Go Big or Go Home

This year is coming to an end in a few hours! It has been one heck of a year. Many laughs, many tears but that's what it's all about, right? Learning and growing with these experiences. Here are {just a few} things that happened in 2011:

I finally built a bear at Disneyland...at the age of 19.
I met some of the most amazing people on this planet
I turned 20...ye!
Got over a few fears.
I started the Book of Mormon again.
I only fell on the ice ONCE.
I went to Disneyland.
Helped some frazzled freshmen
My testimony of Jesus Christ grew even more.
I got a lot better at listening to promptings.

These are just a few that I could think of on the spot. The main one is that I love the Gospel more than ever and I know, I know, that Heavenly Father wants the best for us. I loved everything that happened this year, I just wish I would have gone "big" on a few things. Which is why 2012 is the year to "Go Big or Go Home." You are welcome to join me! I learned this from a sweet, sweet girl. She sure was a shining example of this phrase. She lived it.

So to 2012 I say...bring it...and..

I probably just killed the mood with this video...but the year wouldn't be complete without a Mean Girls quote, ya know?

Happy New Year to you!!

A Beautiful Heartbreak.

"...the prophets tell us that true love “beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things” (Moro. 7:45). Once again that is ultimately a description of Christ’s love—He is the great example of One who bore and believed and hoped and endured. 

Bear up and be strong. Be hopeful and believing. Some things in life we have little or no control over. These have to be endured. These are not things anyone wants in life, but sometimes they come. And when they come, we have to bear them; we have to believe; we have to hope for an end to such sorrows and difficulty; we have to endure until things come right in the end.

It endures through sunshine and shadow, through darkest sorrow and on into the light. It never fails. So Christ loved us, and that is how He hoped we would love each other.

Jesus Christ, the Light of the World, is the only lamp by which you can successfully see the path of love and happiness. How should I love thee? As He does, for that way “never faileth.”

How Do I Love Thee? By Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

 It is in that love that I trust He knows what we are going through. It is that love that I know can help heal broken hearts.

Chilly December

It hasn't snowed that much but its been a bit chilly. Those icy winds that come from the canyon just cover us like a thick blanket. It's okay though because I have a phobia of driving in the snow. It's been nice not having to scrape off my car or shovel the side walk, however, Christmas is around the corner so...the snow can come then. And that also means that sister is coming home for the holidays. I. Am. Stoked.

December 2010-Retro sledding.

Sometimes the snow is fun. Happy Wednesday!