Happiness is..... being grateful

Mom buying me Cafe Rio!
The greatest babble necklace around!
Getting all my homework done
Going to Vegas
Having the best family ever
2nd Annual Harry Potter Extravaganza

Listening the greatest book
going for walks
The yummiest Thanksgiving feast EVER!
Being so grateful
Learning from trials
Being considered "Adult"
Totally got this for FREE! 

Getting door bell ditched at 9pm to find balloons, this banner, and little Costa Rican flags in the lawn:

Finally getting home. (I've been gone a long time!)

No longer living out of a suit case!

Workin' on my fitness

Cutie Clemintines (Yea.... I may or may not have ate an entire bunch in two days....)

Zumba (BEST EXERCISE EVER! GO DO IT!)

Running faster and longer than ever. 

I'm not usually a Tswift fan, but this song was the best to Zumba to EVER. 

Candle light bubble baths 

And just in case you thought I couldn't do the Gangnam Style:

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

Princess Yessica

This is a list of quotes that my roommate Jessica has said to me at random times during the semester: 

Me:"I'm trying to be like Jesus, okay?"

Jessica: "Well I'm not!......"

"He is like super Asian"

*Watching TV*
Jessica: "Oh my gosh, did you see that?"
*I look up from my computer*
Me: "Um... No... what?"
Jessica: "JOE JONAS IS GOING TO BE ON THIS EPISODE!"
*Jessica begins to flail her arms and her entire body around on the couch*

Jessica: "I WANT TO  BE BLOGSPOT FAMOUS!"

A voice mail I received from Jessica on 10/17/12:
"You called me earlier, so I am calling you back, but you didn't answer..... You swine." *click*

 A voice mail I received from Jessica on 10/22/12:
"Hi this is Jessic....... Hello this is Jessica, my number is 3-...... What the h***?!?!"

*In response to me telling her to tell me a bed time story*
"Once upon a time there was a little baby boy named Jesus. And he was born in Bethlehem and then he moved to Nazareth. And that's why they say that he is from there. The end."

"THAT'S NOT FUNNY! HURRICANES ARE NOT FUNNY!"

"You could get pelvic thrusted"

*Please sing the following to the spider man theme*
"Baby butts, baby butts.... it smells good like baby butts."

Jessica "I'm sad......"
Everyone one too busy to take notice
Jessica: " I SAID that i'm sad!"
Me: "Oh, what happened princess?"
Jessica: "All my donuts are gone."

Jessica: "I better not be missing any Joe Jonas right now."
Me: "You're not."
Jessica: "Better not... or else...."

 "I really like when people 'UH' at the ends of words....
....I'm KIDDINGUH!"

"It's not mine whose humor has gone dry, it's yours."

"YOU CAN'T USE THE BATHROOM! It is FORBIDDEN!"

Her favorite video ever:

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My best friend Mindy Kaling

This is Mindy Kaling.

This is her book that I just read: 

It was so great. 

Now be warned- There are a couple of swears.... 

(*Gasp! Sister Missionary! What are you READING?*)

But I swear, Mindy gets me. 

People always say they want Zooey Deschanel to be their best friend, 

and that's cool.

But my celebrity best friend is officially Mindy Kaling.

Everything she had to say I related to.

I laughed.

 I cried.

(Mostly because I was laughing so hard)

It moved me, Bob. 

Some of my Favorite quotes: 

“You should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well. I say it’s acid in the face—who will love them now?”

“Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.” 

“Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.” 

“It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.” 

“Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it.” 

“I’m only marginally qualified to be giving advice at all. My body mass index is certainly not ideal, I frequently use my debit card to buy things that cost less than three dollars because I never have cash on me, and my bedroom is so untidy it looks like vandals ransacked the Anthropologie Sale section. I’m kind of a mess.” 

“The chorus of “Jack and Diane” is: Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone. Are you kidding me? The thrill of living was high school? Come on, Mr. Cougar Mellencamp. Get a life.” 

