Decision Made

~English Education Major

~Art/Music Minor

~The thought of being a nanny sometime this year made me feel really good today.. I feel like big decisions like that should be impulsive.. so i think i'll actually do it (don't get mad Erin..) instead of coming back for first term and fall....

~Culinary School after BA at BYUH

but for today:

~Laundry

~My Best Friends Wedding (the movie haha)

{Pretties}

Soft Slab Piece

Hard Slab Piece

We've started on the Potter's Wheel in ceramics... it is a LOT harder than it looks..

(just like everything else in ceramics haha)

**i love that this class takes up at least 3 hours of my day.. if you ever need a class that let's you think your mind away and be productive and creative and artistic all at once... take ceramics =)

Eat. Pray. Love.

"But i felt a glimmer of happiness when i started studying Italian, and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness. . . you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt -- this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight."

I've been sitting waiting wishing

I feel like I'm waiting...

and I've been waiting..

and there is nothing I can do to stop the waiting haha

I'm waiting for life to happen

for me to get the strength to stand up and say "ok, this is what i'm going to do"

There are things to fix

people to talk to

lives to help

books to read

places to travel

food to be eaten

But i'm just.... waiting.

sitting, waiting, wishing

Because there has to be someone

who'll want to take my hand

and stay by my side forever

and do it all with me

and i'll bet he'd rather do them with me too

{Stronger & Braver}

"In response, somewhere from within me, rises a now-familiar presence, offering me all the certainties I have always wished another person would say to me when I was troubled. . .

I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying

all night long, I will stay with you. . .

There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect

you until you die, and after you die I will still protect you. I

am stronger than depression and I am braver than Loneliness

and nothing will ever exhaust me."

-Eat. Pray. Love.

All Because 2 People Fell in Love.. . .

Happy 30th Anniversary Mom & Dad

We Love You!!

Our Big Bicycle Adventure

The pictures are all out of order..

we left at around 11 this morning

rode 22 miles along the North Shore

Sunset Beach

Kava Roots for Acai Bowls

Waimea

and back =)

with:

Becca Stoner

Danny Baer

Joni Sperry

Bree Masters

Chantal Mortensen

Allyson Robison

Crystal Bates

Bonnie Allred

My Little {Beauties}

Aren't they so PRETTY?

Haha

4 hours

each to complete.

Ceramics is hard.

They're made out of coils,

the left one is an 8 inch coil piece

smooth

symmetrical

the right one is a

10 inch coil piece

textured

asymmetrical

I was proud of my little swirl designs on this one =)

As Hours move to Minutes... . .

Stef's Spring Term:

History & Ceramics.

History=

a TON of reading. there are 3 units this term.

each term has about 6 readings

each reading is at most 30 and at least 8 pages.

each class period has a quiz the first 5 minutes on the reading.

plus a paper per unit.

that's the class (sounds like english huh?... interesting)

Ceramics=

basically it's a LOT harder than i thought it would be.

some little thing is due pretty much every class.

except yesterday and today.

i started to build a vase out of coils last night

that is due tomorrow morning.. guess what?

it took Stef 1 hour, and 3 attempts to come up with... nothing.

haha i have to go back today and try again.

I will be moving into the ceramics studio

(i'll take pictures of my work for you guys =)

** i LOVE costco.. I got to go last night..

**i am for sure somehow getting a car out to Hawaii

(i'll be able to discover the island more.. and make friends

that will want to party with me everywhere i go haha)

** Danny & i are still best friends so don't worry.. everything is good =)

**i go home in about 5 weeks! 35 days?? oh wow.. i'm stoked.

I've got Jack Johnson & Tom O'Leary right here...

"Better Together"

There's no combination of words
I could put on the back of a postcard
No song that I could sing
But I can try for your heart
Our dreams, and they are made out of real things
Like a, shoebox of photographs
With sepiatone loving
Love is the answer,
At least for most of the questions in my heart
Like why are we here? And where do we go?
And how come it's so hard?
It's not always easy and
Sometimes life can be deceiving
I'll tell you one thing it's always better when we're together

[Chorus:]
MMM it's always better when we're together
Yeah, we'll look at them stars when we're together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, it's always better when we're together

And all of these moments
Just might find their way into my dreams tonight
But I know that they'll be gone
When the morning light sings
And brings new things
For tomorrow night you see
That they'll be gone too
Too many things I have to do
But if all of these dreams might find their way
Into my day to day scene
I'd be under the impression
I was somewhere in between
With only two
Just me and you
Not so many things we got to do
Or places we got to be
We'll Sit beneath the mango tree now

It's always better when we're together
Mmmm, we're somewhere in between together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, it's always better when we're together

MMmmmm MMMmmmm Mmmmmm
I believe in memories
They look so, so pretty when I sleep
Hey now, and when I wake up,
You look so pretty sleeping next to me
But there is not enough time,
And there is no, no song I could sing
And there is no, combination of words I could say
But I will still tell you one thing
We're better together.

the better side of things.

I got to talk to a few of these girls today.

and i love them, and miss them.

and my heavenly father must love me a lot

to bless me with friends like them =)