And Life Goes On....

Well, I figured since I re-organized my whole blog I should at least put a post up... so here it is! Not much new to report, as the title suggests. Life just keeps going on, same o'l business: swim, work, run, work, eat, work, etc.. Sounds exciting right? Work has been going pretty well, I am getting lots of hours and so I am thinking that I sould be able to pay for my next two semesters by the end of this break, which I definitely feel good about.
Since my though process seems too be really slow right now, and in an effort to keep from dragging this on and on, I'm signing off for now :)

Oh Hey!

So yet again we are seeing my inability to keep a current blog..... I guess I'm just going to keep playing catch-up... but on the bright side, I am getting good at that! :) I have been home from Rexburg for about a month now and things are going pretty well. I am currently working 3.5 jobs and am busy as heck. I am working at a chiropractor's office here in Lehi, lifeguarding that the Lehi Legacy Center, doing some job shadowing at a local physical thearpy office and teaching some private swim lessons.... I work 6 days a week, swim 5 days a week, run 4 days a week, (I was trying to figure out something that I do only 3 and 2 days a week... haven't figured that one out yet....) and I go to the temple once a week. All in all life is pretty darn good.

In keeping with my whole 'live laugh love' theme I guess I would have to be sharing something I have learned about living. Things do not always go the way we plan. It only takes one word, one letter, an e-mail or a simple encounter to completely change your life. You can go from having a pretty good idea about some things in you life, to being completely clueless... And the even more amazing part about that is that something that you would have thought would have been devistating turns out to be incredibly liberating. Everything we go through is to help shape us and mold us into the person we are ment to be. People come into our lives, people become a part of our lives and sometimes, people fall out of our lives, but I have learned over the years that everyone who touches our lives is ment to teach us something about ourselves and if we let those opportunities pass we have lost the expereince. We have to learn when to let people in, when to hold on to them and when to let go if necessary.

Woah, I guess that was kind of deep... but that basically sums up my personal experiences for the past few weeks... without getting too personal... hahaha :) Hopefully I will get on top of this blogging thing... I really want to write more.... We will just have to see what happens :) I'm up for an adventure... are you?

Done and Done.....

Well, it's over :) I finished finals last thursday and I couldn't be happier! I had three finals on thrusday, Anatomy, New Testament and CHEMISTRY. I got a 120/125 on my anatomy final, 67/50 on my New Testament final, and...... 79% on my Chem final!!! That means I might even be able to pull a B- in that class! I am so happy about that because I honestly hate chemistry and will be so happy if I never have to do anything pertaining to that subject again! And I don't think I will have to... at least in my undergrad studies! Overall, finals went great and I am glad to be wrapping up my semester and starting my break. (Don't know how much of a break it wil be, but I'll talk about that later!)
On friday I had the opportuinty to participate in the dedicaiton of the new BYU-Idaho Center on campus. It was incredible! That building is incredible and the service was amazing. The symphony played in the meeting and it really was just an awesome experience!
After the dedication I packed up my car, moved most of my stuff into storage and then drove home... which took WAY longer than it needed to but I got home safe. Last night Dani and I went to the Salt Lake airport to get on a plane to fly to Boise to visit our Dad. When we got there we found out that our flight was delayed an hour, and we were like, oh well. So we were waiting and chillin in the airport. We finally boarded our fligt aroud 6:20 (we were supposed to leave at 5:35) By the time everyone was on, fueled and de-iced we took off around 6:45. Just 10 minutes away from landing we were put into a holding pattern because the Boise airport had shut down due to a snow storm. We tried to land but apparently couldn't see the runway so the pilot pulled up and the sent us back to Salt Lake. Once we landed in Salt Lake, we were all expecting to have to get off and figure out what to do from there.... But wehn we landed they told us that we were going to re-fuel and fly back to Boise. Hahahaha! So we finally got into Boise around 10:45 pm. All in all we feel pretty lucky that considering how much we fly that has only happend once. Now I am just chillin in Boise enjoying a little R & R from the semester! :)
Well, thats it for now from me :) Until next time....

