Happy (:

Yesterday was probably one of the happiest days I've ever had. My Mom, Brett and Ali were all sealed in the temple and all of the kids were able to go inside the temple and be there for that special day. I have never felt the spirit so strong and I never want to to forget that day. It will be number two after I get married (: I want to start going to baptisms for the dead more because it feel so awesome. I'm glad I am able to go into that sacred place.

Before we went into the temple my aunt Whittney took some family pictures of us. It was freezing and the sun was in our eyes. She has posted a few on her blog so I stole them. But she does some awesome photography. Check her out at http://whitneyleighphotography.blogspot.com/

Time and All Eternity

We got some fantastic news this weekend. My parents are finally able to get sealed and Ali gets to get sealed to them. I am so so so excited I can't even describe it. Andrew, Cole, Abby, and I all get to go  in when Ali gets sealed to them. It is going to be such a neat experience. We all get to wear white and go in the sealing room together. Today when we went into the family bishop's interview Ali said to the bishop, "I get to go the temple and get sealed." and Bish asked her what that means and she said, "I get to be with my family forever." Even Ali knows how important the temple is. I am glad I am worthy to have a temple recommend and enter the Lord's house. It will be an awesome experience.

Bleh

So I decided last night that I am going to print off my blog into a book each year. I found this website that does it for pretty cheap and it looks good. So I want to make my blog more meaningful and not just stupid things to post like facebook. I'm excited to do it because it will be like my journal since I suck at journaling. So as you know, Jake and I have been watching Disney movies ALOT lately. Last night we watched Tarzan and tonight we watched The Rescuers. I kinda feel like a complete nerd when we watch them because I totally start giggling when something funny happens. They just bring out the little kid in me. I love how we have been watching little kid movies. Its fun for a change. We have fun watching them too.

On another note, it's my spring break! Hooray. I have been working full time and going to school full time and its been pretty hard this last semester. I got promoted and Jen quit so I have had to step up a lot at work. And the classes I signed up for aren't exactly a piece of cake either. So I'm glad for this time off at school. I still have to work but I at least I don't have to be to Calculus at 7:00am. I have been waiting for Spring break for a long time so I could spend more time with Jake. I know I see him everyday but its only for a couple hours because I'm in bed by 8:30. So I asked my parents if I could stay out late last night.....and I came home at 10:00.....Pathetic. I know. I just am always tired. I'm pretty much just going off on nothing important right now. So I will head to bed.

Music Describes My Mood

The Story

Brandie Carlile

All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am
But these stories don't mean anything
When you've got no one to tell them to
It's true...I was made for you
I climbed across the mountain tops
Swam all across the ocean blue
I crossed all the lines and I broke all the rules
But baby I broke them all for you
Because even when I was flat broke
You made me feel like a million bucks
You do
I was made for you
You see the smile that's on my mouth
It's hiding the words that don't come out
And all of my friends who think that I'm blessed
They don't know my head is a mess
No, they don't know who I really am
And they don't know what
I've been through like you do
And I was made for you...
All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am
But these stories don't mean anything
When you've got no one to tell them to
It's true...I was made for you

 

Grace

Kate Havnevik

I'm on my knees
only memories
are left for me to hold
Dont know how
but Ill get by
Slowly pull myself together
Theres no escape
So keep me safe
This feels so unreal
Nothing comes easily
Fill this empty space
Nothing is like it seems
Turn my grief to grace
I feel the cold
Loneliness unfold
Like from another world
Come what may
I wont fade away
But I know I might change
Nothing comes easily
Fill this empty space
Nothing is like it was
Turn my grief to grace
Nothing comes easily
Where do I begin?
Nothing can bring me peace
Ive lost everything
I just want to feel your embrace

Baptism

Today was a really great day. One my cousins, who is also a really good friend got baptized today. I am so proud of him. I know it was a hard decision for him to make with everything he has to go through at home but I know he made the right choice. This is the second baptism I've been to that is convert. The spirit there is so so strong. I am so glad that I was able to be there to support Wesley today.

I have a testimony that this church is true and that our Heavenly Father loves and knows each and everyone one of us. I know that everything we do in this life matters. I know that families can be together for time and all eternity when they are sealed in our Heavenly Father's temples and I can't wait when that time comes for me. I know that Joseph Smith restored this gospel on the earth so that we would know the truth. And I know that my Savior died for me so that I could be forgiven of my sins. 

In 7 Months...

I have a lot of goals that I want to accomplish by October. They aren't really long term goals...

Just things that I want to MAKE SURE happen before I go to Disneyland.

