Just A Few Words

Sayings that I fell in love with. Hope you enjoy <3

Reba McEntire - Somebody's Chelsea

Fell in love with this song! I wanna be somebodys Chelsea..

Honest As Possible

When you first meet someone anything is possible. You will discover if they are a saint or they could be a murderer. They could be a liar or dependable. Pesimistic or optimistic. You don't know. So you give them the benefit of the doubt. I believe people are good. They are capable of doing great things. So I trust them. I trust them until they give me reason not to. I think most of humans are like this. Like a dog and a shock collar. Its all fine and dandy until it zaps you! Then you will shake it off, give it another chance... until it zaps you again. Then you know you offically cannot trust this horrible mechanism desquised as a collar. I can tolerate a lot of things, but I will never tolerate lying. You lie, I give you a second chance. Because I do believe in those. But you lie again, we're done. There are a million reasons for you to lie. To make you seem cooler than you are, to bring someone down to your level, or to simply cover up anything you don't want known. But there are also a million reasons to tell the truth. I hope most people trust me because I have learned that when people don't trust you, your life is crap. You can't take their word for anything, and who knows... maybe they are going off lying to others about you. So I take honesty very seriously. I try my best to be as honest as possible. I mean I'm human so it's not always going to work, but we all have things that are important to us. Surronding myself with people I trust is important to me. I have had people come and go in my life. I have dealt with leaving. I have a wall surrounding my heart with a zipper type of thing. I won't get emotionally deep involved with you until I open up the zipper all the way so you can come all the way in. Kay that sounded kind of weird, but you get the picture. I have learned people do lie. They lie and backstab and cheat. They tell you things and one day they don't mean them anymore. But I have also learned that people can change your life in good ways. They come in like a guest star: there for a certain reason, then they eventually leave. Or they can become perminantly apart of your life. But it's all up to a little thing called fate. Yes I'm one of those corny people who believe in destiny and fate, but only because I believe that Heavenly Father has a hand in every little thing in our life. Who knows when someone you least expect will pop into your life and completely change the game. But you can't go out looking for those people. All you can do is be the best person possible and know that when they do come, you will be ready. I'm talking about future loves and friends. I would have never guessed when my best friend Emma came into my life that I would be so lucky to have someone as her. She holds my hand when I cry and makes me laugh when I'm sad. And even though we are changing, it doesn't matter because we will always be best friends. I will still show up to her dance compeditions and she will be there cheering me on at tennis. And there is Melissa Rassmussen who is always there to here me talk about boys and listen to me freak out (love you lissa!). And Kinzie Meyer who is such a great example to me and who pushes me to put myself out there! I could go on and on about all the beautiful people in my life. I am so blessed! All these bad times lead me to some amazing friends who I wouldn't trade for the world! If you are going through a rough time, just know Heavenly Father will send you someone or something to make the weight a little bit lighter. Trust me, I know from experience :)

Have a happy Sunday :)

The Cutest Love Scene EVER! Enchanted: So Close

Love this part in Enchanted. Could watch millions of times. Over and over again. Nothing like a beautiful first dance between two people in love who are actually there with someone else. Ohhh and Patrick Demsey is beautiful!

Dream A Dream Of You

People always say not to take any moment for granted. Live like there is no tomorrow. Don't wait for a second chance to come around. Don't settle for a life full of regrets. That isn't me. I depend on tomorrow to make me feel better. To give me hope. I just hope for another day so I can keeping going. So I can have a second chance. Have you ever met someone that completely changes your life? .I have. Too many times to count. All these boys that I have let my heart fall for in the past suddenly are nothing to me anymore. Because I found a great guy. A great guy that is my best friend. A guy that teases me constantly but I love every moment of it because I know he does it cause he cares. He makes me feel beautiful and treats me like I'm the only person in the world. Your probably wondering "what the heck? does she have a boyfriend?" not exactly. Im just falling for a boy that might or might not be falling for me too. Scary huh? I'm putting myself out there. And I have hope cause he is different. I'm not the relationship kind of person. I would rather have fun and go on tons of dates and just flirt it up, which I do still plan to do. Don't you worry! But I love the fact that I have met someone so special. He is my friend. The person that makes me feel better when I feel so awful. That is what I cherish the most. Is something going to happen? I have no idea! I thought something was going to happen with half the guys I have liked lately. And guess what? It never happened. I think every single teenage girl wants to be wanted so bad that we make up little things that don't actually happen, so that we can feel like we actually do have a chance. "He smiled at me... that must mean HE LIKES ME!" hahah that's how it goes usually. Trust me I do that exact thing. I guess you don't really know until you know. Until you take that chance and tell him how you feel. And that can even end up crashing and burning. Putting yourself out there is always scary. That will never change. But with the help of my beautiful best friends and my mom they keep pushing me! I need that. I'm grateful for that. Now I'm just wishing and hoping.. and dreaming that whatever happens I will be happy. Cause right now I am so happy! Happy knowing that if he does like me he likes me for me. Not for my body, or my status, or anything superficial like that. He likes me for me. Well lets hope so and lets hope for a first kiss soon. I have been waiting for that for soooo long! It better be special. And I think it will be. Well lets dream that will be. Thanks for reading! XOXOXOXOXO

