the past few months...

i finally have time to put all this stuff on here! so bare with me!

september....

more dixie state football games...

belles and me at the traditional village inn nights with the freemans...

nikold - ali - harb

the boys invited me and gencho to go camping with them out past shivwits! so much fun!!

love her!

shmikey

finally got the boys to believe me that i know how to shoot the gun and gave it to me!

on the lookout for wildlife to shoot

mike decided he wanted to break the branch off that was hanging above the fire...

of course dalton had to join in the fun...

so they hung and bounced and swung forever...gentry asked them what they were going to do when it broke and they just said "fall in the fire and then jump out" haha

and that is exactly what they did!

this little trip with the guys helped us to understand why boys always get into trouble or come back from camping trips with burns and cuts all over them! ha

steve just a chilling in "mikes chair"

we thought we could fit in the chair comfortably...not so much...it was quite painful actually!

october....

THRILLER!!!

i go to this every year. it just simply is not an option for me to miss. this year i got to go with these three girls!

gentry - me - zombie friend - keilani - stefani

bubbles the clown!

this guy right here...he caused us some serious trouble that night..

right after we took the picture with him and all of us he started beating up on keilani!!

...this beating lasted for more than just a few seconds...

after keilani he moved onto to stef

matt as jason...he was on so you think you can dance so naturally genry and i are obsessed!!

brody - gench - meg - me - gabby

ambassador halloween party!

morgan - gabby - gench - fota - courtney

the three little indians and "where's waldo"

rebelette / cheerleader halloween party!

dillan was such a good sport

brynner :)

cassie..i absolutely love this girl! she is geting married in just a few weeks and moving to montana :( i'm going to miss her lots

garret's farewell..we were going to take this without him noticing and send it to him once he got to the mtc but...he caught us haha

we love elder christensen!!

elder sharp left in october too but he refuses to take pictures though so i don't have one.

welp..that was my september and october!

new desire..

recently i have had this new desire to have time to sew and do crafts. i see fabric and little ideas all the time and absolutely love dreaming up things that i can do with the fabric or the buttons..so on and so forth! sadly i most definitely do not have time right now to go through with these project ideas but come summer i want to be a crafting, sewing, and creating fool and i can't wait!!

be thankful...

this is one of my favorite songs and it fits awesome with this thanksgiving season rolling into the Christmas season!! sorry the video fits weird in my blog layout.

wouldn't it be great if we all lived like this all the time?? i think so! so at least...for this WHOLE WEEK be thankful!

today...

i am feeling very grateful for and quite content with my life. it's not that i haven't been happy with my life before today but this past week has really brought some things into perspective for me. i shared some very tender moments this week with a girl who has been a part of my life since we were in joy school. her mother is now in the heavens watching over us down here - she is our guardian angel! helping my beautiful friend through this hard time in her life really slapped me in the face with reality. i got to thinking about things..and i mean thinking A LOT. i have come up with these conclusions concerning life, i'm sure that other people have come up with these exact dame conclusions and that i'm not a genius for thinking about them but this past week helped them to really hit home.

1. there should not be a day that i wake up not wanting to do anything. i have a healthy, completely functioning body. yesterday i was dancing in the kitchen and in the living room and my dad said to me, "lys i haven't seen you dancing in the kitchen like that in ages." i went on dancing while i thought about what he said. i was pretty mad at myself after thinking about it for a while because i LOVE to dance, it makes me happy! i still cannot figure out why i haven't let myself dance in the kitchen more often. so today i went to rebelette practice with a very different attitude and when our coach told us we only had enough time to do the dance once more before we left i was disappointed and wished i could stay there and dance with those girls for the rest of the day!
2. embrace my life and how it is right this very moment.
3. learn to find a way to grow in every situation. my new guardian angel taught me this through her friends. there have been some things that other people have done that have left quite a mark and impression on my life. this week i have decided that i will never let those things get to me in a negative way again. after all, why should i? those experiences taught me a lot and even helped me realize who i am and what i want in life so today i am saying thank you for those experiences!
4. most importantly i have been thinking about how i want to spend every second of my life grateful for it and living it to the fullest! we never know how long life is going to be and i don't want to look back and have any regrets. i want to live so that when i am 80 years old and it hurts to get out of beds some mornings i can say to myself, "gosh Alyssa you sure danced those bones to a pulp way back when." and that i can be happy about it!

i am terribly sorry for all this word vomit but this is what i have spent my last few days thinking about and maybe, just maybe after reading this you might see some of these things could be useful in you life as well!