American Idol

I seriously am in love with this show!! I am so excited for the new season! I really like the panel of the judges this season, at first I thought that Ellen was a weird choice for a judge, but after watching it tonight I decided that she is pretty funny and will make the show better. Tonight a contestant sang a song written by Jason Reeves and Kara Dioguardi called "Terrified" They sold it to Katherine McPhee and she sings a really pretty rendition of it! It is now one of my fav. songs go listen to it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iADtRvJ7v4

January

I love to give make-overs, I unloaded the camera and found some make-overs I gave to Ally and Ash, earlier this January. I was so excited that Ashley agreed maybe I went overboard with the eyeshadow. I also realized that I liked Ashley without the make-up better, she has so much natural beauty already :) love ya ash! you are beautiful!

This is Ally's make-over done before heading off to a risque boy/girl new years party...

She is gorgeous as well and has the best olive skin tone and long eyelashes, I am jealous ;)

I recently began training to be an Edward Jones secretary, so it has been fun getting to dress up in secretary clothes, all I need are cute glasses. I have just been happy to have a little work to do because I feel so useless just staying home all day.

Overall, life is good between working, dancing, movies, blizzard runs, late night games with friends, and american idol. I am going to be sad to leave home when I go back to college, but am also excited to room with my good friends lyndee and jill! I have been enjoying these amazing homecooked meals my mom makes because I know when I go back to college it will be bread, salad, and mac & cheese. If I eat cheap I may have enough money to go back in the fall without getting a bank loan, i was also thinking about transfering to BYU-Hawaii for a semester or going there to work!

Good News!

Things here are picking up! Jamie's surgery went really well and Kade is out of the hospital!

I also have some really good news about dance! I was really sad and upset because I thought that I would have to stop dancing when I came back home because there is no way I would ever be able to pay for it, while trying to find a job to pay for college. I had been praying about it, but nothing was happening. Ally, being the amazing sister that she is, offered to pay for me to go to class tonight, annndd when I went to pay for it, my teacher offered to let me assist her in 4 classes and take 4 classes in exchange! Exactly what I prayed about, I love answers to prayers! I am so grateful that no matter what, God is looking out for us because he knows our hearts and desires and wants us to be happy!

Lately

Things haven't been going so well here lately, its really true what they say, it all happens at once and its incredibly overwhelming. Mom just flew to Idaho this morning with her brother Don after getting a call from her sister yesterday that she has ovarian cancer and it is extremely advanced. The surgery is scheduled for Wednesday. The doctor said the surgery would be very complex and he was not sure if she would even make it out of the surgery because they are taking her ovaries, colon, and part of her stomach out. We all cried together all night long last night. I love Aunt Jamie, she is so sweet and nice I wish we lived closer. Her and my mom are extremly close, so it kills me to see my mom cry. This morning I also found out that my little nephew Kade who is only 3, had over 60 seizures this morning and has been admitted to the Phoenix Childrens Hospital. It is so sad to think of sweet Kade having to go through all this and having all these doctors surrounding him doing tests, taking blood, giving him IV's again and again. I feel so helpless, like I have no control over anything. I wish there was something I could do. We prayed and fasted for both Kade and Jamie on Sunday, so I know that everything is in the Lord's hands and I need t trust him.

Catch Up

I have been procrastinating blogging because I have so much I need to catch up on! this is gonna be a long post... I am going to have to post the thanksgiving stuff later because I am waiting for pictures from Melissa.

They are all jumbled up so here goes:



What would Idaho be like without snow? Actually livable haha! On one of my last weekends in Idaho we went sledding in potato feilds haha! It was so fun! afterwards we went to the apartment and had cocoa,

I know this is a really old one, but I forgot to post about the ward FHE halloween dance :) Justine and I were cowgirls

David Archuleta concert #3! I had really nice seats so it was super fun! I went with Kamala and Ashley :)

Benton Paul opened for David and he was really good! I got to meet him and he signed my ticket.

Me, Kamala, and Ashley at the David Archuleta concert!

The Midnight 5K- We had a fun night of bowling at the MC and afterwards my friends decide to do the 5K at midnight! so somehow they convinced me to do it with them and it was actually a lot of fun! It was freezing though! like 5 degrees! They are such great people I love them all!

Change

I hate change. it ruins everything. I wish that no one had to work, no one went away, and that we could all just live near each other and have fun all the time. Its completely unrealistic, but thats how I wish it was, and how I imagine heaven will be somewhat like. I am so glad I can be with my family forever. Today we dropped Ashley off at the airport. There are certain places that I hate being: airports, hospitals, and downtown. My mom is so nice and we go to the starbucks in the airport and she buys scones, muffins, and a big mint chocolate chip frappachino and then we say goodbye to Ashley, we watch until we can no longer see her blonde hair. I hold back tears because I don't want to smear my make-up for school and then we make the long drive back to Peoria feeling sick from all the sugar for breakfast. Today however, I don't have high school anymore. So I enter the dark house, and head for Ashley's room, read the letter she wrote me, curl up in a ball and cry. "I'm just too far, from where you are, I want to come home..."

Stressed.

Who knew college would be so stressful. I guess I was expecting some amount of stress, but never pictured it would be this hard. I just need to get through this week so I can enjoy Thanksgiving at Melissa and Sam's! I am so excited! I currently have a 10 page paper due tomorrow, I am only on page 3! A muscle test covering all the muscles,orgins,insertions, and actions-on the models as well as the cadavers-which I haven't studied much because the smell makes me nautious. A chemistry test and lab.

I am going to miss this lovely, freezing, windy place! and all my wonderful roommates! I never knew I would love this place so much and I will be sad to leave it! There is always so much going on and so many fun people! I feel like I have grown up so much, I no longer miss high school because college is way better! I like being in charge of myself and doing whatever I want! I sometimes miss those days when I had 8 hours of sleep instead of 5, but you have to have a social life! Better get back to that paper....