Sweet Sadies 2011 :)

When a group of people plan a dance a lot more goes into it than you could ever expect. There are hundreds of things to consider. DJ, theme, food, date, cost, decorations, assembly, royalty, the list goes on and on! You are constantly feeling stress to live up to expectations and for every little thing to go as planned. You have to worry about purchase orders and admistration being okay with everything. You have to worry about what money and money and money. But the best part of planning a dance is going into it all out, putting your whole heart and soul into it. Then walking out of that newly cleaned gym and feeling the weight just lift off of your shoulders. Knowing, that you did your absolute best. But it doesn't stop there.. cause then you get told that your dance, the dance you have been planning for months and months and months, was the most attended in ten years. Yah that makes everything you worried about worth it. Completely. Sadies was my baby and I'm sooo proud how it turned out! During leadership conference at Utah State this summer we came up with the theme Sweet Sadies. All of a sudden all these ideas went pouring out. We started to think about chocolate fountains and willy wonka and ballons and sooo much more! Of course we had to figure out how we were going to put all of that into reality. It became bigger than any of us had ever expected. We also had to worry about Juniors Week. It came faster than fast. Lightning fast. But looking back it was one of the funnest weeks I have even had in my life.

I'm kinda a nerd! I love assembly practices and lunchtime activties. I guess I just love being involved :) I also got the honor of being nominated for Junior Royalty! Boy was that unexpected! I was sooo touched that people would actually vote for me. Me! The girl who everyone said was nice and pretty but never really knew. The girl who used to sit in the quiet corner scared to get in front of the class, well that still happens sometimes, but I felt soo good when I saw my name on a couple ballots, but to be on royalty. Well that was a dream come true! Probably the most stressful of anything was the assembly recording. You see, because of our whole high-tech awesome world we do most of our assemblys like a movie. Execpt for when the cheerleaders, falcettes, etc. perform. Soo much easier! We did our assembly all about Willy Wonka. I was Veruka Salt and had to act snobby. If you know me at all you know I am not snobby, and I can't act. It was interesting!

But we still manage to have a fun fun time :)

After days and days of staying after school until seven we finally were done! Well until the day of the assembly. We are total bosses! Lunchtime activities went extremely well! We had..

Peanut Butter Jelly Wars :) where you had to feed someone else a peanut butter jelly sandwhich as fast as you can! got kinda messy.. :)

Doughnut on a string :) and then my least favorite, but most eventful! When the royalty got to get pied in the face..

Me and Syd before..

That was sooo gross! Dont worry I got ben back.. muahaha ;)

Went to fourth period smelling like old spoiled milk... I will never eat whipped cream EVER again. That is a vow I will take! Then it was Friday the big day! Assembly day! I was so proud of this hiliaroius assembly. My mama even came to see it <3 I love her!

I walked down in front of the whole school. Me, Rachael Fresh! I got nominated 1st runner up. Well I tied with the goregous Sydnie Adams! Geeez what a confidence booster! I was soo happy. Seemed like everyone enjoyed it! Well I know I enjoyed being humiliated. Now I can't walk through the halls without hearing "charlie bit mee!" ohh my. I love that :) haha! Now some of the weight was gone. All we had to do was decorate.. all night long! Ohh and in the morning! But we also got to do the guy's makeup at lunch! That was interesting.. :)

When we are all surviving on basically no sleep.. we get kinda crazy! hahaha

Now the fun part! Day date at Lazerzone, ice cream at farrs, dinner at Iggys and then THE DANCE!

I had the best time ever planning this dance! I hope everyone had a great night full of memories! Whats next for me?? Running for SBO.. wish me luck :)

Service Is All It Takes

Today was a great day! But it wasn't a great day because the guy I like smiled at me or because I bought a new outfit. It was much more than that. Today was a great day because I got to do some good ol' service. When I was little we lived in the low income neighborhood. I only remember glimpses of it like running through the sprinklers with my little brothers and walking to kindergarten with my friends, but going back still feels like going home. It might just be my over-emotional, sentimental side haha but it's always been a place to go back to. To think about how much has changed. How much I have changed. I wonder what would have happened if we hadn't of moved. I wouldn't have made the friends I did which means I wouldn't have been invited to come to young womens which means I wouldn't have gone to church which leads to me not being baptised.. endless possiblities! But I know one thing is for certain: I wouldn't be the person I am today. Well anywho as I was saying..tonight as young women we got to go back and serve dinner to families in my old elementary school. I was overwelmed with what I was feeling. I was feeling sadness for some of the families who you could imagine were going through a tough time. I was happy for those who were so excited to get a warm meal. Most of all I was grateful for all I have. My family is going through our own kind of financial problems but so many people are helping us. Our family, friends, and ward are taking care of us. Ohhh and can't forget Heavenly Father! I feel so blessed to be where I am now. We are all worried about the future but I know our time is coming! Great things keep happening and I can only imagine that it's for our own good. So we can learn how to accept help and give help to others also. Blessings are in store I just know it! Now if I can just get through this next week... JUNIORS WEEK! Lunch activities, announcments, sadies assembly, and the dance! Should be interesting! Don't worry I'll share all bout it! Annnnd take pictures.. hey you know me! Keep in touch <3

