No Boundaries

 My sweet, amazing dad dedicated a song to me when I was 18. This may sound like no big deal, but it was, and it is, and it means so much to me. He dedicated a song to my sister when she was 18 and when I was graduating from high school I told him I wanted a song. He thought about it for a long while and came back to me with the song "No Boundaries" by Kris Allen. This whole story may sound cheesy, but guess what? It means more than you know. I was going through my personal hell when my dad dedicated this song to me. It was what I needed to hear, and call it cliche, but it encourages me every time I listen to this song or read the lyrics. Through many experiences I've learned to break down toxic boundaries that the world has put on me that were holding me back. Think about the things you could accomplish in your life if you believed there were no boundaries. The world puts these boundaries on us, but why do we have to follow them? We don't. Really, think about it! It's like a little kid who tells you they're going to be an astronaut or a movie star, or a rocket scientist or even a garbage man when they grow up. They do not know what a boundary is and that is what makes them free to be whatever they want to be. The world is theirs. And the world is ours if we stop believing in these things called boundaries. 


"Seconds, hours, so many days
You know what you want but how long can you wait?
Every moment lasts forever
When you feel you lost your way

And what if my chances were already gone?
Started believing that I could be wrong
But you give me one good reason
To fight and never walk away

With every step you climb another mountain
Every breath it's harder to believe
You make it through the pain, weather the hurricanes
To get to that one thing

Just when you think the road is going nowhere
Just when you almost gave up on your dreams
They take you by the hand and show you that you can
There are no boundaries!
There are no boundaries!

I fought to the limit to stand on the edge
What if today is as good it gets?
Don't know where the future's headed
But nothing's gonna bring me down

I've jumped every bridge and I've run every line
I've risked being saved but I always knew why
I always knew why!

So hear I am still holding on!

With every step you climb another mountain
Every breath it's harder to believe
You make it through the pain, weather the hurricanes
To get to that one thing

Just when you think the road is going nowhere
Just when you almost gave up on your dreams
They take you by the hand and show you that you can

You can go higher, you can go deeper
There are no boundaries above and beneath you
Break every rule 'cause there's nothing between you and your dreams

With every step you climb another mountain
Every breath it's harder to believe

Yeah! There are no boundaries
There are no boundaries!

With every step you climb another mountain
Every breath it's harder to believe
You make it through the pain, weather the hurricanes


There are no boundaries"


Thank you daddy.

Grateful

2011 brought a fabulous Thanksgiving. From eating to napping to running in the "turkey trot" as a family to football watching to napping some more to building puzzles to black friday add shopping to a hot chocolate bar to spending time with the ones I love most to seeing santa to more eating and napping last week was absolutely wonderful. Big shout out to my sis who hosted our Thanksgiving this year and let us all stay at her house-thank you! It turned out perfect. I have so much to be grateful for. 

I am thankful for amazing parents who raised me so well (even when they wanted to leave me in another state far, far away). I am thankful for a family who loves me even though I am crazy. I'm thankful for friends who do the same. I am grateful for a body that heals. I am grateful for the ability to love and to be loved. I am grateful for laughter. I am so grateful for a Heavenly Father who loves me unconditionally and wants what's best for me and I am so grateful for a Savior, Jesus Christ who made up for everything I lack. I am grateful for this crazy, yet beautiful life I live. I am grateful that I have come to accept and love myself for the imperfect person I am. I am grateful for the things I believe in. I am grateful for the beauty there is in this world. Although I hate school sometimes, I am grateful that I can get an education. Along with so many other things I have to be thankful for these are what come to mind right now. I am truly thankful.

I am also thankful I got work off today (thank you Autumn and Jenny)....I'm so sick :-(

family

I'm here in Arizona loving spending time with two of my favorite little girls. Being with my nieces is pure heaven to me. Thanksgiving is definitely my favorite holliday because I get to spend so much time with the ones I love. Yay!

Oh hey Jenna and Brittney

So you know how I need a winter coat? Well there's a way cute one that I was going to go look at yesterday but turns out I won't go see it until tomorrow. Then I'll decide if it's cute enough to buy. Oh yeah, I'll let you know!

Every Experience..

fun fact about me

Want to hear an interesting fact about me? I love sleeping. For those of you who know me, you know that I literally could be a professional sleeper. If there were sleeping Olympics, I'd be a gold medalist. I can fall asleep on demand-anytime, anywhere. I have fallen asleep in the middle of Six Flags and on the toilet at work just to name a couple weird places. I used to fall asleep during movies all the time (I've kicked that habit-my dates started complaining). If I was bored at a party in high school (heaven forbid I'd go home early on a weekend night) I would just go find a place to sleep. I've always been this way. I could blame it on the fact that I have low blood pressure, or my thyroid disease, but that's not it at all, I plainly just enjoy sleeping.. the end. :-)

P.S. have you checked out my sister's/sister's friend's blog yet?? It's called Every Great Day. Get awesome craft ideas along with great ideas for activities to do with kids, plus more! Click here to take a looksy. everygreatday.com is absolutely adorable! Don't forget to follow them!

for you and you and you and you and you and me

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path - and that will make all the difference.

Steve Jobs

School

Remember that one time how there's only 5 more weeks in this semester (including finals)? YAY!

I am glad/thankful I can go to school though...

winning team

There's this organization called the USU Hurd. It's just the greatest student section in the world. Oh and guess what? We camp out for days in the bitter cold weather of Logan, Utah just to "occupy the spectrum", get good seats, and get pumped for the USU vs BYU basketball game.


 I almost died last night from the cold...it was miserably cold to say the least. Our tent didn't have a top-just netting..oh and the side door to our tent was broken so it was open, letting the frigid wind in to chill us all. Spooning didn't even help it was so cold..All for the love of Aggie Basketball. 

P.S. I'm crazy and got a second job. I start today. Wish me luck (i'll need it after not sleeping last night)

I love finding quotes on the internet