C is for Countdowns

These days my life thrives on countdowns. I have so much to look forward to over the next couple of months! So here it goes. I'll share with you my many countdowns...

8 days until...My best friend Whitney Lucas gets married to my good friend Jordan Garrett! I cannot believe how fast this day has come! I'm proud of them and grateful that they are setting a good example for me and for many others. Congrats Whitney and Jordan!

15 days until...I go to my first Atlanta Braves baseball game. It's sad that I'm 21 and I've never been to one since they're so popular down here. As my good friend Bryce Rojas once said, "Stay loyal to your soil."

39 days until...My little brother leaves for his mission. He will be serving in the Salt Lake City Utah mission for 2 years. It will be sad to say goodbye, but we will make the best of the 39 days we still have together! Also, if Kyle goes to General Conference and his family also goes to General Conference he is allowed to visit with them briefly. Guess who's going to General Conference!?

71 days until...I see Lady Antebellum in concert!! I absolutely love their new album and I can't wait to see them! So stoked.

72 days until...I go to Georgia/Virginia to be an EFY Counselor. This is something I've been wanting to do ever since I was a young EFY participant. I can't wait to meet all kinds of new people and be a positive influence in the lives of the youth. Also, I'm crossing my fingers that I'll get to be Clark Gustafson's EFY counselor. (My good friend's younger brother.)

110 days until...I move to ARIZONA! Can I just say that I absolutely CANNOT wait until this day comes. I am so excited that I can hardly stand it. So come August, I'll be a resident of Tempe, AZ. If any of you have any connections or contacts of anyone that works in marketing in the Phoenix area, please let me know! :)


So that's my life in a nutshell. Please enjoy this song as you continue to browse the web...

B is for Blessings, Bernie and Babysitting.

I feel like this week has been the longest week of my life. Ok. So that's a serious exaggeration but usually my weeks go by faster than this one.

However, things began to look up whenever I got in my car this morning to go to work and discovered that my gas tank was completely FULL! That's right. Some kind, loving soul in my family filled it up for me. How nice is that?! I later found out that it was my little brother, Kyle. This automatically made my day 100% better. Thanks Kyle!

Speaking of Kyle, since we have been home from school, Kyle and I were introduced to this song, "Movin' like Bernie." Kyle LOVES it. He is always movin' like Bernie.

I encourage you all to move it like Bernie...

And if you're wondering where in the world this came from...

And if you're skeptical of the popularity of the Bernie...

Time to babysit now so I'm outta here. But seriously, I know y'all want to get up and try the Bernie. Just do it.

A is for ALARM

Alarm clock. This morning my alarm clock went off at 7:15. I have to leave for work at 7:50. Why would I set my alarm so late and only give myself 35 minutes to get ready for work, you ask? Let me fill you in. My parents flew home from the lovely Rexburg, Idaho yesterday after attending Bekka's graduation from BYU-Idaho. Their flight got cancelled from Dallas to Greenville and ended up flying into the Charlotte airport. And yours truly got to go pick them up...at midnight. Mind you, my bedtime is 10pm and Charlotte is 1.5 hours away from Greenville causing us to get home at 2 in the morning. This is why I allowed myself to sleep in as long as humanly possible this morning. But this series of unfortunate events turned out to be an awesome adventure. Wanna know why? Because I got to see some of my best friends from college, Katie and Ashley Gustafson, who live in Charlotte. Not to mention their sweet parents and little brother Clark! Kyle and I got to spend about 2 hours at their house before we went to the airport to pick up my parents. It was great to see them one more time and catch up before they head back out to school for spring semester!

Moral of the story: When life gives you lemons...make lemonade, but only if it's pink.