Auction

DaY 10

I'm super glad my bestest friend likes to go to the auction with me every Thursday. And that the auction has ridiculously good food.

Every time we go, we eat a steak and swiss sandwich. it's like eating a slice of heaven.

So. Good.

And there were like seven horses that went through the auction today.

Good thing I'm dead broke, because I probably would have ended up buying one of them.

If you ever need to find me on Thursdays, check the auction yard.

I'll be there

with my sammich of goodness.

Skype Date

day 9

I am forever indebted to whomever invented Skype.

seriously.

I love skype.

I have skype dates.

I'm going to have a skype date on friday with the childhood bestie Lindsey:

We're tight.

Since she is going to school at BYU and is currently car-less

Skype is pretty much our only option to see each other's faces.

Anyway, I love Lou, I love Skype.

I love that I get to talk to her  in T-minus 48 hours.

You can bet your bottom dollar that we're going to laugh. a lot. and probably be talking for

at least

an hour. probably closer to two hours.

So, THANK YOU inventor of Skype.

you're a genius.

It's My Body, Baby

Day 8

I'm beyond grateful that I have an able body:

I'm able to run, walk, lift, work out.

I made a new commitment recently.

I promised myself that I was going to get in shape.

because sometimes I feel like doing this:

I don't know what compelled me to start running, but one day, 

I just did it.

A lot of the time that I am out running, I feel like this:

Regardless of how dopey I look, I am thankful that I have the will power and the ability to go out and run

anytime I want. remember my bucket list item:

run a half marathon

and I'm not going to let myself give up on that just because my head says "you can't" when my body says

"you can. and you will." 

I've learned that

it's all about which voice you listen to.

When Class Gets Cancelled

Did you guys just read the title of this post? This is ridiculous amounts of true:

Day 7

I love when class gets cancelled.

Ya'll remember a couple days ago when I said that I loved school?

Well, I still do, but today my first class got cancelled.

My teacher is apparently at a conference in DC.

I'm not about to argue.

Hallelujah.

It was fuh-reezing this morning.

An extra hour of my bed? don't mind if I do.

And the fact that I had some idiot call me last night.

I have no clue who this is, but they called me last night at 8 PM

then again at 2 AM then again at 5:30AM

WHAT THE CRAP.

I need my beauty sleep. and my friends will all agree that I'm  a lot more pleasant when I've

had a good night's sleep.

I also love the fact that tomorrow I don't have class until 1:30. talk about doing a celebration dance!

P.S.

I feel pretty good today, I thought I would look like a dope after yesterday, but turns out I'm good!

I just have to sit down really slow because my butt is extremely sore.

note to self:

Don't wear pants with studs on the pockets when you go riding.

Sugar Baby

Today I went riding after church.

First time in years.

almost ten years to be exact.

and it. was. awesome.

DAY 6

I'm grateful for my horse.

This little girl right here ^^^^

Makes my day  10,982,398,561,987,234  times better.

Yes that is the real number.

[okay not really, but you get my point,

      she makes me really really happy]

I remember when she was born. It was during the summer. I got a call from my Grandpa and he said

"come meet your new friend"

I was ridiculous amounts of excited. We became the best of friends almost instantly.

Gramps decided on the name 'Sugar' because he thought it would be interesting  to see if she would eat a mint. From then on she was hooked.

If you go visit her without some form of candy, she gets ticked and tries to eat your shoes.

There was a while there that I hated her.

Okay, I didn't really hate her,

I just hated the farm.

Hated getting dirty, hated the smell.

How I hated this, I'll never know:

[and no, none of these pictures were photoshopped in any way, shape, or form]

So Gramps made the executive decision to loan her to someone who would  put her to good use.

She was trained as a team roping horse.

[Unfortunately, I can't rope.]

Then she was gone. for almost five years. Then one day I was with Tauni, on our way to get rodeo tickets,

drove past my grandparent's house and BAM! there's my baby chillin' in the pasture.

I cried because I was so happy.

I'm also grateful for my friends who are willing to go riding with me at the 

drop of a hat.

[a cowboy hat to be precise] 

heh pun intended

Overall, it was a solid day.

Awesome day at church, awesome day of riding, awesome dinner (thanks parents!).

Now I just have to cross my fingers that I can walk in the morning.

Right now I'm a little saddle sore -as in I can't feel my butt. or legs.

I'll let ya'll know tomorrow if I made it up the hill to class.

OH!

I'm ALSO grateful for daylight savings time.

that's self explanatory.

college student = never turning down an  opportunity to get more sleep.

My Snuggie

It snowed last night.

Welcome to Utah. 

SO

Day 5

I'm grateful for my snuggie. and my heater. and fuzzy socks.

and sweats.

bahah I just found this on YouTube.

Thank you Ellen.

Sometimes she gets things spot on.

I really do like winter,

I just don't like being cold.

Unless I'm snowboarding or snowmobiling, or night sledding, or maybe doing some other epic thing.

BUT I like warmth more.

My Stupid Friends

okay okay kids.

don't take the title the wrong way.

my friends aren't actually stupid.

we just do a lot of stupid things.

day 4

I'm grateful for my crazy, stupid, hilarious, beautiful, friends.

This team.

We were. Epic?

[Epic doesn't even begin to describe us]

WE WERE AWESOME.

and best friends.

We did so much together:

dance parties on cars

streaking

sleepovers

rockband

quoting every line of Sandlot

having the best JV record of all Sky View Softball history.

it doesn't get any better.

K-Hell and Sara Marie.

I'm not going to lie.

we are hilarious when we get together.

Kylee and I actually planned my wedding to our friend's brother.

ha welcome to the thoughts of a high school freshman and senior.

Tauni Shae.

My best friend.

My seester.

Let's just say when she got married and moved to Hawaii it was like my arm got chopped off.

I just love her. We've had so many hot tub nights, and skinny dipping nights, and playing cops and robbers in Staples, and cooking sponge bob mac and cheese

[that's the best kind, we swear]

and yet we can just sit together,

not saying a word,

and walk away feeling like we just had

the best conversation of our lives.

 My fellow 2010 seniors.

This picture is from when we went to state for softball.

that was an insane ride.

We stuck through sucky coaches, sucky situations, sucky games, and didn't kill each other,

even when we were armed with bats.

 Hillary and Ashley

heh we had an absolute BLAST in Hobby Lobby trying to find Hawaiian flowers.

Nothing but laughing the whole time.

These girls.

The second best year of my softball career.

We went to state,  got to the quarter finals, way farther than we were ever  expected to go.

Without all these crazy people

[cue the cliche]

I don't know where I would be.

probably be a hobo, living off of drug money or something.

hah just kidding.

I'm not a druggie. never will be.

Seriously though,

I love these guys. SO. MUCH.