Crazy Eight's

Crazy Eight's

8 Things I am passionate about
1. My Family
2. My friends
3. The gospel, I dont know where I would be without it
4. Working out
5. Learning, i love learning new things I can apply to my life or just interesting things
6. Reading
7. Dancing/ Music, even tho i am so not talented in these categories, my life would be so boring without them
8. People, i just love people in general

8 words or phrases I use the most
1. I love you
2. I'm POSITIVE
3. seriously. (i'm trying to use that phrase less tho, its sounds extremely blonde.)
4. dudeski
5. hold on
6. haha
7. bye ya'll
8. Where are you?
9. "Good Afternoon, thank you for calling the provo marriott hotel, this is virginia, how may i direct your call" ( i say that about 50 times a day at work)

8 things I want to do before I die
1. Get married/ Have children
2. Become a nurse
3. Go to navoo and visit the church historial sites
4. Travel more
5. Master sewing/ make cute blankets and clothes
6. Help my family/ take care of my mom
7. Get a six pack
8. Learn to speak Spanish fluently

8 things I need now
1. fruit and healthy food at my house
2. My car and bills paid off
3. A 10k donation... see # 2
4. new tennis shoes
5. New brakes and windshield for my car
6. A vacation to somewhere warm (aka go visit katherine)
7. to finish school
8. a shopping spree

8 places I want to visit
1. Navoo
2. Italy
3. Greece
4. Australia
5. Paris
6. London
7. New York City
8. Jerusalem

8 favorite restaurants (or food items)
1. Zupas
2. Cafe Rio
3. CPK
4. Guru's
5. Mi Casita
6. Olive Garden Salad and Bread sticks
7. Spoon-Me frozen yogurt
8. Pumpkin pie

8 favorite TV shows
1. Modern Family
2. Will & Grace
3. So You Think You Can Dance
4. Friends
5. Biggest Loser
6. The Office
7. The Bachelor
8. I shouldn't Be Alive






Thank you blog for entertaining me at work.

life lately

life lately has been grrrreeaaat. Crystal came and stayed with me during her thanksgiving break and it was SOOO much fun!!! all the laughter and fun was much needed. she is applying to byu so she wanted to come check it out. i REAAALLLY hope she gets in. it would be my dream come true and so much fun! anywho. thanksgiving was fabulous and so delicious. we went over to the Beifuss' for breakfast and then hung out all day til the feast was ready. it was a lot of fun. i love that family. i've started working at the marriot hotel in provo, which i LOVE so far. like i actually look forward to going to work. everyone is really fun and funny. and relaxed. its great. i get to go home in 15 days!!! it will be the first christmas in a while that we've had in houston with everyone and i am so excited! i'm excited to see turner and britney and their kids who i havnt seen in a very long time. i truly LOVE christmas time. it really is the greatest time of the year. one of my best friend's, Maria, just had her baby. a little boy named Boston Ray. he is so adorable. i love him already. i LOVE holding new babies. they are just so sweet and so precious.

other things that have been happening lately.....

THE BLINDSIDE

SUCH a great movie. seriously it is one of my new favorites movies. it was so sad and so happy at the same time. and so touching how the mom took him in and helped him so much. I love giving good-hearted people. i really really loved the movie.

MODERN FAMILY

so today was my day off and i was really productive and watched modern family ALL day. haha. i hadn't watched it yet, but i had heard good things so i finally looked it up and watched it and i was laughing the whooooole time. hahah sooo funny. its up there with friends on how funny it is

IN THE MOTHERHOOD

i don't know if any of ya'll watch chelsea lately.... she has a late night show on E. probably not bc the show is kind of racy. but chelsea handler is SO funny!

her and Jenny McCarthy and Leah Remini (wife from King of Queens) made these "webisodes" called in the motherhood which is about... thats right... motherhood. and they are HILARIOUS. seriously. watch them. crystal showed them to me and we were c r a c k in g up! here is the link to go watch them... seriously watch them you wont regret it.....

http://blogs.suntimes.com/tv/2009/03/original_webisodes_of_in_the_m.html

or you can look them on youtube too, if that link doesn't work.

TUCANOS

ay ay ay! i love this place! i won a gift certificate there at my work christmas party and i just want to say how much i love that restaurant. so good. If you ever want to win my heart... take me there.

