Crayola Doesn't Make A Color For Your Eyes

This song is my obsession today. I heard it for the first time, and have listened at least 25 times. I think it's the cutest. And I shall give the credit to the one and only..

Alex Crandall.

I really don't know what we're doing in this picture but yes, i do love her enough to be kneeling at her feet after an ice cream war.

Anyway, Alex is amazing. She has great taste in music. And here is the joyful song :)

Weekends Are Happy

I went to the spring musical Camelot and saw some of my very best friends play the lead roles!! The play was wonderful, and every single actor and actress exceeded my expectations!

Guinevere: Jessica

Jessica, Caroline, Joey, Me, Adam (King Arthur), Becca

Cali and Jessica in front.

Then we died eggs at Haylee's! I wish my camera had a picture of us all but these ones are just mine and Leah's. :)

I can really count on Leah to love Spring with me. She came over on Sunday so we could make cute spring cookies too! They had toasted coconut and peanut M&M's to look like bird's nests :)

Sally & Gwen

My little dolls are cute. I hope they are best cousins friends forever <3

Memory Lane

One time my gorgeous cousin, Emily got married!

I just really love this picture. Us four on the right used to be inseparable. Emily was the leader because she was oldest. So she got to choose which polly, or barbie, or beanie baby she wanted first. Also, she was the president of our club in their tree. Then she grew up and now she's married! I'm happy we are all related by blood because I really love us and want us all to be friends forever :)

Conference quote of the day:

"Apparently the gospel is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable" -Jeffrey R. Holland

That reminds me of earlier this school year when I was talking to my stake president. I confessed that I felt like I was just going through good motions, but I felt stagnant in the gospel. And it made me feel uncomfortable. He told me it was because the Lord was calling me up. He knew I could do better, so he made it uncomfortable for me to be too "comfortable" going through the motions. That changed me.

On the flip side of the quote, I have had so many times where I've been comforted while afflicted. Through the gospel :)

I've Got A Lot To Say

Ok, this conference. Amazing!! I'm sure all conferences are as amazing as this one, but I've never paid so much attention. So it's been wonderful. I'm thinking I'll save all my favorite quotes/stories for other posts but I'll start with this one.

http://brightcove.lds.com.edgesuite.net/assets/general-conference/2011-april/2011-04-1050-elder-kent-f-richards-64k-eng.mp3

That's Kent F. Richards talk from Saturday morning. I especially liked the story of the 13 year old hospitalized girl (starting at approx. 8:05 second in). She told her dad that every child in that hospital has angels :). It reminded me that EVERYONE has angels! We all have angels cheering us on in our lives! Specifically, I think of my grandma. She passed away when I was four. I remember after that in my childhood, whenever I was sad, I would hug the air, imagining my grandma hugging me back. I know she was there. :)

Now time for scattered, happy pictures!

The Happy Couple. I think this should have been on their wedding announcement. They really love cats.. Ok the reason I torture them by putting this up is because of this story: On the morning of April 1st, i woke up to a text from Jason saying he has been feeling like this for a while and are officially calling off the engagement, and asking for our prayers. I was sooo confused because all they ever do is say "I love you" and giggle and cuddle! But I trusted him, so I got down on my knees and prayed for him. Then texted him back and he replied APRIL FOOLS. Ha. That little demon. But I am very relieved, because I am much excited to have Candace in the family :)

SPRING BREAK 2011

Sally and I on the flying fish ride at Seaworld.

P.s. I have a newfound love for dolphins? I do.

I would like to formally request of my father to make one of these. It's just two stretchy tarps! Who knew it would be soo fun to bounce back and forth between them? Very soothing actually.

We love when grandma shares her beach hats with us :)

Shauna takes cute pictures.

Gwen and James playing dress up :)

Cole cannot stay away from Derek! Notice the empty couch on the right? Nope. Cole jumps right on top of Derek and declares them snuglets. Yes, snuglets. Ok i love my brothers. And General Conference with them!

Chorale! Yes we do look like we are at a summer camp.. but this design was voted for the t-shirts so this design it is! None other than my Sadies date, Joey, designed em!

I feel like I have more happy things to say and pictures to share, but this is lengthy anyway, so we'll save those for another post! But life is happy! And SPRING is happy! Spring smells!! I'll never get over these orange blossoms.

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Last weekend was filled with so much JAZZ and DANCING and FUN!

The jazz part was Jazz Mad up in Flagstaff with our jazz choirs. I love jazz and I don't care who hates it. We performed, laughed, ate, and bonded! All very good things! I don't know how i will survive without Encore after I graduate.

Schreiber (most amazing devoted choir teacher ever) with four of his encore girls!

Sarah, Lindsey, Me, and Alex :)

Sadies=Incredible! I always secretly wanted to ask Joey to Sadies even when I barely knew him as a sophomore and I am SO HAPPY I did this year! This guy is the epitome of a perfect date. Courteous, respectful, easygoing, and FUN! We were Indians.

You better believe it we danced like Indians. We hid our shoes under the bleachers and ran around like crazy! (literally. around the crowd in the dance floor). This is in close running with being a Tiger. Hm.. what's more fun: crawling and pouncing or shooting invisible bows and dancing around imaginary fires? I can't decide myself. I'm not sure how everyone else at the dance felt about us but all i know is that I had genuine fun! We both got blisters and we're proud of them.

The only sad thing in my life right now is that we forgot to plant sweet peas in time for spring this year :( That means no walking back and forth between the orange blossoms and sweet peas in the yard. I'll have to steal my grandmother's. :)

Today was overcast. I can't stop my emotions from being happy on an overcast day. :)

LOVE is in the Air

Since this is the month of LOVE,

let's LOVE some things.

Some LOVEs in my life that are not pictured are these:

• I LOVE where I work, because i see someone I know everytime I work, without fail. To expound on that, I especially LOVE when people visit me.
• I LOVE fast Sundays, and devoted Sunday School teachers
• I LOVE interactive group games (like from last night's super amazing day activity)

Now, the pictures.

Beginning with these two LOVEbirds. Congratulations To my dear broseph, Jason, and future sissy, Candace, for their engagement! True LOVE.

And what better way to welcome her into the family than to hide in the creepy crevice above the garage door before family dinner! Welcome Candace! Brotherly-sisterly LOVE.

Cousin LOVE is quite strong as well. This at the wedding of their sister, Katie, who (whaddya know) is in LOVE with her husband!

Primary colors hand holding LOVE. On a LOVEly fun date with Adam!

LOVE for my dear Burt who is officially up and running!!! No one will ever LOVE Burt the Champ like I do.

And soon, he'll have windows that roll down, working AC, and a radio! I LOVE him.

LOVE between Cole and our frozen trampoline. Which leads to my LOVE for cold weather and warm jackets.

I LOVE that i asked this boy, Joey, to Sadies, and that we had the greatest time ever on our day activity yesterday! We concur that dates are more fun.. when you act like animals. There you have it, I LOVE being crazy and immature. I must while I can!

I LOVE that his parents answered for him while we were on the day activity, and that this is how it was done.