“Even in my revenge fantasy where all I do is exercise, I can still do only twenty-five pull-ups. Pull-ups are tough, no joke.” 

“If I’m at a party where I’m not enjoying myself, I will put some cookies in my jacket pocket and leave without saying good-bye.”

.... You see what I mean? It's like she is writing my thoughts in the most witty and funny way possible!

Happiness is... Costa Rica

Busy days to make time speed up!

"Family" Dinners with the bro's. 

Flour fights for FHE

Linda letting me borrow Oliver for the Carpool lane
Having lots of family over for the big announcement
Getting called to COSTA RICA!
Going to chili's with the siblings
Being unhealthily lazy
Having the highest blogging stat's yet... (are you all coming back?)
This BRIGHT pink shirt! (put some shades on)
Watching Dr. Who again

Jolie's fabulous red lipstick
Sister Missionary mall
Shopping for Sister missionary clothes
Texas Roadhouse and feeling like this:

My best friend is finally ENGAGED!
And she told me before facebook knew!
Chocolate covered raisens first thing in the morning

Pura Vida

Pfft.... I am not obsessed.... 




Costa Rica: Get Living from Patrick Pierson on Vimeo.

....I'm not!

I SAID that I'm NOT!

Okay! Fine, you totally got me. 

I'm obsessed. 

They called me on a mission!

Yesterday, a VERY  important envelope came in the mail

Before you scroll down, please watch the following video to see what happened when I opened the envelope:

COSTA RICA, SAN JOSE! 

People! I have LITERALLY been called to paradise! 

This is the PERFECT mission for me!

Spanish speaking!

Warm weather!

Latin America!

...The Lord is the BEST! 

I am just so happy right now! 

And I guess we can add one more name to the list: "Hermana". 

Happiness is...dancing your night away

Charity date auctions
"Yeauuuup!"
noise makers
Wreck it Ralph

Great friends
Late nights
Sleeping in
A brand new month
Planning Harry Potter Extravaganza
Getting rid of butterflies in your stomach (They kind of hurt!)
Dancing the night away

Advice from my Uncle Alex
less than  45 days until Christmas
The gift of patience... when I'm blessed with it.
Strong guys or somethin'
Free body messages
The girls I work with
the company I work for
bearing your testimony in class
G.I. JOE Public service announcements
Knowing that I get my mission call on WEDNESDAY!
Spending Saturday morning in your pajamas
The monthly trips to IF for Target
Michael Buble Christmas album
Secret Pinboards!

Happy Birthday Uncle David

A list of lessons I have learned from my Uncle David:

Just because a room quickly fills with fog, does not mean it's on fire.

When you're the oldest niece, you OBVIOUSLY get to be the "maid of honor"

(even if you are only 11 years old)

How to barn dance.

To be brave enough to ask someone out on fun dates.

To make those younger than you feel important.

How to listen and make the person talking feel like 100 bucks

Treasure hunts can be more fun than any movie or paid entertainment.

To NEVER take for granted your time with your family.

To always make sure you get one last hug in before you say goodbye. 

To be a friend to those who don't have many. 

That castles can be in your very own backyard. 

That Angels are always very close by.

That children are closer to the veil then we imagine.

What it means to selflessly serve someone-even when it's hard.

What it REALLY means to be an eternal family.
That I do not, in fact, have the worst problems in life.
He taught me that I do not want a winter wedding- because his was FREEZING.
How cool the harmonica and guitar are.
The song "Leaving on a Jet Plane"
.... And the song "Seize the day" because of the swamp monster
How fun it can be to drive down a steep hill really fast.
It's cool to be silly.

That sometimes you can actually feel the prayers of loved ones and strangers holding you up.


Thanks for all the life lessons Uncle Dave- especially in the year since we've lost you.

More people who love Dave:
Tiff
Our families blog with how we deal with missing David

Daddy-o

We are goobers together:

We travel together:

You taught me everything there is to know about Star wars and 80's music,

I love you so much Daddy-O

Happy Birthday!