This Weekend So Far....

breakfast at Herm's Inn....

cleaning the sink at Angie's 

Song For a Rainy Day

   

Just One of Those Nights

the other day while i was on twitter i saw a quote that said, "life becomes so much better when you decide not to care as much" amen amen and amen. what a powerful messaged in so little words. this quote hit home to me and i have found that it is absolutely true. preception is our reality. we can't always control what happens to us but we can control the way we choose to look at what happens to us. we have the choice to decide how much we are going to be affected. there is a power in positive thinking. 

so how do we just not care when we are truly bothered about something?well.... i think the key is to put our focus on the things that give us the most joy rather than putting our focus on things that make us uneasy. where we choose to put our focus is so important. 

since i have recently been trying to overcome a little crisis in my life, i have found that the fastest way to bounce back from being sad is to surround myself with the things that make happy...

1) music

2)good friends

3)in depth conversations

4)tv shows

5) romantic comedies

6) going out to dinner 

7) making plans (gives me something to look forward to constantly)

8) making treats

9) fall/october

10) and detatching myself for the one thing that makes me sad!!  

when you fill your time with things that are postive and things that bring you happiness it is so much easier to let go of the one thing that makes you way sad. i have decided that i am going to have the "not care" attitude. i mean not to the extreme or anything. i will still graduate from college and try hard but i am not going to allow myself to get down easy. life is so amazing and wonderful. sounds cliche but i mean it. why focus on the things we don't have instead of focusing on so many more of the things we do have. 

count our many many blessings 

trials are humbling and necessary because they makes us so apperciative and rely on the lord. they also make us better/wiser individuals. at least this recent trial made me recognize the hand of the lord in my life. i was down on my knees praying for help and guidance every night. something i hadn't done in a long time. 

joy comes from the little things in life. joy is simple and happiness comes from accpeting life and what life brings. like last night, i went over to hang out with my friend lauren. we did our homework while watching friends and eating sugar cookies. i thought this is so much fun. i thought i am so happy right now, a feeling i hadn't felt in weeks. we were laughing at some old photo booth pictures i had taken on my computer. at one point i started crying because i was laughing so hard. times can be hard, but life is good.

this was the theme song of our road trip. maybe it is new to me and old news to everyone else but this song makes me feel good and cool haha. my friends were like "nat we are not listening to this song again!!" i kept it on repeat and everyone was getting sick of it. sorry! but not sorry. when you find a song that puts you in a good mood, you just can't apologize for always wanting to listen to it. enjoy! hope you guys like it as much as i do! 

Trip Videos

Last Minute Road Trip to Cali

this weekend.... so fun and so last minute. taking a road trip to cali is not what i thought i would be doing this weekend. friday, while i was at work, my friend tanesha called and our convo went something like this, "nat we should have gone to cali for the game" i was like "yeah that would have been fun" and then she was like "its not too late" i was like "aghhhhh lets make this happen!!"

i can't believe we actually went through with this road trip and pulled it off. after this weekend i can testify that the best memories come from being spontaneous. we planned the trip at noon on friday and left at midnight friday night.  we would have left earlier but tanesha and i had a date we had already committed to. we thought what the heck we will do both and drive through the night. the trick red bull and peanut butter m&m's. i was wide awake the whole drive and actually enjoyed every minute of it. i like long drives and listening to music. it is a time to reflect and think. it was also female bonding time. tanesha, sarah and i had some great conversations. friends are a wonderful thing and i am lucky to know such amazing people. life can be going all sorts of wrong but good friends and family help you get through the bad times and move forward to the good. life is about experiences right! 

think a little less, live a little more 

Happy Birthday Landon

last night we celebrated my good friend landon's birthday. i remember last year celebrating his birthday! agh time is going by too too fast! i need to push pause or something. i know that life brings new oppurtunities with every phase but sometimes it is so hard to see the last one come to an end. in my earlier years of college i was meeting so many people all the time. now my number of friends are thinning out a little. luckily i still have a small group of close friends whom i adore and love and for me that is good enough! 

this year has started off a little rough. all summer i was so excited to come back up to school. logan has become my home and utah state has really become a big part of my life. even though summer was great i was just itching to be back in my element again. unfortunately this year took a different turn than i was expecting it to. i guess life does that to you sometimes. you make plans and you have a vision of how your life is going to be and then one incident changes the whole course. like i have said before i don't believe in fate and destiny but i believe in choices and oppurtunities. when one door closes another opens and with our experiences comes strength and growth. i have to remember this concept, but sometimes it is just hard to. it is hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. trials make you stronger. right? haha at least that is what people keep tellin me.  

in times of doubt and trials that is when you depend on others to pick you back up. i have the best family and friends in the whole world. thank goodness for friends. i know god watches over me and looks out for me because he has surrounded me with such amazing people. 

