Soon to be entering into the days of the dreaded finals!

If you know me at all I love to count down the days to any special event or holiday. Currently I am counting down 2 different days...

9 days left of school...
27 days left until I move out...

However, in between these two awaited days, are finals.
Out comes the nutter butters, late nights, pony tail hair, tired eyes, sweats, on the edge crankiness, and raspy voice from practicing my final songs and monologues way too much while not getting enough sleep.

April 21 will possibly be the greatest day of my college life...
DONE WITH FINALS, DONE WITH A YEAR OF SCHOOL, READY FOR A GREAT SUMMER!!!

Guitar lessons from dad

I have recently been taking guitar lessons from my dad!! Every Sunday he teaches me a new song that I want to learn. I am not very good yet, but I am already just loving it and obsessing over playing. Whenever I sit down I pick up the guitar to play and just sing! I am so glad that i have such a talented dad that can teach me anything from throwing a football, painting, guitar, to music theory. Good thing he is patient :)
Last week I learned this song...


Any suggestions for this week???

Thank you Jane

I have had a recent obsession with Jane Austin!
Her stories are so beautiful, and make for wonderful movies!
If you have not seen the Pride and Prejudice version with Keira Knightly, I highly suggest you change that!
If you don't enjoy Austin, then the cinematography and costumes are gorgeous enough to make you want to cuddle up in blankets on a rainy day with hot chocolate and watch it again!
Thank you for your brilliance Jane Austin!

A short thought for the day...

"Be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of someone else." ~ Judy Garland

He is Reachable Any Time Any Place

“Access to our Creator through our Savior is surely one of the great privileges and blessings of our lives. I have learned from countless personal experiences that great is the power of prayer. No earthly authority can separate us from direct access to our Creator. There can never be a mechanical or electronic failure when we pray. There is no limit on the number of times or how long we can pray each day. There is no quota of how many needs we wish to pray for in each prayer. We do not need to go through secretaries or make an appointment to reach the throne of grace. He is reachable at any time and any place.”
James E. Faust

I love that I can pray whenever and where ever. When life gets hard, and when life is good. Lately, I have felt this overwhelming love for our Savior and Creator. Right now in my life I feel like I owe the Lord so much for the blessings he has given me in my life. He works in mysterious ways, and his timing is perfect. When trials come into our lives, the Lord does everything He can to help us through those trials. He never gives us anything we can't handle. I know that the people i have in my life right now are here for a reason, and they are truly all angels. The Lord has put them into my life to make my life as rich as it is, and I pray everyday that I too can be a blessing rather than a burden in their lives.

...Picture by Greg Olsen...

My BFF

This weekend I randomly decided to move out.
I will be moving in with my very best friend, Tawni.

There is nobody else I would rather move in with,and I am excited to grow even closer to her than I am now.
Tawni and I grew up in the same neighborhood together. Besides my family, there is nobody that knows me as well as her. All through-out elementary school, the two of us were inseparable. She is the most amazing friend anybody could ask for...She is gorgeous, smart, and the most genuinely kind person I know. She cares so much for the people around her, and is that one friend I know I will be friends with til were old ladies. Her loyalty and Christ-like attributes are rare!
Oh how I love this girl!!!
I am so excited!!!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday...2nd day of a new month!!

Today was a good day!!!
I attempted to try and have a better attitude with EVERYTHING!
I noticed a very large difference...
My private voice lesson went exceptionally well (especially for it being a classical lesson)! I decided to not let myself get discouraged, but instead try my best to learn from what the wonderful Korianne was teaching me. I left that lesson a better singer, and improved more in that lesson than I have in the past month!
I ended the day going to the temple to do baptisms, and once I was there I felt so happy. I couldn't keep a smile off my face and a temple worker even told me that I act as if a southern woman raised me! (apparently I am lady like??)
Like I mentioned in the post before, It's amazing what the difference of one choice can make.

A new month

For me, February has been the hardest and yet the most spiritually maturing month of my life. When you least expect it to happen trials take over your life within the blink of an eye. While in the midst of going through those trials I wanted nothing more than to go back one month in my life and do everything I could to make it so that those events in my life wouldn't happen. In reality, there was nothing I could have done to change it. Now, I don't wish those trials to disappear...Instead I remember what I learned from them. It's interesting how much trials can either make you grow closer to the Lord, or push him farther away...and its all a choice. Through these trials I have not only grown closer to my father in heaven, but to my family here on earth as well. I am truly grateful for this experience!
Life is hard, and I have learned that happiness is a choice. Everyone goes through hard times in their lives because that is a part of life and its not our choice whether we have opposition or not. However, we have the choice of how we let things affect us.
This month is going to be a fresh start for me...and I am going to try harder to recognize the blessings in my life, rather than the faults. I am going to choose to be happy, and I am going to try to help those around me to be happy as well.


"Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself...Man is the creator of his own happiness; it is the aroma of a life lived in harmony with high ideals.
- William George Jordan