Trippy

Here's the low down! I haven't left Cedar in a very long time. It's time to get out of this place. Have an adventure or two while I don't have school. But because of my full time schedule here at SUU and my work schedule always getting in the way of my life I have been slacking away my weekends making money, doing homework, and sleeping. Can you say boring? So this is where the change comes in! I'm going trippy! It's my new slang word. It means that this weekend and next I will be having fun! Well for one day at least. This starts today. I'm going to St. George with Aimee tonight after we get out of class. We're going to go down and just go shopping, and look at cars for her, and go get smoothies, and well pretty much do whatever our little hearts desire for a few hours. That will be nice! Then we will make our way back to Cedar and head to the institute dance. Which we will most likely be in attendance there for a good half hour. And I'm sure our adventures will only get better from there.
But the real trippy that I'm taking part in is going to take place next weekend! Salt Lake!!! Yes, you guessed it, Aimee and I are going to conference, general that is! If you asked me if I was excited I would say I am a lot excited! I will blog major about it when we return! It's just that I'm excited to get a break from this overrated life of work and school and sleeping!!!

The Perks

This semester Aimee and I don't have any classes together. So we decided that Fridays at noon we would go to lunch together every week. We've been doing this for a couple of weeks now and it's been really fun. Last week we decided to go to Subway. We do love Subway so much! So we were just paying for our food when a boy Aimee knows came around the corner and told his manager that she is Miss Iron County. She started bowing and getting excited, like everyone does when they find out, and then she gave us free drinks! It was awesome! We decided dropping the title really isn't so bad after all. Think of all the free stuff we could get! We also decided that when people find out who she is instead of them bowing we're going to tell them that the proper way to show their praise to her they should jump up and down while patting their head and tell her five reasons why they love Iron County. It will be a lot more entertaining! Oh the things we think of!

What I Say Is True

I have a quick 10 minutes before Mandy get's out of class and we go home to partake of food before we have to come back for more school. So during this time I will give you, my devoted fans, a quick update on the first 3 days of my life as a sophomore in college.
-I wish I had taken CSIS earlier on.
-A cute boy sits behind me in Biology.
-I hate buying textbooks!
-My English teacher has proved to me already that he's NUTS! But, I think we're going to get along just fine!
-Lauren Christensen just might be my angel.
-I've found a new love for going to bed early to get up to run in the mornings at 7.
-Nobody should have to sit through a 2 hour math class twice a week!
-I have "one of those faces"
Story time:
Background Info:So the first day of school my sister texted me and asked if I was in her friend Marco's class. I told her no, I don't take eight o'clock classes. She said that he thought he had seen me. I told her to tell him that I just have "one of those faces." She laughed and said she wasn't sure if she believed me or not... so Becca this story is for you!
Story: I was sitting in the ELC just minding my own business when this fellow walked in the door, walked right over to me, kicked my chair, said hi to me, called me Sara, and sat down in the computer next to me. I turned to him and said, "I'm sorry, I don't think I know you." He was very sure that he knew me, my name was Sara, and that I lived in the dorms last year. I kindly set him straight. I told him my name was Kayla and that even though I didn't know him before it was very nice to meet him. He didn't seem to like this overwhelming feeling of emmbarrasment that I saw appear on his face. I felt really bad but I really was very nice to him. Needless to say, he scooted down one computer. I think he'll think twice before he says hi to someone else today. Poor dude!
Conclusion: Yes Becca what I told you was true. I have "one of those faces". This is just one example of the story of my life.
Well, my ten minutes are up! Lunch time is waiting for me!

Ch ch ch Changes!!!

Change; The only word that I can use to describe the recent events of my life.

Honestly though over the past two or three weeks my life has changed dramatically, and all I could even do is sit and watch it happen, just go with the flow, and get over it!
-It all started with Moving Out-
I moved out of my house about three weeks ago. It has honestly been quite an adventure! I'm learning so much about myself, my roommates, and strangely, I'm learning a lot about my family. Living on my own has been a challenge and a blessing to me. I'm learning to rely a lot on myself and my testimony of the true gospel. Nobody is there anymore to push me to do anything, everything I do I choose to do by myself. I like to make my own decisions. I'm learning that living with roommates is not as hard as some people say it is. Maybe I'll change my mind down the road but as of right now I do like the girls I live with. Mandy and I have had a blast so far and I can't wait to get to be even better friends with her! I'm learning that my family is amazing! I wouldn't be who I am today without the family that I have! They have taught me all that I have needed to know in my life so that I am able to have these experiences. And yes, I do miss them all, I come back to visit frequently!

