Spring!

Wow, that was a long time ago! Sorry that I haven't posted in so long! Anyways, I am so glad that spring is here. It is my favorite season. Everything is just so alive! Today we were out working on shoveling poo! haha I know it sounds gross, but it was hard work.

I broke my big toe on my left foot the other day. It hurt the first two days, but now I can walk pretty well. The story is pretty embarrassing. I was in P.E and we were playing around with hool-lo-hoops (if that's how you spell it). I dropped mine and dove for it. Well, I landed wrong and I could barely walk. Luckily my mom was substitute teaching that day at our school. I went to her and she put PanAway, Peppermint, and Wintergreen on it. Now I am not in pain!

I'm going babysitting today for our neighbors, Greg and Rachelle H. I love babysitting for them, it is always a blast! Yesterday I babysat for them and we dyed Easter eggs. It was a ton of fun. They kept telling my about how the Easter Bunny is going to come tomorrow. It was especially cute because they have a 2 year old boy named Lincoln and he is just adorable. Anyways, he wanted me to read them a story before they dyed the eggs. So he gave me this book about the Easter Bunny that was fairly long. He sat there, through the whole thing, every now and then pointing out something about the pictures, it was so cute. I just love those kids.

I am excited for stake conference tomorrow. I always love hearing our stake presidency speak, they are just so powerful. I got to go to the temple on Wednesday with my ward. People always say that they feel a wonderful spirit in the temple. Before this trip I never really felt that, but this trip was different. I really felt it, and I think it was because I went there ready to feel it. The other times I just kind of went expecting to, but I think that we need to be open to the spirit to have it. I was ready to receive revelation, and I got it. I also think that this was a result of the scripture mastery that I have been memorizing. It has really helped my draw closer to God. I am grateful that we have the scriptures to read.

Trammy Wammy

On Friday night Darrin and Nathan L. slept over at our house and hung out with us the whole day on Saturday. It was overcast, and there wasn't much to do. Wondering what we did? Warning: might be crazy and overly awesome, may be dangerous for the brain. haha

Don't ask.

This was so much fun. Afterwords there was no more boredom, of course it was all Joseph's idea. He choreographed it for us all, THANK YOU JOSEPH!!!!

Lyrics

These are the lyrics of a really good song that I heard on the radio. Go to youtube to listen to it. Make sure that you read the lyrics while you listen to it, pay attention to them.

What Faith Can Do

LYRICS:

Everybody falls sometimes
You gotta find the strength to rise
From the ashes and make a new beginning
Anyone can feel the ache
You think its more than you can take
But you’re stronger, stronger than you know

And don’t you give up now
The sun will soon be shining
You gotta face the clouds
To find the silver lining

(Chorus)

I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains
Hope that doesn’t ever end
Even when the sky is falling
I’ve seen miracles just happen
Silent prayers get answered
Broken hearts become brand new
That’s what faith can do

It doesn’t matter what you’ve heard
Impossible is not a word
Its just a reason for someone not to try
Everybody’s scared to death
You may decide to take that step
Out on the water
But it’ll be all right
Life is so much more
Than what your eyes are seeing
You will find your way
If you keep believing

(Chorus)

Overcome the odds
When you don’t have a chance
(That’s what faith can do)
When the world says you can’t
It will tell you that you can

(Repeat Chorus)

Even if you fall sometimes

You will have the strength to rise

Curled!!!

Here is my hair curled, I love it! It's so cute!!

I especially like this one.

Jesse curled it and then took the pictures. She did a really good job. I told her that I wanted her to curl my hair so she did and it didn't take very long, especially since she used our straightener. I think it looks really cute in the back. This is my favorite shirt too.

Before & After

Guess what??? I got a hair cut!!! Here are the before & after pictures

Before:

After:

It is so short now! My mom did all of this. (With help from Jesse) And they also cut my bangs and "fixed them up." My dad thought this all was great! (as you can see) Jesse wanted to curl it so bad but I said, "No I want to enjoy it how it is for a while, but you can do it later." She kept asking to and finally I gave in to a crimp, but that didn't work out very well so we just left it how it was. I'll make a later post and show a picture of my curled hair.

A Bunch Quotes That I Found and Liked

Here are a bunch of quotes that I found and really liked.

"When life’s problems seem

overwhelming, look around

and see what other people

are coping with. You may

consider yourself fortunate."

- Ann Landers

"Do not let what you can't do

interfere with what you can

do." - John Wooden

"The indispensable first step

to getting the things you

want out of life is this:

decide what you want."

- Ben Stein

"Never give up, never,

never give up."

- Winston Churchill

"Many of life’s failures

are people who did not

realize how close they

were to success when

they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"The heights men reached

and kept, were not attained

by sudden flight, but they,

while there companions slept,

were toiling upward in the night."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"One important key to success is

self-confidence. An important key

to self-confidence is preparation."

- Arthur Ashe

"What lies behind us, and what lies
before us are small matters
compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The belief in a thing makes it happen."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you
run into a wall, don't turn around and
give up. Figure out how to climb it,
go through it, or work around it."
- Michael Jordan

"Come to the edge, he said. They said:
We are afraid. Come to the edge, he
said. They came. He pushed them,
and they flew..."
- Guillaume Apollinaire

"A journey of a thousand miles must
begin with a single step."
- Chinese Proverb