not for the weak in stomach

this one time, a piece of metal did this to my foot....

my friends drew a smiley face on it to cheer me up

My flip flop caught on a piece of metal while I was walking to the first BYU football game of the season. I went to the ER and got 13 stitches instead of being at the game.

a few months later...

I went to the last BYU football game. I walked home through the very site the accident scene, and the piece of metal was still there! I'm not lying, it's at least three inches of rusty metal sticking out of the ground.

beware of this jagged piece of metal

but on the upside, BYU won!

it was a killer game, even in the cold

(don't mind the guy creepin in the background)

100 things

In my women's health class, our teacher gave an extra credit assignment.
To earn extra credit, all we had to do was.....

make a list of 100 things we are grateful for

a girl in my class raised her had and commented on the assignment.
she said she had told people about it and challenged them to do it.
She mentioned that after she had told her sister, her sister gave a

talk in church and challenged everyone in the congregation to do it as well .

it has turned into a "pay-it-forward" kind of a deal.

I challenged the girls I visit teach to do it,

and you should do it too!

(Pass this on)

here are a few of my favorites from my list:

wonderful memories with family and friends

my grandparents who have started an amazing family legacy

the future and everything that is yet to come

peace, hope, faith

God's love

my mom's coconut bread

my grandma's abelskivers

my favorite jeans

Clinique make up

mountains, snow, beautiful autumn leaves

my mom and her wisdom and love

my dad and everything he does for me

my journal

the plan of salvation

Preston and his sweet and tender heart

my best friends who have always been there

"I believe in pink.

I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.

I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.

I believe in being strong

when everything seems to be going wrong.

I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.

I believe that tomorrow is another day

and I believe in miracles."

I found a part of this quote yesterday while browsing through a

Martha Stewart wedding magazine

(yes, I'm a typical girl and I anything weddings...blogs, magazines, billboards, you name it).

don't you just love those?!

she believes in kissing a lot. and that happy girls are the prettiest.

what girl can disagree with that????

not me! she's a pretty smart lady if you ask me.

Adventure Race for Africa

July 10 2010

we survived the race!

all proceeds went to children in africa.

check out this website for more info www.adventureraceforafrica.com

throughout the race, we had to do small relays with our teams. in one the the relays, we learned how 1 out of 8 kids in africa dies from bad water. the average american uses around 70 gallons of water per day. if each american cut back in one small way, it would make a huge difference.

also with this month being july, I've been thinking about how grateful I am for my country.

we have many privileges that other countries do not

we have clean water

we have plenty of food

we can sleep peacefully at night

we can get an education

we can worship

we can love openly

we can dream the american dream

June Bug

Birthday Shout Outs:

the lovely Raquel Berrett

She turned 20! What an old girl. She had a little get together to celebrate. There was....

BBQ

hot tubbing

swimming

ice cream cake

bonfire

star gazing

It was a perfect summer night.

(what a sweetie. we've been friends since forever)

(I made her these abelskivers that morning!)

I love Raquel because she loves people and she's passionate.

Next up:

Preston Reese

He turned 22! He's very old. We had a picnic up the canyon, and I made him

butterfinger (his favorite candybar) cupcakes.

Preston is awesome because he's hilarious and loves to be around people.

last birthday shout out:

preston's roommates (and my friends now too) paul and kris

I think you two are pretty great as well!

I hope you all had wonderful june bug birthdays!

About two weeks ago, I took a little road trip up north to visit Kailey.

Raquel decided to join me for the fun filled weekend.

we had a girls night with pizza, chick flicks, and nail painting

ate delicious tacos from a bus

swam in the freezing/nasty rigby lake

had a BBQ and bonfire with friends

sang taylor swift for hours

talked and laughed

(successful weekend!)

be nice to your body

a few weeks ago, I started this new "plan" with my best friend.

(notice how it's not a diet. diets are bad!)

here is what the plan consists of:

exercise 1 hour a day (except sunday of course)

lifting weights 3X a week

no sweets

no fast food/junk

64 oz water per day

one veggie and fruit per day

(the plan was completely necessary. we both had returned from living outside the country for a semester- I gained the horrible london 15 that I swore I would never gain!)

if we break any rules, we must exercise two hours a day for the next week.

it has been so much fun though! we've been trying all kinds of new ways to exercise, and we've never felt so good. it has definitely been worth it.

My body feels like it has been cleansed.

I'm addicted to the high that comes from being active.

it feels great to be moving out under the sun!

if anyone else would like to join, feel free!

your body will love you even more.