-My best friend is now Miss Iron County-
On Saturday August 14th my best friend was crowned Miss Iron County. Honestly I believe that nobody deserved it or worked harder for it than she did! I was so proud of her! She rocked the stage all night and went home winning the Talent portion, the Evening Wear portion, the Interview portion, and of course winning the over all competition. She has been working towards this for almost two years now and I don't think most people understand the effort and time that she has put into making sure she can be the best queen this county has ever seen! And when it comes time again, we'll be going back to Miss Utah to cheer her on again. Only this time We're veterans so we know how it works, buttons with Aimee's face, shirts, posters, banners, signs on paint mixing sticks! No worries she'll be the most supported girl there!
-The university ward boundaries in Cedar were completely changed-
Last Sunday we had Elder Evens of the first quorum of the Seventy come visit the University wards here in Cedar. Him and Elder Leavitt came and completely re-organized our boundaries. There are now 23 Young Single Adult wards in Cedar. I am now in the 22nd ward. I am no longer the FHE coordinator for my ward, which honestly makes me really sad. I'm trying to get used to the idea of a new bishop, and lots of new ward members that I don't know. This change really hit me hard, I have been having a hard time with the idea and even thought for a while that I would just ignore the changes and go back to the ward that I love. Well, since that ward doesn't even exist anymore I have now come to the decision that everything happens for a reason and that I will go to my new ward and make myself love it. I hope you all can wish me luck with this decision! I know that this change would not have happened if it wasn't what the Prophet, and even more what Heavenly Father wanted. So I plan on sticking close to them and following their plan!
-School starts TOMORROW!-
I can't believe the summer is already over! It amazes me how much I have done in that short amount of time. I remember blogging about my list of things that I wanted to do this summer and I'm going to report on them now.
1- Ride through the tunnels in Zion yelling with my windows down.
-I didn't do this but I did help a lost boy in my neighborhood find his mom.
2- Go on a road trip!
-I didn't do this but I did have a blast watching my best friend compete at Miss Utah!
3- Celebrate my 19th birthday! (I'm pretty sure I'm going to make a HUGE deal out of this)
-My 19th birthday wasn't a huge deal. But Mandy did come back to me the day after and that was a pretty good present in itself!
4- Become an aunt!
-Becoming an aunt was indescribable! Seriously, I'm like the proudest aunt ever and Tace is only almost 3 months old! I love him though and I would do anything for him! I know he was brought to our family for a reason!
5- Be the best FHE coordinator of all time!
-Well..... I don't know if I would say I was the best of all time, but I did have so much fun planning and making activities happen. I hope everyone had a good time participating. I learned so much about myself in the process. And I'm super sad that it's over.
6- Go to a baseball game
-Yikes! I had one planned to go to, but the thing was that the trip didn't really work out. So it was kind of a bummer but hopefully sometime before the fall is over we will be able to work something out.
7- Go to a concert!
-Well, does ward choir count? Ha ha! I sang in the ward choir this summer. It was a lot of fun going to the practices and singing with the ward!
8- Work, Work, Work, Work, Work, Work (I could go on for days!)
-I literally did work for days.... Work was good this summer though, Cedar is a magnet for a bunch of different sorts of people and I love meeting and talking and trying to understand them all!
9- Buy TONS of snow cones from Lauren and Clay (I want to try every flavor)
-I don't think I tried every flavor, but I did LOVE to go get snow cones. I think this is the most fulfilled item on my list! I hope they don't plan on closing shop anytime soon though. I need those things to get me through sometimes!
10- Keep doing the random everyday things that make my life amazing!
-My life is amazing! I can't complain one bit about it. There's nothing that I would change right now. Everyday I learn and grow. I do my best to be my best and honestly that's all I can do right now. I can't think of one thing that would make my life better right now. And I have many people to thank for helping to mold me into the person I am today.
I've had to come to the conclusion over the past little while that change is good. Without change everything would always stay the same. How boring would that be?! I am excited for school to start, I can't wait to be on a regular routine again. But I know that before long I will be getting anxious for Christmas vacation. I can't wait to learn even more and experience more this year! And I'm going to try to post more often because I know that these long ones are hard to keep focused on. But thanks for reading anyway!
I'm sure I'll have lots to say tomorrow and Tuesday about the first day of classes!

Lagoon.. This is the place!

My family went on a vacation this week. I promised I would blog about it in my last entry, So here I go!

