The World Always Looks Brighter From Behind A Smile!

There's this "game" I play when I'm driving. I guess I don't really know how it got started but somehow it just stuck. The "game" is that while I'm driving, mostly when I'm stopped at a stop sign or something I look around and see if there are people next to me. If there are I try to get them to smile, by simply smiling at them. Most the time this will happen when I'm at a stop sign and someone is turning left so they pass right by the front of my car, or when I'm right next to someone at a stop light. Mostly I target older people, they are most likely the ones who will look back and smile too. I think just seeing someone smile and knowing that I was the reason they are smiling is more rewarding than me just smiling for myself. It always brightens my day to know that I have brightened someone else's. Like I said, I don't know how or why this got started, but I do know why it keeps going. I smile to get others to smile which makes me smile for a long time after wards. So, in the long run it helps me and the other person involved. Wow, smiling is contagious, but I'm glad I can spread it with ease.
My favorite quote is: "I want to be remembered as the girl who always
smiled when her heart was broken, and the one who
could always brighten someone else's day even if
she couldn't brighten her own!"
I like to live by this quote because I know that in the end, me being able smile when I'm hurt will act to remind me that even when I'm sad smiling brings joy to me because it makes me think about the little things that bring me everyday happiness. And that by brighten someone else's day I will be able to brighten my own day as well.

Praying For Patience

Lately in my prayers I have been praying for help with my patience. I never have been a patient person. It's just not one of those virtues I was born blessed with. Unfortunately I have learned the had way that in order to gain an attribute such as patience I must first have my patience tested.

This week started with me being very happy to be able to pay my car payment early on in the month (thanks to the business of summer games athletes at Pizza Factory). I have been putting off getting my oil changed in my car though so yesterday I took my car in and one of my tires was low also. So I got both of those tasks taken care of. This morning my job was to go to get my car registered. It was a little past the due date for registration and so I decided I needed to get that done before I took my journey up to Salt Lake this weekend. Car registrations aren't cheap. Also on top of the registration fee I decided it would be wise of me to get SUU license plates so I will be able to park anywhere on campus. This will save me money in the long run because I will stop having to pay tickets that I receive from parking where I'm not allowed to. When I went to pull out my debit card to pay for the registration and license plates I realized that I had left my card on my dresser at home. So I had to undo everything I had just done with the lady who was helping me so I could run to the bank. When I got back to the registration place the lady who knew what I needed was gone to lunch. Luckily the other lady was very happy to help me. OK, so when I finally was able to get home I started putting my license plates on. When I was walking around to the back of my car to do the back one I saw this....
Yes, that is the biggest nail I've ever seen in my whole life stuck right into my tire. I couldn't believe what I saw! So I finished putting my other license plate on and headed down to see what we could do about this. When I got to the shop Neil took a look at it and told me that I would have to get a whole new tire because the nail was completely bent and wrapped around puncturing a part of the tire that would never hold a patch.
Hawaiian Ice saved my day! After all of these shenanigans happened I went into Pizza Factory because luckily it is pay day. Lauren was there and I told her all about my car troubles. She quickly called Clay and while I was on my way home she called me and told me that her and Clay wanted to give me a free snow cone for all my trouble I had gone through. I was very grateful to them! I got half coconut and half melona. It was amazing!
Needless to say, I have been handed patience trial after patience trial. Yes, I am learning from them, but I'm exhausted! Hopefully patients can become a strong aspect of my life. But I hope I can start learning it in an easier way. Sadly, I don't think that's possible.

"...Oh You Make Me Smile..."

Tacen Gale Donohoe (Tacey) was born on June 7 at 4:39 P.M. he weighed 6 Lbs. 9 Oz. and is the most gorgeous little boy I've every seen in my whole life! I love this guy! Everything about him amazes me. It is so unreal to me how babies work. They live inside of someone for nine months. Then they are born and know exactly what they need to do. It's such a miracle. Can I just tell you all how much I love him more and more everyday... and it's not even my baby. I can't imagine how it would feel to love my own baby when I already love him so much. So crazy!

After Tace was born he had a high PKU (jaundice) level. He had to be put under lights for a couple of days in the nursery part of the hospital. There were so many sad babies in there. We were so glad that the only problem with Tace was his jaundice. It was still sad just having him lay there though. As you can see, he had to have this mask over his eyes to protect them. We called it his space helmet. Also the last day he was there they hooked him up to an IV. The poor thing. But it helped him a lot and he was able to come home bright and early Friday morning!This little guy loves his swing! That is if we ever put him down long enough for him to enjoy it. It's been so much fun having him at home. He just gets so much love. If we don't all get our loves in for the day we start having withdrawals. It's not good. He's getting darker and darker skin everyday. His eyes are so pretty. Some of his clothes are too big for him, so he looks kind of like a gangster. But the cutest dang gangster you've ever seen!

I can't believe that tomorrow he will be a week old already! It's already gone by so quickly! I don't even want to think about a month or even a year passing. But I know that it will be fun the whole way. He just will keep getting cuter by the day and we'll have oh so much fun as he grows and learns. I would've never imagined that being an aunt would be this amazing!

My Latest Fiasco!!!!

OK, I'm sorry, I know I haven't blogged for about a year now. It's sad! I can't even say I've been too busy, because I haven't. I guess I just haven't known what to write about. But I have come to the conclusion that I must inform you all on my latest fiasco!
It all started back in mid April. I was minding my own business, getting ready for school one day, when all the sudden I was straightening my hair and I heard a frying sound. It sounded almost exactly like when you have a hot pan and you put it in cold water. I was so confused for a minute until I realized it was my hair being FRIED!!!! Needless to say I almost had a heart attack! I didn't know what to do! So there was this section in the back of my hair that was completely fried, like gross, it was fuzzy and nasty! Oh and it smelled so bad!!! If you have never smelled burned hair I would not recommend it! The next morning I was doing my hair again, being very very careful, and the same exact thing happened to my bangs on the front of my hair. That was enough! I broke down! I told my mom and she called her hair girl to ask her what I needed to do. I went in to her and she deep conditioned my hair. It felt better after that, but it was still burned. The back section started breaking off more and more everyday. And my bangs looked terrible! So I decided in order to fix my bangs I would cut them straight across my forehead. So that way the fried parts could be in the back and heal a little. WORST DECISION OF MY LIFE! Straight across bangs look good on some people, I am not one of them! So I was just that much more frustrated! So my bright mind decided that maybe my bangs would look better if my hair was shorter. So yep, you got it, I went and chopped all my hair off. I just told the girl that she should keep cutting until all the damage was gone. It was so short! I kind of was having major stress over it. I wore my hair in a headband for about two weeks until my bangs were barely long enough to where I could go in and get them re-cut so they were back on the side of my head. They were so short! Wow!
So now, about two months after this whole adventure started my hair is about the length now that I usually cut it to. So that's good. My bangs are still short, they still have a while until they will be back to normal. My fried sections are pretty much gone. My hair feels and looks so much healthier! I can't wait until everything is back to normal, but this has been a learning experience for sure. And I guess I've learned.... I can survive even when my hair is not! Also I now have a new blow dryer and straightener, because my hair lady said that it was one of these things that was causing my problem. So I ditched my old stuff because I do not what a repeat of this problem in the future!