6 WEEKS!!!!

There are only 6 WEEKS until Elder Michael David Garry gets home!!! I feel as though 2 years has flown by so fast!  The first couple of months after he left felt like he was going to be gone forever but now we are so close!  My parents are going to pick him up and then all of the kids are going to meet him at the airport!  Words cannot describe how excited I am to see Elder Garry! :)  He is such a wonderful missionary and his japanese is amazingly good. haha Pictures will be posted when he gets home! :)

                                                  Last picture at the temple together!
                                                            walking to the MTC!

                                                                       Love Him! :)

Almost summer!

We went surfing last summer!  SO FUN! 

I am so excited for summer!  Don't get me wrong I like school it just after being in it for a year straight I am ready to work and have a break.  Sad news is my family went to Laguna Beach without me this year. :(  It is crazy to think that Michael and I are both not their.  Our family is growing so fast and soon Mama and Daddy are going to be empty nesters!   We have gone to California every year for 13 years and this is the first time I will ever miss it.  I just wanted to post some pictures of how beautiful it is and hope my family has such a wonderful time!

                                                                       So Pretty!
                                         We can even see our hotel from here, well sorta :)

                                              This is our beautiful hotel!  With the private beach!

JERUSALEM

I just recently decided that I am applying for the Jerusalem program for winter of 2012!!! One of my best friends Erica is there right now and is loving it.  My parents and I felt it was right that I should go and so I am doing it.  I am just finishing up my application and will send it in to BYU at the end of July so wish me Luck! :)

                                              This is a picture of the center, isn't it beautiful!

Roommates :)

This semester I was blessed with such amazing roommates it is a little ridiculous how great they are.  Their names are Jessica, Alyssa, Elisabeth, and Mckenna.  They are some of the cutest girls I know.  Even though we each go through our ups and down I know they would always help me if I ever needed anything.  I owe them so much for how great of a semester they have made it for me.  Here are some fun things we have done together!  Enjoy! :)

                                        Jessica's 20th birthday dinner at olive garden!  YUM! :)

And of course I owe a lot to my roommate and one of my best friends Mckenna Jean Burdge.  I don't know if I would have been able to make it without her.  But oh have we had some fun times!

                                                    My first BLACK and Yellow dance party!

Mckenna introduced me to the Cheesecake Factory and to the delicious Red Velvet Cheesecake. Which I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing ;) If you have never tried it I promise it will not disappoint.

And of course last but not least one of our favorite places to eat. The Teriyaki Place.  6 bucks for two people not but and not to mention outstandingly good!  This is a must place if you are ever in Rexburg. :) 

Anyway I just wanted to say I love my roommates!  You all are amazing thank you for everything you do! :)

ONE MONTH LEFT! :)

2 days ago on June 23rd we hit our 1 month left in the semester.  CRAZY!!!! I can't believe I will have been in college for a complete year!   3 semesters baby!  For those of you who don't know I attend BYU–Idaho.  I absolutely LOVE it up here!  The spirit is so strong and the professors are amazing!  Plus the social life isn't that bad ;)  It is  bitter sweet feeling as I love it up here and school work but I am excited for summer.  Life is an adventure and it has sure been working out great for me so far!  If you are ever in Rexburg, Idaho look me up and I will give you a tour of this marvelous town.

I LOVE BYU–I! :) 

One of my favorite quotes!

So if you are really good friends with me you know that I ABSOLUTELY love quotes!  To me they have so much meaning in my life.  This is one my friend Kaylee showed me and now it is my favorite.  It was said by one of my heros Sister Marjorie Pay Hinckley.  

Here it is I hope you enjoy it:

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.
I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.
I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.
I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.
I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.
I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." 

Weddings!

My roommates and I were talking about weddings as most of them are going to get engaged soon.  We were talking about rings, receptions, temples, dresses, etc.  It made me think of how much I love weddings!  It is so exciting to see people who seem so happy getting married for eternity.  That is such an IMPORTANT decision.  One thing I was thinking about was how we let all the fun stuff like rings and receptions etc, get in the way.  Which causes us to miss the most exciting thing and such an important stepping stone in our lives.  We ruin it by if it rains or our hair doesn't look as we planned.  We miss that we are getting sealed to the man of our dreams for time and all eternity.  It's the start of each of our Happily Ever Afters.  So I wanted to post a picture of one of my 4 of my favorite temples that have special meaning to me. 

This Temple of course holds a special place in my heart because I live literally two minutes away walking.  Not only that but this is where I did my first baptism's for the dead.  I have seen them remodel it and make the grounds look incredible.  I remember being in elementary school and getting out of class to see them place the angel moroni on it.  This Provo Temple is beautiful and makes our block look so unique. 

Salt Lake Temple.  I feel like everybody wants to get married here.  But who could blame them it looks like a castle!  I was just up there last weekend and I couldn't stop starring, thinking to myself how beautiful it is.  It amazes me how they put so much art work and built it without the tools which we have today.  

Rexburg Temple.  I LOVE THIS TEMPLE.  At the beginning of my second semester up here at 

BYU–I our bishopric challenged us to go to the temple once a week.  I took that challenge and cannot even to describe how my love and testimony for the temple has grown.  It truly is a place of peace and happiness.  Plus in the middle of Rexburg right across from a grassy field of nothing.  There is nothing more beautiful to look at. 

The last one is the Mesa, Arizona Temple.  One fun fact before I tell you why I love it so much.  This temple has two others that look like it one in Canada which I have been to, and the other in Hawaii.  My cousins grandpa is the Mission president of this temple and over the spring break my family and I were able to go and do baptisms together.  We spent time with the mission presidents and it was such a unique experience.  Also on that same trip I had the opportunity of seeing the HUGE easter pageant that they hold ever year. It was so fun and amazing!!  The acting was excellent and truly felt the spirit there.  It was such a wonderful experience being able to see how Christ's life played out and to know that he does live.  

BIO 265 LAB EXAMS!!

Today I am taking my first Anatomy and Physiology 265 lab exam.  It is on the heart, eye, ear, and blood vessels.  Yesterday my lab partners and I studied forever so we are PRAYING we do really well.  Can I just say that the body is SO AMAZING!!!  I LOVE IT!!! 

The beginning of my blogging career... :)

For my english class we need to do a writing project this was one of the options, so I figured why not try it out. Hopefully it goes over well! :)