USA- IS A-OKAY!

4th of JULY!

Wooo Hoo!!! It was soooo fun! I spent it with my 2nd family and had a blast! We at TONS of food and played baseball and watched the fireworks! It was your classic all around American Celebration! :) AND I made my lil 'wannabe nieces' some hair bows! Just for the sheer joy of seeing it in their hair! and bein' CRAFTY!

BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS!

OKAY. I haven't read ANY books in such a long time. I got 7 books for Christmas, Some of them I'd already read but didn't have for my collection, and some I haven't. The Ones I hadn't .. I STILL HAVEN'T! 
Amazon does this thing were you can preview a certain amount of pages in a book... THIS, is how they get you.. I am able to read the first 3 chapters of a book.. Get hooked.. and then WHAM-O "This is the end of the preview" It's horrible.. SO... in the last 2 weeks I've ordered 7 books. I got two yesterday and I am finishing one up that my mom left for me.
The one I am reading right now is by one of my FAV authors- Philippa Gregory!- As usual its really goo! (for those of you who don't know she is who wrote The Other Boleyn Girl as well! :))
The next book I plan on reading is called "The Selection" This one seems interesting. It's about a girl in this "weird future" where people are assigned a number based on their trade/income- 1's are the richest and 5's the lowest. I guess all the Princes in this time have a "selection" and they choose a bride.. this persons family is immediately elevated. It sounds so interesting and I must know how it goes!! :)

And the next one is just going to be a Fun read. Its called "The Summer My Life Began" Its about a girl who is raised wealthy, does as she is told and all that stuff until she graduates and she gets a letter from the Aunt they never talk about inviting her to spend the summer with her... her parents let her go.. so I want to see where it takes her! :)

ANYWAYS Reading again makes me remember Why I LOVE it so much. I'm able to escape and go into a completely different world. I love it! Maybe I'm a Nerd... but I just love it!!!!! :)
 OH and I still have more books coming! So when I get those I'll go into detail about them too!

BIRTHDAY SUPRISE!!!

I know I've said it like.. 50 bajillion times......... BUT... I HAVE THE BEST FRIEND EVER. SERIOUSLY... So not only does she get me the cutest Canvas of us and Sister Act... THEN THURSDAY NIGHT AFTER my Birthday Dinner.. she made me play a game of Hang Man..... took me a long time.. but in the END I got it.. (with one arm left) and it spelled out "California" then she gave me an envelope and inside were tickets to SIX FLAGS!!!!!!! HOLY MOLY!!!! And she told me that her Twin Brothers were meeting us there!! :) I was soooo excited! AND we had the best time ever!!!! :)

BIRTHDAY!

WOW. Tonight at Midnight I will officially be 24!!!!!! HOLY MOLY 24!!!... I feel... slightly old.. and yet... not quite. HAHA basically A lot of wonderful things have happened to me so far this year and I can't WAIT for see what the rest of the year has in store for me! Lots of Friends and Fun! WELL the plans are that EVERYBODY is invited to go to San Tan Flats tomorrow night for my Birthday Dinner! :) woo hoo!! So excited! My dad already got me My gifts, he's on top of it, I got a new curling "Wand", and 2 AMAZING movies...- CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG- and- THE KING AND I-  My daddy loves me :)
Also the Stradling Girls ALL got me the cutest Clutch purse!! :) I love it! I wish I had taken a picture with it so I could post it! but yeah! I love it! :)- Mom's supposed to be sending me something.. once she finishes it! :) we'll see! haha But yeah I'm just super Happy with life...Last Years Birthday! Was SUPER fun and I know this year will be just as great! I can't wait for all the fun and to see all my friends! Oh and I get to go to the Temple again on Saturday! :) another thing to add to a great weekend!! :)

It's Funny...Fact.

Kermit the Frog is left-handed.

The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F".

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom

If you were to spell out numbers, you would you have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter "A".

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food heavy users.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."

Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

NO TIME!

Oh My HEAVENS! It's crazy that when you actually get a life, you seem to have no time for blogging.. WEIRD :P Anyways I've been super busy at work the last week or so and its been nothing but wildness in my personal life. SO Lets see where to begin. WELL Rachel Surprised me with a cat, We named him Prince PrettyPaws Taylgate, And here we are a week an a half later, after fits of anger and destruction and rashes, we've given him away to a fellow cat lover on craigslist. It was for the best. Neither Rachel or I have time for a pet, and considering the fact that both Rachel and mines "Life getting" happened to coincide with "cat getting" it just didn't work out. But we know he will be loved. :) *** she showed up in a cat shirt- winning.

ANYWAYS, That's all I feel like sharing for the moment. We'll see if I have anything more to share in the future.
P.S. I am giving a talk in Church on Sunday, PRAY FOR ME! I'll need it! :)

BLESSED with JOY!

My whole life I have been told that IF I keep the Lords commandments and uphold to the Gospel Principals I will be blessed. For a long time I had an attitude of "I'm not killing anyone, I'm not stealing, therefore I'm doing whats right".Right?....... So I went through out my life and naturally because the Lord loves us all I felt the occasional blessing fall on my head. HOWEVER I had an AH-HA moment just yesterday. I started thinking about how my life was going and how I was so much happier, when I thought "So THIS is what they are talking about when they say 'You will be exceedingly blessed'." So not going into lots of detail on this lil epiphany of mine I got VERY exciting news from my Bishop yesterday (this news was given to me 2 weeks EARLY!) and It made me EXCEEDINGLY JOYFUL. (just thought I'd throw in some Church-y Lingo) I am fully on a track in life that I WANT to be heading on AND The Lord has seen all the great strides I have made. I'm so happy! JUST HAPPY! Wooo HOO!! HAPPY!!! :) JOY! DELIGHT! Everyone needs to get in on this "Joy-ride" because once you make that conscious decision, you will NEVER look back! :)---- JUST JOY.
(* On a side note, the Lord also taught me a lesson this weekend about standing in Holy places, and that where the Holy Ghost cannot enter, neither should I. Worst time ever.)

new, New, NEW!

OKAY so here is some NEW NEWS for you, HA. WELP I'm doing it. had a breaking point yesterday and am officially looking for a NEW and BETTER Job. SHHHH. It's like a must that I get one soon because IDK if I can handle this place much longer. ANYWAYS, I ALSO have recently purchased a bike. Rachel came up with a brilliant idea for us to become Bikers, thus we went on a whim, PayPal'd the Shiz outta those bikes and hopefully by the end of next week we both will be biking fools! It's super cute, it has a basket and a cup holder :) lil expensive but cheaper than the one I WAS going to get, but reality and responsibility (aka Rachel) checked me back into the facts. We plan to ride to her moms, to her brothers, to EVERYWHERE! We plan to have amazing legs.

ANYWAYS now here is for the most EXCITING THING(s)

THERE'S 2 OF THEM:

#1 I'm not sure if I mentioned on here before and if I haven't I have failed as a blogger. For Christmas Rachel made my dreams come true. She bought us tickets to (Drum roll please....... dadadadadaddadda..... PSH) WICKED!!! OH MY HEAVENS! I am sooo excited anyways it like almost a  month til we go and we have orchestra seating, yeah, be jealous!

#2- I have applied to be an EFY Counselor this SUMMER!!! :) I have literally ALWAYS ALWAYS(one more time) ALWAYS wanted to do it, ever since I went to EFY myself, but I kinda got distracted, BUT I applied on a whim and within 24 hours got asked to have an INTERVIEW!!! SO I have my interview in February and then we'll see if I am selected and if so which weeks and such! :) So excited! :) So Happy! Please pray for me! :)

ANYWAYS, that's basically all I've got. I'm super excited about the above!!!!!!!!!!!

-Aubs