Friends.

Friends: the people who love you even when you're at your most unlovable. The ones who say it like it is. Are there for you when you are making the worst decisions in life and have sympathy. Cry with you when life is being...well life.Laugh with you at two in the morning over something silly. Are there no matter what.

I have the best friends and the older I get the more I realize who my true friends are. Some friends come and go and that's fine I totally understand, over time people drift apart. But then there are the ones who stick it out with you, who even on your worst days they feel the need to talk to you. Those are the friends I want. In high school I didn't really have that many close friends, sure everyone liked me but very few actually liked to hang out with me outside the school setting. There was a time where I felt very alone, but now some of these high school friends I have actually grown closer to. I admit it in high school I was the quiet good girl, I never got in trouble and had a great relationship with my parents. I didn't need extra support really because I had my parents (and still do).

I love my high school friends dearly and know that without them high school would have been very lonely. I wish I was better at keeping in touch but I hope they know how much they mean to me.

 Julianna was especially helpful, her and I became insta-friends and she's had my back through the years. We don't get to hang out as often as I like but we are still close. She is sweet and funny and we have had some good times together. She's been with me through the good, the bad, and the ugly. I'm surprised she doesn't tire of me. But she's still there whenever I need to talk. She and I understand each other and one of the first people I call when I need someone.

Becky was another high school friend, she is spunky and has a thrill for life that I wish I had. She is sweet and outgoing. I love her and how she took me into her group all those years ago. She's great! I also hardly ever see her but when I do it's always a good time.

Megan is such a strong person, I wish I had her courage and her ablility to see the good in most situations. Since moving out we have grown a little bit closer, I don't see her near enough but when I do I am so thankful she is in my life right now. She is so wonderful and through the last few years of high school she was a good friend to me. She has my back and still does. I am grateful that we are starting to get in contact again. I love her to pieces.

Since moving out however I have found that the friendships I'm making now are so much closer then previous years. Especially with my roomates Kim, Kalina, and now Jill. It was a spur of the moment decision to move out and I believe Kim, Kalina, and I were meant to live together this year. Also after all the roomates we had to go through in order to still live here over the summer I'm glad that Jill decided to move in.

Kalina and I didn't know each other at all at the begining of the year and quite honestly she has become one of my best friends. We had many late night talks in her room where we would stay up until early hours of the morning talking about random stuff. I miss those nights sometimes but I'm glad that come september we'll be re-united again. She is one of the sweetest girls I know and always has some country song to relate to life...it's cool though country is pretty good :P. I love her dearly and can't imagine how this school year would have been without her.

Kim and I met last year and little did I know that we would soon be living together. She is the funniest person I know and has kept me smiling all year long. I swear when life had me down she brought a smile to my face. She and I have grown really close this past semester and she is one of the few people I could talk to all night and still not get tired of her. She has seen me cry more then anyone (excluding my parents) but I know that I can lay on the couch with her and she can comfort me without saying a word. She has helped me in ways I cannot even begin to explain. I love her so much and can't wait to have summer adventures with her.

I haven't known Jill for that long but already I love her, she's like the sweet sister I never had. I can talk to her for hours about anything and she'll offer up some sort of great advice :). She and I have similar goals in life and I love having someone to talk about deep church stuff with. She and I have become great friends this past semester and already she is forcing me out of my shell. She's the best and I know I can count her her for anything.

I have many more friends who have helped me over the years but these are my gals. I love them each so much and would not be where I am today had they not been in my life. I know that someday I may not be friends with some of these ladies but they will always be a part of me <3

Lovin' It

So it's been lovely weather here in Southren Alberta :) and so Kim and I felt the need to clean up the yard. Well thirteen bags later we only finished the front yard and the alley...it's going to take longer then we thought. But hey at least we got something done. Another plus of having nice weather is that we can play outside with the children more, they love it out there and I'm sure if we let them they would be out there all day. Hopefully someday soon I'll be able to start on a tan :P

Last weekend Jill had her cousin's children stay over at our houseand it was so much fun! It's nice to hang out with children without the pressures of ECE philosophy. I can use all the praise I want and no one is there telling me to use encouragement instead :P. They also pretty much loved me. It was great. They also inspired me to clean my room. You know things are bad when a child asks you why your room is so messy...ooops.

