not to complain, but...

TODAY SUCKED!

usually mondays are not that bad for me. they go by fast and i dont mind them at all.

except for this monday.

i woke up late, totally freaking out thinking i was in HUGE trouble and that the store would be opening an hour late because of me. luckily my friend shan was there early to make sure it was going to open on time. so that ended up not being a big deal but it stressed me out a lot thinking about it.
well i was at work and filling some cartridges like a normal day and i drop a cartridge on my foot! it hurt so bad and i just screamed and now i will have a nice little bruise on my foot.
i continued to fill those cartridges and one of the doors didn't suction shut so the ink spilled out and ALL over the floor and on my leg. nice. so i clean that up and put a new cartridge in and it didn't suction shut AGAIN so it spilled all over the floor again. right after i cleaned it up. wowwww really???
shan decided she was really thirsty and a drink sounded good since nothing else was going right maybe that would cheer me up a little. well i get the drinks, (cherry limeaids from sonic) and put them in my cup holder. i take them out of my car and go to walk into work and one of the cups has a hole in the bottom and is leaking all down the side of me. i look at it, and one of my earrings that was in the cup holder poked through the bottom and ruined the cup.
once i was inside work again, i taped the bottom of the cup so it wouldn't leak any more and while i was doing that, i burned my leg on the heater we have at work. i know its there, its been there for months but i just stood right up against it and now have a nice burn mark on my leg along with a great new blue splotchy tattoo.
for lunch i decided chick fil a sounded wonderful so i went and ordered a number 5 meal. she asked what drink i wanted and what sauces i wanted. i ordered ranch for the nuggets and ketchup and mayo for the fries to make fry sauce :) well my order was cheaper then usual but i didn't think anything of it and once i got back to work, i realized they didn't give me fries! but they did give me the ketchup and mayo but no ranch?? ughh i was so bugged but i didn't want to go back since the line takes for freaking ever.
and on top of that, i got FRIED because i went tanning for the first time in months and months and i was super sore all day from the dumb burn all over.

things started looking up after work though :)
i went with shan to buy a nook! now we can have nook parties which is great!
my mom took me to nordstrom and got me all set for summer, along with a new easter dress!
i decided to treat myself to my favorite salad for dinner

and that was my monday
i REALLY hope tuesday is better! or else i might explodeeeee

happy easter!

i am so glad we get the chance to celebrate easter. what an amazing thing to celebrate and i am so lucky to know the meaning and that i get to appreciate it.

last week davis and i celebrated a little bit of easter by dying some eggs.


today i woke up and headed over to my moms house. we got the house ready for the family to come over and waited while we got visits from some family members. kayla came over and we died easter eggs together. it was awesome, we tie died some and had regular die for the others. more family came and we had such an amazing easter dinner that my mom made! (i helped lay out the rolls) :)
kayla and i then relaxed a little and watched a movie.
then davis came over and we played some video games while i ate some easter candy from my easter basket my mom got me! (it was the first easter basket she has ever made me cause i usually spent easter with me dad)

it was a good easter.

love/hate relationship

its warming up and i couldn't be more thrilled about it. i absolutely hate the winter and i am always always looking forward to the summer time.

the only problem i have right now is the SPIDERS are starting to come into my house. UGHH worst thing ever. i have seen like 8 spiders in the last few weeks and its driving me crazy only because i am terrified of those creepy little crawlers.

when i see one i usually have a freak out moment. then i calm myself and put a lid or a cup over it (so i dont have to look at it anymore) and wait for davis to come over and smash it for me.

so as much as i LOVE summer. i hate the spiders that come with it.



this is kinda what the spiders look like that are making their new home in my house. when i was looking up the pictures on google, i came across one of a black widow and i honestly think i would die if i ever ran into one. ewww spidersss :(

day 30: something or someone that means a lot to you

there are way too many things in my life that mean a lot to me to just choose one.
so i will just write a list of things
because it would take way to long to decide WHICH thing is the most meaningful

