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This past week has not been the best week ever. It started out good. . . but quickly came to an end. While at self defense monday morning, I was practicing my mad skills I have learned so far when the other persons knee jabbed into my ribs. I just laid on the ground crying and unable to breath or make any sudden movements, because if I did the sharpest pain would shoot through me. Come to find out I cracked my ribs.  And let me tell you, cracked ribs suck! They hurt so bad and just make things so not fun!

So after cracking my ribs I still had things that had to be done that week. I had a research paper I had to do and a ton of other homework. The pain was so bad I never even wanted to do any of it because I could never focus on my work. I eventually got it all done, but it took way longer then it should have.

Thats basically how my whole week was. But yesterday (sunday), I decided to make my aunt Melanie's homemade tortellini. I slaved away in the kitchen for a while preparing it all. My roommate, Sarah, would help out a little every once in a while, but I am weird when it comes to baking and like to do it myself so I know that it gets done right. But it turned out amazing!!! All the work of doing it was well worth it! I have almost decided that I really just want to bake. I love doing it! Plus I have always had that in the back of my mind, but lately more and more that is what I am leaning towards doing. The only problem is that BYU doesn't offer any type of cooking classes or anything really, so I need to go and talk to the a guidance aid and see what there is I can do. So we will see :)

BYU life :)

So it has officially been forever and a half since I have posted anything up on here. I was planning on posting my saluditorian speech after graduation and as you can tell, that never happened :) Then after my parents and I went to Hawaii I was going to post . . and again, never happened. Then once I got up here to BYU I decided that I really for sure I was going to post, and as you can see its just barely happening. So i'm slackin a little bit . . . but its ok :) Here is a small update on SOME of the things I have done while being up here so far.

I have been at BYU now for a month almost exactly, and I am still trying to adjust to college life. Its a lot harder then you think it would be. At first I thought I was going to take it all in. I hiked up to the Y and 12:30am and didn't get home tell close to 3:30am which probably wasn't the best of choices, but it was very memorable and the view from the top of the Y is AMAZING!!!!

I went on a lunch date with a guy who I thought was super sweet and very cute (well he still is cute). We had talked quite a few times and hung out and what not but never exchanged numbers so he showed up at my dorm on a sunday after noon to get my number. It was so sweet! The next day is when he called me after class to go get lunch, which I thought was so awesome! But like most guys I find myself associated with, he ended up being not as sweet as I thought. It ended up that he has had a girl friend for a few months or so. And the worst part is I didn't even find it out from him, I found it out through my roommates and my friends. Ya he was a player. Who would have thought that even at BYU there would still be those type of guys around? Not me!!

Other then being super stressed with having mid terms this past week, trying to find new friends that I mesh with, and adjusting to living on my own, college has been a great experience! And hopefully it will continue to get better and better! I swear I am going to be better about posting on here! Or at least that is the plan :)

Simple things can effect a lot!!

So last weekend we moved my sister into a new house. She lived in a 2 story house and most of the house was on the 2nd story, which as you could imagine, wasnt the most convenient for her husband who has had multiple stokes. But her new house is AMAZING and beautiful! Its all one story and open. So now her husband can go anywhere he wishes.

For those of you that dont know, moving isnt the funnest thing in the world. It gets very old very fast! We started at 7 in the morning and loaded everything up (well everyone else did, I was busy trying to entertain a 19 month old).  To make a long story short . . . We moved her :) But the neat thing was when we had basically moved everything in, her husband Roy started crying. Not knowing what was wrong, we asked him if he was ok and he replied with a simple smile and a nod of the head. He was so happy to have some more independence and not have to rely on others to help him do everything!

In life we take the simple things for granite like tying your shoes, getting out of bed by yourself, walking, talking, and so much more that when you see someone who was so independent become someone who heavily relies on you for everything, it makes you stop and think of how blessed we truly are. Something so simple as being able to get places by himself made him cry. We need to take a step back when we think life is tough and say to ourselves, "It could be so much worse".

Life is so sacred and we should take advantage of everything we have, never taking anything for granite, because you never know when your life may end or drastically change.

PROM!!! :)

This past weekend was prom and man was it AMAZING!!! I swear it looked like it came out of a movie! But before I get ahead of myself (which I tend to do sometime), let me tell you about the whole day, because really the whole day was great!

Ok so for those of you that don't know, James Self asked me to prom. Funny little fact: I have now gone to prom with 2 Self boys and one of their cousins. Pretty funny huh? Well anyways ... So James came and picked me up at my house around 1:40 and I had no idea what we were doing for our date! All he would tell me was wear an old swim suit (which thankfully I did!). So on this date their was me, James, Alyssa, Drew, Jennifer, Riley, Mariah, and Caleb. Needless to say it was an awesome group! We ended up riding quads down to the river where we played in the knee deep mud. It was so much fun! We seriously looked like mud monsters! Then they took us home so we could shower, and I'm not joking, I had to wash my hair 4 times to finally get all the mud out!

