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so like i dont know about you but i am so freaking excited about Christmas!!!!! getting to spend time with my family and friends is really the best thing ever. there is no stress about school or work<maybe this year> and you just get to relax drink coco/chai tea cuddle up in a blanket with the fire going and watch movies and it snows all day long so you get to go sledding and build snowmen and have snowball fights. like i seriously cannot wait. and i get the bonus of ending my semester the week before Christmas so guess what that means..... brand new classes!!!! probably my favorite thing ever. also i love the music that comes with this time of year... its so festive and fun! ps. i am vlogging my whole month of december and then will make a biggggggg video!*** VLOGMAS!***

so ya. just wanted to say im stoked.
ps. formal is this weekend so party!

:)xoxo

goal

boy has it been sometime since i have been on here and wrote. school has been so fun but also a lot of work. beginning classes that are for my major has motivated me to do better then ever before. also chi omega is going great. its crazy to feel like the old ones now. looking at our new members and thinking wow two years ago i was right in there position... i totally envy it! haha chi omega has brought me the absolute best college memories that i could have ever asked for and i am so grateful for it. although it has not been easy at times and sometimes it is a struggle to pay my dues i would never go back to preference night to change my choice. i am the luckiest person to have the friends that i do.

time right now is just seeming to fly by. like a swear two weeks ago we started school. anyways sometimes i feel like the days just go by and i get older but i don't get anything done.  sometimes i feel like people are always moving forward with life and i always stay in the same spot.  not going backwards but not progressing towards anything. i want to change this feeling and to do that i have created a goal. my goal is to live each day in hopes of making a solid memory. i so often look back on my life and wish to go back to a certain time when i was happy or when something good happened. today, and everyday,  i am going to make a memory that i will look back and think what a good time of life. also i have decided that i need to be more open minded towards people. give everyone a chance. im now open for chances.

Lex

why do such bad things happen to such good people. that is something i will never understand. how is it that life can be so amazingly perfectly good and then be taken away so quickly. when something tragic happens in our life we must stay strong in our faith and put our heart in the hands of Christ. Life is so quick, and all we can so is live it and love what we have because none of us are going to get out alive.

My heart and prayers go out to you lexi. I cannot even imagine what you are going through, but your Heavenly Father and your Savior understand and love you. You are one of the sweetest people I have ever met and I love you so much.

tune

music can make you feel any emotion, it can take you back to a moment, it can make you look to the future. sitting here listening to my music on shuffle, each song that comes on i think of a new memory. whether it be what i was thinking while listening to the songs, where i was driving, what i was doing, who i was with, who i was thinking of, things i want to experience, wishes. anger, saddness, happiness, love. talk about a trip. out of the 75 songs that have played since i turned on my shuffle yesterday i havent past one that didnt have at least one strong memory. who knew i had a journal sitting in my music library. now i just need to write them down.

examples: 

glitter in the air: pink

this song puts me driving by Eaglewood golf course driving home from work during a huge rainstorm. i remember this because i loved how the piano in the music made the rain sound even louder, gain like some serious beets! haha i also remember this day because i had taken the ACT earlier that morning, and that night was the first night we ever went to a graveyard for fun...(we were weird) haha. 

mouthwash: kate nash
this song reminds me of freshman year driving up forth south from del taco at like eleven o'clock back to the dorms where we would eat then wake up for class at 7:45am. i also think of this song, or this artist as the artist of winter break 2011. i at least listened to all of kate nash all break long. it reminds me of christmas time, and snow, and jazz games, sushi. haha i dont ask.

perfect: simple plan
i think of this song as fifth grade. this girl at my dance had a solo to this song and i was absolutely obsessed with it. i wanted to know that dance, it had so much emotion and as a ten year old girl i was surprisingly dramatic. after i got the DVD with all of our performances i watched her dance over and over again until i had the dance down. still to this day if i had to dance for money i would choose that song and do that dance. id win big $$$ its that good.

on my own: leah michele
i love this song, bought it my junior year because i had a thing for glee. i remember belting this song as i was driving home from a good friends house down in west bountiful after the opening ceremonies of the 2010 winter olympics. i remember just this winter when les mis came out i fell back in love with this song i would sing it to my self over and over again at work til someone would come up to me and say "HI!" oops. i love it because its my life, a large part of my time, the boys change over time but this song just gets me. also i think my steering wheel enjoys its life when i sing this song to it. again its that good. also saw les mis 3 times but im down to see it 3 more.

i love it: icona pop
okay so this song is new and whatevs. but it reminds me of driving by phi delt and MB saying what song is this and us pretending like we liked it in british accents of course, the few snapchats of this song that MB sent me while i had the iphone 6 and was in las vegas, it reminds me of the drive to provo to pick up the ice cream for scoop a dish, it reminds me of when the sigs gave us the speaker for wish upon a rock star and we were having a CHIO dance party on the main floor, the 9000 snaps i sent the world when i got the iphone 5, and the tons that i received back. im sorry if you hate it but this song was the song of spring 2013 and i am still not sick of it. i will crash my car into a bridge, put my sh!t into a bag and push it down the stairs, and guess what i still wont CARE I LOVE IT. 