So now that it's summer I'm finally getting out more :) Kim, Jill, and I have been going out almost every night this week. We went to a park near our house on Monday and Tuesday then Wednesday we went to a bonfire, it feels so good to not be stuck in our house all the time! Kim and I may be known as the quiet girls (I know right, us quiet??? neverrr) but people are starting to reconize us and slowly I'm talking more :P Yes I know I should be the outgoing girl but that's who I am and quite honestly I'm okay with that. Anyways lets hope this weather continues, because I looove it :)

Changes

As promised here are some pictures of new things Kim and I have been working on:



Flowers we put on the table

 



Antiques Kim found

 


Some glass jars we found to put some bathroom stuff in.





Flowers in the kitchen :)

 

Our table





A new coffee table.

  So there you have it, some of our house improvements. It looks so bright in here I love it, but as always we're not quite done yet so keep your eyes open, we have a few other projects on the go :). Also a sidenote, most of these were from the dollar store and second hand places. That coffee table you see above cost us thirty...amazing hey? Anyways today I was actually productive and cleaned the whole place so when Jill moves in tomorrow she'll see that we are actually clean :P (the last time she came over we still had our matresses in the living room, dishes in the sink...anyways it wasn't pretty).

This past week I went out to lunch with my friend Megan. It was so great to see her and be able to talk to her again. We really haven't talked in almost two years :( which was why it was so much fun to talk with her and update each other on our lives. Her baby is the sweetest, and he's almost eight months! Crazy!

Oh another update is Kim colored my hair and it looks great :) then yesterday I got a hair cut as well. It looks pretty fantstic if I do say so myself. I can't believe I let Kim color my hair with a box dye...anyways it turned out so it's all good, and it was only ten dollars! I love it.

 I love change every once in a while, it seems lately though I have been changing up quite a bit. Why the sudden urge to change up my room layout, my haircut, my hair color, my blog layout, my house, my nail polish color (not that nail polish matters), my dresses, my shoes, friends? I honestly don't know, perhaps it's because it's spring??? But I just have a feeling that things are about to change even more, like there's something coming, don't get me wrong right now I welcome change...I just would like to know exactly what is coming so I can prepare for it :P But I suppose we're always being prepared, whether we know it or not.

Take my mom for instance, she didn't know that she was being prepared for her current calling but I believe that she was. My mom always jokes that maybe had she not started attending the temple as often she wouldn't have been called to Stake Relief Society President. She would have anyway, but attending the temple deffinately helped :P. It's because of my mom that I am learning that you can't be invisible forever. Unfortunately. But I'm learning to embrace it...slowly. Anyways I love my parents and how much they have taught me. They're great!

To go with the random-ness of this post here's a video that applies somewhat...

Weekend

So Elder Scott was amazing :) My favorite quote of the evening was "Hanging out is idleness in flocks" can you tell what his main concern is? Yeah you guessed it, men not asking girls on dates. I think it's becoming a major concern for everyone higher up. Lets just say I'm glad I'm not male, they got quite the smackdown in Priesthood from what I hear :P.

After going to the fireside Kim, Kalina, Lindsey, and I went to this cute Greek place, we tried escargot, calamari, and other things that I don't know how to pronounce. It was quite the experience :). I have missed Lindsey and it was great to hang out with my roomates and I for the last time before fall. Oh and we had a great girls chat, where Lindey told us she's already been ring shopping and guess what?? the day after she got ENGAGED. It's cRaZy! So for all of you that are wondering that's eight engagements that I know of  in the past two weeks.

On Saturday morning we went and bought a new tv for our house. We found one for thirty dollars! AND we found a coffee table as well :) our house looks so homey.But Kalina left on Saturday as well :( It's so sad to walk in her room and see nothing, she's really gone :'(. I know it's only for a few months but still. It makes Kim and I sad. Our mattresses are still in the livng room by the way, we have been to lazy to move them :P

Anyways I have done nothing all day and it feels great! I love having no school :)

PS: I totally got a 72% on an exam I thought I did horrible on.

