Here are 45 of my best beautiful and happy moments:
1. Girls Camp every year. This year we got to hear from Sister Elaine Dalton who was amazing.
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3. The time that I went to a comedy show and they called me up onstage to sing me a song they made up on the spot. Also the day I got my Waffle Love hat.
4. The time that me and Audrey tried face masks and it ended up looking like we were puked on instead.
5. The time it was Marens first Christmas and she was adorable and bald and so smiley.
6/7. The time I pretended to be a scarecrow after church and it was so bright. Please notice the bottle of nail polish tucked in my skirt that I won in Young Women that day.
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Then there was also Halloween where I dressed up as a real scarecrow and I had to smile all day because if I didn't I look possessed and murderous.
8. The time I finally got my Young Women medallion and everyone was so nice to me that night and I got a sparkly necklace as a bonus.
9. The time that me and my mom wanted Culvers at 9:30 pm so we got Rachael and her mom and we went. Because YOLO.
10. The time that I went fishing (the ONLY time I've been fishing) and I didn't catch a fish but I did catch a frog and they're close enough. I wish me and Anna still wore matching clothes.
11. The time we were coming back from our road trip and this big bear was in a gas station in Denver begging to be hugged. We obviously couldn't deny a face like that, so I hugged it, trying not to think about the diseases surely riddling it's fur.
12. The time we went to the Lehi Westlake football game and some stranger put a handprint on my face and I wanted to cry I felt so patriotic to my school. We crushed it thanks to my friend Nate who kicked the winning goal. In the middle of the game however we left and went to Macey's for ice cream which was also pretty good.
13. The time I got a perm in Kindergarten and it looked pretty good as far as perms go.
14. The time I met this really friendly dog, and immediately became best friends with it after assuring myself it did not have rabies. It knew how to shake hands, and what kind of dog with rabies knows that?
15. The time I got my favorite dessert with one of my favorite people and it was so so good.
16. The time I had to go to the Dentist and get 8 teeth pulled on one day so I could eventually get braces. That hasn't happened yet btw. My mouth was so numb from the 4 shots I got that I couldn't smile and I spent the whole ride home punching myself in the face. It took 3 tooth necklaces to hold all of them, but I DID get $20 from the tooth fairy. (Side note, I recently got my first cavity and cried all the way home.)
17. The time Aubrie gave me a super sick mohawk made of buns and I ate a pinecone because I WAS AND ALWAYS AM SO HUNGRY. Sorry bout it.
18. The time I "went to the bathroom" during class but really just went in there to take pictures of myself trying to be a dancer. Then I washed my hands three times and used the hand dryer until my hands were actually dry just to waste time. Stay in school kids.
19. The time I went to the Pentatonix concert with Savvy and we sang every word and screamed just to try and lose our voices. That didn't happen but the concert was still cool. Even the old people we were surrounded with knew how to jam.
20. The time that I found this teeny tiny baby kitten all by itself in the park and took care of it for a couple of nights before I had to take it to a pet store. It fit in my hand and could sleep across my chest and I fell in love with it. I did cry when I dropped it off because hello. You try raising a kitten and leaving it forever.
21. The time I went to Lava Hot Springs for Youth Conference and we floated the river over and over again and almost everyone fell in but I didn't. I managed to get 4 ice cream cones in the day and a half we were there and they were delicious and square.
22. The time I thought I was so cute modeling this moss covered rock. I think I put the dirt on my nose there on purpose. I do like the bandaids though, it shows I played outside a lot and that's good stuff. Happy kid stuff. And it was back in the days where for some reason I still rocked the velcro shoes.
23. The time I was SHOT IN THE ARM. With a firework. But. It knocked my lemonade out of my hand which I was most upset about, but I had a nice welt and a cool gunpowder stain on my shirt which is still there. Along with a scar of a perfect circle which is basically the coolest scar you could possibly get.
24. The time I danced like a maniac and didn't care at all. That really applies to most of my life, but this is the best picture I had of it.
25. There was also the time I wasn't dancing like a maniac but I definitely looked like one. I can't even remember what the concept of this dance was, but it must have been spectacular considering they made me wear that weird sheep scarf and sequined leotard.
26. While I'm thinking about it, there was also the time that I wore hideous amounts of makeup and pink camo which is the worst type. And that's saying something considering it's all awful. The lengths I went to to dance very mediocrely on a stage are astounding.
27. The time where it was so windy I couldn't see a thing, but luckily Ashley managed to get a picture of it.
29. The time that I posed in front of a pink window and expected the world to care.
30. The time me and my cousin singlehandedly (not at all) made this igloo which definitely measures up to eskimo ones.
31. The time me and my sisters tried box water which surprise! Tastes just like regular water!!
32. The time that I saw a red button under a plastic lid and had to push it. LITTLE DID I KNOW THAT IT WOULD START THE END OF THE WORLD. In reality it stopped the escalator and set off this very shrill and very annoying alarm. This is me running from my crime.
33. The time I was still young enough to ride carousels without people giving me strange looks. I was as happy as that seal with the shell.
34. The time we heart attacked a very deserving family in our ward and then got caught.
35. The time I taught Seegy how to make an owl face and looked sincerely unimpressed.
36. The time I summed up how I felt about high school in one picture. Once again: sincerely unimpressed.
37. The time I went to church in Idaho and there were big windows in the chapel looking out at these mountains and everything was just so pretty it was hard to pay attention to anything else.
38. The time I picked huckleberries in the middle of the mountains up there ^^ and my hands were stained purple. Also making huckleberry pies with my grandma and putting the rest on ice cream. Holy. So good.
39. Getting pushed on the tire swing over the creek which is only 6 inches deep but is still makes my heart flutter thinking about flying off into it.
40. Enjoying huckleberry (are you seeing a theme yet?) ice cream with Maren on the porch of a lodge built in 1906.
41. The time little birds hatched in a nest in our flowerpot and looked like terrifying balls of fluff with beaks, yet managed to be so precious at the same time.
42. The time I went to Lagoon with Rachael and won a Kindle and went on the swings 5 times in a row just so we could try each color.
43. The time I did fake yoga poses on top of ancient red rocks in southern Utah.
44. The time I played with a flashlight in the dark and my magician friend made it look like this:
Happiness is a choice. It's not always the easiest choice, in fact it rarely is. But if I can take 3 hours to find 45 decent pictures of myself and write the stories that go with them, YOU CAN CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY. There are people who choose find happiness in places we don't, like One Direction or chocolate and that's cool too. You can't help it if people like chocolate (you can pray for them of course) but WHO CARES. LET'S JUST LIVE TOGETHER ON THIS SUPER RAD PLANET AND LOVE IT.
Love this cute and happy post ♡
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