This is hilarious.

"God expects you to have enough faith and determination and enough trust in Him to keep moving, keep living, keep rejoicing. In fact, He expects you not simply to face the future (that sounds pretty grim and stoic); He expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities. God is anxiously waiting for the chance to answer your prayers and fulfill your dreams, just as He always has. But He can't if you don't pray, and He can't if you don't dream. In short, He can't if you don't believe."- Elder Holland

"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."-Audrey Hepburn

Tennis

Ari and I live, breathe, and dream tennis. Yep. We have tennis class errday at 10. We then go to the park and play almost every day well as much as we can which is the best. Ari and I are sooo competitive with each other it's unreal. We play singles and we love playing doubles. We have a great little system going which is great since we have a bajillion doubles matches set up.

SLC

This weekend I went up to Lauren's saturday night and sunday. It was really really much needed visit. I love Lauren. It was soooo nice to get away from Provo and be with my bestestt friend and the rest of her family. The first thing I did when I got there was give Lauren and Sarah hugs and basically sat down and cried haha but it's okay because they're family. They cheered me up with some kind words and food-of course. Fish tacos sosooo good and Sarah's famous chocolate chip cookies. We took a walk on the golf course, talked, laughed, watched vampire diaries weeee into the night, call on me dance party ahahaha, celebrated mothers day, went to church, and scooteddd our way over to Lauren's grandma's for dinner. Such a great weekend.

NEW ADDICTION

Lauren got me addicted this weekend. We watched episode 1-4 and now I'm on episode 10...a few days later. This show is the shizz. Tops Twilight and your typical vampire stuff by 50. It's gotten kind of scary to watch by myself though, but it's okay. Vampires aren't real right?

I just got a package last night from my mom and I love her sosososo much. Last week was a really tough never ending week. She sent me the best package that literally made everything better and is going to make this week the best. One thing she wrote in her note to me was,

“I love you and never want anyone to hurt you or make you feel pain; however, I know it is not always possible to control every situation. Just remember—no one—no matter how handsome or smart or whatever-should ever hurt you or make you feel less than you are unless you allow it. When someone says hurtful and demeaning things, it is a glimpse into their own chracter—not yours! There are many things in life we are notable to control, but we can control the way we react to each situation.”

This is the perfect thing that I need to hear. I can't allow someone to make me feel bad like that. Obviously I feel bad because I let things get to me- who wouldn’t? I don't know what went wrong but thank goodness I'm over it now because I hate that feeling! Mom is right though. I can’t control the situation! I always think that I can and it never works out. I get scared a lot of the times and then just freak out, but she's right I can control how I react. I certainly could have reacted better various times, but I was mad at the time and just lashed out. Actually, I hate when people make me feel bad about myself and say derogatory things to me so yeah I feel like whatever happened on my side was at least a little justified, but I wish none of it even happened in the first place. Ari gave me a great tip last night to just type out whatever things I want to say and whatever my first reaction is and then put it away and don’t send it and instead think about something nice to say or don't say anything at all. People like that I just need to drop. I've learned from so many experiences especially my senior year and this year with close friends that people who make me feel less than I am just need not to be forgotten but just distanced from me. I know I am worth so much more than I think I am and I just need to stop and take a breather for a second and recognize that.

Books I read in Mexico!

Lo's bridal shower!

Our present dominated all others...ew awkward.

Best friendzzzzz

Ricardo and I in a nutshell.

Midway Adventures

This little trip of ours was hmm I don't even know the word. I didn't want to do it, it was right after the festival of colors and I was so tired but it turned out to be a ton of fun. A bunch of people came up from different groups and we just did the usual. Most people went home around 2 but Cody and his boys convinced me to let them stay andddd turns out I'm happy we did because the night just got funnier as it went on.

Tdawg

Travis was called to the Eugene, Oregon Spanish speaking mission! YEEA TDAWG

Tyler's Birthday

Phoebe and I put together a little birthday dinner for our bestie Tyler's 19th birthday. The boys and Rachel came and we had a great celebration. Tyler's in the MTC now starting his journey to Ukraine! I miss him and his opinionated views, dramatic attitude, and hilarious comments.