Things I am grateful for....

I am grateful for (and not in any particular order):

1. My friends Natalie and Travis who let me crash at their place for the weekend.

2. My mother who inspires me to be better

3. My father who taught me good work ethic and manners

4. My brother Billy who used to tease me :P

5. My sister Lisa for being there for me and giving me a great brother-in-law Brad and a wonderful nephew and niece, Caden and Jane

6. My brother-in-law Brad without whom i would have never tried deer meat :)

7. My nephew Caden for being one of my best friends. and for being the charmer that he is. He always make me feel beautiful (he is 4 years old)

8. My niece Jane for being the spitfire that she is :) she is soo cute!

9. My sister Shelley for getting me into reading, and for sharing all of my Harry Potterness with :)

(my whole family is just a big huge blessing!) :)

10. My boyfriend Andrew who makes me feel like a million bucks, for letting me know he cares, for his talents, for making me happy, for blessing my life, for helping me realize my true potential, for loving his family with a rare kind of love.

11. My Grandma Barlow for just being her. I love her so much!

12. My aunts and uncles and cousins for being an awesome family on both my mothers and fathers side.

13. My phone

14. Rainy days and Mondays

15. Music

16. My talents (singing, working with children)

17. all of my friends

18. the fact that i got a job at home

19. showers and soap

20. My laptop

21. Nature (even bugs....)

22. my trials and hardships without which i wouldn't be able to grow spiritually

23. LDS Temples. for their beauty and the blessings they offer.

24. SMILES!! :D

There are countless things i am grateful for, but there is no possible way to be able to put them all down, so i only put a few.

VICTORY!!!

So, my friend Natalie's parent's dog by the name of Ruby, has some personal vendetta against me. Every time i got up from the couch or kitchen stool she would run up and bite me. One time i was sitting in the chair and i let her sit with me... i slowly tried to get up to not startle her.... but i did.. she bit me in the boob....OUCH!!! so now every time i go over there they either have to put the bark collar on Ruby or i am just terrified and looking over my shoulder all the time and watching my movements. Well today i went over there... and guess what!! for the first time ever Ruby did not bite me today.. and she didn't even have her bark collar on. I think this is SWEET VICTORY!! :)

Perfect Two by Auburn

I am feeling kinda down today, and this song really makes me smile. It is soo cute! It touches me at such a personal level it's awesome! Please enjoy :)

Decisions, decisions....

Who knew that with adulthood comes big decisions? Decisions like, what do you want to major in? Do you take the summer job in your college town or go home for the summer and hope you find a job up there? and with that should you go home so you and your boyfriend don't have to do long distance for at least a summer? School is a priority for me so anywhere where i can get a job is good, but developing my relationship with my boyfriend and helping it grow is also very high on my priority list. so my need to find a job at home while i am still in St. George is ideal. The economy is getting better up in Salt Lake so i hope i don't have a problem finding something up there. isn't decision making grand??

This song make me happy!

I Love this song!!

Red Storm or... a REBEL!!

I go to Dixie State College in southern Utah, and the college vs. the alumni are in this big ol' battle with each other. Ever since anyone can remember, we have been the Dixie State Rebels. That is what i grew up to know and love and be loyal to. In the past few years they have changed the mascot from the Rebels to Red Storm. Why did they change it? because the Rebels was politically incorrect, it was offensive, it "supported the confederacy", and on and on with a bunch of bull crap excuses. Well if you didn't want us to be the "Rebels of the confederacy" why in the world did you name us after Russian communism?? i think that was a step in the wrong direction. Thank you Dixie State for changing the mascot so that most of the alumni will NOT donate money for scholarships anymore. There have been many people that regularly donate money to the college, but they stopped when they changed from Rebels to Red Storm. I have even seen some emails sent to the alumni association saying "we will start donating again as soon as they change it back to Rebels" so i say... really Dixie? what is wrong with you? This is really something that i feel totally passionate about. It just makes me sad. I AM A REBEL!! forever the Rebels!!!

Thank you and goodnight!

Music is amazing!

There is a song for every single mood I will ever have. There is a song for every situation I have ever been in or ever will be in. I turn on the radio and lo and behold there is a song on that i think "holy mullet! this describes exactly how i feel. I better turn it up as loud as it will go and sing along!" I love music, and i love how i can find tons of songs that relate to me. It makes singing and music that much more personal to me.

As long as we are on the topic of music and singing and all that jazz i am a singer. I don't think i am all that great, but i do recognize that i do have a talent. I used to sing all the time for one thing or another like a recital or for a Relief Society (a womens organization in the LDS church) dinner. since then i have lost all confidence in my voice. I don't know how when or why it happened i guess i just lost myself for a while. but recently i have realized that God gave me a gift to share with others and i am not doing my job to let it grow and develop. Shame on me for pitying myself thinking i am horrible. I KNOW i have a gift, and from now on i will try my hardest to help this talent grow into something more. I love music, it has been a great thing to have in my life.

What do they all have in common? hmmm

Pride & Prejudice (1995 A&E)

Sense and Sensibility (Alan Rickman version)

Anne of Green Gables (all three movies)

Newsies

All of these movies have something in common.........

They all make me as giddy as a 13 year old girl!!!!!

Sunday!!

Sunday is the day of rest. Sunday is the day that sleep in until noon and go to church at one and take a nap right after i get home. Sunday is the day i watch a few uplifting movies on my laptop in bed. Sunday is kind of my lazy day, because the other days i am usually out and about and hiking. The weather in St. George is usually pretty nice and i love to go hiking in the red rocks. BUT not on Sunday :) Sunday is my fabulous day of rest. Have a fabulous Sunday!!

Soul Mate

I was raised to believe that you can be happy with anyone as long as you are willing to have it work. I do believe that, to a point. I also believe that there is such thing as a "soul mate" for laziness to look up a better term. I don't know how believing both of those things makes sense but it all straightens out in my head lol

Life through my eyes

Life can be as dark, miserable and dreary as you make it. Life can also be as bright, happy, and wonderful as you make it. Life is the way it is because you make it so. Yesterday, i was a crab. I was snippy with anyone and everyone who wanted to talk to me. Yesterday life was not what i wanted it to be. I had a bad attitude, and i got mad at the people i love for stupid reasons. i was mad at the world for every little thing that went wrong and my day felt even worse. TODAY i woke up and fell and got rug burn on my knee. What a wonderful start to the day for the person i was yesterday. But the person i am today is not who i was yesterday. When i fell on the carpet today, i just laughed and put on a bandage. When i was out driving today, some guy almost hit me with his car. He had a stop sign... i did not. I could have gone into my usual bout of road rage, but i just smiled and thought to myself that he didn't hit me and things could have been worse. I have been determined to smile at everyone i pass today. One smile can reach across the whole world. you never know who you are helping out just by simply smiling at them. Today, i am happy. Even with bad and embarrassing things happening to me today i am choosing to look at it through happy and positive eyes and that changes my whole outlook on life. I look at everything as a blessing. I like to count my blessings, and i find they are countless. I like to challenge people. So i challenge you to look at your life through positive eyes. Count your blessings.