Interesting to me

I am the same height as Lady Sov, Reese Witherspoon and Lady Gaga.

That is A O.K. with me.


I love being short.


Rachel Bilson, Anna Paquin, Anne Hathaway, Alyssa Milano, Keira Knightley, Selena Gomez, Tina Fey, Sarah Palin ALL brown eyes and brown hair.

I rather enjoy having that lovely combination of features..



I can now go to sleep happy. :-)

"Please Don't Worry.

... cuz worry is wasteful and useless. "

New goal: Read my French Book Of Mormon by the end of this year. (In hopes of learning French fluently, ya know :-})

Stuff to look forward to this week:

1. Baptisms for the dead
2. EMS responder class/CPR certification
3. Preparation for speech course
4. Ride along with the fire department
5. Photography with mah girls
6. Search for costumes part I

I love my friends and family that help me get through so much and are always going to be there for me. My life is truly blessed and I'm so happy to be headed in such a bright direction. I've been having thoughts of where my life will be headed and in all honesty I can't stop dreaming of the future and how amazing everything is going to be. I just can't wait!

Life: A Constant Prayer

 I'm learning so much from other people these days. It's interesting to watch things change and grow and transform into something even better than what it was when it first was planted. The love we have for one another grows and becomes stronger through acts of kindness along with a hundred things we've laughed about. Leaves we've turned together and intimacies shared make our relationships stronger from day to day, week by week and year by year. The gospel helps you grow as a person, becoming stronger and more beautiful within as each and every day goes by. Life is so wonderful and I'm truly grateful I've been allowed to come here and be part of so many lives and to be able to do so much. Laughing, growing, learning, and hopefully being a  light to the people around me. 


Basically... I love all the people in my life, all the experiences I've had that have made me the person I am today. 
So... Thank you.

Looking beyond it

Everyone sees themselves as something. Tall. Short. Fat. Skinny. Muscular. Ugly. Gorgeous. Strong. Shy. Mature. Flighty. Smart. Funny. Dumb.

Whatever the case may be, realize that the way you see yourself is for the most part the way other people see you. If you focus all day on the fact that you're short, other people will notice that.

Just saying. Understand that everyone is beautiful in their own special way. Realize that being different i a wonderful thing... and that everyone has a story. A sensitive topic. Something they don't like about themselves.

Not to self: Learn to be sensitive to that regardless of the circumstance.

The party AFTER the party...

The bachelor party was awesome. To say the least. Ate tons of snacks, hung out with people I love and saw The Bachelor. Most attractive man on television. True story.

That all however, is beside the point. Rochelle, Lindy and I were back at Rochelle's house after the party and I realized that my car was absolutely stuck in the mud outside Rochelle's house. We got some shovels out along with some rain boots and started stomping around all over the place to get my car outta there but of course, it so didn't work. We called a peep to ask what we should do and the advice was as follows: Put boards under the tires so we can drive it out of the mud and onto the road. Well yeah... that was so not even close to legit. We ended up having Rochelle's dad drive it out of the mud hardcore... since I was obviously the biggest fraidy cat in the world and didn't want to hear my engine rev the way it did... poor car was trying sooo hard to get out of the mud! We finally did it... and I got home safely :-) Thanks for asking! :-)

Here are the pics:

Life: A Retrospective Moment

Looking into the past can be a wonderful thing at a time like this. My life has changed a 1000% since the New Year and I'm happy to say that I'm also a 1000 times happier :-) Taking time to look back into the past couple of years today has shown me how far I've come. It has allowed me to see how much I've grown, what I have learned, the many things people have taught me (and probably things they don't even realize they've taught me.) It's amazing to think back and just ponder my choices, my friends, my lessons, my dreams, goals and hopes for this coming year and how much they differ now from those of previous years.

To all the people so far this year that I've been able to have fun with, spend time with, talk to, laugh with, sing with, dance with, smile with, joke with, take classes with... THANK YOU. You make my world a better place without even realizing it! :-)

You have no idea how much you all mean to me!

Slow Me Down

How should I say this? I love writing. The line I keep repeating is that the grass is greener on THIS side. It's the truth. Tomorrow is my first meeting for my calling.

Got home from game night and actually... It was a whole lot more fun than I thought it would be! :-)

"See them karats on that chick? Yeah she pimped Bugs Bunny."

We Live, We Laugh

Having a blaaaaaast

Oh my gosh she can carry me.

Look! My baby..... --->

I make my way into EVERY picture... WEEEEE!

Love Is Pouring Like The Rain

I love Kristine. True story.

