Yuminess

So, I don't know if it's really much of a secret.. But uh. I like to eat. Like it's great, ya know? 

I eat a ton! I can for sure put it away. But I also like to eat healthy so it can sometimes be kind of conflicting... until now! I found my newest addiction and they are healthy and yummy!

Maybe not in the massive quantities I eat them but one step at a time..

Energy Balls

 (in my defense I didn't come up with the name)

1 cup dry oatmeal

2/3 cup toasted coconut - it doesn't have to be toasted but I love the crunchiness you get if it is

1/2 cup peanut butter

1/2 cup ground flaxseed or wheat germ - I actually usually do both

1/2 cup chocolate chips

1/3 cup honey

1 tsp vanilla

(I usually add a few spoonfuls of chia seeds and some cinnamon too)

by the way.. in the pictures I doubled the recipe so that's why there is massive amounts

they kind of look like bird food.. haha but I promise they're good!!

K, now that you've got all that stuff.. stick it in a big bowl and have at it! Seriously. Just stir and form into little balls! Store them in the fridge and voila!

Napping

Sleep has been pretty scarce around these here parts. Ever since I moved out I don't get to bed before 1 or 2. 

Yikes.

Last semester when I lived at home, I was asleep by 11. Like. every. night. It was the best. 

Now, I am zombie central every day at school.

Like today for instance. 8 am classes aren't good for anybody lesbihonest... (Pitch Perfect anyone??)

It was so bad I could not focus in any of my classes. My eyes were twitching uncontrollably and I swear bricks were sitting on my eyelids.

Also, ya know that awkward moment when you are just staring off into space and when you finally realize you are staring at someone and they are staring back? Yeah that happened. Like 4 times. 

It was one of those ugly stares too. Like open mouth and all!

One time I even found a little drool pooled at the corner of my mouth. It didn't spill over, thank the heavens for that.. That coulda been really awkward.

I'm pretty sure people think differently of me since Friday.

After class, I sped home and jumped right in bed. Like, full on in bed. And I slept for a glorious 3 and a half hours. So, that was fun.

And there was my very successful Friday. Have a good weekend!!

The New Year

Well, we're 2 weeks in. Success so far! 

I have been thinking about this for a while and could not for the life of me decide what I wanted my January's Resolutions to be! (haha)

But, seriously. I thought and thought.. Finally I just gave up. Great, huh?

Then, I decided to have a theme for 2013 instead of resolutions.

Ready for it...

It's Improvement.

Haha cliche or what? In all seriousness though, 2012 was a year of a lot of personal growth for me and that's something I want to keep rolling with. 

I don't want to make any huge changes but just small improvements every single day. Little by little.

For instance...

~Having a better attitude. I don't always and I'm sorry for whoever has encountered me on those instances! It's something I want/need to work on.

~Being more grateful. A while ago in a post I mentioned how I was feeling really blessed. I want to work on recognizing that every day.

~I want to work on being more involved. I love my Instagram and Snapchat and I'm not giving them up if that's what you're thinking... That would be a New Year's Resolution fail to the max haha. I just want to make a conscious effort to really be present wherever I am.

~Being more faithful. Saying a prayer when I'm all tucked in my bed basically asleep isn't probably the best thing ever haha. Neither is finding the shortest scripture in the whole book and calling that good for the night ha. It's a work in progress, okay?

~I want to make more of an effort to serve other people. Do something every single day even if it's just little!

And... Last one. 

Getting out of my comfort zone here kids!

That pretty much wraps it up for me. Hope everyone else's Resolutions are going great and you haven't given up quite yet!

Bring it on 2013. 

The New Year

I got my wisdom teeth taken out on Friday and it has not been so fun to say the least.

It is now day 4 and I am still so swollen. No bueno. 

When I came out I was pretty loopy, naturally, and my mom videoed it. All I did was cry! I wasn't in pain, I just cried. Haha. I kept saying, "Mom, I just want a Jamba Juice and to go see Les Mis!!"

I told you I was obsessed.

We also have been babysitting Ali's bunny, Rue. Who is the cutest thing ever!! So, I spent my time on the couch with my trusty Jamba and Rue-bun. 

how cute is she!?

My face did get a ton fatter after this picture was taken by the way...

