Merry Christmas!

So I have made it through my last finals, EVER!!!!! Yahoo... This is the greatest news...I will be graduating and I will never have to take another class until I turn 50, just kidding. Who knows maybe graduate school will be another life.

I am in Highlands Ranch, Colorado right now, with my sister Lauren and her family, along with my parents who flew in from Hurricane, Utah and my brother Ryan from Salt Lake. We have had so much fun, trying to outdo each other on our cooking/baking skills. It has been eventful...miss you all, and hope to add some pics when I get home.
Happy Christmas and new Year!

p.s. I love you all, especially those who leave me posts.

Forgot to add..

that because of my record with Montclair State I will NOT be graduating yet this year because they say I have to take another STINKEN biology class...WHATEVER!!!! I am going to cry to them tomorrow because I was suppose to be done next month..and this is the first I am hearing of this CRAP!!!!! (I AM SO MAD)...anyways thought you might like to know

I am thankful for.....

So many things...I have decided to publicly write this list because I was in sacrement the other day-which is a meeting at my church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and this friend of mine was speaking on gratitude. She incorporated in her talk parts of her journal that she had written down in a trip to an orphanage in Romania-I think. But it was a journal on gratitude. In my hand written journal that I try to keep, I end it with writing a couple things I am thankful for-I am going to write down some of the things I put in my journal.
(now these are not in any order of favorites).
Family, Friends, the testimony I have of my church and its beliefs, the Prophets, hairbrushes, fluffy pillows, watches, my nose, my eyes, all of my limbs, FOOD, music, Ibruprofen, dentist, doctors, teeth, eye mak-up remover, thankful for my feet not huring as bad anymore (DANG that plantar fascitus), my church calling, little children, stories, toilets, dishwashers, cars, computers, schools, safety, warm home, pictures, shoes, paper, pens, radios, airplanes, horses, dogs, vaccuums, windshield wipers, food in grocery stores, money for food, my hair, I am thankful that my parents took care of me and loved me even when I chased my mother around the house with a dead mouse numerous times and had to call my dad to come home and take care of me and the dead mouse. I am thankful for the trips I go on, I am thankful for my Heavenly Father, missionaries, utensils, stoves, the beautiful outdoors, mountains, sports, soccer/volley/basket/base/tennis/footballs, I am thankful for electricity, garbage disposals, recipe books, boyfriends, hugs, kisses, massages, manicures/pedicures/ books, baby wipes, cleaning supplies, grocery bags, bicycles, neighbors, garages, trees, candles, picture frames, stickers, pencil sharpeners, ringed sleeves......................birthdays, Thanksgiving

and the list seriously goes on, I have so much to be thankful for, but the number # thing I am so indebted to and Thankful for is our Heavenly Father and his Son JESUS CHRIST!


I know some of these are a given, but some are not, some just surfaced because they don't really get recognition for the purpose

Does anyone ever......

READ My BLOG? IF so, how come I don't have any comments...?? IS there anyone out there??????

Tagged.....

Tagged-the 8's

8-T.V. shows I like to watch:
1- Today show
2- E.R.(but I haven't watched it since last year...so I have no idea what is going on)
3- One Tree Hill-thanks to Netflix
4- Any cooking show
5- Ellen
6- 7th Heaven
7- Will and Grace
8- This show comes on, on Sunday night, and it is where they makeover the house for someone who really needs it...can't remember its name..

8 favorite restraunts 8 Things that happend yesterday
1- Red Robin 1- went to church
2- Cheesecake Factory 2- scrapbooked
3- Forte 3- picked a bunch of people up for church
4- Mexicali Rose 4- went to Shandis's house
5- Bangledesh 5- sent a bunch of emails about and activity
6- Pizzaria Uno 6- printed out sheets for my India class
7- Cafe Rio 7- Listened to itunes, while I scrapbooked
8- Greek Tavern 8- Made pasta with pesto

8 Things I am looking forward to
1- My midterms to be over
2- My plantar fascitus going away
3- Going to the dentist
4- Going to a halloween party and dressing up
5- Wearing my new fancy dress
6- Writing in my journal
7- Reading books that don't have to do with school
8- going to Australia

8 Things I love about fall
1- Beautiful pictures
2- wearing sweaters
3- Falling leaves
4- cool weather
5- Thanksgiving
6- My BIRTHDAY
7- Getting cozy in my bed or in the arms of a significant other
8-jumping in leaves, and watching my dog jump in them

8 Things on my wishlist
1- Flat screen Tv
2- New shoes
3- New clothes
4- Carpet
5- Cds
6- New camera
7- my bills paid off
8- Going to see Little Mermaid on Broadway

8 People I am tagging
1- Ronna
2- Tish
3- Lexi
4- Melissa
5- Libby
6- Really anyone who reads my blog
7- I don't have a lot of people on my blog
8- Anyone? Anyone?

Fun things going on

ok, so I am going to post some random pictures from this summer, I went to a jackals baseball game..Claires best Friend Caitlynn who is two years older than her...I took the girls to this really cool water park...it was so much fun...Mountain Creakk! I jumped off a cliff, and hit the freezing cold water...I was bruised up that day and was sore for a couple of days after that. It was a BLAST!!!

