Kaden came over one day and we just talked about life for multiple hours. He gives the best advice and truly I'm grateful to have him.
This happened at work once. The funniest was when a customer came in. Awk.
Went night tubing at Soldier Hollow with Beans, Tyler, and Jac. It was seriously one of my favorite nights of all time, even though we locked the keys in the car :)
We try to be thugs but really we're not so we just play Mad Gab and basketball and go to parks and run around like little kids.
(Halea, Alesha, Tanner, Austin, Kaden, Jackie, Jaedee, me, Chase)
What better way to spend a day off of school than drive to Manti to the temple and do baptisms? We surprised Grandma and Grandpa C who were working there and I don't think they could've been more excited. Then we ate at an adorable little malt shop and stopped at a sketchy thrift store and jammed out to Taylor Swift and just laughed all day long. Then we watched Glory Road and Kaden kept telling me it was gonna get more exciting but it never really did and I almost fell asleep. It was such a good day. Wow. But they need to make the stalls in the temple locker room a little taller cuz Jaed and I could have a conversation with each other over top of them and that was a little awkward. And I dropped her suit so it was wet the whole time. The temple workers were having a hard time pronouncing our names- that was funny. "Like cole slaw? Let's not call her Sister Salad." :)
Letters are my favorite. Getting 3 in 2 weeks is even more my favorite.
Chase and I went fishing once by his house cuz why not? We would've caught something if I didn't break the line. Whoops.
There's tons more stuff that I've done (I don't think that was a grammatically correct sentence- it sounded weird but oh well) but I don't wanna take up forever writing it. Also I have other stuff to talk about. First being this book:
Brilliant. Wonderfully, horribly, amazingly brilliant. I'm kind of obsessed with it, and rightfully so. It was so well written and I'm in love with the characters and it made me cry like crazy and it made me think about my life and why I am the way I am and I love Hazel Lancaster and Augustus Waters and I wish they were real but at the same time I don't cuz then I'd cry even more and I can't wait for the movie and that's all. Here are some quotes from the book:
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
“Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence”
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
I've been on a reading kick lately because, when you don't have anything else to do you might as well do something semi productive. I read the whole Slammed series by Colleen Hoover, Catching Fire, and I'm in the middle of Divergent. My popular lit class is seriously taking it's toll on me.
The other thing I want to talk about is getting hurt. I have lots of thoughts swirling around in my head and I figure they have to come out somewhere so why not here. I got a stress fracture in my left foot and it hurts. I'm just going to complain a little first and then I'll try to be rational and perhaps a little motivational (for my own sake, I'm the one who needs the motivation.) It's not fair. It's my senior track season and I've been working so very hard. I've been running so well and I was on track to reach all my goals and finally just this once make it to state. I haven't had a full track season since freshman year and this was finally my year to reach what I wanted to reach. Life doesn't exactly give you what you want. I prefer to be able to walk easily and not have an extremely difficult time putting on my pants and getting up the stairs. But in the end it's ok. I mean it has to be ok. As we were sitting in the waiting room at the instacare for like 2 hours (thank goodness for Rhett and Link and Kid President videos) I was thankful to have my mom. I'm thankful for my family and friends. I'm a lucky lucky girl to have such great people in my life. I went to Chase's after the doctor and Kaden came too and we watched Emperors New Groove and played basketball (PIG- It involves very little movement) and dominos and I felt like I should have been sad but I wasn't. I wasn't sad because it's really ok. I have those 2 kids to make me laugh no matter what. We had so much fun and in that moment it didn't matter that I was hurt because I was having fun and life was good. Someone talked about trials today in sacrament and they said that God will try you in the exact time you need it and only for the exact time you need it. I don't understand why I have to go through this exact trial again. It's not fun and it makes me grumpy and it's hard and I'm sad but it's ok. I don't know what I'm supposed to learn but as with everything in life I know I'm supposed to try to come closer to God. Trials are a test of faith, I'm lucky to have the advantage in life to know that so I can try to prove to myself and others that I'm not going to give up on my Savior and my Father. I have so many great things in my life and oh so many great people. It's going to be ok and I truly believe that.
I'll end this lovely post of thoughts with a few thoughts from people that are always an inspiration:
"You really have no idea yet who you are and what you can accomplish in life. You have great potential far beyond what you can imagine today." -Richard G. Scott
and...
"No matter how high your hopes, I’m here to tell you they can be even higher. You can accomplish more in this life than you know. With the Lord at your side, you can experience miracles.
If we are reaching out to others, then our capacity to reach out increases even more. This is one of the clearest indicators that we are giving our will to God." -Russell Osguthorpe
That's it for now, folks. Have a great week :) And go watch some Kid President videos because he'll cheer you up no matter what :)
