drum roll please....

The Mission Papers are in!

...how do I feel? well I well answer this question because I get it A LOT. It feels very surreal. and very peaceful. I have no worries, no doubts, no emotion except for anticipation and does that even really qualify as an emotion?...

Anyways I should hear back within a week and a half!

(hopefully :)

This has been my dream for so long and now this is my chance...I'm just trying to enjoy the suspense while it lasts!

I hope they call me on a mission...

So as I'm wrapping up my mission papers, in the process I needed to upload a mission photo. I thought you all might enjoy seeing my classy mission uniform with the cardigan and white collar. (I tried to find some ugly shoes to go with it, but alas I could not find any, thus I stuck with the head shot style)

Ronnie asked me what else I would like to use as a background, this was where I ended up.

And these awww what beauties....Ronnie bet me five bucks to submit anyone of these...5 bucks? I don't know if it's worth it...

So there you go! 10 days left and my papers are in! Now I just have to have a Doctors appointment, meet with the Bishop and Stake President and it's done! yikes...some times I forget what I'm actually doing, I think I've been working on this goal for so long that I don't realize what a great commitment I'm making. But then I remember how excited I am and how I have wanted this for so long and now I actually get to do it! sooo...full steam ahead!

Friends

I'm as of late realizing how much friends really make a difference in my life.

As I'm getting ready to take off I'm thinking about some of the things that I will be missing and among those things are the people. Yes I am giving A LOT of showers this semester, but also I am so glad that I get the chance to celebrate their accomplishments and these exciting times in their lives. (Don't worry Traci I've delegated and I don't think my ulcer's getting worse :) Friends can some times be your family away from family when you're in college and I feel so grateful to have become so close to people to be able to throw them showers and celebrate these moments!

As of late I've felt like I've been able to spend more time with work friends and I think this has really blessed my life because well not only does it make work more enjoyable but it's fun to see these people outside of me telling them what to do all the time :) I wish I had pictures to show of them, but for now here are some of my favorites of my friends!

I love meeting famous people!

Chelsea Hightower

Mark Ballas

Thayne Jespersen

So Ash and I got to go to the Covey center and meet Thayne from So You Think You Can Dance and Mark Ballas and Chelsey Hightower from Dancing with the Stars. They were dancing with this studio that seemed to be a bunch of high school performers. But the dancing was sooooo good! I got so nervous and felt really awkward asking total strangers to take a picture with me especially total strangers that I love watching on TV! but finally we got up the nerve and I'm so glad we did! it was SOOOOOOO fun! We are going again on Saturday night because Derek Hough from Dancing with the Stars is supposed to be there too so I can't wait! This clip was a dance that Mark choreographed Mark and Chelsea Dancing together

Thayne's cool water dance

I'm Alive!

filling out the police report (oh poor pregnant driver sheesh)

In this one the car door is shut as much as it can be. It was snowing in the car on our way back, too bad you can't see completely but it was pretty crazy how damaged her one door was.

TOO TOO Many car crashes for one weekend!

So I won't give a very detailed description of the first one because it's boring and well I basically hit ice and scrapped the bumper of a parked car (which the owner of had been hit 2 times already that day). HOWEVER I will say this: it was a miracle that I did not injure my car and that I only scratched his! Man oh man! I came home that night feeling a bit scared about having to pay for his scratches but mostly just grateful and relieved that I wasn't going faster than 20 miles an hour and that the owner was so nice AND that I was safe and not injured!

SOOOOOOOOOOO let's get to the exciting freeway accident which then occurred Saturday afternoon! I was with my 3 friends coming back from a bridal expo in Salt Lake (which was really fun-good food :) ) and my friend Melissa (who is pregnant p.s.) is driving (she drives a suburban luckily). So we're going about 70 in the middle lane when all of a sudden a little yellow car cuts in front of us and zooms off. Then it all happened really fast:

I see out of the corner of my eye this white car and the sound of breaks. The white car comes head on to the drivers door (I'm sitting behind the driver) and then the white car spins out of control repeatedly across the freeway to the left side. Some how we end up on the right side of the freeway with out hitting anything or anyone. So police come, we call 911, ambulance fire truck etc. Still the girl does not come out of the white car. They shut down the freeway for 2 minutes and pull her car to the other side and take her out on a stretcher. Everyone in our car was fine. SOOOOOO WHAT HAPPENED?

Our conclusion is that the white and yellow cars were racing, the yellow sped off and the white lost control. The girl in the white car is not seriously injured to my knowledge, her neck just hurt and she some how could not remember anything that had happened...hmmm...

SOOOOOOOO It's a MIRACLE!

Why do you ask?

-we were in a big car- in a smaller one someone would have been injured for sure

-no glass shattered

-Melissa wasn't texting, distracted,or going to fast when hit

-No other cars were damaged in the process

I feel so incredibly blessed! A car full of 4 girls-2 engaged to be married in the temple, 1 a soon to be mother, and me a soon to be missionary. Wow. I am so incredibly grateful to a Heavenly Father who is constantly aware of His children and who watches out for us when we don't even realize that we need watching out for! ------this last picture was at the wedding expo I thought it would be good to end on a happy note!

Wagon Wheels west!

On Thursday I had the opportunity to perform for my very first time on a BYU stage. It was a student directed piece and not that big of a production, but still it was a performance at BYU and I had the best time ever performing! The production was a western musical melodrama. I played the role of "cookie" I was the handmaid for the star Senorita Juanita Fandango. My character was a bit ditzy and awkward so I had a lot of fun playing with the role.
This also made me realize that I can act, I can do this. It's so easy to get lost in the crowd at BYU and think that everyone is so much better than me. True, there are a lot of talented people at this school, but I bring something unique and I was really grateful for the opportunity to show that.

The musical showed 3 times on Thursday and on our last performance the theater was the most packed they said that they have ever seen for a Mask club (that's what the student directed plays are called) They didn't have enough seats for everyone and people were sitting on the aisles. Here are some pictures of the production and I uploaded a short video of a part of it too for you all to see:

On stage fixing Senorittys outfitStrikin' a pose with senoritty
This is Kate or known on stage as Sue Flay(she was the evil accomplice) Kate and I have become good friends because of this play, if I wasn't going on a mission I would be rooming with her next year for sure!While Senorita danced I lip sang being her and awkwardly danced, there were a lot of laughs from the audience, mostly from my roommates though :)So below is the video of our ending song--to explain my character is constantly trying to imitate Senorita Fandango and that's why I look so awkward

Dum dum da dum!

We all thought that spring was the time for love, but I would just like to correct that so called fact as of now! No longer is that true, the real time is Fall. My 3 best friends are all engaged (2 unofficial, yes, but when you already have a date what is official really?) Luckily, I have plans of my own and hopefully I won't get swept away in this marriage talk. But in the mean time I am enjoying being apart of the planning of these weddings! And I get 3 new dresses so it's looking pretty good for me. The inspiration of this post came from, in fact, trying on my first of the 3. We used toilet paper as our bouquets and as the veil for the bride. This is just a preview of the next year for me:Let's hope that whole always a bridesmaid never a bride is just as true as that whole Spring love nonsense :)