2010..

So I figured it might be a good idea to finally do one of these "reflect on 2010" things.  2010 was good to me.. Heres a few pictures. (well maybe a little more then a few... I like pictures.  what can I say??)

 sledding up in salt lake

 skiing at Brighton with Annie and Danielle

 Surprise party for Lauren's 20th Birthday

 Skiing at the Canyons

 Baking ALL the time

 Amanda's Masquerade Birthday Party

 Fun at Brooke and Taylor's Cabin

 Festival of Colors!

 Spending my life in the labs with my favorite CS guys

 CS partyy

 Night skiing at Brighton with Benjamin

 Sunday dinners with some of my favorite people

 Picnic in the park

 Tucanos!

 Home in Maryland with my sisters

 Flew all the way out to Maryland without my family knowing! (to come watch my dad sing a solo on stage!)

 Awesome new roommates over the summer

 Ward jello/pudding fight!

 Fun in MD (another weekend trip home)

 Spent an awesome birthday with two of my favorite people

 Crazy times with the familia

 Ran my first 10k!!

 Manti pageant with the ward

 NYC for Em's 18th bday

 Nights in DC

 I love DC

Monthly Carmen's runs and playground trips

 Elder Crowder gets home from Hong Kong

 Fun times at Brooke's beautiful house in Alpine

 Hanging with the cousins

 End of the summer spent with LAUREN.  

 Trip to Vegas to visit Karalyn for the weekend

 Tie-dying shirts

 Stopping Voldemort!  

 Trip to Glacier with my family!

 Traditional trip to the Cougareat with the fam

 Reunited with the besties

 Trip to Vegas for JaNae's wedding!

 Sending off Sister Beecroft :(

 BYU football

 Weekly Little Ceasars with the roommates

 Reunited with old roommates

 Kentlands/DC reunion

 General Conference

 Brittany's wedding and seeing family

 Nightmare on 13th!

 Watching Annie and Karalyn dance in DanceSport!

 Thanksgiving with the cousins

 Sleepover with some of my favorite Kentlands girls

 Got the wisdom teeth out

 More trips to DC

Trip to Deep Creek with the Parsons!

oh, and lived with my 3 best friends!  (I'm a little obsessed with these pictures if you couldnt tell)

Wow, there were a lot more then a few pictures!  Its been a great year and I've been so blessed to have had so many fun times with so many awesome people in my life.  Hopefully 2011 will be just as great to me!  

revamping the blog

So, I've decided a revamping is in order.  That is if I can actually sit down and spend enough time trying to figure out how to redesign my blog.  Then maybe, just maybe, I'll be tempted to post more regularly.

Sorry for the bad resolution, but I had to include at least one of the pictures we got done before Lauren left (and I'm at work and dont have my laptop with me).  These pictures make me happy and sad all at the same time.  I miss us.  All together.  Placentia is too far away from Provo. 

Happy Birthday Mom!!

Today is my mom's birthday.  She is an amazing person.  I dont know if she knows how amazing she is.  I love her a ton.  I'm totally bummed that I had to leave MD a few days before he birthday.  Here are just a few things I love about my mom.

-She is always getting things done.  My mom could probably never spend a whole day (or even only a few hours for that matter!) sitting on the couch doing nothing.  She is always doing something.  And that something is pretty much always productive too.  If I could have days like that, I would get A LOT more done...
-She finds things to make herself happy.  I am still working hard on this, but she has mastered not letting what other people do or dont do affect how happy she is.  I really admire that.
-She always looks out for the underdog.  Anytime I tell my mom a story or we're talking about something, she always feels bad for the underdog, no matter how much she likes them or doesn't like them.  We have grown to accept this and expect it when we tell her things.
-She is horrible at quoting movies.  Its ok, I am too.  Whenever she gets one right, she does a pretty good job with it though :)
-She is one of the best people to talk to.  She puts up with me calling way too many times a day about random things that she probably gets very sick of hearing about, but never would say a word to me about it.
-She always gets things done early.  I dont think she could procrastinate if she tried.  It makes me upset sometimes that I cant just buckle done and get things done like her.
-She LOVES going on trips.  And planning tons of things to do on trips.  Someday she will be a tour guide or help plan family's vacations and will do an awesome job with it.
-She loves taking pictures.  Thats probably where I got it from.  I used to always hate all the pictures she would take, but now that I do the exact same thing, I really cant complain.
-She loves reading and has instilled this love into us girls starting at an early age.
-She loves her family more then anything.  My mom would do anything for my dad or one of us girls.  anything.  Including putting her needs and wants behind ours every single time.  Someday I hope I can be as selfless as her.

Basically my mom is awesome, I love her to death and hate being 2000 miles away from her.  Thank goodness for phones.

Happy Birthday Mom!!