What a Good Life

This past part of the life:

The boys are at boys camp. Hermana Harison is still on her mission (just got transferred by the way). And now I'm an only child until they get back. And it's terrifying. I love my siblings. Like a whole lot. And having them not around me to bug me and for me to bug them is really scary and sad and I miss them. It is nice not having to share or have to wait on anyone, but I miss that too. I'm a people person, (except for when I'm not haha). And I get pretty lonely when I don't get to see my people that I need. But it's okay. This week was still pretty amazing.

 So last week I WENT TO DC AND NYC WHAT! There. I can say it. I only posted like one picture on instagram or something, because I didn't really want to show off, plus, most of the time I was too out of it to even glance at my phone haha! So here are a few pics, and a list of all the stuff we did:)

Central Park 

I saw FREAKING VAN GOGH AND PICASSO GUYS

Went to BROADWAY

9/11 Memorial. Cried my eyes out.

Saw this pretty lady (didn't have a chance to edit)

Mount Vernon was probably my favorite. So peaceful and nice.

A White House selfie was needed (I look all pink haha!)

And here is an official list of stuff we did: 

Things I've done in DC + NYC

Smithsonian (saw mummy & American flag)

Capital

Union Train station

Georgetown (that was pretty cool)

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial

Roosevelt Memorial

Washington Monument

Jefferson Memorial

Arlington Cemetery

Changing of the Guard

JFK's Grave

Mount Vernon (saw Washingtons grave)

Tomb of the unknown soldier

Lincoln Memorial

Vietnam Veterans Wall

Lincoln Tunnel

Times Square

DC Cupcakes

Empire State Building

Madison Square Gardens

Ellis Island

Chinatown

Statue of Liberty

9/11 Memorial

Broadway (Motown)

NBC Store

Went by Nintendo World

Top of the Rock

Central Park

Metropolitan Museum (saw Van Gogh, Picasso)

It was pretty cool, and I'm more than thankful for such awesome parents for 1) paying for me and 2) being able to come along, even if only one of them could. thanks padre:). But I'm also thankful for my mom, whose BIRTHDAYs were this last week! I love her so much. I'm so thankful for her. And it was FATHERs DAY too and I wasn't able to do much because I was sick (from being so jetlagged. A little feverish and a slight infection but it went away) but I still love him SO dang much!! There. I've said all of it:)

I love my family and my friends and my dog an my cat and it's just a beautiful world:) I'm going up to see a babyyy tomorrow with my Gma Sherry and I'm really excited! Goodbye for a while, my dear blog:)

(Just a few more pictures!)

Mi padre:)

The tennis shoe life. (I'm green) feauturing Ruby, Moi, Vernon, and Valeria. Mai buds. 

I just love this dude

Found this beauty and figured I'd share.  (They're siiiiinnnnggllleeeee ladies! Although not sixteen yet, sooo.. Maybe not...)

Can't remember if I posted this already or not. I don't think so. Oh well.

Oh, San Fran.

This was pretty cool. I think we stopped at it on our way back to the hotel or something. SO nice. We all got brownies afterwards:)

LAST ONE:)

    ^  Van Gogh

I just love life. I am so, so blessed. 

The Week and Such

So this week was pretty good. Besides the fact that I was extremely hormonal and very grumpy with Eli and Spencer, I tried to handle stuff. I went to six flags on Friday with my school, which was pretty cool, but my friend got a headache so we both sat down for a while. Overall it was awesome, though.

I'm just trying to be a better person. I've always had a problem with jealousy, and wishing I was somewhere else or doing something else, which lowers my self confidence and just brings me down. But I know what makes me happy, and I know how to be happy, and I need to do that. Simply put. I've also been obsessing over romance movies too much in the past month, which really isn't bad, but sometimes those movies can be inappropriate and vile, and that also degrades on my spirit. So I need to focus on The Lord and the Spirit and Christ. I need to do more service and do more Personal Progress, and be kinder to my family.

Haha, I was trying to make cookies yesterday (hormonal cookies, by the way haha), and it just so happened that Eli wanted to make cookies too (just for fun cookies, you know), and I had a friend over. I have never screamed at Eli so much over cookies. Sorry, bud.

I truly know that charity is the pure love of Christ. Today after church I put on some Mormon messages on the TV, and I just couldn't stop crying. But I just let the tears flow, like one great prophet once said.

I'm so so so thankful for my sister on a mission. SO so thankful. She's been blessed and we've been blessed, an we've all benefited from it. After we called her for Mother's Day, I was left home alone for a while, and I just felt kind of weepy. It was like that feeling when you start singing but have to stop because the spirit is just so strong an you have to cry. I love that feeling.

I really, really want to go on a mission someday. And I was to go to college, maybe become a nurse or something. And then I can get married, and have kids and grow old and have grand kids. What a life. Such a life.

This week I ate okay. I definitely went off wack on Friday at sixflags, and Saturday and today was pretty bad too haha, but Monday through Thursday I did pretty good. Which I think definitely counts.

The temple is starting a thing again this summer with the youth to do baptisms every Monday through Thursday in Sacramento over the summer, and I really, really want to do it. I love the temple. I have a testimony of the ordinances made there and the kind, righteous people who work there.

Seminary orientation started this Wednesday. It was pretty good, although I was slightly disappointed that there were a few girls there who were wearing short shorts. But it was still good. I hope I can make good friends with the other kids in the stake. And I remember feeling more confident throughout the day after seminary.

I'm not sure what I feel about high school yet, it's a mix of a lot of feelings. I'll just worry about that when I do. 

But overall, I just want to say that I love this gospel. I love the Book of Mormon and the strength it gives me. I love our bishop and our stake president and our prophet. I love my family, my aunts, my uncles, my cousins. I love my siblings, my parents. I love, I love, I love this life of mine. 

"Oh how glorious from the throne above

Shines the gospel light of truth and love!"

Sometimes...

Sunsets and Friends and Etc.

Weelll I am like uh in love with sunsets! I remember when I first started taking pictures and I would just like wait all day for the sun to set! So pretty!

But yeah my parents and I were walking home from our little friend Ikey's birthday party! He had such a blast. Their family lives right around the corner from us and we're super good friends! We love them so much!

I am kind of excited about this whole blog thing! Like kind of a lot! 

But sadly, alas, I have school. And testing, for the matter:( so I won't be on here too much! But again, I like this whole blogging thing, so I'm gonna keep trying to find time! 

A little bit more about me, is that I am in love with the color green, my only sister is on her mission in Mexico (and we are so proud of her!), I love being outside, I found my dog and no one claimed him so now he's my babe, I love the warmish-mildish weather, and I am a sucker for a friend with good humor!