What Life Is About

Allow your own inner light to guide you.
There comes a time when you must stand alone.
You must feel confident enough within yourself to follow your own dreams.
You must be willing to make sacrifices.
You must be capable of changing and rearranging your priorities so that your final goal can be achieved.
Sometimes the familiarity and comfort need to be challenged.
There are times when you must take a few extra chances and create your own realities.
Be strong enough to at least try to make your life better.
Be confident enough that you won't settle for a compromise just to get by.
Appreciate yourself by allowing yourself the opportunities to grow, develop, and find your true sense of purpose in this life.
Don't stand in someone elses shadow when its your sunlight that should lead the way.
Work Hard at what you like to do and try to overcome all obstacles.
Laugh at your mistakes and praise yourself for learning from them.
Pick some flowers and appreciate the beauty of nature.
Say hello to strangers and enjoy the people you know.
Don't be afraid to show your emotions, laughing and crying make you feel better.
Love your friends and family with your entire being. They are the most important part of your life.
Feel the calmness on a Quiet Sunny day.
Find a rainbow and live your world of dreams.
Always remember life is better than it seams.

Nursing school????

HELP ME!

So... i graduated with a degree in surgical technology right? and i love it! and don't regret it a single bit because i learned so much! But there is one downfall to it... there aren't a ton of surgeon's assistant jobs out there... :( SO!!! i've been debating.... Should i go back to school and get my RN??? cause there sure are a ton of jobs out there.... what should i do?

Oh boy... Do i Have a story for you...

Wednesday night... I drive down to Spanish Fork to Play with Reilee and some other friends! we had a blast! Made "caramel apples" played games, watched movies, ya know.... fun things! The night comes to an end, I sleep Over! we wake up and just hang out for a few hours and do our girl thing while her husband jace is at work! around 3:45 my phone dies and i head home so i can charge it!! i got on the freeway around 4:00 and by 4:10 i hit a pot hole and blow a tire!!! i was terrified, phoneless, carless, and in break down mode!!!
I sit in my car for a few minutes trying to collect myself and then i get in my "go-getter" mode and think to myself...I CAN DO THIS! i know how to change a tire, yeah it is freezing and i am in flip flops, shorts, and a t shirt, but i can do this!!
So now that i'm all gung ho I get out. Jack my car up. Take my tire off. Get my donut out of the trunk. Put said donut on my car. Let the car off the jack. I'm golden!!.... so i thought. my donut was completely flat!!! cue second breakdown.
Now what?!!!! it's now 5:00 and getting dark!!! no one know's i'm out here. and not a single soul has stopped to help me... this is it. i'm going to die here. (a little dramatic i know, but hey... that's what i was thinking)
SO I walk to the tire store and almost freeze my butt off in the process of doing so. and i'm carrying my donut tire with me because the real tire was too heavy!! I get to the tire store around 5 miles away and have them pump my tire up.... problem solved!!! NOT! there is a gaping hole in my tire the size of china. So... i use the phone to call ashley who is 2 and a half ish hours away to come get me and i walk my sad sad little self back to my car in the tretrously freezing weather! I get back to my car 5 miles later. and sit and wait for ash!
10 minutes later a strange old man pulls over and i tell him my story. He's the sweetest thing. and offered to take me home!! after much consideration i accept his offer.... i know i know don't ride with strangers right?? that's what i thought! BUT i thought ahead.... this is what i said to the man before getting into his truck. "What is your Full name, Address, and telephone number incase you murder me and chop me up into tiny pieces.... i'm going to write it on a piece of paper and put it in my car for the cops to find!" he laughs and writes it all down for me!! :) then lets me use his phone to call ashley (cause her number is the only number i have memorized) luckily she had just barley left and we decided to meet in layton cause this is where brian biggers was from!! (my sweet stranger)
The whole ride home was quite delightful!!he's a chatty ol fella! He was a bishop so we talked about the church and got into some in depth conversations. He was an answer to my prayers. not only for help with my car. but help with some things i've been facing in my life lately as well. I didn't even ask for any advice but somehow he knew what exactly to say to me and knew exactly what i needed to hear.... everything we talked about partained to me and my life in some way. by the time we got to layton i wanted to keep driving just so i could sit and chat with this man. He is amazing. and when i went to get out of the car he cried to me and said he was so glad he stopped and got to meet me. He said i was an answer to his prayers as well.. That entire car ride i could feel the spirit so strongly and i wasn't thinking about the fact that i was riding in a car with a stranger... i was riding in a car with a new friend!! This experience just proved to me that Everything does happen for a reason..... I am so grateful for Brian Biggers and what he did for me! i hope i can repay him someday.

