Back to school already?

I know I know I'm a blog failure, but its not like my mom and aubrey ( the people who routinely acknowledge the existence of my blog) aren't 100% aware of my life already and just comment to keep up my moral! However i was going to try and be more on top of this thing and have just let it go to shambles so its time for an update! And in the true spirit of my blog I stole all of these pics!

so in an effort not to drag on, this summer I........turned 22 and lots of cool people came to celebrate with me...

...Went to the boardwalk and capitola as part of lauren and jeffs pre-wedding three day extravaganza...


....Acted like a crazy person at laurens bachaelorette party with the greatest girls I know
....Celebrated the union of Mrs. and Mr. Jeffery Thompson
...saw peter pan in the city! Tara and Camille were the cutest couple in the bunch!...
Went to family camp! yes me and my mom hauled those kids till our arms fell of and of course I ate my weight in pie and ice cream!And I think that sums up the big events! I just started student teaching and classes start in a little over a week and I'm in Davis all week and home all weekend! so Life is Grand !!!!!!!!!

All Growd Up!

Warning : I have be exceptionally bad at taking pictures of my life so thanks to everyone I stole these from!

Ok so I know that I am terribly out of date here but I promise to attempt to be better at blogging, I'll add it to my summer goals!So for starters I graduated college!!! Crazy right! My Mom, Dad, Grandma, Aub, and Phil came down for the celebration and it was super fun and totally hot!!! My ceremony was at nine in the morning and people were taking there robes off during the ceremony to try and cool down! We went to lunch after all the commotion and then my parents and grandma headed home but Aub and Phil got to crash with me for another day and relive that o so joyous dorm experience, which Phil never actually had during his college years! We went to the beach, hung out down town, and had the best clam chowder ever before packing up my entire life and heading home!

Then it was a brief stop back home before heading down to San Diego for the most awesome weekend ever!! It was full of bridal and baptismal bliss and the most wonderful people I know! We started off the weekend with some cut throat game playing (Literally), then a beach day complete with a night time bonfire, followed by the main events of bridal shower, baptism and baptismal party including some super awesome dancing!!! Then we finished off the weekend with a trip to the Mormon battalion museum and two excellent talks by Lauren and Jeff! Did I mention that I cried every day I was there! It was so wonderful and emotional in the best possible sense! I love all of these girls so much and they bless my life every time I'm with them! It seriously couldn't have been better! I don't know how I got so lucky and ended up with such wonderful friends who are also some of my greatest examples! I can't wait till Laurens wedding when I get to see them all again!Then it was back home for another few days then off to Santa Cruz for a surprise trip my dad had planned for my moms anniversary! The whole family was there which was soooo incredibly awesome! We went to the boardwalk (I have the injuries to prove I went on rides), we swam everyday, we went to the beach, ate lots of good food and spent quality time together! then on Tuesday me, my mom, Tara and my cute niece and nephew went to sky high which is this awesome room filled with trampolines! I wanted my niece do some of her gymnastic tricks and basically exhausted myself, but it was way fun!Those are the big events but my life has been filled with changes this past month and I am excited and nervous to see what will be coming up next! I'm so blessed and thankful for the opportunities I have to grow and am trying not to focus on how scared the unknown makes me! Hopefully I will continue to keep ya'll more updated!

Hello blog

So I'm really failing on the updates but here is my life in 8. points

1. My internship: its super fun in a multilingual first grade room and pretty much the most entertaining and challenging part of my week!
2. My classes: being in my last quarter and having gone scholastically crazy in all other quarters i get to take things like bowling and aerobic instruction
3. My job: now is when the freshman slowly loose all inhibition and go nuts (pray for me)
4. My eating habits: four years on the meal plan has basically killed me and i find chocolate is the only steady thing in my diet
5. My new car: its beautiful and red and I am scared to death that something is going to mess it up
6. My summer plans: still looking for a job and mapping out my travel plans.
   
7. My plans for next year: Its UC Davis for those who haven't heard and I'm working on the last paperwork, verifying prerequisites, and all that Jazz fortunately my beyond awesome cousin found me housing swapping for her place.
8. Graduation: its only 32 days till i put on my cap and gown

so there's my little life in short! more details to follow

My Senior project ( minius the 35 page part :) )

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Like Mother Like Daughter

For those of you who know my mom you can understand I jump at the oportunity to be compared to her. She a force to be reckoned with and is amazingly caring and spiritual. Her strength and determination has always been something I have looked up to. One thing you may not know about my mom is that regardless of her parents not attending a church she always felt the need to pray. As a little girl my mom memorized the Lords prayer, motivated by my very religious Great Grandma Helen, and to this day when she gets stressed out she recites it to herself over and over again. Apparently I have adopted some of this stress relief strategy. I don't use the Lords prayer, but instead find myself turning all of my thoughts into little prayers. For example when I would normally think "I'll head to the library and work on this assignment first" it now starts with a Dear Heavenly Father and ends with an Amen. I think there is something calming in feeling like you're continually talking to the Lord and even a comfort or affirmation that I'll be able to do what I need to. My mom, I believe, gets this same sense of security in those stressed out moments and thinking that I'm like my mom in this respect just makes me feel all the more capable!

All I want is a room somewhere...

For those of you who don't pay attention to my life I am an RA, its a generally pleasing job. You make great friends, learn a lot about yourself and others and while at times it feels like "being a camp counselor at a prison" (to quote some of my witty staff members) it has enhanced my college career and I don't know what i would have done without it!

However, there are some draw backs the one that is currently bothering me is my lack of kitchen!!!!!!
I love to cook and bake and being kitchenless can be utterly painful. I dream of being able to walk into a room with a normal sized fridge, cabinets, food that I actually want to eat and to be able to control what goes into it! This things while so normal have been absent of my last three and a half years of campus dining and I'm running out of things on the meal plan I'll actually eat! there is a distant light in the future in about 5 and a half months i will graduate! until then I'll just keep dreaming of ovens and blenders!

12 days of finals week

Its finals here and i am counting down till I get home its only 6 days but it feels like a lot more so here is my list of my "twelve" days of finals week (i have no time so i list products only you can add the whole little song if you like)
on the 12th day of finals week my anxiety gave to me
12- candy bars
11- sound warnings for residents
10- hot showers
9-forms of procrastination
8- cereal meals
7- check lists
6- sleepless nights
5-BREAK DOWNS!!!!
4- trips to the gym
3-study break events
2- final papers
and
1-project presentation

hopefully i will get through them elegantly and see you on the other side!!!