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MORE MORE AND MORE YOUNG AMBASSADORS!

2011-03-28T14:24:00.000-07:00

I have been incredibly busy with Young Ambassadors over the last few months! It has been so much fun! At the end of February/ the beginning of March, we went on our Mid-semester 10-day Tour to Las Vegas and Southern California. One of the best parts about tour was the host families. We split up and stayed with different families every night. It was so much fun to get to know them and learn from them. One of the worst/best things about tour is the amount of food we eat!! Every morning our host families make us wonderful breakfasts and sack lunches for lunch (which we usually aren't hungry for, but eat anyway). Then before the show, people from the nearest ward make us amazing dinners... and after the show our host families feed us again. I'm so incredibly grateful for how much other people do for us, but when I put on my skin-tight sparkly dress... I begin to regret it! haha I love TOUR!

My parents and I after our show at the Henderson Pavilion. As you can see, the Pavilion was incredible and SOOO many people were there! The only downfall was that the audience froze a little! However, we were loving how breezy it felt on stage. At one point I was singing a solo and had a perfect gust of wind blow my hair and add some excellent wind blown effect... I have never felt cooler in my life!

The cute Truman and Fife kids got to be in a couple numbers of the show! They were so adorable!

Maybe I love Brittany Worley more than anyone in this planet!

Ryan Margetts and I- Ryan rocks the guitar for the band! Ps- isn't the program awesome?!

Ryan Stasell, Whitley, and I in front of the Pavilion. It rocks my world!

Next stop!!!- LANCASTER, CA!
How can I describe Lancaster?... It was a mixture of awesome, hilarious, and touching. Weird mix, I know... let me explain. We did a show there on Saturday night then stayed with host families that night, then we went to a singles' ward the next day and got to know all of the YSA, then we did a fireside that night, and left on Monday. It was so awesome to stay with the same host families for a few nights. My host mom was a young single adult named Stephanie. She is the greatest person EVER!! Also living with Stephanie is an LDS woman named Zuley and her 3 girls. Stephanie and Zuley are converts to the church and their stories are incredible! I cannot believe how close I became with them in such a short time. I miss them so much! A girl on the tech crew, Becky, was my roommate. She just recently joined the crew, so I was excited for the opportunity to get to know her better as well. She is so much fun and so talented in what she does. The two pictures above are of the YSA ward "munch n' mingle" after church. I have never felt cooler in my life then when I was with them. Most of them had seen the show the night before, so the girls had already decided which boys they wanted to marry and it was up to me and some of the other YA girls to play match maker! It was hilarious! Who can blame the girls though... the YA boys are hottays!!

Becky, Stephanie, and I... Stephanie took the liberty of fixing the sign for me. Now it's Michele with one "L". What a pal! She's hilarious.

This is Zuley and her 3 girls. Zuley is such an incredible woman! I love her!

The next day we went to the LA Temple. We took pictures, had some down time, and gave a fireside in the visitor's center. Stephanie followed us there and saw the fireside again. She's the best mom ever!

Before this picture we took group pictures in our matching tour clothes, in front of the temple. Right then it really hit me that I was actually on Tour with the Young Ambassadors. WHAT THE HECK!! I'll admit I started crying a little and hugging Yo and Brit. Sometimes I look at Yo and can't believe that I'm actually friends with that cool black girl I always wanted to be like! haha it really is an surreal experience. What a blessing.

In LA we had some down time to hang out in Hollywood. So we went to the wax museum! Whitley and I took the liberty of kissing every statue... that's how we do.

Don't be jealous...

I did fire Marshall Bill just for the fam!

The next round of pictures is from the day we went to the beach and to the Ronald Reagan Museam. So LBH... (let's be honest. ha) when I heard we were going to this museum for 2 hours I was NOT excited. I didn't know how I could spend 1 hour in a museum, nonetheless 2.... but o was I wrong. IT ROCKED! I have this new burning love for Ronald Reagan. He was the coolest president ever!! Seriously, he was an actor before he went into politics, he helped the eventual fall of the Berlin wall, and he married the cutest woman ever- Nancy Reagan... I want to be her. The museum had some of the love letters he had written to her and it was SO adorable. I love them. He was also just a solid and moral person. He stood up for what was right and it was very incredible. I was so grateful for Brittany at this part of the tour. She became my museum buddy... we just went slow and enjoyed every part of it! Reagan had such strong beliefs too. In the picture below, we are standing in front of his grave. The quote says-" I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life." I love him.

He loved the arts too! Can you get any better?!

Okay baby... BEACH TIME! We only had like an hour to eat dinner and play at the beach, but we took full advantage of that hour. The above picture is some of us doing the famous "butt-squeeze leap." I'm not sure who exactly invented it... either me, Brit, or Carson, but there is no cooler leap in the world." Okay coolest leap ever in the history of the leap!!!"

Check out Max's split leap on the end... GET IT! I'm the one with the perfect Ballet hands in the middle... lol uncool.

Okay okay! You can't really tell how rocking my hair is in this picture, but the salt did something amazing to it! Each curl was like magic! It was the greatest hair day of my life!

