I'm on drugs...

 This is literally what my life has looked like for the past week and a half. This cold is so stubborn and will NOT go away. I mean I know I am good company and a ball of fun but seriously cold... It's time to move on. Although this cold has pretty much taken all my energy away from me, I still have had a pretty great week. Although I whine to myself daily that I wish I had my mommy to take care of me, my roommates have really taken care of me. They make me hot honey water and soup and put up with my nasty cough until the wee hours of the morning. They are angels. Sunday was amazing... Its better said in pictures...

3 pumpkins and a couple broken knifes later... Kristina finally got her roasted pumpkin seeds and two really cute jack-o-lanterns for our porch.

Jac decided to make some cake pops. They were delicious but Jac may or may not had a mental breakdown making them... Oh goodness I love that girl.

We all unintentionally matched at church. Adorbs.  

There were zombie guts...zombie guts everywhere...

So basically a crappy week full of coughs and sleepless nights turned out to be amazing with a heart to heart with my BFF Jerica and watching the Walking Dead.. AH if you haven't watched it then you need to stop whatever you are doing right now and watch it. I mean finish reading my blog and then go watch it. If you don't watch the show, then get your life together and take 3 days of school, work or whatever pointless thing you are doing with your life and watch it. I am sorry I just have strong unbreakable feelings for The Walking Dead. 

Jerica also is the bestest friend in the world. She sent me on a scavenger hunt and it led me to a Kit Kat and if you know me then you know that's the way to my heart. There may or may not be a swear in here... if you are my mother reading this, shield your perfect eyes. Daphne is our blue cat lamp... Jealous? I thought so. 

Sometimes we match and we show up at school and realize that we are on the same brain wavelength... we are besties and we look good in stripes. 

So...even though my life ended up looking like this for a while I can truly say that I am blessed with great friends and I am happy. :) 

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall..

This past weekend was extremely eventful. Let's see. My roommate got engaged after careful planning and sneaky tricks on my part, I went down to Utah to my favorite place in this whole world to see my family, I had a lot of laughs and to top it all off I apparently found out I am having 5 children, and I found out who with... Let's just say it was a pretty big weekend for me. 

First, my beautiful roommate got engaged to the man of her dreams. They are honestly so perfect for each other and one of my favorite couples on this planet. I mean they are up there with my parents but not quite as close to William and Kate, but who is really? Zach spent so much time and effort planning and executing his proposal. He started talking to all us roommates a while ago and he made it so special. He printed out pictures of the two of them and love quotes from her favorite movies or ones that he knew she liked. He made a sign with a quote from one of her favorite songs, "I'll earn your trust making memories of us" He put them on the wall in our hallway like a little gallery and I sneakily got her out of the house to a movie. And if you know anything about Kristina then you know it is nearly impossible to get her out of the house for more than an hour. I accepted the challenge and got that mission accomplished. She came home and she walked down the hall to the song from the wedding singer, "Grow old with you" and he proposed and there were tears, tears everywhere, from everyone. It was magical. 

Later that night we were all talking about this trick you can do to predict how many kids you are going to have and in what order and what they are going to be. It is a trick with a pencil, string and a needle. If you want to know more about it, go to YouTube, it's insane. So we were telling all the guys about this. Zach, Kristina's now fiance said he didn't believe us so we showed him. It was exactly what it was before and then we tried it on Zach and it was the exact same as Kristinas'. We tried it again on everyone else. We lastly tried it out on Zeb, Zach's brother... It was the EXACT SAME AS MINE!! In result I kind of had a mental breakdown and ended up like this...

Let's also just take a minute and see how one, I found my roommate leaving for the weekend and two, how I found her coming home.. 

Last but not least, I spent time with my family down in my favorite place in this world. The best part about that statement is that I can say it now. I have been around the world a little bit and I can say firmly that my favorite place in this whole world is my Granee's house in Holden, Utah. First of all, my favorite person is there and it's always treated me right. It is perfection. 

Like F. Scott Fitzgerald so brilliantly said: "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."

Pumpkin Cookies, Conference, and Bat Wings..

I may or may not have had the best weekend in a long time. I spent 8 hours watching General Conference, which was the best one I have ever ever seen. I made pumpkin cookies because it isn't fall until pumpkin cookies are made. I also got a little carried away with decorating my house for Halloween because I am overly obsessed with Halloween thanks to my good old dad. Also, I wanted to be like my mother for just 5 minutes because she decorates to perfection and is just so incredible when it comes to anything. Here are my adventures this weekend :)

This is what I know for certain:

I know that I love life.

I know that there is too much beauty on this earth, there are too many miracles in this life, there are too many times that I have felt a grander love that is above an earthly feeling, too many tender moments in my life with no other explanation than a higher being. A heaven and Father in that Heaven who loves me. Who knows me. Who would do anything for me; even send his most beloved son to this earth to die for me. I know that I have a Savior who died for me because I am worth it. I know that this isn't it. This mortal life isn't the end when we die. I know that I can return to a loving Heavenly Father. I know this.

I know that one day I will be married, and I know that one day I will have a family. This is something that is becoming almost an outdated notion in this world. Marriage and having a family isn't “cool” but I do not want to be “cool” if that is what that means now. I want a loving marriage with a faithful husband who has the same outlook on life as I do. I want to have children, yep you heard that right; multiple children. And I know this to be true. If I work hard at a marriage, it will not fail. If I work my hardest to be a mother, a great mother, I know I will have a loving family. I know that the only way to have this, is through loving my Heavenly Father first and foremost.

I know that I am not a perfect being. I know that no one is on this earth. However, I do know that if I serve others, I do good works and come unto my Savior, I will be able to become perfect. I will be saved by grace if only I work to do so.

I invite others to come to know. Who have questions about life. Why are we here? What are we doing here? I have had these questions but now that I know for myself, I am at peace.

There are so many things I still do not understand but what I do know fill those other things with faith. I have faith that I will one day understand and know.

I am not trying to push my faith, or my religion on anyone. I am merely inviting others to find out for themselves and those who want to feel peace about their existence, to look for an answer, however that may be. However, like President Uchtdorf said in conference this weekend, “If you are looking for a place of belonging…there is room for you here.”

I know for certain I am happy.