Happy St. Patty's Day!

LUCK O' THE IRISH TO YA!

So, maybe I should reconsider that goal of blogging more, I guess this could be considered once a month so not too shabby!

It's March! Ack! Time is flying by. I decided that March is the last month I have to relax before chaos sets in. April is traveling month-I will be in Vegas and St. George-should be fun and exciting! Then in May I am going home to see my sister graduate high school, then she is coming here for a week in early June to visit. YAY! I'm super excited about that. I have been trying for 2 years to get some family visits and she's the only one willing to travel. Ugh. But I'm stoked to show her how fun Utah can be :) Then it'll be July which means a big fat roommate wedding and me moving. Luckily, I found a place to go. I'll live with another friend and it's literally down the street, so I'm pretty happy about that. I just hate packing and moving :(

So I started a Tae Kwon Do class last night. It's half peer pressure and half adventure. I've never really been into Tae Kwon Do, but my masculine bff George is, so he encouraged me and my feminine bff Heather to give it a try. Last night was our first class. The first two classes are simple self defense, then it gets into the real Tae Kwon Do stuff. We walked in and I have to admit, I was a bit terrified. I'm more of a rule breaker than a rule maker by nature and as I was reading about the class, I was like, really? There seemed to be a lot of rules and proper-ness to it. It seemed a bit extreme at first, but I guess it's all part of the art. As we got into the self defense though, it was way more fun. It's empowering to learn what your body can do and especially that you can protect yourself by just using your body. Interesting. We'll see how far I get until my free spirit needs to fly :) I am so thankful though for Heather and George. Whenever we do things together I am always the worrier and 100% of the time, I protest. I usually don't want to do adventerous things, things I've never done because they terrify me. But Heather and George are so great about coaxing me into just trying, then I end up loving whatever we do and love them even more for getting me out of my shell. It happened last summer with wave runners, then this winter with tubing, and now with Tae Kwon Do. Ah, I love my bffs!

In other news... I finished a book! Ha ha, can you believe it? I love books, I love the storylines, characters, deep hidden life messages that we can learn, but I rarely read, and even more rarely finish a book. The last book I finished was the last Twilight book at the end of '08. But I am fascinated with books and libraries and I was at the library one day and saw this book, 1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die. Intriguing. So I picked it up and realized that there were about 101 books in there that I'd heard of and wanted to read at some point, so why not now. Why not now? Because I have the attention span of a ...SQUIRREL! haha. Really, it's so hard for me to really get into a book. So I found one that was a little more updated and shorter-I started at 230 pages and I'll work my way up from there-it was Serena Williams' memoir, On the Line. It was pretty great. She is an amazing athlete and uses a lot of self motivation. It was a great book and I finished it!! Wahoo! So from there I was on a roll, my next book, Barbie & Ruth chronicled the life of Ruth Handler, creater of Barbie and CEO of Mattel. This woman was quite the powerhouse. She built Mattel ground up with her husband, created Barbie, was a breast cancer survivor and then went on to stand criminal charges for fraud. It was quite the life. And I finished that one too! Yay. So now I'm onto Michael J. Fox's memoirs but they are moving at a quite slower pace. Hopefully soon I'll give report on those :)

All in all life is good :) Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Uh-Oh...

It's February! Valentine's Week! What! When did that happen!? Ok, in keeping with my new years resolution to blog more here we go....

Saturday morning as I was on my way out the door for work-early, way too early-this is what I saw.....

Someone heart attacked us!! It was amazing, actually almost scared the begesus outta me because I was like 'what in the world...oh...hahaha...' We have no idea who did it either and they must have done it early cause my roommate came in about 12:30 and I was out the door a little after 7 am. Totally made my day!!

So work on Saturday was looongg...I watched about 6 Jr. Jazz games and since I was just supervising I didn't have a whole lot to do, so the scorekeeper and I played a little game of would you rather.... His would you rather almost made me vomit in my mouth-Here you go...Would you rather lick chocolate syrup off your grandmas back or peanut butter off your grandpas feet? HAHAHAHA! Gross!!! So..what's your choice? I chose chocolate syurp because I like that better-but gross. just gross.

Saturday night was pretty unexpectedly fun too. We decided we were getting a group of friends together to go to Boondocks-it's like a big arcade and they have laser tag and go carts- lots of fun stuff. Well about 30 minutes before we leave I find out that my roommate's boyfriend was planning to propose while we were there! Yeah, talk about shock. So I was pretty giddy but couldn't say anything to her the whole night (Bummer!) So we played around for a couple hours, it was way fun but so much funner because everyone was in on it and she had no clue. We always joke about it, him proposing, her getting a ring, etc, so when we first got there we were standing around where the prizes were and she was like 'ring pops, there George you can propose with a ring pop' haha. We all just looked at each other and smiled and she of course thought she was so funny-hahaha! I love suprises. So finally at the end of the night we were all turning our tickets in and George had talked with the managment at Boondocks and had given them the ring box and flowers and they put the ring box in with the ring pops and so he's like 'ok, babe, what do you want- I'll get you a stuffed animal, whatever you want' and of course she wanted a ring pop so he's like ok, I'll take that ring pop right there (the big ring box) and then they gave it to him and he drops to one knee and proposes! Ah, it was so cute to watch!! And of course I am sooo happy for them and way excited for her! So then of course she said yes and they brought out the flowers for her. Ah good stuff. So then we went back to our friends house and had a cupcake cake in celebration.

