Our apartment is clean!! It’s nothing short of a miracle. The even bigger miracle is that we did awesome on our cleaning checks! She said our house looked wonderful 🙂 After spending most of Monday with vacuum cords in the hallway and everyone smelling like cleaning supplies, we have done it. So. We celebrated by cookies and staying up late doing all the studying we didn’t do while we were cleaning. Also….we placed bets on how our lives are going to turn out. They think I’m going to be married first, which isn’t funny. Or true. And that I’m going to live in Paris and then Utah and have four or five children and so on and so forth. Basically I love my roommates.

I woke up this morning to chocolate chip muffins.
I love my roommates 🙂

Also. Taylor Swift’s idea to slowly release her album is like torture and wonderfulness at the same time. Because after I listen to the new song 17482447275 times in a row…I want another one. OH WAIT FOOLED YOU IT ISN’T EVEN RELEASED YET. Needless to say October 22 will be a blessed day in this house. Well for Rachel and I anyway 🙂

Also. I get to see my Grandma on Friday and I am so excited!!!!! I haven’t seen her in far too long and I’m excited to spend a weekend catching up and spending time with my whole family together.

ALSO
Our FHE brothers are hilarious. And awkward. OH BLESS HIS HEART.

That is all 🙂

So It’s been almost a week since General Conference. I should’ve blogged about it earlier, but seeing as I was sick with the stomach flu on Sunday, I feel I have an excuse. (Yes being sick was no bueno, but it was nice to be at home with my sweet family who took care of me and was so good to me.) Anyway here’s to my favorite conference quotes and of course, my take on the whole mission thing!

I’m a Mormon, are you?
I’m a Mormon, I know it, I live it, I love it.
God is eagerly waiting for the chance to answer your prayers and fulfill your dreams, just as he always has.
Trust God and believe in good things to come.
Don’t wait until you are ready to die to decide to live
Every woman deserves to be told she’s beautiful.

These are just a few but I’m crunched for time this morning!

So the other thing that General Conference got EVERYONE AND THEIR DOG fired up about is serving a mission. Here’s my two cents. The age change is an amazing opportunity for more people to serve the Lord. That doesn’t mean leaving early for boys or going at all for some girls is the right option. It’s still a very personal situation, one that will require much fasting and prayer and study. Don’t just go because you can. Ask Heavenly Father if and when you are supposed to go. There’s a plan for you and while a mission isn’t going to be a bad thing, there is a better and best aspect to every good thing in life. Do what the Lord knows is BEST for you and your life. Anyway that’s all really 🙂

Hehehe, don’t judge me. I really like posting on Maddy’s stuff. I hope she doesn’t mind that i’m telling you guys about the last couple hours. Right now, we are just chilling in her apartment. We just barely got back from the Provo temple. I do love the temple. It’s the best. Before we went to the temple, we went to the Pizza Pie cafe. Mmmmm. Tasty stuff. Also, there were a ton of little children sitting around us. They were all so cute.

So, Maddy has been really busy recently. She won’t tell you this, but she has been really really stressed. It’s been busy up here. She’s so tough about it though. She has been really good at handling all the ish coming her way. She also won’t tell you that she is freaking brilliant. She’s been doing so well in school…really busy, but she’s doing great. It isn’t really a surprise. She’s too smart. 🙂 Anyway, we are going to go make some cookie dough. DON’T TELL MADDY IT WAS ME!!

Randy out. :):)

Ooooh what a Monday. I don’t have time to be blogging…yet it’s all I really want to do at this moment. SO here it goes. This weekend was fun! It started out on Friday with school (bleh) but then school was over!! And I did homework…trust me it get’s fun I promise. I went to the football game which was a blast! And then went to Chili’s (we have an obsession folks) and drove around feeling sick after. And then there was Chris drama with Jett. Wow I am looking back realizing Friday maybe wasn’t the best weekend day….but we stayed up until three talking. Which was fun 🙂 Saturday rolled around and we went grocery shopping and did homework and watched movies and went Wal-Mart shopping. I wish I had gotten a picture of the huge Nesquik bunny that was walking around. Oh dash. Then I made dinner and watched the Relief Society Broadcast which was AMAZING. I loved hearing about the Atonement and how we need to trust in the Lord. Then it was off to watch Harry Potter and talk and help Jett not feel sick. And Sunday was a day of rest full of meetings and teaching and people coming over. All in all it doesn’t sound like the greatest weekend, but it was really pretty good 🙂

A separate thought. It’s funny to watch people living the life you thought you wanted. And realize you don’t want it. Not for a second.

