Wait....what?!?!?!

      Oh hey school starts on Monday....wait....WHAT???

     Really though....didn't I just barely hand in my last paper like yesterday??? At least that's how it feels to me....in some respects I feel like I am still waiting for my summer to begin and now it's ending? Now that just isn't fair. But if I really think about it Summer 2011 has been very good to me. I have gone on many a crazy awesome adventure with my wonderful, crazy, awesome friends. This summer was definitely one of the best summers to date.
    It's a sign of a good summer when it feels like it has gone by altogether too quickly. There are so many things that I still want to do but I guess I have to save those awesome things for next summer; or there is always holiday breaks right? haha. On the other hand though I have done so many awesome things this summer that made amazing memories so I am totally and completely satisfied with the adventure that was Summer 2011. If I really truly sit down and think about this past summer I come away smiling and that is what I aim for and what I call a good summer. I was able to play with my best friends basically everyday as well as have the opportunity to meet and make new friends who I love. Granted all this fun was interrupted with work but that wasn't even that big of a deal because I do love my job and my coworkers so very much that it isn't too much of a chore to work.
     I am totally going to take this opportunity to share some of my most favorite pictures from this summer though...because they bring a smile to my face...and if you don't like then...well...go start your own blog then haha.

Gage's birthday at classic skating! So much fun!

Thor adventure at midnight

One of the many, many reasons we are best friends

The photo that began the photobomb chain of Summer 2011

Special car adventures. Also photobomb.

Our very first MC face!

Just creepin in an empty theatre before Green Lantern

Stuff on screen went "Boom"

Proof that we can take a cute picture every once in awhile

We love weddings! But really one of the best adventures of the whole entire summer!

First late night Molca run, with our special fweind ;) We love AJ lots

Hating on the Biebs

Justin Bieber with a girlfriend? Nope....Definite marketing fail

Adventures with my girls!

Favorite :)

Another MC face....basically it's one of our favorite poses ever!

Look out....here comes the smolder

Yeah we are this cute in real life too...don't be too jealous of us

P.H.O.T.O.B.O.M.B.

Fat Boys for our best friend. Brilliant idea if you ask us

Boot picture! You have to wear your boots when you go to Cowboys and Aliens...it's a must!

          I just want to thank my wonderful and amazing friends for helping to make this one of the best summers ever. I am sad to see it end but I am super excited for the next stage of our lives to begin. If this summer is any indication at all, if we stick together it'll be an adventure. Love you all!! And away we go!

No Day But Today!!

     Alright....I should have blogged about this awhile ago...but I got distracted, life happened and all that jazz. Anywhoosers last Thursday I got the amazing opportunity to go see Rent live at Pioneer Theatre Company located up on the University of Utah's campus; and it was INCREDIBLE!! Rent has been my absolute favorite show for a long time now and it was so awesome seeing it live! I have seen this show sooooo many times that I have actually lost count; but each time I see it I pull something else out of it and this last time was no different.

 

(the amazing cast in one of their pictures from the playbill)

     This particular cast did such a fantastic job! Their chemistry was realistic and their relationships beautiful. In particular, however, I was absolutely riveted by Fabio Monteiro who played Roger. Now I don't say this lightly, Roger is my favorite character and I am extremely critical of anyone playing that role (sometimes unfairly and unrealistically so...) but Fabio Monteiro was, in a word that I have already overused in this post, incredible. Every time he took the stage I could not take my eyes off of him. He brought such a unique and powerful energy to the role that I immediately re-fell in love with the character, in "Your Eyes" and "One Song Glory" his beautiful voice and brilliant character created a memorable experience. The rest of the cast was equally as brilliant and their show tugged on my heartstrings, made me laugh, cry and cheer.
     Rent is such an incredible show and I truly believe that it changed my life. This production, like all the others I have has the pleasure of seeing, stayed true to the message at the heart of Rent: live life to its fullest and don't let your past hold you back.

   NO DAY BUT TODAY!

Girls Night Out!

WARNING: This may shock all you boys out there: 

sometimes us girls need nights away from the male species.

And that is why the creation of the girls night out came about. (As well as its counter the boys night out for many of the same reasons).

Anywhoosers last night was one of these Girls Night Out's with my best friend Ms. Seawillow Knight, and it was a total WIN!

We went Olive Garden {yummy} 

where the food was delicious and so was our server, Griffin :)

{just because it is a Girls Night Out doesn't mean that it was a No Boys Allowed}

It was such a great evening filled with great food, cute waiters and awesome company!

 Just a little taste of what we ate too much of! It was all so good from the salad and bread sticks to the Ziti and White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake. Yummmmm!!

And what's a Girls Night Out without a little shopping??

Don't underestimate the power of a little retail therapy.... 

I really needed that night out and I'm so glad that I went with Seawillow. She's such a crazy awesome girl and I love her lots!

An Epic Way to Start Summer 2011!

     Exactly what was such an epic beginning to a hopefully epic summer? Going to see Thor at like midnight last Friday. It was totally epic. And I totally loved it. Lots of things went boom and Chris Hemsworth is utterly and devastatingly attractive. But aside from that it was a really fun movie and I totally recommend it to anyone and everyone.
     The people I went with made the movie even more fun I gotta say. Especially since it was midnight and Lexi and I had just gotten off of work so we were a little crazed from our respective jobs; but that really just made it all the more entertaining.