Introducing Michelle Monson... She is the most hilarious person on this planet. We stayed together one night and she found this in the bathroom after her shower. You can't tell, but one tatoo is a devil and one is an angel! We were dying! However, the best part is that Michelle thought that the butts in the picture were our host parents' butts!! I had to inform her that they definitely belonged to a babies, not adults. I love her haha.

Okay... now the rest are just random pictures from some of our shows.

We had some great times in this dressing room.

I LOVE YOYO!

Brit and I were costume rack buddies a bunch of times... love it! Sorry about the awkward hand hold going on though...

Brad and Savannah
Max and Chris

So... a couple weeks after tour we did 4 shows in the De Jong Theatre on campus. It was so much fun! The audience was full of family and friends who were so supportive and awesome! Finally the show felt complete too! It was so great!

So maybe I shouldn't have put these picture up because I look pretty nasty, but I just had to show the world how sweet our dresses are! And we're wearing huge, silver heels... "I Love You I Do"

These are our "Come So Far" dresses!

Singing "I Am A Child of God" at the end of the show.

"It's Just Life"... fierce arm right?! ha

Sarah, Ferg, and Rachel came to the show! I was so excited to have them see it! Plus their comments on it were hilarious. I am so grateful for awesome friends!

Megan Bagley came from Logan to see the show! Isn't she the best?! love her!

Last weekend we did a show in Richfield! Last show before 30-day tour! WOO HOO!

YOUNG AMBASSADORS!!!!

2011-01-23T16:40:00.000-08:00

I always knew that being in Young Ambassadors would be awesome, but I never really knew how awesome it actually is!! I feel so blessed to be apart of an amazing group of fun, talented, and spiritual people. I love every single person in the group so much and I know that I have gained knew life-long friends. I started the group feeling like an outsider! Most of the girls in the group are music dance theatre majors at BYU, along with some of the guys, so they already knew each other really well and I was nervous I wouldn't click with them or that they wouldn't like me! But they automatically loved me and became my best friends!

This is Danica, Alexis, and I on our Young Ambassadors retreat!! The retreat was so much fun! We learned about the South (the place we're going on our 10-day tour), the tour, and how to be better instruments in the Lord's hands. Brad Wilcox (an ex-young ambassador) spoke to us about how to feel worthy to represent the Savior. His talk was so aweseome! I felt then and still feel the huge responsibility it is to be an instrument in the Lord's hands. However, I am so grateful for the responsiblity and I'm determined to do it as best as I can.

Rehearsal is the best!!! Normally I hate rehearsing for shows, but I love YA's rehearsal. Even the 8-hour ones!
Below is a picture from BYU's Homecoming Spectacular! It was so much fun! These are our costumes for "Heaven's Eyes."

We spend lots of time on the bus! The girls from left to right are me, Yoyo, Brittany, and Kate. I love them all so so much! There are so incredibly talented.

This was at the YA's christmas party! Randy (the YA's director)'s wife Sue made the most delicious food and we sang Christmas songs together, had a wonderful Christmas lesson that included narration and music that Randy and Sue had written. They have been married 30 years and every year they write a new Christmas song! They are SO talented! I love being in their home and feeling the spirit there. I hope I can learn to be as loving as Randy. I won't lie, I started the year off terrified of him, but I can now feel the love he has for me and have grown to love him very very much. To the joy of everyone else in YA's, I've become Randy's favorite person to make fun of! Probably because I'm the easiest to make fun of haha.

Twin Falls, ID show!

Yoyo!

Alexis and Spencer!

This weekend we went to Monticello, UT! It was a 41/2 hour drive! It sounds horrible, but it was so much fun! Max (the YA's piano player) and I were bus buddies there and back and we laughed the entire time! He's the best!

HAHA this is me and Ryan on the bus!... Lets just say that on the way back we get pretty delirious! I would be pretty embarrassed if anyone saw how crazy we are!

So basically YA's is the greatest! Our show has a wonderful message and I've been fortunate enough to sing a song about the way of life/ eternal life called "The Way of Things." It's an incredible song and has the power to really move people in the audience and allow them to be touched by the Spirit. I've been overwhelmed as I've realized that I must be worthy to be an instrument in the Lord's hands or else I could hinder the opportunity of the viewers to feel the Spirit. I've read Alma 17 over and over again and realize that I must dilligently pray and fast before every show so that I can be worthy to have a portion of the Spirit there with me. When I have been diligent in prayer and fasting the week before the show, I have been able to feel the Spirit work through me and I have felt the Lord's overwhelming love for the people watching. It's so incredible! I don't think that I will ever feel adequate to be a young ambassador, but in a way I am so grateful for that. My inadequacies have taught me to rely on the Lord and the Spirit and I know that without the Spirit I will just be a mediocre performer.... but with the Spirit my weaknesses will be overlooked and will become so much greater than I am. I love the gospel! I hope that I can be a better servant and a better instrument in His hands!

