update

Hello everyone! How have you all been lately? Not much is new with me but it is now November!! Happy november :)

check out this hole I found!

Happy Halloween!!

I love Halloween! Unfortunately this year I won't have an opportunity to dress up because I worked the night of the big Halloween party on campus AND I work the actual night of Halloween, but that doesn't keep me from loving the Holiday!  I've tried my hardest to take part in all the Halloween activity type things around town and i've loved every second of it.

The other day I went to the Green Canyon corn maze with two of my sister's and my brother-in-law.  Jake tends to be "smart" with these type of things so he led the way and got us in and out of there within 15 minutes.  We were all convinced he had gotten on line earlier in the day and studied the map for 2 hours just so he could impress Olivia with his awesome skills.  He denied it though.      

                                

At the halfway look out point

I've also carved numerous pumpkins which happens to be my favorite thing to do during this time of year!

Pumpkin carving at work! I have awesome co-workers

I'm going to have to upload more pictures some other time because my computer is being kinda weird! Oh well....

What I am getting at here is Happy Halloween! I hope you all have a wonderful holiday:) 

And now on to Turkey day! 

Blessed.

It has been a long while since i last blogged! I'm not doing too good at this, which is unfortunate because the only reason I began a blog was to make up for the lack of journal writing I do!  Well, what can I say... Life has been crazy, and every day I am reminded of how truly blessed I am!  Just a few things:

This boy>>>

Got his mission call exactly 2 years ago and gets home in exactly  8. yes, 8 weeks! Part of me is blown away by how fast these past 2 years went and another part of me feels like they have been the longest 2 years of my life!  These past few months alone have felt like years but I know that it's all because I'm just too gosh darn excited to see his face again!  It's crazy to think how much I have grown since the day he got his mission call (I remember it like it was yesterday) I was an absolute emotional wreck! I could not begin thinking about how i was supposed to live my life for so long without my best friend by my side 24/7 but look at me, I have done it!! I am unbelievably grateful that I was able to experience such a huge part of his life with him through letters and be able to grow by watching him grow.  Waiting for a missionary is not anywhere near easy but I can tell you it is definitely an amazing experience and it is for sure worth it!!

Next thing on the agenda... I LOVE this time of year!! The other day I was driving into town with my sister and she asked me if I was on drugs because I just kept remarking over and over again about how beautiful it was outside! I definitely took the beauty of where I live for granted while growing up but now I have finally opened my eyes and discovered.. wow! On every single clear blue sky day I am in awe with the fact that I live in such a pretty place.

Too bad pictures can't capture the true beauty.  I'm dreading the day it starts snowing because I know it will be about 7 months until I can enjoy going outside again.  Only downside to living in good old Utah... Winter is more than half a year long!
I'm sounding like thanksgiving with all the things i'm grateful for here but really.. I have ALOT of things to be grateful for.  Next thing on the list: My amazing friends!
I have the type of friends that I can call up at 4 in the morning and know they will be there for me (that is if their phone manages to wake them up) I hope all of you have friends like this because it is the best feeling knowing there is always going to be someone there for you.  My best friend McKell went away to school and when I say away I mean far far away to the land of Hawaii.  I miss hanging out with her like crazy but there has yet been a day where we weren't texting, skyping, talking on the phone, you name it.  I talk to her so much and every time I get a phone call from her we still somehow manage to talk for hours even if we had just gotten done talking on Skype 10 minutes before.  There is just a never ending amount of stuff to tell each other!

Also, I look up to my other best friend Sarah a lot.  She has a family of her own and is super busy being a fabulous Mom/ Wife  but she still makes time for me and I know without a doubt in my mind she will be there for me whenever I need her!  We will get together and instead of doing what we actually had planned just end up talking for hours instead! I love her.
Honestly, I could go on for hours and hours about the amazing things and people in my life, but I need to go to bed so i guess this ends here.
p.s. a few other things i am grateful for. My bed, my car, family, trees, water,showers, umm.. everything. :)
bye.

On to a New Chapter

Here I am at 1 o'clock in the morning trying to find ways to procrastinate doing my homework.  I decided Hey why not work on this whole new blog thing?? so here i am doing just that!
Over the past 13 months I have been living with this girl....