                Love this movie! Awesome fights, lots of things explode, funny moments and a really attractive hero. What more could a movie need?

 I love this picture...it's the product of downtime, in a theater, with a camera, before the movie started. I think it shows all three of our personalities pretty well.....we are all just a bunch of lovable goofballs after all :) and I love us for it!

 We are pretty special together....we didn't even plan our coordination in this picture. We've just been best friends since freshman year of high school. One of my most favorite pictures of the night that is for sure!

 Lexi photobombed me....but it's why I love her....I can't explain to you what I am doing with my face...because I am not entirely sure myself...give me a break it was 2 in the morning!

Love it...not really even sure why....I just do

 There are many reasons this girl and I are best friends....this is just one of the many. We can be complete dorks and look ridiculous in pictures together <3 her

I figure I should probably throw in a cute picture of us...to prove that we can take a cute picture :)

     Overall Friday night was so epically fun and I can't imagine a better way to kick off Summer 2011. Excellent movie, excellent company and so many laughs. Love you all!!! Here's to many more summer adventures like this one!

So Close and Yet Soooo Far Away!!

The end of the semester is two days away...that's literally four class periods....two tests and two papers away from being home free!

In two days my freshman year in college will be behind me.

Where has this year gone?!?! It seriously has gone by so quickly, it's like I blinked and my whole freshman year was over. So many crazy important things have happened to me over the course of this year and I am so not the person I was when I started at the U. I like to think that I am a better person than I was and I hope to continue to grow as I continue as a college kid.

Even more exciting about the semester ending? Summer is beginning!!!!

There are so many things that I want to do this summer and so many things that I hope are spontaneous and adventurous. I am really just excited for sunshine and flip flops and shorts and freedom!! I've got a feeling that this summer will be one of the best yet.

Top Ten Things I Am Most Excited For: Summer 2011

1. Sleeping in!!!
2. Movie nights with my best friends
3. Camp fires, roasting some s'mores {among other things} and enjoying the great outdoors
4. Going to St. George to visit my Grandma
5. Road tripping it to Moab {I've never been!!}
6. Having heart to hearts and deep chats under the summer sky, again with my best friends
7. Spontaneous adventures
8. Creating and finishing a summer reading list {suggestions are always welcome :) }
9. Taking endless crazy pictures
10. Overall being 19 and crazy

I seriously cannot wait for Summer 2011! I have the power to make it amazing and I will harnass that power! Here we go Summer 2011, bring on the adventures!!!!

Positoovity

I strut my stuff with lotsa confidence!

Cause though I lack an awful lot

There is one thing that I got-

I got positoovity

I got positoovity....

Cause once you've heard that word

There ain't nothin' you can't do!

So let that positoovity work for you!

This is quite possibly the best mantra that I have ever gotten from a Broadway musical (or any other source for that matter). It's from a song in Disney's The Little Mermaid The Musical, which I love, love, LOVE!

Really go listen to the soundtrack...it's incredible..and will bring a smile to your face guaranteed (unless of course you are a heartless ogre...but that's your own issue)

Anywhoosers Positoovity just makes me want to be positive! I listened to it tonight right before I went to work and it totally changed my whole attitude. Immediately I was happier and definitely more willing to smile at everyone, because as the song says with positivity (or I guess positoovity :-p) there's nothing you can't do. And that is so true. My beloved French teacher Mdm. Durst over at Olympus always like to quote one of the coaches there in saying that a positive attitude changes everything, which it really, really does!! I full heartedly believe that positive affirmations will make a situation turn out for the better.

Tonight at work I felt reassured in this belief. More than one person commented on how nice my positive attitude and that it was so good of me to be so positive. It's always nice to know that one's positivity isn't all for not, that there are people watching and appreciating it.

Even better about tonight was Elder M. Russell Ballard and his sweet wife coming into my work (they are the first couple in the above picture)

I'm always SO starstruck when they come in. He just eminates goodness and light and I have never met a kinder woman than Sister Ballard. She is probably one of the sweetest people alive and I hope to be half the woman that she is some day. Seeing one of the Apostles or the Prophet in person is always such a testimony builder because there is just this light that radiates from their eyes, and their wives are definitely the same way. There is a defintie energy of kindness that just flows from them. Seeing them in person, doing everyday things like eating in a restaurant reminds me that they are human, just like me, and that maybe, just maybe if I work at standing as a witness of God at all times and in all things and in all places I might someday have the light that shines through their eyes.

Even in his photograph the light of Christ is in his eyes and kindness is etched upon his visage, and the cool thing is that it is not just Elder Ballard's photo that is like this. All of the photos of the General Authorities of the LDS church give off the same things. It is a true testimony to me of the goodness and truth of these men that lead this incredible church.

However the best part of my entire evening I must say is that as Elder and Sister Ballard were leaving he turned, waved to me and said "It was nice to see you again." Elder Ballard knows who I am! He may not know my name but he recognizes my face. How cool is that?!? Like I said: Seriously starstruck!

So yes positivity can make your whole day awesome, and I am so glad that the song Positoovity reminds me of that, and it's so upbeat and catchy...just makes me wanna smile!!

Not only does Positivity make your day better, it makes the days of those around you better. Positivity not unlike a cold is totally contagious but with a much better result.

SERIOUSLY. AWESOME. NIGHT!!!