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Hello My Fellow Bloggers!

How is everyone's Tuesday? I hope it's going well!

I have exciting news! So I have officially signed up for my online class for the Spring semester! Due to the fact that I can't leave Utah yet; in order to have a spot for Fall term I have to take at least one online class! BYU-Idaho doesn't let freshmen defer their first semester and so that's the only option I can take! I am perfectly okay with that because I can still go to school in the Fall! I will admit I am a little nervous to do an online class just because I am a visual learner and I do better in the classroom, but I know I can do this! I am taking my history class because I feel it was the best one I could do on my own! Math and Science are definitely ones I need to do in the classroom and English? Forget doing 20 page papers until Fall! So that is some exciting news!

So today's post is about fitness! I have been reading this Paleo Solution book and I said a couple posts back that I was ready to take this new lifestyle down! I am happy with what Robb Wolfe has said and I believe every word he wrote! I was doing really well at first, but then once I started thinking about my future and my life and what I wanted, I started to get depressed! I wasn't happy at all! I stopped exercising! I stopped eating healthy! I even stopped calling my family every week! I was a mess! I didn't know what was going on! I didn't have the self-control I used to have! I didn't care about anything or anyone! I ate what I wanted and I thought I would feel better, but I just felt worse and worse! All I wanted to do was curl up in a ball and sit there and eat peanut butter! I was unhappy with myself and I would cry and cry about what was happening to me! I could not figure out why I was like this! So I decided to do the one thing that I thought was best! I got on my knees and asked the Lord for strength to get me through the next day! I am finally back on track and ready to get the body I want and deserve! I like being healthy and I like working out! I love the sweat and the feeling of satisfaction! Nothing feels better than to workout your hardest and get the results you want! I am ready to change my life! I am ready for a change and new opportunities! I just have to make it one day  at a time! I am not going to get into shape over night! It takes patience and hard work! I am ready! I am ready!

A Decision Has Been Made

Hello my fellow bloggers!

How is everyone's Monday going? I hope good! I hope everyone was able to recover from the long weekend yesterday and officially get back to reality today! I am still a little on the tired side, but hey I will definitely go to bed early tonight!

So you know how I was having a hard time trying to decide what I wanted to do with my life in the next few months? Well I have finally reached a decision! I am going to BYU-Idaho starting September 10th! It has been a hard few weeks and it has been so stressful and emotional! I am so relieved that I finally received my answer! I will say that I don't know how to really react to the answer I got, but I think that God has a different plan for me than the one I had in mind and I need to trust him! He knows what I need to be doing with my life and so I am going to go with it! If it's where I am supposed to be then everything will work out in the end! I am a little upset that professional dancing is not in my future/answer, but I feel that dance will never leave me! I have been dancing ever since I could walk and it will always be a part of who I am! If I want to dance then I know that there will be someplace that I can dance for fun and to have that little happiness in my life! It will always be there when I want to do it!  I realized that I can always teach and share my talent with others which is just as great as dancing! It definitely is not the same, but it is just as rewarding! Choreography is something I would like to pursue which is perfect for me to still teach! Now I can move on to my new career as becoming a dietician/zumba instructor/yoga instructor/whatever! It is a new chapter in my life and I am actually pretty excited about it! I am excited to go to school and to start my new life as an official college student! I have always wanted to go to school and look.....now I have the chance! I know that school is where I need to be right now and so I am going to take it with full force! Sadly that means that come June I have to leave The Pointe and Center Stage and move back home to Idaho, but teaching has been nothing but a huge blessing in my life! My students are fantastic and I could not have asked for better and sweeter girls! Such hard workers and I loved every minute with them! I have decided that I am going to make these last two months worth all the stress and hard work! Make every last minute count! I feel so blessed to have had the opportunity to dance with my dream team Odyssey Dance Theater! Dancing with such amazing people really made me realize that I was just as good as them! It helped me grow as a dancer and person and I am so grateful that I did it! What better blessing could I ask for! I am so happy for the past few months I have spent down here in Utah! I thank the Lord for my blessings and now its even more to come as I start school! Let's make the best of it!:)

Have a great day everyone! Hope everyone's Monday is awesome! Time for me to get my classes together for the week and prepare for some Ultimate Frisbee for FHE! By the way Ultimate Frisbee is my new favorite game to play! SO MUCH FUN! I highly suggest everyone does it! It is athletic, energetic, competitive, intense, and flat out fun!:)


This is my new favorite picture!! ENJOY

Such A Fun Weekend!

