Love This Girl

So me and Zach are totally in love with each other. But since Sara Bareilles came into our lives we've been in love with her too. Her last album is one of those that I can listen to over and over and never get sick of. This video isn't from her King of Anything Album. But it is just beautiful. Check it out!!

I Dare You

This afternoon I took the time to go outside, no wires attached, and laid down on the grass with a blanket and a good book. It was wonderful, all 30 minutes of it...

I could barely spend 30 minutes out there without getting bored. But it is one of my summer goals to spend more time outside so I am going to try hard to read or nap or talk on the phone outside a lot more. Utah is so beautiful in the spring!

So I dare you! Get out there and spend 30 minutes with out any music or cell phone or computer, just you, the grass, the sky and the sun. Soak it in before winter creeps up on us again.

Let me know if you always spend time outside anyway and don't need to be dared into it:) Or if you tried this out and discovered something new about yourself...

E3 Video Blog

You have to check out all the cool things my family is doing. Watch this video then go to their youtube page to see the rest of their fun travel videos!!

I love my family so much!

My New Way of Setting Goals

With summer pretty much here it's time to revisit our...

And maybe add 2011 summer goals!

A very wise lady (Joan Glenn) in my home ward spoke to us like 3 years ago about setting goals. I am totally a goal setter. Not that I ever really achieve them but I don't get anything done if I don't at least set them first. I can't remember all of her good advice but I do remember this.

I remember the key was to start with these four (I think there was a fifth) aspects of your life.

Financial

Physical

Spiritual

Familial

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(This list is totally not comprehensive)

Then think a one or two goals for each area. This was good for me because I tend to focus on only one aspect of my life at a time and thats just boring and overwhelming. For financial I wrote down our new grocery limit and eating out limit and our summer savings goal. For Spiritual I wrote reading scriptures before noon. And it goes on... The cool thing was that after I wrote all these down I realized that most of my goals were very achievable and I'm pumped!!

Then I wrote down these same goals but organized them into groups of daily, weekly, and monthly goals. That helped me see the short term and more focused goals and then see what I hope to achieve by doing these daily goals by the end of the month or summer.

Any way that's a little about me, and how I work. If you have any goal advice or any really good goals you have set for this season let me know! Oh and I also need good book advice. Give me your two most favorite books. C'mon people I know you're reading my blog so comment for once!!!

Luvs

The Royal Wedding and My Royal Wedding

I think she is so beautiful!! And I love watching all of clips from the Royal Wedding. I really hope that they are happy and really appreciate being married. Being married is the best!!

They're so cute

And today marks eleven months since me and my man tied the knot:) Love him

Have any of you ever heard of or participated in Bountiful Baskets Food co-op? It seems so cool! You pay $15 and get a huge basket full of yummy and local fruits and veggies. I'm going to sign up for this Saturday's pick up and see how it goes. As of right now I don't really know how to use vegetables that effectively in my cookies but I figure if I just jump into it the worst thing that could happen is that I eat a bunch of healthy food... Check it out!

Happy Monday!!

A Summer Lull

So BYU gets out a bit earlier than most colleges. We've been out for almost two weeks now, and already I'm feeling the boredom of summer set in. I've really enjoyed this past week though because Zach and I got to spend a ton of time together and we watched a few of movies as well. Here's the list and the ratings.

I really liked Alice in Wonderland. I was excited for it when it came out last year but no one really had anything good to say about it so I put off seeing it, but I really liked this new version of it. It's really not as weird as you might expect it to be not anything like Charlie and the Chocolate factory or Edward Scissorhands... I might even watch this one again sometime.

As for How Do You Know... Really really bad! Really bad. Which was a shame because I really like all of the actors in it. But seriously me and Zach were both just waiting and waiting for the whole two hours of this movie for something to happen. Ya there were a few laughs but nothing else. Don't waste your time with this one.

So, of course after watching such a disappointing movie, we had to turn something on that we hoped would satisfy our cinema needs. I know Easy A looks a little sketchy, but it was really funny, and was a cute take on high school life and how stupid it really can be. Plus the main character Emma Stone is a fun actress to watch.

One of my favorite movies of the whole week was Young Victoria. I guess I was just in the mood for this one, plus I love period movies. But it was cute and a true story and romantic and dramatic. I loved the whole thing. And again the leading lady Emily Blunt just one me over with her role as the Queen. Oh! And half of the movie is in Kensington Palace where Victoria grew up. And when I was in London I got to visit the palace myself. It's beautiful.

I just had to watch 2012 because I'm really fascinated with natural disasters and special effects depicting them and everyone kept saying how bad this movie was so I wanted to see for sure. It was pretty bad I guess, but I'm easily entertained. It was too long.

Last night we had a dollar theater DOUBLE FEATURE night where we saw The Adjustment Bureau AND Justin Bieber NEVER SAY NEVER ($6.50 total)!!! We really liked both of them. And if you're hating on Justin Bieber you should really watch this movie it was so cool and so interesting to see this kid sell out Madison Square Garden within a year of getting big and within 22 minutes once the tickets went online. He's a talented and lucky kid.

So ya, the point is, this week I'm going to get more productive and do some more crafty stuff, plus work some more hours, and maybe even exercise...

Maybe you can check out some of these movies and tell me what you think. :)

AAAAAAAAnd check out my families E3 video blog to check out the fun things they're doing in Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Jamaica (without me).