BOOM CITY

So the little brother and I have decided to do a stand at boom city together this year! This rainy weather hasn't exactly been in our favor lately! So if any of you guys are getting fireworks this year please feel free to come see us! Even if it's just to say hi! Since this is our first year doing it we are just getting the hang of things and giving out really good deal on everything!! Our stand is called "Farris wheel" (cute huh?) haha, and for those of you familiar with boom city our stand number is 136! So if you're like us and you hate going to boom city not knowing anyone... Feel free to come see us! Anyways, we are going to open our stand Saturday the 23rd! Feel free to call me or beau! 425 737 0998 or beaus number 425 345 0079!! Happy early fourth!

6 months later...

so... I haven't blogged in about 6 months. I have been kinda preoccupied with life!
A little update. :)
I am obsessed with pinterest.
I'm looking for a new place in the marysville area (if anyone knows of anything let me know)
I am currently working at the Bothell Seattle Sun Tan, It's a major change for me but there are way more opportunities with the company and room for me to grow! I'm still working at the coffee stand but only two days a week and it's less stressful that way!
Brent and I are about to have our 5 months!! :)
I can't tell you how much I love that boy. He is my best friend and I love spending time with him!

This past weekend we went to Ellensburg to spend some time with his mom and then we went to Yakima to see my Uncle. It's so nice to get away!

I'm happy! That's the most important thing to me right now. I love my family, friends, and boyfriend. My last post I talked about how excited I was for 2012 and it has already exceeded my expectations.

I know this was a short post but I never update anyone...

I'm busy working and being a 22 year old! :)

Have a great day!

FINALLYYYY!

It is finally the new year!! I know this probably sounds lame but I have been counting down the days until 2012. This past year has seemed like a century and was one of the hardest years for me! I refuse to have another year like that.

With the new year here I've been thinking about what changes I want to make...

I really want to be a better friend. That means to my family, friends, and all the people I meet this year. I get so distracted with everything in my own life and I don't want anyone to think I don't care because I do! I'm just off in kaella land, but please be patient with me! I am really good about making plans, it's the last minute things that are hard for me. 3 hours feels like 15 minutes when you work 70 hours a week!

I know we all make mistakes and that is part of growing and learning as a person, but this year I really want to not make the same mistakes twice. I want to learn from my past and make a better future. No repeats please!

Forgiving has been a struggle for me this year and I've been holding onto things that I need to let go of. I want to come into 2012 with an open mind. I want to be more forgiving but also more understanding. I know that people can change because I've been there.

I want to be happy. Feel happy. And not just sometimes, all the time.

I want to take chances. Move somewhere crazy or travel somewhere exotic. (If anyone has any ideas, please let me know)

That's my list so far. Welcome to 2012 everybody. I'm excited!

Thankful.

This is going to be an extremely long blog. So bear with me. :)

1. I am thankful for my mom. She is the best mom in the world. She is the strongest, most patient, loving and kind person I know. She is my BEST friend. No one compares to her and no one has helped me more in my life. I love her SOOO much.

2. I am thankful for my family. Family is everything. My family has had its ups and downs. We fight, we bicker, we pick on each other, and we have our differences but at the end of the day I love them. All of them. Family is family. I know that everything has been crazy lately but I am thankful that heavenly father blessed me with them.

3. I am thankful for the church. I am thankful for Jesus Christ. I am thankful for my Heavenly Father. I am thankful for the blessings in my life. I am thankful for the Prophet. I am thankful for Joseph Smith. I am thankful for prayer. I am thankful for the scriptures. I am thankful that Families can be together FOREVER. To combine everything into one sentence I am thankful to be Mormon.

4. I'm thankful for my friends. My real friends. The friends that are always there. My friends that care and just call me to check up on me. I can't emphasize the word REAL friends enough. I have been blessed to meet so many great people in my life and I cherish all of you. Thank you for all that you do and say. Through the long distance, my bad days, my good days, and everything in between. My life wouldn't be the same without you. Since the day I've met all of you it's been life changing for me and I thank you for everything that you have done for me. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

5. I'm thankful for Brent. I would elaborate but I'm not going to. I'm thankful for him. We may not talk and have gone our separate ways in life but I'm thankful for everything he has taught me about myself. I'm thankful for all our memories. So thank you Brent, for being apart of my life. You've changed it in more ways than you could possibly understand.

6. I'm thankful for my 3 jobs. I may never have a free second but I am so thankful to have each of them. They keep me busy and all my co-workers rock. How the heck would I survive without them? I probably wouldn't. Thanks for being so awesome and putting up with me. :) hahaha, love all of you.

7. I'm thankful for my house, my car, and my clothes. :)

8. I'm thankful for music. It fills the soul with happiness, sadness, love, memories, and hope. It gets you through anything and everything.