Mi hermana. Olivia Hunsaker

while her hubby has been deployed in Afghanistan to fight and serve for this country that we like to call home.   It hasn't been an easy year for her having her husband so far away doing such dangerous things but I like to think that I was a somewhat good support group! Olivia being a 2nd grade teacher/ grad student/ a part of some internship thing, and me going to school full time and working full time, we really weren't home too see each other much. But when we were both at home (rare occasions) it was definitely a good time!  It feels like Jake has been gone for forever but it feels like I have only been living with Olivia for a month if that.  Last week we got the great news that Jake was back in the USA and the reality of me having to move out finally hit me.  Don't get me wrong, I am more than thrilled that Jake is back safe and sound. I wouldn't have it any other way!  But this week has definitely been an emotional one as I slowly started packing up my room and realized these would be the last few days me and Liv would stay up late watching pointless television shows together and laughing our heads off over things that aren't even funny.  I'll miss coming home from school or work and just knowing she'll be there to listen to my numerous stories about my day and my hours of venting.  I'm just going to miss everything! 

Well, enough of the sap.  Last night was the last free night we both had before Jake comes home (sorry, that was a little more sap) So we decided to make our favorite thing for dinner. Greek Turkey Burgers.  But you see the local grocery story Failed us because they didn't have any more ground turkey left! Guess that's our fault for going grocery shopping at 10 o'clock at night. Who eats dinner that late anyway?? (another thing i'm going to miss) So we ended up just getting ground beef instead. Heck, how different can it be??  Well we start cooking it and discover, Oh so very different.  Ground beef is disgustingly greasy! Maybe we just weren't cooking it right?  Well, we are far from health freaks but these ground beef burgers were just a little too "low class" for us. So greasy we couldn't even finish them!! Bummer, right? But it's ok because it was fun experience making them anyway! 

We then spent the rest of the night "studying".  Which is more like talking to each other and laughing our heads off at The Office.  Have you seen season 7?? For awhile i was stubborn saying the newer seasons are awful but I noticed netflix got the last season a couple of days ago. I was bored and decided to check it out. Pretty sure i've broken a few ribs from laughing so hard.

Well that is all for now! I will no longer be living with Olivia-- her husband is coming home and I am moving on to the next chapter of my life:)

Trying not to cry because my room is soo very bare and empty.

Lacking Creativity

 I've always thought it would be fun to start a blog of my own since i'm awful at writing in my journal but i always like to look back to see what i've done.  One main problem with me blogging: I lack creativity. BIG TIME. Chances are though, i'll be the only one reading this so it doesn't matter how creative I am or how well I write.  It's whatever! This thing is for me and my awful memory:) and anyone who decides to creep.. I'm sorry for my boring blog. Anyway... moving on.  My life seems to be racing past me right before my very eyes.  I feel like I go to bed, wake up, and it's suddenly 5 months later. How does this happen??

Another issue:  I have a hard time living in the present.  I'm definitely a person that likes to reminisce and think back to the "remember when's" and this is an issue you see because instead of enjoying the life i'm living i'm enjoying the life i used to live.  I recognized this problem of mine many many years ago and i always tell myself i need to fix it but it seems to be something that isn't going to change.  Right now i'm wishing i could go back to last year, or the year before but i'm positive a year from now i'll be wishing i could come back to these very days.  Since i realize this don't you think i should be able to fix it?? Maybe someday i will. I guess we will just have to wait and see. 

Something else about me, I think waaayy  too much! About the silliest of things, too.  My brain is constantly running wild and it never allows me to get a single thing that NEEDS to be done, done.  Doing a homework assignment that should only take me 15 minutes will end up taking an hour due to me spacing off and "daydreaming" about who knows what.  This also means my blogging posts are most likely going to be extremely random and hardly make any sense what so ever.  I'm new at this soooo.... I didn't add any cute pictures or anything and I don't even know how to make the writing cute. Shame.

Looks like i'm not as dumb as i thought i was because i just uploaded a picture!:)
Me and my beautiful sisters on my sister's wedding day. Oh, and Josh. ;)

well, until next time.