Live, Laugh, Love

So I've had this blog for awhile now, but I really haven't made much use of it and I've never really had a direction or purpose as to why I would want to. I'm not married, so no cute marriage things to put on here, I am just a college student going to a small church school somewhere in Idaho. But I have decided what I want to use this blog for. The inspiration for this came as a result of some roommate pictures that we took on sunday. This picture in particular. This simple message has been on my mind since then.... and as cliche as this may sound, those three simple words are what life really is about isn't it? We are here to live, laugh and to love. This reminder really could not have come at a better time. Finals are this week and the stress is being laid on thick as I am finishing up my last week of my last chemistry class. I have been trying really hard to not let myself get to overwhelmed with the stress of finals and these words just kind of smacked me up side the head as a gentle reminder of what really is important. So because of the impact that this picture and these simple words of guidence this is my title and direction for my blog. I want to write about the experiences that I live, the experiences that make me laugh, and about the people and experiences that I love.

So here goes! To start off I want to fill in what has happend lately in my life. I am just about to finish up my 5th semester at BYU-Idaho. I am very excited to be on the downhill side of my bacholers program. I have been blessed with some fantastic roommates this semester. I feel like we have become a family in every sense of the word. We tease, we laugh, we get frusterated but we really do love eachother and have all been blessed by one another.

Top row: Brennan, Natalie, Chanel and Kelly

Bottom: Me and Tori

I love these 5 girls so much!

I have been tremendously blessed to have such room-roommate this semester! This is me an Brennan and I basically love her like a sister!

Well, for now that will have to do, but hopefully I will get better at writing on here! Until next time....

Its been a long time......

Holy Crap! I haven't written anything on here for a long time! Dang, I really wish I was better at this... and now that I want to start writing on here again guess what time it is! FINALS. Great. Well I think that I am going to make catching up on my blog my 'break time' activity. Because, lets be honest, I can only do chemistry for so long before I start to get a headache.
So, until I have some more time to write... (hopefully later tonight) This will have to do. I am still alive and I am doing great. So many things are going great in my life, and hopefully I can catch you up on them soon... Until then just know that chemistry is hurting my brain..... oh boy.

I have ad o look! something shiny!.....

Oh man oh man... I am having the hardest time concentrating right now, so I decided that I would write on my blog... I know.. productive right? Let me tell you why I am having trouble concentrating... it all started this morning at 5:15. My alarm went off telling me to go run and I DIDN'T!! Worst idea EVER! While the extra sleep was nice, it totally wasn't worth it. The I went to two classes... was done by ten. Came home and watched an entertaining hour of friends to relax before I plunged into the dark abis know as my homework. My homework today consisted of filling out 4, count them 1, 2, 3, 4, study guides for my strength training theory test on friday. I would like you to know that I finished 3 of them... and they are LONG! I was working on the last one just barely and I think my brain just stopped.
Other reason why I am having trouble concentrating on my homework is because I am running a DAM RACE in 3 days and I am so pumped! Ok, so yes, I said dam race, but I didn't swear! The race is the TETON DAM RACES, I will be running the half marathon. This will be my second half marathon and I am just so excited this time because I totally know what to expect and I KNOW that I can do better than I did last time! AH! Seriously.... I am so pumped! Anyways, there is my splurge of emotion for the evening. Other than the approaching DAM race there really isn't anything too exciting to report... we had midterms last week and I will know my grades tomorrow. The semester is more than half over which makes me happy. I am dirt poor and that keeps things exciting to say the least. I am working on throwing Heather a bridal shower in my free time (a.k.a. I should be working on it, but I haven't found the time yet....) and yeah... I think that is pretty much it. I think I'll go to bed now... sounds like a good plan. :)

Pictures.....

So, secret confession time... I really like to take pictures. Ok, so I guess that really isn't much of a secret since my blog is full of pictures, but I do. So my roommate Heather is getting married in August and asked my if I would take their engagement pictures. I was super excited! So today we went out and took some! We are planning on taking some more tomorrow, but I just got done playing around on photoshop with these and wanted to put them up somewhere! Enjoy if you want! ;)Beautiful ring! :) Good job Eli.

This last one is my favorite of the ones that we took today!