the one with me owning up

i'm lame

i don't update enough

and a new project of mine

and math

have taken over my life

so...

starting march 1st

i'm going to post everyday

for a month, maybe longer

with a picture

because i have a new photo app

and i love it

almost as much as my cannon

so watch for march 1st!!

sidenote-if we're not friends

why are you still following my blog?

the one with valentine's dinner

i made valentine's special

for grandma and grandpa great

the one where maybe i'm losing my mind

so maybe i'm losing my mind

i am losing my mind

people i clearly remember being weird

people i definitely remember trying to stay away from

yeah, i think they are SUPER good looking now

like i get tongue tied even thinking about them

and now i think they are WAY out of my league

check me into that hospital, i need help!

the one with ch, ch, ch, changes

not a lot of life changes

but around the blog there is

eek! i'm so excited

so this brown and pink will be 

my day to day color combo

and it will change during holidays

i think my favorite change

is the pages at the top, just below my header

with the current posts

and then a page for each year of posts

i'll be adding more pages

with other links but with updating two blogs

i'm all editing out!

i've changed the layout of the side a bit

and put things down at the bottom

hope you enjoy it almost as much as i do!

the one with hopefully

hopefully

my future husband will look and be something like this

the one with family

i love chirstmas because of family

i get to be done with school

and spend time with the ones that matter

now a little off subject

i have spent time with my cousin sam today

who i call SJ because he is soooo

like SJ from the blindside

i have two really good quotes from him

he was doing some work for my gramie

and he said "how much am i gonna get paid?"

she said "$20"

he then said "i'm LDS, not payless"

he's such a trip

then as we were coming back from church

i had radio disney playing and justin beiber's baby came on

i said hey sam do you know who this is?

and he said "yeah, it's justin swearword"

oh sam, thank you for restoring my faith in your generation

your generation

that is in love with "justin swearword"

and a little skank named hannah montana

and all the crazies

you sam will be one of our hopes!

the one with the nativity puzzle

december is the only time that my favorite puzzle,

one i could do for ours and not get bored,

makes it's appearence

it's seriously the coolest and i wish i had a picture

[cue me googling it, and finding it]

so this one is kind of lame, but you get the picture. 

as far as i can remember mom made them

at an enrichment night, or something like that

for tons of people, cause my grama has one

but mom's are cooler, mom's are painted so you

see the faces of the wise men, shepherds, mary and joseph.

and you see jesus in the manger (the little yellow thing, in the corner)

and behind the animals it looks like a stable

i'll have to take a picture when i'm home

but i love it because my mom made it

and because it's a really cool way to remember

that christmas is all about Jesus

the one with pumpkin pie

i'm not really a fan of pie

and i don't love pumpkin pie either

but if i'm going to eat any pie

it's going to be pumpkin and homemade

but dad's pumpkin pie,

which i think is his grama's recipe,

is so stinking good!

i don't eat the crust,

just the filling

but it is heaven

dad only makes it this time of the year

and it makes me think of christmas

and family

and that's why i love it

the one with temple square at christmas

 

so this is a picture of my friend amy and i

at temple square sunday night after the devo

at the reflection pool by temple square

this is perhaps one of my best pictures EVER

the fog that night made everything beautiful

but everything is covered at temple square in lights!

it looks so beautiful

and it just makes me happy

the one with the first presidency christmas devotional

so each year the

first presidency of

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

gives a christmas devotional

i kind of feel like it's the kick off to the season

and it reminds me of the real meaning

of my favorite holiday

[besides my birthday]

but the reason i love it the most

is because my mom loves it

and it reminds me of her

and then i feel a little bit closer

like 1,750 miles closer

this year, like last year, i had tickets

to the conference center for it

which i tried to bribe my mom with,

she didn't take it :(

but it's okay cause she watched it at home

and it made me feel close

like in this song kenny loggins sang,

at least i think it was him,

a song that had this in it

"And even though I know how very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star"

it helped me to know that we were watching the

same devotional