THANK YOU!

In honor of the lovely holiday of Thanksfiving, this blog is going to be all about things I am thankful for and people I want to thank :) I am thankful for leaves. I love the way they change colors, fall, and cruch when you walk through them. I am thankful for mountains. I would rather be in the mountains in a tent then in a house with a bed. I am thankful for the sky. I love the sky! At night it is gorgeous and full of stars and the wonderful moon. I love how during the day it can be the brightest blue or the dullest grey! I just love watching the sky change. I am thankful for crayons. I love to color. :) I am thankful for games. Video games, online games, board games, mind games, all games. I just love to have fun and play! I am thankful for snow and rain. I LOVE rain!!! I am still getting used to snow but rain is my most favorite thing. I can stand outside or dance around in the rain for hours!! I just LOVE it!! :) I am thankful for trees, grass, flowers, bugs, and broccoli. I am thankful for playgrounds and swings. Swinging is my FAVORITE thing and I really enjoy it! I am thankful for children! I love kids! I love playing with them, teaching them, joking with them, holding them, and just plain being around them. There is something wonderful about the joy of a child that I just love. I am thankful for my family. There are no words that can describe the joy I feel when I am around them and how badly I really miss them. I am thankful for teaching, teachers, and school. I love to teach. It is what I want to do with my life and I enjoy it. I love the teachers I have had that have influenced my life for the better. i am thankful for school and the opportunity to learn. I am thankful for my friends and roommates. I am so blessed to have such great friends!!! I love them all so much!! I miss the ones that live in Germany and Las Vegas and I am so grateful for the ones that live in Logan and keep me company. I am grateful for the school that I go to! I love and always have loved Utah State! There is just something about Logan, about USU that has always made me feel like I belong. I do belong here and I LOVE IT!!! I am thankful for blankets and barefeet :) I am thankful for pretty dresses and gym shorts. I am thankful for talking. I am thankful for music. Specifically country music. I LOVE country music! It makes me SO happy!!! There is just an amazing thing about it that I feel so great listening to it. I am thankful for the way I talk. I am thankful for me. I am thankful for the gospel in my life. I am thankful that I have people who love me. I am thankful that each day I wake up and take a breath. I am thankful to have a job. I am thankful that can be here on this earth at this time experiencing all that I am experiencing. I am thankful that I live the life I live. I am thankful for opportunities to serve those around me. I am thankful for people who serve me. I am thankful for all these things and so much more! This month is all about giving back and acknowledging what you are thankful for, so take some time and let someone know you appreciate them, trust me, it will make their day :)

just me. :)

Tomboy.

Dresses, flowers, makeup, jewels, dancing, crushes, curling irons and hair,

girls love them all, they love them and care.

trucks, country music, mud, fourwheelers and football,

I never have been a girl who wanted it all.

I didnt grow up liking cute things like pearls,

instead i grew up liking things of my world.

A tomboy they called me, and I was ok with that,

the boys knew i could beat them when i stepped up to bat.

but girls call me strange they laugh and they tried to make me a girly girl,

Someone i most definitely am not!

I love being me, I enjoy it, I do,

Ill never be someone girly or "cute"

I dont want to be someone I am not,

I like being me, I like it alot.

Normal.

How do you define normal?

Is it something you can see?

How do you define normal?

Are you Normaler than me?

From different worlds we've come and we've gone.

From different places ideas grow and become strong.

So ill ask you again and ill let you know now.

How do you define normal?

This is my how.

A peculiar person does not care what others think.

What society says does not make them blink.

They learn and they grow they are brave on their own.

The do not listen when the world says conform.

I may not be normal but why would i want

to be someone else's creation someone society has taught?

To be a bully to laugh and to scorn

those people who are different, who dont fit the norm.

I am my own person, I listen to one.

I know that im different, but I know how to have fun!

I dont want to be you,

I dont need dresses or eye goop.

I can be weird and I can burp as loudly as I can.

I may not be considered normal but I am the person that I am :)

humans vs. zombies AGGIE style :)

wow! i dont even know where to begin! This week has been one of the greatest, most fun, stressful, and extremely exciting weeks i have had at college. I explained about the zombies vs humans game last blog. well heres what happened. I started out as a human with my nerf gun loaded ready to win the battle. I did really well until dinner time the first night. Then i was killed. I got a little too into the competition and was way upset about being killed. (i put a 150% into all that i do and sometimes it gets the best of me) Because of my extremely competitive side, i wanted to not play so that i would not feel the stress of competition and the emotion that comes along with that. If it weren't for my roommates taking me out to "kill" on tuesday, i would not have enjoyed the week. Killing humans became my obsession. I reallly got into it! I killed twice within an hour (both boys who thought they were free of the zombie horde until they were killed) and I was really enjoying being a living dead :)You see, because i get so into things, i tend to dress up. I really enjoyed the experience. Zombies v Humans is a great game! I have to give credit to the man who brought the game to our school. I know him personally because he is my AG advisor. His name is Brice Colby and without him this week would have not happened, so thanks Brice :)

p.s. ARAGABADGAEIREF ERRRRRRRRRR. (translation= GO ZOMBIES!!!!)

change is a good thing :)

As i look back at where i was a year ago in life i am so grateful for changes that have been made. last year at this time i was so content and thought that my life was so great. it wasnt. sure it was good but if i had only known how much better it would get. my life right now is amazing. it is amazing because i know how to be happy and i know how to be happy because of the gospel. the past year has been a hard one. i went from having the one best friend i had wanted all my life to feeling alone, rejected, and unwanted. I didnt feel accepted until i let myself be. I became very involved in theater, got a new job, and tried to be so busy that i wouldnt remember the fact that i didnt have someone there like i normally do. I was very upset with where my life was. I just wanted to move to college and forget my life and how it wasnt what i wanted it to be but i couldnt. Through all of this one thing kept me happy. that was reading the book of mormon. I have been raised mormon my whole life, but everyone needs to know that what they are being taught is really what they believe. That year in seminary we were learning about the book of mormon. I had been off and on reading it but then i started to read every night 2 chapters. what happened next was amazing. i literally felt my life begin to change. i felt the power of god grow in my life. i felt loved. i felt cared for. at the time i didnt realize what was happening or how i was truly changing i just knew i was feeling happier. I know now that the book of mormon changed my life. It still changes my life today. I am now 19 years old and have read the entire thing. I can sa y without a doubt that it is a truly divine and inspired book. i know that the lord jesus christ loves me. I know that he wants me to be happy. I know that no matter what happens in my life i will be able to grow from it to learn and move on. I have a testimony that jesus christ suffered for all mankind. I know that through him all mankind may be saved. I look around and i am so amazed by the beauty of this earth. God knew that i would need the leaves falling off the trees to remind me of his love. I felt inclined to share this by my own freewill just so that everyone may understand where i am coming from a little more. I hope that you do not feel that this is some random mormom ranting because my purpose is not to preach just to share my experiences, write my feelings down, and feel better aboout life :)