish....

• My roommates would clean more.

• For better grades

• I always thought positively of people

• I had more money

• I was more outgoing

• I was done with school

But, I'm not perfect nor is any other mortal being here on earth.

"This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections."
--Saint Augustine

"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
--Ann Quindlen

Happiness

So on my friend's blog she posted 10 things that make her happy. I liked the idea and decided to do it :) So here is my list....

1. CLEAN apartment :) I swear my apartment gets dirty sooo fast and I just love when it's squeaky clean :)
2. Visiting my home. I live close to home so I get to go home a lot. Every time I go up I am always greeted with hugs from my family members as well as groceries, advice from my wonderful father and mother, a very good dinner, and lots of other glorious things. I love home :)
3. Having a productive day makes me happy. I find myself wasting time on facebook, blog stalking, and other meaningless time wasters and I like when I put that off and do other productive and fun things.
4. Looking at old pictures and realizing how many awesome fun times I've had in my 19, almost 20, years of life.
5. Doing crafts. I love going to DI and getting old things and making them cute and looking new :) I also like to sew (when I get the time).
6. Little notes from anyone. Any kind of little note or letter makes me feel wonderful.
7. Making someone's day or participating in some sort of service for someone
8. Being in love. It's pretty fun. You should try it.
9. Running into an old friend and catching up on life
10. My ipod. There are times I'll be walking to school or driving to work and a song comes on that I love and it always makes me very happy. :) Music can always make my day.

The end!! Life is wonderful and I am grateful for all the wonderful people in my life.

BYU Winter Adventures

Well hi. Here I am again. I'm really good at this blogging stuff. Anyway, life is going just dandy. I've been keeping pretty busy with work and school. I loooove my job!!! I get to work with crafts allll day :) And I work with really fun people, for the most part. School is blah. I have been studying really hard for my midterms and then I do poorly. Which is very frustrating. Statistics is kicking my butt but I'll live. Anyway, I'm still dating this Ryan fella, if you couldn't tell (p.s. all my pictures are with him. We are with each other often. Very often) haha anyway so yeah...I wish I could become more regular with my blog and I could actually use it as a journal more just not an update but maybe someday...So here are some pictures of some fun things that we've been up to lately.

Oh and they are not in order of occurrence. I am failing in my blog pictures upload. It's weird to me.



So up in Midway they had these ice castles where there were ice castles 30-40 feet high!! They were so amazing! Check out the blog where it tells more about them. brentsicecastle.blogspot.com :)



Here's Ryan and I in front of the biggest castle. They had a little tunnel that you could go inside. So cool!!



So my co-worker told me about this cool blog that is a baking website (bakerella.com) where they make cake balls, cake pops, and fun things like that. Naturally, we had to try one out! So we decided to make some fun smiley face cake balls. This is Ryan and I having fun cooking in our cute aprons :)



Here is the end result!! These are the first ones so they don't look very good but they were lots of fun to make!!



Out of order....but anyway this is us in the middle of our cooking fest



Roommate date night! My roommates boyfriend lives in Highland and so we all got together ordered pizza, played games, and watched a movie. It was so fun!! This is a picture of the domino creation we made.



Soon after we finished eating the boys got side tracked with playing video games. So....



Us girls started playing dominos!




For Martin Luther King Day Ryan and I went down to St. George and visited his mission buddies and also visited a couple of my good friends, Amanda and Sydney.
This picture is Ryan and I in the little mini narrows by the Dixie Rock.



We went glow sticking in a cave while we were there! It was so much fun! For those of you who don't know what it is, it is where you open up glow sticks and flick them all over you and wherever you are, we did the cave, and then play hide and go seek or some fun game. I recommend it.



While my brother's family was in town they came down to Provo and we all went to a BYU Basketball game. After the game we came back to my apartment and had ice cream cones. It was fun having them come down and see where I live.



Ryan's friends, Tanner and Savannah came to visit and we went snowboarding with them. We didn't get a good picture with all four of us but here is the one of Ryan and I about to snowboard.



Another roommate date night right before Meg left. We went to a chinese restaurant and had a lot of good laughs. Good times!

Goodbye for now!

New Year!

Happy New Year!!! This year has been an amazing year and I am so grateful for the wonderful memories I have made throughout the year of 2009!

In blog stalking some of my friends, I noticed they did a sort of year-in-review. Although it's not original, I still think it sounds like fun. So here goes it. :)

WARNING: AN OVERLOAD OF PICTURES WILL APPEAR BELOW

I'll start from the beginning....

In the year 2009 I have.........



Loved every moment I got to spend with my beautiful niece, Claire before they moved away to Texas.

Not taken out the garbage enough

Eaten breakfast, lunch, and dinner while studying on my desk in one day. Multiple times.

Learned a lot from these girls. Also, got to have John Allred over at my apartment

Made unforgettable memories with my roommate/best friend, Linsey Hunt.

Gone shooting.

Realized that unmatched socks are never ending in my laundry.

Spent a weekend in St. George with the Barto Family.

Turned 19 and gotten attacked with silly string.

Gone to 12 temples in 5 days all throughout Utah. BEST TRIP EVER!!!

Gone to the beautiful Rockport, Massachusetts.

Spent a week with the Bartosiewicz family back east.

Gone frog catching in Connecticut.

Spent a family reunion up in the Olympic Peninsula in Washington.

Gone to New York with my best friend.

Almost choked to death in the Las Vegas Airport.

Said goodbye to Logan, as well as many other missionaries.

Gone to a rodeo with my family and Brit.

