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From Rexburg, ID

Seeing: Our table full of fruits - can't wait until Farmer's Markets start back up
Making: Sunday Breakfast- Yum!! Pumpkin spice waffles with homemade whip cream and fresh strawberries - Yuuummy
Cooking: Fruit salad and Arli's chocolate cookies with white chips (later - for a lunch party)
Drinking: Hot chocolate with one packet of a favorite tea - a new favorite combination. Sometimes it's awesome. Sometimes it's disgusting haha
Reading: Biological Psychology - a fascinating textbook. And the Doctrine and Covenants 
Hearing: Kirsten as she makes conversation - her laughing voice that always makes me smile #sisterlove
Wanting: School to be OooooooUUuuuuuUuuuuuttttttt! Three weeks until finals. Uhm, YES.
Looking: sexy in my bum-around-the-house sweater and BYU-Idaho sweats. School pride, am I right? 
Playing: less music on the guitar than I'd like (This will likely Always be what is written here :/ Sad truth)
Wasting: away.... just kidding
Understanding: The importance of active patience. Check out this article



Wishing: It was summer...
Touching: The fan on my laptop. My fingers get chilly
Enjoying: My Sunday Playlist - throwback to the Virginia Richmond Mission days!
Waiting: for nothing. Time doesn't stop - live in your now.
Planning: my time more wisely 
Liking: the dreary days we have been having. Totally in love with gray days.
Wondering: where Kirsten will get called on her mission. 
Loving: breakfast with a handful of friends. I love these girls.
Hoping: for more faith and courage
Hating: stomach cramps
Needing: a dip in the ocean and a good book
Smelling: the kitchen after baking - a favorite smell
Wearing: no make-up
Learning: the constant lessons that come from living the gospel of Jesus Christ and that repentance happens every day. So does forgiveness. I promise.
Teaching: myself to smile even when I'm feeling blue 
Noticing: comfort with myself. Praise God.
Tasting: freedom from preconceived ideas of where I should or shouldn't be in life. 
"Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey, and share our love with friends and family. One day each of us will run out of tomorrows." 
- President Thomas S. Monson

Thinking: about the myriads of things I need to get done. And about the word "fisticuffs" which I will always love. Who knows why.
Bookmarking: pages and pages in biochemistry and organic chemistry textbooks. 
Opening: my eyes to the reality of my life. Of my now.
Laughing: with my roommate every day. Can you say Therapy? Yes. You can. haha :)
Feeling: refreshed after last night's stake conference adult session. 
"Desire does not come from head knowledge. It comes from heart knowledge. And then acting."

"We get what we want in life." (about the importance of desires."

"First rate effort brings first rate answers"

"Keep your conversion bright." 
Studying: The book of revelations.
Knowing: that time goes on and life is good and God is real.

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