We started our journey in the afternoon of Monday. Where we reached our destination of Bountiful around 5ish. From there we helped set up tables, chairs, and manned the grill until the whole family had eaten. The food was spectacular. We even had lemon lime flavored sparkling water... well that was an accident. The night ended with lots of rain, family laughing, and swimming in the hotel pool. We knew we needed a good night sleep so that we could party it up at Lagoon the next day. Lagoon was brilliant as always! We rode the rides, we played in the water park, I got a nice tan, and everyone had a great time! Every time I turned a corner there was a member of my family there. It was fun to run into everybody periodically throughout the day. I got really tired really quickly. So when I did I decided it was time to walk through Pioneer Town with my mother. We had fun looking at all the old pioneer stuff. Old antiques are interesting to me. And we even got some strawberry cheesecake ice cream. That stuff is delicious and not very nutritious. Worst part of the night was when 5 buck let our pizza's fall straight from the oven into the garbage. I knew we should have gone to pf. It's the only reliable source.

The next morning just my baby, not so baby, family headed to Salt Lake to the "This is the place" monument. Just long story short we had a way good time. We got to find gold in the river, we got to ride the train, and we walked all around the whole place looking at all the cabins, the stores, and the cute hotels. No, I wouldn't want to be a pioneer. Yes, I do like their style. Not the cabins, just their houses. I love old houses. I could go on forever about them though so I'm gonna quit rambling now. The train was probably the highlight, well that and when Xander got stung by a bee. That was quite the experience. Don't worry I played nurse Kayla and put some mud on that bugger of a sting and yup, he was happy!

Over all I believe the trip was a success. We all had a very good time!
And X and I loved the train :)

You Don't Realize What You Have Until It's Gone!

This quote keeps making it's appearance in my life. None of you can tell by looking at my blog but just five seconds ago I was not happy. Because when I logged into blogger to post today I viewed my blog and my background had been erased. There was a little icon in it's place that said the picture had been deleted from photobucket. I guess I didn't realize how much I loved my background until I noticed how sad I was that it was gone. So, sadly, I started the search for a background that I could love as much as my old one. I decided to look on some websites that I hadn't been on before. I went through all the backgrounds, some were way too gandmaish for me, some were way too kidish for me, and then there was one that I though I might could handle, well if it didn't have the wings! So I was stuck! I found one that kind of resembled my old one, but it was kind of ugly. And then there was one that I thought I could handle but it had a little blue monster hand looking thing in the right hand corner and I knew that it wouldn't last long. So in my desperation I decided to go back to the cutest blog on the block website. And sure enough after looking at about three pages of backgrounds there it was, clear as a button, waiting for me, practically screaming out my name, MY OLD BACKGROUND WAS BACK RIGHT THERE WHERE I COULD USE IT!!!! OK, so I posted it back up on my page and wala! I am so happy now.
A little update on my life, well let's see I've been working a lot lately. It's been very good though. Tiarrah and I found us a place to live. It's behind big o tires for all of y'all who know your way around cedar. We're just waiting for the lady who owns it to say it's ok to move in, and I can promise it won't take us long after that. Tomorrow is Sunday, I'm way excited! I spoke in church last Sunday it went well. Aimee and I got to speak together and we had a good time with it. Also next week I get to go up to Salt Lake with my family and have a little vacation. We're going to Lagoon and we get to have a bbq and honestly I'm just really excited that I don't have to work. My birthday is next Saturday I think I have some plans, they aren't set in stone yet but hey it's my birthday so I will for sure think of something! I know I haven't posted any pictures recently. But this week is promising for many pictures with the vacation and the birthday! So no worries they will be coming soon!

"Don't Sell Yourself Short"

