Peach Days!!!

the other day, my friend landon dropped me off after a class we had together. landon and i have been good friends for a while now and i have always found it very easy to talk to him. we started talking about how this year is different becauase most of our friends graduated last semester. it brought a pit to my stomach as we were talking about memories from years past. the converstation made me happy because i remebered what a great 4 years i have had, but it also made me sad because i realized life passes by so quickly. it is crazy how fast people and events come in and out of our life. life has a way of staying the same but also changing constantly. today in church, the speaker said something that stuck out to me, he said

  

"the past is frozen, the future is unknown and all we have is the present." 

he said one of the greatest things we can do is live in the present moment. of course we must plan for our future but live in the moment. i love this idea and i am going to apply it to the rest of my life! when i say this i mean i am going to love my past, because it has brought me where i am today. (i do not want to use the terms "would,ve, could've, or shoul've".) i am going to live each day in the way that makes me the happiest and most importantly i am not going to wish my life away. i am going to love what i have in this current moment and be grateful for it. there are always oppurtunites in every sitatuion, we just have to be open to them. life is not dependant on anything and we can not live our lives thinking that it is. it is important to have the "take it or leave it attitude."

this weekend...

the rain last night had me a little worried we weren't going to be able to make peach days. luckily the storm passed!!! phewwww, but it was a close call. peach days is such a great thing. peach days is brigham city's annual fall festival/carnival and i think it is a blast. the first time i went to peach days was a couple of year ago with my old roommate and friends. we didn't ride any rides or play any games but we did eat lots of peach cobler. that cobbler was oh so yummy and was defintely my incentive to go back. i don't remember why i didn't go last year, but this year i was determined. i look forward to any time i can make plans with friends. i love having something to look forward to and gathering groups of people together to have a fun.

this year, before heading to peach days we decdied to stop and get some food and the famous brigham city, maddox resturaunt. we waited and hour to get seated but their food, espcially that fresh bake bread made it very worth the wait. afterwards we walked over to the fair to walk around and see what peach days had to offer this year. as usual, they had rides, games, good food and shops. by the time we got there however, the peach cobbler stands has closed down. tear in my eye, but we found a soft served ice cream place that was a fine replacement. 

Skippin School

thursday afternoon i was having a really bad day and i called my dad because he has a way of cheerin me up fast. at first, i didn't have any intention of telling him what was going on but it didn't take him long to figure out something was up. two hours later he was in logan. he dropped all his plans for the day to come see me. i dropped all my plans as well, considereing it was a thursday afternoon and a school day. however, i thought to myself what is more worthwhile? spending time with my dad and creating precious memories or sitting in class rooms all day listening to lecture after lecture. maybe it is the super senior in me and the fact that i checked out of school on the first day that drove me to be like i am ditching all my classes to be with my dad. i probably haven't ditched a whole day of school since highschool. everything seems more fun when you ditch class and work to do it. 

if anyone knows my dad he is super fun. he gets exctiment out of simple pleasures just like i do. we can have a good time going on a drive or a walk, getting a treat or going out to lunch. we can talk forever about anything and he also makes me laugh so hard without even trying. i admire the fact that he is spontaneous and loves his children. once he arrived in logan he picked me up at work and we went out to lunch at my new favorite mexican food place in logan, la tormenta. afterwards we drove up to bearlake. one of our favorite places in utah. a place that we have shared a lot of family memories. as everyone knows, bear lake is known for their famous raspberry shakes. i am not a fan of fruity ice cream, so i always go for the chocolate caramel. i was already so full from my two enchalidas at la tormenta don't ask me how i fit in a shake too. 

bad days are horrible but they also make you humble. they are good in many ways. one is that they make you apperciate the good days. second they bring you closer to the people you love and third they show you how many people love you. this day only made me realize what great friends and family i have. my mother is the sweetest. she called me multiple times through out the day to make sure i was doing alright. my best friend julie is one of my biggest support systems. she is so supportive and caring in everything i do. she has the great ability not to judge but to listen and offer great advice. i think in life we forget things all the time. we forget how much we care for other people and how much we really do need each other. if you let them, trials make you grow stronger. it is amazing what you learn from hard times. i have come to the realization that it doesn't matter where you are or what you are doing, if you are with the people that you love and make you happy, everything will be alright. it is all about perspective and counting your many blessings. for every thing i think i don't have, or i think has gone wrong, i think of twenty things i do have and twenty things that have gone right. it is amazing how our view can change so quickly by putting our focus in a positive direction. 

my dad offered great advice. he told me that when times like this happen, think about what you want and move in that direction. he told me to continue to do things that make me happy. he told me not to worry or care about the things that made me sad. this is the same advice i would give someone else and i probably could have talk myself through this. however, there is something about hearing it from another person that makes it so much stronger and resinate so much more. this day, is a day i will never forget. i will always remember my dad spontanesouly coming to logan to spend the day with me and take me on a jet ski ride. memories like this are so valuable. even though life throws ya curve balls every once in a while, i think that i am just lucky to be living at all. life is so fragile and precious. we have to enjoy what we have been given and i think, i am just lucky to be living. 

Home Sweet Home

i have finally finshed moving in to my house. moving is the worst. everybody knows it, and nobody likes it. it is such a hasel and i realize how much junk i have. i guess it is good in the sense that it is a closet cleansing period. i am the oppostite of a pack rat. i love throwing stuff away and taking bags of close i haven't worn in years to the D.I. it  makes me feel good. but moving in, starting school and my new job in one week just took it out of me. and then i have that thing, where my house needs to be cute and i need to buy things to dress it up a bit even though i am only going to be there for 9 months.  i always get a little carried away, crafting and spending way to much money. i have to buy the place matts that match with the table and chairs in the dinning room. i go to store to buy one thing and i come out an hour later with a cart full of things i DEFINTELY don't need. but when all is said and done and i have spent my summer earnings on home decor, i thought what the heck.... why not show it off. 

it would probably be much easier (and cheaper) if i bought colored or decorative frames at the store. but nooooo i have to make a mess and paint my own frames. i have a thing for buying things at the D.I and revamping them a little. i mean nothing extreme, i am no martha stewart, but i do what i can.  i do use martha stewart paint. does that make me more domestic? the bowl however is my favorite part. it was like a 2 bucks from t.j macs. t.j macs is great. it really does have the cutestest close and decorations for cheap. i am all about the bargains.