Also NEXT weekend I am heading back to K-Town 🙂 So that’ll be exciting 🙂

Well I haven’t blogged in forever. Basically since the dawn of time. Sorry, this whole college thing is keeping me prettttty busy. Yet I still have time to pin every five minutes. Go figure that one out. Anywho. College life is exquisite at best, downright stressful at worst. I am liking all of my classes but one, totally rethinking my life and what I’m doing with it, having tons of fun with my roommates and friends, eating a lot less healthy than I should but more healthy than most, being busy out of my mind with Relief Society stuff, and quite honestly getting sick of people who are fake. Not that I’m saying people at BYU are fake. I don’t think I’ve met a fake person yet while I’m here. But you catch my drift I’m sure. 

So basically I love my roommates. We’re all super duper different, but it’s a really good different. Like a we get along super well different. But anyway. The point is that they’ve been here for me. Along with one very special boy who hasn’t left my side through any of the really stressful stuff. So I guess this is a big fat thank you. A thank you for laughing with me when I’m crazy, for making sure I’m ok when I’m going crazy, for hugging me when I want to be crazy….just everything. It’s been eye opening to be away from home and friends. And really great to go pick my sister up from a football game and have all my cute senior friends come give me huge hugs and tell me they miss me. It’s nice to be missed.

Sorry this was a super serious post! But life is grand really 🙂 Just grand 🙂

One year older and wiser too.

I don’t feel wiser.
Just older.

But my birthday was grand:) It all started on a Thursday, two days before my birthday, when I was having a crappy day. My roommate Rebecca is on an intramural volleyball team and wanted us to go watch her play. I had a lot of homework and thought about not going, but Heidi and Randy convinced me to go. So we went and watched her play and it was great. Then we came home…to find a bunch of friends and a cake for Kathryn and my birthday!! I have the cutest roommates who  went to a bunch of work to surprise me:) So that was a great night. THEN. Friday Randy took me to Mimi’s where we had a ton of fun in our own private little section of the restaurant with free dessert, then off to Classic Skating where I could barely stay up on my roller skates. Then up to the mountain overlooking all of Provo where we had an awesome talk and danced to the radio. Then back to watch a movie with my roommates at his place. Basically, one of the best dates ever. Then came Saturday…my real birfday. We won football and we had people over for dinner and a movie and it was just great. And Bandy got me the Rascal Flatts CD and food. And my parents bought me a pizza card so I can buy pizza. WHENEVER. Yay 🙂

It’s super funny to see who is there for you and who goes out of their way to make you happy. I was surprised by who did. And it was great 🙂

So maybe I’m not all that much wiser….but I think I am a little bit more aware and experienced. Which is really nice 🙂

Today, I’m really grateful for all the 11:11 wishes, birthday candle wishes, shooting star wishes, and all other kinds of wishes that DIDN’T come true. Looking back I realize I’ve wasted my wishes on lots of things. And I am so glad that I am not going to end up marrying the boy I wished I would marry in the sixth grade. Or the seventh. Or the tenth. Whatever, it’s fine. I am so grateful that I didn’t get this or make that or become this and that and the other. Because my life has turned out exactly how it is supposed to. And I wouldn’t change a thing. Yes, I’m still going to make wishes. And yes, it would’ve been nice to have that pony I wished for so many times. And yes, there are things in my life that I want to be better or different. But if I had to change anything else to get those few things to be perfect, it wouldn’t be worth it. I have an amazing family who loves and cares about me, I go to an awesome school where I feel the Spirit every single day, I have an amazing ward full of incredible girls, I have the best roommates who are all so different, but we click. I have an amazing best friend who is always here for me, especially when nobody else is. Basically, the wishes that didn’t come true have lead me to everything I ever dreamed of. So thanks to that shooting star wish that didn’t pan out, thanks to that birthday cake wish that never came true. It was perfect 🙂

Today I am going to be put in as the Relief Society President for my ward. I am so scared. Especially because I feel like I have zero friends at school (minus Randy and Heidi.) I came home this weekend for my sister’s birthday and all the girls did super fun stuff all together while I was gone. Let’s just say I feel like the ugly step-sister in the apartment. I don’t understand how I’m supposed to do this calling if I can’t even befriend my roommates above laughing at youtube videos and asking how their day went. I think I’m just rambling right now hahaha. Anyway I guess I’ll have to figure it out and make my roommates like me or something…not sure how well that’s going to go over. Welp that’s about it. My weekend at home with my family was great, I went to Cherry Hill and saw all the amazing people I’ve spent the past summer with. It was really nice. I didn’t see any old friends besides Cherry Hill people except Spencer and Randy, but it was so much fun 🙂

Welp…have a good Sunday! Sorry this post is such a downer.

To make this post happy:

Once there was a llama. His name was Joe. The end!