Your Excuses Are Invalid

I saw this on FB and thought it was the coolest thing EVER! You can read more about Cody's story by clicking here. I'm grateful that there are people out there to keep me motivated :)

A Single Drop

"No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood."

This year on "The Biggest Loser" the theme is "No Excuses." I want to follow suit and this quote is a perfect explanation :)
This year I will give no excuses and take responsibility for my actions.

MY Road Less Traveled

Looking back now at the things that I have done in my short 2 decades of life I realize that some things have been a cake walk, while others have seemed like the Achilles Heel: things that would destroy me. Yeah, that may seem a bit melodramatic, but it's true. I've also realized that every one of these things have made me the person that I am today. It has not been the easiest path, by any means, but it is MY path, and MY road less traveled. And I wouldn't change a thing!
I've always hated English, except in 7th grade when Mrs. Vervloet was my teacher. She was one of my favorite teachers ever. She also introduced me to my favorite poem, and the one that describes me best: Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken."

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one LESS TRAVELED BY,
And that has made all the difference

Shovels, Sandbags, & Snow Galore!

I woke up this morning, get on my trusty elliptical, and worked out as usual on a Saturday. Then, my dad gets a phone call: the weather is back at it and it's getting bad! Because the ground is frozen from the cold and it's been raining to hard the water is running all over people's yard and it is even in some basements again. Bishop Skinner called needed us to go over and fill a couple hundred sandbags. Since my mom was at a Relief Society thing the rest of us went over to fill. By the time we finished, after about 2.5 hours, we figured that we had filled nearly 1,300 bags for the county! HOLY FRIJOLES!!! It was cold, wet, and slightly painful when the newly-formed blisters decided to pop, but it was definitely worth every second! Here is just a SMALL portion of the bags that we filled:

Mollie and I had quite a few blisters and I started bleeding all over almost every bag that I touched. The first picture of my hands is the best, but if you look hard, you can see the blisters in the second one.

And here are some of the lovely blisters that Mollie picked up while she was tying bags. What a trooper!

And here is what it looks like outside just a few hours after. I should've got one of all of the rain, but I didn't. So, I think that whoever pissed off Mother Nature really needs to apologize because all of this flooding is really damaging. Oh well, It is what it is. As long as there's people in need, we will be there. I LOVE MORGAN!! :)

My Big-Hearted "Little" Friend

My dearest bestest friend Caprice Little left for her mission on January 4th. She is going to the Des Moines, Iowa mission. Usually I put my favorite memories of my missionaries, but there are simply too many, so I have chosen to post my favorite pictures, with some fun memories behind them:

I am going to miss you like a fat kid on a diet misses cake, me friend, but I'm soooo excited for you to serve the Lord! The people of Iowa don't know what an amazing person they are getting! Can't wait to get high on some MoCap again :) See ya in 18! :)

Thanksgiving 2011

Yes, I'm late, but we went to Moab as a family for Thanksgiving and had  BLAST!! We went 4-wheeling over some really nasty, but really fun rocks! Here are some pics:

 

We also went to Arches National Park and saw the Delicate Arch (the one on the licence plate) for the first time. We also saw some hieroglyphics and Landscape Arch!

   

WTF!!! It really IS everywhere!