She's pretty much the most awesome person I know. She's a fatty (just like me) and she is suuupa gangsta (also much like I am) and she loves to dance (Again... I'm seeing a patter) and today... I even ended up with a nasty scab on my ankle (in the exact place where she has a scab from dance..)

We went to Turlock Institute tonight... and it was fun :-) I was of course the 5th wheel. (Since Brian and Kristine and another couple which will remain nameless were there...) I was left to my own entertainment at times. Goodness gracious it was RIDONKULOUS! Though I must say I love them all and I got lots of group hugs... so I'm ok with that :-) We took silly pictures and had tons of fun, not to mention had a wonderful lesson! I love the gospel and this church. It's amazing how comforting it is and how all your cares and worries fade away by just reading the scriptures or praying.

Now I must address a subject that's been bugging me for the past hour. Kristine and I had a conversation on the way home with someone that I found disturbing and deeply offensive. This person was attempting to get us (Kristine and I) to believe that one is in fact allowed to go into the temple even if you are not following the Word of Wisdom. Mentioning that drinking coffee or tea is "just a small portion of the Word of Wisdom that isn't that big of a deal." ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? No matter what, you have to be worthy to go into the temple. There are no degrees of worthiness... you're either worthy or you're not. If you smoke. You are NOT worthy. You have to quit, try and strive to be better. Thing about me is that I find a lot of peace from my scriptures and from being at church and having a calling and I know my Heavenly Father well enough to at least know FOR EXAMPLE, that I would be so embarrassed to stand next to him with a cigarette in my hand. Isn't this the thought one should carry around with them all day, every day? The constant thought of, "How would I feel right now if Jesus Christ were standing next to me?" For example, "Would I be comfortable chugging down a mug of coffee?" "Would I be comfortable listening to this particular song in my car with Heavenly Father in the passenger seat?" "Would I be comfortable wearing this if I were in the same room as President Thomas S. Monson?"

To grow and be better and become stronger in one's faith is a long, arduous process. No one ever said it was easy. But it is so worth it. The pure love shown to us and given to us by our Heavenly Father is stronger and more beautiful than anything else on this Earth. It has a way of moving us, but we have to do our part too. To allow that love to envelop us and elevate us to the better people we are striving to become.

The pictures- Monday Night Delight

The most delicious snackage I have yet to encounter...

and some of the girls completely engrossed in The Bachelor...

and Kristine after stuffing her face full of popcorn....

Afterwards we just HAD to take a group pic seeing as how there were so many new faces!

Lindy and I snuck in a quick pic....

and then another super quick pic with

Chelsea before bouncin' ----->

"On The Wings Of Love"

Setting the scene:

Ten chicas sprawled out all over Chelsea's living room,

carmel popcorn, almond roca, m&ms and Sierra Mist,

coupled with The Bachelor...

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It was a good episode... regardless of the horrible weather and the fact that we were only able to see a date and a half and a dumb tease get booted. ><

Pathological picture-taker has in fact began to set in. It's a goal of mine to be a lot better at capturing bits of my life I would otherwise shortly be forgetting. For this reason, I busted out the camera and took pics with the peeps!

I am quite enjoying living in the here and now and not worrying about the future. It's been completely life-altering to have this new mind set. One where my world is balanced and full to the brim with love, joy and peace. Where I know for a fact that I need not worry about what will happen someday because I have faith in my Heavenly Father and that he will forever take care of me if I continue doing what's right. I have such a wonderful life. I'm so grateful that where there is faith, there is no fear.

Translation: MY LIFE IS FABULOUS!

Evaluation Time

Goals I've been able to check mark thus far:

• Got a temple recommend for Baptisms for the dead
• Got Patriarchal Blessing
• Think positive 100% of the time
• Forgiving myself completely
• Changing something on the outside to reflect the huge change that's happening within
• Completely trusting my Heavenly Father and understanding that things will happen on his time, not mine.
• Realizing that my future is so bright it's practically blinding =)
• Understanding that what Kristine AND Brian AND James told me today is true... so very very true! :-) (not to mention fifty other people that have told me this) lol! :-) YAY
• Smiling at people I don't want to smile at. :-)

These have been completely checked off my list in the past two weeks. I love the gospel and the temple and my family. The fact that I am put at ease because of the gospel is wonderful and I'm excited about my life and the things that are happening to me and I honestly can't wait until I finish reading the Book Of Mormon! I feel so uplifted and happy but not only that... it's also a calm, peace and the feeling of being completely alive~

.. I'm so happy to be me :-) I'm so blessed to have a best friend like Kristine that loves me and is always there for me and I'm so eternally grateful to my Heavenly Father and that I am who I am. I'm so grateful to have brown hair and brown eyes and to get called an "owl" because apparently I have big eyes, and I'm so grateful that I am super smiley and "always laughing" as someone recently put it ;-) I hope that I can radiate light, warmth and joy to everyone around me the way the gospel and certain people have been radiating these things towards me :-)

Weekend to top ALL weekends.

