The family

So I know I say this all the time but I truly believe I have the best family in the world.

Calum gave the most touching talk today in church that my heart seriously wouldn't stop burning.

I was blown away by how comfortable he was up on that podium.

He was a natural!

I just kept thinking about how close we are to him going on a mission.

(he will be amazing by the way)

I was a little worried yesterday when I came upstairs to make breakfast.

I find him and his friend making breakfast for themselves

(an attempt to make breakfast at least)

He put milk in the pot for hot chocolate and the milk ended up like exploding out of it and then he burnt his bagel in the oven (from baking it).

All I could think was, he will need lots of prayers on his mission.

I know its a little ways away, but its still coming up and I can hardly believe that my stinky baby brother is as old as he is.

And now Aiden is passing the sacrament!

Aiden is the sweetest sweetest sweetest kid you will ever meet.

He is so mellow and calm and is just the cutest kid ever.

The other day, I was sitting at the table eating dinner

and my dad calls to the boys to take the trash out and Aiden immediately comes to do it.

And after a minute of waiting for Calum to take out some of the garbage, he says,

"well I guess Calum isn't coming. I will just take both."

LIKE WHAT 12 YEAR OLD DOES THAT?!

He is just so stinkin' easy going and I could just squeeze the life out him because I love him so much.

And then of course there is my little Aislyn bug.

She is a hoot

Such a G 

Seriously she makes me laugh all the time.

I love how little she is, but it makes me so excited for her to be older because I just know we will be the best of friends.

but that can of course wait because I'm not ready for her to get big yet.

She is obsessed with sparkly everything, and pink and lipstick and boys.

Oh my heavens she is so boy crazy my parents are in trouble. 

She makes me laugh so hard all the time and I am so lucky to have her as my sissy.

And then of course there is my Dare-Boy!

He is my other baby brother.

He is just the most polite and grumpy and funny boy you will ever meet!

I love when he comes over in the morning in his PJ's and has hair that is just sticking up all over the place.

One of my favorite things about Dare is he has this lisp that turns all of his "S" sounds to "Th" sounds.

So Aislyn is "Thithy".

 I will cry the day he grows out of it.

He is such a love and I am so grateful that he is apart of my family. :)

Thank goodness for baseball boys!

Well a lot has happened in my life these last couple months!

About a month ago, Nate decided that he needed to focus his time and energy on the mission.

It was definitely hard to hear, but nothing has been more clear to me in these past couple months except that Heavenly Father has a plan for all of us.

Me and Nate plan to keep in contact and remain friends so we can still support each other :)

I thoroughly enjoy documenting my life on my blog, and since this is such a cute story, I am writing it down so I remember it!

About a month and a half ago, I was walking into the student center on campus to study before I had to go to my other class.

As I was walking in, I saw this group of about 10 boys walking out of the student center.

I am usually pretty social, but 10 cute boys in one group can be kind of intimidating

and being the brilliant girl I am, I looked right past all of them, and wasn't planning on giving any of them the time of day

(I had to play it cool duh)

As I kept walking, I started up the stairs and this blonde guy yells out

"you're gorgeous!"

I was beyond words embarrassed and flattered by this guy.

I'm serous he made  my whole day.

So fast forward about month, and things with me and Nate were really changing and I wasn't sure if Heavenly Father wanted me to date, or if he wanted me to faithfully wait for Nate.

So I am driving to class one day,

and I just started praying and telling the Lord that if I was meant to date, he needed to put someone in my path to make it happen.

About an hour after saying that prayer,

I was walking out of the student center after studying, and I see a group of about three guys walking towards the student center.

I had recognized one of them as being the blonde guy that had embarrassed me about a month earlier

(I totally braced myself for him to yell something else again)

Once again, I tried to play it off cool like I didn't really notice this group of guys,

and just kept walking my way to class.

But of course, this blonde guy (who was dripping with confidence)

yells to me again

"Hey, you're gorgeous!"

my mind was just going a gazillion miles an hour at this point and so ya know, fight or flight instinct and I yelled back

"what?"

as if I didn't hear him ;)

smooth, I know.

Anyways, he ends up leaving his little group of friends and coming up to me!!!!

I was probably drooling.

not even kidding

this guy is a looker.

Anyways back to the story!

He asks for my number and proceeds to tell me he is playing baseball at SLCC (I died right then)

and that he was an LDS returned missionary (just died twice)

and that he was really interested in taking me out

(um yes please when and where)

after we finish talking and getting to know each other a little bit, he finally asked me out and once I said yes, he gave me the cutest hug in the world

(you know the one where he picks you up and spins you around? yeah that one)

I seriously had hearts over my eyes for the rest of the day.

I immediately texted my mom freaking out

^^^ Not even exaggerating I was dead hahahaha

We ended up going on a date that night and the rest is history.

He is the sweetest guy ever

like seriously the sweetest.

I am definitely one lucky girl.

We have been going on dates ever since and he continues to surprise me in the sweetest ways.

Hope that was a fun little love story to melt your heart this week.

Xo.

New Beginnings

Well this year has been a year of change for sure!

As I have experienced real life and gone through more challenges, I have gained so much gratitude for new beginnings. 

I have finally realized that nothing goes according to plan,

 and that's ok.

As I have gone through my latest challenge, I have felt so much love and comfort from a wonderful and loving heavenly father that trusts me enough to put me through challenges to grow and gain experience.

