Almost There

I have about 3 weeks until I leave for BYU.
This thought is bittersweet.
I am super excited to be heading off to school and starting a new phase of my life, but I'm reluctant to leave everything behind.
Now, I know I will come back, its not like i'm dying... but it is a big life time change.
But, as for the exciting stuff:
I will be getting some cool new built in friends aka: ROOMATES!
I'm actually pretty excited for that.
I will be getting a new dating pool....uh huh!
And I will finally be able to decorate my room how ever the heck I want :)

Since my last post, I got my letter from my missionary friend in New Zealand. Can you say "Best day ever?" yeah pretty much. It was fun to hear from him...some interesting things I leanred about New Zealand: Sanwhiches are non existant there...although they do eat almost everything on bread...with Mayo.
He talked about the interesting mixes of language, about 4 different languages mixed. He also commented on how everything there is backwards. lightswitches, the driving, and the outlets...
crazy stuff.
He also said that the people there are incredibly receptive to the gospel. They have had a baptism a week, on average. SO COOL!
anyway,
Pray for your missionaries and write them, they LOVE getting mail :)
I'm sending my next letter tomorrow :) (:

till next time,
Yours Truly

At Least There is Sunshine in My Soul

This last week/weekend was full of so much!
I've decided that General Conference is the cure for just about anything. After conference, something someone did made me really angry, but I thought about all of the wonderful talks we heard and went to my room for a few minutes to ponder. I ended up getting on my knees and asking that the anger would be lifted, I didn't want t be angry. after I finished my Prayer I was crying and the anger was gone. Immediatly I got back down on my knees and offered a prayer of thanks for the immediate relief. I was then able to enjoy the rest of the evening with my family.
This last weekend was also when the sun decided to play hide and go seek...over and over and over. IT would peek out for a few minutes and we would have time to bask, but then it would go back into hiding and cause us to run for cover as the rainn came down.
Two of my best friends in the whole world came to visit me this last week.

 MEGAN and TASHA

we have all been friends for so long its insane :):)
Megan came back from Japan after the tsunami and earthquake and radiation stuff...Tasha came down from the Seattle Area to visit too! we had fun re-creating past sleepovers, eating too much, shopping (sort of), and doing April fools tricks (which all got foiled)

 I guess my sisiter found this april fools joke and took care of it.... I was a bit upset, for i had wanted mom and dad to come and find it and freak out! (ps we took plastic and poured the nail polish out and then let it dry...we didn't actually spill it on the table)

Megan and I hid in the pantry after writing the messages on the whiteboard for Tasha to find!

Says some pretty funny things..you might be able to read them...

We made a night time run to Fred Meyers for April fool's gear and for icecream sundae stuff.... mmmmmm

The game Quirkle....its like scabble but with symbols...its pretty fun :)

Over all this weekend was soo much fun. It was a great wrap up to Spring Break. I am now almost through my first day of my LAST QUARTER of Clark!! I can't even describe how excited I am to be finished with this phase of school.... BYU is a mere 74 days away!!!!!

Senior Pictures

I've had fun the last few days with my sister, we've been takin gmy senior pictures :) thought I'd share!

Its in the air...

No, it's not love but it is a four letter word

Prom.

I recently got asked to go to prom by my good friend Greg. He's a really fun guy and I figured "what the Hay?" So I said yes (not that I would have said no, even if I didn't want to go.) So today I decided to get online and look for a dress. I had a friend offer to let me borrow one, but wanted to look for myself. I figured "its my senior prom, lets go all out!"
Then I started looking around. First, there are barely any modest dresses, or ones that wouldn't take too much alterations. Those are priced high, like upper 100's....Then I thought about Beautifully Modest, theirs would be affordable right? WRONG. Their modest dresses are like 300 bucks! I sat staring at skinny model after skinny model and thought to myself "Why am I doing this again?
This is madness! And to think there are girls who buy a new prom dress every year, sometimes multiple times a year!!!
What is the big thing about prom? I mean sure its a fun night with friends, when a girl gets to dress up and be a princess. But what about the parents or the date? They are the ones who do all the work for this stinkin' dance and they don't even get to wear a pretty dress!
I am appreciative that my friend asked me to go, I'm sure we will have a fantastic time with the kids in our group, and the night will be worth it...but I almost wonder what it would be like to have a penny pincher prom...?
I wonder if I could find enough duct tape to make a dress out of that...
Mom offered to make one, which I might do.
So there is the dress, then there is dinner, and a ride (a few of my friends last year used and RV, Clever? I think so!)and anything else you plan to do before or after the dance....
I'm not against the idea of being a normal teen and spending money mindlessly but this whole process has really opened my eyes to how silly some things are.
The irony of this was that my date asked me if I felt I was "too old for Mormon Prom" before he actually asked me to go.