Can't figure out how to

add more than 5 pictured to one setting....anyone want to show me? Oh yeah, Danielle and I went to the farmers market underneat the center...ooohhh lalala....Before we left we went and split ice cream and a berry cream cheese crepe...DELICIOUS

Time Out For Women

This weekend I went to Philladelphia to a womens conference that Deseret Book put on. IT WAS AMAZING!!! I went with a lady from my ward Danielle Jenson. I drove down and she booked the hotel. We stayed in the Alexandria B&B, it was about 7 blocks down from the conference center. We heard different speakers and heard music from Hillary Weeks. The speakers were from all over, they included Douglas E. Brinley-professor of Church history at BYU, Jane Clayson Johnson-anchor of the CBS morning show, Carolyn J. Rasmas-general board of Sunday school, Chris Stewart-best seller and world record setting Air Force pilot, Emily Watts-senior editor of Deseret Book and author. Hilary Weeks was phonemenal...I have never heard her music and now I am a fan. She was basically the one in charge of the program, she sang and gave us words of inspiration. Overall this was a fantastic weekend. Not only was this women's conference going on, but in the same center there was a fairy conference. Not fairy as in Gay, but girls/women dressing up as fairies, hair colored. It was also the Coming Out weekend all over the city..plus Barrack Obama, and Sarah Pallen were there campaigning.

Hope you enjoy the pics, they are from the Show, there are also friends that I saw there from Jersey.

P.s. THe Phillies also won their first game of the baseball series.

oops forgot the pics

Friends 2

There are so many people who are important to me...I need to add more pics

Some of the bestest friends

I have neglected to post anything in along time...over a month and in blogging time that has to be wayyy to long. Anyways, this is a special shout-out to my bestest girlfriends. They are such a big part of my life even though they live many miles away from me. They are an inspiration, they are what helps me to be a better person, they help me with my challenges, clumsiness and most importantly help me to live the gospel to the fullest
I thank my Heavenly Father for each and everyone of these V.I.P
I love them!

Camping...what an experience

I went with 5 of my friends to Highpoint State Park a couple months ago. THe highest place in N.J. IT was such a beautiful site, we were right on a lake, but we couldn't swim on it. We were able to hike part of the Appalachian trail..and no we did not see any bears. But we did get in trouble with the forrest wardens. We ended up having our coolers next to the camp site when clearly the rules we were given stated to leave ALL food in the car...boy did we learn
The best part of the trip was the HUGE thunderstorm we had. It poored for about 20 minutes with really high winds that almost took our tent away,-Thank goodness for Tracey, Brent and I who gave our lives up to run and sit inside and outside of the tent. We were SOAKED! It was CRAZY!!!
We hope to go again, somewhere else

I LOVE MY FAMILY

A tribute to my family who is far away from me. I miss you all, and hope one day we will be able to ask for a cup of sugar or an egg..
You are all such a big part of my life even though I live SOOO far away..You are such a big part of my life despite the obvious.

I think of you often and pray for you daily...


I LOVE YOU!!!!

Concert for $10

I was fortunate to see Maroon 5 and Counting Crows...I loved the Counting Crows...I didn't know most of their songs but now look forward to buying their music. I had so much fun with my three friends..Miranda, Joanne and Keith. I ended up driving and we were stuck in traffic for about 2 hours trying to get their. We missed Sarah Borrelis who opened for the other two groups. The PNC bank arts center was amazing...it was beautiful, my pictures don't do justice...it was really dark and LARGE. I can't wait to go again

Another post

I figured it is about time for me to put recent pics of the girls up. Claire is now 7, and is one of the biggest helpers I know...she doesn't complain anymore when she has to do her chores. As she gets older she is showing more TLC towards others. Still very quiet and shy at times. Sarah on the other hand has hit the teen years....oh my gosh, please tell me that I was not like every other teenager. She is a total follower and doesn't like to do anything, accept for sleeping in and staying up late playing with her mac-I know spoiled child huh. She went to a lot of BAR/BAT Mitzvahs this year and still has invititations coming along.

There are some pics of my neighbors daughter who adores Sarah and Claire, and of course there had to be one picture of the beast..wouldn't you know DINGUS. My dog who I have a love hate relationship with. Oh yeah and also Claires play Charlottes
Web, who she was a dog-go figure. She loves animals, and wants to live on a farm when she gets older, without bugs though she reminds me.

Baby Andrews blessing

My friend Malola named her baby Andrew. She decided to have the baby blessed at a Pentalcostal church in Jamaica , Queens. She had never been to this church, but her aunt goes to this church. Let me tell you, without the fake GARMEN we would have been so lost...we were late getting to the church service which lasted about 5 hours and this little building was packed to the rim with people. They had little a.c. on an extremely hot, humid day. What impressed me was that everyone was dressed in white from head to toe. Men wore mostly long sleeve white suits-CALL ME Crazy...but why not short sleeve? Anyways it was an intersting time, and Yes as you can see my three friends and I were not the majority.

Malolas family and friends were very hospitable to us. Dinner was mostly Carribean, Rotti, Goats head soup...mind you remember it is a steamen hot day,

Rice and beans, lots of different food, but so yummy.

(I skipped out on the soup-you decide why)

I have to add though before I forget that before we get to the service Malola calls and says that she is apologizing now because it was a really hot and loud church. We got to listen to how the Pentacostals worship on Sundays. I am glad that I am Mormon and get to sit in an air conditioned quieter meeting, one in which I can understand.