Lately I have been getting so saught up in the "big" things in life.

I just want to be done with school and have a totally awesome career.

I want to have children and be a super mom!

I want to go on big exotic vacations and serve large groups of people and publish big news stories

It goes on and on. 

Am I the only one who thinks like this?

The thing I have been fogetting is that most lives are made up by lots of little things.

I think that at the end of my life, when I look back on everything, it will be those little "dumb" moments that made up my entire life. 

So whatever you're doing now in life, whether it be big or small,

whether you make $100,000 a year or $1000,

whether you feel like you are accomplishing great things or not,

know that it is okay! 

That is how life should be.

You are awesome and deserve 

I made this little design of one of my favorite quotes. Feel free to share or do whatever you'd like with it!

It is by a Mormon prophet, Gordon B. Hinckley, who has since passed on

(his talks are the best and will literally change your life). 

Even if you are not a member of the Mormon church, these words apply to you too and I hope you will gain a bit of peace and hope from them :)

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Today was my first day of my senior year of college. I am not planning on going to graduate school any time soon, so this was my last, first day of school ever! CRAZY. I remember thinking that jr. high flew by. Then when I graduated from high school, I thought it went way too fast, but college has been by far the quickest! The past three years have been some of the very best of my life and you know what they say, time flies when you're having fun! I am so happy to be starting my 4th year here at BYU. I just can't say enough how much I love this school. I am expecting my class/workload this semester to be the craziest and busiest it has ever been so while I still have my head on right, I'd like to write down some of my goals. 

-Build resume with more experiences. Say yes to good opportunities! 

-Learn as much as I can about all things broadcast-related

-Meet new FRIENDS + make more connections. 

-Look for ways to help and serve others through my writing, design, website, whatever!

-Find a good internship/job in Salt Lake City for after graduation. 

-Really stabilize my spiritual foundation for the rest of my life. 

-Stay healthy. No matter how busy, set aside time for working out and eating right. 

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Hope you have a great day!!

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For the past little while I have been looking hard for a good, enjoyable, worthwhile job which is something that can be SO hard when you are a full-time student. Somehow I got lucky and heard that BYU Radio was hiring and was able to land a job as an assistant producer! I have been getting asked lots of questions about it lately. I have only been working for about 3 weeks now but I am LOVING it! Basically I have just been doing a little bit of everything. Transcribing some of the shows, recording little segments, finding news stories and whatever else they need! I am learning so much and am really enjoying it. I always thought I only wanted to do television reporting but who knows! I've taken a bit of a new interest in radio as well. I know it seems like I am biting off more than I can chew right now with this, my online writing thing, working out and taking a heavy load of tough classes but I feel like it is a good time to be busy. One of these days we want to have babies and Kody will be in PT school so I figure now is a good time to really dive into my "career" and all of the things I want to do.

Does that make sense? Haha, I don't know. Maybe I am crazy. We'll find out here in a little bit when school really starts to kick in.

I am so grateful to get to study and work at such a cool university. The radio shows are all so uplifting and fun to be a part of. BYU Raido is on Sirius XM radio channel 143 or you can listen online here!

Happy Hump Day! :)

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Hope everyone is having a wonderful Tuesday! I recently started a new job (more on that later), Kody started school yesterday and I start school on Monday so things are pretty crazy around here! I LOVE summertime and am so sad to see it leave, but isn't fall such an awesome time? I get way too excited thinking about comfy fall clothes, pumpkin-candles, football games and fall decorations! 

Anyways, I have been trying all kinds of things with my hair lately and thought I'd do a little picture post with all of my favorites. Don't get me wrong, 90% of the time my hair is in a messy top-knot bun but sometimes I just have to do something cute with it!

Here are some hair products that I use all the time and that I used for these styles.

A few weeks ago I became a writer for The Odyssey! I love writing and I love news, so I am super excited about this. Although I usually like to keep my political/newsy side seperated from this blog, I feel super passionate about my country and my writintg so I will be sharing links to my articles on here every week!

My very first article is about the upcoming election which I know is a very touchy subject, and it is okay if you don't agree with me :) I got way more awesome feedback than I thought I would and I am amazed by how many people read it! 

Thank you so much for supporting me! You can read the article HERE. 

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Every summer my in-laws do a big family vacation. It is something we look forward to every year and they are always the highlight of our summer. All this summer, Kody and I have been working a TON. We both took off school for the summer but have stayed super busy with our jobs and had been looking forward to this vacation the whole time. They are usually either lake or beach trips and this year we stayed at Lake Tulloch in northern California. I had never heard of this lake before, but it was the perfect place to stay. WE HAD SO MUCH FUN.

I am oh-so grateful to have such wonderful in-laws. We have the cutest little nieces and nephews and we all have so much fun together. Can't wait for next year!! :)

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