Christmas eve My friend Jace from work was headed down to st george to visit his family and offered to drop me off at my car and help me fix it!!! What a peach he is!! :) i really appreciate him for doing that!! so to repay him... i'm taking him snowboarding tomorrow!! woo hoo! EXCITED...

Reilee Jo

My best friend in the whole wide world got in a pretty bad car accident today.

I'm going to see her in Orem tomorrow.

I love her.

Keep her in your prayers!!

Summer Lovin

Me and Kinz took a road trip down to vegas to hang out with my sister and then meet a few other girls down there just to run a muck in sin city! these are our pictures on the way down! surprisingly.... it was a blast and went by really fast up until Misquete... then it sucked!! it was around midnight and all of a sudden we hit traffic!! not just a tiny bit of traffic either! it was completely stopped, turn your car off traffic!! we were sitting there for 4 and a half hours!! it was REDIC!! we turned what shoulda been a 7 hour car ride into a 12 hour car ride!! wonderful...










When we got there, we slept all day!! and then woke up at like noon or one and got ready and then went and spent our entire years savings on clothes!! JUST KIDDIN!! but really we got enough clothes to make ya think that's what we spent but we're bargin shoppers and it barely put a dent in my wallet! i was proud!! :D



The next few days were fun! we met destree, karlie, and jessica and stayed on the strip, did the whole vegas thing and went skydiving! it was a way fun girls trip and i can't wait until we do it again!!! next time... i'm jumpin off the stratosphere for sure!!! :D

What do you get when you give a crazy lady a web cam???

SO! my mom and I went to Las Vegas a litle while ago to visit my sister! it was a fun trip! me and brooke were back in her bedroom and when we walked out, this is what we found!!!!





Mother going CRAZY in front of my lap top camera thing!! ha ha if i didn't know any better i would have thought she was drunk!! we stood there in silence watching her until we couldn't handle it anymore!! i've never laughed so hard in my life! then i had to jump in on some pics! ha ha isn't she cute??

Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Well guys.. my birthday is Tuesday and i will be the big 2-0! and i figured that i'd post my top 20 memories/accomplishments that i remember in my life... and here they are
#20: surving my teen years!! :D

#19: keeping my two best friends as long as i have and knowing that i will always have them no matter what! Even though we had our little falling out for a short time i still love you two and I'm grateful for everything you guys have done for me!! and even though you're both getting married and leaving me i'm excited to experience this next stage in our lives together! and all of the next stages after that! kids and what not!! we're gonna be friends until the end! :D


#18 Always being able to stand up for what i believe in
#17 I've Never tasted a drop of alcohol or smoked or anything along the lines of any of that crap in my life
#16 the time i went skydiving


#15 Playing Softball my whole life


#14 Disneyland for brylee's 6th birthday


#13 Hunting with my dad



#12 Going on short weekend trips with my mom when she was a flight attendant



#11 Doing CPR on one of may Patients in the hospital and saving her.
#10 Living through my parents divorce and turning out how i did and not a psychotic crazed teenager who does drugs and sleeps around.
#9 When I MYSELF bought my first car!! i felt like such an adult
#8 When i moved out on my own for the first time! even though it only lasted 6 months i still loved it!



#7 mine and my mom's first Christmas Eve after the divorce.
#6 having the relationship that i have with my dad! He's awesome!



#5 The first time i read the BOM all the way through and the feelings i felt while doing so.


#4 Going to college right after high school and taking it seriously and learning all of the things i learned.
#3 Graduating College!! :D



#2 Watching Brylee Grow up! she's grown up to be an amazing girl



#1 September 15, 2007. The day I got baptized. I know the church is true!!! :D