*my mom
*my bsfe kayla
*davis
*more family
*my house
*my phone
*my job
*my education
*my roommates
*my camera
*my nook
*my blankets
*other friends that are non roommates
*showers
*chocolate
*ice cream
*sunshine
*hot tubs
*my clothes

:) there you have it. my 30 day challenge is now over and i have no idea what i am going to blog about now.

day twentynine: three wishes

1. i would wish to have happiness forever! in my job, in my relationship, with my family and friends. just all around happiness!
2. i would wish for a plane ticket to travel the whole world for a few years, and the money to be able to do it!
3. to be able to eat whatever i want and not gain weight :)

i really wish i had a genie. that would be sweet

day 28: a picture of you and someone you have been closest with the longest

my sister kayla is my best friend in the whole entire world. we weren't always bff but we always loved being together since we were little babies. we have some of the funniest memories and i know we are going to have so many more. i do not know what i would do without her, she makes me laugh so hard at the dumbest things ever. i love my best sister friend so much :)

home alone

i hate being home alone at night.
in the day its not bad, but for some reason when that big shiny ball of light sets, everything changes.
i hear noises that probably dont exist in real life but in my mind they are there and they are scaring the crap out of me.
every little move the dog makes, FREAKS me out. like wtf are you looking at dog?
i freeze up. if i get really scared when i'm alone, i honestly cant make my body move. i dont know why i'm such a freak but i am.
and then of course there is no way you are going to bed any time soon because you're way to scared to relax enough to fall asleep.
shoooooot
i must get over this fear of the dark i have.

day twentyseven: something you wish you were better at

i love to read. i love to read blogs, and i love to read books. its just something that i like to do. while i'm reading i get super jealous of the writer. i feel that every single person in this world is better at writing then i am, and i sincerely wish that i could get more of a talent in the writing department.

i feel the things i write about in my blog are not very interesting. but if they were i do a horrible job of telling to the world of bloggers about how interesting it really is! so if i had a wish to be better at something right now, i would chose writing.

thats all :)

day 26: your dream wedding

i want my dream wedding to be super fancy
i want a huge fancy dress that fits me absolutely perfect
the colors i want is mostly pink with orange and yellow
it would be amazing to have my wedding on a beach and since this is my DREAM wedding i can say thats how i want it :)
i want my wedding day to be in may or june and i want my reception to be outside in a gorgeous area with decorative lights hanging from all the trees.
i want a huge dance floor laid out on the grass so everyone can get their grove on.
before the actual ceremony i want to have a wedding breakfast at a nice restaurant so i can eat french toast :)
i want my cake to be red velvet
oh and i want to marry the man of my dreams ;) (dap)

day twentyfive: something you hate

i hate mean/negative people. i usually try and stay positive and try to be nice to everyone and so i really do not like when people are rude. i dont see a point in being negative either. why make your life miserable when just staying positive can make it so much better??
i hate craving something and not being able to eat it!
i hate being sleepy
i hate being cold
i hate coming home from vacations
i hate being sick

day 24: something you love

wow. if i was supposed to choose just one thing that i love, i dont think i would ever be able to think of it because there is not just one thing that i love. so i will name lots of things i love :)

-i love my family. they are amazing! they always make me laugh and feel better about myself. i always have a good time when i am with my family and i pretty much get along with everyone. they are simply wonderful.

-i love my roomies and my house. i have been so fortunate to find such great friends and to be able to live in this amazing house. we never have a dull moment here thats for sure. its the greatest having them across the hall or up the stairs ALL the time.

-i love davis. he has always been there for me, even when i didn't ask him to be. he treats me better then i have ever been treated by any guy and he makes me happier then anyone ever has. he is just the perfect person to me :)

-i love my job. i will admit some days it gets very old filling up ink cartridges, selling them to customers and dealing with angry people but it has been the greatest job i have had so far in my life. the people i work with, the lenient hours and i can take time off whenever i need to. its just great.

-i love animals. having a pet is a really big responsibility but i love it. naming the little creature and taking care of them brings such a joy to my life it makes me so excited to have kids.

-i love taking pictures. nothing is better then capturing special moments and having them to look at forever. one of my favorite things to do is looking back at old pictures and laughing and reminiscing.

-i love the color pink. enough said.

-i love teaching. teaching is something that makes me feel so good about myself. knowing that i am helping a child learn and grow is something that i cant get enough of.

-i love travelling. going to a different place and seeing things that you have only seen on tv is so exciting and i am always wanting to do it!

-i love ice cream. i am a girl, what can i say?? ice cream is a thing i eat way to much of but i can never get enough of it. working at baskin robbins was the best thing ever cause i would sample flavors all day long.

-i love the outdoors. being indoors too much makes my psychotic and i cant wait til its summer so its actually warm enough to go outside.

-i love the sunshine. being cold is maybe my least favorite thing and i am so glad that it is hopefully nearing the end of the cold season. i must move soon to a place where its warm year round!

-i love my life :)

day twentythree: a talent of yours

i have had many different talents over the years of my little life time. i have done all kinds of dancing, cheering, piano, clarinet, interior decorating, running plus much much more. but right now i would say my biggest talent is teaching. i have been teaching since i was a sophomore in high school and i am still doing it right now. i love it. i love helping children understand things and watching them learn and grow. its the best feeling ever.

day 22: whats in your purse

right now my purse contains
*bueno bars
*wallet with all sorts of stamp cards and coupons in it
*toothpicks
*nook
*20 different flavors of lip gloss
*sunglasses
*rubix snake toy
*tampons
*packs of gum
*keys

day twentyone: favorite picture of yourself and why

this picture isn't the most flattering picture of me by any means but i absolutely love it anyways. this picture is not posed, i didn't even have any idea it was being taken. it was given to me weeks after it was taken by a girl that i barely know who was in our prom group. i love it because of the way i'm looking at davis, and the way he is looking at me. i love how i just look so in love with him and him with me. i look happier then ever just to be in his arms. i love this picture because it's real life. i see cute pictures of couples that i get jealous of because they look so happy. most the time though those pictures are posed. and that is why this is my favorite picture ever. because its not posed. when davis was on his mission i would look at this picture and remember how special our love is. because when i look at this picture, thats all i see. is love :)

ready to read

today i bought a barnes and noble nook.

already i'm in love with it!

it can hold up to 1500 books on this little device and it is so much easier to have around then an actual book. some people are old fashioned refuse to buy any such device because they believe it isn't a real book and they like to turn the pages and blah blah blah but to me this is just perfect. i like not having to turn the pages and being able to buy almost any book i want instead of driving and spending so much time at a bookstore. plus e-books are much cheaper!

i love my nook. and i am so excited to read and read and read.

day 20: favorite quote

LIVE. LAUGH. LOVE.

if i follow these three things i will have happiness.

sweet surprises

so the past few days davis has been super sweet. he usually is anyway but he definitely showed it this weekend. on friday i asked him what he was doing that night and all he replied was "dont eat" so i didnt. i guess i figured we would go get something fast because thats what we do most the time but he ended up taking me out on a date to texas roadhouse. i did not expect it at all and there was nothing to celebrate but i just thought it was real cute of him.
then this morning i am sleeping, and i notice him calling me. i think i might have thought it was my alarm so i just shut off the noisy phone and continued on with my slumber. 5 minutes later he calls again so i pick it up and probably in the best morning voice ever i say helloooo. i hear back, hey cute girl i am bringing you breakfast. how freaking nice?? i didn't ask for breakfast, most the time i dont even eat breakfast. but he brought me some food and we ate together before i had to go to work and before he had to go back to school.
i am not really a fan of surprises when you know they are coming. like on valentines day, you know something is going to happen you just do not have any idea what and it drives me crazy trying to think of the possibilities of what we might be doing, but when its a surprise i have absolutely no idea about i love them.
i just thought i would blog about how cute my guy can be :)

