thank you

im in sort of a thankful mood today.

im thankful for:

my amazing mom

my sister, who is also my best friend

the gospel

bishop cook

self-help books

rain

missionaries

cars

grammy's letters

that i can feel my grandpa here

donations for ecuador

my bed

cameras

electricity

water

where i live

intelligence

creativity

honesty

integrity

laughter

happiness

good moods

the english language

even better, the spanish language

my running shoes

ice cubes

good smelling shampoo

alarm clocks

phone chargers

makeup

forgiveness

my God

sometimes i forget the little things im thankful for. i dont say thank you enough. i think im gonna work on that. because frankly, i dont want "thank you" to go extinct.

my mothers' mother's mother

so ive been doing all these projects for my grandma. ive got 2 down, i think? but anyways. her mom died like five years ago. grammy. i dont remember ever meeting grammy. but my mom really liked her. apparently she was a letter writer. and she wrote them all on carbon paper. so she has copies of every letter she sent. and guess who gets to sort through them? uh, that would be me.

i wasnt especially looking forward to this. but its been so interesting. i cant read allllll the letters, cause that would take me years. but ive read some of them. and it makes me wish i knew her. theres letters to my mom about when she was planning to get married, letters to my grandma and grandpa... she wrote letters to everybody.

i like mail

i like letters especially

the only people who write anymore is missionaries

why?

can we bring back letter writing?

i want my daughter's daughter's daughter to be able to read my letters

i like grammy's letters

bachelorette/inception

"you told me how important it was for your husband to love you unconditionally and to always be by your side no matter what… i wanna be that man for you… i wanna make you laugh just like this. i wanna make you smile. i wanna make sure you wake up every night, every morning for the rest of your life knowing that you’re so, so loved"

im not sure how i feel about the finale of the bachelorette. shes so so happy with roberto. and he says the cutest stuff. like that proposal speech? precious. and theyre gonna have hot hot babies. but chris loved her so much. blahhh im not gonna analyze it. haha im not a freak. i just know that roberto is the sexiest man.

i FINALLY saw inception yesterday! with; shelby & joel, juelaine & kyle and me and matt. it was so... good. like i dont even know how to describe it. i need to see it two more times though and ill be good. i wish matt was two years older. and had a car. then id be happy. i sort of maybe like him though? he gives good hugs. and that, is so very very important.

shootin the bobaaa

im really liking vegas. quite a bit, actually. last night i hungout with juelaine, shelby, kyle and joel again. first we went to this place called rainbow to shop. however, i have zero money. and any money i do have is for ecuador/school. so i didnt get anything. boo. then joel and i walked over to walmart cause i had to use the restroom very badly. and some guy asked us for money, but we had none.

then we went to pick up ky ky. he lives in the ghetto of vegas. like pretty much 2 minutes from the strip. then we went to the fashion show mall. one of God's greatest creations, in my opinion. soo effing amazing. it has the biggest forever 21 in the whole wide world. so me and shelb and ju headed there while the boys found another way to entertain themselves.

beautiful, right? its so huuuuge! its 126,000 sq ft, has 650 employees, 132 fitting rooms, 36 cash registers and all that on 2 floors. its absolutely completely fantastic. we spent a whopping two hours in there. it wouldve been more if joel and kyle hadnt been calling and texting us to leave. i am proud to say that i only spent $43 in there. it was hard. but i did it. haha me and shelby played dressup.

i was THIS CLOSE to buying those cheetah print pants/leggings. i liked them so much. wayy comfy. i would probably live in them if that was socially acceptable. forever has sick glasses tooooo.

sorry, i just am basically in love with forever 21. moving on. welllll we went to wet seal only to find out that joel and kyle had gotten bored enough that they walked to in-n-out. they walked. it was like 10 minutes driving. i have no idea what those idiots were thinking. butttt they got there like 5 minutes after we did so they had to have been walking for awhile. we like in-n-out. we like it a lot.

that would be juelaine's nasty grilled cheese she gets, as she is one of those non-meat eating vegetarians that i dont understand.

next was boba. theyd been talking about it the whole night. but i had no idea what was going on. i felt so left out. we went to chinatown and got smoothies. which had boba in them. wtfff is boba? well after i ate one they all freaked out and told me they were roach eggs. apparently the vietnamese eat them to suppress hunger. so of course i was all concerned and wasnt sure if i should try to puke up these little sticky boba ball things. then they told me i was fine. idiots.

now, this is the game. you suck up the boba balls into your straw. and... well... you shoot them at people on the street. cruel, right? its so so wrong. but so verrrry fun :)

BOBA!

well, the end. my first experience shooting boba... and id say it was a rather successful one. it is my new favorite activity.

diettt... week one, day one

so my grandma and i are going on a diet. haha i have family pictures in two weeks, plus i just need to lose weight. sooo im going to document. cause thats what i do best.

breakfast:

2 whole grain low fat waffles

3 sliced strawberries

1 tbs natural peanut butter

lets just say, i miss jif

lunch:

6 california rolls

(with low sodium soy sauce of course)

edamame :(

snack:

5 triscuits

string cheese

dinner:

lean cuisine

exercise:

i only walked 15 minutes :\

im off to an okay-ish start?

p.s. I JUST FOUND OUT IM STAYING IN THE RESORT THAT JASON AND MOLLY GOT MARRIED IN! :)))

condiments

arent they the greatest? ketchup, sour cream, mayonnaise, soy sauce, ranch, fry sauce, butter, cream cheese. they seriously make the world a better place. and i just wanted to express my feelings on that situation. that is all. thank you and goodnight.

okay, maybe i overreacted

ive decided vegas isnt too terribly bad

its quite great if you have things to do

that always helps

yesterday i went to lake mead

with;

troy

derek

tj

cody

gregory

dj

and paul

we went cliff jumping, tubing, skiing, wakeboarding, swimming, etc

it was absolutely wonderful

i wish my camera wasnt broken though

i find greg very attractive

is that okay?

hes 23

we can get married

after the lake we went to smash burger

aka the most delicious burger on the planet

i dropped my phone in the trashcan

troy dug through the trash for me to find it

only a liiiiiittle embarrassing

last night i went to flip-n-out

with;

juelaine

shelby

joel

kyle

and ashleigh

we were there for like an hour

then we went to the 7eleven where shelby works and we got slurpees and comida

at ju's house joel and ju and kyle watched 2012

but me and shelby swam

we bonded

we discusses the 90's

and how much we miss being younger

i miss boy meets world

and disney princess movies

ive always wanted to be a disney princess

a whole new world, colors of the wind, and part of your world often randomly get stuck in my head

is that okay?

i think so

fjdklaf; life in vegas isnt tooooo terribly bad