The Best Two Years

Exactly two years ago at this exact time (well maybe not this exact moment!) I was baptised a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. When I went to the Draper Temple open house almost a year before I had the overcoming feeling that I would be baptised one day. Of course knowing me, I shrugged it off, knowing how my mom was about the subject. She was always supportive of course and I was grateful for that, but sitting there in church, being just another visitor was never good enough for me. I wanted more. I wanted to take the sacrament knowing that I was renewing my covenants with my Heavenly Father. I wanted my hand to count when I raised it to sustain someone in their calling. I wanted the chance to have a calling. I wanted to be a member. That day was better than I ever could have ever expected. I had to keep telling myself that it was for real and that it actually was happening. The little butterflys in my stomach told me that it wasn't just a dream. I wore this beautiful, long, white dress. I was surounded by the most important people in my life. My family, my friends, and my ward all helped me get to that glorious day when I got to become like my Savior Jesus Christ. So many amazing things have happened because of the choice that I made to get baptised. I got to be the Miamaid president for a year, I got to get my patriarchal blessing (dont know what I would do without that!), but the best part is that everyday I have the Holy Ghost with me to guide me through whatever life throws at me. That day gave me so much hope for the future about my family. That we might be able to be together forever. Now that defintely isn't happening, but I'm trying not to dwell on the bad. Because I have the chance to find a eternal companion. Some handsome prince charming that is able to take me to the temple where we can be sealed for all of eternity. Some people wonder why I'm so picky about the guys I like but I don't think they understand. I have to have a husband that is going to be worthy to give my babies blessings. That can take me to the temple often. That can lead our family with patience and love and understanding. Because I never had those things. And what I didn't get to have, I want for my children. Now all that there is to do is date and have fun. And make myself the best person possible for my future husband so i can be the best wifey ever (: Wonder what he's doing right now?? Maybe thinking about me? Lets hope so (:

Happenings of Homecoming 2011

So last week was the best week of the whole entire school year.. HOMECOMING WEEK! Last year I didn't really participate and I totally regreted it. So I made sure to do all that I could this year! I went to street painting on Monday where everyone painted the walk way to the football field! Me and the junior officers made this fantastic painting (:

And thennn Tuesday. Well Tuesday was a really bad day. We went to Cyprus expecting to dominate considering how well we did last time we played them.. but no. We played 3 sets and the match went on for 2 hours! So so hard. And we lost. It was soo discouraging because it's Cyprus and we should just totally distroy right?? I'm thinking we just had a mental thingy going on and didn't even think we had to try. Well we were wrong. I thought I was totally pathetic. But we had to move on and accept it cause we had region on Friday. Thursday was he dreaded SPLAT! We as junior officers were in charge and yes it was eventfull! but we got it done and it was sooo much fun! Heard it was the best splat that everyone had gone too?? Well I hope so cause that was the goal! I also got to make some more friends, which is my favorite thing ever . And of course get paint everywhere imaginable!! If you are every realllly bored put paint alll over yourself and go to wendy's! The looks you get are hiliarous (:

Friday was a crasy day! We had tennis regions in Salt Lake and we did great (: we played against Highland first and lost, which in my book isn't that big of a deal cause they're Highland! But then.. we had to verse Cyprus. The very same girls we lost against on Tuesday. But my beautiful partner Melissa came up with this saying "act not be acted upon"!! Oh my gosh it's amazing huh?? And it seemed to work.. cause we DEFEATED! The perfect ending to a wonderful season (: My favorite part was my last shot I ever took. I was up at the net and smashed it down. I love that feeling. Feeling of power. Feeling of complete control. Ohh and don't forget the feeling of the last hug ever with Melissa on the court. I played that last game for her. I fought for her. Love you lissa! That night was the tailgate party and the game! Love my school so much. We played East and did amazing cosidering how good they are. Proud to go to a school where winning isn't everything. Where all kinds of people come to the games to support our boys. Where their safety is our main concern. Falcons all the way babay!

The very next day was homecoming! I went with my bud Braxton Rogers and we made some awesome memories! I was lucky cause he was so respectful and made sure I had a great time, which I did! Don't we look gooooood? I think so..

Went for a picnic at the park and Texas Roadhouse for dinner! I was so lucky cause I had a hilarious group and a amazing date. (: couldn't have asked for a better night! And I didn't even pass out! Considering how tight my dress was.. ohh well beauty is pain righht? Not to mention my red heels. I got my heels and he got his Ute colors. He was happy and I was happy (:

We went to Sparetime after too where I kicked some major butt in Lazertag, just kidding! I totally got beat by Braxton! But heyy I'll get him for it someday haha. I absolutely loved our group (:

Overall a very good week! Unlike this week.. tough times are hard to push through! Being opitimistic though. Well at least trying (: