Random Fun

So college kids tend to do really funny things, and I am no different.

Recently I have...Gone back in time to the 80s

 But no matter what time I am in, I always seem to...

 be picked up by friends and family. 

Much love!

I have also gone multicultural in the unofficial BYU spring break, Festival of Color.

Before...

 After...

 Random people everywhere, but oh we were happy.

 One of my friends that went with me, and you may not be able to tell, but there is a hand print on my face on the right side in yellow.  

And what do you think about me dying my hair that color pink all over?

Update on Trip

Change of plans I am going to Italy instead of Spain.  Wahoo.  Tickets are bought....it is official.

Bucket Lists

I just want to share with everyone that I care about the exciting news that I have just received.

I know it may seem kind of corny, even cheesy but years ago, I watched the movie A Walk to Remember and I was inspired.  After listening to her list of goals, I wrote my own list of what I wanted to do before I died.  And this summer I will be completely one of the biggest ones on that list.  I will be taking a grand vacation to see:

Washington D.C.

London

Paris

Barcelona

I have not seen any of these places before and am absolutely thrilled about being able to see and experience the places that I have been studying for years.  Happy days here and even more ahead!

Keep your eyes out for updates!

Sour Cream and Potato Chips

So once again this blog is being used for class assignments, but this time it may be of more interest to you. It will now contain what my teacher calls the "Slice of Life."


Sour Cream and Potato Chips....odd yet satisfying.

It is one of those cold smooth foods mixed with the salty crunch that I find so addicting every time I start. It is very simple to create a joy such as this for yourself if you will just allow it. At the start of classes I find that those simple joys are the most important to retain if I am to keep the optimistic attitude of the summer. All summer we lay about in the sun and live an active care-free life over all and then the dreaded (I say dreaded as a stereotype because for many of us it is kind of an exciting thing to get back to a schedule and open our minds again) day of classes comes. For me I am going to remember a few things from summer that will keep those natural highs in my life: the occasional summer snack such as sour cream and potato chips, reading for fun even if I don't have much time for it, and sports night once a week with my ward.

These joys remind me of a list I was sent as a middle school students as a forwarded email that named 50 natural highs in life. Mostly little things like running through sprinklers and getting mail are listed, but the whole point is to make us think beyond the adrenaline rushes we watch in movies and hear about from people we admire and get us to appreciate life every single day. And that is just what I am doing today.

I Believe in Santa Claus

I know it may be a little early in the season for this, but I love Christmas all year round and this is one of my favorite memories.  I am 23 and Yes I believe in Santa Claus!  I believe in him with all my heart and his spirit that fills us with charity and joy.  May you all enjoy this and never forget that you never have to stop believing.   Eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York's Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history's most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps.

"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. "Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. "Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.' "Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus? "VIRGINIA O'HANLON. "115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET." VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Daddy's Little Girl

My Daddy is my hero.
He scared away the monsters,
He wrestled til "I won,"
And when I couldn't walk a step,
I rode his shoulders instead.

My Daddy is my hero.
He knew to work hard each day,
He taught me to as well,
And nothing beats the says we played
As if it couldn't wait.

My Daddy is my hero.
He always knew the words to say,
He brought the spirit too,
And now I know my Father's Love,
Him smiling down on me.

My Daddy is my hero.
He's superman you know,
He does it all for those he loves,
And taught me to do the same.
I'm getting there--I'm working hard--
I'll make you proud each day.
For you are mine, my one and only,
And of you Daddy, I feel so proud.

Dedication to Friends

This post is for those in my life that make all the brighter, my friends.

We all have those people in our lives that know us better than anyone else. Whether it is the dead of night or the middle of the work day they are there when it really counts, to "see the first tear, catch the second and stop the third." These are the people that make leaving home, growing up, and taking chances worth while, without them we are left to our own strength as limited as that is. With their arms around us supporting us as we support them we can do feats of unusual skill and strength. May we never forget just what we all mean to each other. This is my thanks, and a few of my favorite quotes about friends:


"We are all a little weird and
Life's a little weird,
And when we find someone whose
Weirdness is compatible with ours,
We join up with them and fall in
Mutual weirdness and call it Love."
--Dr. Seuss




"My friends remind me, by their very steadfastness, that truth, beauty, and goodness exist in the world, and that, no matter what, there are and always will be people loving people through THICK and THIN." --unknown

"Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there."

"Even though we change and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we'll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we're not still friends."

"Remember no man is a failure who has friends."  -Clarence, It's A Wonderful Life