THANKFUL!

santa!!!

dress up surprise parties

cheerleaders :)

state champs!!!!

grown up slip n slides

fantasy football draft tough girls

synchronized swimming

pee wee football speed

cheeks!!

halloween....christmas

boys ;)

Holy cow, where to begin. I love thanksgiving- I love football, and crunchy leaves, and eating until you are absolutely sick and then going to get seconds. But the true meaning of thanksgiving is to show and express gratitude for all the wonderfulness around us....so here is my ranting random grateful list for 2010:

1. Im grateful for my family. They are my people. They mean absolutely everything to me. I don't know who I would be without them.

2. Im grateful that my mom pretty much worked a full time job to pay for my dance and violin lessons, as an ungrateful brat of a child I don't think I ever recognized the sacrifices she was making for me. I do now, and I am so amazed!

3. Im grateful for six of the cutest nephews in the world. I love that they each have such distinctive personalities. I'm grateful that Mack was born on my birthday, that paxten loves to play cars with me and beat me in the homerun derby, that bo has the awesomest cheeks and lets me love on them, that cru says i love you caca in between telling me to stop singing, that cael finally remembered my name and didn't call me krisica even though that is also pretty awesomely funny, and that brooksie gives me awesome loves every time he sees me!

4. Im grateful that President Monson's smiling crinkley face is my screen saver, pure joy and a reminder that i should be doing good things.

5. Im grateful to work with the sweetest little ladies that are so nice and always give me awesome life advice and tell me not to get married.

6. Im grateful that I can dance and feel so happy and free and wonderful just from moving my body and creating something. For a long time I wasn't dancing for the right reasons and I was tearing myself down so much that I just was unhappy. I am so glad that I am fixed and can feel such joy by doing something that I've worked so hard at.

7. Im grateful that I can express my testimony through music. I'm not good and bearing my testimony in church, I think its hard and awkward to say what I mean and have it make any sense to people outside of my head. But when I can play it, I can feel and show those emotions and it just works out so much better.

8. Im grateful that i am approximately ten days away from finishing the Book of Mormon for the second time. Wow I actually understand why they always tell you to read your scriptures. It really does make you have a better day and you really can learn about the gospel and it really isn't this boring unapplicable to your life book, its a miracle! And it definitely has built my testimony so much!

9. Im grateful that I have more friends than I realize. Me and my dad always joke that I have no friends because I don't really hang out with anyone...like ever. But I really do have people in my life that I care about that would help me and be there for me. I have friends at school and I have friends from high school and I have the best family ever, Im really kind of a lucky kid.

10. Im grateful for crunchy leaves, nail polish, big fluffy bed spreads, big fluffy clouds, an awesome guessing on tests accuracy, my i pod shuffle mode knowing exactly what I want to listen to, halloween, tv shows i like, st george weather, getting into nursing school, trench coats, steve madden heels, chocolate chip cookies, slip n slides, cancer survivors, mascara, back massage tradesies, school vacations, swimming, finding a brand of jeans that fit my booty, football, the church of jesus christ of latter day saints, and (maybe my most grateful item) HOME.

Happy Halloween!....

.....or Merry Christmas whatever floats your boat! By now I figure you have all seen the majesty of our annual halloween party on all of my sisters blogs so I will just post this awesomeness of me and kristi, aka jovie the elf and girl from avatar! Love halloween, its my very favorite. I have like the next ten years of costumes picked out!

Mr. Cael

Hang in there little man! Caca loves you! You are the bravest stud ever!

And it came to pass....

After reading my scriptures last night I get down on my knees to pray. Usually I start out my prayers with "dear heavenly father," or something of that nature. You know Im a pretty predictable person. Last night I apparantly decided to mix it up, I kneel and say, "And it came to pass." Haha and it came to pass? seriously? I was going to try and recover and make it into a real prayer, but it so did not work out. Im kneeling on the ground at 11 at night giggling like an idiot to myself. I go out and tell my mom while she is washing her face and we both start laughing way too hard. For the next half hour I sat there busting a gut! I then try and kneel and pray again but can hardly breath I am laughing so hard. Lets just say my goodnight prayer last night did not move any mountains or cause any miracles. But seriously funny! Almost as funny as when my mom answered the phone and said "heavenly father?" instead of hello!

