I'm grateful for...

I want to start listing things I'm grateful for, maybe once a week. I've noticed that the more I recognize all the good things the Lord has blessed me with, the happier I feel. Big things and little things, there are many wonderful things given to me.

I'm grateful for...

1. going on drives with my dad and listening to 80's music
2. walking around the mall with my mom
3. making my brother laugh
4. my chihuahua sleeping on my lap and wanting me to pet him
5. my pomeranian always acting happy to see me
6. sleeping at night after a long day
7. my math class that got canceled tomorrow morning:)
8.  people that say "hi" to me
9. seeing a familiar face at school
10.  feeling the Lord's comfort and strength throughout the day
11. my new calling
12. my dog sleeping at the foot of my bed
13. friday evenings
14. making choir
15. laughter

No matter your trials, I encourage you to find things you're grateful for. It always makes me feel so much better and helps me remember how blessed I am.

Smile!!! And have a good day. :)

T.G.I.F.

Thank goodness it's friday

I'm so glad it's friday! Ok, so today I had my first experience in using the testing center. It was quite an interesting experience. :) Apparently my math teacher gave us the wrong dates for the test, so I went on the last day (according to the testing center) and had to pay. Those who think they can take it tomorrow are going to be facing a problem. Hopefully, our math teacher will extend the date (and hopefully reimburse us somehow too). It's not fun going in, thinking you're ahead of schedule and taking a free test, and then finding out that it's not. Oh well. Life goes on.

Anyway, it was sort of intimidating for the first time testing there. The proctors walking around, staring at everyone in the room in turn, was kind of nerve-wracking. His stare made me feel uneasy even though I wasn't doing anything wrong. I mean, it's kind of distracting to have someone breathing down your neck while you're trying to concentrate on a test. But, the point is I survived, and now I know what to do next time.

I'm just glad I have the weekend to relax, enjoy, breathe... and do homework. bleh! haha

Have a good weekend!

Need a laugh or stress reliever?

I sure do. :) I need a way to release stress everyday, and these videos help me do so. BYU Divine Comedy is hilarious! I discovered them on YouTube, and my goal is to see a live performance sometime soon.

This is a spoof on Harry Potter.

This one I understand so much more since I've had to buy my textbooks.

This one is just funny.

This is one of their most creative. Their spoof on Lord of the Rings. The guy in the white shirt is the now famous author, Brandon Mull.

This isn't DC, but a video to go along with the version of this song I sang in choir last year. This video and song make me feel grateful for all God has given us.

This song is close to my heart. This is a recording of the last time we sang this together in one of our last performances with Mr. Mendenhall as the director. We were all pretty emotional. This song is so true.

Smile, laugh, have hope, be optimistic, pray, read your scriptures, be grateful. Love life. See the beauty in it and in yourself. See the good in the world.That's my message for the day. :)

p.s. Check out DC's YouTube channel and provo high choir as well. :)

Hand in Hand

I just found out that the Masterwork's Chorale at UVU is putting on a performance for the song "Carmina Burana" in November. We'll be combining with an orchestra, dancers, and several high school choirs. On the school's website I found out that one of the HS choirs, (unless it's wrong), is going to be Maple Mountain High School. And what does that mean? I'll once again run into my old PHS choir director, Mr. Mendenhall. When I found out, it made me laugh and feel excited too. Choir and Mr. Mendenhall always go hand in hand--even after I've left high school. :) I hope I can run into him during rehearsals and say hi again. :)

p.s. I made Masterwork's Chorale and Women's Chorus! I'm so excited and so grateful!! I'm very grateful and so blessed to be involved in the great choirs here. A former PHS choir member and I are in both together, and she said exactly what was on my mind: "Choir never changes does it?" Haha, no it doesn't, and I'm glad. :)

"Fall is here..."

"Fall is here, hear the yell,
back to school, ring the bell"

So fall's here everybody! At least, sort of. I'm still kind of saying it's still summer. You ever hear the song, "I can tell that we are going to be friends"? I don't know who originally wrote it, but it's that song at the beginning of Napolean Dynamite. I like the version by Jack Johnson personally. Anyway, that's what those words were from. :)

I'm almost done with my first week of college. It's gone by pretty fast thankfully, because now I'm starting to get a lot of homework. Not more than I've ever had, but still more than I've had the first week of school ever. From 9 math assignments due tomorrow, to reading 3 chapters in boring textbooks every other day, I'm starting to get quite a load. I'm also not used to the long hours I have to spend on campus each day. In high school I've always been done at 2:15 (unless I had to stay after school), but now my classes are all spread out so I spend some days on campus all day. It's weird, and somewhat tiring. This school is so crowded that it's crazy!! Almost every square inch of campus is occupied. However, I did find a new favorite place to relax and study (and it has a great view too).

Well, it's starting to get cooler now, and it's starting to feel a little bit like fall. The summers in Utah are always too short. My mom said something funny yesterday. She said she has a love/hate relationship with fall, a love relationship with summer, and a hate relationship with winter. When I asked her about spring she said "I don't have any relationship with spring. It doesn't stay long enough for me to have a relationship with it." Haha, I totally agree! Spring in Utah is virtually nonexistant.

Well, I hope everyone has a...well...tries to have a good time in school. :) It does have it's fun moments.

Since I mentioned Napolean Dynamite earlier, I'll say good-bye in Kip fashion.

Peace Out.