Hung out with Brittany almost everyday of the summer!

Slid down a huge hill filled with blue foam

Started a new year at BYU with Linsey still as my roommate along with two other amazing girls

Spent Halloween with my roomies

Gone to conference with my roommates...again

Been at a lot of bonfires

Visited my wonderful family in Texas

Gone on a blind date with this kid named Ryan....

Skipped Relief Society and dressed up in fun dresses for no reason

Got a boyfriend...named Ryan...

Gone Ice Skating with Esther and Ryan

Spent a lot of time with this awesome fella

Gone hiking up Adam's Canyon

Well, this is a little glimpse of my year in 2009. For those of you who made it this far, congratulations!!

Hola people!

Hello blog world! I feel kind of weird because I feel like I am talking to myself but whatev. It's fun. Sooooo here's a little update....I'm still going to school, believe it or not I haven't given up. Yet. I went and saw a counselor about my major because I was thinking about changing it to some sort of counseling?? But, she shut down that idea reaaall fast. I guess I'd have to be going to school for quite some time and also it's very competitive anyway I've decided to stay with Home and Family Living with an emphasis in Interior Design. I'm very excited about it though. I am hopefully going to be able to do an internship my last semester at the Y. So we'll see :)

Second item of business. I have a job!!! Yes folks, I am employed. It is rather nice to be having some sort of income again, although I haven't actually received a paycheck, everytime I go to work I just feel more rich :) Hahaha just kidding. But seriously. Anywho, I work for a scrapbooking warehouse in Orem. I would be lying if I said I hated it because I love it!!! I'm basically an office assistant that gets to work with scrapbooking supplies all day long :) (or afternoon long....) I work with way awesome people and people that share my same interests. Everyone there is very craft oriented and I love talking about new craft ideas with them. Call me a nerd but I kind of like crafts. So yeah, I feel so incredibly blessed to have this job. I couldn't ask for a better place of employment and am very happy :) Oh side note: I get TWO WHOLE DAYS OFF for Christmas break at this job. Bummer. And also I just told my old work that I could work for them in the mornings so basically I will be happy once school is back in sessssiiiooon. Oh well, I will be raking in the dough.

Third item of business. Well...I am dating someone. Yes, I am. His name is Ryan Bartley. He will probably read this so I guess I better say really good things about him huh? Just kidding he is great! We got set up on a blind date and have been hanging out pretty regularly since then. As in pretty regularly I mean that we have seen each other everyday for hours on end for the past two and a half weeks. It's crazy to think it's been that short of time because I already feel like we know each other very well. So yeah....this is weird to talk about my love life on here but I want to. :) Anyway so last weekend he came up to have dinner with my family. Ooooh boi. It was quite the event. Hahaha We had a series of events that just made the "meeting the fam" so great. I won't go into detail about everything that happened mostly to let Ryan have some man pride still but trust me, it was wonderful. We both had a great time and from what my family has said (unless they are lying to me...) they like him. I kinda like him too so that works out well. Okay I'm done, I feel weird....go ahead, judge me for saying on the world wide web that I'm dating someone. :)

Well I guess I better study and quit boring all of you. I'm extremely sorry that I am not posting pictures this time. I know that a blog without pictures is prrreetyy lame so please forgive me. I don't have any on my computer and was going to just pull some off of the book of face but then I remembered I deactivated my facebook account ssssoooo that would be a little difficult. Next time I will add pictures, I promise.

PEACE!

TEXAS weekend!

Alright here I am! Blogging! So I thought I'd write a little about what's been going on. Is that what you do on here? Not sure...Anywho so I went to TEXAS!! And I loved it, to say the least. I got to see four of my siblings plus all the in-laws and nieces and nephews :) I woke up in the morning to my cute niece, Claire, saying, "Hi whisha!" over and over again. She is so adorable. I got to see all FIVE of my brother, Evan's kids. I also got to see my sister's daughter, Kara. It is hilarious to watch Kara and Claire play together. Claire dominates. I can't wait to watch them grow up. It is going to be so fun for them to be cousin's so close in age. And I got to see my brother, Gordon, who moved down to Houston this last summer. Basically, I love my family so much! I wish we all lived closer and we could get together more often. So while I was there I stayed with Laurel and Kevin and we worked on painting her kitchen cabinets. We didn't get them all done but we got a good start! It was so fun staying with them. I wish I could have stayed for longer! Here are a couple pictures of when the siblings got together and also the before pictures of the kitchen cabinets. We painted the cabinets a chocolate brown and they look really good!











Me with my handsome nephews while they played on Gordon's iPhone


Kara and I chillin on the couch

All of Evan's children!

All the siblings together! And to think there are still eight people missing from our family!

Kevin and Laurel preparing to paint!

Claire got into my makeup...Laurel tells me this is not an unusual occurance ;)

So there are a few pictures from my trip! Thanks to all of them for adjusting their schedules and to spend time with me :) Anyway school is bleh right now. I just had a pretty crazy week. Lots of tests and essays. Not my idea of fun. This weekend I have not even thought about school. It's great. Don't get me wrong, I like learning and I really like all of my professors but tests just stink. I'm a horrible test taker. Whatev. I feel like this post is kind of boring but I'm feeling kind of drained from everything right now haha hopefully my next one will be a little more lively. Peace out to whoever reads this!

P.S. Does anyone know how to make loading pictures easier?? When I load them they all go to the top and then it takes forever to drag them down to the bottom. Do I just add the pictures at the beginning and then type after? I need some help :)