Today I am feeling an overwhelming feeling of gratitude to my Heavenly Father. I feel like I don't thank Him enough for all of the many things He does for me. I feel like He is really close to me lately, which is the best feeling in the world. I feel like He is guiding me right now to a new adventure. I feel like there is so much I need to do in my life and I need to keep going and pressing forward so that I can accomplish all the many goals I have set for myself.
     I absolutely LOVED Pres. Uchtdorf's talk in the General RS Meeting last night. If you haven't listened to it yet, I HIGHLY recommend it! He talks about Forget-Me-Nots and uses them in his talk. I loved the over all theme of the whole meeting and felt so very loved by my Heavenly Father and His beloved Son, Jesus Christ. I love knowing that I am a daughter of God, and that He has so much in store for me. I LOVE the gospel of Jesus Christ and all it means to me in my life!!

Fantastic Weekend!!!

I took a majority of this weekend off and just relaxed. I realize school just started and I shouldn't be super stressed yet...and I'm not yet...I just don't want to get as stressed as I was last semester, so on Saturday when a majority of the state was waiting with lots of anticipation for the BYU vs. Utah game to begin, I was driving to SLC to watch Real Salt Lake play some soccer! And oh, it was a good game. They played Kansas City (who did put up a good fight) and WON!!! By a point...which was the only point scored the entire match. But it was still awesome! I was happy to see my team win! They have some good players! And then, after the game, Onerepublic came and sang for a little while! It was FANTASTIC, and they even played a new song that is for sure going to be on their next album! Here is a video of it, and yes I realize the video is really crappy quality, but you can hear to song, which is what counts any way.
So, after the game I technically had plenty of time to drive home and sleep in my own bed...but I didn't want to and crashed at Fort's house. It was nice to get away even if it was just for one night.
    So, today I got up and got ready and went to church with Fort and her room mates. It was funny because as we are driving over, Fort was mentioning that she hasn't seen Digger at church since she met him about a month or two ago, so I might not see him. I kind of wanted to see him since I haven't talked to him since I told him I liked him, and kind of wanted to know for sure that we are still friends and all that. It was funny because as we got out of the car, Digger is walking across the parking lot to go into church. It was crazy. I hadn't told him I was up there, hadn't talked to him, so when he saw me in the foyer, it was nice that when he recognized me, he came over to talk to me. We ended up sitting by him in sacrament meeting, and it was as if nothing had changed, which I am glad for because as I have previously mentioned, Digger is one of the best men I have ever met and I am so grateful for his friendship.
    And then, after church, I came back home and watched a couple Jane Austen movies, because I'm addicted to them and I feel they are the best way to relax on a Sunday afternoon...hooray!! It was the perfect end to a fantastic weekend!!

5 years ago...

Five years ago tomorrow (Sept. 13th) I went into the MTC to start my missionary service. Isn't that CRAZY!?!?!?! Five whole years have passed since I started a journey that would change the rest of my life. Its amazing! And, do you know how I'm going to celebrate this momentous occasion? I am going to watch this movie:

Because A.) Its a wicked awesome movie!
And 2.) because Chris Hemsworth is ATTRACTIVE....isn't he just so beautiful!?!?! Yeah...he is...

It comes out on DVD tomorrow, which I feel is entirely appropriate! What better way to celebrate than that!?!?!?! he he he...so fun! The only thing that would be better is if Captain America was also coming out on DVD...but alas, it won't be out for a while yet.



On an entirely random note: I am totally loving school, though it is completely kicking my trash!!! I have learned, however, that when you choose a major that you actually enjoy...you actually like the classes you are required to take! Crazy how that works, isn't it!?!?!?!

Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead

      I heard the song "Someone Like You" by Adele the other day and FELL IN LOVE with that song! The chorus of the song was EXACTLY how I was feeling that day and it was so amazing! Here is the song, with Adele's story behind the song:


      So, in case you hadn't figured it out, I talked to Digger about how I felt about him and all that good stuff. It was good. We are good friends, and that is all it will ever be.
      I have learned a lot in this whole process and I am so grateful that I met him, and that we are friends. There are few friends I think more highly of than him, and not just because I liked him, he is a very genuine, caring, amazing person and I wish him all the best in life.

DEMOLITION DERBY Cake

     I have this friend...and for some reason one of my nieces calls him Turbo. She's never heard anything about him, or met him, she helped me put the cars on top of his cake and she keeps calling him Turbo.  I think its pretty funny, so we're just going to call him that.

   Any way, it was Turbo's birthday last Thursday and jokingly told me about a month ago that his birthday was coming up if I wanted to make a cake...I think he's kind of cute, and he's a really great guy, so I told him I'd make him a cake. He was kind of surprised. So, we talked later about it and decided that I would make him an ice cream cake with a car theme to it. I just went to a demolition derby, so I took that and made it my theme.
    I love how the flames turned out on this cake. It is one of my favorites, and Turbo thought it was super awesome. He already knows I'm a good cook, and tells people on a fairly regular basis. It kind of makes me smile a little bit.
   I don't know if he was more excited about the cake, or the cars on top (which I left for him because he really wanted to play with them).
    I am so glad that my first ever ice cream cake turned out so well! It was a really delicious cake and I had so much fun making it!

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Castle Cake

Just before summer ended, a good friend of mine had a birthday and I told her I'd make her a cake, as I do for some of my really good friends. She LOVES pink, and castles and is a school teacher and I laugh with her a lot, so we decided to go with a pink castle cake for her birthday. I had just made one of these for my niece's birthday and had a few ideas of how I wanted to change it, so here is the finished product:

As you can see, there is grass and a moat and a bridge....this is not all frosting, because that would be a LOT of frosting, I used 2 cake mixes and filled the castle cake pan that I borrowed from my Sister-in-law (who is AWESOME! Thanks for letting me use it!) and then I took what was left and poured it into a 9x13 pan and baked that as well. When everything was cooled, I got to work frosting it. The windows are made of pink starburst candies as well as the flags. The candles had different colored flames, though I am not terribly impressed with them...I liked the star topped candles best, and they fit in best with the scene any way.

My friend LOVED her cake, and I had so much fun making it! I also made these cute little cupcakes for another friends birthday and had sooo much fun figuring out how best to make the design and the everything for it to work out so well!

And as I am posting this on the first weekend in September, I thought I'd add this to Beck's LOOK WHAT I MADE!!! Share the love link party!!!! Enjoy!!!