I'm IN!

(oh I couldn't resist the sweet little asian)

I made it. That oh so ambiguous grown up goal is actually in my very immediate future. It just seems so surreal. It's like graduating high school all over again. Even though I over planned and over thought everything I still never thought that the day would actually come. Am I sure I can do this? Do I want to do this? Do I want harder scarier school and clinicals with real people that I could potentially seriously injure or kill? Am I big enough for this? My awesome sister in law Kassie commented that even when I am a real RN at the ripe old age of 20 looking like a 12 year old I am going to get a lot of comments about not being old enough for patients to trust me. We decided that I will just say, fine you can deal with one of the old hags that has worked way too long and hates their job and all of you sick people and isn't up to date on all of the new information because they went to school before I was born! Well probably not. I'm hoping that people will like me cause I'm nice. It usually works out pretty well for me! Just picture it, in approximately twentyish months I will have a big kid job, freaky! For now I am just excited to find some cute, hopefully semi well fitting navy scrubs! Nursing School here I come!

I love conference, even though its eight hours of church, even though I don't get to wear my adorable new lace adorned shirt with my rockin black pencil skirt and steve madden pumps (i mean i could have but that just seems inappropriate in a lawn chair in my half painted basement), even though I'm a loser pants and the only child home for three sessions, even though we didnt think ahead and get treats, I LOVE CONFERENCE! My three favorite talks:

1. Holland(of course): When he talked about his parents sacrificing so much to pay for his mission I bawled like a little baby(not like that's anything surprising). My parents give me everything. My mom started working a full time job so that she could pay for my dance and violin lessons. And she never complained. Never said gee wiz Jess it would sure be nice to hear some appreciation since I am working nine hour days so that you can be the prima ballerina and the concert violinist. They did it cause they love me. They do everything cause they love me and they want me to be happy. Holy crap good people.

2.Uchtdorf: The "what does this haave to do with airplanes" comment was seriously hilarious. I think he is a funny, good looking, awesomely accented older man. I love the message of his talk, when things get hard and you feel busy, don't try and make yourself busier. Don't try and speed up. Go at your optimism, this is hard crap, speed and focus on the fundamentals. I really need to listen to that.

3. President Monson: Oh how I love that wise old owl! I love his gratitude talk. He is so right! I love when I have those awesomely positive days and I just love everything and I look and the blue sky and sing my favorite songs and feel so amazingly happy that nothing can take me down. I need to do that more often, even if it's rainy and cold, even if I have two tests and have to work and dont have time to go to the gym and feel good about attempting to reduce the size of my thighs. I have everything. I have a testimony of the gospel, I have the most awesome loving family on the face of the earth, I have the opportunity to learn crazy things that most people would never want to know, I get to dance once a week and feel so alive and happy, I get to practice my violin every day(well I try and practice every day) and hear the beauty of music and work on my talents, I have friends- ya real ones, who know me and love me for who I am. I AM BLESSED!

Back to School

First Day of School! My dear sister heard of this way cute tradition where the mom had all her kids write what grade they were going into and take pictures with their signs on their first day of school. Well, we decided to initiate this tradition on the first day of my sophomore year of college because Em's kids still have a while before they get into school. And we definitely had to add the "of college" for clarification because if anything i look younger now that I did when i was in high school!

My deceivingly joyful back to school face.

In the famous sing song words of Billy Madison: back to school, back to school, to prove to my daddy that i'm not a fool, i've got my shoes tied tight, my lunch packed right, i hope i don't get in a fight. But in my case it's more like back to school, because im a fool, and took summer classes which totally killed my break, and now im burnt out already and its been like five days! But that PB&J during my communications class really does make me feel better!