Fun times with Nanny Meesh... haha

2010-05-28T23:48:00.001-07:00

Introducing the alternate personalities of Hayden, Carter, and Tanner Davis:
Hayden may seem like a calm and collected child, but when you aren't looking he is disguised as Spider man and is killing bad guys. You don't have to worry about robbers, kidnappers, or scary next door neighbors when you are babysitting Hayden... he's got your back.

Carter's outfit is my personal favorite. The name of it was created by the combined efforts of Erin and Tanner- Lidrag. Why the name you ask? Well the dragon shirt was no where to be found and the lion pants were too small so Carter combined the costumes and is part lion and part dragon. Love it!

Although I love love love Lidrag, I need to take back my previous comment of it being my favorite... mini bandito just steals my heart. Tanner called himself Tanner Bandito and had a great time wearing tights for the first time. His poses were spectacular. I like to think that the thumbs down in this picture is him saying "messing with me would be a bad idea!"

I had to take have some posing time with Tan. He's just to good at being Bandito. You can't waste that!

I love my Lidrag!

Hayden didn't really understand the pose concept, but it doesn't really matter because Carter and Tanner are so completely hilarious! Carter's belly slightly sticking out of the bottom of his costume is killing me! And Tan's hand is hilarious!

My face isn't the cutest, but Tanner's eyebrows are awesome. I'm trying to teach Hayd to shoot a web, but he wasn't getting it.

I love this picture of Ericka, Allyson, and me! I found it on her blog and is seriously is my favorite ever! Look at Allyson's eyes!

I love Cart, Tan, and Hayd so so much! Although my time has taught me that I don't need to be a mother too soon (haha) I am so excited to have children of my own and to raise them in the gospel. These boys are so lucky to have such a good mom! She is raising stripling warriors!

Lately! Ferg's birth and Random pictures. Nothing much left to say.

2010-03-13T16:29:00.000-08:00

This was the delicious ice cream cake we had for Ferg and Marsh's day of birth party. I had the people put wierd nick names for the two of them because I personally thought it was absolutely hilarious. Zandra- because Ferg's actualy name is Alexzandra and Lil Weezy- because of Marsh's weezy laugh. Love it!

The Death of Bandito

2010-02-18T19:21:00.000-08:00

This weekend I got to perform The Hanging of El Bandito for the last time! It was so much fun to do it again and to listen to the crowd die laughing from the simple things we would do on stage. I also loved watching all of our AMAZING cast perform again. I had forgetten how incredibly talented they are and how much fun it is to be on stage with them. I'm so sad it is over, but I can't wait for the shows this summer! Bandito returns will be such a blast! I'm so grateful for the wonderful experiences I get to have at Pickleville. I don't know why Erin and TJ and all the Davis' are allowing me to come back, but I'm so grateful that they are! I can't wait for more!

The boys posed for this picture all on their own and it seriously kills me! They are so funny! Tanner is doing some sort of scared face and Carter would do this gangster face every single time.. O my gosh I love them.

His name is JUANITO BANDITO!!!!

2010-02-01T14:52:00.000-08:00

WE'RE BACK!!!!!

Bandito is back and better than ever (well hopefully). Come see us in Logan February 13th and 15th. You can see more about the shows at:

picklevilleplayhouse.com
Box office: (435) 755-0968
Email: info@picklevilleplayhouse.com.

Don't miss out guys it seriously rocks!

Introducing... BEN!

2010-01-21T22:12:00.001-08:00

I'm taking Anatomy this semester and our first lab was on the skeleton, vertebrae, and the sternum. To memorize the INTENSE skull I rented my dear friend, shown below, Ben. He and I had a wonderful night together and I especially enjoyed walking around with him on campus. I had to return him after only one night, but I will never forget him. Love you Ben! You helped me rock my first quiz!

As Requested... A New Post!

2010-01-13T19:17:00.000-08:00

Mom can't live without a recent blog post! Thanks for being a devoted fan of my life mom!- My Christmas Break was so much fun! I loved being home and I LOVED being lazy for a little. My old roommate, Sheridan, got married in California over the break! Sarah and I had so much on our road trip up. We also had a girls day and shopped like crazy when I came back. My pictures are a little out of order, but that's the only ones I have.

Tell me she isn't the cutest thing EVER! I wish I had a good picture of Addie to show how cute she is too, but seriously my nieces are babes!

Kaleb is the funniest thing ever! It took him a little to warm up to me, but once he did we were best buds. I loved wrestling with him and getting hugs from him. He'd hug me so sweetly and then pop up and smack me! haha love him!

We had such cute shoes for Sher's wedding!

By the end of the day, Sarah and I were thrashed! We got rained on SO much and were so exhausted. That didn't keep us from driving home at 5 the next day though! We're hardcore.

It was so fun to see Sher go through everything and get excited for it all! I love her so much and didn't realize how much i really had missed her. She and Jaime are such an awesome couple!

The Bridal Party... ya we're hott

Fall Semester= OVER!

