Josh Groban Sings Kanye West Tweets

Kanye's tweets are ridiculous, so this whole video is genuis.

Miss Teen USA South Carolina 2007 with Subtitles

Feliz Año Nuevo!

"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy shall form an invincible host against difficulties"
...just one of my many resolutions.

Happy New Year!

A Few Thoughts:

• Don't waste your money going to see How Do You Know. I haven't seen a movie that terrible in a long time. So boring.
• Tangled on the other hand was one of the best movies I've ever seen. SO cute. In fact, I'll probably go again tomorrow, even if it's by myself.
• Christmas was amazing. I got to talk to my brother in Romania and I finally got a camera! Touchscreen and everything. It'll be perfect to have when I leave for my mission.. in two months! My whole family was able to come home and it's been so fun hanging out with them.
• My family does the best all-nighters, and my sisters make the best treats. We stayed up until 5am playing board games, that dance game for x-box kinect, watching movies, eating homemade french fries, muddy buddies, and chocolate-mint popcorn. Might have gained back the 15 lbs that I lost, but it was all worth it. :)
• Favorite song as of late. Wedding song worthy, for sure.
• I talked with the Bishop this week and have an interview with the Stake President this Sunday for my Temple Recommend. I'll be going through the Temple for the first time next week. I'm excited. nervous. humbled. and anxious for what awaits me.

I thought of something super awesome this week too-

Advancements in Technology.

[More specifically, skype. It's so mind-boggling to me how our whole family could see and talk with my brother who's thousands of miles away through the computer.. for free! That was the best gift I received on Christmas, was being able to skype with Layne.]





Miss my bestie..

Bad Day.. Good Books.

As awful as this day was, I managed to find something totally awesome.

Finding a good book/series.

I've heard about how great the Hunger Games series were, but it took me until just this week to start reading them. I seriously couldn't put them down. There's going to be a movie based on these books (shocker!) and here's my casting call:

for Katniss- Kaya Scodelario

Almost exactly how I pictured Katniss

For Peeta- Chord Overstreet

You might recognize him as Sam in Glee. He's the only one I could think of who has blonde swoopy hair.

For Effie Trinket- Kristin Chenoweth (only with pink Hair)

Her voice would be perfect for the part.

For Haymitch- Hugh Laurie (House)

I could see him acting like a drunkard.

*Most of these come from Entertainment Weekly where they had a poll to see who they would like to see play the characters from the book. I couldn't think of anyone for Gale though. But to be honest, I haven't really pictured Gale. I'm team Peeta all the way. But I've only made it half way through the second book, so my opinion could change...

AWESOME.

http://www.1000awesomethings.com/

I love this website so much. It reminds me that life is pretty awesome, even the little things. Even though my 30 day blog challenge failed miserably, I'm going to try to post a few awesome things each week.

Today:

When nobody is sitting in front of you at the movie theater.

movies to check out: unstoppable. the tourist. the next three days. all of which are fantastic!

for the western folk; true grit was also really good.

Everything's Bigger in Texas

I don't know why I have any followers.. I'm so boring! I haven't posted in the longest time, and I've had some incredible things to blog about too.
First things first: I got my mission call! I'm assigned to labor in the Texas Houston South Mission, Spanish speaking! I'm so stoked for three reasons-

1. I really wanted to go somewhere warm, I'm already sick of the snow and it's only Mid-December! Houston is really humid though, but I'll take humid summers while I'm soaking up the rays.. in the winter. :)


2. I really wanted to stay in the states. Although going foreign would be a neat experience, how am I suppose to get packages all the time from my parents?!! Seriously, it wouldn't happen.


3. I didn't want to go foreign so much, but I really wanted to learn Spanish. And since Houston is 1/3 Hispanic, it makes sense that I need to learn Spanish.

But in all seriousness, I know that Houston is exactly where I need to go. I leave March 2nd, and I'm just getting so anxious to leave! I already feel a love for the people and the place, and I've never even been there before! It's the craziest feeling.

I was going to post a video of me opening my mission call, since I don't have any pictures to show for it.. but it's taking forever. I give up on uploading vids.

Picture Post!

I realize that I rarely post pictures. Probably has a lot to do with the fact that I don't have a camera. Just my phone. But my mom got a new Laptop and we LOVE messing around with the webcam and taking distorted pictures. So for your enjoyment, I will post them.


Spreading the Holiday Cheer!


..Just got a facial.

Hahaha, my favorite one of Larissa. Has the cute married couple at gun point. She's nasty mean!

Larissa looks like the "I Love Basketball Kid." If you don't know what I'm talking about, youtube it!

Happy Belated Birthday to me! I'm 21! Yeeehaw!

Nevermind the fact that I have no nose or mouth.. but check out the creepy image on my forehead!

Leisha doesn't mind when I post her ugly pictures. hahaha

Cone-head.

At loss for words..

*There's a lot more.. I especially love the ones of my mom, but I have to have special permission from her to post anything. Dang.

Sitting.. Waiting.. Wishing..

For my mission papers to be submitted! I'm getting way too anxious, and I just want to know where I'm going right now! I kind of feel like a shmuck (Thank you Lana for inviting this new word into my vocabulary), because I had posted on FB that I was going to find out my mission call in about two weeks. Well, it's past two weeks, and my papers haven't even been sent in, so that means another three weeks or so until I receive it. Which probably means that I won't get it until the Friday after Thanksgiving, when my brother received his. Which also means that I won't be back until 6 months after he returns. I miss him a lot.

I'm just waiting for the Stake President to call me up for an interview, then he can send them into Salt Lake. Little did I know, it would take this long! But I have to remember, in this new ward, there are SO many people. The Bishop and Stake President are definitely keeping busy, which means I have to be patient.

*Sigh*

30 Day Blogging Fail

So, obviously I haven't been doing the 30 day challenge.. but with good reason. Since Thursday morning at 6am I have been babysitting my four wild nieces and nephews. I've barely had time to breathe (a bit of an exaggeration). But seriously, I have no idea how my sister does it. She's always involved in church things, helps out with catering, house is always clean, dishes always done, has a home cooked meal every night, her house is always in order, she does yard work, goes to the gym every day. How she does all of that, along with keeping up with her WILD kids, is beyond me. Probably helps that she doesn't have a blog or facebook to take up her time. Props to her. And all you other mothers out there, including my own. How my mom raised NINE kids while my dad was on the road all the time is definitely beyond me.
I've made it half way though, doing pretty good. Maybe my sister will share with me her secret when she returns on Saturday. Motherhood is tough stuff, man.

FYI: I finished my mission papers, and will be receiving a pretty exciting letter in the mail in about two weeks. I'm super stoked, I won't lie. And I'm betting I'll go to Kirtland, Ohio.