Is it the end of BYUI? Nope, just a long break!

WOW is all I can say. This semester has gone by SO fast! This has been the best semester ever. What a life changing and growing experience. I've never been the type that saying bye has been easy. You get the chance to put yourself out there for people to love and to grow with and from. But then that time comes where you have to say bye. Why is that always so hard? I know that putting myself out there to make new friends, and to just have a crazy time hasn't been hard, but when it comes to saying bye that's the tear jerker for me. I put 100% into everyone I meet, so when its time to go a little part of me goes with them, leaving a little piece of me gone (for the better). It's been a semester that I will NEVER forget. I have gained some of the most amazing blessings. Those blessings I call; Friends. Each and everyone has been a blessing to my heart. It grows bigger and bigger everyday. I LOVE it. Each and everyone of those people has made a spot in my heart forever. There has been some challenging stuff this semester, but with the friends I made, i made it through. 

 

Speaking of challenging situations, this semester has been a tough one for me sick wise. I had the "opportunity" of getting swine flu and walking Pneumonia. Let me tell you, its not walk in the park. I was out of school for a month and 23 days exactly. Pretty sad huh? Being sick really showed me how tender everyone is, and how blessed I am to have such caring and loving friends here. I had never been so taken care of as I was here. Everyone knew exactly how to take care of me. I did have to go a couple times to the Health Center to get I.V's. But I had rides, people there with me. I really had a personal assistant help me to my every need. It was fun, but I wish I could have had it with not being sick! :) I am so thankful for everything I have in my life. I love my friends!

Each and every person that i've met here has made a big change in my life. Everyone here has a purpose. It might not be the biggest one, but everyone is always changing someone's life in some way. I know that I've been so blessed with the people that have crossed my path. I am SO lucky to have the friends that i've made, and to have the friends I already had here.

i LOVE these girls <3

Having a picnic at the gardens with my girls! :)

You make new friends everyday, I love it.

These videos you're going to see is of me, my best friend and tiff. We got bored :)

P&T (Above)

Tik Tok (Below)

I really have been so lucky with everything thats happened to me up here. I am surrounded by amazing people, their smiles, attitude and way towards life just makes everything so much easier to go through. I LOVE LOVE LOVE BYU Idaho and everything that it's given me. I've grown so much, and my testimony has grown more than I would have ever thought it could. I can't say thank you enough to everyone that has helped me in some way, shape or form. 

*Here are just some fun pics from the semester*

Love life and it will love you back :] Thats been a big quote i've lived by lately. It's so true. Life is a "hurts so bad" kinda thing. Take it as it comes and just embrace everything you've been given. Embrace a trial, a situation, a happy moment, a sad moment, tender times. They are given to you for a reason!

"Sometimes God calms the storm; Sometimes He lets the storm rage and calm His child."

My LiFe Is WoNdErFuL :)

Wow has it been a roller-coaster of emotions for me these last couple weeks. It's definitely been a lesson giver and learner, and a blessing receiving kind of deal. If that makes any sense! I've decided that school drains out every single little thing you have in your body, until there is nothing left to take out from you. It's a hard thing, and no one realizes or gives us enough credit for everything we have to do, put up with, go through and just the every day kind of things we do. I have a special kind of respect for those that go to college. 

I've learned something from each and everyone of the people that God puts into my life. I just love being at the right place or the right time. Smiling or saying hi to that one person that seems to be there right when you are might mean something big, you never know :)

I've found my place, my school and that's BYU-Idaho. I know that I was accepted to this school for a reason. That there is a certain reason why I am here right now! I know all the people that have been placed in my life have been placed there for a reason. I love everyone that i've met, and will love everyone that will be put into my life. :)

Only some of us are the lucky ones that get to have their Best Friends go to the same college as them. I am one of those lucky and blessed people. I dont know what I would have done with out my Best Friend here with me. I did have a semester with out her, and it was a lot easier not having her with me 24/7. But this semester I got to have her here with me, and it showed me how amazing it was to finally have her here. We did everything together. It sometimes got to the point when people thought we could be sisters cause we did everything and shared everything. I barely even slept in my own apartment, let alone bed.

I know that this next semester is going to be hard with out her here, and I know that it's going to be something new, and a trial sometimes. But I can honestly say, I love trials. Cause at the end of each trial is something bigger and better than the trial was. I will back her up a 100% of the way. She is one of the smartest girls I know and she knows what will help her and her needs first. It's just something I'm going to have to be use to, and I know that it's going to take time. But time is what we have :) I learned a great scripture from her. It's Mosiah 24:14. It really helped me understand that even though I may feel alone, I never will be alone. Wow, just brought tears to my eyes. Emotional wreck anyone? She just has done so much for me there is nothing I can do to explain that to anyone. I just thank my Heavenly Father for placing her at that one place, and that one time. I've found my Best Friend, and no one else will, can or even try to replace her. Let's just say the whole phone call/texting isn't going to be the same as the 5 minute walk to her apartment. I'm going to miss her..

"Let the good times be remembered. The present times to be enjoyed, and the future to be wrapped up in the wait." Malan Barker. You really truly can't enjoy the present, with out making memories for the future. Make them, dont plan them.