TEMPLE SQUARE

When crystal was here

we went to temple square look at the lights. I love temple square. crystal had never been so we walked all over and then we even got a tour of the new conference center. I've been there once before for the conference, but the tour was so amazing. all the little things about the conference center and things that went into building it are really neat. if you ever get the chance take the tour. its really short and interesting. anywho i love the temple and i cant wait to go someday.

i've had an itch to travel lately.

i really want to go to europe and just be able to go see these cool places

The first picture is Italy. which i've heard is so gorgeous. I would love to go see rome and all the cool historical places there. the second picture is Paris. i would wa

nt to go to paris too but really i just want to go to France. I hear they have way yummy food, and all the fashion and cool historical places. i would love to go there. the third picture is jerusalem. I have a friend at byu jerusalem right now and she says it is AMAZING. so spiritual and so pretty. it would be SO neat to go see the places where Christ visited and loved. I def want to go there in my lifetime. and the last picture is hawaii. i just love the beach. i want to go anywhere with a beautiful beach.

also... i would just like to comment on how cute old people are. I love seeing cute old couples walking around or old ladies that are still best friends. i love it.

so cute.

last but not least... if your having a bad day, watch this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7YXn-lfHXc

LOVE YOU ALL!

dont worry, be happy

Okay so i've decided to finally update my blog. HOORAY! lol

So as most of you know i'm living in provo. i just moved into a new house which is SUPER cute. our old house was really cute as well, but it was pretty old and not quite as clean and it didnt have as much space as our new one. i loooove our new house. and we have a pretty big backyard and even have an apple tree. i'm living with Nikkie Shepherd and Tricia Ragsdale-- friends from TX. I'm starting to really LOVE my ward. at first i really didnt like it all, which i feel really bad about now because as i have gotten to know a lot of the people in it i truly love it. there are def some different and intersting people in my ward, but i'm learning to appreciate them. :) lol. there are a lot of new fun people that just moved in so I am very excited for this semester and activities.

So the old company that i worked for (i was a secretary-- one of the best/easiest jobs ever!) went out of business, so i have been out of a job for about 3 weeks. I was sad for that job to end but at the same time excited for something new. I was kind of ready for a new job just because being a secretary can be very monotonous and boring at times, but i really loved the people i worked with and had so much fun with them so i was sad for that to be over. Anywho, at first i wasnt too worried about finding a new job but when nothing was happening and no new job opportunities were showing up i started getting pretty stressed. BUT luckily as of yesterday I am now employed :) I got a job at journeys shoes store. I went in today and filled out new hire paperwork and the job seems pretty fun and everyoen that works there is really laid back and nice. The manager that hired me said that he thinks I could definitely potentially be a manager, which would be freaking amazing! i am very excited. AND i get a 40% discount which i am veryveryvery excited about too. I am also working for my friend's dad at his kiosk in the mall. it is a super easy job. so needless to say this semester and next year i am going to be spending a lot of time at the mall. which is going to make it very difficult to not spend all my money there. I will just have to practice some restraint. i can do it :)

I am taking this semester off of school because i am trying to either get into BYU or get utah residency so that UVU will not be so dang expensive. Hopefully i get into byu. OH and i just changed my major to nursing. I'm going to be a Nurse Practitioner. to be a nurse practitioner is only 2 extra years after nursing school and it pays a lot more and has great hours. so i've decided to that. I am so excited! Nursing school is going to be hard tho and i wish i could just be done with school already and into my career but i have a waaaaaaaaaaaayysss to go. it will great tho.

I am also applying for byu HAWAII. yuhboiii!! i went to hawaii for one of my best friend's wedding last week and i FELL IN LOVE with hawaii. It was so amazing. it is soo pretty and the people are so nice and laid back. i would love to go to byu hawaii and live there. some people say that they wouldnt want to live there because then where would they vacation. which makes sense. but freak, I can think of aton of other places i would love to go vacation.( like the mountains, europe, new york, italy, paris etc etc.) It would be super expensive tho which is why i would only want to live in hawaii for school, or if i had a ton of money and was able to afford traveling. It would suck to be so far away from everything. and hawaii is super humid. i could deal with the humidity since the beach is everywhere and i think i would really love it. ANYWHO. ashley's wedding was SO pretty! the Kona Temple (where they got married) is really beautiful. i loved all the exotic flowers they had on the temple grounds. I am so glad i got to go! ashley looked beautiful too. her dress was very vintage and simple but super pretty. The whole wedding party stayed in a rad beach house RIGHT across the street from the beach. my first day i woke up at 4 o clock in the freaking AM because of the time change. but i actually didnt mind waking up that early. kat and kim were already awake too so we all went to the store with Jerry to get some food to make breakfast. Jerry and kim seriously make bomb breakfasts. anyways all week long we were able to spend a lot of time at the beach and with each other and it was SO much fun! I have no idea how to post pictures on this thing so if any of you people know how... fill me in :). otherwise theres some on facebook. so i really enjoyed hawaii and i reallyreallyreally hope i get into byu hawaii because that woudl be awesome!

well i think that is pretty much it for now i cant think of anything else too exciting that has gone on. oh wait actually i ran a marathon a few weeks back!! it was a lot of fun and i can now see why some people get addicted to running marathons. i met some really funny marathon runners. there was one 65 year old lady who has ran like 70 marathons! crazy huh! and she is setting me up on a date with her son. haha. there was also like a ton of 70 and 80 year old men running it. man, i just hope i can walk at that age! haha jk but they were amazing shape for their age. hopefully i will be running one again in like apr or may next year so if any one want to join me feel free!

