hi guys

i literally have nothing worth posting these days. but i do have this article that made me LOL. it's called

What Will They Think Of Us In 75 Years?

by Olivia Wilde

it's kinda long but it made me giggle.

i'm waiting for my family to skype but i got bored of netflix and pinterest so, here i am. rambling, yet again. have a great week everybody. and here's a video for you guys.

'you're all nannies?' 'yup' 'oh... cute'

we stayed up watching the office then suddenly it was 7:30 am so we went out to watch the sunrise. and it was worth it.

we handed out 'to: you' notes to people we felt prompted to give them to

we walked around golden gate park

we witnessed a beautiful sunset

we hosted a dinner party.

gosh i love my friends.

now off to mexico for me

things i like

 this week has been rainy
 bryan gets home in 103 days
 my best friend is getting married in just a few short months
 when i'm skyping with my family my parents hold each other's hands
 the last two weeks have both been harry potter weekends
 i get to directly speak to my Heavenly Father whenever and wherever i want
 i got to experience life out of the utah bubble in the most amazing place possible
 i have the best of friends. i don't know how i made it so long out here without them
 i'm going to mexico in 3 weeks
 even though i don't always like the way i look, people still like me. and that's something i need to realize more often. and so do other people.
 my sister is hilarious and my best friend
 the fact that i move home in 19 weeks
 my hair is the longest it's ever been
 these guys and especially this song:

 when my 3 year old says "i luz you mimi. you my sazorite (favorite) mia ezer!"
 bruno mars' half time performance. he should just always dance and never stop
 when people on the street smile at me. not like, the creepy smile but the i-hope-you-have-a-great-day smile

i only post on the weekends

friday:

dinner at roam

 saturday:

shopping for the missionaries

(cause we're the best girlfriends ever)

sunday:

church

twinning

and a relaxing evening on the beach

now everyone just look at how gorgeous my sister looked for her sr. homecoming.

SENIOR. now for a flashback, here's my sr homecoming:

for the ladies. and anyone else who wants to read.

maybe it's a cheesy efy song, maybe it's got a great message. maybe it's both. 

bryan sent me this song the other day. it's a great reminder that we are literally daughters of a king. don't you forget it young ladies!

have a fab week:)

i'm an alto

all through elementary school, my biggest dream was to be a laytone; layton high school's ultimate show choir. they came and performed every christmas and gave out red stickers when they sang rudolph the red nosed reindeer and it was the coolest thing in the world. i tried out for the choir my sophomore year and didn't make it. i got stuck in the choir with the people who think they're really good singers but aren't. how humiliating! but if i was going to get into the show choir, i had to stick with it.

i remember it was pouring rain and i was at a birthday party when the list was posted for the next year's choir, i left to check it. i made lace. the all girl's show choir almost as cool as laytones (although i learned once i got to high school that choir REALLY isn't that cool...)

i hated it. lace was MISERABLE. my first teacher was a crazy old man who took trampoline lessons and married a student and my second teacher  thought we were on glee bringing in choreographers and forcing us to do all sorts of early morning and after school practices with lifts and flips and kicks. it was a nightmare. i started hating it so much that i forgot that i actually do love to sing. my only incentive to stay was the disneyland trip the choirs went on every year. so, i tried for lace again.

only this time, i achieved my childhood dream and made laytones. as much as i despised choir, i couldn't help but feel accomplished. after i graduated, i didn't do anything with singing. nothing. i stopped voice lessons. i didn't do church choir. nothing except singing along with the radio and the occasional song with my sister.

today i went to ward choir. i forgot how much i LOVE to sing! i forgot what it feels like when you finally get that harmony just right and everyone gets the chills. i forgot what it's like to read music and repeat lines over and over again. i just... forgot. and it felt SO good to be doing it again.

the point of this extremely long post is to say, don't let things or people make you forget why you love doing something. do things because you love them. not because there is a trip to san diego involved (though that is a nice little bonus) do things for yourself, because you love it.

have a great week!

sunday

i am really beginning to be truly appreciative of missionary work. growing up in the church, it was never something i'd ever, truly acknowledged. but, over the past few months, there are a couple things that have changed that;

1) Bryan and the experience he is having. I know he is touching and changing lives out in south carolina. i can see it. in the stories he tells me and the pictures he sends me. he is giving people their chance to live in this beautiful gospel and to be with their families for eternity.

2) the converts in my ward. there aren't as many converts in utah. and if there are, they are from utah so a lot of them (at least any that i knew) didn't have these crazy stories from their childhood. today in sacrament meeting a recent convert gave a talk that touched my heart. i won't go into detail in respect for him but it was amazing to hear what he went through as a child and how the gospel saved him and shed light on his troubles. i haven't felt the spirit so strong in a while and it was one of those moments when you knew  you weren't the only one feeling it. you could feel it resonating throughout the entire congregation. it was so amazing.

3) my beautiful cousin Shaley just came home from her mission in San Diego last week. i have always looked up to her and she's always been like a big sister to me. while i haven't been able to see her yet, i got to talk to her on the phone today and for the short time we talked, hearing her talk about her mission was just so neat. i can't wait to be able to see her and talk more. the fact that she extended her mission says a lot about the experience she had. i'm so blessed to have such wonderful role models in my life.