Relief Society Retreat

This past weekend I spent it in Island Park with my awesome Relief Society. We went and stayed in our Branch President's cabin and had a BLAST! They are such a great group of girls and we really enjoyed getting to know each other better and having fun! We drove up there Friday night and had a delicious dinner of Taco Soup and cornbread. We then had an amazing fireside by President Call and his wife Kelly. Kelly talked about how to make ourselves more attractive by living the gospel and followers of Christ. Then we drove down to the river where Kevin talked about the great things we can do as women. No matter how inferior or small we may feel, we can accomplish GREAT things! When we got back to the cabin we spent the rest of the night hanging out, playing pool and ping pong, and watching the Hannah Montana movie! I LOVED it! haha It was really great! Saturday we woke up and had a yummy continental breakfast of muffins, bagels, and fruit. Lisa had an awesome craft for us to do while we ate breakfast of making cute little photo books. Once we got all dressed and ready we did a little geocaching hunt where we got to work together to solve the clues and got to explore island park a bit. :) In Island Park there is this old couple that has this lodge where they make THE BEST hamburgers and french fries! We got to ride 4 wheelers over to this lodge and eat a delicious lunch together. After eating, we got the cabin all cleaned and packed and headed back to Idaho Falls! :) It was so good to be with my girls and get out into nature a bit.

Katie, Melanie, and I reading Seventeen Magazine

Morning Craft!

Brittney, Me, Jordyn

Doing the scavenger hunt

At the restaurant

4 Wheeling with Ashley

Me and Ashley

Karen: Hey did you guys see this memo that Dwight sent out? 'Women will be sent home if they wear makeup or heels exceeding one quarter inch. Females are not allowed to speak to strangers unless given written authorization by Dwight Schrute.' This is ridiculous.

Turning the Big 2-4! :)

Well for those of you who don't know, I had a birthday about a week ago (September 18) and it was great! :) I spent the first half of the day working, and was able to get off early which was so nice. I only worked out for about 10 minutes cause Monica called me telling me I needed to get home. When I got there her and Kaleb were there and surprised me with a cake, which was DELICIOUS. I hung out at home the rest of the day, and then Cassandra took me to Cafe Rio for dinner. I seriously crave that place everyday and have made eating there a weekly ritual. haha After dinner we went over to Shawn's house cause he was throwing me a party! It was so nice of him to do that for me. I had all my good friends there with me (Shawn, Cass, John, Carolyn, Katie, Brian, Brittney, Melissa, Chad, Alicya, Jared, Barbara, Julie, Jon, and Marissa) and just enjoyed each other's company. We played Apples to Apples (which I won ;), talked, had a fire with smores, started a movie, but didn't get that far into it cause we basically just wanted to talk to each other. We also ate a lot of cake! That was the time Cassandra decided to take my piece of cake and SMASH IT IN MY FACE! :) Haha it was pretty dang funny except the fact that I had cake all in my mouth and frosting up my nose and couldn't breathe! I was cleaning it out of there the rest of the night. Here is the process of the whole thing: :) I played some pool with Jared (which I also won!) and enjoyed some chat around the campfire. The night was great! I have wonderful friends and family and was so blessed to be able to spend my favorite day of the year with them. :)

Jan: I'm returning your call. You said it was urgent?
Michael Scott: It is urgent. I just wanted to call and wish you a happy birthday.
Jan: Today's not my birthday, though.
Michael Scott: Really? 'Cause I thought we had the same birthday.
Jan: [pause] Happy birthday, Michael.

Getting By with a Little Help From My Friends...

This past weekend was the BEST cause my BEST FRIEND Sarah came to visit me! :) Yay! I was a little worried that we wouldn't be able to do a whole lot cause I was super sick the day before and she has been fighting Mono for a while, but don't worry, we ended up having an awesome weekend together. She arrived on Friday about 3pm where we hung out in the Cave of Wonders (that's what I call my bedroom :) and got all caught up on our lives and whats been going on. Then my friend Cassandra was having a BBQ at her house so we went and helped set up and then enjoyed a very fun evening full of fun, food, laughter, and lots of people we didn't know. haha But we had each other and we had the awesome fruit salad we took so it all worked out beautifully.

After we were all BBQ'd out we went back to my house and relaxed in my hot tub for a while.

We finally fell asleep at 2:30am and didn't wake up the next day till 12:30pm!! Man, I guess we needed the sleep! But if you have ever been in my room you will see that I have put a blanket in my window so there is absolutely no sign of light ever, so it's very easy to sleep all day long and never know the real time of day. :) But thankfully one of my friends had texted me at 12:30pm and woken us up so we can at least enjoy half of the day. We quickly got ready and headed over to the mall for some SHOPPING! YaY! It had been a long while since I had bought something for myself and since we were celebrating my birthday, of course we had to go shopping! We found some awesome deals and very cute shirts at Macy's. I tried on so many different outfits, I really don't want to go in another dressing room for a while...:) But it was so nice to have Sarah there with me cause sometimes I am not very good at picking stuff out for myself. She then bought me some earrings and a necklace to go with the shirt she got me that are SO CUTE! After that we were ready for some delicious food at Red Robin! One of my favorite restaurants! (my other favorite is Cafe Rio :). We shared some fried zucchini (I HAVE to get that every time I go there now...it's kind of an addiction) and had a great dinner. They then came and sang Happy Birthday to me, made me wear balloons around my ears, and gave me a hot fudge sundae! :) I LOVED IT! We ended the night by going to the amazing dollar theater here in Idaho Falls and seeing "Post Grad". :) It was WAY cheesy but also WAY cute. The ending was good. And with me, if the ending was good, then the movie was good. :) So go see it! Sunday we just went to church, had a delicious Linger Longer afterwards, went home and took a power nap, and I then had to say goodbye to Sarah. :( But it was an awesome weekend. Thanks for coming Sarah! Love you!

Dwight Schrute: Ralph is my best friend. We met in a shoe store. I heard him asking for a shoe that could increase his speed, and not leave any tracks.

I Look So Good (Without You) by Jessie James

Okay, this is my favorite song right now....if you haven't heard it, then listen to it RIGHT NOW! If you have, well download it on iTunes so you can listen to it over and over like I am right now. :) I just love it and it has definitely given me confidence and motivation recently. Even though the words might not match completley with how I am thinking, it will help me make them that way! But seriously, Love It. Listen to It. It will change your life! HAHA okay, maybe not change your life, but it should make some sort of effect on it. :) That is all.