College Life

Hey Everyone!!! It's been a while since I have done an update on life, and since I have officially entered into a new chapter of my life, I figure its about time.

First of all:

Meet my roommates:

Cambria, and Courtney

Katie, Janelle, and Courtney

Yes! We have two Courtney's at this house! Luckily, so far it hasn't been confusing at all. Hopefully it stays that way.

Now for the GRAND TOUR:

First of all, I am not doing the normal "freshman in the dorm" thing. The dorms filled up before I had even decided that I wanted to go to BYU-I, so I am living off campus, about 1 1/2 blocks away at Brookside Village. The best part about Brookside is that there are 6 girl in each apartment, but each girl has their own room!!! (Which is UNHEARD of at college!)

soo... This is my desk space. My whiteboard calendar and my cork board with pictures of friends a family. (I promise it doesn't always look this cluttered!)

My closet

My cute little house. (the on the left)

Our dining room

our family room

Kitchen

My bed, with my high school t-shirt quilt made by grandma!

Learning to Live

Some times I worry I am not taking advantage of the beautiful life that has been given to me.

Hear I am, born with a perfect body, with no deformities or health problems- so how could I ever complain about anything that is "going wrong" in my life.

Seriously, Am I so spoiled that I dare EVER complain?

This morning, the first thing that happened was I got a text message from a cousin letting me know that a cousin my age had died.

Carol Joy has always been a really big hero to me. For most of her life Carol Joy has been a wheel chair. Despite Carol Joy's hardships in life, she always tried her hardest to come to family reunion's and cousin retreats with a great attitude. She was always so positive and brave.

One of the best things I learned this last year has been to "Be here now". This is something I have to teach and re-teach myself every single day.

I sometimes take advantage of live.

I forget that each day is a gift.

I need to be more grateful.

It's a brand new day. The sun is shining- its a brand new day!

A Very Potter Musical

This so so funny. Its an original musical spoof about Harry Potter. It's a full length play (Which is VERY impressive if you ask me) so it takes some time to watch, but so worth your time! You will be laughing through the whole thing!

Favorite Buys of the week

This last week I got paid for an extended babysitting job and got my Retreat for Girls check in the mail on the same day. So after a VERY long time of not having any spending money, I went a little crazy with excitement. (Don't worry, not TOO crazy. Just more crazy than I have been able to go for a looooong time) Hopefully I have gotten in out of my system, because guess who is going to college with minimal money??? I thought I would share some of my favorites:

Blue Corduroy TOMS-

Wet Seal Red and Cream Cardigan:

The book Charlie St. Cloud: (I want to read it before I see the movie)

<---- See a closer up version here. I loved these bowls with every fiber of my being. Possibly the best bowls I will ever own.

They tell me...

The wise men build his house out of rock.

Pretty,eh?? Curtsy of

These are a few of my favorite things.....

1. Michael Buble

2. Spanx

3. My toms

3. Piano music (Epically with acoustic guitar and vocals)

4. Retreat for Girls

5. Mayballine Smokey eyes kits

6. Blogs

7. Biore Pore Strips

8. Penelope

All time favorite movie. So well done. The story is great, it's clean, and the videography is amazing. (Is videography a word???? Do you understand what I am saying? Its.. visually pleasing)

9. Body Butter-I have DRY DRY skin.

10. John Mayer

11. Bananagrams- Scrabble on steriods!!!! Such an addicting game. If you have never played, look into it

12. My laptop

13. Netflix

14. Family Reunions

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15. This CTR Ring.

16. Skype

17. Aussie Hair supplies

18. This video

19. Mugglecast

20. Facebook (This is pretty obvious)

21. Mario Kart (Any version)

I can relate......

one a day

Men That I love, Yet will probably never see in the flesh.

I honestly have a boring blog. I do. I wish I was more talented at writting and being witty enough to have people rush to read my blog posts every day, but HECK, I can't even write on my blog weekly. In fact, I have a HUGE, LONG blog post waiting in my "Save drafts" about Retreat for girls, that I am just waiting to get the motivation to finish. It will come one day.

But I thought I would take a break from my normal routine of just talking about what's going on in my life. I am not usually the "Swooning fan girl" type, but I had this sudden urge to publish a list of all the celebrity men I tend to love. Don't ask me why, because I don't have a good answer.

Men that I love: (In no order)

1. Justin Long-

Movie that I loved him most:He's just not that into in which his character is quite adorable.

Movies of his I want to see: He has a new movie with Drew Barrymore called "Going the Distance" (Which I wish desperately wasn't rated R).

Apparently he is also in Alvin and the Chipmunks the squeakuel. (No desire... sorry bud)

2. James McAvoy

Movies that I loved him most: Penelope and Becoming Jane (Which could quite possibly be my two favorite movies of all time)

Movies of his I want to see: Atonement (Also Rate R.... Phooey)

He also plays Mr. Tumnus in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

3. (My Embarrassing guilty pleasure) Zac Efron

Movies that I love him in: Obvious CLASSIC High school musical , Hairspray , 17 again

Movies of his I want to see: Charlie St. Cloud , Which has an awesome trailor:

4. Hugh Dancy

Movies that I love him in: Ella Enchanted and Confessions of a Shopaholic and This photo shoot in Glamour magazine that I drooled over for weeks, ripped out and put on my wall:

Here is a teaser:

5. Joseph Gorden-Levitt

Movies I love him in: 500 Days of summer and 3rd Rock from the Sun

Movies I want to see him in: Inception and rumored to be in Batman 3

I think he is one of the most under appreciated actors but I bet he gets really big when he is in Batman 3. Let it be known NOW that I thought he was talented before everyone else.

I can't think of anymore right now. This whole blog post is very uncharacteristic of me. I don't usually get googly eyed over celebrities. But there ya have it. Hopefully more Likes and Dislikes blog posts in the future! (Do you like this idea? or would you rather just hear about my day's? Leave a comment to let me know)

Retreat for Girls Session 1

Graduation

It began with me waking my self up with this quote in my head:

"Morning....Oh! It's Morning everyone! TODAY'S THE DAY! The sun is SHINING! The tank is CLEAN! and we are getting out of here..... *gasp!* the tank is clean.... THE TANK IS CLEAN!"

Over and over and OVER.

At 9 A.M. we had grad practice. Hot. Tedious.

Then that night it was time!