64 days...

...until a certain airplane lands in Hawaii.

That certain plane will have me and the rest of the Rebs on it.

can't wait to live in a swimmer for a week, eat fresh pineapple and take wonderful naps on the beach. I can fit one person in my suitcase...start fighting for the spot right now!

dear Hawaii...I can't wait to see you!

my november...

This month has been crazy busy but oh so fun.

Get ready for picture overload my friends!!

The very first weekend of the month the Rebs spent two days freezing our bootys off at Sunbrook golf course for a fundraiser. When I say freezing I mean FREEZING!

Pretty sure I consumed more hot chocolate in those two days than I ever have before. Even though it was freezing it was lots of fun to be with the team!

On the second day of the golf tournament we also had to go and perform at our very last football game of the season. We all thought we were going to get pneumonia! Not only were we frozen rock solid from our morning at the golf course but now we had to put on tights, spandex shorties and spandex tank tops. It was pretty miserable but made the memory of the last football game that much better!

My very last football game at DSC. Definitely a bitter sweet day. Love my Rebs to death!

As you can see below...Hailey and I got ourselves into a predicament. We headed bowling with some friends from the basketball team and....well...we did a little bit of trash talking...made a bet...and...lost the bet.

We now owe these boys dinner from a previous bet made AND losing our bowling bet ended with us owing them breakfast too. At least boys are easily satisfied with food right?!

Have I ever mentioned...I LOVE THIS GIRL!!! Seriously she is amazing. Always there for me no matter what the situation!

Hailey has babysat these kids forever and since her and I spend most of our time together I started going over whenever she tended them. Now I have myself some cutie little friends named CJ and Kenz! We went to Fiesta Fun and munches this night. CJ is a little flirt and totally made my day with his cute little comments!

Thanksgiving break was so fun to be with family and catch up with friends from high school that came home! My first visitor was the lovely Jessica Pederson! Seriously love her to death. I will have to get a good picture of us here soon and get it on here. She came over and we talked and talked and talked until her family was ready to kill me because I kept her away from them for too long. Thanks for being such a great friend love!

Then later that night a bunch of us girls from high school met up at Menchies and chatted to our hearts content about every possible subject.

I love Menchies spoons! haha.

Miss these girls like crazy! I think it is pretty cool that we all still keep in touch and can sit down and just talk for hours without ever skipping a beat. Come back home soon girls!!

Thanksgiving day was spent with my parents and my two brothers this year. We missed all our extended family but it was so fun to just chill at home all day with the family! No pictures were taken because all of us stayed in our sweats all day...don't judge us! ha.

The day after Thanksgiving a few of us met up again to go see Abduction. If you like looking at a hottie mcbody for an hour and a half I recommend the movie for sure. Taylor Lautner..so sexy..enough said. After the movie Courtney introduced us to a new holiday activity. We are no longer Tim Tam slam virgins!

hot cocoa + tim tam cookies = yummy!

I could only eat two cookies and a few swallows of hot chocolate before I was in a chocolate coma but it was completely worth it for the experience.

Mini Golf anyone? I love having Karston around because we get to go to fun stuff to keep him entertained. In other words...I went to Fiesta Fun twice this month. I know, I know you are all so jealous ;)

i.love.my.brothers.

whew! Sorry for the novel of a post. Welp folks...that was my November! I'm sure December will be just as crazy so be prepared!

those missionaries...

Today I got to attend a mission farewell for one of my friends from high school. He did AMAZING and the spirit was so strong, as I sat in the congregation simply listening to him had such an impression on me. I started to think about missions and all the friends and people that I have been associated with that have served them, boy am I grateful for each one of them!

Today I thought a lot about how my faith has grown from them and their dedication to the lord. Seriously, even if us girls don't serve missions we have the opportunity to have friends and family teach us some insanely valuable and faith building lessons just by their examples and experiences. I love being able to read their blogs or emails that their wonderful moms put together. There is never a time that I haven't felt the spirit when hearing about one of their experiences.

I feel so blessed to have so many great friends that have dedicated two years of their lives to selfless service for our father in heaven. Keep on keepin' on boys us girls back home miss you but we love so much what you are doing!

my dad...

I have a pretty bomb dad. Want to know why?!

Well I could spend all night listing the reasons but for now I will just say one thing.

He always, always makes sure I know how loved I am. Yesterday wasn't the greatest day in my book and he did everything he could to make me feel better. The day ended and I went to bed and want to know what I woke up to?! My sweet dad standing right by my bed he looked down at me and gave me a kiss on the forehead and said "good morning, you are beautiful. Don't forget it."

The cool thing is that he doesn't just say this when I have had a bad day. He tells me EVERYDAY. There is hardly a day that goes by that he doesn't tell me how beautiful or amazing I am. It isn't so much the compliments that make it so sweet to me but the thought behind it and how much I know he cares each and everyday of my life!

Yeah....he is the man!!

Addicted...

I know, I know...my last post was a clip but I couldn't resist with this one!

The beautiful Hailey Hammer introduced me to this and now I am addicted to it.

Fact: I listened to it ten times today.

If you see me singing my lungs out while driving down the road...this is what I am pretending to sing masterfully.

Mrs. Darcy

For no reason other than the fact that this melts me all the way to the core.

can i get a little more time?...

Beware: This post is more of a "journal" post so it may make your eyes droopy and your gag reflex act up but feel free to read on...don't say I didn't tell you so though!

This week I have had a few opportunities that have really opened my eyes and given me the desire to do so many more things in my life. What might these things be? I shall tell you.

I have always known that I like to help people. For some reason being able to make someone exceptionally happy or even just to help them with a simple everyday task. Helping ease someone's burdens or even eliminating one thing from their to do list really brings a warm fuzzy to my heart. This past week however I had the realization that this is something that I should act on. For whatever reason this desire to help is present

so I have decided I better do something with it!

What will I do? That is still in the works but believe me I will do something. This much I do know..I want to work with people and make it possible for them to absolutely LOVE their life because I absolutely love mine! Yes, things do not go exactly how I want or plan all of the time and yes there are days when I should be shut in the closet because of my attitude. Regardless...I am so blessed and life is such a humbling and amazing journey that I am absolutely loving. So why not help others who may not currently feel this way find a way to get to that point?

Now.........All I need is about ten more hours in the day to be able to accomplish all that I want to do with this life of mine :)