How was everyone's weekend? Well I will just say that I had one of the funnest weekends! Two of my really good friends Saylee and Kayla came all the way down from Pocatello and Rexburg to spend the weekend with me and go to The Festival Of Colors! All I can say is WOW! What a blast that was! This was all of our first times going and we were absolutely blastered! It was so much fun being able to throw chalk/paint at each other without feeling guilty about it! Sadly I forgot my camera so I kind of missed the window of taking pictures which I am super upset about! For some odd reason I didn't even think about taking my camera! I was so mad when we got there because once you go in; NO RE-Entry and so we just had to take pictures with our phones! I cannot get over how much fun that was! We were covered head to toe in orange, green, purple, red, pink, blue and who knows what other colors! Saylee, Kayla, and I have officially made it a tradition that we attend this event every year! It was that much fun! Totally worth the thousands of people that go and the $2.00 to get in:) There were even some times that we came into view of some interesting people! People that wore too short of shorts, not long enough shirts, wedding dresses and tux, goggles! You name it and we probably saw it; but boy we just made laughs out of the sights we saw! It was quite the image! We could not get enough of the color throwing! We were there for six hours because we did not want to miss the color throwings! Every two hours they did a huge color throwing (picture below) where everyone there took color and threw it in the air! If you looked up, you literally could not see the sky! It was insane and disgusting! The smell and taste was not pleasant, but boy was it worth it! It was at a beautiful Hindu temple in Spanish Fork and it was so much fun! Even though the after effects were not pleasant; the muddy look of meshed colors, the incredibly large amount of dust coming off your clothes and hair, and the outrageous amount of color all over your body (fingernails, toenails, you name it!) It was so worth it though! I could not have asked for a better weekend with better friends! We had many laughs, had time to catch up on each other's lives, and just enjoying the joys of being a 19-year-old! Sadly back to reality and work tomorrow, but this weekend was definitely one worth remembering!
(These aren't ones I took sadly:( but this is pretty much what it was like)

(Color Throwing)

(The beautiful Hindu temple- This is a before picture! You should see it after the Festival eww)

(Basically this is what we looked like)

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions!

Wow is all I can say at this moment! I am kind of stressing right now! I did not realize until now that growing up SUCKS! I have had some pretty rough last couple of weeks because I don't know what the next chapter is in my life! I am having a hard time trying to decide what I want to do and where I want to go! I cannot decide if I want to continue dancing or if I want to go to school! I have been praying and thinking about all my options and I think I might have an answer, but it is still a little fuzzy! I have always had it in my mind to go to college! I have always wanted to and I definitely will someday! I just didn't know till now that that time is NOW! It has hit me like a ton of bricks and I feel like I need to move on to the next chapter of my life which is building my career in the health and exercise department! Becoming a dietician/zumba instructor! Whatever I just want to work in a gym or work with health and fitness! It is something I have always wanted to do and I feel like I can really do it! It has just been kind of stressful lately because since I didn't know what I was going to do in the fall I waited too long to do anything about it! Now I am trying to get everything done and it is kind of making me lose my marbles! I am upset that I waited this long, but someone (up there in heaven) wasn't answering my prayers as fast as I wanted/needed! I feel like I finally have some-what of a clear answer and I am starting to head in the right direction! Only problem is is I am a little behind! Ah!

(This is what I feel like doing right now; except with crazier eyes!)

I like my life is going on a roller coaster right now! Some days I am up and happy and others I am down and depressed! Right now I am missing my family and its hard being away from them especially when I am moving home at the end of May! I am trying my hardest to lose weight and get back to my old self that I know I can become again, but with me being impatient it isn't going as fast as I want to and I am getting frustrated! But I also need to remember that I have great family and friends that keep me going! I have amazing students that I get to teach and I am just grateful to even have a job! I need to keep my head up! I always need to be positive and move forward! Life is too short to hold anything back! I know that I can conquer these "problems" I got! I know I can do anything! Lets all keep that in mind that we are stronger then we all think! We can all conquer anything!:) Have a great Thursday everyone! I get to go teach an awesome class at Center Stage! Yay! Cheers to the weekend coming up!

OH and if anyone is going to The Hunger Games premiere tonight! I want to know all about it!

Letters Make Me Happy!:)

So I have to say is letters make me happy! I have some of the best guy friends in the world! Having the courage to leave your home for two years to serve the Lord is outstanding to me and my friends are doing that exact thing! I feel so blessed to have such strong men in my life not only for me to look up to, but to also learn from! I could not ask for anything better! I may sound like a creeper or weirdo or something, but I don't care! Every day when I get home from teaching I always make sure to check the mailbox! It is definitely on of my highlights of the day because sometimes there might just be a letter in there for me! I get so excited when I receive! Always puts the cherry on top of my day!

Okay so I may not be this creative, but still I thought it was a cute picture and maybe I should try this because I think my letters should go into a scrapbook! So back to my love of letters! One of the biggest favors I asked my missionaries (not that they are already busy with so much) I asked each of them if they would put a scripture on the back of their letters that they think I should read for the week! Well I can definitely say that I am extremely grateful that I did this because I have been striving to read my scriptures every night (by the way I am doing pretty darn good) and it has made scripture reading all the more better! I can say that the Lord works in very mysterious ways because so far these last two weeks; every scripture I have read has been one that I feel like I needed to hear! Talk about the Spirit works strong! I was so happy and it makes the letter not only fun to read, but it has a spiritual side to it! The missionaries also always tell me a story that happened to them in the last week or two and some of them are interesting, sometimes scary, and sometimes absolutely amazing! I am so happy for these boys and their hard work! They dedicate their lives for something and someone that is far more better than worldy things! They give up everything to teach people about The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints! It is amazing and so beautiful in every way possible! I am so thankful that this world has missionaries! The Lord needs his work done and the only way for that to happen is to have my friends: Tyler, Jordan, Steven, Spencer, Conrad, Tanner, and Cody and many others to do their job and spread around the world! I am so happy to have these people in my life! What better way to spend your day then by teaching people of Jesus Christ Our Savior! I love it! Hopefully one day when I am old and married and all my kids are gone, me and my husband will go on a mission and serve the Lord! It has always been one of my goals to serve a mission with my husband when I am older! Hopefully one day it can happen! Well time to get my day started! Hope everyone has a great Wednesday!:) Talk to you all soon!

HOW CUTE ARE THEY!?