Facebook and Broken TV's

It seems that I always blog when I have the most to do. Here I have five tests test this week and I'm blogging...oh well everyone needs a study break I suppose. Well anyway this week I have been thinking alot about high school drama and facebook. When I was in high school I didn't participate in such things because I found it lame so I mostly kept to myself, never really taking sides. Well there has been some internet bullying going on with the children who are currently in high school right now. The thing about facebook is you say what you normally wouldn't say in person so usually the comments are pretty nasty because you don't have to actually say it, just type it. To be quite honest I feel like slugging the kids in the face, but alas I'm an adult and cannot participate in such behaviours. Lame. I'm not even sure what I can do, I just feel so helpless.

On a slightly happier note (well the story is funny...) our TV is now out of commission. Last night after FHE some of us decided to watch Aladdin so Kalina and I offered our place. Wellll Jill brought over a vhs player and after finally getting it plugged in we watched it. After the movie was done one of the people went to unplug the VCR  and the TV decided to topple over. Onto our plant. I always thought when TV's broke that there was sparks and the TV burting into flame...but I guess not. Anyways so we plugged the TV back in and it doesn't turn on. Sad. So now we're TV-less until we find a cheap one :P At least it was funny. And for the reccord the guy who knocked it over was going to buy us a brand new TV but we told him no (multiple times actually, he wasn't taking no for an answer) because we got this TV for free and we can get a cheap one fairly easy. Anyways I hope you enjoyed story time.

Oh and another thing, we found someone who is not engaged to move in for the summer. I probably have mentioned this already but we've had some difficulties with finding someone to move in. First about two months ago we had found someone. Then she got engaged and decided to not move in. So after some scrambling we found someone else. Guess what? She's now engaged and moving in with her soon-to-be inlaws. SoOo with Kalina moving out this weekend * :'( *we were pretty stressed. Luckily our visiting teacher Jill said on Sunday if the one who just got engaged didn't work out she would be glad to move in. Well now she's moving in next weekend. Honestly people can't you hold off on the engagments? Just kidding. But not really :P. Oh well we now have someone who is not in a commited relationship and will be staying all summer :)

Anways that's all for now. Happy Tuesday!

Just a Little Break

SoOo I was doing homework with Kim tonight (this morning??) and thought I was doing good, I was awake and buzzing though my homework fairly easily and then my brain stopped working so I took a break, ate some food, got ready for bed then went back to it. Then I did more, all the while chatting with Kim about random stuff (what else do you talk about at two in the morning? :P). Then Kim busted out with this quote; she looks at her pillow then says "this could be a sleeping bag for babies!" just out of the blue. It was pretty hilarious :P Funny enough it could fit a baby, perhaps I should bring it up with my instructors and see what they think. I think they would LOVE the idea.

Anyways after a few jokes like that we went back to it, she finished one play area and ten activites!! How that is even possible I don't even know but somehow she did it, but the downside (well upside for her I suppose) is that she is now in bed and I'm not. I did get two play area evaluations done and one activity but I needed another break so I decided to blog. So here I am. At 4:30am. Blogging away. This probably doesn't even make sense. But at this point I don't even care. It's probably entertaining to read though. But I'm guessing my mom is sitting at the computer shaking her head and laughing at me. I promise that in a week I'll get some sleep mom :). But for now I need to get back to it... but I would like to thank you readers for reading my incoherent thoughts. I hope you had a good laugh. Good night/morning.

Just one more week

Conference and Other Random Thoughts

"I love to see the temple, I'll go inside someday."

Yesterday and today was General Conference. I loved it. Although I only saw bits and pieces of yesterday morning's session due to the internet cutting out quite a bit, I still got tons out of this weekend. It's amazing to me how the leaders of our church know exactly what needs to be said, it may be uncomfortable to talk about but you can tell they are so passionate about what they are saying. I know that what they say comes from Heavenly Father and everything they say is for my benefit.

