Life is Simply Beautiful

Yep, this is my outtake on life at the moment, life is simply beautiful. It's a bit hard to explain all that has happend in my life lately, but I can say that I am very happy. I have kind of found a new niche with my friends and it's freakishly cool. I have been loving every minute I've spent hanging out with them recently. I am forging strong bonds with people who used to be just "church friends". It feels great.

I've met a good guy who makes me laugh and really makes me feel good about myself and life in general. I've spent a lot of time with him lately and once again I have been loving every minute of it. It makes me so happy. I am really enjoying getting to know him better and just plain spending time with him.

Spring is here and the temperature is warming up which makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside as well. I love the sunshine, it just makes me happy all over. I went to the park the other day and had a blast just swinging and feeling the warmth and freshness of the air. It was simply wonderful.

I will be starting back to school the first of April and I am super excited about that. I love learning and am excited to get back to expanding my knowledge as well as being able to keep busy with something a bit more productive than what I've been spending my days doing lately.

So all in all life is simply beautiful right now. I'm not sure it could get much better. I love life!!

Tagged by Me

I just visited my friend's website, and she had this fabulous "tag" on her blog. I love it because it is a "tag yourself if you want to be tagged" so no pressure for anyone who doesn't want to do it!! How great is that?!So here are the rules: The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2- What I create will be just for you.
3- It'll be done this year.
4- You have no clue what it's going to be.

The catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!!!So there you have it! If you want me to make something for you...hmm, what could it be? Just leave me a message.

Good Times

Wow, the past week or so has been so much fun. I just have to say that I LOVE my friends.

First of all last Friday I had to the opportunity to attend the Draper Temple open house with some friends. It was amazing. I loved the temple, it was beyond beautiful!! We had a group of about 9 of us that went and it was so much fun. Poor Bonnie was starving though and was super excited when she found out that after the temple tour they were serving light refreshments in the adjacent church. Wow, we had to hold her back once she spotted the adjacent church!! Good times, good times.

Then that night I had a girls movie night at my place with a few of my fave people on earth. Just before starting the movie we decided to run to Smiths for some yummy snacks. We quickly discovered that Smiths late at night is a very fun place to be. We started playing around in, on, and around the cart snapping pictures left and right....becuase everyone always takes thier cameras to Smiths with them! LOL As we were goofing off and taking pictures I noticed a lady working in the deli that kept looking at us strangely. I thought she was going to call security on us and tried to suggest we move our goofy fanatics to the juice isle, when she walked up to Lisa and asked for the camera. We all immediately thought we were busted and she was going to confiscate all of our awesome photos, then as a shock to all of us she looked at Lisa and said, "Get in", YAY!! Lisa jumped in the cart with Shina and she started taking our pictures for us. It was so fun. As she handed the cameras back to us she told us never to forget that our picture was taken by Faye in the Deli. So this is my shout out to our new friend Faye!! We love you Faye!!

Last night I once again had the opportunity to attend the Draper Temple open house with some friends. We had a few new people in the group and we soon found that it added up to way too much sarcasm in one group. Oh man, was it fun though!! I will always look at that night with lots of funny memories. Thanks Seth and Lori!! It was also a very fun night for me because I had Tara with me. It was her first time to ever see the inside of a temple. She was very touched by the spirit there and so was I. It was incredible to me as I listened to her describe how she felt standing in the Celestial Room. It was an experience I won't soon forget. I love my Tara!!

Good times for sure!!

