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!