If you need me tonight on this wonderful New Year's Eve, I'll probably be at home, icing my chubby face, eating ice cream, and wondering when I can marry this dream boat...

Have a wonderful and safe New Year!!

Obsessed

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!!! I know I did.

Santa brought me an Iphone! Woop! 

Bout time too, I mean this is the 21st century right?

I don't know how I ever lived without it or Emojis!!! I add them in to every text. No matter what. A little obsessed.

this is how we communicate. it's pretty awesome

Also, we saw Les Miserables. If you haven't seen it, drop whatever you are doing right this second and go see it! I mean it. It was phenomenal! I had chills the whole entire time and may or may not have cried. Like sobbed. Haha i'm a sucker.....

....for Marius. Let's end this post and just take a second to look....

Yep. You're welcome. 

She's Alive!!!!

Yes, I am alive!!! For all those who were wondering...(mom...)

My sanity may have been challenged but I made it through the semester and I am not giving it one more thought. So, that's enough about that... 

The day after I finished my finals, I picked up Savy from her last final and we were on the road to California. Partly because I was taking her home, partly because I was picking Indy up, but mostly just because I needed a break. And a glorious one it was!!

I think it might have been my new found freedom that made the trip so magical. I'm serious! Everything was sooo beautiful and sooo delicious and soooo fun. After that, 2 days in Disneyland was icing on the cake. 

Spent one day at the Happiest Place on Earth with these crazies 

(Aunt Christy, your girls are the best. Make room, cause I'm moving in!!!)

Spent the other day with these fine ladies. 3 oldest cousins unite!

The rest of trip summed up is as follows: lots of running, lots of eating, lots of cousin time, and seeing Indy!!!

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right?

I love running here

Banzai Bowl... soooo good, soo healthy for you, and soooo gone. 

Aaaaaaand to finish off this awesome post, I give you... A hidden mickey. Did you know there are a bunch of these hidden on every ride?? Mind you, they are close to impossible to find but here is one! And probably the only one I will ever find. 

:)

Now, I'm off to go Christmas shopping! I haven't even started. It's the 22nd. I'm awesome. 

Cheers!!! 

Lucky

This is one of those moments when I really have so much to do and shouldn't be blogging but, it is what it is. I just needed to share a few thoughts I've been having lately. 

This semester has been hands down the hardest time I have ever experienced in my life. Not even just with school but with life in general. I have never felt so overwhelmed, so stressed, so incapable, and pretty much anything else bad. I've been such a train wreck lately and my emotions are off the charts. I'm seriously surprised people don't hate me. Or maybe they do.. Haha

A few days ago, I was having my weekly breakdown (I allow myself one breakdown a week. Yeah, it's just that hard.. Maybe I'm just that pathetic?) and my AMAZING dad talked me through this one. 

I told him how I felt like I was drowning and I wasn't going to make it until the end of the semester. I told him I wanted to quit and just be done with school. I was seriously on the verge of hysteria, you know, sobbing so hard you can't breathe and then start hiccuping. 

He told me to relax for a second.

Then, he reminded me how lucky I am. 

At first, I just stared at him... (and secretly wanted to smack him...) I wanted to yell at him, "Are you freaking kidding me!? I'm taking one of the hardest classes in the western half of the nation, studying 30+ hours a week, working, and running for the university! I barely have time to shower! And you think I'm lucky!?!?"

This semester has really brought out the drama in me. 

He proceeded to tell me that I am even lucky to be going to school, he reminded me that even if I don't do well my parents won't love me any less, my Heavenly Father won't love me any less, and that I'm still pretty darn great. 

Then, it hit me. Like a brick to the face.

I AM so lucky.

I have a home to come to every night with a warm bed to sleep in, and even though my classes suck I'm so blessed to even be going to school. I have a healthy body and a loving family. I have a knowledge of the gospel and I get to see it bless my life everyday.

My mom's cousin just lost her 17 month old little boy in a tragic accident a few days ago and it would have been the most heartbreaking thing ever if I didn't know that he is with our Heavenly Father, a perfect person with his job here on earth done. I'm so grateful and lucky to know that. 

So even though I don't get as much sleep as I need, I cry pretty much on the daily, I'm at school for 12 hours a day, and my life seems so hard right now....

I have the best team in the whole world backing me up.

And yeah, I'm pretty darn lucky.