Minor Surgery

Ok, for those of you who have been wondering where I've been the last few weeks. I had to have a little mild surgery. I had an MRI and dr's found that I had inflammed tissue that was forming a pocket where some spinal fluid that was pooling up. It was causing me a lot of pain so the dr's went in and drained the fluid as well as gave me some shots into the tissue to help reduce the inflammation. It was a very painful procedure to say the least! It was basically like having a spinal tap only in my neck. I had to be awake for the entire procedure, so they couldn't give me anything of the pain until afterward. The change in my spinal fluid level made me pretty dizzy and nauseated for a few days. However, I am feeling much better now. The release of the pressure from the fluid has really made my head feel better. It feels nice to be back up and at it. Now if only the hair they had to shave would grow back faster!! I hate the little prickly pokes in the back of my neck! :0)

Spring

Today I am wondering if spring has finally sprung? It doesn't necessarily feel particularly warm outside, however it's not freezing so that is a bonus. However, despite the lack of extremely warm tempertures the sun is shining and the snow is melting....I am jumping for joy because of ths. So, I am wondering is this the beginning of spring or is mother nature just playing a trick on us and will send winter back in a week or so? I am crossing my fingers it's not a joke! I love spring and really really dislike winter. I love being able to open my curtains and see sunshine instead of snow dumping down and piling up! I am hoping so much for spring that I feel like breaking out into a song and dance number for mother natures hopeful enjoyment and hopeful convincing that it is time for spring. Think it would work? Any ideas for the words to my song? I keep thinking of the Sunbeam song (thanks to savannah)...how about this version to that tune...

I am ready for sun Beams to shine on me each day
In every way try to warm me at home at school at play
Some Sun Beams, Some Sun Beams, I am praying for Sun Beams
Some Sun Beams, Some Sun Beams, I want the sun Beams to stay!

In honor of our springy, sunshiney day as well as my new sunbeam song, here is a video clip of my cute little cousin Savannah singing her new favorite song... Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam!

Sorry it's sideways...can't figure out how to fix that...mm...

One Long Saturday

First of all I want to apologize to anyone who has tried to post a comment on my new blog and have not been able to to, I've been playing around with the settings tonight and I think I have fixed the problem. Let me know if there are still problems with it and I'll see what I can do, but for now I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

I am pleased to announce that I am back to living at my house again! My head still hurts pretty bad sometimes, but I'm dealing with it ok. I just have to pace myself and not overdue things. Although I didn't do very good at that Saturday. My plan for last Saturday was to go to weber state to see a man by the name of Tomas Kubinek perform. He was hilarious! If any of you ever have a chance to see him I would highly recommend it. He is a comedian/magician/mime...you name it he does it. You can check out clips of his performances on his website at www.kubinek.com. After the performance I went to dinner with my mom and sister. It was a great afternoon! All would have been just fine but after we ate dinner I packed up all my stuff and my mom took my back to my house. Upon arriving at my house in North Ogden I learned I was pretty much snowed out. The snow was weighing down on the trees that arch over my walkway and made it impossible to pass through. There was so much snow that I had to wade through knee deep snow banks in order to get to my front door! I called my home teacher who is Amazing and he came over and helped me shovel a small path from my front door to my car and then cleared out my driveway so I could get my car out. I went in that night and realized I had done a bit too much all in one day and my head was throbbing! Luckily I was able to take some meds and get some sleep and rest me poor little head enough that I was able to get up and go to church in the morning.

It was a long Saturday, but all is well now and life is gettin back to normal...YAY!

Snowed In

It started snowing late last night and has not stopped yet. It is such a blizzard out there that they even cancelled classes at the university. It's actually very pretty outside, but I am super glad I don't have to go out in it. Since I'm still at my mom's house we decided to have a little 24 party. We went to the store last night about 11 pm and got all kinds of munchies. We put in season 4 of our favorite show 24 about midnight and the party began. We watched four hours last night and finally went to bed about 4 am. Then we woke up this morning, fixed breakfast, and started into the party again. It's so nice and so much of fun to just lay around in my pj's, cuddle up in a blanket, eat all kinds of munchies, and watch the best show ever, not to mention the show with the sexiest man around...Keifer Sutherland! It's been a fun day and we still have 18 hours left of the party!! Wahoo!! Snowed in days are SO fun! :0)