Just Some Pics from Events of Late

Who You've Always Been--Sheri Dew/Katherine Nelson

So a girl that lives next door to me made this video and I think its just amazing so I wanted to share it. She took all the photos and edited it with music and words from an inspiring talk from Sheri Dew. It has such a good, strong message about knowing who we are. I am so grateful to know who I am and what my purpose is. Sometimes in this world it is hard to remember that and things can be distracting. Sometimes it is easy to get down on ourselves for our weaknesses or to be discouraged because of trials. But knowing that we have a purpose and a mission in life, that we have a heavenly father who loves us and understands, makes it possible for us to overcome anything that we face. I actually had the opportunity yesterday to listen to Sheri Dew speak in person! She came to SUU and gave a fireside for the Relief Society sisters. It was incredible! I love Sheri Dew and have read several of her books. What an amazing sister! She has such a way of reaching out to the sisters and letting us know of our divine potential and influence. She spoke to us about how important we are as sisters and daughters of God. How important we are as woman. She talked to us about the importance of knowing who we are and what we are supposed to do. I know that as a daughter of God I can have an amazing influence on the people around me and I want to constantly strive to be aware of that fact. Anyways, sorry for this long post because the main focus of this post is the video. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do! Remember to pause my playlist at the bottom of the screen :)

Oh the places the Tan Fan has been....

Soo...lots of pics and I can't figure out how to write next to each one. So hopefully you'll get the gist for each one. This last weekend so was sooo much fun! I absolutely love spending time with my family and watching my little brother play basketball. He is such a talented athlete and fun to watch. This weekend was state basketball and his team ended up taking 4th, which is pretty good, I am very proud of him! After Thursday's win, me and Lace were catching the emery fever and tanner pride haha, so we decided that night to go all out for their next game, since they were playing to see who would go to the championship game. So we made some way sweeet t-shirts, too bad we didn't take pics of us in them that was dumb! But all of the siblings had a t-shirt with tanner's number and something else on it, such as i'm a tan fan, tan is the man, we love tan, "poke", "roni", etc..we also decided to make what we like to call the "Tan Fan". we blew up a 8 by 10 of tanner's head and taped it to a ruler. Everytime Tan did something good in the game we would wave the Tan fan at him, it was HILarious! and a big hit I might add. We had alot of fun Thursday with the Tan fan and took him all around Provo..we definitely weirded some cars out by sticking it out the window while passing...So here is some of the different places the Tan fan has been..

First, with me (co-creator)

Taking a nap with Edward (aka..dad)

chilling with Maddie (aka #1 fan, that was her shirt we made, she also had fun coloring on it)

Grandma loves tan fan

Even Tan Fan has to do the vacuuming

Tan Fan just chilling by the fish tank

Tan Fan loves the hot tub (never mind me in the swim suit please eew)

Need a Tan Fan for lunch?? Just pack it in your sack. easy access

Tan Fan is exhausted and needs a nap

What the? Tan Fan in the microwave

Tan Fan loves Hampton Inn

and Last Tan Fan with Lace (co-creator)

New Computer!

Basically I have the best parents ever! I got a little early birthday slash graduation present because my old computer crashed..so they helped me to buy a new macbook pro! I just got it today and so I've been playing around with it alot. I still don't know how to use it really ha, it's a little difficult for me, but i'm sure i will get the hang of it in no time. It will be so nice to take to class and keep notes on and such, i'm super excited about it . It has a pretty fun phone booth on it, so im sure i'll get alot of use out of that haha..As you can see from the pic of me!

Back in Cedar

A great psychologist (sorry thats what my major is, so this is what I hear everyday :)) Abraham Maslow said once, "When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness." I think I have been feeling both the depression and the anxiety lately in my life. Mostly towards the anxiety side. I worry about my future all the time. There are so many unanswered questions I have now. Such as marriage, career, grad school, possibly a mission, even down to where am I going to live this summer? I drive myself crazy thinking about these things, but I need to worry more about what is going on right now in my life so that I can get that complete "mental wellness" I'm so worried about what the next step after Cedar is that I'm not letting myself enjoy the time I have here in Cedar. So for my goal of 2010 and this new (and also last) semester at SUU is to enjoy the time I have here. I'm going to try and not worry about things that are beyond my control at this point.


PS Sorry no pictures in the last two posts, I will try and put up some from over the christmas break soon..but for now i just felt like posting how I've been feeling lately! School just started today and I'm very excited to graduate in May!

Finals Week!!! :)

YAY! It's finals week...good and bad news about finals. Good, semester is almost over and I am so ready for this semester to be over with (18 credits of some pretty hard classes was not the best idea!) But Bad news...18 credits worth of finals haha...kinda stressful! I've been working super hard this semester to keep up in all of my classes and I feel like I've been doing pretty good. This semester has almost burnt me out of school completely, but i'm just about done..It seriously has flown by, time just goes way to fast for me. End of semesters are always the hardest because thats when professors decide to pile everything on! (because the rest of the semester was soo easy right? haha) So if I can just make it through this next week I will be golden!

Lace & DJ-Disco Divas

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