2009-12-17T19:07:00.000-08:00

I seriously can't believe this day is finally here! I feel so over-joyed that I get a break and I feel completely exhausted. This semester has been the hardest, but funnest time of my life! I've been busier than I could have imagined, but wouldn't take one moment of it back. Here are my "I'm grateful for's" of this semester:

1- friends! I've grown so close to such wonderful people this semester. I love my apartment and could not have chosen better roommates! I also have made amazing friends at work! They are so fun to be around and make me laugh so much! I couldn't have gotten through 20 hours a week + school with out them!

2- Erin, TJ, their boys and the rest of the Davis crew. I never expected to fall in love with so many people at once! I got to go up to Logan a ton this semester and spend a lot of time with them. Erin has truly become one of my best friends and I love her so so so much! I feel like a weirdo with how much I love all of them, but they are such great examples to me and I worry about them continuously! I completely took for granted being around the boys this summer and now I miss them all the time! They are such awesome boys and I love the funny things they do and say. I also have fallen totally in love with Ty and Kenz. Everytime I see them they make me feel so important and loved. I can't believe what smart and beautiful girls they are. BA! I just love them all.

3- My parents! It was so fun to go to El Salvador this Thanksgiving with my dad. I feel like I got to know him so much better and really realize what an amazing person he is. My mom has also become even more my best friend this semester. I don't know what I would do without her to call when I am lonely or bored or stressed! I hope I can be like both of them someday!

4-Liberty Square- What's not to love? Broken sink, leaky roof, broken toilet, sickening carpet, bipolar shower, creaky door, crazy tv... and so much more. It's kept life extremely exciting!

5- My FHE family! Maybe It's weird, but I have LOVED being FHE mom. I think its because I like feeling needed and depended on, but who doesn't?! My group has been seriously the greatest and I've grown to love each one of them so much. I'm glad I get to do it this semester too.

6- Jenny Phillip's choir- I love being able to bare my testimony through music and this choir is such a wonderful opportunity to do it! I'm so grateful for music in my life and people who use it in such wonderful ways.

!!!!!!!!!!(pretend these exclamation points are upside down) Sonrisas para El Salvador!!!!!!!!!!

2009-12-04T10:18:00.000-08:00

This Thanksgiving, I was lucky enough to go with my dad and numerous dentists, doctors, hygienists, and dental assistants to El Salvador!!! My dad and siblings have been on similar trips before this and basically I told my dad that I was next in line! The point of the trip is to help all of the kids from Central America, who want to go on missions, get their medical forms complete so they can send in their mission papers. The boys and girls would come in on buses, usually as stakes, and we would cut their hair, take their picture, test their eye sight, give them medical examinations, and then do all of their dental work. The dental work is the longest process because most of the kids have never been able to afford a dentist and the mission papers have quite a list of things they need done. So, before we all arrived, a group went up to clear out a stake center and set it up for surgeries. The chapel and the cultural hall served as the root canal/ general denistry area and the relief society room had four chairs for oral surgery. Over all we saw roughly 580 kids and finished their papers. Oral surgery was done on probably half of the kids and they were awake for the whole thing! Not the most ideal situation, but no one complained about it! I loved holding their hands and trying to comfort them during surgery. Because of my terrible Spanish, there isn't much I can say to comfort them, so I tried to do communicate other ways. I hope I made a difference! The above picture is me with my first stamp in my passport! WOO! Hopefully there is more to come!

Annette was my best bud all trip! We had so much fun and we're so energetic that we didn't even feel an earthquake!! I'm sure my dad wanted to kill us a few times, but he got through it.

This is the relief society room... aka the oral surgery room. Note the font in the corner. It was so hot in here and when we had to get all dressed up for surgery we were dying!! However, none of the El Salvadorians seemed to notice the heat!

This is some of the guys in the group and I making pill packets for our patients. We made so many!!

The church we worked in is surrounded by a huge gate and on the outside of the gate is tons of graffitti! Austin just had to pose by it... we're pretty g.

These are our buses we traveled everywhere in. We were police escorted everywhere! haha it was awesome!

I don't have nearly enough pictures of San Vincente, but the picture above is the huge river created by a mudslide they had about a month ago. There used to be tons of little houses here, but they were all wiped out. Something like 300 people died and 22 of them were members. We were lucky enough to go to the ward here and visit with them. I got to sing for them and loved the opportunity to share the spirit with them. I expected them to be more emotional, but they were very stoic and strong. I guess if we all had been through as much as these people have in their lives we would be pretty stoic too.

The doctor himself!

This is me singing with some of the kids who were waiting for surgery! Lets just say that Latin Americans aren't the best singers, so finding a pitch was quite impossible! haha

This is my favorite patient, Everson. He was very emotional before, during, and after surgery. We were comforting him after and found that his mom was no longer alive. I was so amazed by his strength to serve even when it wasn't the least convenient thing possible. I wish every young adult in Central America had the opportunity of going on missions for the church because one- then they would be members of the church and two- the church will pay for RM's to go to University in El Salvador. This kids may not have the best life, but they sure have opportuniites to make more of themselves and hopfully escape poverty.

For my "excursion" I got to take gifts to children in a cancer hospital. It was very sad, but so wonderful to see how happy these children still were.

