1 down... 29 to go.

Day 1~ A photo of myself and a description of how my day was.

This picture was taken a la self portrait almost a month ago.

Today was a good day. It started with me sleeping in. That is one of the best things about Sundays. After I got up I hung out a while and debated going to church. I shouldn't say that, I know, but I am having a hard time with my new ward. It is weird. Lots of good people, but weird none the less. After I decided to go I got ready and then ended up going to my friends ward today. I left after sacrament. When I got home, my sister and her family were here watching Holiday Inn with my mom. I love that movie. Really, I just love Bing Crosby.

After that was over we decided to go shopping for Christmas trees. YAY!!!! There is nothing like the smell of a fresh Christmas tree. We found a cute little tree and bought it and brought it home. It took lots of creativity and rigging to get it to stand in the tree stand, but a couple of hours, two kitchen towels, one plastic cup, and lots of duct tape later, it is standing all on its own. If it is still standing in the morning victory will be mine. Then came MythBusters and blogging and next comes sleep. What a good day. :)

30 days of Blogging... Sure why not.

So, my cute friend Nikki, copied something from her friend that I am copying from her. It is an awesome idea and I am glad that i found it. It is the 30 day blogging challenge.

The whole idea behind the blog challenge is to learn more about yourself while giving others the chance to get a glimpse of who you are also. I hope that my friends will take the challenge as well because it is always fun to learn new things.

Here's the list:

30 day blogging challenge

Day one~ A photo of yourself and a description of how your day was.

Day two~ A photo of something you ate today.

Day three~ Your idea of the perfect first date.

Day four~ Your favorite photograph of your best friend.

Day five~ A photo of yourself two years ago.

Day six~ A photo of an animal you would like to keep as a pet.

Day seven~ Your dream wedding.

Day eight~ A song to match your mood.

Day nine~ A photo of the last item you purchased.

Day ten~ A photo of your favorite place to eat.

Day eleven~ What's in your makeup bag?

Day twelve~ A photograph of the town you love in.

Day thirteen~ Your favorite musician and why?

Day fourteen~ A TV show that you are currently addicted to.

Day fifteen~ Something you don't leave the house without.

Day sixteen~ Your celebrity crush.

Day seventeen~ A photo of you and your family.

Day eighteen~ Something you crave a lot.

Day ninteen~ Another picture of yourself.

Day twenty~ The meaning behing your blog name.

Day twenty-one~ A photo of something that makes you happy.

Day twenty-two~ A letter to someone who has hurt you lately.

Day twenty-three~ 15 facts about you.

Day twenty-four~ A photo of something that means a lot to you.

Day twenty-five~ What's in your purse?

Day twenty-six~ A photo of somewhere you've been.

Day twenty-seven~ A picture of you last year and now and how have you changed since then?

Day twenty-eight~ Your favorite movie.

Day twenty-nine~ Something you could never get tired of doing.

Day thirty~ A photograph of yourself today + three good things that have happened in the past.

Now comes the really fun part. Tomorrow I start my 30 day blogging adventure. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I am going to enjoy doing it.

P.S. Now it's your turn. :)

Snow

Yesterday we had our first real snowfall of the year. The first to leave a blanket of beautiful, fluffy, white snow on the ground. As I watched it fall yesterday it got me thinking about how out of the trillions of snowflakes that have fallen in my lifetime no two have been found that are exactly alike. Beautiful little things that even when they are clumped together are still individual and unique. I started looking at pictures of snowflakes and out of the hundred or so that I found each one was different. Some were similar, but not an exact copy. Each snowflake is perfect even in it's imperfection.

Now what does this have to do with anything? Well, it also got me thinking that we are like that. There are no two people on this earth that are exactly alike. We are all individual and unique. Some of us may look similar, but there are no exact copies. Some of us are simple. No bells and whistles. Nothing entirely spectacular. Not as pretty as some of the others. Some of us are grand and beautiful with many amazing details.

If we have a Heavenly Father who is detail oriented enough to make it so that no two snowflakes are alike, doesn't it make sense that we, who are His children are just as special. He made us in his image and he wants us to be happy. Being happy is easier said than done, I'm afraid. But those moments of unhappiness are what I like to call make or break moment. We are forced to either turn over all of our worries and fears and have faith or give up and try to do it alone. I have tried both routes and still find myself fighting to do the first. Having faith is hard sometimes when things are hard to handle. Case in point, I am 27 and single. I never thought that I would be one who was single for this long. Most of the time the optimist I thought I would find someone who could look past my plain outside and see the beauty within. That hasn't happened yet. Sometimes my faith waivers and I left in a make it or break it moment.

And so, even thought I feel like the snowflake above, kind of simple but possessing a beauty all of it's own, I wait. Knowing that I have a Father in Heaven who loves me. Who made me to be like Him. A precious and unique queen in my own right. Born to stand out.

And some day, maybe there will be someone who sees me like the snowflake above. Beautiful and grand.

Harry Potter Rocks

Professors Trelawney, Sprout, Flitwick, Lockhart, Umbridge, and Moody.

Okay so you have to forgive me while I geek out a bit. Last night was the beginning of the end of Harry Potter. I love Harry Potter and going to the midnight premire is tradition for my sister and I. It is so much fun to go and dress up and see all of the other Harry Potter fans. This year we decided to do something different with our costumes. We decided that we were going to be the Hogwarts professors. These were by far our best costumes to date.

