"The perfect place to begin is exactly where you are right now."
~Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Friday, August 24, 2012

My 17th Birthday!

Can I just say... I have the most AMAZING and WONDERFUL Family and Friends in the ENTIRE world?! I really do! I’m so blessed and SO grateful that I have these friends and family members! I’m so thankful for their wonderful examples to me and for the love they show for me! I thought my birthday was going to be kind of lame because I had school until 2:30 and then I had to go to band at 5 until 9 at night. So it just kind of felt like a typical school day. My friends told the Drum Majors it was my birthday so they made me stand up and the whole band sang to me. While it was rather embarrassing, I did love it :)I got home from band and all the lights were out and at first I thought: "Wow, they all went to bed, this is great." And then I saw the birthday cakes all lit up on the counter and I heard someone giggle and I got really excited as they surprised me! I was SO happy! After a long hard day of Marching and school, I was really happy to come home to my family!
The day after my birthday my friend Marissa took me out to Orange Leaf and to the park at the library, me not suspecting something to happen there, ended up getting cake thrown at my face! Which was on my bucket list! I’m so thankful that I have the greatest parents in the world! My mom saw that I had “get in a cake fight” on my bucket list and decided to make it come true! I was so excited!!! :) I was so happy to see all of my bestest friends in the whole entire world... even if they were smashing cake into my hair. :)
I have the BEST family and friends and I am SO thankful for them! I’m so happy they all got to spend time with my for my birthday!! I love you guys! :)

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Inspiration...

“Life isn’t about finding yourself, it’s discovering who God created you to be.”

“You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life.”

“All our dreams can come true if we just have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney

“God gives His hardest battles to His strongest soldiers.”

“You are as happy as you choose to be.”

"Be-YOU-tiful”

The Lord will fight for you; you need only be still.”
Exodus 14:14

“A relationship with God is the best relationship you can have.”

Don’t count the days, make the day count.”

“Focus on how far you’ve come, not on how far you have to go.”

Let your smile change the world.”