If you....

A Christmas Tree?

Look at our Christmas tree:

It's funny, you know it's funny! Melissa's mom brought it up for us yesterday! She is so sweet! She brought us each a stocking too! Now our room looks a little bit more festive! :) I am starting to get excited for Christmas! I get to head home Tuesday or Wednesday and then I will be there for almost a month! YAY! I think it'll be nice to get away from college life for a little bit and try to figure things out as much as possible!

I found this today while wasting time on the Internet:

It has a good point. It really made me think about what I really am thanking my Father in Heaven for.

I really am so thankful for everything in my life though. I love where I'm at right now, the whole college life. I love the people around me and the loved ones back home. I am so loved and so lucky. It's easy for me to forget that sometimes though. I'm working on it. I promise.

I am thankful for the place in my life I am at and blessings it provides me.

F is for friends that do stuff together, U is for you and me, N is for anytime, anytime at all, down here in the deep bule sea.

It's just been one of those days....

Do you ever have those days where you just are so unsure of everything? I feel like it's a freshmen sickness. Maybe it's just a life sickness. I feel like all I am holing on to is the promptings from the spirit. I have stopped making plans, stopped trying to figure everything out, I'm trying to just let things fall into place while being smart about living life. It's a new thing for me. I have always been such a planner about every single detail of life. I guess I just like the control that I felt it brought to my life. That was pretty much making me sick. So here is to change!

Okay, enough venting for today. Aside from feeling so lost today, I feel so totally blessed. I have the most amazing people placed in my life right now. I feel like I am friends with some of the most amazing people I will ever have the chance of knowing in my life. Everyone here is so supportive and great. It's like whenever I am struggling someone says something beyond nice or I get a wonderful random text from someone who I haven't talked to for a long time who just wants to see how I'm doing. I hope I am being the kind of friend to them as they are to me. Sometimes I think I get a little too selfish. But, I'm working on that!

I love how that works, the whole friendship thing. Give a little, take a little, it all evens out in the end. What a blessing.


I am so thankful for the blessing of friendship.

Baby it's cold outside

I have something to show you....

It's cold outside.... so very cold outside. Notice how this was taken at 3:27 in the afternoon... oh my...I think my lungs have damage from breathing in the cold air. I'm not even kidding. They burn and I keep coughing.  Just in time for finals, eh?

In other news, we played UVU tonight in basketball. We should have beat them by more! It was a good game to watch though!  I think the final score was 63 to 54. Who knew that UVU could have a fairly good team? It shocked me! I did however have one of those "what if" moments tonight. I had a full scholarship to UVU and every logical reason pointed to me going to school there. For some strange reason though I just knew that I had to be at USU. I honestly fought with spirit so much over the choice to come up here. But there was no denying what needed to happen. I guess it just proves that the Lord has his hands in all things. Tonight I just had another reassuring moment that I'm right where I need to be. UVU is a great school, don't get me wrong. But, there is some other reason that I need to be here!

Listen to this, if you are from Orem or you go to UVU it will make you laugh! Yes, It says UVSC it's still funny though.

I am ready to just get finals over with. I suck at taking tests, I hate taking tests, and I think taking tests is pointless. Thank goodness I only have two! Well good luck on studying to everyone! Melissa and I are going to make our our dance for "hell time" (AKA 11:34) goodnight everyone!

Today I am thankful for the choices I have made that I allowed me to be where I am at in life.

The Castle of Fun.

Tonight turned out to be such a great night....

Ha, the day was pretty normal. Went to class, got some Christmas shopping done, got a little homework in, you know the drill.

BUT, tonight.... We decided to make a gingerbread castle! It was pretty much the best thing ever! I even made the frosting myself (I am pretty much pro at making any kind of frosting, just ask my roommates.) I am really proud of us. Enjoy the pictures. There are just ones off my phone so they aren't so great. Sammy, my roommate, took some better ones so maybe I will put those up later! Enjoy!


The before....

 Look at how good we were doing! We had to take pictures of progression.

 Cole was a little bit excited.... He gets like that sometimes.

Today I am thankful for Friday nights and the fun they bring!