the helping hands!

So lately in my Humanities class we have been studying classical music! It has made me realize how grateful i am for music and having it be a major part of my life! All the composers like Beethoven, Mozart, Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, Chopin, Berlioz, Schubert, ect. amaze me! Really how did Beethoven compose music as great as his just by the vibrations of the piano. It's Amazing! and so many of the composers getting sick and dying at young ages, think of what they could have composed if they didn't die so young! So this week has been a reflecting week of music and how i really do love it!

Most people don't get a chance to sing in a school choir with a directer as great as mine! I'm so glad i have had the chance to sing in Jaztecs this year! it has really made me love music more and branch out of my shell a bit! It probably wouldn't be that great of an experience if it weren't for my teacher! He truly loves what he does and it makes such a great difference in how he teaches! Way to go Greg! haha

Also, my progress with my knee is going great! My physical therapist are pretty impressed at how well i'm doing! But really what would i do without physical therapy? I would have had the surgery and been at ground zero and never gone up! I can see that my therapist find joy in helping people getting back to 100%. How awesome would it be to help someone for your job all day and watch them make progress daily? I'm really appreciative of my therapist and i was thinking today, when i'm all done with my therapy it will be sad to go! We have grown close since i've started going there back at the first of december! But i'm not fully done for a while, so i guess it wont come too soon. But by that time we will be even closer!

I guess what i'm really trying to say is i'm so grateful for the people who will take times out of there lives to lend you a "helping hand" that makes you become a better person!

gotta love college life!

So this past weekend i was lucky enough to go visit Shauna at BYU-I. It was tons of fun! :) We had a blast just hanging out. We had a blind date on Friday which was tons of fun, and then Saturday i had cousin time with Alli, while shauna went on another date. Sunday we went to church and had a relaxing day, took a drive around Rexburg and had a yummy dinner. Then Monday and Tuesday i went to Shauna's classes. We went sledding monday night for FHE, and then on Tuesday night i took Shauna and Alli to dinner at Craigos! it was delicious. I'm sad i had to come home today, but tomorrow i'm gonna sit by the pool and go shopping with mom so i'm still experincing my Spring Break! It got me way excited for my own college experience at USU! (btw i got anohter scholarship to USU which made me very happy) :D

Shauna and i were talking on my way to the airport and thinking how greatful we are that we can go visit one another when we are away from home and stuff and we always have had the opportunity to see our siblings! So thanks mom and dad!

yummy cupcakes we got at the cocoa bean! :) all they sell is Hot Chocolate and cupcakes!

me and the Rexburg temple. its so pretty. very contemporary.

shauna with rexburg in the backround.

sisters before sledding. yay.

this is my favorite pic. Doesn't it look fake??? i love it.

what goes on in apartment 207, stays in apartment 207! haha

up at the burg!

so, this weekend i'm in Rexburg visiting Shauna! :) I got here yesterday and so far its been a blast. I got in about 5:45 and then i had a date at 8:00. Their whole apartment was all set up on a blind date. It was fun! :) When everyone got there we made homeade pizza's and then we went to play sardines at a building on campus, then came back to the apartment and made our homeade cold stone ice cream. It was lots of fun. My date was fun! he's name is Steven and he is 6'4. He's cute. yay. but yeah, so far its been fun. We went to bed about 2:15 and now i'm at the library with shauna and kellie. :) i'll post when i get home with pics.

movie songs!

so for our choir program we always do a pops concert at the end of the year. its just a fun concert where we sing only pop songs!

This years theme is "Lets go to the Movies!" My friend Kristin and I want to do a number, but we are in need of idea's from movies! So if any of you have a good song from a movie you''d like to suggest, please do so! Thanks!

Febuary Festivities!

Well, this is for everyone who has told me i needed to update my blog!!!

Recently i tried out for this regional choir, its a region on 39 schools, and about 650 students tried out. To audition you had to sing a solo and then sight read! The whole choir consisted of 100 students, 25 in each part! I was 15th chair soprano! I was happy about that. They give you your music and you are on your own to learn it and know it by the date of the festival. We had to learn 6 songs in about 2 1/2 weeks!!! and when you got there you had a part check and if you didn't know your music and part, they kicked you out!!! But it was worth the stress of learning it. I've never been in a choir where everyone knew their music perfectly and all you had to work on was making it beautiful!! After the concert everone kept saying it sounded really really good!!!

it was really fun, and i'm glad i had the opportunity to do it my senior year.

this is a guy from corona one the day of the concert, we matched and everyone kept saying we looked like a couple so we decided to capture the moment.

On the 2nd my best friend, Kristin had her 18th birthday party! It was lots of fun. We went to the melting pot, a fondue place! very nice and delicious! (she's the girl in my profile pic)

the group of girls invited.

the dessert platter, with chocolate fondue! it was amazing.

Mom had a party with the grandkids on Valentines Day and i was invited to come home at lunch to visit them!! it was so fun, and they are so cute!

me and lexi!

the party crew, minus jac, mom and dad!

i told B.K. to smile! haha

savvy.
all the girls!

p.s. now i need a fix of the cute little boys who live in mississippi!!

other than that life is going good. I'm decided where i am going to school... and it's gonna be UTAH STATE!!! :) i'm very excited and i feel like it's the best place for me to go. So i'll do Summer School at BYU and then head over to USU in the fall. I'm very excited for all the college things to begin! it will be fun.