day nineteen: something that you've learned

i have learned that i cant always get what i want.
that love is not something that comes easily, but its something worth fighting for.
and i have also learned that good things come with patience.
:)

day 18: favorite place to eat

eating is honestly one of the best things in the world. food just tastes sooo good, i could never have an eating disorder because i wouldn't be able to handle not tasting something yummy. my favorite place to eat would have to be bonsai. i could eat there all the time but its too expensive. my sister and i try to go there like every couple months or so and we share a meal and it is just enough food for the both of us. another amazing factor about bonsai is they make the meal right in front of you and so my sister and i just go crazy and have so much fun joking with the cooks and the other people around us, cause they are usually getting drunk haha. ahhh bonsai i need to go back soon!

day seventeen: something your looking forward to

something that i shouldn't do in my life is keep looking forward to the days to come. every day i am always wishing for the next day, or next week, or whatever. i need to learn to appreciate the moments and the present more as it is happening. haha with that being said, things i'm looking forward to in the future are
-graduating college and being able to have a job i actually love
-getting married to the person of my dreams and spending the rest of my life with them
-having beautiful children that look like me and my husband :)
-travelling the world
-getting a puppy
-the hunger games movie
-living next door to kayla when we are grown up
-making all my inventions come to life!
-just life :)

just some thoughts

there are too many decisions to make in life. the biggest decision so far is probably what you want to major in. i have always known right from the beginning of college that i want to major in early childhood education because i love teaching, i love kids and if you put two and two together, being a teacher would be the best job possible for me! every class i have taken for my major i have loved (probably except linguistics) and i have always just felt like this is the right career choice for me. all my friends say they cant see me as being anything else, and i have always thought they were absolutely right. being a teacher is what i am meant to be. but i cant help but wonder if there maybe is something else out there for me. definitely not to replace my degree in early childhood, but to go along with it. just so i have choices and if one job falls through i have another skill that i could use. or if i needed the extra cash i could work double jobs. i have always wanted to open up my own preschool so i could maybe do that half the week and the other thing the other half. i dont know. i just think i might want to do something else with my life too. not just teaching. even though teaching is what i love to do and am super excited to do. i just might have to find something else i would love to do as well. we will see. maybe i just have to much time to think since i'm not going to school this semester. either way, i'm going to look into other stuff i might be just as good at. and hopefully pursue it if i get the chance!

day 16: dream house

ok so my dream house would be on a beach. and it would have huge windows looking over the ocean. it would be surrounded by lots and lots of flowers and have huge palm trees. there would be an enormous patio in the back with a hot tub and i would need a front porch big enough to have a swinging chair. the yard would be huge so the kids could run around all day long. i would have a craft room inside the house as well as a theater. and the best part about my dream house, is it will be self cleaning :)

day fifteen: your favorite memory

not to sound like a brat or anything but my life has been amazing. i have done so much stuff in my short little life that some people dont get the chance of doing in a life time. i have made friendships with people that i will never forget and had so many laugh out loud moments i should have a six pack from laughing so hard. some of my favorite memories include

*climbing everywhere in snow canyon
*driving to disney world with the fam
*making movies with the cousins at my grandma hintze's house
*spending the day with my mom
*falling in love with davis
*going to hawaii on my senior trip with jamie and mercedes
*living in the dorms
*finishing my first half marathon
*going river rafting with my family
*any snowboarding adventure
*anything with my sister always makes for a good memory but things i remember most are sister day, going to bonsai, lagoon, great salt lake
*my europe trip with my school
*going on dates with davis
*camping fun with my friends
*mine and mercedes all nighters
*being a cheerleader
*i am sure i could come up with atleast 6000 more but i will stop there :)

day 14: something you're afraid of

i am afraid of quite a few different and random things. fear is such a weird thing to me because you can feel completely fine and then something happens that you're scared of and you can freak out!
i am terrified of spiders! i always have been since i can remember. i refuse to squish them and always make someone around me take care of them. if no one is a round i will place a cup or something over it, so i know it cant escape anywhere, until someone comes home and gets rid of the creepy little creature. i have no idea why spiders are so scary, but watching them move around always gives me the chills.

