thanks.

i sure do have a lot to be thankful for. so much that i honestly can't even begin to name everything.

so i am going to name three.

i love my family. during an intense game of speed scrabble after turkey day i looked up and around at the people i was surrounded by and had a thought.. how rad is it that i was sent to this family. the same family as these people? we all just.. mesh. and get along wonderfully. and enjoy each others company. He knew we needed to be family. thanks for that :) i love the people in my life so much. i am so blessed.

i have a house. a house that keeps me warm from the cold winter wonderland outside my front door. and not to mention that house is filled with the wonderful people i mentioned above. my house is full of happiness, music, memories and love. from the fire mark on the kitchen floor to jazzy's pee stains that line the basement hallway; i love everything about it. every time i go home i can feel the difference in the air. its thinker, denser, happier, lovelier. i always want to be home because home is where my heart is. (in more ways than one) ;)

i am grateful for my knowledge that my church, the church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints is t-r-u-e. its truer than true and i love it through and through. it's the happiest part of my life. all i am, all i have, i owe to knowing what i know. i know who i am and i know my purpose in life. i still have a long way to go before i reach the potential i possess inside of me, but isn't that the fun part of life? the journey. all in all, i'm grateful for my journey. because i know my journey is specified just for me because guess what.. He loves me and knows me better than i even know myself.

i hope errrbodys thanksgiving break was as amazing as mine was. i hope it was spent with amazing people, eating amazing food, while making amazing memories. i seriously love my life.

perfect weekend.

my weekend full of happiness and wonderful people. friday i saw my rockstar brother jammm at the covey center with vocal point. saturday was stephanies birthday aaaand i went on a date with my love slash beat him in pool :) on sunday we made breakfast and i learned he has mastered the art of making pancakes. we also split one piece of bacon, i smiered yogurt on his face and then we skipped in the perfect falling snowflakes after church. then i hung with my bunker family and we watched a movie and brett taught me 2 new songs on the guitar. is this seriously real life? giddy giddy giddy giddy.

dr seuss, you got it right. reality is finally better than my dreams ;)

ain't life graaand? :)

1. smile.. HARD.

2. laughing too hard to even look at the camera.

3. sneak attack/ ANGER ;)

4. smile hard.. round 2?

happyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappy:)

we find, the best way to spend our break at work is taking pictures in the leaves outside our office building. i am quite fond of my cousins. and fall time. and a certain boy with the initials tmf ♥. (not pictured)

im on a quest.

for a giant majority of my life i have been known as the following:

the crazy girl.

that happy girl.

the mormon girl.

the HYPER girl.

the girl with the endless supply of energy.

and on occasion, the girl who is grumpy until the morning time reaches double digits.

i've tried, for most my life, to be these things that i'm known as.

but that got me thinking..

am i known as those things because thats how i really am, or am i those things because thats how i'm known?

or in other words, do i act, or rather, AM i a certain way now because thats whats expected of me because that's how i've been in the past?

before you think i am, i'm not complaining by any means.

i AM those things, i know i am. and i'm proud to be :) (especially title # 3-- see letter jacket)

but who says you have to be just one way your whole life?

why can't someone one day be the crazy girl, and the next day be the shy girl.. just because they want to?

sometimes i don't feel like acting consistent. i want to be EVERY kind of girl. i want to be his kind of girl.

i don't know.. maybe its just me.

:)

♥♥♥

theres no one else i would have rather shared my chocolate chip cookie with... ;)

food for your soul :)

"An intelligent being, in the image of God, possesses every organ, attribute, sense, sympathy, affection of will, wisdom, love, power and gift, which is possessed by God Himself. But these are possessed by man, in the rudimental state in a subordinate sense of the word. Or, in other words, these attributes are in embryo, and are to be gradually developed. They resemble a bud, or a germ, which generally develops into a bloom and then, by progress, produces the mature fruit after it's own kind. The gift of the Holy Spirit adapts itself to all these organs or attributes. It quickens all the intellectual faculties, increases, enlarges, expands, and purifies all the natural passions and affections and adapts them by the gift of wisdom, to their lawful use. It inspires, develops, cultivates and matures all the fine toned sympathies, joys, tastes, kindred feelings and affections of our nature. It inspires virtue, kindness, goodness, tenderness, gentleness, and charity. It develops the beauty of a persons forms and features. It tends to health, vigor, animation and social feeling. It develops and invigorates all the faculties of the physical and intellectual man. It strengthens and invigorates and gives tone to nerves. In short, it is as it were, marrow to the bone, joy to the heart, light to the eyes, music to the ears and life to the whole being. In the presence of such persons one feels to enjoy the light of their countenances, as the genial rays of a sunbeam. Their very atmosphere diffuse and thrill a warm glow of pure gladness and sympathy to the heart and nerves of others who have kindred feelings of spirit."

-Parley P Pratt :)