Austin got an El Salvadorian haircut, complete with lines shaved in the back of his head... Don't ask me. I don't get it either haha.

Mont and Annette going to work. Check out all the layers we had to wear... ya gross.

Annette and I got in trouble for being too happy, so we developed a new motto... No Smiling! Oral Surgery is Serious Business!!!... Ya, that didn't last too long.

On Thanksgiving night we had a banquet were we ate, watched a slide show, and were given these medals by some of the youth we'd worked on. On the ribbon of the medals was a pin from the youth promising us they would serve missions. Imagine the difference all these RMs can have on their country! Unbelievable!

The Days!

Definitely a "had to be there moment", but one of the funniest moments ever none the less.

One of our translators and I. These kids speak GREAT English!

After packing up everything at the chapel Friday night, we went to an Orphanage. The kids loved having there picture taken and would run up and tell me to take a picture and then pose! haha they were so sweet! I wish I could buy them all cameras!

We got the nun to hit the pinata... hahaha

Inside the orphange... 4 quite old nuns watch over 56ish kids!

This is Taynia! When I walked into the orphanage she immediately grabbed my hand and started giving me a tour. She laughed at how bad my spanish was, but I think I understood her quite well. She is twelve years old and had been at the orphanage for 5 years. She seemed extremely happy where she was and was so cute and smart. AH! I wish I could adopt her right now! I hope she has a good future and knows the gospel.

This is the view out our window of our hotel! We got to go to the beach on Saturday and play all day! It was wonderful and totally needed! My Kancles finally deswelled from all our hard work and Dr. Ringer's back got a little better. I probably had 700 pina coladas in one day... totally worth it!

Michele's embarrassing moment of the day... brace yourself.

2009-11-13T16:08:00.001-08:00

Every Friday at work we have a team meeting where we eat and disscuss various work related topics. My team consists of like 10 people who work around the same time as I do. It's a really fun group so our meetings are always hilarious. Today, however, it was more hilarious than usual. The meeting began with all of us enjoying a smorgasborg of treats brought by each member. After talking for about 45 minutes we realized we still needed to watch a presentation in the last 15 minutes. The presentation was a powerpoint that was projected onto a wall in the corner of the huge Morris center cafeteria where we have our meetings, so we all made our way over to the powerpoint and sat on the floor to watch it. As I sat down, I felt something sharp poke my butt and screamed "Something stabbed me!" As everyone looked over, they suddenly had shocked looks on their faces and started yelling. I jumped up as they screamed and heard them say "Wasp!".... As I looked on the floor, I realized I had just killed a wasp with MY BUTT! Ouch! I ran around screaming in pain as everyone was rolling on the floor with laughter. One of the girls in the group felt bad for me and grabbed my arm and told me to go to the bathroom and make sure there wasn't a stinger in my gluteus maximus. I walked away listening to my team crack up and laughing pretty hard myself. Of all the places I could have sat or that wasp could've been... why there? Although I have a large painful welt on my butt and a bruise on my selfesteem, the wasp is the one who really suffered here. He still remains on that floor... smooshed to his death by my behind. Not a good way to go.
To see a picture of waspy and I go here: http://byuindstudy.blogspot.com/

For mom-The grapes of life.

2009-10-24T14:50:00.001-07:00

Ya don't even stress we won most funny (don't ask me why it wasn't called funniest. I guess grammar isn't important when it comes to prestigious awards). Goal achieved.

Ingrid concert + Logan= funnest weekend ever!

2009-10-21T22:25:00.000-07:00

This weekend I got to go to Logan for Cory Keate's (Sheriff Rowdy Angus') wedding! He and Aubree's wedding was gorgeous and then I got to spend the weekend with Erin, her boys, and the rest of the Davis crew! It was SO fun! I've missed these boys so much and loved playing with them. Actually I've missed everyone so much! The twins were huge!! and Hayden repeated any and every word. I also got to see Megan (Magleby as the boys would say) and Phil! Ah! I miss PVP!

Saturday night, I left Logan and went down to SLC for an Ingrid Michaelson concert. Talk about amazing! Hopefully my video works. Her voice was even better live.

Decision made!!

2009-10-14T10:26:00.000-07:00

Today I went to the majors fair just to talk to some people about Communication disorders. The girls working it started telling me about one of their classes and how they worked with a singer who had misused her voice and with an actress who was trying to master an accent. That got me so excited and sounded like so many things I'd learned from Speech Level Singing. So after much thought, decision made....I've officially decided to major in.... duh dun nuh duh.... Communication disorders! Master's degree here I come!!

These are a few of my favorite things!

2009-10-09T17:33:00.000-07:00

okay so here is a first... ALL WORD POST! This is going to be weird because I admit I have always mocked people who do this. I'm going to be one of them!! But i'm at work and the phone isn't ringing and i've already studied for 4 hours today + class and I'm feeling like just writing! So.. here it goes. Here are a few of the things I love lately.