9. I'm thankful for airplanes. So I can travel the world and it's efficient. :) It makes my life so much easier. (southwest airlines, you save my life)

10. Lastly, I'm thankful for showers. I love it when people smell wonderful. I also love to smell wonderful. So i'm definitely thankful for that. :)

I'm sure this list should be way longer but it's 2 in the morning and my lil niecer and I are getting tired. But I just wanted to dedicate a post to how thankful I am for everything. We should be more appreciative.

sleeping, sleeping, and sleeping.

This has honestly been the longest week of my life. As you know... or if you didn't know... I had surgery on Tuesday. I've been sleeping since Tuesday, it's Saturday. I woke up today and decided that I needed to go out and do something because I was literally making myself insane. So I went and got pedi's with Kayla and Ash.. which turned into shopping... and dinner... and catching up. :) Right before my surgery I got into a little funk, I know, I know, it's stupid. I just get in them! If anyone knows the cure to get out of a funk, please feel free to share. Anyways, I just got some unwanted news. Unfortunantly, I spent the 4 days sleeping and thinking and not being able to talk or move... the mind is a crazy place, well mine is.  So I spent the entire time listening to this...

and....

I think I listening to these each... 50 times during those 4 days. haha I've been so drugged that I hardly remember it. Except the songs gave me crazy dreams. I'd have this amazing dream and then i'd wake up... and i'd feel all the pain and then reality hit me. One of the days when I woke up I thought I woke up in a dungeon. I was freaking out but it was just three in the morning and the rain outside sounded like chains for some reason. So I made myself miserable. I don't get it. 

Apparently I'm really funny when I'm on pain killers... I think my filter just goes away. I don't get how brutally honest turns into funny... but i'll take it. 

anyways, that's a short little update. My drugs are starting to kick and the screens becoming a little fuzzy... ;) 

To sum it up...I am currently waiting for life to get better. If you could fit me into your prayers I would really appreciate that. :)

5 days

I definitely need to update on the past five days of my life.

Let's start with Nicoles birthday on Wednesday night! :)
Nicole, I freaking love you woman. I can't tell you how much fun I had. I know it was a little crazy but I'm super glad I came out and had a good night with you and Kell.

I met some new people and spent time in Seattle. It's always good to get out and away from home. Different scenery. :) I ended up getting home around 2:30am. hahaha

Josh's birthday was Thursday. We all went to bellevue and had a good time. So many random people. I saw an old friend and caught up with everyone that was there. I dragged Kelly and Nicole along with me. :) Those girls are just a good time.

Friday was Kayla's birthday. haha. We went to cow girls. I ended up riding that mechanical bull and seriously... my legs are permanently broken. I danced with Kayla since NO ONE else would. (you guys are LAMEEEEE) It was good to just dance! Sometimes I need to dance with my girls. :)

Saturday was my mom's birthday. :) She is AMAZING! I will try to post a video of it later.... but just to clarify I have the coolest mom in the world. I love her. We went out to chopsticks and listened to the music. It was surprisingly a lot of fun. Awkward at times since it was a bar but it was fun! Chels and I haven't had a sleepover in years so we decided that since she didn't have the babies for once... we would! :) I just love her.

Anyways, I barely made it through the weekend. I mainly blame Josh.
Somehow I managed to go out every night. I lost my voice. Rode a bull. Danced in public. Spent time with the family. Did some shopping. Worked. I don't know how I am still alive but I made it.

I actually had a ton of fun! :) I don't know if I could ever go five days straight again. I am in need of a major break. My entire sleep schedule is off... The day light kind of hurts my eyes since I'm so used to being awake at night. haha, I have some recovering to do.

I am really happy with how things are going in my life right now. I know that things have to get better... Slowly but surely. I'm working on making sure i'm happy. Keeping myself busy. All that good stuff.



That is a very quick update. I'M ALIVE, yay! :)

some favorites

Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

-John Wooden

Tonight I am up looking at stuff online and working, like usual.

For those of you that are obsessed with quotes like I am...I have to blog about this site that I absolutely love! It's holliesquotes.com. I started looking at the website my senior year of high school and Hollie has gotten me through some pretty rough times to say the least. I can always find something I can relate to or that is somehow exactly what I'm feeling. 

Apparently I have all these feelings all of a sudden. Super annoying actually. I don't know how people have dealt with this their whole lives. Having actual feelings is weird. I don't like it. 

I have also become obsessed with stumbleupon. (thank you miranda) I could stumble for hours. It's like pages and pages of all these things that I love. :) 

My iphone has been terrible for me. Also, Chelsea's hubby Ty got me hooked on zombie highway. ugh. It can make for a really awkward moment in public whenever I'm playing that game.

lately, those are my obsessions. 

anyone else know of some good ones?

Dare I even ask? haha