my love of writing, volleyball...and bubble shoot.

#6 What is your dream job and why?


When I was younger, I always wanted to be an author. I would lock myself away in my room and write and write away. I wrote so many stories and poems but I hardly finished any of them. Maybe I'll post a sample someday. A lot of the stories were dumb, but I was in love with it. I would get in this zone where I would really feel my stories and just write for hours away. I still love writing, and I still want to write books someday, but I'm not sure if that's the only thing I want to do. So one of my dream jobs would be writing books all day! 


But... I am also in love with volleyball. I also love teaching and working with kids. I love it when they understand and when they learn. So another dream job would be to teach kids how to play volleyball, or be a volleyball coach. Or even open my own volleyball club one day like Club V. I want to share the sport I love most with everyone else!! 




And on a totally random note.... I have a new strange addiction. 
Bubble Shoot.
It's on my phone and I can't stop playing it. I don't know why I'm so attracted to it... I just am. I've spent hours on it. Not even kidding you...hours. I've spent an hour or more just trying to figure out one level. I need help. 

Choose happy.

continuing on with the blog challenge!
#5: What is the hardest thing you have ever experienced?

Well...there's two that were pretty hard for me. You might think I'm dumb for thinking they're hard but i'm just throwing it out there!

*During the second half of the school year... I had way too much on my plate. I'm not meaning to brag or anything at all, but I was doing vball, bball, school, music, the gym.....again WAY too much for a 13 year old to handle!! Every day I'd come home from school at 5:30 from basketball and either go to the gym or vball right after. I wouldn't get home until late and then I would eat dinner. By the time that was over I had to fit everything else in...family time, homework, practicing. It was really overwhelming and I felt like I just couldn't handle everything. I would go to bed late and wake up early, and run from one thing to the next. I was tired, stressed out, anxious, and yet trying to be perfect at all the things I was doing. I compared myself. Then I started bringing myself down because I was doing so much and always so busy that I felt like I wasn't good at any one thing I was doing. My grades were dropping too. I'd try to come up with excuses and work harder, and it just made me more tired and it was worse. It finally all ended when basketball ended---only 1 sport, 2 instruments, and homework. Volleyball was only twice a week, and I went to the gym once a week instead of twice. I did homework on weeknights and practiced on weekends. Then I realized I never wanted to have that kind of stress again... So I dropped basketball. I realized I didn't even enjoy it and all it did was add stress and give me something to brag about doing. Ever since then I've been less stressed and happier, knowing I don't have to play basketball and feel so awful ever again. I can just focus on volleyball, the one sport that I ABSOLUTELY LOVE DOING!!! So if you can take one message from this lengthy paragraph it's get your priorities straight. Find the things that make you happy and do them. Find the things that make you unhappy and get rid of them. Simple as that. 




*When Emily moved I was crushed. She was my best friend in the world, she lived right next door, went to the same school, both played oboe, were the same age....she was the tater to my tot, the hip to my hop! We knew each others families like our own, and did practically EVERYTHING together. Nothing could split us apart...except her dads job. I was pretty depressed the month after and I thought I could never have as close a friend as Emily was to me. Which is probably true! Haha. But I learned to make more friends and be happy again. Don't get me wrong, Emily is still my BEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE WORLD!!! ( by the way I'm seeing her tomorrow for the first time in over a year! ) I'm just saying that you can still learn to be happy, no matter how far apart your best friend is. So if you ever have a close friend that moves, remember. Happiness exists! And you can find it!


So the point is...you can't always control what happens to you. But you can control how you feel. So take control. Choose to be happy!

Day 3, 4, and San Diego

Wow. I've been slacking off lately. Well for now... I'll continue this 30 day blog challenge but please! comment if you're getting sick of it! 

#3: List 5 things you would tell your 16 year old self, if you could.

*Don't get in a car wreck! My 16 year old cousin has been in A LOT of accidents and he's only had his license for 10 months.. be careful!!

*Don't worry about what other people think, and don't give into peer pressure to impress people. You're gonna be judged sooner or later by somebody anyway, so why try to impress? Who cares what they think? It only matters what you think about yourself! 

*Take on responsibilities, but NEVER forget to have fun!!

*It's ok if someone doesn't ask you to a dance! Party for one baby!

*KEEP PLAYING VOLLEYBALL!!!!!

#4: What are the 5 things that make you most happy right now?

*Knowing that I'M SEEING MEMS IN 2 DAYS!!!! 

*I'm out of debt!! I had to pay $200 for my BYU volleyball camp coming up and i'm ALL PAID OFF!! I'm a free woman now!!

*I'm going to my BYU vball camp in 2 weeks!

*I'm reading my first book on the summer...Insurgent! I've been waiting to read it forever!!

*That it's SUMMER!!! ♥♥♥


Well I kinda have an excuse for not blogging...I've been gone for 2 weeks! 2 weeks ago I went to San Diego! The next week I was at girls camp...and if you want to hear about that go to anna's blog! So we arrived to San Diego on a Saturday and just chilled at our condo. Sunday, went to church and the beach. Monday, the beach. Tuesday, the beach. Wednesday, the beach fireworks and a huge family dinner, Thursday seaworld, Friday kayaking at the bay with the fam. Saturday we left :( Loved our trip!

Belmont Park right by the coast!!

me and nells enjoying the coast

Stingray at seaworld.

at the bay with my family!

That's gotta be the cutest polar bear EVER.

at shark encounter at seaworld!

Fireworks outside our condo!

me @ the beach!

me and luke at the beach!

to represent how much i love the beach!!! California is my home!!

Sorry for the long post...I needed to catch up on everything!! Remember I love comments and tell me if you want me to blog about anything in particular!! And just to make you smile, and original joke by me:

What did the banana say to the banana tree?

Hey mom!

and remember...