Never Again Will We Choose Chipotle Chicken Over Spicy Asian...

My day started out like any other... I woke up, went running, and ate my yogurt. But on the contrary this day is not like any other. Why? because now, 12 hours later I am laying on Aimee's bed. You see I am doing this because we were driving around. We decided to try chipotle chicken from the all famous Wendy's... yeah it was nasty and we got it all over ourselves in the car. Messy stuff I tell ya! Except for we managed to save the blanket!!! Now, like I mentioned, I am laying on Aimee's bed. Too tierd to go home. So this is where I will rest for the night.

Time Flies When You're..... Growing Up??

I honestly think I've learned more in the one year that I've been out of high school than I did the whole four years I was there. Don't get me wrong, high school was... great... but I wouldn't trade my past year of experiences for the world!
I've come to the conclusion that nobody can teach you the in's and out's of college better than yourself. Everyone has such a different experience, because everyone has such a different focus. College life was like a slap in the face. Pretty much everything and everyone screams, "GO OUT AND DO IT YOURSELF, OR IT WON'T GET DONE!!!" in your face.
Nobody is there to push you along. Nobody cares if you fail. Nobody is going to "give you a break", nobody is going to care about your excuses, and nobody is going to give you a grade you didn't earn.
Throughout this year I have learned a lot.
*I learned that I can write an 8 page paper in just one very long night.
*I learned that writing letters during class instead of taking notes means a lot of studying for the final is in my future!
*I learned that if I log onto facebook when I am supposed to be doing homework my homework won't get very far at all!
*I learned that if you have to eat a bagel with butter it goes down a lot easier if you micro wave it for 5 seconds first.
*I learned that the institute vending machines produce the best meals!
*I learned that financial aide takes FOREVER to go through, but when you get your refund checks back it's worth all the stress it produced.
*I learned that game nights are the best! Never pass one up!
*I learned that crazy English teachers might just be the only thing that make you smile in a day!
*I learned that procrastination is not the answer!
*I learned that it's always smart to check, double check, and even triple check what days tests are on, and what days assignments are due.
*I learned that Christmas break is looked forward to almost as much, or sometimes even more than summer.
*But I think most importantly I have learned that I am strong enough to be pushed to my limits, do things that I need to do with little sleep or motivation, I am the only one who can make things happen for myself, institute sometimes is the only thing that keeps me going throughout the week, the most random things can make my day that much more fun, I don't care if I look like an idiot, I'm not ashamed of being myself.
This year has seriously flown by! I never imagined that I would be able to say that I had been graduated from high school for a whole year! I don't know where I'll be next year at this time, but I hope that I can say that I've learned even more silly things than I learned this year. I hope I can say that I've grown more and learned even more about myself. And I know that I will have many more amazing experiences with my amazing friends, and I know I'll make more friends to have even more life changing moments with!
This quote pretty much summarizes what I've been trying to write in this post...
"Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
--Napoleon Hill
I started this year not knowing what I was getting myself into. With a lot of perseverance I now feel like I've got some direction. And I couldn't be more grateful to myself, and the people who have helped me get where I am.

"I Wish There Were Bubbles Like This In My Tub"

For the past little while now Becca and I have been longing to go get pedicures. Today we woke up and decided today was the day! So we called around to see who could take us in on such short notice. The folks at nail biz were just so kind and we were able to go within 45 minutes. Which was perfect because I was still in my pj's.So first thing when we got there the lady got our feet straight into hot bubbly water. It felt so good! We were supposed to soak for five minutes. There was only one problem, Becca's water wouldn't stop bubbling!!! There were bubbles everywhere! My feet were perfectly soaking away with minimum bubbles while she was fighting the bubbles away with every bit of strength that she has. As she was trying to contain the bubbles she said, "I wish there were bubbles like this in my tub, I never can get enough bubbles and here they all are! Now I wish I could put them to good use." Oh it was quite a site! The pedicures went so well! oh my feet felt like heaven after the whole process. My toe nails look so cute, and it was so fun to be able to spend some quality time with my big sis!

Not the best picture. Sorry, it was taken with my phone.
Becca on the left, Kayla on the right!

“If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.”

Making plans is an odd thing. It's like, we plan all of these events for our future, but we never know if they'll even end up happening. I like doing things on a whim. I'm the girl who's always saying, "oh why don't we do that tomorrow?" instead of waiting two weeks so that we can plan every little detail. It's more fun to be spontaneous anyway, I like not knowing exactly what is going to happen, or where we're going to end up. I like things to happen quickly because I feel like if I wait too long to make something happen it never will work out in the end. I guess I'm just a spontaneous soul.

Oh beautiful Sunday... I simply loved what you had in store for me!

My sweet day started out like any other Sunday in my life. I woke up! I sang some songs while I got ready. I ate breakfast (yogurt, it's my new staple food). And when I was finished with these simple tasks I ran off to Aimee's house to assist her in our usual Sunday morning ritual of... wasting time until church starts! On this particular day wasting time=going on a walk around the neighborhood! Church, as usual, was spectacular!