All night long we were told that we had the best costumes of the night and random groups of people kept asking if they could get their pictures with us. It was so funny to see peoples reactions as they realized who we were. We were a hit.

This group was my favorite. They were so fun and they were so excited to see us. Then as we walked into our theatre to watch our show we were applauded. BY THE WHOLE THEATRE!!!! It was so totallt awesome. I loved the movie. Seperating it from the book like you have to with these movies wasn't bad at all this time. Not gonna lie I got teary eyed a couple of times during the movie. But on the upside, the Weasley boys have all grown up to be good looking boys. :)

Second Best....

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING POST IS EXTREMELY PESSIMISTIC. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO READ SOMETHING LIKE THIS QUIT NOW. If, however, I have peeked your interest keep reading.

Ever have those moments when you feel like you are second best to everyone and everything... That is how I have been feeling lately. Now I am not blogging this to get sympathy or pity from any one. I am blogging so that I can get it off my chest and hopefully feel better about it. I have been having issues with certain people who have it all. They are better looking, smarter, quicker to learn things, make friends quicker, and are over all more than I am. These are the type of people that everyone is drawn to. The ones that can have friends and people love them all without any effort on their part. It is a natural talent that they have and it makes me so darn mad sometimes. How is it that one person can have it all? Have the friendships that everyone wants? The personality that makes them irresitable? The ones that can seemlessly integrate themselves into any situation? Are the types of people can just bat their eyes and have whatever they want? It makes me doubt just about everything about myself. It makes me doubt whether my friends really like me or if they just feel sorry for me. It makes me doubt whether I am of any worth in job situations. It makes me feel like I am invisible. After all, if they are better than me at everything, why wouldn't everyone like them more and have more use for them. These are the kind of people that it would be far easier if I could hate them, but I can't because I want to friends with them too. I am drawn to them like everyone else and if I could hate them I wouldn't have these issues. But I can't hate them... Looks like there is one more thing I am second best at...

Happy Halloween

Kyle, Me, Tami, Tami's zombie boyfriend, Amanda, and Curtis

This Halloween has been a really good one. Some of my friends and I started out the season by going to some haunted houses. I love haunted houses. I love Halloween. It is my favorite holiday by far. Nightmare on 13th was our second haunted house. The first one we went to was the Haunted Hollow and after I fell on my face nothing was that scary. :) I am such a clutz.
Mom and her friend were Mr. and Mrs. Potatohead for their bowling league's Halloween party. It was fun. We even had changeable faces for them, but since we just finished them before she had to leave their faces never changed.

Cute Audra

Audra and I took it upon ourselves to have a Halloween party this year and it was a lot of fun to just get to be with my friends. I have the greatest friends on the world. They are so amazing and I am so blessed to have them in my life.

Tami, Kat, Kyle, Me, Amanda, April, Ben, and Lindsey

This was after the party when we came over to see my mom. Kyle snuck in the backdoor and sat in the kitchen until my mom went in there so that he could scare her. It was really funny. He is lucky that my mom loves him. :D Halloween ended with movies at Amanda's and games at April's. What a fun holiday this one has been. :)

ALOOOOOOOOOOHA

This last week I went to Hawaii with Claudia and Briana and Aidan. :D It was absolutely AMAZING. It was so much fun. We went to Oahu and pretty much drove EVERY road on the island.

We found our way to a lot of beaaches, this one was taken at Sandy Beach. The waves there were really intense, a lot of fun, but intense. It definately lived up to it's name. When we left I was covered in a layer of sand an inch thick. :)

RUN AIDAN RUN!!!!

On our many journeys we passed through this tunnel and it was always so funny to see the kids try and hold their breath through it. Both of their eyes look like they are going to pop out of their heads. :) Haha. One of the many things we did was go to the Dole Pineapple Plantation. It was so cool to learn how pineapples are planted and harvested. MMMM plus we got a sample of fresh pineapple. On Saturday we went to the saturday market that is around Aloha Stadium. It was a great place to get presents for people.

Isn't this just beautiful. I fell in love with the beautiful water and beaches.

On Sunday we went and hiked up to the Makapu'u Lighthouse. It was a beautiful hike. Aren't those three just the cutest people ever. I love them. It was really fun to see how excited Aidan got doing a lot of the things we did.

After that we went to church in the Waiamanalo Ward. It was an awesome meeting. It was fast and testimony meeting and it was cool to hear the testimonies of the Hawaiian saints. We also sang the hymn "Secret Prayer" in Hawaiian. Well, I just listened to everyone else, but it was neat nonetheless. On Monday, we went to Pearl Harbor. It was an awe-inspiring experiance. There was just this sweet reverance while we were on the U.S.S. Arizona memorial. A very sobering event that re-enforced my gratitude for my freedom and an overwhelming love for those men and women who get up everyday and proctect that freedom, so that I can get up every day and live my life. After Pearl Harbor we went to the Polynesian Cultural Center. That was a lot of fun to learn about the different islands and cultures.

During our trip we spent a lot of time in airports. So needless to say, we did a lot of this....

And this... It was so worth it though and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I had a blast with my family. I love them. :D