1. Meeting new people!- I think I've always been outgoing, but this semester I've become ULTRA out-going. Like suddenly I'm more bold and more... I don't know, just more something. And I like it. People may be overwhelmed because I don't really hold back and I'm crazy the second I meet them, but that won't stop me haha.

2. Independence- I've developed some sort of love for independence. I absolutely love the being busy. I won't lie, I'm very stressed out and I get overwhelmed, but I feel like every second of my life has a point! I don't feel like a time waster and I love that. I love going to the gym and just being by myself and coming to work and being around one group of people and then going home and being around a whole different group of people. I obviously need people and socializing in my life, but I like responsiblities. - haha well most responsibilites.

3. All the cool things I have coming up- The next couple months are going to be so fun! Next week I'm going to Logan... which I'm ecstatic about! and then next saturday I'm going to an ingrid Michaelsen concert. AH! and then on the 30th I get to sing in a Halloween show! and in November I get to sing in church!! and then over Thanksgiving I get to go to EL SALVADOR! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I'm so excited I can barely handle it! Sorry if I'm bragging haha I'm not that cool, things are just working out for me!

4. General Conference magazines- I love reading and highlighting and having something to work on. My conference ensign should be coming soon and I'm seriously stoked. I have to really take it one talk at a time or else I'll be extremely overwhelmed by all I have to work on, but right now I'm just so excited to read it.

5. Virtue- I think Jenny Phillips' song "virtue" gave me this strange obsession with virtue, but I love it and am convinced it would make every person's life so happy. Virtue is like what I want to define me and I think if girls understood it... if I really understood it... we'd be so much better. to me virtue is living up to your potential and respecting yourself. It's not settling for being less than who you can and having every righteous desire you can imagine. Virtue rocks! "I won't flirt with the darkness that I came here to fight"- Jenny Phillips.

6. My apartment- I officially LOVE my apartment! We have such fun girls and its always so happy. The only time there is any sadness is when I freak out about the dishes being done... but that ends quickly haha. My roommates are too sweet to me. We have so much fun together and I think I've laughed harder in the last month than I ever have before. And my really shy and quiet roommate has totally started coming out of her shell... its so fun!

7. Running a 5k----------- I know. Take it in. I'm going to run something. I admit I probably will die, but I'm so excited to try. For the first time the other day i was running and I got into a "zone". It made it so much better and so now my official goal tomorrow as I am dying trying to run this is just to get into a zone. Wish me luck. I may die.

8. Baking- um ya I love it! I have made so many cookies that my roommates get angry everytime I start to make them haha they (or maybe just Sarah) say I'm making them fat with all the cookies I make. (It's all in her head) the only think I don't like is buying the ingridients! So anyways I want to be one of those amazing cooks that just throws random stuff together and WA LA! obviously I'm no where close to that, but maybe someday. I need to go to mom's house to become a chef cause she'll have all the ingredients... haha. or erin's... lol jk erin.

well anyways. I don't expect anyone to read this because its so long. But I am an official blog writer. If any advertising companies want to pay me to put their advertisements on my page so all the people who read it will see... just give me a call.
-meesh

The men in my life.

2009-10-04T15:44:00.000-07:00

This Sunday, Erin and TJ were driving through Provo and were sweet enough to visit me. It was so much fun to see the boys and I felt like the coolest person on the Earth when Tanner and Carter ran to give me hugs. Hayden also let me hold him which as quite the accomplishment. I can't wait to play with them in a couple weeks when I go to visit. Love you boys!

Back in Provo!!!

2009-09-20T22:56:00.001-07:00

Getting back into the BYU swing of things was rough at first, but now I'm remembering why I love it so much! My ward is awesome! My roommates are some of the funnest people in the ward! And I love my classes! I'm so lucky to be at this school and experiencing the things I am.
The first picture is from the football game. When we were walking in, we totally ran into L. Tom Perry! He is sooooo tall! He was sweet enough to let us get a picture with him.

This is our football crew! All these girls are from my ward last year and I love them so much! We have such good seats... too bad the game was a total let down!

And here we have my picture tour of the lovely apartment! This is right next to the door in the front of the apartment. Sarah made those cute posters and on the wall it says live laugh love. I really want a semi-big picture of Christ to go underneath it, but can't decide if I want to spend the money on it! I was about to buy a really cool new painting that looks kinda like a sketch of the Savior, but they didn't have the right size! Bummer.This is where 6 girls get ready. There is a bathroom on either side of the mirror, but they aren't very big. It gets pretty crazy in the mornings.

This is my favorite part! First I think the green pillows and green chinese lanterns that Sarah's mom helped pick out are so so so cute! Our couches are pretty gross, but the pillows make it better. Then we have a HUGE calender that Marchele (my roommate) and I made late one night! It definitely was a cheap way to take up wall space!

This is my half of the room! I have pictures on those cute ribbons and a my Bandito poster... gotta represent pvp! Sarah and I share a room and she is the perfect roommate. She doesn't even get mad when my alarm goes off for five minutes and I don't wake up! I love her so much!!

Sorry mom I had to do it. I think this sign is the funniest thing on the planet and I make sure to point it out to everyone who walks in!