 I cried (actually bawled is more like it) this morning durring President Monson's talk about temples, it's something I feel strongly about and something that I wish those who have the opportunity to do temple work would take advantage of. It's one of those things that is so important to me and I hate seeing people being so casual about it. If nothing else works out for me in this life I would be perfectly happy if I had that little piece of paper in my pocket. It's everything to me and I want it so bad. I just laughed at myself through the tears, here's a snippet of what just went through my head; what twenty year old wants to attend the temple this bad? Honestly Julie, pull yourself together...you're twenty!! But when I do have that piece of paper I'll appreiciate it so much more.

My mom and I had an interesting conversation this afternoon. We were talking about how angels are all around us and most times we don't even recognize it. I don't always realize it but there is a connection with one in particular that I do recognize, and she is here tons. Although I don't remember her much I know that she is here more then we realize. This angel is my Grandma Wood. There are times that I feel her very close. My mom always said that I had a special connection with her and I do believe I do, I was her drooly Julie :P. There are times (quite a few times actually) that I wish she were here and that I could talk face to face with her. Sometimes I just want a hug. I think she does give me some and lately I have afraid that I have disapointed her, but she has been close and in her way giving me a hug as if to say that no, I haven't. I don't think I could ever do anything to make her think less of me.

I think I've said this before but I have no memories of her when she was here on the earth, however, I have some blurrs of after she left. I used to talk to her before I went to bed, it's silly but I laid in bed telling her about my day. I don't know for sure but I would like to think that she listened as often as she could. It's not just me she's around though, I think that she loves her family and visits all of us as often as she can. I can't wait for the day when I can ask her :). I'm grateful for the knowlege that I will be able to see her again, I don't know where I would be without this church.

In other news my roommates and I are redecorating again :P (pictures to come later). I love my life :) Anyways I should start packing for my school trip...yay for having to be at the school at seven am!!

Tagged

Yay for my first tag :) There is this blogging thing that has been going around and one of my high school best friends tagged me. Her name is Megan and I adore her. Saddly life has been so busy for the past while so I haven't had a chance to hang out with her but as soon as school is over I plan to have many visits with her and her sweet baby boy :). I miss her.

So here's the list:
1.List three things you love about yourself.
2.Post a picture you love.
3.List five bloggers to whom your passing this along to.

1. This one is hard for me because I tend to get down on myself quite a bit.With that being said I do have some things I love about myself;
A) I love being me, there is no one like me and for that I'm grateful. I may be a product of my parents and how they raised me (which was fantstic by the way, I love them so much) but I am my own person with my own mind and thoughts. I am unique. I am my own kind of beautiful. I am a daughter of God who has the potential to become something far greater then I can even fathom. I love who I am and who I am becoming.

B) I have the ability to feel others pain. This is both a blessing a curse because I tend to take on everyone's problems. There were times in high school where I layed in my bed and cried over something that was happening to someone else. I've gotten better at distancing myself from others problems but even now there times I want to help someone with a major issue and unfortunately I can't. It kills me. But I do love how I can try to relate to people, I'm a naturally caring person and love to listen and try to be there for moral support. My entire life I've been the person who attempts to be strong for others just so they can feel like someone cares. Everyone needs a friend :)

C) I love how I'm not perfect. This may sound strange but I honestly do love how as I go through life I have so many chances to grow and develop as a person. How much would I truly get out of life if I was a perfect person and couldn't progress further? My experiences define me; they have, and continue to, make me into the person I am. Yes at times I wish I could skip the whole 'learn through my own mistakes' thing but really it has made me stronger. The thing I love the most though is that I'm not done learning, I have so much more to learn and I will never be perfect in this life. It gives me an opportunity to grow.

2.

I love my roommates and couldn't ask for anyone better to live with when I'm not at my parents.
PS: I was trying to find a current picture of my entire family and didn't suceed, I guess we'll just have to get on that :P

3. Laura

    Kalina

    Lindsey

Sorry just three for me :)



Bliss :)

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A good afternoon :)

For those of you who are not aware of the state of my room, before yesterday, had not a 'makeover' (aka a nice cleaning) in months. But yesterday I decided that a cluttered room makes a cluttered mind so I buckled down and did it, I even went as far as to tackle the front enrty. I love spring cleaning :) and chocolate is always a welcomed addition to any day....

