Overflowing

Lifting-Burdens (click on this link)

My heart is overflowing today. I am so thankful for all of my blessings. I am thankful for a loving God and a loving earthly father who both know me and love me so much. I am thankful God loves me enough to allow me to grow. He lets me be stretched so that I can grow into a better person. I am thankful for the blessing of my trials that make me learn more about myself and my Heavenly Father. I am thankful for the love I always feel from him. From him and his Son. I am thankful for them both and that I can always count on them, no matter what the situation. That I get to be a daughter of such an amazing loving God and that I get to be made in his image. And develop qualities that I have from HIM.

I am thankful for the people that have been placed in my life at this time. For my wonderful family. My dad. My roommate. My friends. The different people I get to meet and learn from.

I am so thankful for the feeling of peace that the Spirit brings. And the knowledge that what I am doing is what I need to be doing right now. I'm thankful for Christ and his understanding love. I want to get to know him better and be more like him. I want to learn to love like he does.

Today I feel grateful for the peace I feel in my life from the Spirit. For the incredibly great love that I feel from my Heavenly Father. I am grateful for him and I know he is very real. My life is full of so many blessings and trials from a loving Heavenly Father...and for that,

I am so thankful.

My heart is being ripped into tiny, little pieces right now, and the only way to fix it is time.

"Not me Monday" is a great way to tell you all of the things I have been doing today that I wish I hadn't. Or something like that...I'm not really sure exactly. But here it goes.

Today I did NOT wake up extra early to go to aerobic fitness class only to find myself sitting around for 20 minutes because I was EARLY.

Today I did NOT run out of that same aerobics class to find myself passing out twice in a bathroom stall. Then puking up any small amount of liquid I had IN me, all over the bathroom floor, while coming to consciousness. Only to return as quickly as possible to that same intense class to work out, while watching my pale white face in the mirror and praying I didn't pass out in front of everyone.

I apologize for the negativity but today has kind of been one of "those" days. My head is still seeing spots. bleh.

Smittens.

Okay, so I couldn't help it when I saw these. Aren't they so awesome?
:)

The SNUGGIE.

Ok, I will have you know that ever since I first heard of the SNUGGIE, I thought it was the most ridiculous waste of money of the year. Every time I heard mention of the beloved SNUGGIE, I couldn't help rolling my eyes. I mean honestly, why not just go to the hospital and wear one of their gowns instead? Neither the SNUGGIE or the hospoital gowns have backs on them, so it's the same idea. Right?



I guess you could say I was a little on the antiSNUGGIE side. I mean honestly, who wants to watch a movie wearing a backwards robe? Where DO they come up with such weird ideas?

Then out of no where all of my friends started getting snuggies, and having snuggie ceremonies, and joining with the SNUGGIE side. Lame? Yes. In fact, it was so lame I will say it twice. Lame.

But then Christmas day, I ripped open the carefully wrapped present from a SNUGGIE wearing friend and yes...I now own a pink backwards bathrobe.

Also known as: a snuggie.

I'll admit, they aren't as bad as I thought, and they may be overrated. But I have joined the SNUGGIE side and they are actually pretty warm to wear while watching a movie. And still have your arms free and warm.

In fact, I'm wearing my snuggie right now. So before judging the snuggie or rolling your eyes, take it from me...They aren't all bad.

If you completely refuse them like I did, maybe you could go try on your bathrobe backwards. At least those ones would close in the back.

This is what happens...[part 2]

When you haven't had sleep for a week and all the power in the little city of Rexburg goes completely OUT

No traffic lights. No street lights. Nothing. Except the sound of about every apartment in town screaming liike they had never seen a power outage before. It was complete chaos. My roommate started crying, I never saw her cry...until the POWER went out. Who knew?

Everyone had just finished finals so this is what happens when the power goes out in Rexburg...


A dance party in my parking lot! Complete with music from a few cars, lots of random people showing up




And of course fireworks and sparklers! No dance party is complete without those. Even the weather was cooperating at a toasty 34 degress.;)



Last but not least: I know this is sad but this picture is the first time ALL of my roommates and I were together all semester long. I'm not even exaggerating a little bit. It ended up being a lot of crazy-random-finals are over-power is out-type fun.



So next time the power goes out...why not invite all your friends and have a dance pary!?
(don't forget the sparklers.)

Finals

It's almost six in the morning and I am still awake working away. I decided I wanted to take a break and relax for a minute. Finals week is insane. They say your first semester is the hardest. But really...I don't think finals are ever going to get any easier.