Saturday:

-Went to the Oakland Temple and did baptisms for the dead with Kristine and Brian

-Ate some crazy good hawaiian barbecue

-got my hair cut.

-had Quesadillas with pepper jack cheese and then ate tons of snackage while watching She's The Man and Hairspray.

All day spent with Kristine = AWESOME!

Sunday:

Woke up... went to Ward Conference at eleven... Went to YSA at 2:30ish (late... I know :-( But I really like family ward!)

Got mah calling during sunday school :-))) I'm Activities Committee Co-Chair

Then I raced over to oakdale with Kristiney to recieve my Patriarchal Blessing and then we went home and had dinner and then back to Dale Road to the fireside!

Then it was some intense conversations with Kristine and the pretty legit Dimter Brothers... Just sayin' . They've officially grown on me.

It was awesome... and another day well spent with Kristine. I'm telling you. That girl is fabulous!

Tomorrow... even more fun awaits us.

Ten things I L-O-V-E

my son.

when people can be themselves around me.

when people make me smile just because they're so dorky and cute.

reading my scriptures.

all music (well.. except country, of course.)

high energy people. (especially my best friend :-))

dancing with all my heart and soul.

changing my hair

the temple.

Well... I just love my whole life!

Today was the road rally. It was so much fun!!! I ran around with Kristine, Emily, Kirk, Brian Rochelle and Scott to Raley's and Walgreens and had to find stuff to take pictures with that fit into every letter of the alphabet ( like Apples for A and Q-tips for Q.) Was pretty much the most fun ever. Hanging out, making memories, getting chased out of Raley's by the manager because we were being to rowdy... whatever THAT means!

I.LOVE.MY.LIFE.

and that's a fact.

Earth Is Just One Big Ol' Dance Floor

Kristine and I had our first dancing day of the semester. I do declare that it was the best day so far this year (haha) We had Jazz, ate at Mr. Pickles (Super good by the way) then we had Hip Hop. It was intense.. to say the absolute least. Institute had it's open house today which meant snacks were out all day long. Two donuts later... I began to feel a tad bit guilty about eating sweets after going to the gym and dancing so much! Though I wouldn't be ashamed to admit they were DE-LI-CIOUS.

Today made me think of these lyrics, "Sweat pants, hair tied, chillin' with no make up on. That's when you're the prettiest I hope that you don't take it wrong."

So legit.

Party In Oakland? This Saturday!

Before the interview my face was like this... ----------------------------------> (see first photo)

because I basically didn't even know what to expect... (it was my first temple rec. interview, after all!)

I know the importance of doing temple work. Of being clean and worthy to enter the temple and of being able to be baptized for people now deceased in order to help give them the option to receive the blessings of baptism even if they were not able to be baptized while on Earth. I'm so grateful to be part of this wonderful church and to have so much happiness and comfort because of it. Now... this was my face after I left my interview..................................

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I was ECSTATIC. To say the absolute least!

Happiness is my bff.

Current Mood: Beyond Excited with a 95% chance of pure bliss!

Oakland Temple... Here I come!!!

"All roads lead to the temple, for it is there that we are prepared in all things to enter the presence of the Lord."

Boyd K. Packer

Photography For The Soul

I would rather enjy being one of those people that busts out a camera and takes pictures of anything and everything. I have friends like that... and I wish it would rub off on me. I want to be able to look back at all the fun things I did "back in the day" when I'm ninety nine years old!

So I have a new goal: to become a...

you guessed it! A pathological picture-taker.

True story.

Life: Basically Perfect.

This week on the Jennifer Sabin show...

It's been established that everything happens for a reason. I went out with the old last week and dumped everything that wasn't working for meh. Yes. I said workin' for meh not me! I'm happier than ever because of the recent changes and I'm making new friends as a result of the past couple weeks. I'm definitely starting this beautiful 2010 off right.

I have definitely come to realize that everything happens for a reason. You drop one thing only to pick up something much much better. I love my life and all the blessings I receive on a daily basis. I'm so grateful to have so many people that love me and care about me and that help me so much. These past weeks have been absolutely amazing and happy and it just shows how much you can learn and grow in response the hundreds of different types of relationships we have on a daily basis. It's weird how one can learn so much from themselves and from what they need to fix and change in a matter of days, weeks or months. Change within oneself can happen almost over night with the help of our Heavenly Father and the gospel.