Life this past week...

date night with jewelz... met half way!

everything worth having in life comes for going outside your comfort soon. sometimes you just need to have those momenst of extreme courage in order to get what you want. it might not turn out the way you want it to or expect it to, but that doesn't mean it didn't turn out the way it was suppose to. 

long distance relationships! they suck! but distance really does make the heart grow fonder. monday night jewelz and i met half way for dinner. i needed an excuse to get out of logan. i was so glad jewelz called me to meet up. she's the best. she lives in salt lake now and i am finishing my last year of school up in logan. ogden seemed like the perfect meeting point. neither one of us is familiar with ogden. we drove around for like 20 minutes looking for a place to eat before we realized we weren't on main street. after quite a search we decided on a little pizza place called "lucky slice". i don't know what spices were on my pizza but whatever they were they were strong! it seriously left a taste in my mouth the rest of the night! i am not saying i didn't like it, it just took a while for breath to recover. 

Homecoming Festivities

double rainbow, usu campus

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hanging out with my sis all day everyday 

Homecoming Game!

well we won the homecoming game! by a lot... and it started to rain so we didn't stay the whole time but it was fun while it lasted. 

Game Night...Here We Go Again

sunday we had a fun little game night at my house. it has been a while since i have planned one of these. my best friend julie and i use to plan them every weekend. our favorite game is running charades. we just can't get enough of it. one semester we were litterally so obsessed with the game, i think we played everyday, no joke. i love playing hostess so of course i made some cookies and popped some kettle corn. being the hostess is fun, but there is also pressure that comes with it. if no one shows up to your game night it doesn't make you look cool. everyone shows up late because it isn't "the thing" to arrive on time. well someone has to be the first and there is always that awkward span of time where no one shows up or there are two people there and you have to reassure them more people are coming, even though secretly you don't know if that is true. the key, is calling your closest friends to come on time. that way when the people you don't know as well come it isn't totally awkward. 

luckily... i did have a great turn out. i am happy that even though we are getting a older and maybe a little less social, people are still excited for game night. my thoughts are why ever sit around when you could be doing something fun! free time means play time and sundays are a great day to get together with the people you love. 

everything happens for a reason...?

i have never been a person that has believed "everything happens for a reason". i think it sounds cliche and that life is some how predetermined. i believe that we make choices and with our choices come consequences, good or bad. i believe that different choices have different outcomes and we choose for ourselves the path of our life. i believe we are guided when we ask for direction but for the most part we are left to learn through our experiences. i think we learn best when we go through some things on our own. however, with this said, i do believe in a higher power who watches over us and knows what we need, when we need it. though God may not always intervene in our life, i believe He has a hand in it. i guess what i am trying to say is that i do believe in fateful moments and i do believe that some things are no coincidence. i think if we are trying to do what is right, we can only do our best before God makes up the difference. 

i say this because lately things in my life have been lining up very well. this is not to say everything is going the way i want it to but multiple aspects of my life seem to be connecting. like for example, i got this new job, a communications assistant at utah state. i saw the listing by chance one day while looking on career aggie, i applied off a whim and got the position. the job could not be more perfect for me. not only does it have to do with what i am studying in school but i have also made a great friend with my coworker that is in a very similar siuation i am in. i can't believe how well we have hit it off and how much she has already helped me get through some hard situations. today while talking to her i thought, i seriously think i am meant to be here. another example is my friend tanesha. it seems like i met her at just the right time and she has sort of been my saving grace. she has kept me social and outgoing in a year that could have the potential to be a long and lonely one. 

"no man is a failure who has friends"

-its a wonderful life

i truly believe certain situations and people are put in our life for a reason. i have experienced it and know it to be true. for this i am truly thankful.