Okay... this isn't the cutest picture, but I just wanted to give a preview of my new hair! My roots were coming in SO light, so I added some blonde and I love it!! Perfect!

Gotta love Photobooth!!

2009-09-03T23:15:00.000-07:00

I remembered these pictures and died laughing when I looked at them again. The first picture I need to point out is the picture just above... Carrie is hilariously poking the growth on her chin and noah looks freaking awesome! haha I absolutely love that picture! The other thing I must point out is Adam's face in the last picture. The man has talent in the area of face distortion.

More Pickleville fun!

2009-08-23T20:04:00.000-07:00

The week before my birthday, all the family came up to Bear Lake after a week at Lake Powell. it was so fun to see everyone! I've missed them so much this summer and was so excited for them to see the shows! They all loved Bandito, but the night that they came to Annie a racoon electrocuted himself and blew out our microphones, lights, and speakers! I was so upset, but we finished the show anyways and all of the family was super supportive about it.

Whit and I have quite the faces.

One night after Annie all of the girls went Skinny Dipping in Bear Lake! It was FREEZING, but so much fun! I love these girls!

Carrie's Wedding!!

2009-05-20T13:11:00.000-07:00

Carrie's wedding was so much fun! She looked gorgeous and was extremely happy. I'm so happy for her as well and know her and Adam will have a wonderful life together. Spence came with me everywhere... I didn't give him any other choice haha.

Even I look extremely pregnant (lol!) I love this picture! What a good-looking family!

Spence, the twins, and I were on baby duty while everyone was at the sealing. All the boys were ready before everyone left, so it was easier than expected. We just popped in a movie on the way over and they were very content! I love these boys so much. They make life so fun! You can't see Luke behind the seat, but he was just as into "Curious George" as Isaac was. I can't wait to have two girls in the bunch!

Kaleb has to be the cutest thing I have ever seen! He is the most wonderful baby ever! I had so much fun playing with him and watching the chubby boy eat!

My new favorite shoes!! So cute!!

The dads waited to open the doors for Carrie and Adam's grand entrance... however, one of the doors wouldn't open when they tried to come out! They had to go back and try again! haha

VEGAS trip!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-02-22T19:42:00.000-08:00

For the long weekend, Sarah, Kristin, and I went down to Vegas and had so so so much fun! We went to the mall and toured the strip and went to luv its and went to a UNLV game and hung out with Ashley a ton and had so so so much fun! We love Vegas!

We love the Rebels!... We were trying to make UNLV, my N is struggler.

Cameron Brooks' farewell...

Easily Entertained

2009-02-02T13:51:00.000-08:00

One night when I was home, we started playing with Photo Booth on my computer. These hilarious pictures are the outcome...

Adam looks amazing in all of these. He has talents with face distortion.

HAHA MOM!!

Christmas Break Pictures... FINALLY!

2009-01-29T19:15:00.000-08:00

So I'm putting up some really old pictures from Christmas that I never put up. This first one is of the twins and I at the Rebel game. I had to threaten them quite a bit before I could get them to take this picture. I love it though! They have grown up so much and are so fun to be with!

I drove down from Provo with Kristin and her brother, who were meeting the rest of there family in Vegas for the Vegas Bowl. So while she was there, Ashley and I gave her the grand tour, which consisted of Luv Itts and Fremont Street... haha! It was so much fun!! Love both these girls so so much!

Below are more picture I made the twins and mom take with me. Since coming up to school pictures like this have started to mean a lot to me. Now I always make them take pictures with me when I go home! I'm so grateful for all my mom does for me and for her constant support. I talk to her at least twice a day! She's one of my best friends and I love it!

For Ashley and Gina's birthdays we went to Islands with some of their friends from school. It was so much fun to see the girls again. I love them so much and realized how much I had really missed them when I came back. Ashley and Anne may be coming up to BYU this summer!! It would be so fun to have them up here. I can't wait!

Cinderella!!

2009-01-21T22:08:00.000-08:00

Over Christmas break, I got to dress up and be Cinderella for a little 2-year olds birthday party! My brown hair was a little bit of an issue, but an ugly blonde wig solved that problem! It was so much fun! I hope I can do it again!!

Called to serve...

2008-12-14T20:03:00.000-08:00

This week we had to say goodbye to Will, Alex, Spenc, Dustin, Drew, Jesse, Dallin, Tyson, and 27 other guys from my ward! I'm going to miss them so much!

Thanksgiving Vacation <3

2008-12-06T13:12:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving this year was such a nice break! All of the family went to the cabin and I loved just laying around and not having to have my whole day scheduled out!

The only way we could get all the boys to take a picture was to give them Grandpa's big gun. They are such boys!

Our cute family picture! Kaleb is such a cheese, I love it!... Please notice how everyone is wearing brown and green except ME! I told mom to tell other people to wear this color, but no one did... little punks. Luckily it doesn't look too bad. Now it's just easier to tell who's the favorite in the family!

My roommate sheridan came up to the cabin with me and we got to go snowboarding. She was much more tough than I imagined, but her arms and butt are extremely sore!