This was fun! and i will def be doing this more often.

present patience

time

how quickly a year goes by. i look back at where i was a year ago and think of all the choices i made since then.  i switched my major, i began my program, i lost some people and gained some friends. for so long i have wondered if i am doing whats right and if what i have done is making a difference. all that i know is that every night when i go to bed if i can look and see one thing i did that made a positive impact on someone else's life that day then i will sleep happy.

this past week was anything but easy. parents were out of town, my beautiful phone fell in a glass of water, and i was not happy with some of my relationships.  my best friend MB brought me a LARGE-A diet coke, a donut, and some cookies with a little note that said "because sometimes life is not so sweet." we sat and watched movies and talked all night long.

it was so great to know that even when i feel like im falling apart my best friend is there to help me with all my dumb problems. i am so grateful for her act of service in my part because it really did make me feel so much better.  AND the best news of all my beautiful phone soaked in rice for two days and WORKED!

also MB and i decided to be creative and bought a 48 piece set of chalk and drew all over this ball wall... it was so relaxing and fun even if we did get caught in a hugh rain storm it was so fun and the pics turned out A M A Z I N G!

ring

when the moment you waited for, for such a long time doesn't turn out the way you want it to ... well that moment sucks.   but one has to know that there must be something bigger and better out there. there must be something even better then your dreams.

i wear three rings at all times the rings represent...

1. love: the love i have for my family, and the love that is waiting for me.

2. friendship: true friendship stands the test of time.

3. dreams: always strive for something, otherwise your life will be stagnant.

4th

happy forth of july! listen :)

i swear the 4th of july is my favorite holiday besides Christmas and my birthday. i love celebrating with my family, the parades, the fireworks, the hot sun, and of course the red, white, and blue.

last night was perfect. montana and i went to the fireworks with her little girls and then today i went to the parade with my momma.

this is such a good time of life. hope all goes well :)

 

moment.

we are so happy even if we are smiling out of fear. 

this moment has so much potential. it is a moment where so much greatness could arise if certain things happen the way they should. not only is this moment one that could change my life forever, it could also change the life of my best friend. both of us are in the same boat right now. 

something that we have waited for our whole lives is days away from us. its here. that day that you thought would never come is here. the situation has presented itself...its here. 

how will i act, what will i say, will it be just like before or will it change for the better or worse?

thinking about it gets me so excited, nervous, giddy, cant breath, cant sleep because it is all i think about in this moment, this snuck up on me. no it didnt ive been waiting for this. 

all of the whys, the shoulds, the coulds, the dids, the didn'ts, the cant believe i did that's, and the cant waits, are here. 

here it comes. 

happy thursday.

listen to this it is so gooooood.

thursday for me = run, homework, shower, lunch, work......
but i mean im down. because i listen to this song the entire time.
hope your thursday is good and if its not i hope this song makes
it better.

ROYALS

wishes anyone?

chi omega's national philanthropy is the Make A Wish Foundation, which raises money for ill children to grant a wish of theirs. being the philanthropy chair for the year 2013 i am in charge of raising money for this wonderful cause. this past year i put together a week that consisted of,

~scoop a dish for make a wish~

~kick it with the chio's~

~wish upon a rockstar~

~chick-fil-a day~

we sucessfully raised $1992.00 and some amount of cents :)

anyways i am sooooo excited for fall to have an even more successful philanthropy week.

grace

*churchy post warning*

i recently read a talk that you can find here. while reading it i had an extreme amount of joy and comfort come over me. i love that Jesus makes ALL the difference. i love that he is with us through out the entire race and is not just waiting for us at the finish line. i love that if i mess up he wont leave me. he will always be with me. wanting me to come with him. the strength i gain from this message is so comforting and so strong. i love my religion for many reasons but in this moment it is because of the amount of comfort i have from knowing that the atonement exists and that my sins can be taken away.

being a primary teacher i have the opportunity to hear the beautiful voices of children sing songs about Christ. last week i heard this song and immediately got chills. the spirit is so strong and i love it.

in the past few weeks i had two people come into my work and ask questions about the LDS church. in the first instance a young man started by asking if i was LDS. i responded yes and he then told me how he had began the book of Mormon this past april and was hoping to be baptized by the end of june. his faith was strong, and his countenance was bright. the second was a women who asked "if the Mormons celebrate Christmas" i said yes they do, and she started asking me all sorts of questions like if i was wearing my "little white outfit"and what makes me believe in it. it was such and experience to share my testimony with these two strangers. with all the girls going on missions and my decision to stay home im glad i get the occasional opportunity to have missionary experiences.

lately i have been writing a good friend of mine that is on a mission. in my past letter i had told him that i was a convert and in his returning letter he seemed excited that i was a convert he asked me how i could be a convert and him never known, he also wanted the story. while writing him back and telling him of my conversion experience i was able to relive and realize the miracles that happened. i realized that very few of my friends know my story and although it is very close to me and personal, i have came to the conclusion that it has so much to do me and i need to share it more often.

and this past week i was able to not only share my conversion story with two of my best friends, i was also able to hear their own stories about how they were brought to the church.

the gospel of the LDS church brings me so much peace and so much HAPPINESS. im grateful to be apart and have the knowledge of this great church.

now.

has time gone by or what? it seems like just yesterday i was graduating high school and looking forward to bigger and better things. today i am two years into college and enjoying my life to its fullest. i love the thought of looking forward, never dwelling in the past. there are far better things that we have ahead than any we have left behind. thus it becomes an important decision, what to leave behind and what to take forward with you.

cali was so fun with mb and jeff. honestly so fun. no drama. just fun. six flags, angels game, beach, fun.

exciting things are to come these next few weeks :)