Can you Say Smile?

Wow. Today has been a great day. actually, its been a good week. Seminary has been wonderful, school is out for Spring break, I got good grades, and I had a stellar "kick off to spring break sleepover" last weekend. I had a WONDERFUL time with my good friend AnNa! she is AWESOME!
OUr night was filled with all sorts of shinanigans...we made pizza, delicious VEGGIE pizza, helped her siblings do barbie hair (actually one of the best times of the night), running to Wall Mart, driving up roads named after dried fruit, eating WAY too much, and watching an old but gloriously good movie.
I thoroughly enjoyed my evening.
Then this week has been completly STRESS FREE!!!! School got out for spring break so I have no homeowrk, no studying, and only ONE MORE QUARTER TO GO!
its been fabulous.
I also found out that my bestes friend in the WHOLE WORLD is coming here to see me! her name is megan and she has been in Japan for the last few years. After the earthquake and tsunami AND radiation stuff, her family decided it best to come back to the states for a while. She'll be coming to see me next week. 
pretty much this week has been full of good news on top of good news.
well I'm am going to go continue my Scholarship apps.
Laugh with someone today! its a wonderful feeling :):)

Life as I know it.

Well, Life as I knew it completely disapeared on me about a week ago. Last week on Febyrary 23rd, I received confirmation that I was accepted into BYU, Provo!!! YAY!
It was probably the best day of my life thus far:

(This is my I JUST GOT ACCEPTED TO BYU face :])

Since that day, I have been scrambling to get all of the things I need in order. I leave for BYU the week of Jun 13th. This means I will have to take my clark finals early, and that I will not be able to go to graduation (yay!..I mean OH DARN! :]) So I 've been working on getting transfer stuff organized and trying to make lists of stuff I need and money I need...these lists don't get along in my head, mostly because the stuff I need costs money; the money I need...ah the vicious cycle of money.
But other than getting into BYU, life has been pretty normal. I sent out my first Misionary letter a while ago. hopefully it is the first of many:

My missionary friend is serving in the New Zealand area, pretty rad I know!

So pretty much my mind is all focused on BYU and Missionaries, pretty normal for an 18 year old LDS girl right?

Well My friends and I decided that we are going to host an Un- Birthday party, not definite plans yet, but I will keep you posted

Signing off with lots of love,

newly admitted BYU freshman,

Yours Truly :)

Guess Who?!

Okay so I was looking through my facebook and stalking the usuals, when suddenly the cell phone number of a long lost aquaintance caught my eye. Now this person hadn't given me their cell before and honestly probably forgotten I'd exsisted. Now as I stared at the screen, I realized this was an oppurtunity I could not pass up. I quickly entered their number into my phone. I then proceeded to text my best friend and tell her about the jack-pot I'd hit.
You see, this person, a boy to be exact, and I had developed an interesting relationship. While we knew eachother and actually talked to eachother, I had fallen head over heels for him and he pretty much treated me like dirt. Now, to give him credit, he wasn't always rude and irritating, if he had been there wouldn't have been an issue. But, he was rude enough for me and my friends to give him the boot as soon as the oppurtunity arose.
Now as I sat and pondered the idea of making contact again, I didn't plan on being rude to him, but just a bit mysterious.
So I finally got the nerve to actually send him a message. ....
"Hey bro, long time no see, what's cracka lackin"
Now, credit for the opening message goes to the lovely and talented Crystal. I hadn't really expected a reply but soon one came and of course he asked who I was. Now I hadn't really planned this far into the conversation. Who was I? would he continue to talk to me if I told him out right? No. So I decided to make him guess. He didn't say anything back for a long time so I gave him some hints. The color of my hair, my age, and that we went to school together last year.
This availed nothing....
Soon he started saying he had no idea, but I was having WAY too much fun giving him general hints and watching him suffer through his confusion. Finally ,I decided I didn't want him to lose sleep over this, for that is the direction the conversation was going. So I told him : I was his waltz partner from Dance Festival.
He finally remembered me and since I told him, texts have stopped.
Now I can take this one of two ways. I can be offended that he doesn't want to talk to me, Or I can be proud that I kept him in the dark for approx. 5 hours!
Five hours and he had no idea who I was...either he wasn't trying, or I was really THAT good :]
The moral of the story is that if this oppurtunity ever arises for any of you...TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT!!
The feeling of victory you feel afterwards is so grand.
The other moral of the story is don't post your cell number on facebook, for people like me to take advantage of :]