My dear sister Becca had her baby shower at our humble abode yesterday. It went over very well I thought. There were multiple people there to celebrate, and well eat all of my mom's amazing food! The party was fun, entertaining, and very educational. I learned a lot about everyone's different labor stories!
Aimee and I jetted out of my house quickly because our dear friend Jared invited us over to get snow cones! Now honestly, how in the world could we turn him down?! We decided to drive to Aimee's house and then walk over to his house. Which I was very glad we did this because.... I GOT TO GO ON KIDDIE HIGHWAY! My goodness gracious, I did not know what I was missing out on! Kiddie Highway, for those of you who don't know, is a long strip of cement that goes through like 4 streets, behind houses, in the middle of neighborhoods, and I honestly don't know how long it is because we only traveled on it for a short amount of time. But oh it was fun! We arrived at Jared's house and started making our snow cones. His snow cone maker, to my surprise, was a monster! It was not one of those small ones that you crank with your hands. I'm here to testify for all you non believers that he had a number 1 legit snow cone maker! And the only problem we ran into all day was that there were ants in the lime flavoring. That was kind of gross. But we solved the problem by just eating the blue raspberry and passion fruit flavors instead. Needless to say, we all had blue mouths. Except Aimee because she was the odd ball and wanted orange... We love her anyway though! I learned a lot from our time at Jared's house. He has a WAY smart nephew who loves Dr. Seuss, anyone can be any animal they want to be as long as they say "abra ca dabra" and turn themselves into it, Jared doesn't like to wear princess crowns (who would've guessed?!), and of course, there are some people who have to peel out every time they do anything in their ugly little piece of crap truck.
After we left Jared's house and took our trip back to Aimee's on Kiddie Highway we got in her car to take a usual Aimee and Kayla nightly drive around Cedar and surrounding areas. While we were driving I received a phone call from an unknown number. I answered, my curious mind never let's those phone calls go unanswered. It was my friend Megan. She invited Aimee and I over to her cousin's house to watch a movie. Hmmmm.... yes, we went. We ate popcorn and drank water. We watched a movie, watched Kurt and Wade wrestle, talked, and laughed. Yep, it was a good choice on our part! And I'm happy we got the invite!
On our way home we were driving by Cedar High and saw that the sprinklers were on.... oh we just couldn't resist! So at midnight last night you could have found us running through the sprinklers in front of Cedar High School getting drenched! Our feet were freezing! It was completely worth it! Oh how mine and Aimee's adventures never cease to amaze me!

I Like It!

Lately I feel like all I ever do is gas up my car! It's really starting to annoy me. I gas up and then I go to St. George. It's been my life for like the past week. I think I've been to St. George more lately than I have been in the whole time I've lived here put together... OK, maybe not that much, but still! Gassing up is my constant factor. BUT on the bright side! Going to St. George means that I've also been at Target a lot recently! My favorite thing about Target is that after you buy something from there they put it in one of their signature shopping bags. Target bags are special because they are so recycle happy! On every single bag it gives 5 ways to reuse your Target bag. I think I will share them with you since they light up my life so often!
1- Tiny Trash Can Liner
2- Doggy Duty (this one's my favorite)
3- Soggy Laundry
4- Tomorrow's Lunch Bag
5- Care Package Padding
Oh those Target people are so creative!
My life has been really good the last couple of days!
Monday's FHE was very fun. We played mafia. There was a really good turn out. It always scares me when it's time for people to start showing up because I get super afraid nobody is going to come. Then a million and ten people come and I freak out because I have to stand up in front of them all and tell them what we are doing. Usually I'm not very good at explaining things. So that's always very interesting, and probably quite entertaining for everyone who comes. Maybe they only come to watch me make a fool out of myself. I may never know!
On Tuesday Becca's friend Rachel threw a baby shower for her in St. George. I went along. It was really fun! We played games, ate food, and cake, we got to see some old friends and it was really fun to be able to catch up with them.
I have some tasks that I want to accomplish this summer. I've been craving to do these things for a while now and well this summer will be a very good time to do them I believe.
1- Ride through the tunnels in Zion yelling with my windows down.
2- Go on a road trip!
3- Celebrate my 19th birthday! (I'm pretty sure I'm going to make a HUGE deal out of this)
4- Become an aunt!
5- Be the best FHE coordinator of all time!
6- Go to a baseball game
7- Go to a concert!
8- Work, Work, Work, Work, Work, Work (I could go on for days!)
9- Buy TONS of snow cones from Lauren and Clay (I want to try every flavor)
10- Keep doing the random everyday things that make my life amazing!
So pretty much this is what I'm going to be focusing on from now on. I'll have to let you know when I check these items off my list.
Tonight it's Saturday, and I like it!

My Music Craze Continues...

NO worries y'all I'm NOT in love! Believe me, if I was... You would all have read all about it by now. BUT if i was in love or rather if I thought I might be, this would be my theme song! And even though I'm NOT it's still my ALL TIME favorite song at this moment in time.

"If It's Love" By: Train