It's stuff I always say I'm going to do, and NEVER do it. So...

Here it goes.

Maybe if I

write them down they will be easier to follow. That way other

people know that I am working on these things it will make it easier to do them.

So if someone says, hey how are your goals going. I can say that they are going great. So ask me.

{1} Stop drinking Caffeine.

Anyone that knows me well knows that I am addicted to Dr. Pepper. Like I usually always have one. And I know its not good for me and I know I need to stop. Not just Dr. Pepper and caffeine, but soda in general. I love milk and juice, I just hate water. I need to start drinking more water probably too. Which I have already started. My last carbonated beverage was Sunday, March 6, 2011. I want to be like Coley and quit caffeine forever! Then maybe once I can control myself, just drink a sprite or something when I go out to eat.

{2} Start Exercising
This one is really bad too. I have a desk job so its not like I move around a lot. I don't really walk around campus because all my classes are in the LA building. So I really want to start on it. Jake wants to too but every time we say we are going to...we don't. I want to try and wake up a little bit earlier every day and do little things and then run when I get home at night. Maybe it will help my knees get stronger too. I am doing the Susan G. Komen 5K this year and I want to be in shape for it. I want to be in shape when we go to Disneyland too so I don't feel all gross and tired.

{3} Start Saving Money
Jake and I discuss this all the time. We are both spenders. We LOOOOVE spending our money as soon as we get it. We usually take monthly trips to FYE and spend over $200 on movies, video games, and cds. Pathetic, I know. I have actually been doing pretty good lately. When I pay my tithing, I just put the same amount plus a little more in my savings. It's only been two paychecks but hey, its a start. I also want to buy a new car this summer and I want to have a little money for that.

These are the three goals that I talk about doing the most so I really want to do them. It'll be hard but worth it. :)

Anxious

I have not been doing my 30 day challenge lately because of school. Last week was midterms and I was super busy with studying and working almost full time. And to be quite honest... I was getting really sick of the 30 day challenge. It got me in the habbit of blogging but the challenges just seemed repetivie and boring. So I'm just going to blog about what I want and my life. I was reading Coley's blog and I feel the same way as her. I want my blog to be my journal/scrapbook. Then I can print it out each year. So I will try reeeealy hard to start blogging about things that actually matter.

So lately I have been really anxious about going to Disneyland this Fall. I know the last post I did was about Disneyland but it is really all I can think about. Everytime I go to Jake's house me and his mom could sit and talk about it forever. It really is so fun going with Jake's family. They are awesome and Amy makes it so fun. Jake makes its okay... :)

 Disneyland was super fun at night. Especially California Adventure. When we went, the new 3D Toy Story ride had just opened. It was amazing. The best ride ever. They had to start a line before the park even opened for it! Of course we waited we line. It was seriously the funnest ride ever. I hope that it won't be as crowded when we go in October. I'm excited to see the Little Mermaid ride and the light show. I hear the light show is fabulous so I can't wait to see it. I also LOOOVE the tower of terror. We got in trouble on that ride.... Linz and Kayla put their legs up and Jenny was choking Jake.

 Me and Linz have the same birthday, April 7th. So we got birthday pins in Disneyland and had a contest on who could get the most birthday wishes. I can't remember who won. I think it was Linz. It was awesome to spend my birthday in Disneyland. Amy let us pick anywhere that we wanted to eat. So we went to the cheesecake factory. It was delicous! The food was sooooo good. And the cheesecake..... mhhhh it was fabulous. I think that The Cheesecake Factory is one of my favorite places to eat. Probably because I don't go there very often. But it was hands down the best birthday.

On my birthday I got to see my very favoitre Disney character. Alice in Wonderland. They were just standing at the exit to the park. I was way happy to see them! The Mad Hatter was really annoying and kept saying hap happy birthday. It was really annoying. Then Kayla kept saying it ALLLL day long. We also saw Buzz, Donald Duck, Goofy, and Minnie Mouse. It seemed like the characters weren't out that much. And the people that were in charge of them were pretty jerky. But all in all I was happy.

I am so exicted to go back to Disneyland this year. It will be so much fun. Hopefully it won't be as crowded. Last weekend it feels like all me and Jake could talk about was Disney. We were looking up all the Disney movies and seeing if there were any fun video games we could play. We are pretty much geeks. We also decided we are going to watch every Disney movie that has a ride or show or anything at Disneyland before we go. So far we have watched The Haunted Mansion and A Bugs Life. I'm sure we'll get through all of them. We also were WAAAAAY nerdy when we were watching rides on youtube and pretending we were on them. It wasn't the same but it was still fun to do it.