Things That Make Me Happy

Sometimes I just need an extra umph to get me over the grumpy hill and make me smile. This is totally one of those weeks.

The following never cease to make me smile...

-Hugs from Jake Welch. If you know him, you know what I mean. He's a rock star, one of my favorite old friends. I adore him. He just hugged me and it seriously made me a million times happier.
-Long conversations with my besties.
-Perusing my favorite stores...online or for real.
-Making things. My newest thing is altering clothing by adding embellishments.
-Baking lovely and yummy things...then giving them away.
-Visiting people in the hospital.
-Listening to and discovering new music.
-Quiet, late nights spent at home alone, snuggled up in my bed with a good book.
-co-ed naps...ha...errr...I mean...solitary naps on my own. Naps in any form, really.
-Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory snickers carmel apples.

Love Others, Love Yourself

I love this quote from Elder Faust:

“The commandment given by the Savior was to love others and yourself. Am I secure enough in my love of myself to laugh at myself, to admit mistakes, to graciously accept a compliment? Am I secure in my love of others to smile and say hello to a perfect stranger?”

To read the full address this came from, clickity click here.

Another good thought from this address...

"All of us are not called to leadership in the kingdom. Yet is there a greater work than that of being a teacher, father, mother? So it is that nobody is a nobody. The seeds of divinity are in all of us. The day will come when we will all have to account to God for what we have done with that portion of divinity that is within us."

Nubby at Hobble Creek

Evidence from The Saturday Golf Freeze Fest at Hobble Creek,

Andy is a rock star for putting up with me.

Who ever knew these could double as nub mittens?

Pedal Powered Water Purification

I seem to be on a pedal power kick lately, what the random. But hey, biking is pretty awesome. Check out the article below. Not only do I think the design of this is rad, but I love it when people actually get on board with the idea of reusable energy. Don't hate me for loving nature.

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Fountainhead Reposited: A Pedal Powered Water Purification Island

by Kevin Gardner, 10/22/09

Synch your workout with a little river detox, then rehydrate with a cup of the fresh water you just filtered. This people-powered water purification island, designed by Jakub Szczesny as part of the Synchronicity architecture and art festival in Warsaw, Poland, hooks up basic exercise machines to kinetically pump polluted water through four filters into overhead tanks that spill into a large drinking fountain at the end of the cycle. This floating platform on the Vistula River aims to empower citizens toward environmental clean-up, and apparently would work on any body of water with enough local bodies willing to pedal for their potables.

source: inhabitat.com

Stationary Sweat-Fest

My roommate has been dragging my lazy butt to a 6AM spinning class this week. Every day.

Does anyone else feel silly in these classes?

Everyone's all in a row, right next to each other, not moving AT ALL...

And you're all still panting, dripping sweat, and about to die.

It makes me laugh every morning.

So ridiculous.

But I still love it. Such a good workout.

SG + LV

{Best Road Trippin' Group Ever}

Car Truth or Dare, Queen, Vanilla Ice,
Utes Game, Sleepless Nights, 3 girls in 1 bed,
pool time, rainforest showers,
Awesome.

hours and hours and hours of fun

Ok fine, so maybe not hours. but this definitely entertains me for about a full class period. or a full night when I really should be studying or doing homework. See how good your eyeballing skills are here.

Pinwheel Love

{Pinwheels}

I'm using these in various sizes, patterns, and shades of grey, white, and yellow to decorate my charcoal wall in the bedroom. Love. I still owe you photos of my room...ahh I'll get on that soon! It's quite modernly feminine.

Know What I'm Doing This Weekend...?

Building a Wild Things Fort!!!

Check this out for more info. Fort building contest inspired by "Where The Wild Things Are."











Fun idea, and fun photos so far.

Yarn Bombing

Stumbled across this today...

so interesting.










{I think the crochet chain link fence is my favorite. Awesome.}

I knew I loved Colorado for a reason

Call me crazy, but I just love weddings when they're done right. Seriously nothing would make me happier than to be able to plan people's weddings for the rest of my life.

Just stumbled across this one that was done in Aspen. There is just something about those Colorado Rockies that I cannot resist. LOVE. To see the full wedding, clickity click here.

Empathy

You know how everyone has their pet attribute they continually work on over and over and over? Mine is empathy. I believe that if everyone were more empathetic, life would be better. period. Just imagine if everyone always tried to really understand how you felt and why...it'd be great if everyone would just TRY to be an ounce more this way.

My friend Matt wrote this post the other day about understanding others, and it made me smile. Love how concise he is...such a great guy!

Bear Lake

Spent conference weekend up in Bear Lake with the Bushnell family. It ended up being so perfect, I really needed some time to just chill, relax, and re-energize after the craziness of last week. A big thank you to Dan for inviting me.





{such a fun family to spend the weekend with}

Continuing the Revamp

Ok, so back when I moved into my house a month ago, I got on a kick of repainting and decorating everything in my room. The room went from stark white everything to heather grey and charcoal, with pops of yellow...and I love it! But, I didn't quite have the nerve to paint the dresser. I mean, paint? I could see how a stain could work well, but was quite skeptical about the whole paint idea...til I stumbled across this. I'm thinking white and black...mmm? It'd hands down look infinitely better than the current brown state that it's in, yes?




Oh and I'm thinking I'm going to add a demi partition via a hanging curtain gathered and cinched to the wall by my short bookshelf to split the space. White, I believe. That way I can finally feel good about going all out on my vintage lace inspired wall. Black lace on the heather grey wall and cream lace on the charcoal. It should be fab. Ahh still can't believe this darn room has taken me a month to get done! I'll be sure to post photos when it all comes togetha.


And yes, I know, I should be studying. But I just can't concentrate! I can do like thirty minutes of focus to every ten of something else. Oh my word, it's bad.

Dear School

Dear School,

The only thing I want in life right now is to curl up in my bed, not set my alarm, and fall asleep.

But no. I still have one more exam I need to study for and take tonight. Make it end, please please please make this horrible week end! The sooner, the better.

Thanks,

B