Also Kalina and I have this impulse to change up our living room, but even though I was dieing to do it last night we decided to wait for Kim and her expert interior design ways to get back from a school trip. But I can't wait to change things up, it's almost spring time so I feel a need for a change. I see all the cute colors, flowers and spring things that I want to get them all. But my bank account is not happy with me as of late so I'm trying to resist :P Hopefully in a month (if all goes well) though I'll be making some money again :P. 

Only three weeks then I'm free!!

Get Back On the Merry Go Round

My roommates and I were talking tonight and Kim brought up and interesting metaphor, I liked the concept so I added some more detail to it:

Life is like a merry go round, you get on and spin at a nice relaxing pace for a while. Then all of a sudden there's the one kid who comes by and asks if he can join you, against your better judgement you say yes, knowing full well that this kid is much bigger and stronger then you and given the opportunity he will try to get you off the merry go round. You could have turned him down but no, your strong enough right? so you said yes. He starts spinning you and again you think to yourself "wow this is getting a little out of control" but you ignore it, thinking all will be well.

Before you know it you are spinning way to fast. You scream and tell them to slow down, you were comfortable with the pace you were at before. "Please go back to the way it was, I liked where I was at!" you say but they continue to spin you faster and faster until you fly off. Does he care? No. And now not only are you face down in the dirt with a skinned knee but now you have to run and try to get back on. All you want to do is give up, to break down and cry. But what good will that do? You will just have to work twice as hard to pick yourself up and catch up again.


Life likes to throw you off sometimes, but you have to decide to pick yourself up off the ground and get back on that merry go round as soon as you can.

Life doesn't stop or slow down for anyone.

Random I know, and it most likely doesn't make that much sense to anyone. But I guess all that matters is that it makes sense to me. Thanks for bearing with me :)

Our Home :)

So I came home yesterday and Kim had 'the look' in her eyes...the look like she was going to suggest we do something with our house, something that would be really hard to say no to. Well as you can see I said yes. But it was so worth it! Kalina, Kim, and I had the best time putting some nice touches to our already pretty cute home. Pictures don't really do it justice but here's a photo tour:

Our shelf, not new but notice we have a couple of frames filled as well as some books put on the shelf.

A tree to make that area look cuter (and cover up the plugs hooking into the back of our TV)

This is my favorite room now, who would've thought of putting a picture in the bathroom? But seriously it's so cool.

Kim added these in the window in the bathroom, so we have a beachy type thing going on.

Bobbi gave us this picture and it matched our travel theme perfect! (notice the clock that says London?) As well the lettering on the side is a nice touch :)

Just a cute picture, Kalina pretty much finds the sweetest photos :)

A palm tree in the kitchen

Kim put this one together, it's pretty fantastic in person.

There you have it, we always seem to be adding more but our house is looking more and more like a home. I love it and I love us :)

All Over the Place

Ok it's one of those days where I have no desire to do homework, like in the past hour I have only done two out of my four reflections...I don't even know what's distracting me. Actually I do, the internet obviously since I'm blogging :P. I even was texting a friend and I was told that he was no longer going to text me because I should be doing my homework. Well even after the texting stopped I am still distracted. Even this post is lame and all over the place :P Anyways I went to institute and that was fun, I feel so much better after attending. There's nothing like an uplifting end to your day :)

Oh funny story. Yesterday our house was freezing, I was shivering so bad in my room so I decided to come and sit on the couch,. Well I grabbed my blanket and wrapped it around my head and the rest of my body then curled up in a ball. Well. Kim decided to come out of her room just at that moment, and do you want to know what she said to me? "Julie you look like ET!" then Kalina comes out and starts laughing and all the while I am shivering. So Kim invited Kalina and I into her very toasty room where I curled up on the floor for a bit. It doesn't sound as funny on the internet but believe me if we had captured that moment you would be laughing too.

Anyways I really need to get off the internet...thanks for bearing with me through this random post!

