{i typed this yesterday & thought i posted it but for some reason it didn't work... oh well}

mikayla got home from school & turned on some tunes.

it's "you & i" by ingrid michaelson. so we are singing...

"oh let's get rich and buy our parents homes

in the south of France

let's get rich and give everybody nice sweaters

and teach them how to dance

let's get rich and build our house on a mountain

making everybody look like ants

from way up there you and I, you and I"

love that song. & those lyrics.

mikayla is on one today. she said "i'm way happy today and i think its cause i ate breakfast. i never eat breakfast. and usually i'm just angry after school. but today i had time to eat breakfast and i'm just happy!"

so my lesson of the day: always eat breakfast. you will be much happier.

i can't make up my mind about the weather. and the weather seems to not be able to make up its mind either.

sometimes all i want is warmth & sunshine but then the days where it is pouring and i hear the rain pattering on the roof and i look up at the foothills above my house and see how lovely&green they are rather than dead&brown; i am so grateful for the moisture we have been receiving. cause i know that soon enough it will be gone for a very long time. 

i have five weeks left here in this sweet home of mine so i'm hoping to soak up every second of it because before i know it i will be on a plane to the other side of the world. its a bitter-sweet feeling for me right now. so much to do still & so little time. so many changes taking place. plus, i'll be twenty-one in just three days! oh dear.. when did i grow up?

longing...

i am loving all the spring blossoms that have popped up everywhere but i don't like when there is snow on them! poor little things. 

i took these last week when i woke up to snow on a blue skied day. luckily the snow melted quickly. and this weekend was so lovely so i'm hoping it stays this way! (although i heard rain is in the forecast).

i'm longing for more warmth&sunshine!!

spring on the slopes.

My dad, devin, tyler, anthony, jake, jamie, and I all hit the slopes at Snowbird last week. It was gorgeous and we couldn't have asked for a better day. It reminded me how much I love spring skiing. 

My dad packed us the best lunch. Or maybe it was just the fact that we had burned any calories left in us on the slopes. Either way, we all agreed that was the best tuna sandwich we'd ever had.

We had so much fun & luckily we still have one more day at Deer Valley ahead of us.

So happy to be apart of a family of skiers!

p.s. click on the pictures to view them better.... the collages didn't fit on my blog right so i had to make them small.

lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

dustin & i had a project for our computer tech. class where we had to take pictures and edit them.

easy enough, right? since i tend to do that like daily...

so we decided to take pictures of zoo animals. i hadn't been to the hogle zoo in ages so it was a lot of fun & a good way to take advantage of a nice spring day.

this plump, little owl was my favorite.

a grapefruit a day keeps the doctor away?

i sure hope so since i have been eating one every morning lately. 

just starts my day off fresh and right. 

& i really wouldn't mind one day living somewhere where i could have a grapefruit tree in my backyard.

that would be lovely.

on another note: 

spring break is this week! even though i only have school on tuesdays&thursdays this semester so it's really not that big of a deal; i still just like the idea of it and plan to do some fun things with my time.

but the best part about spring break is that there is only six weeks left of school when we return!

glory, glory, hallelujah! 

happiness: is just outside my window.

I love springtime. I do admit that sometimes the bi-polar weather tends to get annoying but in the long run I have always been a rain or sunshine kind of girl. As for snow, I don't mind it at Christmas time or when i'm on the slopes but any other time; I would like it to go far, far away.

Sunny days motivate me. When I wake up to the warm sunshine outside my window I get all excited and think of everything I can accomplish that day. I loved today; I went running with my dogs in hope of soaking up a few rays & getting in some exercise for summer and then although I had to spend the rest of my day at school, I enjoyed sprawling out on the grass under the sunshine during my breaks between classes. How can you not be happy in such nice weather?

Rainy days on the other hand have a good effect on me too. I have always thought living in Seattle for awhile would be a fun experience. Although they can seem dark and dreary; I love a good overcast/rainy day every once in awhile because then I feel like I have the right to slow down. I can stay inside and read a good book or take a relaxing drive while listening the sound of the rain on my windshield. Rainy days don't feel as stressful as Sunny days because I don't feel like I have to be on the go all day long; I can sit back, relax, and breath.

Although I am very excited for summer, once the heat hits; it'll be here for awhile. So for now I am just as content with rain or shine, boots or flip flops, umbrellas or sunglasses; ohhh the joys of spring. I wonder what type of day the weather has in store for me tomorrow? It's hard to tell when you live in Utah(:

P.s. All this talk of rain reminded me of a rainy day last year that Savannah, Alicia, and I took full advantage of. We put on our swimsuits and played in puddles around our apartment parking lot until we were numb. It was October and the sun had already gone down... call us crazy but we had so much fun, plus we got some cute pictures out of it (i.e. the picture posted above is Alicia and I).