i am really scared of blood, and needles. i could never ever be a nurse or anything medical because i couldn't handle seeing anything gross. i have passed out once because i saw my own skin get cut off, like a blister. i just have a very weak stomach when it comes to anything like that. so if you're ever bleeding, dont come to mee! thinking of needles going into my skin really freaks me out as well. whenever i go to the doctor and have to get a shot i hyperventilate and cry and the nurses treat me like i'm 5. i might as well be by the way i act when i get shots ha.

i am pretty scared of being in the dark by myself. i always freak myself out and hear noises that probably aren't even there. its from all the scary movies i watch, they aren't super terrifying when i am watching them but after i think of all the bad things that could happen and it makes me really scared of the dark. if i ever have to get up in the middle of the night for any reason i always cover the side of my face so i cant see anything but forward, because i get so nervous of what could be on either side of me. i am sort of a freak but oh well.

the last and probably biggest fear of mine is being in love with someone, and them in love with me, and having them fall in love with someone else and leaving me in the dust. i have seen it happen so much in my family and i just feel like why wouldn't it happen to me? i get so jealous over the dumbest little things because i think they for sure are in love with that other person. even if i have no reason to believe that they are not in love with me, i always jump to conclusions that they aren't. i guess i need to have more trust but its hard.

being afraid sucks. i wish i wasn't scared of anything

spring break 2011

my spring break this year did not consist of getting crazy with the besties in some tropical area, laying out on the beach and catching rays. i spent it this year with my family on the east coast and i wouldn't have had it any other way. my brother is stationed in washington dc for the air force so my mom and i flew out there and spent a few days in his hotel where he has been living and did lots of walking around dc. 2 of my uncles also flew out and us five ran the national half marathon in dc. it was awesome, although my legs were very tired after about 10 miles since we had been doing so much walking around the previous days. my time was 2 hours and 5 minutes. a minute faster then my last half marathon i ran in moab that was my only goal to beat my last time! and i did YAY ME. after washington dc we drove up to baltimore to meet up with my aunt and we then took a bus to new york city. we got to go to 2 broadway shows and it was amazing. i saw the lion king and i honestly cried. it was the most amazing thing i have ever seen! lion king has always been my favorite disney show so i absolutely loved it. we bought purses from street vendors, and visited ground zero, china town, little italy, walked across the brooklyn bridge, went to the top of empire state building, saw the statue of liberty, went into rockfeller plaza and ate TONS of delicious ny food. after a couple days there we drove to philidelphia and saw a few historic things like the liberty bell and stuff like that and also had a philly cheesesteak sandwich. this trip was so much fun and i wish i would have had a few more days to spend in each place because there is so much to do there. it was good to see all of my aunts and uncles and my brother as well. here's some pictures from the trip!

day thirteen: your family

saying my family is crazy is probably an understatement. i have 2 moms, 2 dads, and all together i have 12 siblings. of course most of them are half and step siblings. i used to have 9 grandparents also but that number has gone a few. i probably have about 20 aunts and uncles and over 100 cousins. i honestly dont know what i would do without my family. i know they are always going to be there for me no matter what happens and thats something that i am sure of. they make me laugh all the time and i have such a great time with all my family. i love having family dinners, or family parties because there are always soo many people that it cant be anything but fun. i am not going to lie and say i am close with every single person in my family because there are a select few who i'm definitely closest with. my family means the world to me and i am so glad i have such a large family. its just the best :)