I have finally come to realize that these choices and challenges that I am facing are preparing me for something great!

I have been struggling with coming to accept the way things are in certain situations, 

but today, I woke up, and it all just makes sense.

I am being refined and molded 

into the person I am supposed to be.

For the first time in a really long time, I dont have a plan. 

I am open to whatever possibilities may become available to me

its so scary.....

but so exciting.  

I get to be S P O N T A N E O U S and bold.

Happy fall ya'll. 

Remember to be kind to one another xoxo

Nordy's Girl

I finally got a new job!!!

this job search really tested my patience but I could not be more thrilled with my new job. 

I am in love!

You know the beginning of the devil wears prada

when everyone is in cute heels and beautiful designer clothes?

That's pretty much Nordstrom faculty.

It smells like coffee all day thanks to the ebar, and there are endless amounts of clothes

and the floors are so shiny

and best of all.....

IT'S ALWAYS BUSY!

Thank the high heavens above. 

I was going crazy in the boutique.

don't get me wrong,

it was a wonderful job!

But I love that I get to see customers all day rather than 1 here 2 there, etc. 

I have learned a lot in the last week, and still have so much to learn

but I am feeling so confident about my abilities.

I feel like I fit in super well

and everyone is so nice and happy all the time.

It's just been such a tremendous answer to prayers.

ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL FOR GOOD JOBS!

So I can hardly believe that its almost november.. 

I didn't even notice it was October!

I torture myself because I order fall/winter shoes in August usually. 

(because I am over summer heat in like mid-august)

SO I shop online waaaaaaay too early, and then they come and they are so cute....

AND I CAN'T EVEN WEAR THEM YET. 

SO finally when the time comes to wear them,

I don't believe it 

because i am so used to waiting for fall.

hahaha

don't you love my little sob story??

It's crazy to think we are coming up on a year for Nate. 

I feel like he has been gone for seriously an eternity.

haha

So I am so excited to see that time is finally starting to pass!!

He is a district leader in this new area and he is so cute about it. 

He is working so hard to be the best he can be.

He just melts my freakin heart. 

LOVE LOVE love him 

Plus conference... tomorrow! 

Can't wait. 

It's the biggest blessing that we get to hear from our leaders and our Prophet every 6 months.

a little throwback to me and my sweet nate a year ago. 

Have a wonderful weekend! 

xoxo

 

Lately

So I have been doing awful with keeping updated on my sweet Nate's mission.

he is doing fabulous!

He ran a 5k this week and I am SO proud of him. I could never do it!

He is so so so happy and always lifts my spirits for the week.

We are going into another transfer!

Can't wait to see where he is going to be for the next little while. 

He kept telling me he can't believe he is already at another transfer

and I cant either!

Time really is starting to go much faster 

I went to the pie with Court last night and all i could think about was Nate!

We LOVE going to the pie. 

it is definitely one of our favorites! 

plus it was a little chilly last night and it felt so much like it did when he was getting ready to leave last year. 

I feel like the biggest baby because it has been almost a year and I still miss him so much and get emotional thinking about seeing him again!

He is still darling as ever and has promised me a letter every week he is gone and he has done so great with keeping his promise!

He still melts my heart and I can't imagine loving him more than I do :)

College is still going great and I am surviving! (YIPPEEEEE)

I haven't had a meltdown yet so I would say things are going pretty smoothly!

Homework isn't super difficult and I love all of my professors!

BUT

I think I am going to change my major :/

I am awful right??

I am taking an accounting class and it just hit me 

that I am not positive that this is something I want for the rest of my life. 

hahaha

we will see! Its the only business class I am taking right now, so we will see. 

But a change might be coming my way!

I am actually really loving my communications class and I am interested in taking more classes like that. So we will see what happens :)

Also I have some really exciting news...

I am the newest employee at Nordstroms!!!!!!

I FINALLY QUIT WORKING AT THE BOUTIQUE.

I am not huge on complaining, but it was long over due 

and i am so excited to try something new. 

I start next Tuesday 

so wish me luck!

Thanks as always for reading! 

xoxox

College - 1 week down

Well I have officially taken on my first week of college.

I love it!

The freedom of doing everything on my own is something I have wanted to do for so long!

It kind of freaks me out that I am this old!

I made my own doctors appt. yesterday

Talk about feeling old...

So last week I finally got an interview with nordys!

I have been applying to work there for almost a year now

It is a really competitive company to work for.

The interview went great!

But unfortunately, it didn't work out with my new college schedule :(((

I have never been so bummed out about a job before.

I was honestly heart broken

I have applied for two different departments since the interview, so

hopefully something will work out better for me. (fingers crossed)

Planning for the pageant has gone pretty great so far!

I got my evening gown with Court a couple weeks ago

and I cant wait to wear it!!!!

its so me

and I just ordered my swimsuit and it is so darling!

I didn't want to wear a bikini for the pageant so I found the most darling one piece.

Luckily for me, one pieces have been super popular this year

so it wasn't hard to find a cute one!

I went to a workshop last week with some of the pageant girls and they are all so darling and beautiful!

It just got me so excited to compete with all of these darling girls.

SO excited!!!

Also, I am trying to raise money to pay for the pageant.

You can support me by clicking here.

Thanks, as always, for reading!

xoxo

Black Out

 SO cute for fall (only $45!!!)

 Jeffery Campbell

 Click on pictures for direct link 

Sam Edelman

 

Happy wednesday! xoxox