The Bucket List

Kiss on top of a FERRIS WHEEL [X]

Braden Harris took me to the fair on August 31, 2012. He took me on the Farris Wheel and helped me start off my bucket list. 

Go to a Rodeo [X]

I almost forgot!

July 15, 2012 Braden took me on our first date to the Sanpete Rodeo!

Get an EXOTIC animal for a pet

MIDNIGHT bike rides
NIGHT swimming {[X]{
Have a Harry Potter MARATHON 
Make someone think you are from ANOTHER COUNTRY for a day
Throw ROCKS at someone's window
Go pool HOPING
Have a silly string FIGHT
Play FLASHLIGHT tag
Have a lemonade stand like a LITTLE KID
Get a BEACH day DATE
Write a SONG

Break SOME rules
Use a SLIP N SLIDE
Have a MASSIVE water balloon fight
SLEEP under the stars
Buy, use and UNDERWATER camera
Make a BONFIRE
Make SNOW KONES
WATCH a sunset
Become GOOD FRIENDS with no one you expected to. [x]

Despite what everyone said..

During the Summer of 2012 Josie & I became friends with Janna Hall, Madee Christenson, and Sadee Sorenson.

Build a FORT 

Go FISHING
DANCE and splash in the rain
PAINT every finger and toe a different color
Learn to PLAY Ukulele [X]

I got a Ukulele for my 17th birthday. And I picked up on it pretty quickly. My favorite song to play is Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

Kiss a STRANGER 

Get EXTREMELY tan
SNEAK OUT
Go SKINNY dipping 
Go on a CAMP out
FIND seashells
Ride a HORSE [X]

Josie & I rode horses at girl's camp 2012.

Play miniature GOLF
BREAK an old HABBIT and DEVELOP a new SKILL
Have a CAR WASH
Go HIKING
Go on a morning runs...occasionally 
Wake up early enough to WATCH the sunrise
Be OUTSIDE as much as possible
Make sand CASTLES
Eat lots of WATERMELON
Try to say "yes" for an entire day
Go thrifting and try to find VINTAGE clothing
Go tubing
Fill my wall with PICTURES

WISH on a shooting star
Have a PICNIC
Ride four wheelers AND dirt bikes
Mid-night PREMIERE

Jump OFF a waterfall
Swim FULLY dressed
Go CONNING 
Pull off a crazy outfit in PUBLIC
Play Tag
Have a BBQ
Make a MOVIE
Go a WHOLE day without electronics
Watch all LOTR and Star Wars
Paint nails
Babysit
Make Popsicles
Go out for BREAKFAST
Milk a COW

Temporary Home

All my life I have paved a road.

As I've grown older my knowledge in this certain paving has increased and I have been able to pave ahead of myself.

Knowingly or not, we are ALL like this. 

Our roads follow close by others, overlap with some, and are often in need of backtracking because of mistakes.

I saw my road clearly and despite minor details, it was...realistic.

Take a break from this analogy for a second and think..

Just One second..

One thought..

One word..

One answer..

One choice..

One decision..

One movement..

One...just one..

One THING,

can change

EVERY

thing..

What IF...

Your One road..The one YOU paved, the one you took the time to process, and the one you, in conscienceless, settled on for the rest of your life..

was suddenly out of reach.

Blocked off.

Reconstructed.

And destroyed.

You were told you would have to make your way down a new path.

One path..

A pathway you would have to pave in time to a road, step by step not knowing what was coming up next.

Well I can tell you one thing if that happened to you. 

You'd end up just like me.

Population: 3,036

39 degrees 9' 13" N

111 degrees 48' 54" W

242 miles 
3 hours and 53 minutes
away from my home. 

this pathway i am now forced to be on..is literally a path.
dirt.
isolated.
small.
never traveled on.


Last weekend I false started in the race of my life. 
why?
it wasn't fair.
it still doesn't seem that way at all.


life isn't fair.


He never said it would be easy
but He said it would be worth it.


I know the Lord has a plan for every single person on this earth. Sometimes we think we have this same plan. I am here to testify..we don't have a clue, and we will find the Lord's plan is infinitely better than what we can imagine. Even if we don't know why, how, or when it will make sense and forever happy, it will when we put or trust in the Lord. 
the last verse of Hymn 124 "Be Still My Soul" has come to comfort me a lot during this trial.


When disappointment, grief, and fear are gone,
Sorrow forgot, love's purest joys restored.
Be still, my soul: When change and tears are past,
All safe and blessed we shall meet at last.


some stories need to be rewritten,
some roads are not to be traveled on,
some races aren't meant to be ran,
but the Lord will not fail me.
He has started a new chapter in my life,
He has opened a new course to adventure,
He is letting me sit this race out and go for a peaceful stroll instead,
the Lord has filled my life with a million new opportunities.


"When people ask her how she likes this place
She looks up and says with a smile upon her face

This is my temporary home, it's not where I belong
Windows and rooms that I'm passing through
This is just a stop on the way to where I'm going
I'm not afraid because I know
This is my temporary home."


there isn't just ONE choice. 
that's why we rejoice in Christ's 
Plan of Salvation
we are given the agency to choose which plans we follow, stories we will write, roads we will take, and which races to run through or slow down and enjoy the view.
The great about all of this.. through the change of 
climate
town
people
school
clothing 
state 
friends 
sports
neighbors
house
ward
weather 
colleges
time zone 
and whatever other life changing things in this life..
the gospel remains the same forever. 


"From eternity to eternity he is the same, and his years never fail."
-D&C 63:4