ohh i guess i will also tell about my experience at byu this summer. sorry this is so long... i just usually never feel like updating this thing! but i loooooveeee BYU! my summer semester there was so much fun! I only took a few classes.... volleyball, an online health class and new testament. my online health class was freakishly easy. volleyball was SO much fun! there were a lot of cool people in my class. and i loved loved my new testament class. it is probably my favorite class i have ever taken in my whole life. I learned SO much. My teacher was really awesome and amazingly knowledgeable in hebrew, greek, history, the new testament time period stuff and in the scriptures. I learned so much more about jesus's teaching and how true they are. we are so blessed to have this church and it's great teachings and guidlines. It really is the truth. I loved how my teacher would apply jesus' teachings to the us now. he gave us a lot of great true advice. i could go on and on about everything we discussed in that class, everyday i would call someone in my family or tell my roomates something i had learned or talked about in that class. it was great. so if anyone ever goes or is going to BYU, you shoud def take new testament from professor Draper. he is amazing. i also like how every class, even volleyball, started or ended with a prayer. def different than most universities and kind of weird at first, but i think that is so neat and i love it. byu is so centered around the church and it is really great.

Welp that is all for now. I am really loving utah again (i was missing texas a lot for a while there) and i have been having a ton of fun! hope everyone is doing good!

God made us sisters :)

okay so katherine's birthday was a few days ago, but i have not had access to a computer because i've been moving and what not. so HAPPY late BIRTHDAY KATHERINE! i wanted to write you a little something for your birthday. i love you kafrin. you are my best friend. soo for your birthday here are TWENTY THREE reasons why i love and look up to you


1. you are HILARIOUS. you always have me laughing with the witty or weird things you say. you seriously make me laugh harder than anyone i know.

2. i love how realistic you are. and how you see things for how they really are.

3. i love how you read so much. you are so knowledgeable in things bc you read so much. that is a great quality.

4. you are so dedicated to your husband and your marriage. i learned a lot from living with ya'll. ya'll are so perfect for eachother.

5. i love how you really listen to me when i tell you things. and you give me REAL advice. your the best advice giver i know.

6. i love how even tho i suck at telling stories or getting my point across, you always understand what i am trying to say. haha.

7. you are so understanding.

8. you have the best dog in the world.

9. you are such a great big sister kat. ever since i can remember you have always looked out for me and tried to protect me. i am so thankful to have you in my life and that you are MY big sister. you really are like my guardian angel here on earth

10. you are so giving. your so much like mom in that way.

11. your quick to admit when you are wrong. that may sound weird, but that is such a good quality. i remember when we were little and would fight that you always apoligized first.

12. i love your curly hair. lol. its true i've always wanted curly hair. i've even considered getting a perm.

13. thank you for ALWAYS being there for me. even if i'm not in the greatest mood, you can always make me laugh and feel better.

14. you are so thoughtful. from random texts or randomly bringing me home food, your always doing nice, thoughtful things for others.

15. i have so much fun with you kat. i mean really anything with you is fun. from reading magezines, being in a car for 10 hours, dancing, watching movies, working out, selling alarm systems, or sitting at home with moose we have fun. even being bored is fun with you. lol. we truly are the dream team :)

16. you dont mind telling people no or that you just dont want to do something. or to get over something. lol. your very truthful and i love that.

17. i love that you are always learning and trying to be better.

18. you have great style kathy. i love your house :)

19. you have a huge heart and always want to help everyone around you.

20. i love how you are able to work things out. like when things go wrong or there is a bad situation you are great at finding a solution or how to work it out. you realy are so smart.

21. you are so honest. and all about the truth in things.

22. i love your loud laugh. and how you laugh at everything with me. haha.

23. i love YOU


I miss seeing you everyday and being able to hang out with you all the time. you brighten my life katherine. i cant wait to see you hopefully in may! love you!!!!

Don't get your hopes up

okay, I am just making this blog so that i can read and comment on everyones blogs. haha. So dont get your hopes up because I prolly will not update very often. sorry, but my life is really just not that interesting right now for blogging. Right now I am living in utah working at the cheesecake factory and planning on going back to school in may. life is really good.

 well that is all for now, i will update when i have something meaningful or interesting to write. oh actually i did have a pretty funny conversation with my mom tonight. this was part of it...

mom: i finally worked out last night

me: really, good job mom what did you do?

mom: i did some stretches

me: hahaha

mom: haha well yeah i guess that not working out but it was good for my muscles

hahah my mom cracks me up. 

well thats it. have a wonderful valentines day everyone!!