This picture we took before he proposed. It's so cute cause he looks nervous and she has no idea of what's about to happen!! hahaha. Love it!

The ring box in with the ring pops. Other people kept looking at it like what in the world. :)

Thr ring! AH! I totally gave my approval :)

CONGRATULATIONS GEORGE & HEATHER!!

So yeah, way exciting weekend! Now the diet starts since I have to get into a bridesmaid dress and look hot for the summer wedding! Yay! So much more to come-my lesson on balance this week, a new calling and Valentine's Day-my second favorite holiday!!

: : T h e W e e k e n d : :

: :The Weekend in a Nutshell : :

:: Friday started with applebees and ended at the dance club in Salt Lake. I think I'm getting too old for them...Lame!

::Saturday-work early (too early..) home, looong nap, Teen Mom marathon on MTV and then off to see New Moon-YUMMMmmm....

::Sunday-sickness set in, not feeling church :(,

Rest, Rest, Rest,

::Monday-Visit to Mr. Dr. and lots of drugs and more rest :)

::Tuesday-all better and back to work and the daily grind....

Lesson Learned

I teach Sunday School at church every other week. I absolutely love it. It's the most perfect thing for me because I love to teach but I'm not that passionate or knowledgeable about too many things, so I study the lesson, get passionate and knowledgeable about it and then teach it to the class. I love the class too-they are way funny and make really good comments so I end up learning a lot and we have discussion. I hate it when you are in a class and its just the teacher talking the whole time. So I hope I don't do that.... Anyway, so on Sunday I was teaching and the lesson was on the creation and how God created everything we have for us and the earth was created by Him, and so on. Well, it had been an especially rough week for me, I even thought about not even going to church-I really felt like crap and didn't want to teach but knew I would end up going-and I learned the biggest lesson from...my...lesson. It was towards the end of the lesson and I was just bearing testimony that what we were talking about was true. I was saying "I know that God created the earth for us, I know that He cares about us and He loves us sooo much, we are precious to Him" and inside my head there was distinctly the thought "Yes, Amy, even you. You are precious to Him. He loves you." Wow. It was weird but way cool at the same time. I learned such an important lesson-sometimes we need to heed the words we teach others. He does love us-all of us (yes, even me!) and He gives us little tender mercies at just the moment we need them. I am thankful for that and for the opportunity I have to "teach" Sunday School. :)

P.S. It's 5:00 on Friday so can I get a WOO HOO for the weekend!? And I'm going dancing tonight-sooo needed :D

BFF's

I love these two! Heather is my roommate and George is her boyfriend. They've been dating for about six months now and I don't remember life without George. We are like the three amigos, we do everything together and I love it. I just adore these two and couldn't imagine not having them in my life. And, today is George's birthday!! Yay!

Happy 21st Georgy!

hahahaha...

...so have you ever mis-typed a web address? Unfortunately, I do it all the time...I end up at www.blogpsot.com the mega site of Bible studies at least three days a week because of my fast paced fingers. It reminded me of a time that I was talking and typing and intended to check my email but instead of typing hotmail I typed hot male. Haha, don't do it...I don't remember what came up, I just remember covering my eyes and shutting the web browser as fast as possible. :) haha makes me laugh.

inspire.

Last year for a New Year's theme one of my friends chose a one word per month to focus on. I loved that idea because I love words and how one simple word can have so many meanings. I have a word for the day. inspire. I was just inspired.

So I love reading others' blogs and some days when I'm bored and curious (an interesting mix..) one blog will just lead to another and soon I'm reading someone's blog who I don't even know, but I know someone who follows their blog who knows someone who commented on that blog-and so on. Well, along this trail of blogs I have seen a button of NieNie numerous times. It seems that everyone has this button, everyone is reading NieNie, what is it with this blog? Then, this morning I was reading in the Utah Valley Magazine and they list the best things to do in Utah Valley-places to eat, shop, best bloggers-that's where I saw her. Her name is Stephanie Nielson. She blogs on http://www.nieniedialogues.blogspot.com/ and has a tremendous story. From what I got from a quick google search, she and her husband were survivors of a plane crash. They survived but not without injury, she was badly burned. It's funny because she doesn't inspire me because she survived a plane crash, but reading her blog, I was inspired by the simple things that make her happy and the raw sense of life she has. She is refreshing. I'm hooked. I highly reccommend reading her blog. She's inspiring. :)

Other January news-my schedule has been crazy busy lately due to basketball starting up again. Now a few days a week my schedule is as follows...work from 9 to 5:45 then grab dinner and basketball scoring from 6:30 to 9 or 10:30. I complain about it being so hectic but really I wouldn't have it any other way. I love to be busy and I love both my jobs and am just grateful to have a job so no complaints here, just sometimes....it's exhausting. Good stuff though. Last night we had a Wii party. It was a blast. I'll have to get pictures developed to post--that's right-developed. I still use a film camera. Ha ha yeah, we were in Wal-Mart and I asked a worker where the film was and he just looked at me with a blank stare. I guess I need to get with the times, eh. Anyway, our most favoritest Wii game is Just Dance. Seriously, everyone should play it-it is amazing :)