Parker's Farewell

2008-12-05T15:59:00.000-08:00

I went home the weekend before Thanksgiving to go to Parker's farewell. It was so much fun to see everyone. I 'd forgotten how much I love being around my girls from home. I got to go to the Rebel game too! Besides Parker's farewell, that was definitely the best part!

Study habits....

2008-11-18T22:51:00.000-08:00

As I was reading my American Heritage tonight, I braided my whole head. It actually helped me concentrate a lot!! It kept my mind from wandering haha! It looked freaking sweet. I'm considering dreds now.

My best friend is a Chem major??

2008-11-16T20:14:00.001-08:00

hahaha Sher and I took this picture and I had to put it up!

New hair!

2008-11-13T21:24:00.000-08:00

Kristin and I both went and dyed our hair today! The lady didn't style it the best, so don't judge it yet... this is just a little preview!

Okay so I'm adding a picture that my hair looks cuter in! I love it. It has really pretty carmelish low lights... i love being brunette... sorry mom haha.

HALLOWEEN! shhhh the firemans coming.

2008-11-02T16:01:00.001-08:00

After many weeks of serious brainstorming, the girls and I decided to be firemen!! Halloween is many girls' excuse to dress "inappropriate" (as mom would say), so we had to put new spin on Halloween and be modest firefighters! We had such a fun night! We took millions of pictures, went to a dance party, Jacuzzi'd with friends and then watched a movie and had a sleepover. I love these girls they're so much fun!!

Sher had a hot date, so she ditched us all night.

Kristin, Megan Nelson, Sarah, Alex Zblewski, Aj, and I at the dance in Alpine.

Jordan and Katie dressed up as cops... PERFECT!

We snuck to a fire station to take pictures.

I've always wanted to be Hanes grapes, so I took a picture with these girls so I can copy them later!

Cameron was a fabulous nerd.

Us with Kent, Blake, and Davy, friends from summer.

ACCESS HALLOWEEN PARTY

2008-10-28T22:08:00.000-07:00

At the beginning of the Summer term, I signed up to do a mentor program called Access. My friend Tanner agreed to do it with me and we've been taking out a ten year- old girl named Alyx ever since. She is the funniest girl ever and is so clever. She always brings her friends along and we have a ton of fun. So, for the party, Tanner dressed up as a banana and I as a pumpkin. When we walked into the room, the kids were bouncing off the walls. One of the boys was turning the lights on and off and when I tried to get him to stop he just about poured Rootbeer all over me! The second a little boy named Cruise say Tanner he was bitting his banana costume. We had to pull so hard to get him off of Tanner. Then we went and frosted cookies with the girls. As we were sitting peacefully, I look up to see Cruise dumping a huge glass of milk on Tanner's head!! It was the funniest thing I have ever seen! While everyone rushed to help clean up, I just sat hunched over trying to stop laughing. Tanner was so awesome about it and said that Cruise said to him "I was very sneaky!" hahaha it was such a fun party.

Tanner, Alyx, Kk, and I

Tanner and Cruise

80's night!! Our favorite!

2008-10-26T16:51:00.002-07:00

Sher and I know how to party. Check out my sweet earrings, definitely a present from Dad when he came home from Ecuador. Go Dad!

I probably should avoid putting this one up... but i love it.

Danny is so lucky!

We worked hard for this one to work! Love you girls!

Bofus at her best! It's okay mom, it's just fun! haha

Frankie says "RELAX DON'T DO IT"

Most random date of my life!!!

2008-10-26T16:16:00.000-07:00

This Friday, I went on a date with some people in my ward. It was so much fun to get to know them, the girls in my hall are so cute! First we hiked up Bridal Veil Falls, ate subway, and just laid around for a couple hours. Then after we were thoroughly frozen, we went back to the dorms and got ready for a halloween dance party. Don't ask me what I was cause I have no idea! I just threw on some of Rachel's sweet tie dye creations. The dance parties ended up being lame, so we just wen to Ihop which was more fun and delicious anyways!

Scott and I at Bridal Veil Falls. So pretty!

Ciera, Rachel, and I at Ihop!

Scott and Brigham were some sort of handicapped basketball players. Our last minute Halloween costumes were extremely creative!

2008-10-22T20:51:00.000-07:00

Blonde vs. Brunette??

Dedicated fans!!

2008-10-22T17:14:00.000-07:00

Sarah and I bought our boots with the fur from Target. Our feet were mighty toasty!!

This was definitely the coldest day of my life!! I used to think seeing your breathe was cool... but then I started seeing all the time!! This was the New Mexico before BYU lost all of our faith and love to TCU... ):

Birth of my blog! Oct. 22, 2008

2008-10-22T15:10:00.000-07:00

So... I should be revising an english paper, but instead I'm making a blog!! YAY! This is a little pointless because all my pictures are on facebook already... but when I'm sitting in the library or my room sick of homework, this will give me something to do. Plus now mom can look at my pictures all the time instead of getting on Carrie's facebook! YAY!