Christmas Break

No I have not fallen off the face of the earth, I've been busy working at the daycare and also relaxing at my parents. I have enjoyed doing nothing so much, I'm not sure if I want school to start again :P But just think in four months I will be done for the year!!

Before Christmas break my roomates, Lindsey, and I had a party where we ate way to much and watched movies all night. We even went for a late night slurpee run :P It was a good time. Then a week later we had our own little Christmas where we gave each other our gifts, I love my roommates and am so blessed that we love each other as much as we do :).

So here's the rundown of my Christmas break, pictures will come later :P

First on the weekend before Christmas we headed to Calgary to spend some time with my dad's side of the family. It was nice to spend quality time with my grandparents as we prepared the meal together. I also enjoyed seeing my cousins and their families, it's amazing how old we're all getting :P.

So for Christmas Eve we headed to my aunt and uncle's house for dinner and a program, it was great to be surrounded by family and remember the truemeaning of Christmas. I have to say my favorite quote of the night was from Josher, he was looking very thoughtful and then turned to my Aunt Kathy and said "Mom, do hamsters fart?" I'm pretty sure he's my favorite child ever :P Only a five year old would think of something like that.

Christmas Day was spent at my house with my parents and my brothers. I got a lot of presents and guess what? Santa brought me a blender!!! I can't wait to use it. I also got some books, some cute clothes, a rice maker, some jewlery, a few gift certificates, a CHI (can I just say, i LoVe my CHI), and a Sunday coat. I loved every one of them :). After spending the day with my family my Aunt Kathy, Uncle Jason, and the family came over for left overs. I love my family.

Then on Monday we packed up and went to Medicine Hat for a couple days. The majority of the time was spent on the waterslides :) That's one of things that hasn't changed as my brothers and I have gotten older, we still love going on the waterslides together. One evening we watched Tangled in our hotel room, that has to be one of the cutest movies, I'll deffinately be buying that when it comes out.

From Medicine Hat we went back to Calgary on Wednesday for one of my childhood friend's wedding reception. She moved away when I was 12 or 13 and then I found out in September that she was in the same program as I am in so we reconnected. It was weird seeing all these people at the reception that I have not seen in five years, I can't believe how old I am getting, I saw some children there that I knew when they were babies and now they are ten...it's a strange feeling :P

Now I am back at my parents house and loving it, I'll be going back into town this evening for New Years Eve and then back here for tomorrow. It's been busy but I've loved it :).

Happy New Year to everyone!!

Done :)

I Julie Marie O’Brien just finished the last of my homework! Well besides tomorrow’s observations, but those will not take long. I cannot believe that I have survived my first semester of college :) and that I pulled out with at least a B in every class, how do I feel? Relieved and relaxed :P Although I’m sad that I have to say goodbye to the children at my practicum I am really excited to be done.


What’s next for the next MONTH? Christmas :), reading, blogging, facebooking, piano, and visiting my children at the daycare. I really can’t wait to see them and be able to pick them up and give them all big hugs :). Oh and tomorrow my beautiful roomies and I are having a girls night (so excited :P) Anyways I’m going to bed…and it’s only 12:30! Wow that’s a first in a long time :P. Good night blogging world

Almost There

Only two weeks left of classes! I am so happy you have no idea, I'll be happy to be finished and happy to go and hang out with my KIDS (yes I did call them kids and not children, I'm feeling rebelous tonight) at the daycare. I miss them so much, not that my practicum children are not good because I love them too, it's just different. My kids will always be my kids no matter how old they get.

Sidenote: Preschoolers are the best, they can talk and talk and talk forever, and the thing is, most of the time their conversation skills are lacking so when I try to add my input it throws them off, so I have learned to listen while they talk to their hearts content :).

So winter finally decided to make an appearence and cause issues for us, first my doors were frozen shut, then my car would get frosted on the inside and on the outside so I would have to go out there like twenty mintutes early just to get to school on time. Then winter decided to back off a little and cause slush...not fun to drive in at all :P. This week was the first adventure of getting stuck this winter season, somehow I drove into a snow drift (smart...) then I couldn't get out and I had people come and push me out, needless to say I'm not parking there for the time being. At least I have a car though, poor Kim has been having even more issues then me, her car just dies randomly and won't start for a while, it's bad.