It has been so long since I have updated you all on what's been going on in my life. I apologize, but I hope that this will prove that when I don't post for a long time it isn't because nothing is going on... it's actually quite the opposite. So I'm sorry that this is going to be long, but I hope you enjoy the updates on my life! Uhh... I don't even know where to start!
All of my life, just like all of yours I'm sure, I have been asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I never had an answer for this question. I never even would pretend like I knew. I would get asked, I would avoid the question, and then I would move on with whatever I was doing before this horrible subject got brought up. In the back of my mind I always knew that the time would come when I would find out what I wanted to be, and I would be 100% sure of my decision. Luckily for me this time came a few weeks ago. And since then I have been happy and excited to inform everybody that I have decided to become a nurse. I put a lot of thought into my decision and I'm excited to start working towards it this fall. I know that nursing programs are hard to get into and I know that it is going to be a lot of hard work. Probably more school work than I have ever done in my whole life, and more time consuming than anything. But for something that lasts me forever I would hope that I would be willing to spend the time and effort that I need to put into it. And I am. So for the next four, or so, years I will be working towards becoming a nurse. Super exciting right?! Yea, I think so!
I was going to save this subject for another time, but, while I'm already on the subject of growing up this is as good of time as ever to say that I'm moving out of my house. Yes, wow, I know it's time to grow up. I think more than anything I'm ready to grow up. I'm ready to take on the responsibilities of living apart from my family and to learn how it is to have to provide and take care of myself. I'm excited, and I'm sure you all are too because this means there will be so many entertaining things that will be coming soon for you all to read about. I will be moving in with Mandy (remember the one you read about who I visited over spring break? Yea, well that's her) Mandy and I will be sharing a room. I'm very excited to become better friends with her and to steal her shoes! Also we will be living with Tiarrah, who I work with at Pizza Factory, she's such a doll. And I'm excited that we might be able to car pool to work sometimes. And that instead of going to Denny's at night we could just go home and make pancakes there! Carly will be living with us too, and I have never met her. She is one of Tiarrah's best friends, they have known each other for a long time and so I'm sure we will get along great! I'm excited to meet her and make a new friend! Now, finding a place to live has been quite the adventure. We kind of procrastinated and it hasn't quite been as easy as I had imagined it to be. Tiarrah and I have been searching cedar to find the perfect place. We almost had a place and then the guy rented it to some other people. So now we're at a loss again. The thing is though that we don't have very much longer. So tomorrow is the day. It is possible, and tomorrow we are going to find a place, decide we love it, and do everything we need to do to make it be ours before she leaves town. I believe that it is possible.
While I was working away the other day running around like crazy trying to please all the customers at Pizza Factory I noticed that one of my professors from last semester was in one of the other waitresses sections. I said "hi" to her briefly and then went on doing what I was doing. Right when she was almost finished with her meal she called me over to her table and said she needed to invite me to something. I was a little confused and flustered because I had a lot of stuff to do. But I let her explain to me that the communications department at SUU is hosting a mediator training course. This course is the first step you need to become a court trained mediator, and also I would be able to get a lot of upper division course credits on my transcript. She was telling me all about it and how that if I decided it was something that I was interested in I would be able to have 100 dollars off the cost because I was an SUU student and SUU was hosting it, and also they had 300 dollar scholarships that they were giving out for the program and she offered me one. The next morning I called her and went to see her in her office. We talked more about the program and I decided it was an opportunity that I didn't want to pass up. The training course runs the first week in August, so it will be a quick course and I will get 3 upper division course credits and have the first step of mediator training complete. I'm excited to learn more about that field of work and possibly go on to more trainings where I will be able to get all of my mediator training completed. That would be cool. A nurse and a court mediator. Not too shabby of jobs.
This morning in church during the ward council meeting brother Christensen turned to me and asked if he could chat with me after. It was the moment I had been dreading for the past year. I knew exactly what he wanted. Yes, I will be speaking in church next week. It's not as bad as it could be though. He originally asked me to speak in two weeks, which would mean that I would be speaking in the tri-ward combined meeting. But, I won't be there in two weeks because it is Steve's mission farewell and I promised that I would go to it. So thankfully I will just be speaking to my quaint ward next week. I should start preparing!
I think that's about all that I need to catch you up on. I know it's quite a bit to take in, but you're just reading about it, imagine how I feel! I don't know if I have ever thanked you for following my blog, I don't even know who all reads these, I hope that maybe somebody finds it entertaining. I like when people tell me they read my posts. So thank you all. And I hope you all have a great week.
My next big accomplishment I am working towards is that I really need to purchase a lap top. I believe it will be a great thing for me to have this coming semester. I'm looking at Mac books I think they are the best, longest lasting, and they don't get viruses which is a good thing. But they are also quite pricey. So maybe I'll have to start a side fund for it or something. And if it doesn't work out, I guess I'll just spend my life in the library.
Next time I won't wait till so much has happened before I post again. But, for sure by the next time I update you all I will have a new place to live. I'm looking forward to that!
Today I was sitting by one of my best friends in church and she has the cutest little quote book ever! I loved one of the quotes I read. It was the very first one in the whole book and I want to share it with you all right now. I think it describes a lot of what I've been feeling lately.

"You never know how far you can fly until you spread your wings"
(or something to that effect)