Before . . .

During. . .

After :)



So we got ready for prom and went to McClellans house for dinner (I hope I spelled that right). It was so yummy! We had stuffed shells :) Then we loaded up in a minnie van, yes a minnie van because were cool like that, and headed off to prom. We arrived and man was it amazing!!! It seriously could have come out of a movie! There was a fake cieling and walls, a photo booth, a great DJ, and amazing food!! We danced the night away and before we knew it, it was over. But it was so much fun and something I will remember for a long time!

Prom

The group. We clean up nice huh?

Chelsea and I

 

The Girls

Better late than never . . . right?? :)

From left to right: Allison, Garrett, myself all striking a pose

The McGee family

The McGee girls showing off our shoes :)

Dad with all of his girls

So a little while ago my brother Garrett got married. Well I guess it was more a LONG time ago. But still at least I am talking about it now right?

Ok... so my brother ended up getting hitched on March 18, 2011 and let me tell you that was a very weird day for me!! Garrett and I have been very close ever since he got back from his mission (thats right not before his mission! He was very mean before believe it or not). We would hang out all the time and be able to talk about anything. Of course we still messed with eachother, I mean after all we are brother and sister. I was afraid that by him getting married I would lose him. Deveney (the girl he married) is so awesome though! But still. Sitting outside the Snowflake temple with all the little kids, I sat for a while just thinking. Thinking about how it would be between him and I now. Would we still be close? Would we be just brother and sister and not friends? Was I getting replaced? Silly things to think about I know, but what can I say, I am a girl :)

 As it turned out I had nothing to worry about. Of course! We are still super close and nothing could change the relationship we have! All those little worries were for nothing! I have learned something about myself through this experiance, and that is sometimes I over think things and I need to just sit back and not worry. There is no point to stress over the little things. Everything will work out the way it is supposed to be. End of story :)

Lesson Learned!

April showers bring May flowers . . . except not really!

Right when I start to think that winter is over and spring is finally here, I have to get proved wrong! Lately it has been around the high 70's to low 80's so you would think that snow would be out of the picture. Well aparently not!!

 I wake up Saturday morning to it snowing out side! Yes . . SNOW!! The day before this I was at a track meet in Safford where it was nice and warm and I got a nice little tan. I guess you can never really pridict the weather. It's going to do whatever it wants. But still. . .

I wasn't in the best mood Saturday because for one, I wasn't feeling all that great (I had gotten a super bad cramp at the track meet and it still hadn't gone away), and second I was planning on a nice warm day so that I could go and wash my car, but with snow. . . that wasn't really going to happen. So here I was feeling sorry for myself when my dad walks in with a letter from someone. I got so excited! I forgot about not feeling good and being in a bad mood, because of one simple letter from someone! Its crazy how something so small can change how you are feeling! So my lesson learned? Don't let small things you can't controll, ruin your day! It's not worth it! Just go out and have fun! After all . . the only person who can change your attitude, is you!

♥ SPRING BREAK!!!!!! ♥

M-I-C-K-E-Y  M-O-U-S-E!!

So if you couldnt tell, I went to Disney Land for spring break with both Jazz and Show choir, and let me tell ya, it was a blast!! It was one of those times where you just have fun with your friends. We left on Wednesday at 4 in the FREAKING morning and didnt get home until 8 Sunday night! And of course we got hardly no sleep while we were there so it makes for a long first day back at school! But it was worth it!

The all time highlight of this trip happened when we were backstage getting ready for our show (and backstage of Disney Land isn't all that great or majical. It's just . . . well. . .ugly! :)   ).  We had just gotten done getting into our costume when me and Chelsea decide to take our bags back to the trailer. While walking to the trailer, a girl who was between 12 and 15, asked us if we were princess's!!! We were so excited that someone actually thought that we were princess's at Disney Land! Sadly we had to tell her no, but isn't that just awesome that someone would think that?! I think so :)

One other great experience that I will never forget happend in the car ride home. In this car there was me (of course), Drew, James, Josh, Kevin, Robert, Riley, and Beth (our driver). And those of you who don't know Drew, he is one of those people who likes to pull pranks and stuff like that. So he decided that he was going to fill his mouth up with water and spit it on me (which was gross by the way!) But that just lead to one huge water fight in our car, and it was so much fun! After that we had a really spiritual disscussion (after all, we are all LDS, and it was Sunday) and it was so good! Definantly a great experience!

After going on this trip it has made my "senior-itis" so much worse!! I can't wait know to graduate and experience new fun and exciting things! And a piece of advice, don't go to Disney Land during spring break, its packed!!