So after being busy all week I finally went to Harry Potter tonight, and I loved it :) They stuck pretty close to the book so I was happy. I was not happy however that Dobby had to die, I knew it was coming but it was deffinately a sad scene. Watching the movie made me miss reading, over Christmas break I'll have to relax and read real books and not the textbooks that I have learned to love so much.

I have another thing to add to my stuff to do this week, clean my room!!! I feel so disorganized and with my room being a mess my brain is a mess too :P Luckily the rest of the basement is nice and clean :) and with our candles burning most of the time while we're at home makes it feel home-like.

Guess what? Kalina, Kim and I baked every night this week! It's so nice to prepare and eat a nice dinner together every night, it winds down the day and makes me a tad bit more motivated to finish my homework :P.

Anyways that was a really random post, sorry!! It probably has something to do with it being almost two in the morning...which means I need to go to bed or do more homework, but I'm thinking bed time sounds pretty good right now :P.

Shoes and Cookies

This weekend was long and as you saw I had tons to do but I did take a couple of breaks to save my sanity. On Friday night I went to the mall (it`s open late now that Chirstmas is right around the corner) and met up with Lindsey. We went to only a couple of stores and I found the red shoes that I have wanted forever!! So naturally I bought them...and took a picture of them in front of the tree :) After we finished shopping we headed back to my house and talked with Kim for a good while.

 After working all morning on Saturday Kim came into my room and said "We should bake!" So we did, we made a WHOLE meal from scratch and guess what? It was fantastic! We made cookies and pizza, and now that we know we can make great meals we're going to do it more often :)

Anways I need to get back to my homework *sigh* just 14 school days left!!

Christmas is Coming!!

As promised here are the pictures :)

Decorating the tree



The decorations





Some awesome candles Kim found :)



Our lovely shelf



The finished product





Christmas hugs :)

So they'll be more to come, because we're not done yet :P You should smell our house too, we have 11 candles burning at a time (yes it's a fire hazard) but the smells combine to make it smell like Christmas!!

School

So I only have one month left of classes this semester and I have to say…I’m still alive! After multiple late nights, numerous assignments and stressing about tests I’m surviving. No one told me how hard it is to become a preschool teacher. I have people ask “You have to go to school to be a preschool teacher?” my response, YES. Honestly people is it that hard to believe? I guess it is or else I wouldn`t get that question all time. But guess what? I have maintained a B average in all my classes! considering how well I did in high school I never expected those grades, let alone in psychology :)

There are some days where I seriously question why I am here but then I realize that this is what I love to do, and after school is over I can do this all day every day. I am so grateful that I listened to the Holy Ghost or else I probably would still be confused as I was not to long ago. Only three and a quarter semesters left!

In other news we set our Christmas tree up! I love the feeling of Christmas and luckily my roomates feel the same way. We also have a slight obsession with candles...we have twelve and most of the time we burn them all at the same time, I swear we're a fire hazard :P But hey if you smelled how the scents combine to create a overall Christmas scent you would love it too :P. When the internet works then I will post pictures of our basment suite.

Anyways I better get back to my homework...but hey I can enjoy the aroma coming from outside my door :D

20 Years Young

So I had my birthday a week ago Saturday and it was pretty good (besides doing homework for half the day...). I can't believe that I;m already 20 cRaZy!! Anyways here are my gifts :) (my internet is being slow so no pictures are available so here's the list:
-Some chocolate, ice cream cake, and other stuff from Kim, Kalina and Lindsey
-My mom phoned me at 8 and told me to come to my door, she dropped off some apple cider and a blueberry treat for breakfast
-A printer from my parents :D I was so excited :P
-Letters to Juliet (a really cute show :D)

I loved my birthday, it still amazes me how old I am getting. I know I'm in my prime of my life but right now I just feel like skipping all this and moving to when I'm done school as well as done with the YSA scene. As fun as the YSA scene is...I'm done :P But I will try to be more positive and go to dances and things, no guarentees that it will last long but I'll try!! haha