Today I came to realize that my goals are crystal clear and definitely in my reach. Along with the temple recommend now in my possession as of tonight (Yes. I'm too excited for words and this weekend... temple baptisms are gonna ROCK!) Next week: Patriarchal blessing papers are coming in with a new calling on top. OH MY GOOOONNNAAAAS I'm so excited!

My life couldn't get any better than this!

What's Cookin' Good Lookin'?

Today I made Beef Stroganoff for my family... since after all it is on my list of goals this year to become a cooking queen. I'm totally serious about that, which is why I've taken it upon myself to cook at home as often as possible. (Tomorrow morning I'm making chocolate chip pancakes.)

I've been rather excited as well for the upcoming cooking class I'll be taking with Kristine! Should be tons of fun :-)

Things getting etched off my goals list:

-getting closer to my best friend

-being better at cooking

-keeping an accurate and consistent journal

No Predicament a Good Goal Can't Fix

Ahhhhh Facebook...

The absorber of every extra second before Chem class, checked between work and school, before bedtime, and even more often than not controls how far you get on writing that term paper..(that's what I get for liking the apps.) So as part of a long line of new goals, I've decided to minimize my time on it to about five minutes once every couple of weeks.

*As a side note, I am not the owner of a Myspace. I deleted that last July in hopes of cutting all the social networking drama that comes with one of those.

So far I'm on day two of my Facebook-free life and it's nice to not go on and play my applications every twenty minutes! Beside the fact that I was spending way too much time being useless on Facebook, I decided it would be best to do a Facebook detox now so that next week when school starts I won't be itching to go check it during Anatomy... Yeah. Not a very good idea.

Modern Day Beauty

I almost want to go out on a limb and say that one of the most beautiful women in movies today is Sandra Bullock. That women can even pull off a southern accent! What's not to love?

Between Angelina's lips, Reese's hair and Megan Fox's whole body... (except her thumbs) there's not much else girls can compete with! Because these girls have it all... so what's the point. right?

So wrong. I was trying to find a way to state it plainly. But the only easy way to say it is this: Every woman is beautiful. Inside, outside... it doesn't matter. Whether it's a visible beauty like that which is found in the eyes of the National Georaphic "Afghan girl" or whether it be shown through good works, beauty is beauty regardless of where it is found. Every girl's got a little somethin somethin'.

Embrace it. Become confident by learning what it is that makes you beautiful.

:-)

Five things I am a complete sucker for: (consider taking notes guys, HAHA)

• Gorgeous eyes
• freely given smiles
• super awesome hugs
• closeness to our Heavenly Father
• & frequent temple trips

Youtube's Chokehold

For some reason, I absolutely love Youtube.

For example, the Single Ladies video with Justin Timberlake has been viewed almost seven million times as of a couple minutes ago... and more than just a couple of those views were from me.. (uh oh)

Taylor Swifts monologue, Brawndo (the energy drink spoof series), The Office music videos... When I'm bored I just watch hilarious videos on Youtube.

By the way... don't miss

Chris Crocker's "The Hairflip"

"Big mac drive thru rap"

Tim Hawkins "Things you dont say to your wife"

Justin Timberlake in Punk'd Comedy

"Daisy: A little piece of happy"- trident gum

Justin Timberlake "Bad Advice"

Just Surviving

As the mother of a sixteen month old boy, I have found it difficult to remain sane at times much like today. Orjel and baby tylenol have become absolute necessities as Aiden begins popping out some molars. All actions brought forth by this young little one began and ended in pointing at an object and crying... not to mention some rolling on the ground and pounding his fists while kicking if he didn't get the object he desired. I seem to have it in my understanding that one shouldn't give baby all he asks for. Especially when what he's asking for is a pencil or say... a knife (Just to make my point.) So I will admit to allowing him to roll all over the carpet and throw himself around the whole house in order to perhaps try to teach him that he doesn't need to put everything he sees in his mouth.

Now although I would imagine that it sounded like I just went off on a random tangent of sorts involving crying babies... I did have a reason. Although sometimes it seems like the crying will never ever stop... it will. Sometimes you may have absolutely no idea what it is they need, but rest assured that this age flies by. Embrace them. Love them. Give them a hundred kisses. Because in the long run, they'll only have been crying for a minute and by tomorrow it'll be long forgotten. . . especially once they give you one of those four-teeth grins!