Future Me

So school is going really great so far! It is really hard right now because I really don't know what i'm doing yet. I have no muscle memory in my hands yet. I am learning perms and they require a lot of focus hand muscles.

So we got a homework assignment to make a poster with our goals on it. They are goals for my career and life. So I made my poster tonight. It made me think about where I want to take my career after school. Here is a picture of my poster, and then I will talk about some of my goals.

Here are my goals:

1. I want to have a lifestyle blog-like a blog about hair, make up, clothes, and just different things that happen day to day. I would want it to be an inspiring blog. I have been following a hair/lifestyle blog I found on pinterest for awhile, and it really has changed the way I see myself.

2. I want be happy, enthusiastic, and satisfied with my life.

3. Married in the temple!!! I want to have a happy Christ-centered family.

4. I want to focus a big chunk of my career doing hair and make up for weddings and other events. This is a recent interest of mine, and I am really excited. I think that would make my career a lot more personal. And I have always enjoyed experimenting with different hair techniques. Up-do's are so much fun.

5. Eventually I think it would be nice to own my own salon. That is not a priority, but I think eventually that would be what I want.

6. Inner beauty is on the poster as well. I put that on there because there is no substitute for what beauty you have inside. Hair and makeup and clothes are so much fun, but they are no substitute for that inner beauty. I hope to inspire that in people with my career path.

7. I don't know if you saw this on the top of the poster, but it says "BYU fan forever!". I put that because I will forever be a BYU fan. I had to put that on my goal poster. You know me.

8. The last thing I want to always work hard. It is going to take A LOT of hard work to get my career to where I want it to be. I still need to graduate from school and establish myself. I have always admired people who can work so hard, and I want to be one of those people. I have always looked up to my dad. He works so hard and is always so positive. He is the pefect example of how a person should be. I love him.

So there are some of my goals! I just wanted to put them up here because they are real. I want to accomplish these things. I hope to some day lead up to this. I am really happy and excited with where I am at right now, and I hope to continue to be happy and excited :)

Autumn...:)

I am so excited that it is fall. This is a post to tell you about all of the things that I am excited for. And hopefully make you excited for fall as well :)

I am in love with the changing leaves! I hope to be able to go up to the canyon and see these colors!!

I am so ready to be able to wear scarves. Just like good old Harry Potter here. I want his scarf.

Pumpkins are the BEST thing that happened to this world. They are so cute and make fall official. I can't wait to buy some.

You can't forget pumpkin cookes. They complete life. I just might make some of these soon.

Oh yeah, did I mention it means football season?!! The season continues with BYU. I am so excited. I am loving it so far :)

 

I hope I just make you all excited for fall :)

Sundays.

This morning was the Brigham City Temple dedication. I was able to attend it with my family in the home stake. I feel like feeling that spirit with them was exactly what I needed after this week. The first week of school is always a doozy ;)

Anyways, the dedication. It is amazing the spirit the temple can bring you. As soon as we walked into the chapel I felt a calm spirit come over me. I was able to think about the different things of my week and see them in a different light. My mind was calmed and Heavenly Father helped me to see the areas of my life that needed improvement.

We are so blessed to be surrounded by a lot of temples. We can add one more to that! And 2 more temples coming soon :)

I hope everybody else had the chance to attend this dedication today, and if not-please go to the temple. It is so necessary to happiness. I have a solid testimony of that.

 

I also had a great weekend with my family. They are awesome and make me feel so good. But I also love being at my apartment with my awesome cousin/roomie Rosie. She is what makes my apartment feel like a second home :) And my Sunday wouldn't be complete with out a letter from my awesome missionary brother. Read his blog hereand feel the spirit.

 

Enjoy your week everyone.

Happier Than a Bird with a French Fry

I had a pretty full day today. I had school and then went straight to work. I feel like that stressed me out more just because this is my first week of school, and that kind of stresses me out. At work I think I just felt overwhelmed with different things that were happening because of the stresses I have. I went home to do homework and my internet wasn't working. I was complaining so bad!!

But then one of the coolest people I know told me to think of a positive thing that happend in my day. At first I thought, "there is nothing." But then I remembered that I got a big paycheck. My internet started working and I was able to do my work. I learned really cool stuff in school today. My family sent me nice texts throughout the day. I work with the coolest people ever. I had a car to drive me where I needed to go. I was able to read my scriptures and write in my journal tonight.

So many good things happened. I am making a goal to do this everyday. I will find all of the positive things I can think of! I feel like doing this will help me to see the joys that happen all around me all the time. There are going to be bad moments, but they won't ruin my day.

Thanks for making me think about this Julie :)

Homecoming!!

So this weekend I was able to go home! I did Erika's homecoming hair on Saturday. I practiced on Friday night so I knew what I needed to improve on for the real hairdo. Here are some pictures of my BEAUTIFUL sister!!!

This is me doing her hair. We're watching Kung Fu Panda.

 

Isn't she so beautiful??

Side view of all her pearls and stuff :)

 
Kinda sassy.

So grown up!

The full look.

Success!! Yes I made that flower.

I hope she had so much fun! I really think she looked nice. I love first dates.

The Holy Temple

I found this quote on pinterest and feel so inspired.

 

I live so close to so many different temples and still find that I don't go enough. I need to go to the temple more. That is my goal right now. I will go to the temple at least once a month. It is such a simple thing that makes an incredible difference. I invite everyone who is able to go to the temple as often as they can as well. As our prophet Thomas S. Monsen said as we go to the temple we can "...be more able to vear every trial and overcome each temptation...we will find peace, we will be renewed and fortified."

 

My Apartment

So remember when I said I would post pics of my apartment when everything was unpacked? Well here are some really horrible pictures of it. I took them on my phone just barely and I couldn't get good ones. But it is the general idea. My roommates are awesome and decorated the living room. I really didn't get good pictures though so I will have to get better ones and show you those some later time.

This is scrapbook paper put on the wall in this beautiful retro design. I love this.

This is a picture frame with different things in it like music, quotes, etc.

This is something that they saw on pinterest. I think it is cute.

So this is outside in the hallway by the bathrooms. It is an over the door organizer that is holding all of our bathroom stuff. I can't even tell you how many ways we tried hanging this up. Thumb tacks. Thank you Rosie!! Briliant. Sorry the picture is sideways. I can't fix that...

So there is a look into the apartment. I promise I will show you better pictures later. I promise.